The best MAN ever is here
The best MAN ever is here and made its debut at the Spanish port city of Bilbao in February 2020.
The new MAN Truck Generation, launched nearly 20 years after the introduction of the MAN TGA in the global trucking industry, is the remarkable result of five years of intense research and development, 12 million hours of passionate work, 2,100 people directly involved in the project – and the pride of more than 36,000 dedicated MAN employees worldwide, according to MAN Truck & Bus SE.
Dr. Frederik Zohm, Chief Research and Development Officer at MAN Truck & Bus SE, the new MAN substantially and sustainably incorporated feedback from transport companies and drivers resulting to a high-powered, tech-laden durable truck that offers both comfort and efficiency never before seen.
Zohm said engineers programmed 2.8 million lines of software code for the new central computer for the new MAN truck generation which endured over 4 million test kilometers on the road.
Joachim Drees, CEO of MAN Truck & Bus SE, described the new MAN truck generation as “simplifying business” that will transform the company’s focus more on the customer and their needs.
Geared for the future
MAN Truck & Bus said its newly developed truck generation is consistently oriented towards the changing requirements of the transportation industry and sets new standards for – among other things – assistance systems, driver orientation and digital networking.
The new truck generation, thus, represents the development of MAN Truck & Bus from vehicle manufacturer to a provider of intelligent and sustainable transport solutions.
With fuel savings of up to 8 percent, the new MAN Truck Generation achieves significant reductions in CO2. The newly developed turn assist helps to prevent serious accidents in urban traffic – four years before the legally prescribed introduction.
The lane change assistant also warns the driver of vehicles in the next lanes. MAN has involved customers and drivers in the development of the new MAN Truck Generation from the beginning, so that their requirements could consistently be made part of the new vehicle.
It follows in the footsteps of legendary series, the MAN TGA, which was presented in 2000, formative for truck construction. Not only does the new MAN Truck Generation follow suit, it also brings a new level of comfort, safety, efficiency, reliability, service as well as connectivity and digitalization.
Simplifying Business
Today, the requirements in all areas of the transportation industry are more diverse and complex than ever – forecasts for the future indicate that fundamental transformation of the industry is in “full gear”.
This brings great challenges with it – the transport volume in the EU alone is to increase by an additional 40 percent in the next 20 years. At the same time, strict legal regulations are intended to reduce CO2 emissions by 15 percent by 2025 (with an additional reduction by 30 percent by 2030).
To make matters worse, there is a growing shortage of drivers. According to current estimations, in Germany, there will be a shortage of around 150,000 qualified professional drivers in the next two years alone. Additionally, increasingly comprehensive digitalization across all logistics processes sets a fast pace for transport companies.
“Our customers expect us to provide them with answers to these questions, and rightly so,” summarizes Joachim Drees, the MAN Chairman of the Executive Board. “For their sake, we need to be one step ahead of these changes with all their direct and indirect effects. This is a huge, but at the same time, extremely exciting task – it means that we need to think in different, new dimensions as the manufacturer of our products. We do this with our new truck generation.”
Drees said this is why the new MAN truck generation offers everything which customers and drivers have always valued and expected from their MAN vehicles – only even better.
It unites tried-and-true virtues with developments which are absolutely future-oriented, in order to take the burden off freight forwarders and drivers and make their daily work easier, despite increasingly complex framework conditions. In doing so, MAN is focusing on four core topics: the driver in their work place, the vehicle’s efficiency and its reliable usability, as well as the strong and competent partnership for customers.
Excellent driver fit
In order to optimize the work place in the truck and to adjust it to better meet the daily requirements of the driver, their performance and motivation need to be placed at the forefront. After all, the decisive building blocks for a transport company’s economic success are the commitment and satisfaction of drivers.
MAN Truck & Bus said this is why the new MAN Truck Generation sets standards in terms of user-friendliness, optimum ergonomics, operation which is more intuitive and reliable, networking with digital devices and applications and, last but not least, optimum space, a well-thought-out storage concept and perfect sleeping comfort – all this geared towards needs which were determined based on experience.
MAN had consistently included the expertise and feedback of drivers and business people throughout the entire development process. Modern assistance systems such as the newly developed turn assist, the traffic jam assistant as well as lane change assist reduce the strain on the driver and ensure increased safety in road traffic.
Great efficiency & economical
The Euro 6d engine range, introduced back in 2019, realizes its full efficiency potential with the new MAN Truck Generation. The perfect interplay of the units with additional, newly developed consumption-reducing driveline and software components provides the future series with a trailblazing level of efficiency.
In this way, the new MAN Truck Generation saves up to eight percent of fuel compared to the Euro 6c predecessor version in classic long-haul transport applications, and thus achieves a clear reduction in Co2.
The improved aerodynamics of the new vehicle design also play their part in this reduction. Furthermore, MAN offers additional targeted and practice-oriented training and instruction options with digital applications, in order to support drivers in even more efficient driving methods.
Comprehensive product improvements for components and in the areas of maintenance and service reduce service life costs. Likewise, the new MAN truck generation offers significant payload advantages for weight-sensitive application sectors.
How “good” a truck is when it is in use largely depends on how efficiently and easily it fulfils its transport task. An important parameter here is reliability. MAN says it endeavors to make the tried and true even better with the new truck generation, in order to ensure the long-standing product quality (which is repeatedly confirmed in the TÜV report) for the future as well.
Take for example the newly developed, simplified, powerful and future-proof electronics architecture, which will significantly improve and expand the functionalities of the trucks.
Additionally, a comprehensively further developed, digitalized maintenance management system reduces operating costs and ensures maximum availability of the new MAN TG vehicles. Fleet management and drivers are supported through numerous digital functionalities and services.
“At the same time as the new truck generation, MAN is introducing a new consultation and offer system which is entirely oriented towards the needs of the customer. It follows a product logic which is consistently oriented towards the application profile. This allows for a new MAN TGX, TGS, TGM or TGL to be put together into a truck that fits the exact transport task, using comprehensively adjustable and flexible configuration options.
“This includes individually coordinated services from maintenance, financing and digital services, which make the truck a holistic, integrated transport solution – all this from a single source, with competent personal contact partners. Furthermore, MAN Individual provides a comprehensive portfolio of options to enhance the vehicle and make customer-specific adaptations ex-works.”
MAN Truck & Bus says the claim of the new MAN truck generation of “Simply my Truck” is not just a slogan, but a significant foundation for development – to find out how the ideal work place and living space in a truck should be designed first hand. Source: www.truck.man.eu
