Deals On Wheels #454
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Working DEALS<br />
Hot Scania deals<br />
To find these awesome deals<br />
search for the TA number below at<br />
TradeTrucks.com.au<br />
$291,500<br />
’1 9 Scania G500<br />
High chassis tipper, 14 spd Opticruise, alloys<br />
02 6171 3483 or search TA948841<br />
$110,000<br />
Honestly, the Scanias have been fantastic and they’re the<br />
preferred choice without any shadow of doubt.” Indeed,<br />
as we spoke in Warner’s Forrestfield office, he says a new<br />
P360 4x2 prime mover is being considered specifically for<br />
the job of hauling two empty 40-foot containers.<br />
Moreover, the Swedish breed may eventually find<br />
its way into the company’s longer-distance operations<br />
despite the trial of an R620 model which recorded fuel<br />
consumption “no better or worse” than existing Kenworth<br />
and Western Star runners.<br />
“But the demo went into one of the worst weeks of<br />
weather we’d seen in WA for a very long time, so it might<br />
not have been a good example,” he explains.<br />
Meantime, brands continue to vary across the<br />
company’s three divisions. In warehousing, it’s mainly<br />
rigids while on regional projects to the north-west and<br />
beyond, two Kenworths and a Western Star reliably<br />
endure. The container division, however, retains a mixed<br />
prime mover fleet of four Scanias (the G480 and three<br />
G500s), the same number of Kenworth K104s, a couple of<br />
Western Stars and a lone Hino FS.<br />
Free of commitments for a short time, Shane Warner<br />
joined the discussion and didn’t shy from expressing<br />
the view, “Staying up with technology is a key at all<br />
levels of the transport and logistics chain, internally<br />
and externally.”<br />
Asked if the latest Scanias were therefore the truck of the<br />
future for Warners Transport & Distribution, his response<br />
was immediate: “It takes time to replace all the trucks<br />
in a business like this. It also takes plenty of money and<br />
you have to get the best out of the trucks you have while<br />
they’re still viable.”<br />
Then, quiet for a few moments, he concludes, “But going<br />
on what we’ve found so far, over the next five years or so,<br />
the prime mover fleet will be Scania. For sure!”<br />
’14 Scania G480<br />
Ex-fleet, 6x4, 654K, 12 spd autoshift trans<br />
02 8279 7053 or search TA1017757<br />
’14 Scania G480 sleeper 6x4<br />
6x4 PM, 12.7L, 480hp, 14 spd automated man trans<br />
07 3073 3764 or search TA994960<br />
’ 10 Scania R420 fuel tanker 10,000L<br />
Dual compartment tank, top fill, 8x4<br />
08 6166 8347 or search TA973700<br />
$99,990<br />
$130,000<br />
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