Watford, UK: Chilled courier operator Igloo Thermo-Logistics turned to Ryder for ten new refrigerated vehicles for work with charity Magic Breakfast.
Igloo has been delivering Magic Breakfast school breakfasts to children in disadvantaged areas of the UK since 2010.
The ten new vehicles are 3.5-tonne Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans with Solomon fridge bodies and Carrier Transicold Xarios fridges and operate from Igloo’s three depots in Coventry, Leeds, and Watford. Igloo provides multi-temperature food courier services as well as its work with Magic Breakfast.
“We deliver chilled produce into restaurants, airports, train stations, hospitals, and schools on behalf of food producers and distributors, from small start-ups to large corporations,” Leigh Ogley, operations director, Igloo, said. The ten new vehicles from Ryder are primarily being used to deliver product for breakfast clubs under the National Schools Breakfast Programme, which Magic Breakfast was recently awarded funding to deliver.
“We needed the new vehicles to have a good payload so we can maximise the volume we put in them, hence them having a long wheelbase. They are making around 20 drops a day, five times a week to the schools, and will be in operation 39-weeks of the year, so we estimate they will do around 40,000 miles a year,” Leigh said.
As a first-time customer of Ryder Leigh was impressed by the “willingness of Ryder to provide flexibility in the contract to suit our operational requirements”. Jon Gordon, Ryder area sales manager, said: “Flexibility was a vital prerequisite for the chosen vehicle provider and as a new customer to Ryder, it has been fascinating to understand the requirements of Igloo’s contract for Magic Breakfast.”
