{"id":6777,"date":"2014-10-21T18:59:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T18:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=6777"},"modified":"2014-10-21T19:01:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T19:01:53","slug":"south-west-waters-new-l-team-is-powered-by-peugeot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6777","title":{"rendered":"South West Water’s crack new ‘L-team’ is powered by Peugeot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South West Water’s elite L-Team gather at a top secret military location, before being unleashed on an unsuspecting public.<\/p><\/div>\n

The A-Team were a group of ex-Special Forces soldiers who\u00a0became an unstoppable force for good when they were unleashed on society.<\/p>\n

Their\u00a0former masters may well have wished they could recapture the A-Team<\/a> and bring them back ‘in house’, but\u00a0the\u00a0team’s televisual success\u00a0rapidly made that impossible.<\/p>\n

A similar fate has befallen South West Water’s ‘L-Team’.<\/p>\n

Previously outsourced to a\u00a0company whose name has been erased from the history books, the L-Team has now been reclaimed by South West Water to\u00a0become a highly-specialised, in-house Leak Detection Team, or L-Team.<\/p>\n

Staff for the L-Team\u00a0have been transferred from the “previous outsourced supplier”<\/em>\u00a0and start “operational deployment”<\/em>\u00a0with their new vans in October.<\/p>\n

Wisely, given the probability that the L-Team will emulate their alphabetical predecessors and be a big hit with the laydeez (and gents), South West Water has opted for\u00a0vans\u00a0from Europe’s\u00a0most romantic van manufacturer,\u00a0Peugeot, whose rampant lion logo has clear synergies with the passionate, highly-committed rapid response service provided by the L-Team’s personnel.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0L-Team is a little larger than the A-Team and requires not one, but 54, specially-equipped Peugeot Partner vans<\/a> to ensure it remains mobile, 24\/7. Supplied\u00a0by local dealership Hawkins Motors Ltd, in St Austell, the L-Team’s\u00a054 Partner SE L2 HDi 92 vans have been converted and equipped with specialist leak-detection equipment and traffic management signs and bollards to cater for roadside incidents and other unforeseen emergencies…<\/p>\n

The man behind the L-Team’s\u00a0vans is Mark Karkeek, South West Water Transport Manager, who said:<\/p>\n

\u201cFaced with the opportunity to specify a whole new bespoke range of vans for this purpose provided us with a chance to do things quickly and utilised the expertise of our suppliers, helped by having first-hand experience of the durable Peugeot Partner van. Getting them modified for purpose by Hawkins, our local Peugeot Dealer, who converted the vehicle with our specific and exacting conversion requirements, was greatly appreciated.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Threats of violence played no part in Hawkins’ prompt delivery and effective service,\u00a0although South West Water’s existing relationship with Peugeot, which is the company’s primary LCV supplier, probably did help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South West Water’s new ‘L-Team’ will be powered by no fewer than 54 leak-detecting Peugeot Partner vans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1880],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6785,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions\/6785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}