Continental bolsters fleet with striking new Tigers

Tyre manufacturer Continental has added seven more box vans from Tiger Trailers to its UK artic fleet.

The tyre firm’s first Tiger order for 2023 is comprised of five 4.2m high box van trailers for their next-day regional truck tyre delivery and casing collection business – plus a pair of 4.8m tall ‘high cube’ variants with increased load capacity for inter-depot trunking and waste recycling.

Continental’s new standard-height 4200mm trailers are fitted with an LED strip-light facing down at the rear to light up the working area.

They also have cycle warning sideguards, which align with the trailer-maker’s Tiger Safety Team’s school road safety programme.

The trailers’ specification also includes a GRP translucent roof with wooden rub rails, a bespoke load securing setup including nets, an Anteo 1,500kg tuckaway tail-lift with safety gates, and solar panels from Trailar.

The 4800mm high-cube iterations are equipped with full aerodynamic sideguards to reduce CO₂ and increase fuel efficiency, and the trailers and their cargos are protected from damage through full-coverage overlay floor tread plates and full-length wooden rub rails fitted below and above each load lock row.

Both heights are finished with Continental’s ultra-distinctive livery and are fitted with its in-house tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS).

“The trailers perform exceptionally well and have a very impressive presence on the road,” said Simon Sumner, Continental’s transport operations manager.

Continental acquired retread tyre manufacturer Bandvulc in 2016 and Tiger’s first trailers wore Bandvulc’s distinctive black livery with yellow logo.

The latest Tiger-built trailers were collected by a pair of the group’s new MAN TGX 26.510 tractors from Bandvulc’s Ivybridge plant in Devon.

The fleet serves the UK via a number of sites including Continental’s RDC in Rugby, which stocks passenger car, truck and specialty tyres.