MAN TGM Truck News ( 10)

On the front cover for issue 182 is a 2015 Euro 6, 6×4, 26 tonne MAN TGM cement mixer. It is a TGM 26.340 model with low kilometres, manual gearbox, Hi Mix barrel and steel suspension. These don’t come around very often – especially in Euro 6 form. It is available from Plantmaster – see…

The MAN team in Munich have been busy.  They have put together a series of new technology aimed at safety and fuel improvements across their range.  Available immediately is the new suite of tech aimed at improving the life of the driver and other road users. At the top of the safety list is a…

With a fleet now approaching 50 trucks, Pallet Plus of Colchester has recently added 11 New MAN Trucks. The new fleet additions come in the form of one 12-tonne TGL, seven 18-tonne TGM, one 26-tonne TGS rigids and two TGX 44-tonne 6×2 tractors.  Liveried in the traditional Pallet Plus colours of red with white writing…

The salesman sells the first truck, then it and the after sales support sell the subsequent ones.  That’s the story with MAN and Commercial Refrigeration, Gaming and Leisure equipment distribution specialists Hadfields Transport of Manchester.  The company has just added three new MAN Trucks to its specialist fleet. The new vehicles, all high specification TGX…

On the day that Volvo Trucks announced that a UK business had ordered two electric trucks for use as tippers, MAN Truck & Bus reveal their response to a study into the feasibility of operating Battery Electric Trucks (BETs). The feasibility study “Delivery traffic with battery trucks: Feasibility 2021” published as part of the project…

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…

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…

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…

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…