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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…

Always good to get a big name on board, and none are larger in the world of logistics than Wincanton.  Volvo has managed to get a competing manufacturer’s vehicles replaces on the Wincanton fleet with two new Volvo FM 8×2 tankers to work within its milk delivery division. The trucks were supplied on a five-year…

This story is about a longstanding Volvo Trucks customer buys three new Volvo Trucks.  Nothing ground-breaking or newsworthy there. But it is these bread and butter deals that stand the test of time though building relationships between the local dealer and the truck operator. Clearly having a good range of trucks helps, but there aren’t…

Having a tipper for road surfacing applications that does not tip may sound like a nonsense, but Rory J. Holbrook’s new DAF CF 8×4 Tridems have been built to carry out the role of a tipper without all the ‘tipping’.  The Norfolk-based aggregate supply specialist has now taken delivery of the first two CF 410…

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…

You wouldn’t think there’d be much call for an 80-tonne GTW tractor unit with a crane fitted that can turn itself into a dropside truck. Well, International fine art logistics specialist Mtec has not only found a use for one, they have had one built. Their new Mercedes Actros heavy haulage tractor unit is used…

What a great idea.  A Volvo dealer is to not only ask customers to donate a minimum of £100 a week to charity when using a demonstrator, the trucks themselves have been painted in the respective charity’s colours.  This gives the charity free advertising as well as hard cash. Every Volvo Truck and Bus Centre…

There can’t be many tougher operating duty cycles involving multi-drop work 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  That’s the demanding schedule the Freightforce trucks operate under.  Mix into this overnight trips cross-country with step frame trailers using a whole series of drivers means that the trucks on the fleet really do provide their…

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…

Better than having the brand-new registration plate on March or September 1st, Abacus logistics have the first new generation MAN TGX in the country. That’s showing off. The family-run company is clearly a good customer of MAN, so it is only right that they get the first TGX to work on the UK’s roads. Clearly…

While the country is basking in temperatures above 30 degrees, there are businesses preparing for the colder weather to come. One such company is Econ Engineering Ltd. – the UK’s largest manufacturer of gritters and salt spreading vehicles.  They have taken delivery of eight new DAF LF 260 ‘Construction’ 4×2 rigid dry-spreaders with the extended…

Who wouldn’t want to own one of the first trucks on UK roads that uses cameras to replace rear-view mirrors? Scott Reynolds took one look at the MirrorCam technology from Mercedes-Benz and immediately thought, YES. The Managing Director of Sheffield-based waste management specialist DSM was a guest of local Dealer Northside Truck & Van at…

It feels like a fresh start for Volvo Trucks in the UK.  We have (hopefully) seen the worst of the Coronavirus epidemic, there is a new series of trucks to introduce fully to the market and Hannah Burgess is heading into a new role of Director of New Vehicle Sales, based at the company’s head…

With the arrival of six new Isuzu 7.5 tonne N75.190 rigid trucks, York-based company Genta Medical now has gone 100% with Isuzu for all its 7.5 tonne distribution vehicles. As a long-standing operator of the Isuzu marque, going back as far as 2009 when they took delivery of their first Isuzu, Genta Medical has really…

Only Volvo Trucks could provide an 8×4 tipping chassis with a lifting rear drive axle.  No other manufacturer offers a truck in this configuration from the factory. This has led Cambridgeshire-based G. Webb Haulage to buy its first Volvo truck since 2011 – a Volvo FM 8×4 rigid. Why have a lifting rear axle on…

With the potential for 24/7 opening for the service department and faster turnaround times, Midlands Truck & Van’s £7 million investment in their brand new Smethick dealership will improve the lives of the local operators and the company’s employees. Overseeing a building project during COVID-19 shutdown could not have been easy, as work on the…

With seven trucks running potatoes around the country, potato supplier Braegate Produce has put its first Volvo into service. The FH Globetrotter 6×2 pusher axle tractor unit replaces a rival manufacturer’s truck in its small fleet. Supplied by Crossroads Truck and Bus, the new vehicle is powered by the latest D13K Euro 6, Step D…

Fuel economy was the driving force behind George H Kime & Co Ltd’s decision to buy their latest Renault Trucks Range T tractor units. In a significant deal, the company has taken delivery of 19 T480 6×2 pusher TML tractor units from Thompson Commercials to join the mixed fleet of 44 trucks. However, it seems…

As a small haulier with seven trucks, a canny move is often to buy late, low mileage, used trucks.  With seven trucks – all of which are Mercedes Actros and all bought used – Geoff Woodcock had adopted this used truck buying policy for years, including low-mileage Mercedes-Benz Approved Used units acquired from Roanza Truck…

My initial thought about this was – erh, no, why should anyone be that interested truck steering wheels? But looking at the images of the dashboards and steering wheels of Mercedes trucks from over the years does make you start to think back to earlier, more simple times.  Try to picture how different these trucks…