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It’s a big step, investing in brand new trucks.  Up until now, Atkins LGV Training had taken the options of buying used trucks or taking on trucks on a lease basis.  For the first time, the operator has taken the plunge and bough no fewer than four brand new Volvo FL curtainsiders for their LGV…

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 on the Wincanton fleet with two new Volvo FM 8×2 tankers to work within its milk delivery division. The trucks were supplied on a five-year…

This story is about a longstanding Volvo Trucks customer buys three new Volvo Trucks.  Nothing ground-breaking or newsworthy there. But it is these bread and butter deals that stand the test of time though building relationships between the local dealer and the truck operator. Clearly having a good range of trucks helps, but there aren’t…

What a great idea.  A Volvo dealer is to not only ask customers to donate a minimum of £100 a week to charity when using a demonstrator, the trucks themselves have been painted in the respective charity’s colours.  This gives the charity free advertising as well as hard cash. Every Volvo Truck and Bus Centre…

It feels like a fresh start for Volvo Trucks in the UK.  We have (hopefully) seen the worst of the Coronavirus epidemic, there is a new series of trucks to introduce fully to the market and Hannah Burgess is heading into a new role of Director of New Vehicle Sales, based at the company’s head…

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 Cambridgeshire-based G. Webb Haulage to buy its first Volvo truck since 2011 – a Volvo FM 8×4 rigid. Why have a lifting rear axle on…

With seven trucks running potatoes around the country, potato supplier Braegate Produce has put its first Volvo into service. The FH Globetrotter 6×2 pusher axle tractor unit replaces a rival manufacturer’s truck in its small fleet. Supplied by Crossroads Truck and Bus, the new vehicle is powered by the latest D13K Euro 6, Step D…

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 truck can make this a lot more straightforward. The truck that accommodates the access platform system has to have a heavyweight front axle, a 5.6m…

The new Volvo FH bought by Cotswold Carriers is definitely a great looking truck.  Standing out in the pure white with front bars the truck looks ready for work. The 6×2 rigid is equipped to pull a tandem-axle drawbar trailer and comes with a lifting rear axle and air suspension on all three axles to…

Forthcoming changes to the Low Emission Zones, (LEZ) and the Direct Vision Standards, (DVS) mean have resulted in Brinor International Shipping & Forwarding buying four new FH 6×2 tractor units, including one 460hp FH with I-Save. The freight business has a strong, established relationship with the Swedish manufacturer, having bought Volvo trucks for the best…

Buyers of Volvo 8×2 and 8×4 chassis until the end of the year can take up a reduced price maintenance offer, costing £100 per month over either three or five years. It allows new truck buyers to select between a Volvo Gold Contract over 36 months, or a Volvo Blue Contract over 60 months. Volvo…

The fact that McLaren chose Volvo Trucks for their fleet comes as no surprise, as the race team have already used Volvo trucks in the past, check out our news report on them coming up for sale Fancy an Ex-McLaren Volvo? What is news is that a race team with just two cars on the…

Christian Coolsaet has been appointed Managing Director of Volvo Trucks UK & Ireland. He succeeds Robert Grozdanovski who will move to Gothenburg to take up an appointment as Volvo Trucks’ Senior Vice President for Sales Area Europe Central East & East. Christian brings more than 20 years of Volvo experience, most recently from the German…

So, Volvo have launched a ‘Limited-Edition’ version of their FH tractor unit.  Nothing radical there – it happens all the time.  What makes it slightly more confusing is that they chose to call it the ‘Unlimited Edition’. Oh well, stranger things happen at sea. What is interesting is the charitable aspect of the offer.  In…

Getting 11mpg from a brand new tractor unit out of the box is impressive by any standard. With a general haulage brief, replacing trucks that were achieving 9.5mpg, the two Volvo FH460 trucks fitted with I-Save, Volvo may be a more common brand in Premier Logistics’ mixed fleet of 50 trucks. The Truck Spec The…

Reliability, driver comfort and fuel efficiency were the requirements for Derbyshire-based Longcliffe Quarries, supplier of calcium carbonates. The company has taken delivery of 10 new Volvo trucks, with its order comprising of eight FH 6×2 tractor units and two FM 8×4 rigids. Configured for Payload The firm specified the FH tractor units with Globetrotter cabs,…

To distinguish the used Volvo Truck offering made from independent dealers and even from franchised Volvo dealers, Volvo Trucks have improved the extended warranty offering across its network of 14 company owned dealer locations. The new optional extended warranties cover all models and all grades of vehicle, including Volvo Selected Volvo Approved and Volvo Economy,…

A team of fifteen volunteers from Volvo Group companies Renault Trucks, Volvo Trucks, Volvo Bus and Volvo Financial Services who are currently on furlough have produced thousands of single use, disposable plastic aprons.  These aprons are destined for use in hospices and care homes throughout the region to help combat COVID-19. Ruth Freeman, CEO, The…

In a bid to get new truck sales moving again, Volvo Truck and Volvo Financial Services have launched a finance program to help hauliers and own-account operators in need of liquidity support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their offer, called “Keep Moving”, allows businesses which replace older trucks or expand their fleets to defer any fees…

Another haulier has opted for a new Volvo FH with I-Save technology in an attempt to reduce fuel bills. I.T.S. Transport’s new FH uses Volvo’s D13TC Euro-6 Step D engine with turbo-compounding and updated fuel-efficiency features.  With more torque available, less acceleration and fuel are needed to keep a steady speed in motorway traffic, making…