The company, which owns some of Britain’s leading independent energy distribution and utility infrastructure businesses, specialises in the construction and ownership of “last mile networks”. These include GTC Pipelines and Power On Connections which provide, respectively, gas and electricity connections to the new build construction market.
Brookfield Utilities is based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and runs a fleet of 120 light commercial vehicles across its various operations. Having previously purchased its vans from another manufacturer, the company decided late last year to award all future van orders to Mercedes-Benz.
Bell Truck and Van, who supplied the Sprinters, has also delivered a Citan 109 CDI small van, and will soon supply a mid-sized Vito model to the Brookfield Utilities fleet.
Commenting on the new additions, Brookfield Utilities Group transport manager Denis Chapman said: ‘We believe in giving our staff the best tools for the job, and with their bespoke racking for each trade our new Sprinters are already proving to be ideal site vehicles.
‘Mercedes-Benz vans are built to a very high standard and lead the market in terms of safety, while we know all about their reliability because we also have a few old Sprinters which are still on the road although just used as spares now.
‘The whole life costs of Mercedes-Benz ownership are very attractive, as is the three-year, unlimited mileage manufacturer’s warranty. Our vans typically clock-up 40,000 miles a year and the cover on our previous supplier’s vehicles runs out after 100,000 miles, as a result of which we’ve incurred some big costs due to major component failures outside the warranty period,’ he added.