Isuzu Truck News (20)

Armstrong Vehicle Centre has invested more than £150,000 opening a new showroom in Carlisle. An Isuzu Truck dealer for more than two decades, the showroom will complement the company’s existing workshop site just seven miles away in Longtown, and its Scottish base in Glasgow. Based on Carlisle’s Kingstown Industrial Estate, the fully refurbished and remodelled…

Well, this really is BIG NEWS in the Truckpages world. On this week’s front cover is the first ever fully electric truck to appear for sale inside the magazine. If is a fully electric, 19 tonne GVW (you get the extra tonne for it being electric) DAF LF E19 Electric with the 26ft curtainside body…

This looks like the perfect truck for someone who needs a new recovery truck in a hurry. This is a 2024 new and unused Isuzu N75.190 seven seater crew cab recovery truck. It’s fitted with a new ORS recovery systems 18ft aluminium slide bed and second car carrier spec lift and a remote control winch….

The picture of a 2023 7.5 tonne Isuzu tipper shows that MV Commercials is not all about heavyweight trucks with cranes. This nearly new truck is ready to go to work with a long, nearly 20ft tipping body and is fitted with Tarmac chutes and a towball hitch. If this one is outside of your…

If you are looking at the 7.5 tonne truck market for the first time, there is a reasonable choice of makes and models available – both new and used. We take a look at the best options for you, depending on the duty cycle the truck will be put to. First of all, regardless of…

Thompson Commercials have been an Isuzu Truck dealer since 2012, covering Humberside, North Yorkshire, Teesside, County Durham and Tyne & Wear, and this relationship continues to grow with the announcement that Isuzu Truck has now appointed the company as full Isuzu Truck Dealers for the Sheffield and South Yorkshire area, with immediate effect. At the…

After 5 years of selling trucks in the UK, Isuzu Truck is embarking on a planned programme of expansion based on developing a significant increase in sales levels for the Isuzu brand in the UK throughout 2022. ITUK’s managing director, Pete Murphy explains, “Following the conclusion of Brexit at the end of 2020, the supply…

Isuzu Truck UK has announced that it is to become the official sponsor of the Professional Recovery Operators Federation (PROF), with effect from the annual PROFCON conference that takes place in July 2022. The sponsorship, scheduled to run up to and including PROFCON 2023, will see Isuzu Truck working closely with the management team at…

If you are looking to buy a new truck, then it pays to know if you are ordering from a major player or an also ran. To help you out, here are some bang up-to-date statistics, published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The market is down this year, but companies have…

The arrival of the latest Isuzu dropside truck into the fleet of TIS (NGA) LTD, completes a programme of four new Isuzus, covering both 7.5 tonne and 3.5 tonne GVW, that have been delivered to the north-east company during 2021, literally doubling their overall fleet size within 12 months. Supplied by local Isuzu dealer Thompson…

Replacing their pre Euro 6 18 tonne fleet, JJ Foodservice has made the decision to downsize to 13.5 tonners from Isuzu – the company has just taken delivery of a further 50 new Isuzu 13.5 tonne refrigerated trucks into their national distribution fleet. The national food wholesaler now having 77 Isuzu 13.5 tonne rigids in…

Looking not much larger than a 7.5 tonner, South-West-based Apex Scaffolding‘s new 11-tonne Isuzu F110.210 has a body and payload allowance of just under 7.5 tonnes. This gives the truck a huge advantage over a standard 7.5 tonne truck, carrying around twice the payload in a truck that looks largely the same. Apex Scaffolding has…

A four tonne plus payload was the most important criteria for choosing a 7.5 tonner to carry completed ambulances for delivery. Specialist vehicle converter Blue Light Services needed a new delivery vehicle to carry its finished ambulances from its production facilities to customers and the Isuzu N75 came up trumps – the company’s first ever…

Instead of being an exhibit, National Museums Liverpool has just bought their first Isuzu Truck to go to work. With a uniquely specified body, the investment in the truck is significant and the museum group hopes to keep it in operation for up to a decade. Safety, security and climate are vital when moving priceless…

With their trucks running up and down country lanes, the more compact the truck the better for regional food company Waterdene Foodservice Ltd.  This, and the ease of driveability for multi-drop work, means that the company opt for Isuzu Trucks.  Indeed, Waterdene now operates 24 Isuzu 7.5 tonne rigid trucks within its total fleet of…

In a flurry of activity, Isuzu Truck UK are bringing a series of new dealers on board. A relatively small player in the UK truck market overall, but with a strong share of the 7.5 tonne market, Isuzu Truck appear to be having a refocus on their sales initiative. New Scottish Dealers The company has…

With the arrival of six new Isuzu 7.5 tonne N75.190 rigid trucks, York-based company Genta Medical now has gone 100% with Isuzu for all its 7.5 tonne distribution vehicles. As a long-standing operator of the Isuzu marque, going back as far as 2009 when they took delivery of their first Isuzu, Genta Medical has really…

It seems that if you look after trees all day, then the truck you need is made by Isuzu.  That’s if you listen to Richard Trippett, UK and Ireland division manager at Bartlett Tree Experts.  His company has just bought another five Isuzu Trucks – bringing the total in the fleet to 45. Bartlett’s affinity…

They always say that the truck sales department sells the first truck and the parts and service departments sell the next ones.  It seems that is true for drinks wholesaler, Nectar Imports. The long-term relationship between Nectar and local Isuzu dealer Ferndown Commercials has been confirmed with the arrival of five new Isuzu trucks into…

Reaching around one third of a 140-strong fleet inside of five years is impressive for a relatively minor truck brand.  That’s what’s happened at Holdsworth Foods who have just bought another six Isuzu N75.190 refrigerated trucks having taken its first Isuzu as recently as 2015. John Hudd, operations manager at Holdsworth Foods said: With an…