Switch to save £250K per year

Batteries and battery management systems from Hoppecke Industrial Batteries have helped Travis Perkins save around £250,000 a year on the costs of running a fleet of counterbalance and reach trucks.

Travis Perkins moved from using IC trucks to electric machines, and as part of a £5m contract with Briggs Equipment was supplied with 57 electric counterbalance Yale trucks on a three year contract. Hoppecke supplied trak air batteries, 52 high frequency chargers, five battery changing systems and five trak monitor call forward and management systems.

Travis Perkins worked out that with the cost of the new trucks and their maintenance and fuel costs, it would save around £750,000 over the length of the contract. This includes the cost for Hoppecke to provide all battery filling and maintenance as well as the battery changing equipment.