Hireco to showcase electric vehicles and new box van trailer at RTX
Contract hire and rental specialist Hireco will be among the exhibitors at this year’s Road Transport Expo, which will take place at NAEC Stoneleigh from 30 June to 2 July. On Stand B18, attendees will be able to see the company’s electric truck offering, new box van trailer, and its new electric service vans.
“At the centre of the display is Hireco’s new SDC box van, fresh into the fleet and chosen to make a point that operators feel in their P&L every month,” explained the company.
“The temptation to nurse older trailers along – a respray here, a fresh set of curtains there – is understandable, but it papers over the real numbers. A tired asset spends more time off the road, and every day in the workshop is a day it isn’t earning.
“Multiply unplanned downtime across a fleet and the lost rental and haulage revenue dwarfs whatever was ‘saved’ by deferring replacement. Older units carry higher maintenance spend, more roadside events, and the kind of unpredictability that wrecks planning and customer service levels.
“Hireco’s stand will lay the cost of ownership of an ageing asset against a current one side by side and let the figures do the talking.”
The green argument cuts the same way, says Hireco.
“A lick of paint and new curtains does nothing for a trailer’s efficiency, its aerodynamics, or the emissions of the tractor unit hauling it. Genuine environmental progress comes from newer, lighter, better-specified equipment – not cosmetic refreshes on assets that should have been cycled out.
“Hireco’s message to operators chasing sustainability targets is blunt: you cannot retrofit your way to a credible carbon story.
“To show what real progress looks like, Hireco is bringing the latest Volvo and MAN electric trucks to the show – units already in live operation with Saint-Gobain and DP World. These aren’t concept vehicles; they’re working assets demonstrating that electrification is delivering for blue-chip operators today.”
Alongside the trucks, Hireco will display its newest service engineer LCVs, now fully electric.
“The mobile maintenance fleet that keeps customers moving is itself running emissions-free, closing the loop on a service model that no longer adds to the carbon it’s there to help reduce,” said the company.
“Together, these vehicles represent tangible Scope 3 reductions for Hireco’s clients – measurable cuts in the emissions embedded in their transport supply chain, not aspirational ones.
“The other half of the Hireco story is intelligence. The objective is straightforward: lower costs, fewer miles on the road, and maintenance events caught before they become breakdowns. That’s the job of Hireco’s new Fleet Maintenance Intel Centre, which makes full use of telematics across the trailer fleet to turn raw data into decisions.
“By monitoring asset condition, utilisation and location in real time, the centre allows Hireco to pre-empt maintenance rather than react to it – scheduling work before a fault grounds a vehicle, consolidating journeys, eliminating empty and unnecessary running, and stripping out the miles that cost money and generate emissions for no return. Predictive intervention means assets stay where they belong: earning, on the road, available to the customer.
“That is the throughline across everything on the Hireco stand this year – new fleet, smarter data, lower emissions and less downtime all pulling in the same direction. Operators weighing up whether to keep older assets in service a little longer are invited to come and run the numbers with the team.”
