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You know a truck has performed well if it gets to 1,000,000 kilometres and the operator just goes to the dealer to buy a new one. No fuss, no shopping around, no back to back demonstrator trials – just go and buy a new one. That’s what metal component manufacturer and supplier, Folsana Pressed Sections,…

You would expect the transport company that transports new Volvo trucks for delivery to always buy Volvo Trucks.  Although International shipping and logistics specialist, DFDS, has the contract, they say their 27 new FH460 trucks were bought purely on merit. The 27 new FH460 Globetrotter tractor units are all specified with Volvo’s intelligent I-See predictive…

Choosing a lower-powered engine, removing sun visors and selecting an optimum chassis height – Volvo were not messing about when they went into battle with the competition for the Culina Group 134-strong fleet deal. The effort appears to have paid off – the Culina Group has subsequently taken delivery of 134 new Volvo FH 460…

Perhaps this is the deal that takes natural gas-powered trucks from the fringes into the mainstream of transport operation in the UK. Replacing 20% of the existing 1,000 truck fleet, Asda has decided that gas is the way forward.  Their purchase of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) trucks is very bold giving the relative lack of…

Slam Transport had stopped buying Volvo Trucks for over six years.  A persistent sales person, namely Rory Kelly, Transport Solutions Executive at Volvo Truck and Bus Centre East Anglia must have had a significant role to play in getting one of Volvo’s new FH with I-Save demonstrators into the business. After trialling the truck, Slam…

Volvo Trucks appear to making inroads into converting used truck buyers into buyers of brand new vehicles.  Irish timber firm CJ Sheeran is the latest to be tempted by brand new Volvo metal supplied on a contract hire deal with Volvo Financial Services. The company has taken delivery of six Volvo FH 460 4×2 tractor…

It seems that most days, either Volvo or Iveco tell us of a deal that has gone through on the sale of some new gas-powered tractor units. We were wondering if any diesel trucks were being sold any more? Obviously, there are plenty of new diesel trucks hitting the roads, as there are still very…