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First Scania launched the City Safe window which was fitted in the passenger door of its low-entry L-Series cab.  Now the L-Series benefits from an optional ‘Scania City Door’ – an inward swinging glass door improving access and visibility for the driver. No news whether this will be made available in right hand drive form…

Winter draws on. Gritters and spreaders are coming out of hibernation as new metal join the fleet around the country ready to battle with what the UK weather brings. The whole country complains that as soon as a drop of snow falls we come to a standstill but consider how it would be if the…

Not sure that the market for this is huge in the UK. You probably can’t even buy one, but we can’t resist a photo of an impressive looking truck.  If you run a quarry and you are not content with a straightforward 8×4 tipper at 32 tonnes, then checkout Scania’s new heavyweight contender for the…

Now this makes perfect sense.  The surface area of a semi-trailer is huge and it spends its whole life outside in the sunshine.  In countries that has such a thing as sunshine. With an increasing number of trucks due to be rolled out with hybrid power, it makes perfect sense to recharging these vehicles on…

This is big news.  Scania have revealed their new V8 with more power and better fuel economy.  The new Scania V8 now takes the title of the most powerful truck in series production in the world with 770hp. Replacing the outgoing 730hp V8, Scania leapfrogs fellow Swede, Volvo with ‘just’ 750hp in their flagship FH750…

Scania has embarked on its electric journey with the trucks most used for local distribution and municipal roles – the P – Series and low entry cabbed L-Series. The company says that it will roll out new models every year from now on until the range is complete – including long distance haulage. For the…

The Scania used truck sales operation in the Netherlands looks like a professional outfit. Not only is the business seeing an uplift in sales, working hard to please their customers whilst dealing with the Covid issue, they are shouting about it from the rooftops. So much so that it has made its way to Truckpages…

How many times has a poor station announcer had to tell waiting passengers that there is an issue with the overhead lines on the UK’s otherwise excellent rail network?   Plenty. We even hear it on the travel news on the radio when the subsequent delays are significant enough. They can’t suffer from the same…

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…

Clearly a family with an attention to detail and one that is prepared to invest upfront for payback over time.  D&M Jones & Son, family hauliers based in North Wales have bought not only the top of the range Scania XT tipper, they chose to personalise the truck with an eye-catching paint job plus plenty…

Every driver wants to be the owner driver of a Scania V8. Read what one ex-potato truck driver did to get his prize – a bright red, used Scania R520 at Truckpages.

Health and Safety has become even more important in the current environment as the country gets used to the ‘new normal’. In view of this, Scania’s timing is impeccable.  Of course, achieving this standard across their dealer network does not happen overnight and there will have been plenty of hours of hard work involved in…

We all like to win awards but beating your peers in business must give the winner the greatest feeling.  That’s how the team at TruckEast are likely to feel on their way to work this morning.  Beating all other private capital and company owned dealerships to Scania’s annual dealer of the year title for 2019….

Following DAF’s initiative to buy free tea and coffee for our #transportheroes Scania are following suit.  Instead of footing the bill at venues that are still open, Scania is taking the refreshments to places that aren’t serving any food and drink. Scania is offering a full menu of refreshments, including tea, a range of coffees,…

Truck Operators – Help Save the Planet Today, not Tomorrow There’s plenty of noise being made in the transport industry about electric and hybrid commercial vehicles being the key to saving the planet.  The cost and range/weight disadvantages of BEVs (Battery Electric Vehicles) mean that they are simply not effective for long distance road transport…

Matthew James Global Relocations, a removal company working across London and worldwide has taken the plunge and invested in their first hybrid truck – a 6×2 Scania P320 with a specialist 27ft removal body from SBR Specialist Coachbuilders of Preston. Silent Running The hybrid is perfect for quiet operation in and around London – assuming…

Scania has stopped operations at most of its European production units from Wednesday 25th March. The company explains that there are now shortages of components that go into making the trucks.  There’s not point in making 95% of a new truck – who will buy it and will it be useable? In addition Scania cites…

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…

Things are starting to move on at a pace as far as the electrification of urban distribution trucks is concerned.  In the past, concerns over payload, range and speed of charging were enough on their own to put truck operators off from even considering an electric truck. These concerns seem to have been addressed by…

In order to appeal to a broader range of customers, Scania has added their 7-litre D07 engine to their urban, low entry L Series truck that they launched as recently as 2017. Originally available only with the 5-cylinder, 9-litre Scania unit, the L Series was carrying quite a bit of weight for refuse truck operation,…