Posted October 2, 2020
ASB Transport’s fleet of 20 trucks includes 18 Volvos; the firm bought the new FMs from Regional Sales Manager Richard Moorse at Volvo Truck and Bus Centre East Anglia. ...
Posted September 10, 2020
The roofing contractor will use the FUSO to deliver straw, reed, and other roofing materials for roof repairs and other jobs. ...
Posted August 11, 2020
The is the bulk haulage firm’s first Volvo Since 2011 is a tipper with lifting rear axle, which raises when the truck is empty to save fuel costs on unladen trips, then lowers automatically when the truck is loaded. ...
Posted July 24, 2020
The firm recently purchased three 3.5-tonne Grafter tippers and two 7.5-t rigid tippers to work out of their Beaconsfield, St. ...
Posted July 23, 2020
The firm says the truck’s five-star Direct Vision Standard rating from Transport for London factored heavily in their purchase decision. ...
Posted June 26, 2020
The tipper hire firm takes pride in running clean trucks with an eye-catching livery, and says their new Scania G 500 XT is very nearly as effective as an advert for the business as it is at hauling and dumping loads. ...
Calcium Carbonate Specialist Longcliffe Quarries Adds 8 Volvo FH Tractors & 2 Volvo FM Rigid Tippers
Posted June 22, 2020
The haulier expects to keep the Volvos in operation for five years and run them up to about 100,000 kilometres per annum. ...
Posted June 16, 2020
Amey has operated Econics since 2009 and its newest dozen are all 1827L 18-tonners with 272-horsepower, 7.7-litre engines and PowerShift 3 automated manual gearboxes. ...
Posted May 14, 2020
Eight of the firm’s 13 trucks are Renaults; MD Jonathan Evans says the Range C “has proved itself in terms of fuel consumption, payload, durability, and manoeuvrability, and the back-up has been first class.” ...
Posted February 19, 2020
The custom-built truck comes with three onboard toolboxes and a 3,500-kilogram max trailer weight, so the firm’s tree surgeons can take with them everything they need to get the job done. ...
Posted February 17, 2020
Mackirdy says that so far, the FM has proved “totally reliable and very good on fuel, too.” ...
Posted January 29, 2020
The Glastonbury firm received a demonstration from Harry Moore Commercials of Exeter and indicates that the truck passed its technical evaluation with flying colours. ...
Posted December 19, 2019
The Flintshire firm looked over a subcontractor’s Grafter, liked what they saw, and arranged for a demonstration of their own, which led to a multiple-vehicle purchase. ...
Posted November 18, 2019
The firm trialed a demonstrator model for a week prior to making the purchase and had experience with IVECO trucks from a previous Eurocargo purchase. ...
Posted November 11, 2019
Supplied by McCarthy Commercials, the 10x4 FMX tippers are equipped with 460-horsepower Volvo D13K engines and Fitzgerald Vehicle Body Builders tipper bodies. ...
Posted September 16, 2019
The FMX rigids feature Volvo D11K Euro 6 engines that produce 410 horsepower, as well as I-Shift gearboxes with Volvo’s construction package software included. ...
Posted August 30, 2019
Fleet boss Glenn Waterfield says his firm’s tried other marques, but “we just keep coming back to DAF.” ...
Posted August 29, 2019
The FMX rigids are outfitted with Boweld Taperlite steel tipper bodies and onboard weighing systems, as well as a raft of safety-minded extras, and are covered by two-year Volvo Gold Service Contracts. ...
Posted June 12, 2019
This is Keltbray Group’s first Volvo purchase, and the head of haulage operations says it’s down to feedback from six drivers who each spent half a day in a Volvo demonstration vehicle. ...
Posted May 29, 2019
B J Waters Transport Ltd reports that the trucks are doing just what Volvo said they would do: “saving a lot of money in fuel!” ...
Posted April 2, 2019
The firm recently purchased two new Volvo 8x4 tipper trucks, adding them to a 20-strong fleet that already included four other Volvos. ...
Posted February 21, 2019
The Bridgwater, Somerset, civil engineering and plant hire firm has taken delivery of a Volvo FMX 8x4 rigid tipper truck and has put it to work immediately. ...