Keltruck Scania Coventry

As an established Scania operator with 25 P-series rigids in our fleet, we are well aware of the performance and fuel-efficiency benefits of the Scania brand. Furthermore, we have always enjoyed excellent back-up and support from our local Keltruck branches at Rugby and Coventry. In our view, this combination of product quality and dealer service makes Scania the natural choice for us.

Thank you for your support. It’s great to know that we have a quality maintenance partner with Keltruck Limited. Both Coventry and Lutterworth Keltruck teams work very hard to look after us. We very much appreciate this and never take it for granted.

It’s true to say that to a large extent we built our business on the Scania brand. Back in the days of the Scania 3-series, it made good financial sense for us to buy used Scanias, refurbish them and then run them for several years. That’s because when the time came to part with them, the residuals were so good we’d get our money back.

The complexity of modern vehicles means that wouldn’t work now, so those days are behind us. Instead, we buy new trucks and look to keep them for six years on average. We’ve stuck with Scania because they represent such good value for money. We feel we get a lot better reliability from them, and therefore less downtime. We spend less on parts and service and our two key dealers, Preston Scania and Keltruck, which looks after our Coventry based fleet, do a really great job for us.

The Scania 3-series is part of our history so we’ve saved one for posterity. Our apprentices built it up out of three old vehicles and we then ran it for a while before using it as a shunter. Now it’s parked up waiting to be refurbished and preserved – we won’t be letting that one go in a hurry!