International tyre manufacturer and automotive supplier Continental guarantees its latest products by offering an extended casing warranty in the Malaysian market with the “C3 - The ContiCasing Warranty.” The C3 warranty provides truck tyre customers with the promise that a Continental tyre will last three lives, first as a new tyre and then subsequently over two retread lives. This means a new truck tyre can last up to 6 years when retreaded by Continental or one of its ContiLifeCycle partners.

Should the new tyre require an adjustment, Continental will provide a concessional replacement subjected to terms in the agreement. The first retread life of the tyre, which is also the tyre’s second life, will be adjusted on 60% of the new tyre price. The second retread life, which is the tyre’s third life, will be adjusted on 15% of the new tyre price. All adjustments will be made by Continental and are subject to the full terms and agreement of the C3 warranty.

It is a term in the C3 warranty that all the retreaded tyres must be retreaded with ContiTread or TechnoTread by Continental or by a ContiLifeCycle partner. The C3 warranty currently only applies to qualifying Continental and General Tire branded radial truck tyres that are 19.5” diameter in size or greater. These truck tyres must also be used strictly for commercial purposes only.

Operating a fleet of long haul trucks is never an easy business. Rising maintenance costs and downtime from trucks going into the workshop for service and repair can easily wipe out thinning profits from this increasingly competitive business.

Swan Haulier Sdn Bhd operates a mix fleet of Japanese and Chinese long-haul trucks that ply the roads of Sarawak. Although the trucks operate for long hours due to the vast distances in Sarawak, and often in hilly terrains and dusty conditions that tax the engines to the maximum, the company needed every truck on the road as much as possible.

The company was looking for a way to shorten the time in workshop for each truck without compromising their engine reliability and performance in any way. Swan Haulier decided to consult Shell distributor, Syarikat Sri Minyak Tenaga Sdn Bhd. After a thorough study of the situation, a quick solution was found. Syarikat Sri Minyak Tenaga recommended that Swan Haulier use the fully synthetic Shell Rimula R6 LM 10W40 to help optimise the trucks engine oil drain interval. In addition, the company could also use the Shell LubeAnalyst service to monitor the oil condition, which reflects the engine condition of each truck.

Shell Rimula R6 LM 10W40, with its low-SAPS additive technology and unique low-wear and low-deposit formulation, more than met the latest requirements by original equipment manufacturers. It was able to offer extended oil drain intervals by keeping higher levels of piston cleanliness which resulted in better fuel efficiency.

Swan Haulier’s decision to switch to Shell Rimula R6 LM 10W quickly paid dividends. The company was able to more than double the oil drain interval of its trucks to 36,000 km. This drastically reduced downtime of the fleet, making them available to take on more business.

As a result, the company was able to save more than RM40,000 annually in lower operating costs. While the tangible benefits were already significant with the previous generation of the product, a fleet operator like Swan Haulier could look forward to even better returns with the new improved Shell Rimula R6 LM 10W-40 which now features Dynamic Protection Plus Technology.

Dynamic Protection Plus Technology combines Shell’s proprietary PurePlus Technology, which produces an ultra-clean base oil made from natural gas, and Adaptive Additive Technology to deliver excellent all-weather protection, longer engine life, extended oil drain intervals, and reduced fuel consumption, all of which ultimately helps customers to lower the total cost of ownership.

This latest innovation by Shell enables the new Rimula R6 LM to offer up to 53% better protection (Compared with the revised more stringent MB 228.51 limit, as measured in the MB OM 646 LA engine test.) against engine wear and deposits, especially cam wear and up to 45% lower oil consumption (Compared with the Volvo VDS-4 limit, as measured in the Mack T12 300 h engine test.).

The oil’s upgraded CJ-4 specification now exceeds ACEA, MAN and Mercedes-Benz specifications for engine wear and cleanliness to ensure extended oil drain intervals and lower emissions. Its low SAPs formulation also significantly reduces downtime from clogging of diesel particulate filters by ash. This means that the new Rimula R6 LM is especially recommended for highly rated engines meeting Euro 5 to 6 emission requirements while being backward compatible to older generation engines. More information can be found on www.shell.com.my/rimula

Sin Hock Soon takes Shell FuelSave Diesel for a test drive. It delivered. Since young, Tony Yew has been ambitious. He never settled for what he had, and that determination made Sin Hock Soon Transport Sdn Bhd, industrial transport and logistics provider, into the success it is today. So when it came to his business’ fuel partner, he expected no less. In 2015, Sin Hock Soon started to use Shell FuelSave Diesel as their main fuel supply, right after Yew tested its claims of better fuel efficiency and cleaner engines.

Taking Matters Into Own Hands

Yew had been looking for more ways to further his business, and found that his operations were suffering due to vehicle performance. “More than ten units were breaking down every month or so. The injectors were badly burnt and jammed with deposits.” Investigating the issue, Yew discovered an alarming difference when his vehicles used Shell FuelSave Diesel and when they did not.

“We have saved up to 6% on our maintenance costs since switching to Shell FuelSave Diesel.” That difference greatly affects the business’ bottom line.

In the Driver's Seat of Fuel Efficiency

The result of 100 years of fuel research, Shell created a powerful detergent formula that helps prevent deposit build-up contributing to improved fuel economy over the lifetime of the vehicle. This same formula is used in Shell FuelSave Diesel, supplied in both skid tanks and retail stations.Unlike the rest, the injector on the far right used only Shell FuelSave Diesel and stayed clean from deposits. Wanting further evidence, Yew put Shell FuelSave Diesel to trial. He monitored the engine parts of trucks that were either filled with Shell FuelSave Diesel or alternatives, and the results were clear. “The injectors we used with Shell diesel had no problems. In fact, it still looked like new. From experience, the injectors would have darkened with residue in a short period of three months.”

