Lancashire-based GBA Services, specialists in time-critical logistics, has taken delivery of six new 3.5-tonne Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans, specified with lightweight and powerful Carrier Transicold Xarios® 350 refrigeration units. They will be used for long-distance temperature-sensitive deliveries across the UK and Europe, each covering up to 100,000 miles per year. Carrier Transicold is a part of Carrier, a leading global provider of innovative heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, fire, security and building automation technologies.

The new vehicles will be used on various contracts covering deliveries of controlled and patient-critical pharmaceuticals, as well as supplying research drugs to laboratories as far north as the Arctic Circle, and south to Greece. The Xarios 350 unit provides GBA Services with a system capable of maintaining precise temperature set points when outside temperatures could range from -25 to +50 degrees Celsius.

“We transport specialist loads to customers, frequently over very long distances, and we are required to maintain pinpoint temperature set points throughout the cold chain,” said Mark Hailwood, Fleet Manager, GBA Services. “We have to be sure the vehicles we specify are up to the task, and if there is ever a problem that we’ll be able to fix it, quickly.”

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