GE delivers Tip Tankers for Dairy Cooperative fleet renewal

Dairy Farmers of Britain have recently taken delivery of 19 32 tonne, 20,500 litre capacity stainless steel milk collection trucks which have been supplied by GE Equipment Services, TIP Tanker Services for leading milk distributor Lloyd Fraser (Bulk Liquids) Limited.

Leading manufacturer Crossland Tankers (Burnley) Ltd designed and built the tanks and their high speed pumping system in co-operation with Dairy Farmers of Britain. The results are farm collection tankers with over 20,000 litres capacity,pumping rates of over 50,000 litres per hour, a low tare weight and excellent access to farms.

With highly efficient loading and un-loading times of 21 minutes, the new tankers have been introduced as part of a fleet modernisation programme funded by GE replacing smaller, older units with new higher capacity tanks.

Dairy Farmers of Britain have a total fleet of 148 vehicles with over a half leased from GE Equipment Services. Walter Schafer, Project Logistics Manager for Dairy Farmers of Britain commented: “We choose to lease our vehicles through GE Equipment Services because of the greater flexibility and ability to upgrade out fleet. “The new tankers have greater capacity thus improving efficiency, reducing transports costs, and being more environmentally friendly.”

Dairy Farmers of Britain is the leading dairy farmers, co-operative in the UK, marketing almost 2 billion litres of high quality milk per year from more than 3250 member farms. Established in 2002 by the merger of Zenith Milk and the Milk Group, the company operates 10 dairy processing sites and over 60 product distribution depots.