A company that claims to be Australia’s largest shed brand, has revealed it is adding Mercedes-Benz Actros trucks to its fleet as it expands its business.
Australia’s largest shed brand! Who knew? It had us scratching our heads trying t figure out how to calculate this. Is it Australia’s largest sheds, or the largest shed maker?
Anyway you cut that Easyshed claims to be a regional success story, building its sheds at its production facility in Albury.
The company was founded in 1983 and is Australian-owned, and according to the press release it has been recognised as one of Australia’s fastest growing direct-to-consumer tech companies. How much tech can go into a shed we ask?
They say that as such, delivering the products is a critical part of the company’s customer-first offering.
Easyshed has announced it has just rolled out three Mercedes-Benz Actros 2663 trucks to its specialised ‘Big Sheds’ delivery fleet and says it intends to continue adding more over the next 12 months.
The company also said it hadintroduced three Fuso Canters to its metro ‘Garden Shed’ delivery fleet and says it will add three more later this year.
Easyshed CFO Johan Andersson said the company’s transport fleet is central to its Direct to Consumer offering, choosing to vertically integrate the delivery function to control and maintain their world class levels of customer service.
“Being an e-commerce business means that the delivery team and their equipment are the face of our company” Andersson said..
“It’s critical for us that we control that process, to enable us to deliver a high-quality product with the very best customer experience, right across Australia” he said.
Andersson said Mercedes-Benz and Fuso trucks are perfect for the task.
“At our core we are a data-led tech company, so it makes sense to use the most technologically advanced vehicles to deliver our products, that prioritise safety, efficiency and connectivity” he said.
The press release tells us that both the Actros and Canter models feature latest ‘generation active emergency braking technology that can stop the truck in an emergency if it senses a potential collision’.
Daimler Truck Australia Pacific vice president of sales and marketing, Andrew Assimo, said Mercedes-Benz Trucks and Fuso are thrilled to provide trucks for Easyshed.
“Easyshed is an amazing regional success story and we are excited Daimler Truck vehicles are delivering its high-quality products to its customers,” he said.
The Easyshed trucks were delivered by local dealership Daimler Trucks Albury, ta dealer which Daimler proudly informs us was the winner of the 2022 Daimler Truck Australia Pacific Dealer of the Year.
The company tells us that the Mercedes-Benz Actros 2663 sits at the top of the Actros line-up. It features a16-litre OM473 six-cylinder engine that generates 630hp teamed with a 12-speed Automated Manual Transmission (AMT).
They tells us that the engine meets Euro 6 emission standards and that Mercedes-Benz was the first manufacturer to offer a complete range of Euro 6 heavy duty trucks in Australia with the new generation Actros, back in 2016.
The company tells us that to meet Euro 6 emission standards, truck engines must produce 70 per cent less hydrocarbons and 77-80 per cent less oxides of nitrogen (NOx), as well as 50-66 per cent smaller particulates.
It points out that while some manufacturers are just now introducing Euro 6, its Daimler Trucks, including Mercedes-Benz, Freightliner and Fuso have notched up a combined three billion customer kilometres with Euro 6 (or equivalent) drivetrains on Australian roads during the last eight years.
