TruckStore opens massive new used truck facility on the West Rand

The timing is right, the location is right and that’s why the good folk at TruckStore, a division of Daimler Truck Southern Africa, were upbeat and positive at the official opening of TruckStore’s massive new West Rand facility held this week writes

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