Domino’s boosts green supply chain
Asset Alliance Group is supplying the UK’s leading pizza company Domino’s with 15 Mercedes-Benz trucks, eight Scania rigids and eight DAF tractors, in a significant deal that supports the company’s nationwide supply chain as well as its environmental ambitions.
SUPPLIED ON a five-year full-service contract hire agreement, the Mercedes-Benz Actros 2532L 26-tonne trucks are fitted with Carrier Transicold Iceland engineless refrigeration units to help reduce carbon emissions. Based at depots in Warrington and Avonmouth, they will deliver to Domino’s franchisees in the north west and south west of England.
The eight DAF XF 530 tractor units will be used to pull double deck trailers from Warrington to the company’s logistics hub in Avonmouth, while the Scania P320 trucks, due to arrive in January, will be based at Domino’s Milton Keynes headquarters and used to deliver supplies to the firm’s London outlets.
Domino’s transport network optimisation manager Leon Roche, says: “Fitting the Actros with the engineless Carrier Transicold Iceland refrigeration system is another step in Domino’s strategic plan to go carbon-free in the future. The fridges run electrically off the truck engine's power take-off instead of using a separate diesel engine, so we’re reducing our carbon emissions. It’s an important part of our sustainability programme.”
