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Five electric truck questions with Manhattan Beer Distributors

If you’ve ever been in New York City and purchased a beer from a bar, restaurant or similar establishment, there is a sizable chance that it got there by way of Manhattan Beer Distributors. The New York fleet services all of metro New York City with its 400 trucks, delivering 45 million cases of beer

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Eaton offers concentric pneumatic clutch actuators for Detroit, Volvo, Mack transmissions

Eaton has introduced two new concentric pneumatic clutch actuators (CPCAs) designed for commercial vehicle push-type diaphragm spring clutches. The CPCAs help optimize vehicle performance by working with a vehicle’s automated manual transmission (AMT) to continuously determine the ideal release position and clutch actuation when the transmission shifts, Eaton says. The CPCAs serve as an aftermarket

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Volvo Trucks, NFI team up for Run on Less – Electric

Volvo Trucks North America, along with third-party supply chain solutions provider NFI, is participating in Run on Less–Electric (RoL-E), an electric truck technology demonstration that showcases advancements in freight efficiency. In 2020, NFI became one of the first fleets in North America to take delivery of Volvo VNR Electrics, which operate out of its Chino

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An electric truck Q&A with Volvo Trucks North America’s president

On the heels of Volvo Trucks North America’s recent delivery of the first of five VNR Electric trucks to New York fleet Manhattan Beer Distributors, Volvo Trucks North America President Peter Voorhoeve took some time to answer a few questions from the trucking press on the trucks and Volvo’s overall EV plan. Here is what

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Volvo Trucks delivers the first of five VNR Electrics to Manhattan Beer Distributors

On Thursday, Volvo Trucks North America held an event delivering the first of five VNR Electric trucks to Manhattan Beer Distributors in New York City. The event, held in the Hunts Point neighborhood of New York City, featured local politicians as well as leaders from the involved businesses, all of whom praised the commitment to

Six electric truck questions with DHE

The year 2020 was the first time that fleets began to take delivery of electric trucks as part of pilot programs. Since we have (somehow) already raced past the midpoint of 2021, FE checked in with fleets to see how their experiences have been with these trucks; how the trucks have held up compared to

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Charging infrastructure Q&A with Volvo Trucks

Transitioning all or part of your fleet to battery electric trucks can seem intimidating, because the process affects not only the trucks themselves, but also the bigger business picture. Dwell time, PMs, fuel costs, even your fleet’s physical site – it’s all going to change. You might be confident that your choice of electric trucks

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Volvo Trucks to offer Volvo Blue Contract truck maintenance program

Volvo Trucks North America has introduced the Volvo Blue Contract service offering, a maintenance program that the OEM says is designed to improve uptime, assist in optimizing truck performance and simplify maintenance management for customers and dealers. The new Volvo Blue Contract provides one premium service plan that replaces existing maintenance plans currently offered to

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Volvo Trucks North America, United Auto Workers agree on new contract

Volvo Trucks North America and employees represented by the United Auto Workers union (UAW) have agreed to a new six-year agreement covering about 2,900 members of UAW Local #2069 at New River Valley truck assembly operations (NRV) in Dublin, Virginia.    “This agreement allows us to continue providing our employees with a great quality of

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Volvo Trucks enables expanded video recorder, driver-facing camera with Bendix SafetyDirect

Bendix announced the release of its fifth-generation SafetyDirect Processor (SDP5 Full) on the Volvo VNL, VNR, and VHD models. The SDP5 Full processor, delivering new capabilities for the online SafetyDirect platform by Bendix, enables features such as a digital video recorder (DVR) that continuously records up to 145 hours of streaming video from Bendix’s forward-facing

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Volvo Group breaks ground on vehicle propulsion lab

During a groundbreaking ceremony, the Volvo Group announced a $33 million expansion of its powertrain research and development site in Hagerstown, Maryland for the construction of a new, state-of-the-art Vehicle Propulsion Lab (VPL). Volvo’s VPL will be the first facility in North America to allow comprehensive testing of current and future products for Volvo Trucks,

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Right here, right now: Busting three myths about remote diagnostics

Here’s a riddle for you: If time is money and timing is everything, what would it mean to your fleet to save a big ol’ sack full of cash on truck maintenance? In the words of the Red Rocker himself, Sammy Hagar, on Van Halen’s 1991 hit Right Now: “It means everything.” That is what

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