AtlasAir extends fleet
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ATLASAIR has now extended its existing fleet of Mercedes-Ben L407D vans with two 7.5 tonne (7.38 tons) gvw LP809 vans, on based in Bristol, the other at Oxford.
The Bristol vehicle is said to be covering up to 400km (250 miles day, mainly on inter-depot motorway trunk running to destinatior like Bridgend.
The Oxford-based "non-hgv" Mercedes combines trunking. daily out of the company's Heathrow depot — and takes in collect' and delivery of individual airfreight consignments.
Both of AtlasAir's 809s have 4.9m 116ft) long, 2.44m (8ft) hi Longwell Green side-access bodywork. The one-piece aluminium plank dropsides are connected throv a counterbalanced linkage to a "jack-knife" type door which for the upper part of the sidewall and a section of the roof.