Episodios

  • 47: Heiko Selzam, Daimler Truck UK MD: has anything improved?

    47: Heiko Selzam, Daimler Truck UK MD: has anything improved?
    Apr 9 2026

    In 2023, Heiko Selzam openly admitted that Mercedes-Benz Trucks UK had let customers down. Parts availability was poor, trucks were off the road, and the dealer network lacked consistency.
    Now he’s back! In this follow-up episode, we revisit those issues and ask what has actually improved, and what hasn’t.
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    38 m
  • 45: RHA boss Richard Smith faces some tough reader questions

    45: RHA boss Richard Smith faces some tough reader questions
    Mar 26 2026

    In this episode of Torquing Trucks, Will Shiers meets RHA managing director Richard Smith at the Junction 23 Truck Stop diner for a Grilled in the Cafe interview.
    Over a J23 Big Breakfast, Smith answers tough questions submitted by Commercial Motor readers. The conversation covers the challenges facing UK haulage, how the RHA works with government, and what membership really delivers for operators.
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    59 m
  • 46: Midlands Midlands Truck & Van becomes the UK’s first fully eReady Mercedes-Benz dealer network

    46: Midlands Midlands Truck & Van becomes the UK’s first fully eReady Mercedes-Benz dealer network
    Mar 12 2026
    In this episode of Torquing Trucks, Will Shiers visits Midlands Truck & Van to speak with managing director Michael Carolan and e-truck consultant Martin Kelly. The dealer group has become the first Mercedes-Benz Trucks franchise in the UK to achieve full eReady status across its eight-site network. They explain what that means in practice, the investment required, why the eActros 600 is generating interest, and why diesel still remains central to most operators’ fleets.
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    24 m
  • 44: Wrings Transport: 30 years of steady growth

    44: Wrings Transport: 30 years of steady growth
    Feb 26 2026
    Haulage runs in the family. Stuart Wring looks back on 30 years of Wrings Transport, from a £1,500 restart of a family name to a mid-60-truck operation built on steady growth
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    41 m
  • 43: Leyland Trucks: still building trucks in Britain

    43: Leyland Trucks: still building trucks in Britain
    Feb 12 2026
    Leyland Trucks MD Phil Jones explains why the UK remains central to DAF’s global production. We discuss flexibility, people, electrification and what it takes to build trucks at scale in Lancashire
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    41 m
  • 42: Grilled in the Cafe: reader questions and straight answers with MAN Truck & Bus UK boss Jan Kohlmeier

    42: Grilled in the Cafe: reader questions and straight answers with MAN Truck & Bus UK boss Jan Kohlmeier
    Jan 29 2026
    Will Shiers is joined by Jan Kohlmeier, MD of MAN Truck & Bus UK, for a Grilled in the Cafe interview recorded over breakfast at Chippenham Pitstop. Located just off the M4 and popular with drivers, Chippenham Pitstop provides the setting as Kohlmeier answers questions submitted by CM readers during a working breakfast, having arrived at the venue in the driver’s seat of an MAN eTGX electric artic.
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    27 m
  • 41: Electric trucks in the UK: what’s changing and what’s holding it back? – Louis Jones, DAF Trucks

    41: Electric trucks in the UK: what’s changing and what’s holding it back? – Louis Jones, DAF Trucks
    Jan 15 2026
    Will Shiers is joined by Louis Jones, EV and connected services director at DAF Trucks UK, for an in-depth discussion on the current state of electric trucks in the UK and how operator attitudes are evolving.
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    21 m
  • 40: 50 years of International Truck of the Year with the people who shaped it

    40: 50 years of International Truck of the Year with the people who shaped it
    Dec 30 2025
    Will is joined by one of the joint founders of TRUCK Magazine and International Truck of the Year, past and present IToY chairmen, and DAF Trucks president Harald Seidel
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    52 m