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UD Trucks Celebrates 80 Years

Jun 01, 2015 UDTrucks, Trucks, trucking, Aftermarket


UD Trucks has a lot to celebrate in 2015 – including the fact that the company is 80 years old this year.

Founder Kenzo Adachi believed that trucks must be durable, fuel efficient, offer high uptime and ample loading capacity, and the heavy duty nameplate believes that it has used the time since 1935 to develop products that meet these criteria, while also reducing the total cost of ownership.

UD Trucks President, Yos hihiro Murakami comments: “All of us at UD Trucks, from product development to manufacturing and sales, have been united in applying our founder’s passion for trucks. Always providing the best solutions to transportation challenges, UD Trucks will continue to support the development of the logistics industry and contribute to the economic growth of the countries it operates in for the next 80 years, by introducing the best solutions and utilizing the cutting-edge technologies of the time.”

To celebrate UD Trucks 80th anniversary, a brand new UD Experience Centre has opened and the company's new headquarters building is targeted for completion in July, both at the main factory site in Ageo, Japan.

UD Trucks has been present in South Africa since 1962, and over the past 53 years it believes it has been the professionalism, passion and dependability of the people who have been part of the UD Trucks family, that have carried the brand to reach multiple milestones and successes.

“Throughout its rich and diverse history in the region, UD Trucks has produced legendary vehicles that have built an outstanding reputation in the local transport industry. This is mainly due to their unrelenting reliability, versatile performance and suitability to local road and operating conditions,” said Rory Schulz, Managing Director of UD Trucks Southern Africa.

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