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McLaren Racing has put its new fleet of 24 Volvo FH Globetrotter XL tractor units into service, transporting all of the team’s equipment for this weekend’s season-opening F1 race in Spielberg, Austria. The new 4×2 left-hand drive trucks will stand out in the paddock thanks to their striking Mammoth Tree …

Volvo Trucks is launching an FH Unlimited Edition tractor unit featuring a luxurious Globetrotter XL cab interior, a full range of active safety equipment and a choice of three drivelines packed with Volvo’s latest technologies. The new models will allow customers to select between their preference for fuel saving potential, …

Premier Logistics is averaging 11 miles per gallon from a pair of new Volvo FHs with I-Save, delivering significant fuel savings versus the 9.5mpg the firm would traditionally expect to achieve on the same routes. The Bardon-based haulier has added the two 460hp FHs with I-Save, alongside one new 500hp …

Derbyshire-based Longcliffe Quarries, the UK’s leading independent supplier of high purity calcium carbonates, 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. The firm specified the FH tractor units with Globetrotter cabs, each built with rear …

Brian Easey Transport has added a fourth Volvo to its fleet, taking delivery of a new FH Lite with I-Save. The most fuel-efficient 44-tonne tractor unit in Volvo’s truck range, the FH with I-Save combines the D13TC Euro-6 Step D engine with turbo-compounding and updated fuel-efficiency features. The engine produces …

Specialist plant equipment business Casey Plant Hire has taken delivery of a Volvo FMX 8×2 rigid, replacing an older FM9 that had provided exceptional service for 14 years, covering more than 700,000 km. Supplied by Paul McNicholas, Customer Solutions Manager at Thomas Hardie Commercials, the multi-wheeler has been specified with …

Volvo Used Truck Centres are offering a fleet of 24 extremely low-mileage Volvo FH 4×2 tractor units with Globetrotter XL cabs, which have spent the last two years in operation with the McLaren Racing F1 team. Each 18-plate truck will be sold with a signed certificate of authenticity, along with …

Is the opinion of John Gosling, Managing Director of Fareham-based T J Waste & Recycling Ltd, as he comments on the company’s recent purchase of a Volvo EC140E crawler excavator. The fourteen tonne excavator is the first Volvo machine purchased by T J Waste & Recycling, following a successful demonstration …

Sharing the Green Deal vision of sustainable transport and a carbon neutral Europe by 2050, two leading companies in the commercial vehicle industry, Daimler Truck AG and the VolvoGroup, have signed a preliminary non-binding agreement to establish a new joint venture. The intention is to develop, produce and commercialize fuel …

The Volvo H-Series wheel loaders have been consistently improved throughout their lifetime and now they receive additional enhancements that help reduce total cost of ownership. In 2014 Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) introduced the L60H-L220H wheel loaders and in 2017 the big sisters L260H and L350H followed. “Over the years …