Truck News: Volvo Trucks Appoints Mitch Peden As New Managing Director for Volvo Trucks Malaysia

Volvo Trucks Malaysia has a new Managing Director with effect from 1st August 2018. Mitch Peden will replace outgoing MD, Mats Nilsson, who has helmed Volvo Trucks Malaysia for the past 5 years. Mitch comes from Australia and has been with Volvo Trucks since 2005. 

UD Trucks and Tan Chong Industrial Equipment Celebrates The Roll Out Of The Locally Assembled UD Croner Medium Duty Truck

UD Trucks and Tan Chong Industrial Equipment SdnBhd (TCIE) recently rolled out the first-ever Malaysian assembled UD Croner medium duty truck. The local assembly was done at Tan Chong Motor Assemblies Sdn Bhd (TCMA) located in Segambut which makes Malaysia the first Asia Pacific market outside of Japan to assemble the Croner. It is also one of the first times where a TCIE, a private distributor partner assembled a truck for UD Trucks.

Trucks: UPC Chemicals Chooses the UD Quester Truck for Their First Ever Truck Fleet

UPC Chemicals (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, a petrochemical product manufacturer, has decided to choose UD Trucks to be their first ever truck brand. UD Trucks and authorised distributor-partner Tan Chong Industrial Equipment Sdn Bhd (TCIE) recently welcomed UPC Chemicals (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd as the new owner of 5 units of UD Quester Heavy Duty trucks. UPC Chemicals had purchased the heavy-duty UD Quester trucks through Edaran Setia Auto, TCIE’s authorized private dealer located in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

Mercedes-Benz Malaysia Commercial Vehicles and Cycle & Carriage Bintang Opens New 3S Centre for Mercedes-Benz and FUSO Commercial Vehicle Customers in Ipoh

Mercedes-Benz Malaysia Commercial Vehicles (MBM CV) has officially opened their latest 3S commercial vehicle centre with their long time partners, Cycle & Carriage Bintang Berhad. The Cycle & Carriage Bintang Commercial Vehicle Centre (Cycle & Carriage CV Centre) in located in Gopeng, Perak. This is just a stone's throw away from the Ipoh, the capital of the state of Perak. The launch is significant as it is Cycle & Carriage Bintang’s 13th Mercedes-Benz dealership, and its entrance into the FUSO retail business, having previously provided FUSO after sales only.

Hino Motors Sales Malaysia Sells 300 Units of HINO 300 Series Trucks to GD Express, Certifies 4 of GD Express' Trucks with 1 Million KM Mileage & Announces They Are No.1 in Various Commercial Vehicle Sales Categories for 2017!!!

Hino has started 2018 with a bang. Hino Motors Sales (Malaysia), or just Hino, together with their customer, courier company GD Express Sdn Bhd (GDEX) held a small ceremony earlier today where they announced interesting news for those that are following the commercial vehicle sector. First is the sale of 300 units of their HINO 300 series trucks to GDEX, then announcing their No.1 status in the 2017 vehicle sales category for Light Commercial Vehicle, Medium to Heavy Commercial Vehicle and the bus category. Finally, they presented Certificates to GDEX recognising the reliability of four units of GDEX Hino trucks that have 1 million km mileage without the need for any engine overhaul.

Trucks: Isuzu Hands Over Its 100th Unit To Mighty Bakery Sdn Bhd

Isuzu Malaysia recently handed over its 100th truck to Mighty Bakery Sdn Bhd. The momentous occasion basically wrapped up another good year for the truck manufacturer here in Malaysia. The 100th Isuzu truck purchased by Mighty Bakery is the Isuzu N-Series 4-wheeler truck (NKR55UEEH-E) and it was part of the 16 units of the model registered by Mighty Bakery in 2017. 

Trucks & Happenings: Volvo Trucks Malaysia Launches Road Safety Programme For Cyclists - 'See and Be Seen'

Volvo Trucks recently launched a global programme – See and Be Seen – aimed at creating road safety awareness for cyclists. The launch took place in Hin Hua High School, Klang where the event was held as part of the school's 70th anniversary celebrations. The Malaysian leg of the programme was launched during a scouting skills competition & campfire event where 800 scouts from all over Malaysia took part. 

Truck News: HINO Total Support Contest Malaysia - In Its 4th Year With 110 Contestants From All Over Malaysia This TIme Around

Last weekend was Hino Motors Sales (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd's (HMSM) Hino ‘Total Support Contest’ (TS Contest) for 2017. 110 contestants from over a hundred Hino dealerships throughout Malaysia had participated in this annual skills competition meant for Hino sales and after sales personnel. 

Truck News: ISUZU MALAYSIA Delivers 115 Units of Isuzu ELF Trucks to City-Link Express

This is quite a deal for Isuzu Malaysia. The Japanese vehicle manufacturer recently delivered 115 units of various Isuzu trucks to City-Link Express (M) Sdn Bhd as part of their 2017 fleet agreement purchase. This saw 105 units of the Isuzu ELF 4-wheeler (NLR77UEE) model and 10 units of the Isuzu ELF 6-wheeler (NQR75UKN) model. This new trucks now join the City-Link fleet of which now has 322 units of Isuzu trucks.

