MAN has been running the Trucknology Days as an in-house exhibition since 2008: an event where information meets fascination. Around 7,000 international visitors are expected in Munich between 23 and 25 March 2017. There are two parts to the event: the MAN TruckForum and the test track.
At the TruckForum, MAN Services and its partners display their range of services and individual transport solutions ranging from body manufacture to subcontracting.
RIO, the new brand-name for networked logistics in the Volkswagen Truck & Bus Group, gives an insight into “connected performance” in the transportation industry in the future. RIO bundles digital services for the transportation and logistics ecosystem. For the first time ever, all parties involved in the supply chain – from the shipper to the recipient – through hauliers, carriers, loaders, materials requirement planners and drivers, can be networked via a unified information and application system which includes predictive functionality. With its Connected CoDriver, MAN is helping drivers and companies achieve a economical driving style. A trainer analyses the style and framework parameters of their driving and advises the driver.
Outside the MAN TruckForum, part of the vehicle exhibition draws attention to the TrucknologyDays. Heavy-duty semitrailer tractors and heavy loading cranes on MAN platforms give a foretaste of the big industry display on the test track. The white painted trucks are part of the ‘Trucks to go’ fleet, a range of pre-built, ready-to-go commercial vehicles.
The new MAN TGE makes MAN a full-range producer. With their permitted gross vehicle weights of between 3 and 5.5 tonnes, delivery vans with normal, high or super-high roofs, and chassis with single or double crew cabs have been added to the MAN model portfolio. At the TrucknologyDays, the MAN TGE will be introduced to visitors as a delivery van.
On the test track, visitors will find around 120 vehicles. Experts from MAN and from the body manufacturers will explain the specific product features in talks, during a test circuit and beside the vehicles themselves. Visitors will have the chance to drive around 30 of the vehicles on the test track. Examples from the truck product range will be available, from the compact sweeper based on the MAN TGL to tippers and a fire service vehicle on the MAN TGM platform, the MAN TGS as a tilted articulated truck, a refuse collector vehicle or a timber transporter, and many MAN TGX vehicles for long-haul or heavy-duty purposes.
The vehicle exhibition covers the following sectors: long-haul transport, urban distribution transport, construction, heavy duty transport, forestry & agriculture and municipal & fire brigade services.
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