Volvo Truck News

Volvo Trucks in India has secured an order for 125 trucks, the company’s largest order since being established in the country.

Volvo Trucks have discovered that by eating more healthily, truck drivers can considerably improve their response times - and ultimately, that may save lives out on the road.

Six new Volvo FH-480 Euro 5 low height tractor units have entered service with Featherstone, West Yorkshire-based international logistics operator Brian Yeardley Continental Ltd.

BBC Top Gear’s first ‘tame racing driver’, Perry McCarthy - alias ‘The Stig’ - was on hand to present the top prize at Volvo’s annual Technician Awards ceremony recently. The event was held for the first time at Stephenson College, Coalville, Leics in the smart new workshops and study area facility there.

Long-haul truck operations are the lifeline of Europe; the link that joins together the continent’s various countries and permits trade between them.

The Volvo Group’s engineers have created a method for constructing trucks that weigh less while carrying the same payload. Lighter vehicles would entail a significant reduction in fuel consumption and thus carbon dioxide emissions.

Callow Fuels, the independent, Worcestershire-based oil and gas distributor, has welcomed Volvo back to its fleet in the form of an FL240 LPG tanker supplied by Hartshorne Motor Services.

The factory gates open and the first Volvo FH16 700 appears. An eager Tore Aase from Norway is there to take delivery of the world’s most powerful series-manufactured truck. On Norway’s hilly west coast, the truck’s power will come into its own.

The work carried out at Volvo Trucks’ sound lab is all about controlling noise levels. A truck driver experiences a variety of different sounds while working, some of which might be considered pleasant but, for the most part, the work of the sound engineers focuses on keeping unwelcome noise to a bare minimum.

The environmental demands on trucks are becoming steadily tighter and this October emissions will be toughened still further in Europe with the introduction of the Euro 5 emission legislation.