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The 50th Anniversary of the introduction of seat belts is another chance to run this great bit of video demonstrating how effective they are in saving lives. The driver would have been killed by his free-falling passenger.

Volvo are hoping technology developed by their Volvo Aero aircraft componenets division can help them recuce the cab weight on their trucks by 20%. This is a big call made by  Carl Fredrik Hartung, Project Manager at Volvo Technology in the following video. Reduce weight and you improve fuel efficiency and therefore carbon emissions. Reduce [...]

This ad from 1979 when the Volvo Globetrotter first came out sounds like a blaxploitation movie from the seventies. The backing music recalls the score to the movie Shaft, written by Isaac Hayes and is completely incongruous in an ad for a Swedish truck. But hey, it was the seventies, bad taste was all the [...]

A Norwegian truck operator delivering oil field equipment is the first to take delivery of the new 700 hp FH model from Volvo. The truck gives Volvo major bragging rigths and this video commentary includes the words, ‘the world’s most powerful truck’ as many times as it can in two minutes.

The long dog from Volvo is the first ‘blueprint’ PBS vehicle on the road and it’s been a long time coming. By going to 19.6 metres in length the new combination meets the standards specified for Performance Based Standards (PBS) and gets a GCM of 50.3 tonnes on general access routes and 55 tonnes on [...]

When Volvo announced the introduction of a new 700 hp FH 16 it was done with a lot of pizazz and the campaign to market with new truck talked a lot about the strongest truck in the world. The question must be, is it about having a more powerful truck or is it just about [...]

With the release of a new 16 L engine Volvo Trucks can now claim to produce the most powerful production truck in the world. The new improved to FH16 pumps out a massive 700 hp and has been unveiled for the European market. How long the engine will take to arrive here for sale in [...]

The prospect of trucks talking to each other as they head down the highway will be taking a great leap forward this week. Volvo Trucks along with a group of partners are demonstrating inter-vehicle communication on a German test track.

Volvo have posted a short film explaining how their new hybrid garbage truck works while saving energy, carbon dioxide polution and disruption in the city.

Volvo says the company is taking measures to downsize capacity in its European production system to meet the declining demand for trucks in the European market. As a consequence, the company say they will initiate negotiations with the unions regarding staffing level cutbacks of approximately 1,400 employees at the company’s plants in Ghent in Belgium, [...]