Domino’s Pizza has added to its fleet with more than 60 new vehicles supplied by Dawsongroup. The new additions include eight 7.2-tonne Iveco Dailies, 38 18-tonne DAF XBs, six DAF XD 4×2 tractor units and six Gray & Adams urban fridge trailers with Carrier Transicold TRS undermounted fridge units.
The Iveco Daily vans feature bespoke Paneltex bodies and Carrier Xarios direct drive refrigeration. The XBs were also bodied by Paneltex and use Carrier TRS direct drive refrigeration units. The XDs are equipped with chassis mounted Carrier Ecodrives. The fleet expansion also included six Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans supplied by Dawsongroup vans.
Leon Roche, Domino’s transport network optimisation manager said: “We are working towards a low carbon fleet for deliveries from supply chain centres (SCCs) to stores by increasing our use of electric vehicles. Over 80% of our Scope 1 emissions relate to our SCC fleet, so transitioning will reduce reliance on diesel and significantly lower Scope 1 emissions. We now have two electric refrigerated delivery vehicles in the fleet and are committed to having electric refrigeration units on all our distribution vehicles by 2028, supporting the reduction of our CO2 emissions.”
James Gysin, contracts director at Dawsongroup truck and trailer said: “Domino’s has been at the forefront of UK non-diesel refrigeration uptake for several years. These new vehicles all have Carrier non diesel fridges and the tractor units have Ecodrives fitted. Ecodrive offers operators huge potential to ‘electrify’ a diesel fridge trailer fleet, simply by switching to tractor units equipped with generator systems that run trailer fridge engines electrically.
“The benefits of this system are often overlooked though, and penetration into the UK tractor unit fleet has been slow, with only the most innovative and committed businesses such as Domino’s and ourselves prepared to invest. The smaller trucks are Iveco 7.2-tonne GVW, rather than the traditional 7.5-tonne. The 7.2-tonne is a significantly lighter chassis that offers increased payloads. With more carried on each journey, the carbon impact of each load is correspondingly reduced.”
