Ten gas-powered trucks for Uniserve

The new arrivals were ordered on the back of a successful trial which proved the miles per gallon performance of the ultra-fuel-efficient Volvo FH Aero model.

Running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the new trucks will clock-up more than 300,000km per year, running between Uniserve’s depot in Chepstow to its customer in Yorkshire.

Each FH Aero delivers substantial energy consumption and emission reductions in comparison to a standard FH through a refined, streamlined design.

Additional efficiency gains are unlocked by deploying new technologies, most notably Volvo’s Camera Monitoring System (CMS). Replacing traditional exterior mirrors, CMS increases the driver’s field of view and, when driving with a trailer, deploys auto-panning functionality to follow the rear of the trailer as it turns.

Uniserve’s new additions feature a 460 hp gas-powered engine, which delivers the same performance as the diesel version. The 10 FH Aeros will refuel at a newly-installed biomethane facility at the company’s Chepstow base – built by ViGo Bioenergy. The bio- LNG supplied is 100% waste-based, with much of the volume planned to come from ViGo’s own manure-derived biomethane, that can offer carbon savings up to 79%.

Advertisement