Mercedes-Benz

A new Mercedes-Benz Actros L rig has begun transporting artificial intelligence-driven performance analysis to some of the UK’s leading professional sports teams. Operated by specialist haulier Xpression Event Solutions, the Actros L 1853 works with a purpose-designed mobile laboratory trailer…

One of the UK’s first all-electric Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks is now in service with London premium beverage supplier The Drinks Club. The 4×2 eActros 300 is making daily deliveries of alcoholic and soft drinks to some of the capital’s best-known…

An Essex-based construction materials distributor has acquired two new Mercedes-Benz Econic trucks that will provide enhanced visibility when driving on the streets of London. Gold Fish Transport’s new 26-tonne and 16-tonne gross weight trucks – the company’s first two Mercedes-Benz…

Brighton and Hove flooring specialist La Boutique du Parquet has acquired a new battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eVito to deliver its products in and around the city. The fully electric eVito has a 41 kWh battery which is securely mounted in a…

South Yorkshire structural steel transport specialist MJ Hughes has added the first truck with MirrorCam to its all-Mercedes-Benz fleet. The 8×2 Arocs, supplied by Northside Truck & Van, will spend much of its time in London, where the manufacturer’s alternative…

Essex-based Wilkin & Sons, the producer of Tiptree jam, is running the country’s first Mercedes-Benz Actros Edition 2. The firm’s latest flagship vehicle was supplied by Orwell Truck & Van and is one of only 400 Edition 2 vehicles being…

Mercedes-Benz has announced UK pricing and specifications for the all-electric version of its iconic Sprinter model. The eSprinter will be priced from £51,950, excluding VAT and OLEV grant of up to £8,000. The new model comes in two variants –…

The rise in demand for home deliveries since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen parcel service DPD massively scale-up its planned order for new trucks. The company had been planning to order 80 new Mercedes-Benz trucks, including 50…

Mercedes-Benz has announced that deliveries of its first fully electric articulated bus, the eCitaro G, will begin later this year. More than 60 orders have already been put in for the new model, which will be the first in its…

This week Mercedes-Benz has been showing off two self-driving Arocs as they successfully carry out automated snow removal operations in Germany. The result of a joint project with Lab1886 – the innovation unit for new business models within Mercedes-Benz AG…