Eight more Isuzus have been acquired by Associated London Distribution (ALD), which delivers copies of the Metro newspaper to underground and mainline railway stations in and around the capital and the Home Counties. All Forward N75.190 7.5-tonners and equipped with EasyShift semi-automatic gearboxes, they join a fleet that is now almost 50 per cent Isuzu Truck; the first examples joined ALD 18 months ago. Destined to work seven days a week, and set to cover 50,000 miles annually over a four-year life with the company, they were supplied through Thurrock, Essex dealer M C Truck Group.
Still with 7.5-tonners, an Iveco Eurocargo 75E16S has joined Northampton-based Mainland Group. Fitted with a EuroTronic automated gearbox, a curtainsider body and a tail-lift, it will cover around 80,000 miles annually. Mainland Group is in the process of acquiring three more 75E16S rigids plus five Iveco Daily 35S12 vans.
