{"id":7642,"date":"2015-07-23T15:31:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2015-07-23T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T15:31:30","slug":"scottish-island-airport-chooses-nissan-navara-for-extreme-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7642","title":{"rendered":"Scottish island airport chooses Nissan Navara for extreme conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Inverness

Inverness Airport’s new Nissan Navara fire command vehicle alongside the airport’s 32-tonne airport fire appliance<\/p><\/div>\n

If you drove 2,000 miles a month, you’d probably expect to be covering some distance away from your home or work. But Stornoway Airport’s new Nissan Navara\u00a0covers this distance every month without leaving the airport site.<\/p>\n

The main reason for this is that the\u00a0specially-equipped pick-up acts as a mobile bird scarer, fitted with high-powered external speakers, that’s used to clear huge colonies of birds away from the runway at\u00a0Stornway\u00a0Airport<\/a>, which is on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Herbrides.<\/p>\n

The truck is part of a diverse 100-strong fleet\u00a0operated by Highlands and Islands Airport Ltd, which is responsbie for operating most of the airports scattered across the Scottish Highlands, Northern Isles and Western Isles.<\/p>\n

Another recently-purchased Navara\u00a0has been kitted out as a specialist fire command vehicle \u2013 complete with blue light pack and ground to tower radio system \u2013 and is now in operation with highly trained firefighters at Inverness Airport.<\/p>\n

Paul Rodden, Chief Engineer and fleet manager at Highlands and Islands Airports, said:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went through a procurement procedure three years ago and Nissan came out on top. They were the only manufacturer that could supply vehicles that met our brief.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince then we\u2019ve not been disappointed \u2013 the vehicles we\u2019ve had have been up to any job and Nissan and Dicksons have been great at helping us maintain the fleet, much of which is scattered across remote areas where there are no dealerships.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Navara is available with a choice of 2.5dCi and 3.0 V6 dCi diesel engines. It has a payload of up to 1,250kg and a towing capacity of 3,000kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nissan Navara is the pick-up of choice for Highland and Islands Airport Ltd, with duties that can include 2,000 miles per month of on-site driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1871,492],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642"}],"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=7642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7644,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions\/7644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}