UK 3PL Adds Electric Trucks to Narrow Aisle Storage Facility
27th September 2017
UK 3PL Bowker Group has added a fleet of five new Flexi articulated warehouse trucks at its facility in York.
Bowker now operates over 20 articulated trucks across its sites at Preston, Hull, Droitwich, Knowsley, Ripon, York and Selby. It has a diverse client base and stores and distributes anything from hazardous chemicals to food stuffs and throughout the business the company has standardised on narrow aisle storage served by Flexi articulated trucks.
Manufactured In the UK by Narrow Aisle Ltd, Flexis deliver space and throughput-efficient intralogistics solutions and, because they can be used both inside a store and outside to unload incoming trailers and deliver pallets directly to the racking, they eliminate the need for double handling.
In each of Bowker’s sites an integrated battery charging system ensures that the electric-powered Flexis operate at optimum efficiency. The system features the latest ‘call-forward’ alert technology to identify the most appropriate fully-charged battery for the truck operator to select when a change is due. This means that batteries often last for up to 12 hours between charges, which extends the life of the cells and dramatically reduces Bowker’s overall energy consumption and, therefore, operating costs.
And, to ensure optimum Flexi truck uptime at each of Bowker’s facilities, Narrow Aisle is providing a complete fleet management and maintenance support package.