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A new Volvo articulated dump truck driving through mud on a haul road in a quarry.
Blog 2/10/2025
10 Things You'll Love About New Volvo ADTs Here at Volvo, we recently launched our redesigned series of articulated dump trucks . These new ADTs are built to move more material at a lower cost and can easily travel over the roughest...
Volvo Articulated Dump Truck Tires
Blog 1/20/2025
Choosing the Right Earthmoving Tires: E3 vs. E4 Selecting the right heavy equipment tires for your machines can be just as important as choosing the machine itself. For those using haul trucks and wheel loaders in industries like...
A side-by-side image consisting of a historical black and white photo of Volvo equipment and people next to a color image of today’s Volvo equipment working.
Blog 10/21/2024
Then & Now: The Milestones That Have Made Us Who We Are Today Since our inception in 1832, Volvo Construction Equipment has grown from a local workshop to one of the world’s largest manufacturers of construction and mining equipment. In fact, earlier...
A close-up view of a construction worker looking over an articulated haul truck.
Blog 10/14/2024
Buying An Articulated Dump Truck? 12 Things to Consider During the Demonstration When you’re ready to purchase an articulated dump truck — whether it’s your first ADT or an addition to an existing fleet — be sure to get input from your entire team. Owners and fleet...
A set of virtual reality glasses next to a hard hat on a futuristic-looking table.
Blog 5/6/2024
4 Technologies Making Construction Sites Safer This week (May 6-10) is Construction Safety Week, so we thought we’d take a quick look at a few of the current and emerging safety technologies helping workers around the world get their...
A Volvo A45G articulated hauler driving through deep, wet mud.
Blog 4/22/2024
How Articulated Trucks Power Through the Mud Spring is here, and with it comes the rain — and the mud. Over the years I’ve heard a lot of people say that when the mud gets deep, they’ll just toggle on a feature on their articulated...
Two Volvo articulated haulers hauling rock in a quarry
Blog 2/26/2024
Comparing Fuel Efficiency in Articulated Haul Trucks You have more control than you may realize over the operating costs for your articulated haulers — and one of the easy line items to cut back on is fuel. Burning unnecessary fuel adds up...
Volvo Articulated Truck
Blog 8/23/2022
Tips to Reduce Heavy Equipment Tire Wear If you’re looking for a way to cut maintenance costs, be sure to look at the tires on your wheeled machines. Premature tire wear not only costs you more in wear parts, it also adds...
Promo image with text promoting Volvo’s interactive excavator and haul truck guide.
Blog 6/20/2022
5 Factors That Can Impact Haul Truck Size Selection Oftentimes, sizing haul trucks for mining and aggregates jobs comes down to the cubic yardage of the buckets on the excavators you’re running — it can become second nature to simply pair up...
Volvo A45G articulated truck operator hauling rocks
Blog 6/7/2021
Little-Known Volvo Features that Improve Operator Performance When it comes to operator performance, we’ve seen a lot of men and women out there flat out getting it done. Whether it’s smooth technique, mind-boggling agility or a keen eye for precision,...
Volvo Excavator loading a Volvo Articulated Truck
Blog 3/22/2021
Do You Have the Right Heavy Equipment for the Bid?  The bidding process in the construction industry has become so competitive in recent years that a lot of the small and mid-size contractors out there may feel like they’re working just to...
Volvo EX03 Electric Excavator
Blog 2/22/2021
Electric and Autonomous Heavy Equipment: The Future of Construction and Mining With the electrification of cars, buses, trucks and other transport vehicles many years in the making, it’s only natural that construction equipment is joining in. The goals of zero...
Volvo EC950F excavator loading an A60H articulated truck
Blog 9/28/2020
How to Size and Get the Most Out of Your Mining Excavators and Haulers In mining, it’s important to match excavators to your haul trucks to lower your total cost of ownership (TCO) for these machines. If they’re mismatched, you’ll be inefficient and burn extra...
Volvo Articulated Hauler A60H and Crawler Excavator EC950E
Blog 9/21/2020
Why the Volvo EC950F and A60H Make the Perfect Pair You know how it feels when you see a bottleneck of haul trucks on your site — knowing they’re lined up waiting to be loaded, all while fuel continues to burn, machine hours tick away, and...
Blog 3/4/2019
How to Get More From Your Articulated Truck Investment I hear a lot of customers talk about initial purchase price when they’re in the market for a new articulated truck. Your first reaction might be, “Yeah, I do the same thing,” and there’s...
Blog 10/15/2018
Use This Prestart Checklist to Keep Your Articulated Truck in Good Shape A thorough equipment walkaround before starting a shift can make a big difference, and it doesn’t need to take a lot of time. Every good articulated truck operator should establish a daily...
Blog 9/17/2018
4 Options for Overburden Mining: Rigid vs. Articulated Trucks The process of overburden removal is a major consideration for mines. There are different ways to handle it, and each option is worthy of evaluating the cost and time to do it. If you’re...
Volvo A30G Articulated Hauler
Blog 8/13/2018
3 Ways Our Customers Have Inspired Our Hauler Designs When designing a new generation of hauler, manufacturers are up against several challenges. First, how to increase performance and payload while also improving fuel efficiency. And second,...
Blog 6/13/2018
A Dream Becomes Reality: Working for the World Leader in Articulated Haulers Before joining Volvo, I spent many years as a sales and marketing manager for an equipment dealer. I remember traveling with the Volvo hauler sales rep at that time and saying, “If I ever...
Blog 6/6/2018
5 Steps to Determine if 60-Ton Haulers Are Right for You Since launching our A60H – the world’s first 60-ton fully articulated hauler — we’ve had a lot of interest. But being an entirely new size class to the industry, a lot of customers are...
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