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This video, produced by National Geographic, takes a look at the way trucks can be recycled after their useful life has ended. An aging Globetrotter rolls into a Swedish workshop to be dismantled so 95% of it can be used again or the materials recycled. It is not simply a a matter of taking the [...]

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There is an ever increasing amount of electronics is modern trucks and a large proportion of the new systems are safety related. It’s great to have all of this whizz-bang stuff available but for many drivers iPod and DVD player connectivity is probably more important than any [...]

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As the Australian economy starts to pick up, businesses here have come through the global financial crisis relatively unscathed, when compared to those in other parts of the world, especially in the US and Europe. From the transport industry’s point of view some of the problems created [...]

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 [...]

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.