Used to replace an ageing truck of another manufacturer, this is the first Isuzu truck to enter the fleet at Suffolk & Essex Supplies Ltd. The short wheelbase Isuzu Euro VI ‘Urban’ N75.150 rigid features Isuzu’s ‘Easyshift’ semi-automated transmission while the body was specified as a curtainsider with a rear tuckaway tail-lift.
Andrew Castledine, director at Suffolk & Essex Supplies Ltd, said: “By recommending a purpose-designed truck specification for our distribution operation, Isuzu Truck has given us a hugely productive delivery vehicle. To date, we have been really impressed by the volume of products that we can carry on this new 7.5 tonner, as well as the improved overall fuel economy that we’re achieving.”
The vehicle will probably cover around 30,000km per year and, although it has been bought the truck on a four-year finance agreement, the company says it will be looking to run it for considerably more years than that.
“As a specialist chemicals distribution business, we deliver quite a range of heavy and bulky goods. For example we supply pallets of products for the leisure industries and small containers for industrial use. But in addition we have to pump liquid chemicals into our customer’s own tanks. We do this by using an on-board compressor that pressurises our 1000 litre vessels which then enables us to make the deliveries. Whatever the load, the Isuzu takes it easily in its stride. What’s more, the compact footprint of the truck is ideally suited for some of the more rural road conditions of East Anglia, Essex and Suffolk. Our regular driver has been extremely impressed by the overall performance of the Isuzu, including the quality of the spacious cab environment,” said Castledine.
“We have great confidence in the longevity and reliability of the Isuzu marque,” he added.
