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A Volvo excavator lifting a trench box at a residential building site.
Blog 4/20/2026
4 Causes of Construction Delays and How to Stop Them A four-hour delay on a Monday is rarely just four hours lost. As you know, that short pause can quickly snowball into a missed material delivery on Tuesday, a subcontractor scheduling...
Close-up of the Volvo emblem on a Volvo crawler excavator.
Blog 12/1/2025
3 Priorities Driving Volvo CE Innovation for 2026 and Beyond You look to Volvo CE for creative solutions to help you adapt to changing market conditions, new regulations and disruptions — viewing these challenges as opportunities for growth. That...
CONEXPO/CON-AGG attendees trying out three different Volvo simulators at the 2023 show.
Blog 11/17/2025
5 Ways to Get More Out of Your CONEXPO 2026 Booth Visits CONEXPO is a massive event, and if you’re heading to Las Vegas this March, you’re about to experience something truly unique. But with so many exhibitors and so much ground to cover, the...
Volvo Excavator and Hauler
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....
A wheel loader operator using the Operator Coaching app in Volvo Load Assist with coaching information on the Volvo Co-Pilot display.
Blog 9/22/2025
Tips for Choosing the Best Heavy Equipment Options When buying heavy equipment, a lot of people focus on the machine itself — the size, the horsepower, the core functionality and things like that. And while that’s all incredibly important,...
A Volvo EC230 crawler excavator loading a haul truck with dirt.
Blog 6/9/2025
8 Questions to Ask When Buying Heavy Equipment Insurance As the Director of Insurance Services and Solutions at Volvo Financial Services, I've seen firsthand how crucial it is for customers to feel confident and secure in their equipment...
A close-up of the Volvo emblem on a new Volvo excavator.
Blog 6/2/2025
Understanding Excavator Hydraulics: Part 2 In Part 1 of this excavator hydraulics series, I covered the fundamentals of excavator hydraulics, including the difference between hydraulic pressure and flow, and how Volvo’s...
Two new Volvo excavators moving dirt in construction.
Blog 5/19/2025
Understanding Excavator Hydraulics: Part 1 Excavator hydraulics have come a long way in a few short years. Here at Volvo, we’ve incorporated our latest technologies into our newly redesigned excavator series, and this article shares...
Volvo mining and construction equipment working together in a quarry.
Blog 3/24/2025
Understanding Equipment as a Service (EaaS) Ever feel like you're spending more time managing your heavy equipment than actually using it? Between maintenance, repairs and the constant juggling of finances, fleet management can be a...
A close-up of a soil compactor padfoot drum compacting dirt.
Blog 2/24/2025
Tips to Avoid Over Compaction in Construction Over compaction can be a costly and time-consuming issue on construction and roadbuilding sites. Whether you’re building a new highway or preparing a site for a new facility, knowing how to...
A Volvo A40G articulated truck hauling dirt on a construction site.
Blog 1/27/2025
7 Steps to Maximize Heavy Equipment Longevity For any of you who use heavy equipment every day — construction, mining, logging operations and so on — we know maximizing the life of your machines is not only a practical goal but also a...
A Volvo EC230F crawler excavator digging a trench with a white Dig Assist grid that represents how the software helps operators with accuracy.
Blog 12/16/2024
3 Things to Look Forward to in Heavy Construction Equipment in 2025 As we move into 2025, our industry continues to evolve, bringing new challenges and opportunities. Leaders in the field, like many of us here at Volvo Construction Equipment, are...
An operator idling a Volvo excavator on a construction jobsite while he’s outside the cab.
Blog 11/11/2024
5 Negative Impacts of Excessively Idling Diesel Engines Excessive idling can be more harmful to diesel engines than many operators realize. While it may seem like a harmless way to keep a construction machine ready for use, extended periods of...
A Volvo ECR25 Electric excavator landscaping by moving a boulder next to a pond.
Blog 8/19/2024
Using Electric Heavy Equipment for Property Management Property management companies who oversee the streets and common grounds of residential developments, condominiums and apartment complexes are challenged with maintaining beautiful and...
A Volvo wheel loader operates in a rehandling application.
Blog 3/11/2024
Comparing Fuel Efficiency in Front End Wheel Loaders How do I know if my wheel loader is efficient? As the wheel loader product manager here at Volvo, I hear that question a lot. The answer lies in your ability to both cut costs and move more...
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 Construction Equipment
Blog 8/7/2023
4 Tips to Beat Rising Interest Rates on New Heavy Equipment Purchases Over the past year, interest rates have been steadily ticking up to help alleviate nationwide inflation. Tick, tick, tick…when it happens, it feels like you can almost hear it, even if...
Blog 8/3/2023
Improving Accuracy and Productivity for Wheel Loaders — Volvo Load Assist: Part 1 PART ONE: 1% VS. 2% ACCURACY MODES The Load Assist suite of apps allows customers to optimize their load cycles to improve profitability. Load Assist is standard on new Volvo L60H to L350H...
Improving Accuracy and Productivity for Wheel Loaders — Volvo Load Assist
Blog 8/3/2023
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% and...
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...
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