Truck News: HINO Delivers 15 Units Of Its Newly Improved Hino 300 Series Light Duty Truck To My World Logistics Sdn Bhd

Hino Motors Sales (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd officially delivered 15 units of the new HINO 300 series to My World Logistics Sdn Bhd at a small ceremony in Kuala Lumpur early this morning. The event marks a special occasion for both Hino and My World Logistics as this was actually a first time Hino truck purchase by the delivery company. 

Truck News: Syarikat Logistik Petikemas Renews Its Repair & Maintenance Contract With Mercedes-Benz Malaysia Commercial Vehicles

Syarikat Logistik Petikemas Sdn Bhd, an integrated one stop logistics company has renewed their Repair and Maintenance package contract with Mercedes-Benz Malaysia Commercial Vehicles (MBMCV). The renewal upgrades the previous contract, which was first signed in 2012. 

Industry News: Mercedes-Benz Malaysia Commercial Vehicles Team Up With Tekat Automotive College

Mercedes-Benz Malaysia Commercial Vehicles (MBMCV) recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tekat Automotive College which will firstly facilitate an eight-month training programme for selected Tekat Automotive College students. One of the ultimate goals of such a joint venture between the two entities is to eventually raise the level of skills training for youths in the Malaysia automotive workforce. This partnership follows a six-month discussion between Mercedes-Benz Malaysia and Tekat Automotive College. 

Trucks: Driving the UD CRONER in our latest Vlog Post - VIDEO

Hello folks! Here is a video on the recent launch of the UD CRONER medium duty truck here in Malaysia. We covered the launch sometime in August and we now had the time to splice together some footage of the event as well as our test drive of it. 

Truck News: Hino Malaysia hands over 10 units of the HINO 300 & 500 Series of Trucks to Integrated Logistics Solutions Sdn Bhd

Hino Motors Sales (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (HINO) earlier today officially handed over of 10 trucks to customer, Integrated Logistics Solutions Sdn Bhd over at Integrated Logistics Solutions's warehouse in Taman Perindustrian Subang. The trucks comprised of 4 Hino 300 Series Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) trucks and 6 units of the Hino 500 Series Medium Commercial Vehicle (MCV) truck.

Truck News & Happenings: Prifaria Sdn Bhd Driver Kaspul Anwar Wins the Volvo Trucks Malaysia Fuelwatch Challenge 2017 - 3rd Time In a Row for Prifaria!!!

Kaspul Anwar bin Abdul Karim who drives for Prifaria Sdn Bhd has been crowned the champion in this year's Malaysian leg of the Volvo Trucks Fuelwatch Challenge 2017. He will be headed to Sweden for the World Finals and will be going against the best from all over the world in one, if not the most popular annual truck drivers competition throughout the world. Second place went to En Firdaus bin Salim from Swift Logistics Sdn Bhd and third place, to En Ahmad Sulaiman from Konsortium PD. 

Truck News: The UD Croner Medium Duty Truck Is Launched In Malaysia - UD Trucks Makes it Available in both 6 speed Manual & Auto Transmissions

UD Trucks, one of the major truck brands in the Volvo Group, together with their long time Malaysian distributors Tan Chong Industrial Equipment (TCIE) earlier today launched their latest Medium Duty Truck - The UD Croner. Building on the brand’s rich Japanese legacy, the all-new Croner is designed for growth markets like Malaysia with reliability, robustness, versatility, uptime and safety in mind.

Truck & Bus: The Inaugural Scania Driver Competitions South East Asia 2016-2017 - Top Scania Drivers From Around The Region Compete Against One Another

The final round of the inaugural Scania Driver Competitions South East Asia 2016-2017 (SDC) was held recently at MAEPS, in Serdang and saw some stiff competition between 19 Scania truck and bus drivers from Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Singapore. This is the first SDC that is truly regional as prior to this, it was only a Malaysia and Singapore affair. This makes things pretty interesting with added competitors and a chance to be crowned regional champion!

Truck News: Teo Tuan Kwee Sdn Bhd buys 50 Scania G-Series Trucks to add to their fleet...of which a majority are Scania Trucks

This is some impressive news. Again, in a period where people say that economic growth is slow we see some eye opening news. Transport company, Teo Tuan Kwee Sdn Bhd (TTK)  has opted to buy another 50 Scania trucks to join the existing 182 Scania trucks it already owns. 26 units of this latest batch of prime movers were handed over earlier today and it definitely is one of the largest sales for high-end trucks for 2017.

Truck News: Hap Seng Commercial Vehicle Centre in Ipoh (HSCV Ipoh) opens to take care of Mercedes-Benz Trucks customers in the northern region of Malaysia.

Mercedes-Benz Malaysia Commercial Vehicles (MBM CV) together with authorised dealer, Hap Seng Commercial Vehicle (HSCV), has launched the fourth HSCV dedicated commercial vehicle 3S centre, the Mercedes-Benz Hap Seng Commercial Vehicle Centre, located in Ipoh (HSCV Ipoh). To date, HSCV has an established presence in Kinrara, Klang, Kuantan, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching and Miri. In total, MBM CV has 15 authorised dealerships nationwide.

Truck News: Volvo Trucks grows its market share in Malaysia’s premium heavy-duty commercial vehicle segment

Volvo Malaysia announced today that it had recorded an increase of 4.8% in sales for its Volvo truck brand for financial year 2016, compared to the previous year. The growth was achieved through the sale of 370 units of trucks. This has led to the brand capturing 45% of the market share in the European heavy-duty prime mover segment in Malaysia, making it the top truck brand for the year.