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Not happy with a straightforward top of the range truck?  Always looking for that something extra for the pinnacle of the fleet?  Mercedes may well have the answer for you, (assuming you aspire to the three-pointed star).  They have brought out a new limited edition run of 400 examples of the Actros 2 just launched…

Who wouldn’t want to own one of the first trucks on UK roads that uses cameras to replace rear-view mirrors? Scott Reynolds took one look at the MirrorCam technology from Mercedes-Benz and immediately thought, YES. The Managing Director of Sheffield-based waste management specialist DSM was a guest of local Dealer Northside Truck & Van at…

As a small haulier with seven trucks, a canny move is often to buy late, low mileage, used trucks.  With seven trucks – all of which are Mercedes Actros and all bought used – Geoff Woodcock had adopted this used truck buying policy for years, including low-mileage Mercedes-Benz Approved Used units acquired from Roanza Truck…

You would never expect to hear that the type of mirror a truck has fitted could sway a brand loyal truck operator from switching truck brands. That’s what appears to have happened with C&D South West when buying Mercedes-Benz for the first time. However, C&D South West’s new Managing Director Lorna Hammond came to a…

Where there’s muck… Five new trucks and trailers costing some £1.5 million to haul waste around 60 miles each a day from a recycling centre in Islington, north London just five miles up the road to a waste processing plant in Edmonton. That said, these roads are heavily congested and safety has to be of…

The COIVD crisis has not been totally bad news for everyone. Some companies have actually benefited from the pandemic.  One such example is parcel delivery company, DPD UK. So busy has DPD UK been since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic that shortly after confirming its 2020 requirement for 50 new Mercedes-Benz Actros tractor units…

Sometimes you need a bit of luck.  That’s what happened for Truck Sales Executive Martin Kemsley at Mercedes-Benz dealer, Sparshatts.  The Salvatori Group opened an additional depot in Sittingbourne, Kent on the town’s Eurolink Industrial Estate alongside the Mercedes truck dealer. That’s a solid introduction, but you still have to close the deal – Salvatori…

After struggling with poor reliability from their existing truck manufacturer for many years, Michael Whelan decided to try a Mercedes Actros in 2013.  Owner of specialist boat transport company, South West Boat Transport,  Whelan found the reliability so much better he bought another in 2017.  Nearly three years on sees the company invest in a…

City West Commercials managed to get a couple of ‘Approved Used’ trucks into the fleet of ‘Driven by Me’ which gave the brand the opportunity to impress the owner and drivers alike. Traditionally a Swedish truck fan the driver, Steve Garnier, has been blown away by his new Mercedes-Benz, an Actros 2548 BigSpace tractor unit….

For many smaller truck fleet operators there is still a great deal of pride in the business and the trucks themselves.  Nowhere is this more evident than at Bridgend bulk haulier, Tony M Rees.  The family firm, approaching its twentieth year of operation, has a beautifully designed and maintained fleet of eight trucks.  With an…

Check out the spec of Ontime Logistic’s flagship 625HP Actros 2663 with a tag axle for container logistics at Truckpages UK

Entering into the world of truck operation is no mean task. Especially when the company bosses have not run any HGV transport before.  In fact, only eighteen months earlier, the bosses of Forge Logistics had never run a van operation – in civvy street that is. Ex-servicemen Jamie Keen and James Rose-Shaw have recruited their…

Hot on the heels of a deal for 20 Renault Trucks Range T tractor units, announced back in April, FreshLinc Group has now ordered a fresh batch of Mercedes Actros tractor units after just four weeks of setting an Actros demonstrator on the road it had followed-up with an order for 14 identical trucks. The…

If you were to see a truck delivering Mercedes parts to a Mercedes franchised car or commercial vehicle dealer, you would reasonably expect it to be a Mercedes truck. It seems you would be correct. Since the beginning of this year XPO Logistics has been delivering automotive parts to Mercedes-Benz Trucks, Mercedes-Benz Vans and passenger…

Take a look closely at the picture of Alan Davie’s brand new fifth generation Actros and you would have to agree it’s a great looking truck.  There’s something not quite normal about it, however. To the uninitiated, it simply looks like the truck has clean, aerodynamic lines.  It’s only when told that the tractor unit…

The Actros has won the top truck award yet again – the model range has taken International Truck of the Year no fewer than five times now. It does help that the model is not in its 25th year – it was originally launched back in 1997 when ‘MMMBop’ was number one in the UK…

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