New addition to the fleet!

Last month we welcomed the newest member of our fleet - Miss Piggy!

Mia was a faithful workhorse but after 8 years of loyal surface, it was time to put her out to pasture. Miss Piggy is her replacement, maintaining our tail lift capabilities and making us fully low-loader-styled.

You might have seen Miss Piggy on our social streams already - she’s already racked up 3 trips up and down the country and there’s another one waiting to be completed next week too.

With our 3 other vehicles all being electric-powered, the obvious question is ‘why didn’t we buy an electric van?’ Sadly, although electric cars are certainly mainstream enough for our use (remember the Hamburg SUD ship we hand delivered 3 years ago - that went in the Tesla) the range of electric vans isn’t quite there yet for our purposes. Miss Piggy will almost certainly be our last diesel van though and to help reduce our carbon footprint we bought her second-hand. Having both more physical space and more load carrying capacity also means that we’ve been able to safely make deliveries that would previously have needed two vans - saving time and effort.

And finally, if you hadn’t guessed - yes, all of our vans are named after very special ladies. Very special ladies that have been re-created as LEGO minifigures. From left to right;

• Jessie (the work platform, hence long legs!)

• Stephanie (one of the original LEGO Friends)

• Sweet Mayhem (because, well, it’s a Tesla)

• Miss Piggy (because we just really like the name. And the tail-lift does go a bit ‘hey-YA!’)

• Carol (the forklift - Danvers aka Captain Marvel, capable of lifting huge loads)