Volvo FH

New trucks are still being manufactured when they are tested and crashed against a wall in high numbers.

Looking at the improvement of the new Volvo FH, the Swedish producers go for over 20 different crash tests to check the outcome of an accident.

With the help of trucks and dummies.

The design department of Volvo Trucks.

The researchers in Sweden use another wind tunnel in order to simulate extreme climate situations on European roads.

Wind speeds of up to 90 kilometers an hour as well as heat of up to 55 degrees Celsius.

The experts arranged for about 50 tests for the development of the new Volvo FH alone in all a testing period of more than two years.

We are doing this kind of test to avoid any risk for causing accidents out on the field or for our customers.

So this will be a version 4, I believe.

And we have also bought a Volvo FH version 5, which is a 2023 plate.

Both of them being flat caps as well.

The FM immediately catches the eye because it's so different, isn't it? So it's a day cab.

It's called BUUK Waste and Recycling in Hamburg.

Its Hamburg depot runs 53 vehicles, 14 are fully electric, Volvo FH and FM Electrics.

A diesel truck costs BUUK 1 euro 70 to 1.75 a kilometer to run.

Electric, 1 euro 17 to 1 euro 20.