FAW’s Mozambique choice

FAW has added its first and only independent sales and service dealer to the Mozambique market; Choice Diesel Mozambique.

Wayne Greenwood, MD of Choice Diesel Mozambique, says the truck market in Mozambique has matured: “It has moved away from used left-hand drive American vehicles to new, equally durable, right-hand drive trucks.”

Choice Diesel therefore set out to find a suitable partner. “We did our homework and looked globally at how best to source quality, affordable trucks for southern Africa. We were looking for the best truck supplier in this sector of our business in terms of product range, affordability of product, parts supply and after-sales support.

“FAW SA quickly emerged as the winner in this regard,” he says.

Choice Diesel has a complete regional footprint, with eight workshop sites in sub-Saharan Africa. Its biggest sites to service and support its clients are in Maputo and Beira and it has a large number of technical people in Mozambique.

“We believe in the importance of the after-sales side of the truck business. Mozambique today is a multi-brand truck market and our clients are price sensitive,” Greenwood explains.

Choice Diesel has already signed a number of deals with an initial deal of 44 FAW 33.420FT truck tractors to long-standing customer, Strauss Logistics.