This MAN gets the job done

TRUCKLIFE

Heavy haulage demands a high level of precision, from both people and technology.

That’s why at the haulage firm Rafael Vazquez® Transporte und Handels GmbH we rely on the most qualified drivers and reliable trucks like the MAN TGX 33.640 6×4 to get the job done.

Forever flexible. At Rafael Vazquez, that applies to both the drivers and the trucks. To ensure that when something heavy is taken from A to B it is loaded properly and transported securely, the company boasts a broad range of vehicles in its fleet, with specialist configurations: to transport containers, transformers or heavy construction equipment, we have mobile cranes, semitrailer tractors and various semitrailers, including extendable ones, lowbed semitrailers and trailers at our disposal. Before the new MAN TGX 33.640 6×4 could be put to work at Vazquez, it was converted at the MAN service outlet in Aachen in accordance with the special requirements of its field of operation: the heavy haulage of construction machinery.

“My MAN truck with its 640 horsepower is something else. This truck was adapted specially based on my requests.”

Rafael Vazquez

“That was a proper day’s work,” confides Rafael Vazquez. The conversion measures were anything but standard and only made possible through close coordination with the team in Aachen. In the process, both MAN salesman Nico Boost and Rolf Howitz, service manager at MAN’s service outlet in Aachen, made decisive contributions to the project’s success. One of the measures for converting the truck into a heavy-duty semitrailer tractor consisted of installing a customised supporting frame behind the cab so that the fuel reservoir could be stored there. Company head Mr Vazquez is more than satisfied with the result. “You don’t come across a vehicle like this MAN every day, and you can really see the end result.”

On this, Rainer Schwartz agrees with him. He has worked at Vazquez as a truck driver for 13 years, and is delighted with his new MAN: “My MAN truck with its 640 horsepower is something else. This truck was adapted specially based on my requests.” “As our drivers have to meet the specific needs of our customers every day, they are heavily involved in the planning and discussions concerning new vehicles,” says Rafael Vazquez on the subject of teamwork. It is important to him that his employees are comfortable and content with their day-to-day work. Together with the heavy cargo, the joy surrounding the new MAN powerhouse will surely be delivered straight to the customer too.