UD Trucks goes the ‘extra mile’

Truck company rolling up its sleeves for the Australian Red Cross Blood Service

The Australian Red Cross Blood Service recently took delivery of three GK 17 420 prime movers to help haul its fleet of mobile donor centres throughout QLD and NSW. To celebrate the occasion, UD Trucks launched its Red25 campaign with a visit from one of the Red Cross mobile donor centres, resulting in 66 lives saved.

Tasked with transporting the gift of life, the Australian Red Cross Service turned to UD Trucks for a prime mover suitable for moving the mobile donor centres around the suburbs and transporting the precious cargo of donated blood to the regional processing centres. The solution was a GK 17 420 Quon fitted with an ESCOT-V automated manual transmission.

Jon McLean, Vice President of UD Trucks Australia (pictured, right), was on-site to personally hand over the keys to Ian Morris, Transport Manager for the Australian Red Cross Blood Service (pictured, left).

"We feel honoured to work with such a fantastic organisation such as the Australian Red Cross Blood Service," said McLean. "Supporting the operation with prime movers really opened our eyes to the amazing work that they do, and that’s why we’re launching our UD Trucks Red25 program."

Red25 is the group donation program of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service that aims to unite organisations and groups across the country to achieve 25 per cent of the blood donations needed by Australia. For more information, click here.

"It’s great to see the UD crew get behind this great cause and roll up their sleeves," said Ian Morris. "We’re on track to save over 60 lives in just a few hours thanks to the UD Trucks team donating today!"

"The new Quons have already been a huge hit with the drivers," said Ian. "They’re perfectly spec’d for our requirements, and make the drivers’ job easier, especially the ESCOT-V AMT," he added.

UD Trucks goes the ‘extra mile’

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