GTS Freight Management has added seven new Mercedes-Benz Actros trucks to its Mildura-based fleet.
The privately-owned company, which loads 500 trailers each day and covers three million kilometres every month, decided to purchase new Mercedes-Benz models after a positive experience with six Mercedes-Benz 2658 trucks that joined the fleet close to two years ago.
This time around, GTS Freight Management Managing Director, Damien Matthews, has selected the range-topping 2663 Actros model.
Daimler Truck Australia Pacific President and CEO, Daniel Whitehead, says it is fantastic to see more Actros trucks hit the road in GTS colours.
“How good does the Actros look in the black GTS colour scheme? We are thrilled to have our trucks be part of the amazing success story of GTS, with its embrace of cutting-edge technology across its warehouses and its trucks,” he says.
Delivered by Daimler Trucks Mildura and handed over by Daimler Truck Australia Pacific Head of Retail Fleet Sales, Barry Smith, the Actros 2663 models run the 630hp OM 473 16-litre six-cylinder linked to a 12-speed PowerShift Automated Manual Transmission (AMT).
Matthews says the Actros trucks that joined the fleet in 2024 had done the job well, something that made it easy to order the next batch.
“The driver acceptance has been excellent and those Actros trucks have done everything we wanted from them, especially when it comes to comfort, economy and safety,” he says.
“The Mercedes-Benz product is also known for its high level of active safety features and that is critically important to our company given that keeping people safe is at the heart of everything we do at GTS.”
The Actros trucks feature Predictive Powertrain Control (PPC) which uses topographic map data and GPS to help the truck anticipate terrain and select the optimum shift pattern and engine response for maximum fuel economy including coasting when safe.