Volvo Truck News

Karl Jones & Sons Ltd., an established forestry contractor based in Crumlin, near Newport in South Wales, has added a sixth truck - an FM-480 6x4 tractor, complete with forestry crane mounted behind the cab - to its all-Volvo fleet.

The Volvo Museum in Gothenburg, which is run jointly by AB Volvo and Volvo Car Corporation, recently re-opened after being extensively refurbished and extended since its original opening 13 years ago.

International cable manufacturer Draka UK Limited is in the process of renewing its in-house transport fleet with Volvo FE rigids.

The shape of things to come in the trucking industry was established 25 years ago in June 1983, when Volvo White Truck Corporation (now known as Volvo Trucks North America) introduced the first aerodynamically styled heavy-duty conventional trucks.

Owner and Director of Heavy Haulage operator S. A. Smith, Stewart Smith favourably compares his latest Volvo FH16-660 double-drive tractor unit to a ‘Swiss Army Knife’ for its ability to provide, more often than not, a solution to the challenges faced in this intensive and specialist sector.

Family-owned and run R. I. Stamper Haulage Ltd., based at Kirkbride, near Wigton in Cumbria, has taken delivery of a brace of identically specified Volvo FH-480 6x2 pusher axle tractors to join their 15-strong fleet to be used for livestock and general haulage.

The Volvo Group’s strong growth continued during the second quarter of 2008, while operating income improved and reached its highest level to date for a single quarter.

In 19 years of trading, C. Winfield Plant Services based in Wombourne, Staffordshire, have gained a reputation for using high quality vehicles and equipment and delivering a top class service to their customers.

Wrexham-based, Rockrite Haulage Ltd - trading as Eco-Readymix - have purchased their first-ever Volvo truck from Thomas Hardie Commercials.

Machinery and industrial equipment installation and relocation transport specialists Joseph Merritt Group PLC, an established Volvo operator from Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, has taken delivery of a Globetrotter XL-cabbed, Volvo FH-520 6X2 tag-axle tractor unit.