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TRACK & WHEEL<br />
From left: Karl Relph (<strong>CablePrice</strong>),<br />
Peter Ellett (Retko Haulage),<br />
Tony Hodge (Fruehauf Trailers),<br />
Shane Ward (TR Group), and<br />
Jeff Mear (Fruehauf Trailers)<br />
influencing factors for selecting its vehicle of choice.<br />
Retko has run Scanias since 1982, and Peter says<br />
“they’re a great fleet truck that the drivers love. You<br />
can’t beat the retarders. Nothing can touch Scania<br />
going down the hills. They’re brilliant.”<br />
Peter goes on to say, “<strong>CablePrice</strong> has always provided<br />
us a really good service.”<br />
So with 99 percent of the company’s line haul<br />
fleet already Scania, it comes as no surprise the<br />
new high productivity sign, a black H on a yellow<br />
rectangular background, would be mounted above a<br />
distinctive Scania grill.<br />
<strong>CablePrice</strong>’s national sales manager for Scania, Karl<br />
Relph, says “We’re delighted Retko chose to continue<br />
the long-established relationship with <strong>CablePrice</strong> as<br />
part of their venture into the new high performance<br />
motor vehicle programme. Scania’s focus towards safer<br />
vehicles for safer roads makes it a perfect match when<br />
considering longer and heavier vehicles.”<br />
The 7.87m curtainsider body with<br />
Zepro tail lift and 10.65m, 20-pallet, fouraxle<br />
trailer, running BPW disc brakes and<br />
EBS braking system, were manufactured<br />
by Fruehauf NZ Limited of Fielding. The<br />
combination comes with split mezzanine<br />
floors across the truck and trailer, and the<br />
finished product has Peter’s approval.<br />
“The boys at Fruehauf NZ have done us<br />
proud. They worked tirelessly for us to get<br />
the permit and we’ll definitely be using<br />
them again in the future.”<br />
According to Fruehauf NZ Limited sales<br />
account manager, Tony Hodge, “The truck<br />
and trailer combination is the first HPMV<br />
specification we’ve manufactured and our<br />
first time working with Retko Haulage.”<br />
The delivery of the two over-length<br />
combinations symbolises Retko’s<br />
move to leasing all of its gear from<br />
the country’s largest truck and trailer<br />
lease company, TR Group. According to Peter, TR<br />
Group has been great to deal with, proving to be<br />
very engaging when Retko wanted to venture into<br />
the new over-length specification. “They’ve made<br />
the switch from just leasing trailers, to the total<br />
package, seamless,” he says.<br />
The ability to build out to the new HPMV lengths<br />
has created efficiencies for Retko that Peter, along<br />
with his business partners Ian Tulloch and Rob Covich,<br />
say will help Retko consolidate its fleet and more<br />
efficiently manage its contracts.<br />
The two Scania R 470 HPMV combinations will<br />
be carting plastics between Palmerston North and<br />
Whangarei daily, running virtually 24 hours straight.<br />
While Peter says they could have done the new run<br />
with B-trains, he believes the new set up is much more<br />
efficient, and not just because they can cart more.<br />
“The shift into the over-length specification means<br />
we’re definitely going to get a lot<br />
more cubic in them,” he says, but<br />
They’re<br />
a great fleet<br />
truck that the<br />
drivers love.<br />
You can’t beat<br />
the retarders.<br />
Nothing can<br />
touch Scania<br />
going down the<br />
hills. They’re<br />
brilliant.”<br />
Peter Ellett, co-owner<br />
Retko Haulage<br />
by selecting the 8x4 curtainsider<br />
configuration and setting the<br />
Scanias up with a tail-lift, “the<br />
trucks can drop off their trailers<br />
and then go and do deliveries”,<br />
thus eliminating the need for<br />
Retko to have an additional<br />
delivery vehicle at the other end,<br />
and reducing double-handling.<br />
According to Peter, the<br />
collaboration between Retko,<br />
Scania and <strong>CablePrice</strong>, TR Group<br />
and Fruehauf NZ Limited during<br />
the permitting of the new HPMV’s<br />
vehicles “has seen us put a couple<br />
of great-looking units on the road”.<br />
He also believes it has been a good<br />
litmus test for what is likely to be<br />
a steady increase in interest for<br />
HPMV configurations.<br />
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