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Blog 11/18/2019
Quick Tips for Properly Sizing Excavators When it comes to sizing crawler excavators for purchase, most customers know exactly what they want — and a lot of times they’re right. A comment I hear sometimes, though, is along the lines...
Blog 11/12/2019
Are You Measuring True Fuel Efficiency? Find Out. After years of talking with customers about fuel efficiency, I’ve come to realize too many people have a different definition of what it really is. Many OEMs, dealers and customers alike...
Blog 9/23/2019
Increasing Used Equipment Resale Values — The Checklist Resale values fluctuate for construction equipment, but not just because of the brand, hours on the machine, time of year or economic conditions. What you put into your used machine before...
Blog 9/9/2019
Cooperative Purchasing — Your Questions Answered As a government procurement specialist for Volvo, I’ve witnessed an approximate 300% increase in national buying contract sales growth at Volvo over the past seven years — and now more than...
Blog 8/19/2019
How to Inspect Used Equipment Components and Avoid Costly Surprises Used machines are smart ways to compliment or round out your fleet — and if you know what to look for (and ask about), you can feel more confident that your used equipment purchase will be...
Blog 7/22/2019
Top 5 Mistakes That Lead to Increased Maintenance As a Volvo Field Technical Support Specialist, I work alongside technicians to troubleshoot construction machine maintenance issues on-site. I’ve seen a lot, and several of these issues are...
A Volvo excavator with the crawler tracks replaced with flotation pads works on extremely soft and wet ground.
Blog 7/15/2019
4 Cool Excavator Attachments and Modifications Excavators are one of the most common pieces of heavy equipment, but don’t think of them only as earthmovers. Many of the ways they’re used are anything but ordinary, and attachments and...
Blog 7/8/2019
The Issue with Prefilling Fuel Filters No maintenance technician wants to spend more time than needed on a service job — and certainly no construction equipment owner wants his machine offline and unproductive longer than...
Blog 7/1/2019
Improving Accuracy and Productivity for Wheel Loaders — Volvo Load Assist: Part 3 Part three: Operator Coaching This is the final part of our series on Load Assist, the Volvo program that provides wheel loader operators real-time payload data and other machine...
Blog 6/24/2019
Rent, Lease, Buy or EaaS: What’s the Best Option for Construction Equipment? Economic conditions and market uncertainties have big impacts on whether it’s the right time to add equipment to your fleet. Traditionally you would have to consider whether renting, leasing...
Blog 6/3/2019
Improving Accuracy and Productivity for Wheel Loaders — Volvo Load Assist: Part 2 Part two: On-board weighing In part one of this Load Assist series — the Volvo program that provides real-time data to wheel loader operators — I explained the differences between the 1%...
Blog 6/3/2019
Improving Accuracy and Productivity for Wheel Loaders — Volvo Load Assist: Part 1 Part one: 1% vs. 2% Accuracy Modes With Load Assist now standard on new L150H to L260H wheel loader models from Volvo, I thought I’d take some time to share several ways the program is...
An operator using Volvo Dig Assist excavator GPS machine control to level the subbase of a new road.
Blog 5/27/2019
How to Use Grade Control for Excavators — Volvo Dig Assist: Part 2 In Part 1 of our Volvo Dig Assist series, I covered the three basics of Dig Assist Start — Level, Slope and Quick Measure. These features are easy to set up and use for improved operator...
Blog 5/20/2019
5 Examples of Confusing Telematics Fault Codes Made Simple (and Useful) Telematics should make your life easier, not more confusing. But too often, the data comes as an onslaught of cryptic fault codes that lack the details you need to make a quick decision. You...
Close-up of a Volvo excavator bucket scooping dirt that’s being loaded into a Volvo articulated dump truck.
Blog 4/30/2019
Tips on Selecting the Right Excavator Bucket When it comes to selecting buckets, the options can seem limitless. That’s because excavators can tackle a diverse range of projects. There really is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to...
Blog 4/24/2019
8 Things to Look for When Evaluating High-Hour Used Equipment Over the years, a common question I’ve heard is, “When I’m looking for a used piece of equipment, is it always smarter to invest in one with low hours?” And my answer back has always been...
Blog 4/15/2019
How to Evaluate Total Cost of Ownership on Used Equipment Purchases Purchasing a piece of used equipment can be a smart investment, but sometimes it’s tough to know exactly what you’re getting for the money. If you’re searching on a used equipment site or...
Blog 4/8/2019
ActiveCare Direct: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Questions When I’m out in the field, I get a lot of questions about telematics. Customers are curious about how to use the data, when to use it, etc. I also get a lot of questions around ActiveCare...
Blog 4/1/2019
Used Equipment Inspections: What to Look for Before Buying Buying a piece of used equipment can be a lot like buying a used car in that your experience is likely to be very different — good or bad — depending on who you’re buying from. At Volvo, our...
Blog 3/25/2019
Six Innovations Impacting the Future of Construction Equipment  The construction industry is experiencing a dynamic era of rapid innovation. In many ways, construction equipment manufacturers are starting to mirror Silicon Valley tech firms —...
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