Dover-based GK Friend Haulage has enhanced its longstanding ties with Fruehauf after adding two stepframe bathtub tipping trailers to its fleet to support business growth. The 70 cubic yard capacity rib sided bathtubs become the fourth and fifth Fruehauf trailers to join the fleet in the past 12 months, with a further four due for…
Logistics solutions provider, Bartrums, has added three more Fruehauf stepframe bathtub tipping trailers to its fleet to boost its UK-wide malt barley haulage operation. The order strengthens the East Anglian company’s relationship with Fruehauf with which it has been dealing for more than a decade. Tremayne Johnson, Operations Director at Bartrums, says: “We’re working the…
Britain’s only national grain marketing and arable inputs co-operative, Openfield, is taking delivery of 36 sloper smoothsider tippers from Fruehauf as part of the company’s expansion plans. The 72m3 trailers started arriving towards the end of 2022, making the short journey from Fruehauf’s base in Grantham to the nearby Lincolnshire firm. Further new tippers are…
MNS Developments says two new sloper smoothsider tippers supplied by Fruehauf are delivering on their promise, after the haulier increased its focus on agricultural work. The Huntingdon-based company, which specialises in aggregate supplies and recycling, purchased the tippers primarily to help with a new contract transporting sugar beet. The family-run haulier is using the trailers,…
Lincolnshire firm Beelsby Contractors says the addition of two Fruehauf tippers has improved the efficiency of its operations at Immingham Docks. The two Stepframe Smoothsider tippers and Scania R450 tractors are part of the company’s 20-strong fleet that transport seed, gypsum and grain to and from the docks. The haulage fleet also operates across the…
For Jon Wright, the addition of two new Fruehauf trailers to his haulage fleet has made the task of transporting grain, sugar beet and seasonal crops much easier. Now in its 127th year in the industry, Caistor-based H.C. Wright Hauliers in Lincolnshire purchased two Sloper Smoothsider tippers, repeating an order made in 2017. Of the…
Grantham-based tipping trailer and truck body manufacturer, Fruehauf has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of three new directors. Robert Roe takes up the position of Managing Director, Paul Maguire as Production Director and Don Wallace as Engineering Director. Announcing the appointments, Steven Cairns Managing Director of MV Commercial, which acquired the company in…
Following the diversification into general haulage eight years ago, GH Davies Farms of Shrewsbury is further expanding its tipper fleet with six new Fruehauf trailers. In addition to hauling their own commodities, the company works for major grain merchants as well as local quarries. The new trailers will cover an average of 120,000 kilometres per…
Just four months since MV Commercial secured a new future for trailer and rigid manufacturer Fruehauf, production at the 67-acre Grantham site is seeing the benefit of a multi-million-pound investment. Announcing the news Steven Cairns, Managing Director of MV Commercial said: “We are already producing 12 units a week and as we start to see…
