Serco has built 56 Dryliner truck bodies – including 16 demountable units – for the Durban-based company, City Logistics, which is expanding its wide-ranging distribution fleet.
City Logistics is a leading southern African logistics service provider to retailers with a specific emphasis on apparel and footwear. With more than 100,000 square metres of warehouse space and a fleet of over 1,200 vehicles, the company provides a complete management service to several blue-chip customers and southern African retailers.
City Logistics has established a comprehensive distribution network in Southern Africa. Daily operations in distribution include deliveries to retail, industrial and automotive customers while the line-haul division operates on a 24-hour basis, providing an inter-depot service for distribution and FTL deliveries for key customers.
Serco CEO, Clinton Holcroft, said City Logistics had wanted high cube load bodies, so Dryliner units built with Protec steel facings and an injected foam were offered to provide a highly durable and lightweight panel construction.
“We met the customer’s requirements with a combination of 8.25m and 8.8m high cube bodies, built at our Durban factory,” said Holcroft.
“Five of the units were adapted to accommodate towing draw bar trailers and sixteen of the units were demountable bodies to enable efficient turnaround for loading and offloading.”
City Logistics Director, Anthony Naicker, and Fleet Manager, Rodney Pillay, decided on Serco’s Protec panel construction which had been proven previously, to offer improved durability and hence a longer lifespan for the vehicle bodies, while also meeting the required volumetric capacity, said they were very pleased with the builds and looked forward to continue growing the partnership.