Cutting edge technology for Heavy Goods Vehicles is under development from Volvo to substantially reduce the weight of Trucks. The technology has been developed by the aircraft division of the company and is predicted to reduce the weight of trucks by 20% with no reduction in payload.
The technology is estimated to be about 10 years away from being ready to bring to market within the haulage industry. Their is a keen appetite for this technology in the HGV market, as with a reduction in weight there also comes a reduction in both running costs and emissions.
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I expect the cost of that to be far to high for the average trucking company to make the investment in greener trucks. The uptake will be slow but it has to start somewhere.
By: Eric @ HGV Insurance on July 8, 2009
at 6:43 am