OREANDA-NEWS. Three months after the launch of the first BharatBenz trucks for the Indian market, Daimler subsidiary, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV), is taking stock. From the start of sales on September 26, 2012 until the year-end, DICV sold 1,098 heavy-duty trucks between 25 and 31 tons. DICV will be launching other new models of the BharatBenz brand as early as in the first quarter of 2013 and will bring a total of 17 different BharatBenz models from 6 to 49 tons on the Indian market until 2014.

After only three months on the market, DICV has already garnered two coveted awards from the prestigious Indian “CV magazine” (Commercial Vehicles). The first award coined the heavy-duty truck with a vehicle weight of 31 tons as “Apollo CV Truck of the Year 2013” in the category of long-distance transport. In addition, the BharatBenz truck range has been crowned with the national award “Apollo CV of the Year 2013”.

DICV can look back on an eventful year in 2012. After the opening of the state-of-the art production location in Chennai in April of last year, DICV began production and sales of the heavy-duty BharatBenz trucks from 25 to 31 tons. Production of medium-duty truck models from 9 to 12 tons followed in October 2012. These trucks will be sold on the market in India starting this year.