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It is not very difficult to assess the impact that AFRIT has had on changing the way trailer manufacturing in South Africa is undertaken. With a current market share of approximately 25%, AFRIT remains a family business, as KERRY DIMMER describes, to continue its legacy with the generations of Van de Weterings to come.

Transpec – a 2009 Focus on Excellence Award nominee – prides itself on the fact that it is able to meet virtually any customer need. If a transport operator needs a specific trailer designed and built for a particular application, Transpec can deliver. FOCUS finds out how the company manages to accomplish this.

As a nominee for six out of a possible seven awards in this year’s annual FOCUS on Excellence Awards, Hino is proving the success of its recent shift in corporate strategy, although the manufacturer vows it will not rest on its laurels.

Trucks are the backbone of the commercial transport sector, and as such must be able to give operators precisely what they and their businesses need. Which is why Nissan Diesel SA has always concentrated on being evolutionary, rather than revolutionary.

What’s in a name? Plenty if your business has a half-century-old global world leader behind it, and plenty more on the dawning of its own 45th anniversary. Bandag Southern Africa has a reputation in which the trucking industry seemingly has absolute faith. Not only does Bandag continue to excite with the latest worldwide technological advances in truck tyre retreading, but is also, suggests KERRY DIMMER, the Big Brother of solutions.