The company’s new Sprinter 513 CDI chassis cabs are fitted with 129hp engines and were supplied by local Glasgow dealer, Western Commercial. Each is fitted with bespoke body with water tank, jetting and suction equipment by Dutch specialist Rioned.
EEG also runs a fleet of more than 300 trucks – a combination of 26- and 32-tonners – which carry jet-vac equipment and work on various contracts for major utilities providers.
EEG fleet manager Douglas Stewart commented: 'We already run around 50 Sprinter vans with CCTV equipment, which we use to inspect drains.
‘We’ve been relying on Sprinters since 2002 and although they rack up some very high mileages, only very rarely does one suffer a problem. You can’t buy that sort of reliability anywhere other than Mercedes-Benz.
'Western Commercial, meanwhile, has provided a consistently excellent service over the years. Van sales manager, Joe Scott, and his team are always helpful, courteous and highly professional, so much so that as far as I’m concerned Western is the best Mercedes-Benz dealership in the UK.
‘Our trucks are just too big to access some areas, so we needed more manageable vehicles that combined a smaller footprint with a sufficiently high payload to carry the necessary equipment. The 5.0-tonne Sprinter was the perfect solution,’ he added.