Volvo Trucks
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April, 2008
Record-breaking Heighley Gate Garden Centre’s first-ever Volvo
- April
- 7
Family-owned business Heighley Gate Garden Centre of Morpeth in Northumberland has taken delivery of its first-ever Volvo truck, an FL-240, 18 tonne GVW rigid which was supplied by Volvo Truck and Bus Centre North in Blyth.
The company was recently given a certificate by the Guinness Book of World Records for building the ‘biggest bird box […]
Volvo Trucks, union end strike, reach three-year agreement
- April
- 4
Volvo Trucks North America announced this weekend that it had reached a three-year agreement with the United Auto Workers. Striking employees will go back to work March 24.
The agreement with UAW Local #2069 covers about 2,600 employees at the Greensboro firm’s New River Valley plant in Dublin, Va. The new contract goes into effect March […]
Troika Dialog to Sell a Portion of KamAZ Overseas
- April
- 3
Having sold 25 percent in AvtoVAZ to French Renault, Troika Dialog intends to clinch a similar deal with KamAZ stocks. Already this year-end, the works will probably lure Volvo or Scania or MAN as a strategic partner. Under one of the scenarios, nonresidents may become the biggest co-owner of KamAZ. The alternative scenario provides for […]
Volvo Truck deliveries February 2008
- April
- 2
Volvo Trucks’ deliveries during February amounted to 8,907 vehicles, up 23% compared with the year-earlier period.
The overall volume growth is explained by increased production rates.
In Europe 6,080 vehicles were delivered, which is an increase of 38%.
The decreased deliveries in North America were a consequence of the strike that started February 1st 2008 in the New […]
