Key takeaways - MAN and its partners plan around €700 million of European service-network investment by 2030. - The company wants almost 80% of customers to be within 30 minutes of a MAN workshop. - Around one third of the investment will go towards electromobility and digitalisation, including battery repairs, technician training and charging. - Priority markets include Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the UK, Italy, Poland, Spain and Turkey. The figure is considerably higher than previously announced. MAN committed €300 million to its own network earlier this year, while dealers, service partners and importers have now pledged a further €400 million for their MAN locations across Europe. The investment will be used both to modernise existing locations and add new service points in areas where MAN considers its current geographical coverage insufficient. For transport operators, the most tangible target is a substantial reduction in the distance trucks need to travel for servicing and repairs. MAN says it wants almost four out of five customers to have a journey of less than 30 minutes to their nearest service location. The target is being pursued particularly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, Spain and Turkey. New sites are expected in especially logistics-intensive regions where existing coverage is not sufficient. Earlier this year, Friedrich Baumann, MAN executive board member for Sales and Customer Solutions, said the company was opening an average of seven new branches a year in these priority markets. MAN argued that proximity to workshops is particularly important in commercial transport because vehicle availability directly affects operators’ businesses. Electric trucks change what a workshop needs to provide The expansion is not simply about putting more conventional workshops on the map. Around one third of the planned investment is earmarked for electromobility and digitalisation, as MAN prepares its