Capital Equipment News April-May 2020

REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE

Scania Southern Africa has been offering R&M contracts since 2002

Premier Logistics Solutions has 129 Scania trucks in its fleet.

Driving high availability with Scania R&M contracts

Due to the uptime-driven nature of its business, Premier Logistics Solutions does not leave anything to chance when it comes to the health of its truck fleet. Taking a Scania R&M contract with every truck purchase for the past eight years has ensured 99% average truck availability, writes Munesu Shoko .

S outh African-based Premier Logistics Solu- tions runs a fleet of about 240 trucks across its four business divisions. Some eight years ago, the company bought its first two Scania trucks and never looked back. Since then, the family-owned logistics company has purchased some 167 Scania trucks, of which 129 are currently active.

“We started off with Scania some eight years ago with the purchase of two trucks. We scaled up in 2015 when we started replacing our Freightliner and International units we had in our fleet. Our first major Scania fleet was in 2015 when we bought 15 vehicles at one go. The following year we bought 10 more trucks and never looked back,” says Jimmy Auby, MD of Premier Logistics Solutions.

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