Not a headline you thought you would ever see, let alone want to read.  However, the introduction of the I-Shift transmission back in 2001 was a bit of a game…

Everyone likes a shiny new fire truck.  It seems that Volvo is no exception.  The company is after the lion’s share of Europe’s 3,000 new fire trucks built each year…

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…

If you would have asked me even just ten years ago what the chances would be of an online book retailer supplying devices that help the driver to control heavy…

Every company has different reasons for buying a particular truck.  Sometimes it is based on the relationship with the local dealer, other times on fuel economy, and often purely on…

Volvo Trucks dealers across the UK have begun taking orders for the company’s new generation of heavy commercial vehicles. The Volvo FH16, Volvo FH, Volvo FM and Volvo FMX benefit…

There’s plenty of talk of battery electric trucks, hybrid trucks and fuel cell trucks of the future.  However, these still aren’t realistic for 44 tonne trunking operations.   A UK-based operator…

Always good to get a big name on board, and none are larger in the world of logistics than Wincanton.  Volvo has managed to get a competing manufacturer’s vehicles replaces…

Only Volvo Trucks could provide an 8×4 tipping chassis with a lifting rear drive axle.  No other manufacturer offers a truck in this configuration from the factory. This has led…

If you want to see how the underside of a bridge is looking and you don’t want to put up scaffolding etc, then a clever German machine attached to a…