Scania’s latest R620 gets put through its paces on a real life road test on New Zealand’s North Island and fuel economy of 2km/l is pleasing to the owners.
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The Coromandel Peninsular is a ninety-kilometre-long spit of rugged landscape poking out of the North Island, sitting in between the Bay of Plenty and Auckland’s Waitemata harbour. It forms the North Eastern flank of the Firth of Thames and Southern Hauraki Gulf. This area’s economic mainstays are aquaculture, agriculture, and tourism.
Owned by the Bull family, Sea Products 1998 Ltd is a home-grown success story in aquafarming and seafood processing. Supporting the business, the company has just purchased their third R Series Scania to service their mussel and oyster farming and processing operations, in turn keeping this vibrant business humming.
This month we jump on board with the team and see what it takes to get their product to the plate.
The spec on the two R620’s is near identical, both run the 16 litre Scania V8, in Euro 5 trim at 456kW (620hp), and 3000Nm (2213lb/ft) of torque. Transmission’s you find the GRSO905R 14-speed Opticruise AMT connected to 19 tonne rear ends, riding on Scania spring and air-bag rear suspension. The famous Scania R4100D 5-stage retarder is a fabulous tool in these hills, both trucks are fitted with Adaptive Cruise Control, Active Emergency Braking, and Hill Hold. Lane Departure is not required on these trucks working in this county, because like so many of our more remote state highways in New Zealand in some of our more rugged country, the trucks don’t always fit, so the skill level required by the drivers is exceptional and the track record these two guys have earned around these parts speaks for itself.
For the full story on these sweet seafaring Swedes’ then catch a copy of the June 2020 issue of New Zealand Trucking magazine on sale now.
14 июн 2020
