Lanz Group scoops up four MAN TGS tippers

Slough, Berkshire-based waste management company Lanz Group has snapped up four MAN TGS 8x4 tippers following a cancelled truck order.

Bob Leach, transport manager at Lanz Group, says the four Euro-4 TGS 35.360 8x4 chassis, three tippers and a roll on/off skip wagon, came at a good price through MAN dealer the Cordwallis Group.

Lanz Group has taken the vehicles on a four-year hire-purchase deal.

The new arrivals, part of a 19-strong fleet, have day-cabs and sat-nav, but because of their origin, lack the usual high-specification favoured by the company.

Leach describes the MANs as "bulletproof".

He says: "They are ideal for our type of work, very robust and very reliable."

Lanz Group will service and maintain the new arrivals in-house at the company's workshop. "Our in-house workshops find maintenance and service of the new MAN trucks technician-friendly," he says.

The company has just successfully tendered for the first phase of refurbishment work at Heathrow's Terminal 2 building, which will provide up to six months' work. "We are finding it tough out there, but we have a loyal customer base. We are also tendering for phase two, which is two to three years' work," he adds.