Volvo Trucks
Dynafleet helps recover stolen truck
For the first time, Volvo Trucks’ ‘Dynafleet’ web-based transport information system has helped the police to recover a stolen truck and its cargo. Tracking the vehicle using Dynafleet online, every step taken by the thieves was identified and addresses were clearly identified.
CMG takes first Volvo FL 16-tonne crewcab wrecker
Award-winning Newport Pagnell-based recovery specialists, CMG Rescue Services, have taken their first light rigid Volvo to join their rescue and recovery fleet.
Extra long timber haulage combination tested successfully
The ETT (En Trave Till or ‘One More Pile’) project has been in progress in northern Sweden for two years now. The project’s aim is to find ways to rationalise timber haulage and using a 30-metre long Volvo combination with a payload of 66 tonnes plays a central role.
Volvo fuel economy and dealer back up impress Brian Yeardley
Back-up from Volvo Dealer Crossroads and excellent fuel economy are two of the main reasons cited by international logistics operator Brian Yeardley Continental Ltd for the company’s continuing acquisition and operation of Volvo FH low-height tractor units on its European and UK deliveries.
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.