{"id":7992,"date":"2015-11-09T19:40:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7992"},"modified":"2015-11-09T19:40:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T19:40:07","slug":"vans-you-cant-hire-pdqs-temperature-controlled-sleeper-cabbed-sprinter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7992","title":{"rendered":"Vans you can’t hire: PDQ’s temperature-controlled, sleeper-cabbed Sprinter"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the latest of an occasional series<\/a> on specialist vans you are unlikely to be able to hire, I thought I’d take a look at the latest Mercedes-Benz Sprinter to join the fleet of specialist courier PDQ Specialist Courier Services.<\/p>\n

\"PDQ<\/p>\n

PDQ specialises in the delivery throughout Europe of termperature-controlled, time critical shipments of pharmaceutical and hazardous goods, including medical and scientific samples. A recent job required the firm to transport a biopsy sample from a brain tumour patient, taken by a Harley Street specialist, to a laboratory in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n

PDQ’s latest van is a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 313CDI chassis cab with a twin-compartment insulated body box, a Carrier Transicold refrigeration unit and a truck-style sleeper compartment behind the van cab.<\/p>\n

Vans with sleepers are relatively unusual, but the more common configuration — used on some of PDQ’s other Sprinters — is a cab-top sleeper pod. This has the advantage of not eating into the van’s load space. A full sleeper cab is a very unusual configuration indeed.<\/p>\n

\"PDQ's<\/p>\n

Managing Director Brian Brennan has operated Mercedes vans ever since he founded the business as an owner-driver 18 years ago. He now has a fleet of 23 Mercedes-Benz vans which include Citan, Vito and Sprinter models.<\/p>\n

He says that the marque offers<\/a> a combination of unfailing reliability<\/a> and outstanding support when things do go wrong:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to have complete faith in our vehicles, and that\u2019s what Mercedes-Benz gives us. Our vans are worked extremely hard, each covering an average of 100,000 miles a year, but we know we can depend on them. In 18 years of operation the number of breakdowns we\u2019ve suffered is negligible, and when something has failed it\u2019s invariably a minor wear-and-tear part rather than a significant fault with the vehicle itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know we can rest easy because help is never far away, thanks to the Mercedes-Benz MobiloVan cover which includes first-class 24-hour breakdown cover anywhere in Europe. The manufacturer\u2019s three-year unlimited mileage warranty also means our vehicles are still covered with 300,000 miles on the clock.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can find out more about Wirral-based PDQ on the firm’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wirral-based PDQ couriers has just taken delivery of a sleeper-cabbed, temperature-controlled Sprinter box van — a truly high-end van.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1969,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992"}],"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=7992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7996,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions\/7996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}