Capital Equipment News

CAPITAL EQUIPMENT NEWS

MARCH 2016

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.

49 Faymonville trailers are currently in ac-

tion at Kaarlaid – the 50

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

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

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,

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.”

KAARLAID IS GROWING

thanks to Faymonville’s product variety

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-

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.

“The brief we received from Sasko was for

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.

SERCO DELIVERS THE DAILY BREAD