Volvo Group North America Press releases

Volvo Trucks North America is building a community of innovators that are designing solutions to support the global transition to more sustainable transport systems. The Innovation Lab at Volvo Group, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, is a place where Volvo Trucks can collaborate with start-ups to combine real-world insights, analyze emerging trends, and validate new products and services aimed at helping customers improve both their economic and environmental sustainability goals.

Volvo Trucks North America will showcase the VNR Electric, 25th anniversary VNL 760, VNL 860 and VHD model in its booth (No. 1029) at ExpoCam Sept. 22-23 outside of Montreal, Canada.

Volvo CE Battery-Electric Compact Excavator and Compact Wheel Loader are Viable Alternatives to Diesel Equipment for Fleets to Reduce Carbon Footprints

GREENSBORO, NC (Sept. 16, 2021) – Mack® MD7 model and the Mack Anthem® highway model featuring Mack’s fuel-efficient powertrain and latest driver productivity, safety and uptime technology at ExpoCam 2021, Sept. 22-23 at Espace Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec.

Road Choice®, a leading private-label, all-makes aftermarket parts brand, today announced that its first dedicated retail store is now open at Ballard Truck Center in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, serving the greater Boston area. The 1,120 square-foot retail store features the product lines in highest demand from transport customers for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, trailers and buses. It will also allow customers to access the complete Road Choice portfolio of more than 50 product categories.

CLEVELAND, OH (Sept. 14, 2021) – Mack Trucks announced today the new Mack® Premium Service Agreement, a comprehensive maintenance program that simplifies maintenance management and helps increase uptime, optimize vehicle safety and performance and improve cost of ownership for Mack Anthem®, Mack Pinnacle™, Mack Granite®, Mack TerraPro® and Mack LR customers.

GREENSBORO, NC (Sept. 7, 2021) – Mack Trucks will feature its Mack Anthem® model equipped with the latest in fuel efficiency, driver productivity and safety technology during the Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) annual meeting Sept. 12-16, 2021 at the Huntington Convention Center, Cleveland, Ohio.

Volvo Trucks North America announced that established Volvo Trucks dealer Nextran Truck Centers has acquired Westfall-O’Dell Truck Sales. The acquisition is one of the largest by a Volvo Trucks dealer in the past five years.

GREENSBORO, NC (Sept. 1, 2021) – Longtime Mack Trucks dealer Nextran Truck Centers has acquired Westfall-O’Dell Truck Sales, making the acquisition one of the largest by a Mack dealer in the past five years.

The Volvo VNR Electric, Volvo Trucks North America’s first commercially available battery-electric Class 8 vehicle, will be deployed on local logistics routes servicing the company’s New River Valley (NRV) truck assembly operations in Dublin, Virginia by end the end of 2021. Working with local suppliers and carriers, Volvo Trucks will deploy three zero-tailpipe emission VNR Electric vehicles to transport inbound parts and components daily to the plant where every Volvo truck is assembled in North America. Each zero-tailpipe emission truck is anticipated to complete up to 16 roundtrips per day. Utilizing battery-electric vehicles on supply-chain logistics routes is a key step in achieving Volvo Trucks’ global sustainability target to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.