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Interoute Transport Services
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The chance to try out the air management kit on a tractor and trailer provided by Interoute Transport Services was offered by one of Its customers, Milk Link, It wanted to trial the system to see if fuel figures and costs could be improved.
Interoute Transport Services started up in December 2000 following a management buyout from Initial Transport Services. It provides specialist distribution for bulk liquids, powders and gases as well providing warehousing and distribution of packaged and palletised goods. It Joined Pall-Ex last August and the company runs 400 vehicles and 700 trailers.
The air management system was first fitted to the interoute vehicles 10 months ago, and has seen significant fuel savings averaging 0.5mpg between vehicles fitted with the system compared with those without. There are currently 30 vehicles fitted with the system, and this is set to double once a new batch of tractors start work on a new contract delivering food stuffs for Cargill. Milk operations director, Ray Engley, said that traditional square air-management kits only create worse drag between the cab and trailer, so they are normally taken off.