FAW Vehicle Manufacturers SA recently held its annual conference for dealer sales and service representatives, with CEO Jianyu Hao commenting that the platform offered an ideal opportunity to share information on all aspects of the company’s operations in Sub-Saharan...

South African fruit and vegetable company, The Fruit Spot, faced a distribution challenge when new business opportunities opened for the company in Cape Town. The Fruit Spot is the fresh produce division of Massmart and has a large perishable goods...

South African logistics company, Consolidated Transport, has opted to make use of a fleet of Hino vehicles in order to handle fragile or sensitive cargo. Founded in 1994 by Nico van Jaarsveld, Consolidated Transport operates 25 Hino trucks, virtually all...

In October last year, MAN Truck & Bus began a 9 800km odyssey across Europe to showcase its latest TG model range, which had been launched that month at the IAA in Hanover, Germany. Since then, thousands of potential customers...

The Dangote Group – a Nigerian multinational industrial conglomerate – together with Chinese commercial vehicle manufacturer Sinotruk, has established a $100-million (about R1,3-billion) truck assembly plant in Lagos, Nigeria. “The plant has the capacity to produce about 10 000 trucks annually,...

The Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) – organisers of the Africa Cup of Nations event in Gabon – recently ordered a fleet of 16 MAN Lion luxury coaches to transport participating teams from their hotels to sports grounds. “The order...

Established about 22 years ago, MK Logistics began operations by making use of just one vehicle – now the company has over 250 vehicles in its fleet. The line-up ranges from one-ton bakkies to the latest in long haul...

  Hino South Africa has retained its top position in the combined Scott Byers Competitive Customer Satisfaction Monitor for the eighth successive quarter in the period October 2016 – December 2016. The benchmark survey – conducted quarterly since 1986 by Scott...

As part of London’s efforts to lower vehicle emissions in the city, Ford has made available for test purposes a fleet of 20 plug-in hybrid vans for use by commercial operators. The project will see Ford teaming up with the...

Iveco’s Stralis NP – the first natural gas-powered truck for long haul operations – has been voted “Project of the Year” at the European Gas Awards of Excellence 2017 at the annual European Gas Conference in Vienna, Austria. “We are...