Through careful planning, manufacturing and installation agility along with extensive experience in the industry, Hidrive delivered SA Water’s entire fleet of 63 purpose-built Service Bodies in under five months.
Updating a large fleet can be daunting, especially when you cannot afford to have vehicles off the road while waiting for replacements.
Several other factors also enabled Hidrive to deliver as the Service Body provider for SA Water.
Configurability and versatility of the Hidrive proprietary modular design was also key as was a dedicated support team.
“The inside of the Hidrive, the way it’s actually set up, it gives us the flexibility of having long and short tools, for example the drawer that comes out, the toolbox on either side, and the freedom of actually opening everything up for a 360-degree view of the Hidrive unit are key to our crews being effective, efficient and comfortable.”
“The safety features and the fit out for the Water Maintenance ute, we carefully worked through to fit items such as LED lights in the cabins, so when the doors open up we’ve got LED lighting. The crews are working all times of day and are on-call at night, so it’s very important to have lights for them to work quickly and easily in safety.
“We’ve set up the drawers and internal cabinets so that we could fit both tooling and inventory. We worked closely with Hidrive in regard to what the application was going to be and what tools and inventory were needed to do our job.”
“We also changed the door design on the driver’s side, so when the technician was working on the street the door folds. That means it doesn’t overhang the road…”
“Our crews work in winter and all sorts of weather, so we need the protection from the rain when they’re operating out of the ute.”
