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Iveco has reduced lead times for its Stralis and Trakker products to six months, as part of its strategy to increase the company’s share of the heavy truck market to 15 per cent by 2011.

The additional product availability comes at a time when Iveco has already recorded a 61 per cent increase in its heavy truck order intake in the UK between January and May 2008, compared with figures for the same period last year.

Henk van Leuven, Managing Director of Iveco UK, explains: “My colleagues at Iveco headquarters in Turin have identified the UK as one of the major European growth markets and are redirecting production accordingly.

“This has enabled us to reduce lead times for factory-ordered product to just six months, whilst many of our dealers also... // Easier