New Actros for Foulger

Norfolk’s Foulger Transport staged a fuel-efficiency shootout between its established fleet favourite and a Mercedes-Benz New Actros demonstration unit – true to form, the truck with the three-pointed star carried the day.

As a result, the haulier has just added seven New Actros 2545 tractors to the fleet of 100 trucks now operating from its base in Snetterton.

Supplied by Peterborough Dealer Intercounty Truck & Van, all have aerodynamic, flat-floored StreamSpace cabs, and are powered by state-of-the-art 330 kW (450 hp) straight-six engines, driving through the latest Mercedes PowerShift 3 automated transmissions.

Group Transport Manager Paul Willis says: “Foulger Transport has run Mercedes-Benz trucks before, but not for some time. So although we’d heard good things about the fuel performance of the New Actros, it had to prove its worth to win a place in our fleet.

“Intercounty had the belief in their product to provide us with a demonstrator, which we ran for a trial period to gain an accurate, ‘real life’ impression of its performance – they were confident it would impress us, and so it did.”

He continues: “We’d always expect new trucks to be slightly better than older ones on fuel. But the fact that some of our new Mercedes-Benz units are more than 3.0 mpg ahead of our current fleet tractors is certainly encouraging.”

Indeed, so impressed is the operator that it has already returned to Intercounty Truck & Van with an order for more New Actros.
 

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