Mercedes Arocs 3240 Truck News ( 5)

MV Commercial have an interesting 32 tonne DAF CF400 mixer on this week’s front cover. It is a 2016, Euro 6 truck fitted with a 2022 CIFA barrel mixer. Manual transmission and aircon are the truck’s key features over and above the new barrel fitment. Check out the full details on the outside back cover…

A tidy-looking Mercedes Arocs 3240 8×4 tipper features on this week’s front cover. It’s a 2021 model with just 141,000 kms and is fitted with a PM on board weigher, auto gearbox and Boweld body. Priced at £62,950 the truck is on sale at Airport Autos – see all the details on their advert on…

Two Mercedes Arocs concrete mixers have arrived at quarrying and construction material supplier, Brice Aggregates thanks to a truck salesperson’s tenacity in spotting a sales opportunity. In its early days Brice based its fleet on another brand of trucks. The decision to invest in Mercedes-Benz vehicles was sparked when the company began making deliveries to…

CW Russell have been convinced that Mercedes have the right specification Arocs trucks for them. Having tried the first one just two years ago, Mercedes trucks now make up more than 50% of the 42-strong fleet as the specification and durability of the Arocs makes them perfect for the company’s work. The latest arrivals, three…

It’s always nice to have a pleasant surprise. You buy something different because it’s all you can find at the time but it subsequently turns out to be a fantastic purchase and you wish you’d have bought it ages ago. That’s what happened to Duchy Plant Hire’s Jamie Shelton after he bought his first Mercedes-Benz…

It is an uncommon sight, truck operators deciding to change from leasing trucks to actually owning them, but it’s what’s happened with recently-renamed Express Utilities.The company has just taken delivery of four Arocs tipper-grabs that have become the first trucks to wear its new name. The trucks – two eight-wheelers and a pair of six-wheelers…

With a near-exclusive Mercedes fleet, waste management specialist Select Environmental Services is well on the path to making their fleet as green as can be.  Lithium powered compactor bodies and electric vans running around is a solid start.  The company is waiting for the factory-built eEconic to arrive in 2022 to start replacing their all…

Nobody wants to wait months for a truck, so being able to get a brand new, bodied tipper in such a short time frame was important to Barrachander Quarry boss Calum McCrae. Of course, the trucks have to perform as well. Since McCrae has been so impressed with the reliability of the 8×4 Mercedes-Benz Arocs…

Here’s a good test of a truck and the availability of new trucks.  Leedale buys two Mercedes Arocs 8×4 tipper grabs and two from a competing manufacturer (who shall remain nameless here). Some ten months on, two more trucks are needed and the deal goes to Mercedes-Benz.  The trucks themselves must have played a large…

No six-month wait for the chassis to be made to order, followed by a three-month multi-stage build for the body and crane. Scaffolding specialist Hadley Group ordered their new Arocs using the Mercedes ‘WorkReady’ programme and it arrived inside a fortnight – ready-bodied. To operate in the company’s new waste management the new Arocs is…