Recently, Burton Sameday – which runs a 36-strong vehicle fleet of which nearly 50% are temperature controlled – had switched its rental policy over to Burnt Tree for some of its ambient dry freight rental vehicles; however, following the launch of the new Refrigerental Division, Burton Sameday has now also taken its first refrigerated rental vehicle from Refrigerental, with a further second identical vehicle due to join the fleet soon.
The Mercedes LWB 313 Sprinter, fitted with a Carrier Xarios 350 direct drive refrigerated system that can cover temperatures from -18° C to +10° C, joins the existing fleet operating from the company’s town centre location in Burton on Trent.
Operations manager Rob Crisp said: ‘We have developed a specialist service delivering urgent pharmaceutical supplies to patient’s homes and businesses, as well as a range of foodstuffs, so our fleet of refrigerated vehicles is continuing to grow. We have been impressed by our dealings with Lisa Davis at Burnt Tree in Derby for the dry freight vehicles supplied to date, so it was a natural progression for us to source our next refrigerated vehicle from them as well.’
‘Because of the nature of our temperature controlled work, we have extremely stringent specification requirements for us to comply with the relevant legislation. We were impressed by the quality of the Burnt Tree vehicle specifications within their overall Refrigerental range and are now looking forward to develop this relationship with Lisa Davis and her rental team in Derby across our whole range of ambient and chilled vehicles,’ added Crisp.
‘We have felt that there is a major opportunity in the current market place for Burnt Tree to expand its vehicle rental business into the temperature controlled market sector. The overwhelmingly positive reaction of customers since the launch has proved that we are on the right road with Refrigerental and we welcome Burton Sameday as a new Refrigerental customer. We look forward to working closely with them as they expand both their specialist temperature controlled delivery operations as well as their ambient business,’ said Neil Murphy, refrigerental general manager at Burnt Tree.
