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Blog 9/23/2025
Your Guide to Year-End Tax Benefits on 2025 Heavy Equipment Purchases If you’re a small or mid-size business in the U.S. or Canada looking to put money back to your bottom line this year, you could save thousands of dollars on new and used equipment purchases....
Blog 8/3/2023
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 8/19/2020
Volvo’s Drive to Electric – Your Questions Answered In 2019, Volvo Construction Equipment became the first construction equipment manufacturer to commit to going fully electric on two full ranges of compact equipment. For those looking to be...
TIPS FOR CLEANING AND DISINFECTING CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT CABS
Blog 4/23/2020
Tips for Cleaning and Disinfecting Construction Equipment Cabs Enclosed spaces like cabs can harbor germs and viruses like the coronavirus — during times like this, cleanliness is incredibly important. Keeping surfaces disinfected is a responsibility...
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 7/1/2019
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 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 4/1/2019
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...
A service tech providing maintenance on a Volvo crawler excavator with a wheel loader working in the background.
Blog 3/19/2019
How to Prepare Your Excavator for Spring For those of you working in colder climates, it may seem that winter will never end — but the snow has to stop falling eventually, and temperatures will rise. When that happens, it’s time to...
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 1/31/2019
3 Tips for Buying Construction Equipment at Auction Buying excavators, wheel loaders and other construction equipment at auction offers an opportunity to score a good value on quality equipment. That’s why auctions like Ritchie Bros....
Volvo front end loader delayed auto shutdown timer
Blog 1/8/2019
Ending Hot Turbo Shutdowns — An Easy Fix to Prevent Costly Repairs At the end of a demanding workday, it’s tempting for an operator to kill the ignition switch as soon as they park their equipment. A one-off hot shutdown isn’t likely to cause catastrophic...
Hiring the best front end loader operators
Blog 10/29/2018
Hiring: 4 Tips for Hiring the Best Wheel Loader Operators You know the value a good wheel loader operator brings to your business. Increased productivity, less unnecessary wear on your equipment, reliability and more. So how do you find the best...
Blog 8/27/2018
Wheel Loader Tips for Working at the Face of Mining Muck Piles Here’s a comparison wheel loader operators working at a face don’t often hear: If you’re doing it right, it’s like ballet. OK, hear me out on this. In my numerous visits to mines, I’ve...
View of two people talking under the boom of a Volvo excavator at dusk with the bucket on the ground.
Blog 8/20/2018
Excavator Maintenance: Tips to Minimize Wear and Tear Any small problem can eventually turn into a big one. Simple preventive steps and quick examinations can go a long way toward extending your excavator’s lifespan and ensuring more...
An operator’s POV out the front of a Volvo excavator looking at the trench that's being dug.
Blog 8/6/2018
Excavator Operator Tips for Trenching and Loading Trenching and loading with an excavator is so common that it’s not unusual for operators to form habits in how they set up their worksites and use their machines. But no matter an operator’s...
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