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one of the country’s largest builders’ merchants and home improvement retailers, has replaced 250 machines with Yale trucks from Briggs, but crucially, also included the UKWA Award-winning Speedshield telemetry system.
Nick Wilson, Travis Perkins’ general manager – Brackmills Stores, comments: “With over 2,600 pallets that need to be picked and moved daily, our operation needs to run as efficiently as possible to meet demand.”
Speedshield encourages best- practice driver behaviour by enforcing a tailored HSE checklist on start-up. This feature gives users a paperless online HSE compliance record with exceptions locking out a unit and informing appropriate supervisors. Also a range of options allow users to select the benefits and solutions to match their exact needs from two-way, real- time speed limiting to reducing wasted fuel and CO2
emissions.
Customers can access all of these features via any internet PC through the secure web-based application, eliminating additional software license costs and offering tiered levels of access and control. Users have the option to send commands to their fleet or an individual unit, rectifying issues immediately.
Developed by Briggs for Briggs customers, Speedshield is an investment to allow customers to reduce costs and focus more on running their business and less on running their MHE fleets.
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investment in training means Briggs’ engineers are up-to-date with the latest products and legislation.
Below, right: The Briggs approach is to develop a
relationship with its customers for long-term, mutual benefit.
Another key attribute for Briggs is flexibility. Every customer has their own particular need and one solution does not suit all. Briggs brings a unique adaptability to the market whether the need is for a single LOLER inspection or repair, to a managed fleet service solution to a day’s hire or five-year fleet contract. Nothing shows this flexibility better than the aptly named FlexiHire solution. This exclusive facility offers everyone the chance to trial the Briggs service. Simply sign-up to a five year deal, and if after 12 months you decide not to continue just give a month’s notice to terminate the contract.
If you do stay with Briggs, then the fixed monthly rate for the next year will reduce and each subsequent year of the contract the rate will reduce again. This level of financial creativity is due in part to Briggs’ parent company, Sammons Enterprises Inc. Sammons is a multi-national conglomerate with assets approaching $45bn in diverse
industries from materials handling to insurance but crucially has no exposure to either shareholders or the stock markets. The primary driver for Sammons is to perpetuate the company by creating ever increasing enterprise economic value for the benefit of current and future generations of its employees. “The Briggs in the UK is a real success story: a business that has turned round, is cash generative, with no exposure to shareholders and able to work for long- term goals. But the story is so much bigger than that,” Richard Close, CEO Briggs Equipment, comments. “We are part of Briggs International and are the largest Yale Materials Handling dealer in the world! This means that we work in partnership with Yale to deliver even better solutions that we know from our experience, our team can deliver. “This gives us the very real ability to live up to our motto: Passionate People, Powerful Solutions.” ●
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