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Robert Grozdanovski has been appointed Managing Director of Volvo Trucks UK & Ireland, where he succeeds Arne Knaben who has moved to Gothenburg to take up an appointment as Volvo Trucks’ Vice President for Hub MEENA (Middle East, East & North Africa). Robert will report to Roger Alm, ...
Designed for the heaviest and most demanding operations, the FH16 is Volvo’s most powerful truck. Its distinctive design expresses the massive capabilities built into it, as well as its level of refinement, plus – of course – it is probably one of the safest and most comfortable workplaces in ...
Midwest Plant of Brecon, South Wales has put a new Volvo FH16-750 tractor unit into operation. The 6×4 tractor unit is plated for 80-tonne operations and its purchase came after the rugged performance of a Volvo FH12, acquired as a used truck by the company in 2009. Midwest Plant director, ...
Somerset-based haulage contractor, AJ Brunt Ltd, has taken delivery of a new tri-axle step frame trailer from Andover Trailers – the most recent addition in a relationship that dates back more than two decades The high-specification, bespoke-built step frame has a payload capacity of 38 tonnes, ...
In 1967, Jim McKelvie and Jim Keyden, two far-sighted, entrepreneurial Scottish businessmen, launched Ailsa Trucks, the company that first introduced Volvo trucks to the UK. The Ailsa name is significant because, although the company traded as Ailsa Trucks, the name was only ever applied to one ...
Truck modification specialists, Terberg Techniek recently converted a Volvo 8×4 in to this 10×4 monster – for abnormal load operator Derks BV. An original 9 tonne PAC90 Volvo steering pusher axle (which can also be lifted) was fitted to increase the legal maximum GVW by 8 tonnes ...
According to CRJ Services Ltd, Director Rob Symons, their new ‘flagship’ Volvo FH16-650 tag-axle tractor unit has helped “future-proof” the fleet, thanks to its being connected, via Volvo’s on-board telematics gateway, to the dealer network, for the remote diagnosis of faults and monitoring of ...
The availability of a 10-tonne front axle rating on a 44 tonne GCW 6×4 tractor unit clinched the deal that saw Manchester based Norton’s Hiab Services put the 30-year old firm’s first ever Volvo truck, an FH-540, into service. Norton’s Hiab Services moves a wide variety of self-escorted, ...
In order to meet its heavy haulage needs, Smiths of Gloucester has taken delivery of two Volvo FH16-750 6×4 tractor units from Truck and Bus Wales & West, Avonmouth. The two double-drive tractor units are plated for operation under STGO CAT 3 at a GCW of up to 125 tonnes. They are ...
In a move which consolidates the company’s policy of operating trucks no more than three years old, Derbyshire-based haulier Lomas Distribution has ordered 70 new high specification Volvo tractor units and tippers from the Hartshorne Group. This major order sees all of the tractor units ...
Van der Vlist were called into action over the last month to bring some lifting frames from Eastern Germany into the UK. 4 large frame sections were each loaded to a semi low trailer for the journey, and secured down. These parts were made up of 4 sections: 8.10m x 4.71m x 3.35m, two of […]
Collett & Sons Ltd celebrate the first of many projects to come through their Grangemouth facility. As wind turbine components keep getting bigger the challenge for transport companies and equipment manufacturers to overcome these difficulties gets ever more complicated. Whether onshore or ...