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Ten new Volvo FH-480 artics, which have recently joined the fleet of leading distribution company Fowler Welch Coolchain, met their operating cost targets inside three weeks. "Much faster than expected," reports National Operations Director Lee Juniper.
Motor Transport Awards 2008 - Dealer of the Year We are delighted to announce that Crossroads Truck and Bus Ltd has been selected as the Motor Transport Dealer of the year for 2008.
Family run mushrom compost haulier S W Adamson Transport, based in Middleham, North Yorkshire, in business for over eighteen years and one of the U.K.'s largest operators of Volvo FH16's have placed all their orders with our Boroughbridge depot, taking their fleet of FH16-660's to eleven.
Volvo Trucks UK has announced that Crossroads Truck & Bus Limited have been awarded the Top Dealer Team for 2007. This is a very prestigious award and Crossroads faced severe competition from the other dealers within the Volvo network. This is the highest accolade that can be awarded to any dealer.
Steeply rising oil prices and a strong focus on the climate have made fuel-saving hybrid technology particularly interesting. Volvo Trucks is now taking an important step towards commercialisation of this technology for heavy vehicles by launching two hybrid refuse trucks that will be tested in regular daily operations in Sweden by refuse collection firms Renova and Ragn-Sells.
EB Equipment Limited of Barnsley, who specialise in the design and manufacture of GRP bulk storage and conveying systems, has taken delivery of their first Volvo truck – an FH 400 6x4 drawbar to Euro 5 specification.
Plantforce (Leeds) Limited, one of Yorkshire’s largest heavy fleet operators, based in Wortley, Leeds, has taken delivery of their first Euro 5 Volvo. The FM 480 8x4 rigid is an additional truck in the Plantforce fleet and was supplied by Crossroads Truck and Bus at Birstall.
In a move which will significantly reduce the company’s transport fleet’s carbon emissions, ASDA the supermarket retailer, has added 50 Euro 5 compliant Volvo FM 440 4x2 Globetrotter-cabbed tractor units equipped with I-Shift transmissions, to its primary distribution fleet.
Bulk tipper operator Alfred Hymas Ltd. of Burton Leonard, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, has taken delivery of the first Volvo FH 500 tractor units in Yorkshire equipped with the Volvo Euro 4 EGR engine.
Volvo Trucks will once again be exhibiting at the Commercial Vehicle Show to be held at the NEC, Birmingham from 15th to 17th April 2008. Together with quality and safety, care for the environment is one of Volvo’s core values.
John Owen (Aggregates) Ltd. of Dinnington, near Sheffield has taken delivery of a brace of Volvo 8- wheel Euro 5 FM-400 tippers for their growing fleet.
The UK‘s first four, new generation Volvo FE Euro 5 6x4 gritters have gone into service with Lincolnshire County Council, which have seven years experience of operating Volvo gritters within its winter maintenance service.
The UK‘s first five, new generation Volvo FL Euro 5 gritters have gone into service with Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council to replace older model gritters in the growing fleet.
The grand final of Volvo’s ultra-prestigious VISTA Championship will be held today (June 26th) in Gothenburg, Sweden.
BB Haulage has taken delivery of two Globetrotter XL-cabbed, Euro 5 Volvo FH-480 6x2 tractor units, which will be based at the company’s Caistor depot in Lincolnshire.
Graduating Volvo Technicians and Master Technicians from Dealerships across the UK and Ireland were honoured last week in a glittering ceremony hosted by Volvo Truck and Bus.
VISTA 2007 – the world’s biggest competition for Volvo workshop personnel – has now commenced. The competition has attracted no less than 12,000 participants from over 1,000 workshops in 68 countries
Continuing a 15-year history with Volvo, feed and grain transporters D.E.M. Brown Ltd of Bedale, North Yorkshire, have taken delivery of an FM-440 tipper from Volvo Dealer Crossroads Truck and Bus at Boroughbridge.
Sheffield-based fresh produce distribution company R W Simpson has decorated one of their latest SCR technology-equipped Euro 4 Volvo FH trucks with a striking series of air-brush murals featuring characters from the famous cartoon series, 'The Simpsons'
Four new FM 6x6 snowplough/gritters have entered service with Lincolnshire County Council - the first Volvo 6-wheel drive winter-maintenance vehicles to go into service with the County
Crossroads Truck & Bus Area Sales Manager David Davies has delivered the first FH16-580 Euro 4 tractor unit to hit the roads of the UK.
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