FLEET FOCUS
STAY FROSTY Brisbane-based company SEQ Ice Cream frequently sends out a fleet of commercial vehicles to service an area the size of Venezuela. It counts on the new Hino 500 Series Standard Cab trucks to ensure it’s hot products are delivered on time and always ice cold.
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dwin Street first used a cart and later a one-horsepower motorbike to deliver his ice cream, mostly to neighbours in the Wollongong suburb of Corrimal, when he started out in 1920. A century later, the products of Streets, along with Vermont ice-cream brand Ben & Jerrys, are ferried around by SEQ Ice Cream on a growing fleet of commercial vehicles, in which, Hino is presently the exclusive truck brand of choice. SEQ Ice Cream has been the Unilever distribution arm since 2015. Proof of its growth strategy can be seen in operations. In the past five years they have doubled the size of the business and that is also reflected in the fleet which now operates twice as many trucks including ten Hino 500 Series vehicles, seven of which can be considered new purchases. The first installment of these were delivered in May with another three already on order. The refrigerated bodies are built by Brisbane company Scully RSV who have a longstanding commercial partnership with Hino and Sci Fleet Hino. Powered with Thermo King T1000 units, the bodies are commonly specified for a 6- and 8-pallet payload, although a smaller vehicle is deployed in the denser Brisbane metropolitan area where it is more suited. A 10-pallet van is currently being built in time for summer
