Arla installs Salvo at third site
August 1st 2009 Leading supplier of fresh milk
and cream, Arla Foods has
installed Castell's Salvo on
16 loading bays at its stateof-
the-art dairy in Leeds. The
facility handles between 100
and 200 vehicle movements
a day and is the third Arla site
to have entrusted driveaway
prevention to the
interlocking system.
Darren Fisher, despatch
manager at Leeds, learnt of
Salvo from his counterpart at
Arla's Palmers Green site, via
the company's national
despatch managers forum.
Although traditionally wary
of key-driven systems, he
was impressed by a demonstration
of Salvo at Palmers
Green, and placed the order
for Leeds dairy shortly
afterwards.
Shunters at Leeds reverse
their trailer up to the relevant
loading bay, collect a Salvo
Susie lock from a storage box
and fit it to the trailer's
emergency air line coupling.
With the trailer now
immobilised, the shunter
takes the key released from
the end of the Susie and
inserts it into the Salvo
control panel inside the
warehouse. Turning the key
switches on internal beacons
and allows the bay door to
be raised. The key remains
trapped in the control panel
while the door is open. Once
loading or unloading is
complete, the sequence is
reversed.
Leeds dairy is also using
three Salvo Clubs to
safeguard rigid vehicles. Like
Salvo Susie, the device relies
on trapped key technology,
but is fitted to a vehicle's
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