Capital Equipment News March 2016

KAARLAID IS GROWING thanks to Faymonville’s product variety

T he Estonian transport company Kaa- rlaid can look back on 15 years of company history and has every rea- son to celebrate this. Furthermore, a his- toric moment in Kaarlaids cooperation with Faymonville is coming up.

the quality of those trailers.” Kaarlaid is one of the leading suppliers for heavy and special transport in the Baltic region and Scandinavia. They transport goods up to 100 ton that can also happen to be of 60 m length and 14 m height. Next to the adequate trailers, Andres Lampe was also impressed

49 Faymonville trailers are currently in ac- tion at Kaarlaid – the 50 th is soon to come.

It must be highlighted that Kaarlaid has almost all trailer types from Faymonville in its fleet. There are multiple MultiMAX semi-trailers, MegaMAX low bed trailers and TeleMAX flatbed semi-trailers. Kaar- laid also uses a multifunctional VarioMAX, a light weight MultiMAX Plus semi-trailer or a PrefaMAX to transport concrete precast elements. Faymonville offers for Kaarlaid all sorts of transport equipment solutions, sim- ply flexible … to the MAX! Just the thing for Kaarlaids CEO, Andres Lampe. “I made a good experience with the Faymonville products and found out about New truck and trailer combinations recently built by Serco for Pioneer Foods (Sasko Bakeries) are now being used to deliver thousands of loaves of bread every day all over the Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. The combinations comprise van body trucks, drawbar and stepdeck trailers all built at the Serco plant in Cape Town. The vehicles are designed to carry the maximum possi- ble number of crates of bread for Pioneer Foods, daily, from the bakeries to depots around the country. Although Serco had built a variety of vehi- cles previously, for Pioneer Foods, this was the first order for complete trailer combina- tions. A major feature of the design is that the drawbar trailers have concertina front doors which allow the bread to be loaded through the rear by means of a ramp into the van body, thus speeding up the loading process. “The new Serco vehicles are now operating all over the country and have proved to be worthy additions to Sasko’s fleet. We are very impressed with the quality of workman- ship built into these vehicles, something we have come to expect from Serco after do-

this is among other things a condition that the cooperation over the past 15 years has been expanded so greatly. This speedy pro- cess is also kept up after the sale. “If nec- essary, spare parts for vehicle maintenance are always getting to us on the fastest pos- sible way.” b

by Faymonville’s working method and han- dling. “Visits at Faymonville feel like home. Moreover, I get a quick and precise answer to all my questions. This reactivity is very important to me and everything is dis- cussed in my native language.”

This individual and intense customer care is a brand label at Faymonville. For Kaarlaid,

SERCO DELIVERS THE DAILY BREAD

ing business with the company for the past three years,” said Arno Lourens, Technical Manager, Vehicles at Sasko Bakeries. The combinations that were supplied to Sas- ko consisted of four 8.750 mm x 2.600 mm x 3.200 mm van body trucks, four 9.77m x 2.60 m x 3.20 m drawbar trailers and five 15.50 m x 2.60 m x 3.29 m.

purpose-built vehicles as ‘bulk feeders’, lightweight enough to transport the maxi- mum number of bread crates for local and long distance deliveries, sometimes as far as George in the Cape. With the reduction in the number of bakeries in the area it be- came necessary to maintain the volumes of bread requirements and with these ve- hicles Sasko was able to keep up with daily demands,” said Jeremy Freedman, Serco, Technical Representative, Cape. b ,

“The brief we received from Sasko was for

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