Daimler Truck officially opened the Mercedes-Benz Commercial Vehicle Center Munich Aschheim last Friday. The new site for trucks, buses and vans is designed for alternative drive technologies and the requirements of commercial and fleet customers in the Munich metropolitan region, it says.
Its location directly on the A99 at the Kirchheim bei München interchange enables an optimal connection to infrastructure such as long-distance traffic and distribution traffic toward the city center.
For the Mercedes-Benz and FUSO brands
On around 44,500 square meters of site area, in Aschheim on Klausnerstraße, the distribution and service for trucks of the Mercedes-Benz and FUSO brands, as well as the service for buses of the Mercedes-Benz and Setra brands and Mercedes-Benz vans, will be offered with immediate effect. Achim Puchert, CEO Mercedes-Benz Trucks:
„Consistent customer orientation is crucial for the success of Mercedes-Benz Trucks. Our own sales organization plays a decisive role in this. Accordingly, the development of the group-owned sales network, now also with a new, state-of-the-art site near Munich, is an important building block of our strategy. We will
continue to invest consistently in our own sales organization in the future.“
Commercial and fleet customers would also receive offers for hire purchase or leasing with service contracts and insurance. Together with CharterWay GmbH, the site offers a mobility concept with rental and financing solutions.
Modern high-voltage and roof-workstations
On the roughly 3,200 square meter workshop area, high-voltage workstations were also installed to service battery-electric models such as the Mercedes-Benz trucks eActros 600 and eEconic, the FUSO eCanter, and the Mercedes-Benz city bus eCitaro.
There would be a total of 25 stand spaces for trucks, buses and vans available, with an additional expansion option for nine more spaces, it says.
At the same time, a highly modern, flexibly adaptable workplace has been created in Aschheim to work on the roofs of vehicles, and thus on the truck cab or bus roof.
The new commercial vehicle center also includes a repair and accident service with frame alignment technology, a trailer and semi-trailer body service, a testing point for the main inspection, emissions inspection as well as further
inspections and the parts and accessories distribution.
Maintenance and repair of hydrogen vehicles
At the Aschheim site, maintenance and repair of vehicles with hydrogen-based propulsion technologies has also been considered. Thus, the workshop includes a fully equipped gas workstation with gas sensors and a dedicated exhaust system that meets the hydrogen requirements, according to the company. The prerequisites for venting hydrogen at a so-called evaluation area in front of the workshop and the basic refueling after a workshop stay are to be installed by the end of 2025.
The workshop is, among other things, equipped with two roller brake-test stands, a tachometer test stand, a department for bodywork, and four overhead cranes, for example for lifting engines and transmissions.
With a so-called Truck Lift system, a complete truck-trailer combination can be lifted to ergonomically optimally perform work on wheels and brakes. With two workshop vans, the site in Aschheim also participates in the mobile breakdown service in and around Munich.
Photovoltaic system and electric charging points
For the energy supply of the two-story buildings with a
gross floor area of around 3,850 square meters, a photovoltaic system with 754 modules was installed, which, according to the company, can generate more than the site’s energy needs at around 450 MWp.
And for employees' and customers' passenger cars there are six charging stations with twelve charging points in total, for trucks and buses four charging stations with eight charging points and charging capacities up to 400 kilowatts available. Volker Hüntrup, Head Mercedes-Benz Trucks Own Retail, Europe:
„In addition to acquisitions in our European core markets such as Trappes in the west of Paris, we are continuing to invest in Germany as well. We celebrated the expansion of our Würzburg site with our customers in May, and in Hamburg we are currently working on expanding the local commercial vehicle center there. In addition, the expansion of our manufacturer-owned sales network is proceeding. Most recently we approved a new workshop building in Wörth am Rhein, very close to our plant, and will soon begin new construction projects in Koblenz and Nuremberg, and are considering further investment
