Volvo Trucks

Volvo truck dealer helps Midlands haulage firm’s growth

Walsall-based truck dealer, the Hartshorne Group is helping a Midland haulage company achieve its growth ambitions by supplying a new Volvo FH Rigid truck to the fleet of Uttoxeter-based Punchards Haulage.

Bernard Matthews gobbles up three new Volvo trucks

Three new Volvo FM three-axle tractors have helped Bernard Matthews Farms through their Christmas rush. The iconic turkey farmers took the new trucks onto their fleet as the feathers started to fly in the run up to the festive season.

Strong growth in sales of Dynafleet Online

The sales of Volvo's Dynafleet Online telematics system had a fantastic year in 2010. The Dynafleet Online portfolio increased by more than 40% which means that today more than 15,600 vehicles across Europe are actively connected to Dynafleet Online.

First-ever Volvo trucks for H Freund

Runcorn-based, H. Freund have purchased their first-ever Volvo trucks, courtesy of Thomas Hardie Commercials of Middlewich.

Better environment with longer timber haulage combinations

The half-time report presented on January 13th at the Nordic Transport Forum - the Nordic region’s annual conference for the transport sector - confirms that the new longer type of timber haulage combination currently being tested within the framework of the ‘En Trave Till’ (ETT) project can reduce the forestry industry’s carbon dioxide emissions from timber transport by just over 20 per cent.

New Volvo Used Truck Centre opens at Hythe, Kent

Transport operators in south-east England looking for premium-quality used trucks are now able to benefit from the opening of a new Volvo Used Truck Centre at Hythe in Kent.

Volvo quality and Crossroads back-up seal the deal for LPR

Leeds Paper Recycling (LPR), a privately-owned family business based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, has added another Volvo to their growing fleet of 10 recycling vehicles.

Volvo Trucks strengthens its presence in Northern France

On January 1st 2011, Volvo Trucks France acquired the French dealer Vexor (legal name Whel), which had been operating as an authorised Volvo dealer since 1972 and employing 110 people.

East Renfrew gets the low down from Volvo

East Renfrew Council has taken the first new Volvo FE Low Entry Cab onto their Refuse Collection Vehicles (RCV) fleet. It will join 30 other Volvos that are part of the 160-strong fleet of RCVs, sweepers, tippers and highway maintenance vehicles operated by the council.

Hartshorne Trucks get the thoroughbred treatment

Hartshorne Motor Services of Walsall has supplied two new Volvo FL 4x2 rigid trucks with 240 horsepower Euro-5 engines to Tettenhall, near Wolverhampton-based Sovereign Horseboxes, one of the country’s leading specialists in luxury horseboxes.

Volvo Trucks launches iPad magazine

Volvo Trucks is beginning the new year by launching a new magazine that has been specially configured for iPad and written in English to target a global reading public.

Poor safety at construction sites

Every year, more than 300 people die in vehicle accidents at construction sites in the EU. It is usually the human factor that is the cause, which is why Volvo Trucks attaches considerable importance to safety issues in its training programme for construction drivers.