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Costa-cutting: Whitbread to trial four new Iveco Dailys
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By Andy Salter WHITBREAD IS testing a number of Iveco Daily 6.5-tonne urban delivery trucks on its Costa Coffee delivery business.
The move, if successful, is designed to improve efficiency across the fleet. The four trucks will be used on the coffee shop delivery business, where more than SOO deliveries are made ..very day.
The deal for the new Dailys is part of a major contract win for Hill Hire, which beat off competition to reflect the Whitbread operation covering Costa, Premier Inn, Beefeater and Is range of restaurants.
Hill Hire has been working closely with the company and its logistics provider, Kuehne + Nagel, to develop the most operationally efficient solution for the 130-plus fleet of vans, rigids and tractors. All the rigid vehicles on temperature-controlled applications have the refrigeration unit mounted under the vehicle body rather than on the top of the cab. David Barlow, fleet director at Hill Hire, says: "Not only does this assist in the accessibility of the fridge which is important from health and safety and ease of maintenance points of view.
"But it also means we are now able to fit a full aerodynamic roof deflector to the truck, which should also have a positive impact on fuel efficiency."
The four Iveco Daily trial vehicles will enter service this month; they are all equipped with Solomon temperaturecontrolled bodies, which are designed to make deliveries easy to execute.