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In January 2021 MAN Truck & Bus UK Ltd announced the purchase of the HRVS Group and, in so doing, acquired five dealerships located across Central England: Ripley, Stoke-on-Trent, Sheffield, Scunthorpe and Sleaford, as well as a customer workshop in Burton upon Trent. David Littlejohn, Head of Branches UK, MAN Truck & Bus UK Ltd,…

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…

Specialist scrap metal merchants and recyclers, steel stockholders and used vehicle parts suppliers T-Met Ltd of Northern Ireland MAN up with the arrival of their first New Generation TGS 8×4 hookloader. The Truck Buyer Established in 2000 T-Met Ltd has grown to become one of the largest recyclers and exporters of scrap metals in Northern…

MAN Truck & Bus UK Ltd have just announced the best truck dealers in their network with their 2021 Dealer of the Year gong show. The Awards held annually recognise and celebrate the achievements of the MAN Dealer Network; both the independent and company owned sites. Through a series of regular checks and measures those…

It seems to be on trend – launch a new range of trucks, then launch some significant upgrades just a year or so later.  We saw it with Iveco, where the details of the revisions to the S-Way were revealed just as the first examples were hitting the UK’s shores. MAN has released some fairly…

With 25 years of service to MAN Truck & Bus, Matt Squires has made it from technician to the top sales job – Director of new truck sales. Matt succeeds David Cussans who will retire before the end of the summer, having worked with the MAN brand over a period spanning 33 years. Matt’s CV…

A top-powered 510hp 8×4 MAN TGS is heading for the valleys to the door of South Wales haulier M&M Greene of Gorslas, near Llanelli. It will be involved in delivering bulk loads of sand and gravels to and moving spoil and muck-away from local projects and building sites. M&M Greene’s new TGS 32.510 is one…

Stefan Thyssen is taking over as Managing Director of MAN Truck & Bus UK Ltd. Stefan Thyssen succeeds Thomas Hemmerich who has been appointed the role of Managing Director for the National Sales Company, Korea, which also includes responsibility for the Austral/Asia region. Currently Head of MAN Truck & Bus Scandinavia, Stefan Thyssen will take…

MAN Truck & Bus UK has been awarded the Market of the Year 2020 accolade. This award, bestowed by the global MAN Truck & Bus organisation on a single market, recognises the efforts of the MAN team in the UK. The award, announced at the MAN Truck & Bus 2021 International Sales Conference in Munich,…

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,…

This sounds like something many fleet managers would want. Connect remotely to a truck while it is on the road and download some software to change driver behaviour – moderate the acceleration, changing the gearbox program and so on.  If it could also mean that new ‘ECU’ control software can be installed without a workshop…

Gritters don’t tend to be replaced too often, as they tend to work for a few weeks a year – especially the specialist 4×4 trucks that can’t be as readily repurposed for the (warmer) rest of the year. With the new emissions requirements in London councils are having to change their gritters and so are…

MAN Truck & Bus have confirmed that Manchetts Peterborough may continue as a full MAN dealer following their takeover of the Peterborough branch of Motus Commercials. Remaining on the same site, located in the Fengate area of Peterborough and with their satellite depot at Pinchbeck in Spalding, Manchetts will continue to provide customers with a…

Germany has introduced a generous scrappage scheme aimed at helping both the German truck operators and the German truck manufacturers alike. The government is focusing more strongly on the environmental & safety benefits that the scrappage scheme can bring – we all know that a Euro 6 truck produces 80% less NOx than a Euro…

MAN Trucks have been putting a lot of time and effort into their dealer network over the last few years.  Significant investments in their company owned sites in Nuneaton and Gateshead are now followed by an investment in the acquisition of a dealer group – HRVS. Through the purchase, MAN has acquired five dealership locations…

Truckpages magazine is full of trucks built with heavy duty cranes – many of them front mounted.  It is clear that there is strong demand for this type of truck in the UK market.  These cranes mounted on a truck chassis are increasingly performing the tasks for which a large mobile crane would previously have…

The recently launched new generation MAN TGX has been awarded the title of “International Truck of the Year 2021” (ITOY).  In a virtual ceremony, Andreas Tostmann, CEO of MAN Truck & Bus, accepted the coveted award from ITOY President Gianenrico Griffini. The jury of 24 trade journalists representing the 24 most important European specialist truck…