‘Large enough to handle, small enough to care’. A simple message which CRL Express lives and breathes by.
The Victoria-based transport and logistics provider emerged onto the scene in early 2018 with a mission to provide a solution-based approach with uncompromised service to the industry.
The extent of its commitment to this level of support is clearly apparent through the sheer rate in which it expanded. CRL Express was just a small linehaul transport operator when it first set out, but within the span of just a few years, it quickly became a national player with a personalised service including freight forwarding, warehousing and distribution of Dangerous Goods (DG), national linehaul and road services, express deliveries of food-based packaging and more.
Further growth has since called for a phase of fleet expansion. So, CRL Express recently launched four new Krueger Performance-Based Standards (PBS) Super B-triple drop deck curtainsiders. Another two are on the way.
The road trains feature a 4.6m-high frame, 34-pallet mezzanine decks and importantly, a high cubic capacity of around 200 cubic metres. Their Gross Combination Mass (GCM) and payload figures sit at 85 tonnes and 48 tonnes respectively, under Concessional Mass Limits (CML).
“We’ve achieved some very cool things with these new units,” says CRL Express founder and Managing Director, Roy Kazamias. “We’ve noticed an incline in Dangerous Goods (DG) and palletised freight growth, so these trailers have been DG-wired for the application at hand.”
The road trains are currently transporting general freight and DG throughout interstate changeover applications between Victoria, Sydney and Brisbane. Roy says they have the potential to be utilised locally depending on the application as well.
The cubic capacity of the B-triples has been a standout advantage for CRL Express. This alone has allowed the fleet to increase its productivity by a large margin.
“The cubic capacity is extremely high,” Roy says. “We’re getting around 180 pallets on these combinations compared to 160 on a standard road train. That extra 12.5 per cent enables us to put less trailers on the road, carry more freight and reduce the number of subcontractors we rely on.”
CRL Express has been deploying eight trailers from Krueger annually over the last few years. Its fleet now totals 25 units, including two PBS B-double drop decks which arrived in April last year.
“Krueger is the primary brand of our trailers,” Roy says. “This includes road trains, singles and doubles.
“Krueger has been subliminal from a service point of view. They’ve got their own mechanics who come out and do the second and third service for us. There’s never any major issues at all.”
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