Inner-Melbourne Mitre 10 store recommends Iveco Daily.
Ask many outlets that offer deliveries and they will tell you a standard ute just doesn’t have the carrying capacity they need. But employing a truck driver and investing in a heavy truck is also not feasible.
Enter the flexible Iveco Daily, a compromise between the two and able to be driven on a car license.
Mitre 10 Richmond have found that their Iveco Daily 50C170 has been the ideal vehicle to handle their delivery requirements. Operations Manager, Ben Shaw, told Behind the Wheel Truck News the Iveco is perfect for servicing the stores many inner-city customers.
“We needed a vehicle that would enable us to deliver in the inner city, in small, tight spaces.
“The Daily’s dimensions and size of the tray work in the inner city, it allows us to get multiple deliveries out that are substantial – we can keep the vehicle out longer with more deliveries on it rather than running a ute out all the time.”
Powered by a 3.0 litre diesel engine and mated to a six-speed auto transmission, Ben says the Iveco is extremely easy to drive.
“Having something with a full automatic transmission was handy for us in the inner city because there’s nothing worse than constantly having to change gears in slow-moving traffic,”
“We also wanted any staff member who has a car licence to be able to drive it. Previously we had a medium rigid manual vehicle which only endorsed drivers could operate, and that made it quite difficult for us on the weekends to do local deliveries, it also made it awkward for us in that we had to have a dedicated driver for that vehicle.
“Now we can use a yard person with a licence, put them in it and it’s like driving a ute.”