Perth, Scotland: Fresh produce supplier Stewarts of Tayside has added ten Daf New Generation XF 480 6×2 tractors and ten Gray & Adams refrigerated trailers to its fleet.
Finding for the new vehicles was by Asset Alliance Group. The 44-tonners are supplied on three-year contract hire, while the trailers with dual temperature fridges arrive on operating lease contracts.
Stewarts of Tayside – one of the UK’s largest growers of swede and soft fruit – has also extended an existing operating lease deal with Asset Alliance Group for ten Gray & Adams trailers with single temperature fridges.
Jim Winn, transport manager, Stewarts of Tayside, says: “The additions to our modern fleet are allowing us to expand our operations, ensuring we can continue to offer a high level of service in the distribution of our fruit and vegetables across the UK.
Stewarts of Tayside makes more than 600 deliveries a week, including to some of the major multiples. Each of the new vehicles is expected to average 160,000km a year.
The company’s partnership with Asset Alliance Group spans more than seven years, but it’s the first time the company has added Daf tractor units to its fleet.
“The Asset Alliance Group team have been absolutely brilliant to work with. They were the only company who could supply us with the trucks and trailers we needed on the timescale we proposed,” Winn says.
