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Nottingham-based Mackay Plant Hire has a new flagship with which to deliver its extensive fleet of excavators and materials handling equipment to rental customers nationwide – a 26-tonne Mercedes Actros 2532 rigid.
Mackay Plant’s latest truck has replaced a four-year-old Iveco which supplying dealer Mertux took back in part-exchange.
It is also Mackay Plant’s first Mercedes; Mertrux sales executive Mark Sheppard beat off the challenge of a Swedish manufacturer to land the deal.
The 6x2 Actros has a day cab and beavertail plant body by Shawtrack Services, of Clipstone, Mansfield.
Mackay Plant Managing Director Gordon Mackay explains: “The bodybuilder is used to the demands of the plant hire industry and full appreciated our requirements. The body is very robust body and capable of withstanding the rigours of site work.
“The same is true of the Actros,” he continues. “It’s a strong, heavy-duty truck and driver Mark Cole particularly appreciates the comfort of his big, air-conditioned cab, and the well positioned controls that make it so easy to drive.”
Mackay Plant was founded nine years ago by Mr Mackay and his wife Penny, who is Company Secretary; Jon Macauley is a co-Director. The company supplies equipment to ‘blue chip’ civil engineers and contractors throughout mainland Britain.
Its new Actros, which has a personalised registration plate, is the subject of a five-year Mercedes-Benz repair and maintenance contract and will be serviced in Mertrux’s Nottingham workshop. |
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