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Norscot Truck & Van Dundee becomes DAF Trucks’ 55th ATF location

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  • DAF chalks-up 55 ATFs with Norscot Dundee appointment
  • £300,000 investment in new facility
  • Eight new DAF ATF locations opened in 2015; more planned for 2016
  • DAF’s ATF network largest in CV industry

Norscot Truck & Van Dundee has become the latest DVSA-appointed Authorised Testing Facility (ATF) in the DAF dealer network. The appointment brings the total of DAF-accredited MOT testing stations to 55 – the eighth to be opened in 2015 alone, and with more DAF locations identified for upgrade in 2016.

With over 400 ATFs in total in the UK, DAF’s ATF network provides significantly more reach for operators than any other truck manufacturer, while also making up a sizeable proportion of its own 131 UK dealer locations.

Norscot, which also has locations in Aberdeen, Inverness and Perth, has invested £300,000 in its new ATF lane and associated equipment. The move comes in response to an increasing number of customers, including local non-DAF operators, demanding more flexibility for their vehicles’ MOT time slots.

General Manager at Norscot Truck & Van in Dundee, Ian McGregor, said, “This is about providing a better service to the whole operating community, not just our DAF customers. It’s about maximising uptime, and it’s about driving up standards of safety and efficiency.

“Our modern facility here in Dundee offers truck operators significant operational benefits over their existing test facility arrangements,” he said, “extended testing hours, greater flexibility on booking test ‘slots’ and reduced travelling time – all the time increasing productivity for operators.”

Norscot’s fully equipped facility in Dundee comprises:

  • Five bays including 27-metre service pit
  • Individual wheel lifts
  • Individual bay ramps for truck and van
  • Recovery truck

Today, and based on the DVSA’s own ‘Preparer ID’ figures, the whole of DAF’s dealer network boasted a 97.5% MOT First-Time-Pass-Rate (including PRS – Passes with Rectification at Station) in 2015.

DAF now has over 1,500 technicians independently accredited and certified under the IRTEC scheme. Undertaking this stringent assessment process has been a huge commitment and investment by the DAF Dealer Network.

ENDS

For further details please contact:

Paul O’Malley, Torque Agency Group
020 7952 1070
pomalley@torqueagencygroup.com

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