MAN Tractor Unit Standard Trucks News (16)

Any colour you like as long as it’s black. Harley Davidson Black Cherry Pearl that is, if you are NJI Transport from Dunstable who take delivery of their new fleet flagship, a special one-off MAN TGX 26.640 Individual Lion S with the GX Cab. The truck came with unique factory paintwork the new flagship and…

A double drive MAN TGX 26.480 scheduled to go through the Euro Auctions Leeds sale on 13th September features on this week’s front cover. Resplendent in bright red, the 6×4 tractor unit is from 2011 and is fitted with a manual transmission. The 480 hp TGX is a popular choice, but most available are 6×2…

So, you have almost taken the plunge.  After years of sitting in someone else’s truck being paid a wage, you fancy the opportunity that financial pressure brings with it and investing in your own truck and becoming an owner driver with your very own tractor unit. There are plenty of jobs to confirm before even…

MAN Truck & Bus UK Ltd have just sold their 150,000th vehicle in the UK. The truck, a special build TGX Individual Lion S Tractor, will be operated by family-owned Gateshead based Templeman Retailing & Vending Ltd. Upon hearing that his new truck was the 150,000th MAN vehicle sold in the UK, Neil Templeman, Company…

Family-owned Billericay based haulier Hammond Transport has recently taken delivery of a new fleet flagship, a new MAN 26.510 TGX 6×2 tractor with MAN’s OptiView mirror-replacement system and the top of the range GX cab. Cameras Better than Mirrors? Already proving a huge hit with the driver, the OptiView system replaces all conventional mirror arms…

Family-owned Milton Keynes based T Christie & Son Transport Ltd are so impressed with their New Generation MAN TGX trucks and the efficiencies they deliver that they have just taken delivery of another, this time a special edition Nardo Grey Individual Lion S 26.510. Managed by the father and son partnership, Tony and Paul Christie,…

It’s highly unusual to see a large truck order being made up of new and used trucks. Still, if you need the trucks urgently and current manufacturing issues mean that the lead times are too great, then why not? Late used trucks these days have plenty of life left in them. That’s what flexible truck…

MAN Truck & Bus took the wraps off their new electric TGX tractor unit by showing it being driven for the first time as they prepare for the truck to run through pre-production trials. Due to be launched on the market in 2024, the big news is the truck’s capacity for future megawatt charging. ABB…

Family owned specialist corn and animal feed merchants, H. Walton Ltd of Old Goole in East Yorkshire, has recently taken delivery of their first new New Generation MAN Trucks. The new vehicles, in their traditional H Walton Ltd Brunswick green and gold lettering livery, will work across the business delivering a wide range of bagged…

There’s no FOMO at South Wales Haulier Inter-Haul Pallet Services.  They run an exclusive MAN fleet and are happy that they are not missing out by rejecting other manufacturers. The Pontypridd based transport operation cites outstanding levels of customer service and a long-term trusted partnering relationships with their local MAN dealer, WG Davies, and MAN…

The Myers Group based in Maidstone Kent has just taken delivery of four new New Generation MAN TGX tractors. Operating from their Maidstone base and throughout all Eastern and South Eastern UK ports the new 6×2 tractors, all with the GX cabs, join the Myers Group fleet of 72 vehicles. These latest vehicles follow two…

Farrall Group have become a true MAN fan.  Just three years from the start of buying MAN trucks, they have just taken delivery of their first New Generation MAN TGX tractors and two new MAN TGE 3.5 tonne vans. The new TGX tractors, both 26.470 6×2’s with mid-lift axles and GM cabs, are eye-catchers in…

From small seeds… So goes the saying, but it appears to be true for MAN Trucks and Northampton based Wreford’s Transport. As a result of a successful seed demonstrator vehicle back in the giddy days of 2019, the company bought ten MAN trucks in 2020 and have just taken delivery of their first of the…

If you have bought lots of MAN trucks since 1992 then you get an invite to the New Truck Generation sneak preview event in Munich in October 2019 , pre-launch of the TG Truck range in February (2020) in Bilbao, Spain.  With a place on this event and you could place a pre-production order for…

There’s a new top of the range MAN TGX launched exactly a year on from the reveal of MAN’s ‘New Truck Generation’ in February 2020. Called the Individual Lion S, MAN have used the flagship launch to promote two other new initiatives – their YouTube show that they have called MAN QuickStop – (as usual,…

Better than having the brand-new registration plate on March or September 1st, Abacus logistics have the first new generation MAN TGX in the country. That’s showing off. The family-run company is clearly a good customer of MAN, so it is only right that they get the first TGX to work on the UK’s roads. Clearly…