MAN TGS Truck News ( 13)

They are not quite putting the closed sign above the sales office for MAN’s new eTruck, as their new electric truck factory comes online in 2025.  Until then, the company has no more of their eTruck to sell after the first limited edition models of the new MAN eTruck for 2024 are already sold out,…

The pair of MAN TGS 23.400 8×4 mixers have come straight from work and are ready for their next job. Both 2008 models, they have automatic gearboxes and low kilometres. If you are looking for a later or slightly smaller version, the seller, Plantmaster who are on the inside front cover of the magazine this…

From today you can order yourself a brand-new, heavy-duty electric MAN eTruck. There seems to be takers for the truck already, as the company tell us that they have already received 600 order inquiries. Sounds like you will have missed the deadline for delivery in 2024, however. Whilst the first 200 units are scheduled to…

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…

Family owned specialist corn and animal feed merchants, H. Walton Ltd of Old Goole in East Yorkshire, has recently taken delivery of their first new New Generation MAN Trucks. The new vehicles, in their traditional H Walton Ltd Brunswick green and gold lettering livery, will work across the business delivering a wide range of bagged…

There’s no FOMO at South Wales Haulier Inter-Haul Pallet Services.  They run an exclusive MAN fleet and are happy that they are not missing out by rejecting other manufacturers. The Pontypridd based transport operation cites outstanding levels of customer service and a long-term trusted partnering relationships with their local MAN dealer, WG Davies, and MAN…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…