The Family Business Joins Shell's Family

All this solidified Yew’s decision to work with Shell moving forward. With plans to expand his transnational business across Vietnam, China and Singapore, Yew is confident that this collaboration will optimise their efforts. Sin Hock Soon stands as one of the largest service providers in Malaysia today, and has over 250 trucks of various capacities in their fleet.

Taking over the family business when they only had 40 trucks, Yew is now training the third generation, including the children of his siblings, so that all of them can be independent and carve their own successes. Start driving your business further with the fuel that works just as hard as you. Learn more about Shell FuelSave Diesel at www.shell.com.my

“Partnership is crucial for the success of a business, as it’s never only about yourself. That’s why I’ve chosen Shell, and believe they’ll help bring my business further.” - Tony Yew, Director of Sin Hock Soon Group

The above views are those of a real Shell customer who has used Shell FuelSave and may have been edited for brevity or clarity. The customer was not paid for his/her testimonial. Results were self-reported by the customer and have not been individually verified. Results are not indicative future performance; individual savings may vary.

On June 9th, GD Express Sdn Bhd received HINO’s Certificate of Reliability. Speaking at the event, Managing Director of Hino Motors Sales (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, Mr. Ken Iwamoto said, ”On behalf of Hino Motors Sales Malaysia Sdn Bhd, we would like to extend our sincere gratitude to GD Express Sdn Bhd, for your loyalty and trust towards HINO brand and its products. It is indeed appreciated. We also would like to congratulate GD Express for their loyalty to HINO not only to the product usage, but also their commitment to complete a proper HINO service and timely maintenance to ensure the quality of the vehicle is well-preserved. This is proven by the success of GD Express maintaining HINO truck until it can achieve 1 million kilometres driving without overhaul.”

HINO 500 Series, which specifically built for a medium-duty vehicle, delivers powerful driving performance, high durability, ergonomic comfort as well as good transport quality and flexible body-building capability. It is designed to be your perfect heavy-duty and reliable business partner truck.
“The market today is about speed and also cost. One of our principle is to look at the major component of success to succeed business today,” said Mr. Teong Teck Lean, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of GD Express Sdn Bhd.

HINO’s supports to their customers are never ending. The existing of Hino Total Support Customer Centre (HTSCC) in Sendayan is like a backbone to their customer. The centre provides cost-free training for customers to produce a qualified and well-trained commercial vehicle’s drivers in line with local authority effort to reduce road accidents involving trucks and busses.

Mr. Teong added, “I always tell our officers that cost-efficiency is extremely important. I think with the quality of HINO product and as our main drive, hopefully this partnership will become stronger.”

During the Handover Ceremony, Mr. Ken Iwamoto delivers the Certificate of Reliability to Mr. Teong Teck Lean, witnessed by Dato’ Johnny Chan and Encik Azmi Abd Rahim, the Executive Directors and Mr. Toshihiko Takeda, Director of Business Strategy Division of Hino Motors Sales (M) Sdn Bhd. Also present at the event is Mr. Lim Chee Seong, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of GD Express Sdn Bhd.

“Aim for Customer Trust and Confidence” is HINO’s catchphrase. HMSM’s ‘Total Support’ philosophy is the way forward as it strives together with Hino Motors Manufacturing (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd to in providing customers with the most suitable HINO range of vehicles and after sales service second to none. Today, it is proven that the market for HINO is expanding and it is foreseen the importance of providing the training in equipping HINO owners with the vehicle knowledge, safety and eco-driving skill technique.

“HINO has built a solid reputation through the outstanding QDR, which means, Quality, Durability and Reliability. HINO’s mission is not only to develop a product which is perfect fit for each customer’s business but also to ‘Maximise vehicle Up-Time’ and ‘Minimise vehicle Life-Time Cost’. With our HINO Total Support Customer Centre in Sendayan, we are striving to deliver the best support to our customer with necessary trainings and also safety driving techniques,” said Mr. Ken Iwamoto, the Managing Director of HMSM.

Guardfreight Worldwide Ltd., the UK based company dedicated to developing industry specific, cost effective solutions that provide security and monitoring solutions to the intermodal freight industry. It is the aim of Guardfreight through these products to be able to reduce the estimated $80billion losses the freight industry experiences every year due to theft.

The core of the Guardfreight product line up is the E-Containerlock. This product with its adapters and variants can be fitted in seconds to almost any freight transportation type, to provide an audit-able, monitored solution for freight movements with alerts for any exceptional events.

Guardfreight recently appointed Malaysian IoT based technology company Active Telematics Sdn. Bhd., to offer E-Containerlock under their active container solutions in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam fully supported by their active roam global sim card and deliver information to end users on the active web and active mobile applications.

Active container solution is designed to provide physical security, monitoring, tracking and alerts to any freight conveyance utilising ISO standard locking gear. It conforms to normal business practices and fitting and operation requires no special adaptations or practices. it prevents any unrecorded entry to the container or trailer via well known weak points in the container designs and locking procedures. With the active roam global sim card data is delivered to end user in real-time across asian roads and sea ports. Data is programmable to ensure battery life exceeds the journey time for the container.
Director of Guardfreight Worldwide Ltd., Andrew Harrison said “the appointment of Active Telematics is an exciting development for us and see Guardfreight Worldwide entering into a region that is showing growth in the sector and one that until now we have not had an active presence in”.

Co-founder and Managing Director of Active Telematics, Omar Hatmi said “Active Telematics is about solving every day operational problems. This relationship has come at the right time when our customers are seeking a solution for more visibility of cargo within Malaysia and across borders in ASEAN countries and to assure the shippers that goods are travelling on time and secure. The system makes the acceptance of shipments by the consignee more transparent. We are excited about the product and its future in our market”.