Results Page 5 of 5 for MAN Truck News (92)

With the launch of a new generation of trucks, there is always plenty of information available from the truck manufacturers explaining why the new trucks are better than the outgoing models and better than the competition. MAN Truck is no different.  Here they are giving us all some insight into their strategy for trucks destined…

The display and operating concept of MAN’s new Truck range has been awarded Gold in the German Design Award 2021 in the Excellent Product Design category.  The international jury of 38 design experts rewarded the truck range’s consistent, practice-oriented work place for truck drivers. This is now the second major award for the driver’s workplace…

The interim reports are already out for the major truck manufacturers and they make grim reading. For the first six months of the year, sales at Scania were down by 24% with MAN falling 26%.  This meant that instead of last year’s EU248 million profit at MAN for the first half of the year, the…

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…

MAN Truck & Bus is to tentatively start production as of today, 27th April in their German factories.  The factories have been closed for some six weeks – the time that it has taken to put together revised working practices, such as  ensuring a wider distance between employees, changing the routing and, where necessary, protective…

Citing issues in the supply of component parts, MAN has stopped truck manufacturing at their main Munich plant from 19th March.  Production at other plants across the world is being assessed and may well follow suit, at the moment, production is being scaled back. The health and safety of employees was also a factor in…

There were more new trucks sold in the UK in 2019 than in the two preceding years.  With an impressive 48,535 registrations last year, we saw nearly 13% more new trucks appear on our roads than in 2018 after number shrinking for the previous two years. All this despite a series of stalled Brexits and…

In a significant conquest deal, MAN have managed to get one of their TGM trucks into the Go Plant fleet of 500 trucks for the first time. The company is the UK’s largest specialist municipal road sweeper rental company and has a network of depots across the UK.  The MAN TGM will be operating out…

There was much speculation about the long-awaited revised cab for the MAN TGX range.  Since the tie up with Scania (they are now both owned by Traton – a Volkswagen subsidiary) it was thought that the new cab would be based on Scania’s new cab seen in the R and S series trucks. The big…

Truck Manufacturers usually go to town on information at the time of a truck launch.  Typically this is too detailed for the average reader, but some may wish to delve a little deeper than the summarised versions we put together on our product pages. So if you are interested, then please read on… New MAN…

MAN Trucks is spending a wad of cash on the dealer network – some £20 million to be precise.  There have been a series of recent openings of new MAN dealerships with Gateshead finished in November 2019. Replacing their existing Earlshead facility that has dealt with MAN trucks since 1996, the new dealership is on…

You’ll have to be fast, as MAN Trucks are only making a ‘small production run’ of their MAN TGM 26.360 E LL rigid truck and they are likely to go to the companies that have already been running MAN’s electric trucks on trial. Nine Austrian & German companies have been running one of these electric…