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Check out the spec of Ontime Logistic’s flagship 625HP Actros 2663 with a tag axle for container logistics at Truckpages UK

Most people looking at the front of an Econic would think “Refuse Truck”.  There are an increasing number of operators recognising the benefits in terms of cab access and all-round visibility that these low entry cabs can offer. Of course, they are not ideal for every operation, but one involving a crew and local work…

Entering into the world of truck operation is no mean task. Especially when the company bosses have not run any HGV transport before.  In fact, only eighteen months earlier, the bosses of Forge Logistics had never run a van operation – in civvy street that is. Ex-servicemen Jamie Keen and James Rose-Shaw have recruited their…

Here’s a baptism of fire. Start a new job as head of a Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle group at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown. That’s what the new Managing Director of Motus-owned S&B and Orwell Trucks dealer groups did. He has been busy in the intervening six months, recruiting a series of…

Hot on the heels of a deal for 20 Renault Trucks Range T tractor units, announced back in April, FreshLinc Group has now ordered a fresh batch of Mercedes Actros tractor units after just four weeks of setting an Actros demonstrator on the road it had followed-up with an order for 14 identical trucks. The…

If you were to see a truck delivering Mercedes parts to a Mercedes franchised car or commercial vehicle dealer, you would reasonably expect it to be a Mercedes truck. It seems you would be correct. Since the beginning of this year XPO Logistics has been delivering automotive parts to Mercedes-Benz Trucks, Mercedes-Benz Vans and passenger…

The job doesn’t get much bigger in the truck world. Head of the largest truckmaker – Mercedes-Benz.

In a traditionally male dominated world, Karin Rådström has risen right to the top since her appointment as Member of the Board of Management, Daimler Truck AG, responsible for Mercedes-Benz Trucks.  She will take up her new role on May 1, next year. Kairn succeeds Stefan Buchner, who has decided to retire after more than 30 years at the company, as announced earlier this year.

Experienced Sales Big-Hitter to lead Mercedes-Benz UK Truck Business Fresh from the role of ‘Head of Overseas Sales’, Wolfgang Theissen joins the UK truck division as its next Managing Director on August 1st. The move is a result of the retirement of Mike Belk who has worked for Mercedes-Benz for thirty years. Mike will work…

Two fierce competitors are working together on a solution to developing hydrogen fuel cell for use in heavy-duty truck applications.  Volvo Trucks and Daimler Truck (Mercedes-Benz parent company) have started the process into putting together a joint venture where Volvo will buy 50% of the shares in Daimler’s existing fuel cell activities for EUR 0.6…

Take a look closely at the picture of Alan Davie’s brand new fifth generation Actros and you would have to agree it’s a great looking truck.  There’s something not quite normal about it, however. To the uninitiated, it simply looks like the truck has clean, aerodynamic lines.  It’s only when told that the tractor unit…

If there’s one type of business that should be using gas-powered trucks, it’s the waste business.  Methane was an unwanted byproduct of running a landfill site.  As a gas it is worse for the environment than releasing carbon dioxide.  This is why it used to be flared off at source. Imagine capturing this waste resource…

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…

Mercedes-Benz trucks are taking over at Bristol-based heavy plant and machinery mover, Plant Speed.  Thanks to a concerted effort at Mercedes Truck dealer, City West Commercials, more than half the 16-strong fleet are from the German manufacturer. The latest Mercedes to join the fleet is a new 32-tonne Mercedes Arocs 3246.  With a flat-floored BigSpace…

A more common site emptying the dustbins from house to house, the Mercedes Econic is a prolific sight on the UK’s roads on bin day. However, an adventurous and canny scaffolding company has decided that the low-entry cab with excellent pedestrian visibility is the way forward as a scaffold truck for their operation. For some…

The Actros has won the top truck award yet again – the model range has taken International Truck of the Year no fewer than five times now. It does help that the model is not in its 25th year – it was originally launched back in 1997 when ‘MMMBop’ was number one in the UK…

Mercedes provide a wealth of information regarding their new vehicle launches, but this information becomes difficult to access for used truck buyers, as the information available from official websites cover current models, not past ones. For this reason, we publish the full blurb and make it accessible to used truck buyers looking for an Actros…

Mercedes produce a wealth of information when launching a new range of trucks.  For people researching used trucks this is a vital source of information to find out what was available on the trucks when launched.  There is tonnes of detail here that will help any operator looking to buy a used Actros SLT –…

The last member of the Mercedes-Benz truck family that underwent a complete makeover is the Mercedes-Benz Atego with Euro VI in 2013, now coming on stage to continue its career in the short-radius distribution segment from 6.5 to 16 t gross vehicle weight sector. This version of the Mercedes-Benz Atego retains its benchmark position in…

The third-generation, 2007 model Mercedes-Benz Actros was as cost-effective, comfortable, safe and environmentally compatible as ever. With in excess of 550,000 vehicles sold in over 100 countries, the Actros vehicle family has long been the biggest success story in the heavy-duty-truck sector. Now Mercedes-Benz was implemented a raft of individual measures to further enhance its…