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• The 3.5-tonner is ubiquitous on supermarket home-delivery operatio because of its acceptability in residential streets. Most of the bodies are mul temperature, but they are anything but standard. Unloading can be cam out via walk-in access through the rear, or from the roadside through vario side doors giving access to the trays or boxes used for each custome order. Internal bulkheads to separate the compartments can be fixed moveable. Moveable bulkheads and the trend to carry frozen food in s contained insulated boxes allow operators to configure the internal spa more closely to individual orders.
Operators of temperature-controlled vehicles are also keen users of sep rate bodies-on-chassis rather than panel vans. GAP, Gray and Ada Lamberet, Solomon and RVL all specialise In small refrigerated bodies E Sussex-based RVL guarantees its bodies for 10 years, and reports that ma of its customers get two, sometimes three lives out of bodies by transfer' them to new chassis. Payload remains a key factor in this sector, says RVL has introduced a GRP frame to shave some weight.