UK carrier presents ’88’ below zero for refrigerated rail freight
DRS Class 88 in freeze livery
Direct Rail Services, the carrier who grew out of specialising in transferring nuclear flasks, took the recent opportunity of a ministerial visit to show off something much cooler. Celebrating a new contract to carry refrigerated produce for supermarket chain Tesco, the company presented its specially liveried class 88 bi-mode electro-diesel. DRS are already using the locomotive their runs from Tilbury, near London.
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Now, all wares have to be treated as fresh, as safe “eta”, is high quality, at “JIT” supply chains, the majority!
(Just a minority now affords luxury, of not caring about eta.)
Accordingly electricity, by own energy converters is the timely, within railways, etc.!
Robust, resilent and redundant transport devices, now handsomely are rewarded, by willingly paying clients – and vice versa!
(“Optimal maintenance”, by definition is suboptimal, etc. Now, robustness is the optimal!)
Quality pays!