Volvo Trucks

Albion Chemicals replace all their fleet with Volvo

To service its nationwide network of 14 depots, Cheshire-based Albion Chemicals has added their 32nd Volvo FM tractor unit to a fleet now made up entirely of Volvo Trucks.

100th Volvo Truck goes into service with Ed Weetman Haulage

Ed Weetman (Haulage and Storage) Ltd. based in Great Haywood, near Stafford has taken delivery of a top of the range Euro 5 Volvo FH-480 4x2 tractor - the 100th Volvo truck to go into service with the fleet.

Volvo Trucks seek rapid reduction in carbon dioxide emissions

Through Volvo Logistics, Volvo Trucks is challenging its transporters to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent within the next two years.

Fleet of 100 ’green’ Euro 5 trucks into service with NYK Logistics

Northampton-based NYK Logistics (UK) Limited - part of the global NYK Logistics Group - has taken delivery of a 100 strong fleet of Euro 5 Volvo FM-440 Globetrotter-cabbed 4x2 tractors.

Hartshorne technician goes the extra 15,826 miles for the RAF

Little did Hartshorne Potteries Workshop Technician John Pettitt realise when he was asked by his boss to go off-site to repair a truck at a customer’s premises, that it would involve a round trip of nearly 16,000 miles and a journey to the Falkland Islands.

Rugged FM 6x4 tractors head for Hills Waste Solutions

Hills Waste Solutions Limited, part of Hills Group Limited, has put two Euro 4 Volvo FM 440 double-drive tractors into service to transport municipal waste and recyclable materials on a contract with Wiltshire County Council from their base near Swindon.

First Volvo’s into PGR Construction Group

PGR Recycling Limited, a part of the PGR Construction Group, based in Oundle, Northamptonshire, located close to Peterborough, has taken delivery of two Euro 4 Volvo FM 32-tonne eight-wheelers - the first Volvo trucks into their expanding fleet.

Europe deliveries still going strong

Volvo Trucks’ deliveries during the period January-November amounted to 88,771 vehicles, down 7% compared with the year-earlier period. The deliveries increased in all regions except North America.

United Utilities choose Volvo for all their vehicles over 18 tonnes

The Environmental Services department at United Utilities, the North West’s multi-utility company, have chosen Volvo trucks for all their transport requirements over 18 tonnes.

Volvo invests in technology that increases drivers’ attention

Studies show that lack of attention is the single largest cause of traffic accidents. As a consequence – and part of the Volvo Group’s comprehensive safety efforts - Volvo Technology Transfer is now investing in Seeing Machines, which is technology developed by an Australian company that detects and warns vehicle drivers in the event of tiredness.

First Euro 5 Volvo’s into growing Midlands timber operator

A to Z Lloyd Transport Limited, based at Clows Top near the Wyre Forest, Kidderminster, has taken delivery of two top-of-the-range Euro 5 Globetrotter XL-cabbed Volvo FH-520 6x2 tractor units for their growing timber haulage operation.

John Owen aggregates take first Volvo’s and they’re both Euro 5

John Owen (Aggregates) Ltd. of Dinnington, near Sheffield has taken delivery of a brace of Volvo 8- wheel Euro 5 FM-400 tippers for their growing fleet. Painted in a striking ivory and dark blue livery, the two trucks – one with a Day cab and one with a Sleeper cab - are the first Volvo trucks onto the fleet.