Advertisement feature Cover story Fuel savings prove compelling for Davies Turner
One of the UK’s leading multimodal forwarders and logistics organisations, Davies Turner, has turned to Jungheinrich for the supply of new counterbalanced and powered pallet trucks
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ne of Davies Turner’s biggest facilities is in Dartford, Kent, in the shadow of the QEII bridge. The 10-acre site is
ideally placed for the UK’s motorway network and offers easy access to the major south and east coast ports. A mixed fleet of materials handling
equipment had operated across the two storage units but the company, which has an annual turnover approaching £150 million, recently took the decision to switch to a single supplier. Following a competitive tender process, Jungheinrich was awarded the contract to supply new counterbalanced and powered pallet
A range of Jungheinrich counterbalanced and powered pallet trucks are now in operation at Davies Turner’s Dartford facility
trucks. Fifteen gas-powered counter- balanced and seven ride-on pallet trucks are now in operation at the Dartford facility undertaking a broad range of handling duties. With the counterbalanced trucks
required to work around the clock, seven days a week, gas was the obvious choice of power source for Davies Turner, as the company’s warehouse manager, Paul Scoble, explains: “In many ways we would prefer to run electric powered forklifts, but trucks used as intensively as we use them need a regimented charging regime which, in truth, we would struggle to adhere to. This would lead to problems with the batteries so we went for gas.” The counterbalance trucks chosen
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were models from the Jungheinrich TFG Hydtrostatic range. One of the key drivers behind Davies
Turner’s choice was the Jungheinrich TFG’s impressive fuel consumption
statistics. Jungheinrich was able to demonstrate that over the course of 2,000 hours of typical operation, the trucks save some £2,000 in fuel costs in comparison with similar capacity counterbalance trucks. For sites – such as Davies Turner’s Dartford facility - where a large fleet is in operation, the savings are extremely significant. The new trucks at Dartford are prov-
ing to be some 40 per cent more fuel efficient than the models they replaced. “Our Dartford site operates on a
24/7 basis, handling many hundreds of vehicles every week so we need the most reliable and robust handling equipment we can get. “We were offered cheaper deals but
the fuel efficiency of the Jungheinrich TFG trucks and our previous experi- ence of dealing with the company were compelling reasons to invest in a Jungheinrich fleet,” says Alan Williams, a director of Davies Turner.
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