Did you know that it is not just food and perishble products that need transporting in a temperature controlled vehicle or fridge van.
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Normally when you think of a home delivery van you think of a big box on the back of a chassis cab. Its usually parked in a cul-de-sac or street getting in everyones way.
We were asked by an established retail chain, to build a compact, economical and manouverable van that could be designed around their requirements to carry a certain number of crates of both frozen and chilled produce at the same time.
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Our intrepid logistics manager is currently on a 27 day pan-euro fridge van spotting tour. Follow the progress:
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Read moreOne of the things we pride ourself on here at CoolVan is the fact that our refrigerated van conversions are built by hand. Not only does this method allow us to build our fridge vans to feel solid and hard wearing it also allows us to offer a more bespoke option than what some of our competitors can offer.
Read moreWe’ve got something to celebrate! This year sees the whole Coolvan team celebrating our 25th Anniversary!
We were recently asked to convert a Long Wheelbase Mercedes Vito into a fridge van that the customer could sell and transport fresh fish in. The catch was he needed an area to display the fish as well as prepare and weigh it, he also needed an area where he could clean up and store all his tools of the trade as well as his apron, hat and bags.
Read moreA motorist claimed he was victimised for being a white van man after being fined almost £1000 by police for lane hogging on the M62.
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Police in North Yorkshire, who stopped a van on the A64, found it to be over one and a half tonnes overweight!
Read moreFor the first time in 15 years, the price of diesel has fallen below the price of petrol!
Last time this happened, the low price stayed for 2 1/2 months, but with a new batch of diesel to shortly be coming out of Saudi Arabia, the low price could stay a while longer!
Here at CoolVan we always endeavour to go that extra mile for our customers, which is exactly what we did last week. Covering just over 350 miles in a day we delivered two brand new Nissan NV200 fridge vans to the picturesque village Kyle of Lochalsh, just a stone’s throw away from the Isle of Skye.
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