Online retailer Ocado has now ordered 27 new Advancers in total, as part of a 46-strong all-Thermo King trailer refrigeration order for its 2021 trailer fleet upgrade requirements.
Supplied by Thermo King dealer Marshall Fleet Solutions, the new TK Advancer A400 units are fitted on Paneltex single temperature, double deck trailers that are being used for trunking from Ocado’s four main CFCs to their regional spoke sites.
The Thermo King Advancers form part of an overall trailer fleet upgrade at Ocado, with 46 new temperature-controlled trailers being added to their fleet during 2021, all of them featuring either Thermo King Advancer or TK SLXi refrigeration systems supplied, installed, and maintained by Marshall Fleet Solutions.
All 27 Thermo King Advancer refrigeration systems are being fitted on Paneltex 13.6m tri-axle, single compartment double deck trailers that will be covering in excess of 135,000 km per annum working on Ocado’s seven day a week trunking operation.
Ocado currently runs a fleet of 264 trailers in total, including 224 refrigerated and 40 ambient trailers. Double deck temperature-controlled trailers account for 147 of the refrigerated trailers with the remaining 77 trailers split between standard single and multi-temperature models.
