Volvo cover the ground for Eurovia

Highway and infrastructure service provider takes delivery of new Volvo FM 8x2 rear-steer vehicle

EUROVIA, one of the UK’s leading providers of highway and infrastructure services, have taken delivery of a new Volvo FM 8x2 rear-steer vehicle for highway resurfacing work.

The vehicle is being used by the one of the Group’s specialist businesses, Eurovia Specialist Treatments. Since its arrival, it has proved so successful that there is now an order for a second in the pipeline.

‘We had an urgent need for a new vehicle to service the business in this area,’ explained regional plant and fleet manager Barry Painter.

‘Volvo Truck and Bus Centre North & Scotland at Cardonald not only came up with the right 8x2 rear-steer chassis, but they pulled out all the stops with Acmar, the French body-builder, and the completed truck was delivered with the exact specification we needed – and to a tight schedule.’

The Acmar combination unit sprays and lays as one process and can complete 7,500 square metres of surface dressing in a day. ‘Two vehicles like this working together can achieve an outstanding result, that’s why the order book is out again,’ said Mr Painter.

For the low speed and tight turning circles required, Eurovia needed a manoeuvrable chassis and a transmission that could manage not only extended periods of low-speed operation, but also the ability to travel long distances economically at highway speeds.

‘The Volvo FM 8x2 rear-steer with its I-Shift automated gearbox proved to be the perfect solution,’ confirmed Mr Painter.

The new FM will be used all over the UK, according to demand, and it joins 24 other Volvos in the Eurovia (Ringway) fleet.