UK customers for Mercedes-Benz and FUSO trucks, and Mercedes-Benz buses and coaches, can now call on the support of a fully dedicated financial solutions partner, following the launch of Daimler Truck Financial Services.
By developing intelligent and sustainable solutions, the new business is set to play a key role in driving the take-up of alternatively-fuelled vehicles.
Dedication ensures that Daimler Truck Financial Services’ extensive range of purchase and leasing products, as well as the insurance packages it will be introducing next year in the UK, can all be perfectly tailored to meet the needs of commercial and passenger-carrying vehicle operators.
Daimler Truck Financial Services is a fully integrated part of the world’s biggest truck and bus manufacturer, Daimler Truck AG. Prior to the UK launch, Daimler Truck Financial Services was already doing business in 11 markets on six continents. Further expansion is planned this year in Turkey and Spain, and thereafter in Germany and France. With a global contract volume of 18 billion Euro, it is the road transport industry’s largest captive financial services company.
The DTFS team in the UK is led by Managing Director Nick Andrews and shares its headquarters in Milton Keynes with Mercedes-Benz Trucks UK. Customers for new and used vehicles are being welcomed aboard by their own, personal Finance Specialists.
He said: “This is a tremendously exciting time to be launching our new business, not least because of the alternative fuels revolution now underway. UK operators can already choose battery-electric rigid trucks such as the FUSO eCanter and Mercedes-Benz eActros.
“Other vehicles that produce zero tailpipe emissions such as the low-entry eEconic and the eCitaro citybus are just around the corner, while customer testing of the eActros LongHaul tractor unit begins next year, and the first hydrogen fuel cell-powered Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Trucks will be on UK roads by the end of the decade.
“Transformative products like these require new and innovative approaches to the business of funding their acquisition and operation. We will support our customers on their journeys to a more sustainable, environmentally-friendly future, by offering leasing, financing and insurance products tailored to these new technologies.”
Andrews said DTFS was fully-focused on serving B2B customers and had adopted a streamlined structure that would allow rapid responses to changing market needs.
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