Rockhampton is the new home of the latest company-owned facility by Blenner’s Transport.
In addition to warehouse and office space, the purpose-built 2,500m² depot contains a temperature-controlled anteroom as well as chiller and freezer rooms available for storage of dry, chilled, or frozen products.
The site itself employs 11 staff and is equipped with onsite diesel storage for refuelling trucks.
There are also five docks for vehicles.
For the increase in volume of freight, Blenners is running four B-doubles from Brisbane out to site at Rockhampton daily. Here a semi-trailer, a 16-pallet Isuzu, three 14-pallet Isuzus and an 8-pallet rigid provide local deliveries.
Blenners Transport will service out of Rockhampton customers in Emerald, Biloela, Blackwater and Gladstone.
Leanne Dun Blenners Transport Sales Manager confirmed the new facility had already generated new customers since it opened.
“We’ve had a heap of new customers come on board since the depot has opened which is why there is four B-doubles a day running up here,“ she told Prime Mover.
“Previous to that it was only one, sometimes two,” she said.
Just this year Blenners has deployed ten new Kenworth K220 prime movers across its Queensland operations.
Powered by a 550hp Cummins X15 producing up to 2050ft-lb of torque, each Kenworth K220 is spec’d with an Eaton Endurant XD Pro transmission running through Meritor MT21-165G drive axles at a ratio of 3:91.
Blenners Transport had leased a site prior to this in Rockhampton, which now joins seven other Blenners-owned depots in the state.
The latest purpose-built site is proof of Blenners Transport continuing its reinvestment back into the business with new depots, vehicles and safety systems.
“It shows how we are here for the long-term and our team are proud to work for the Blenners family and watch the business continually grow,” said Dun.
”We pride ourselves on providing a superior service to all of our customers [by] looking after their individual freight and storage requirements.”
The Rockhampton depot, according to Dun, has provision for expansion and additional cold rooms as future growth is anticipated.
”Now with five docks the workflow of the site is much better,” said Dun.
”We can offer a superior service to our Rockhampton customers to have extra B-doubles run up from Brisbane as well.
“We’ve already got storage customers coming on for Christmas. They can buy in bulk now as there was no other facility previously in Rockhampton that has what we’ve now got.”
The new facility is located at 14 Barton Court, Parkhurst, Rockhampton.
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