20 May 2021
Product
By the end of tomorrow, (Friday 21 May), Volvo Trucks will have shown its wares to some 550 operators over two weeks at the Millbrook proving ground.
The event featured 11 trucks across the whole range, including its future fuel solutions, LNG and electric.18 Visitors, including existing and prospective customers, have been able to drive on a variety of road types within Millbrook, including the opportunity to take a pair of 8x4 tippers on the off-road route.
Presentations also looked at support products such as connectivity and finance.
Joe Roddy, Volvo’s network sales director for UK and Ireland said “It’s been fantastic to meet customers face to-face again. It’s been great to see how busy how busy operators are, especially in the construction sector. We could sell every 8x4 tipper we could get our hands on tomorrow.”
This 8x4 hookloader has Hyva lifting gear, a manual transmission and sheeting system.
It’s been fitted with a reversing camera and has had one owner from new who has maintained it to a very high standard.
You can see the full advert here.
Volvo hosts major demo event for operators
20 May 2021
Product
By the end of tomorrow, (Friday 21 May), Volvo Trucks will have shown its wares to some 550 operators over two weeks at the Millbrook proving ground.
The event featured 11 trucks across the whole range, including its future fuel solutions, LNG and electric.18 Visitors, including existing and prospective customers, have been able to drive on a variety of road types within Millbrook, including the opportunity to take a pair of 8x4 tippers on the off-road route.
The uplifting
Pre-Form, Future Museums latest release for renowned Austin electronic outfit Holodeck Records, experienced what lead sound designer and multi-instrumentalist Neil Lord calls synchronicity. It s been an incredibly surreal experience regarding the timing of it all, he states about the release and the recent birth of his son.
The album puffs and drenches in an unusual clarification, each notion more defining than the one before it. Where much of Future Museums work typically introduces varying levels of haze, this iteration – based on Lord s lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences – finds the local producer in a period of evolving clarity. The all electronic
Aldermen pass controversial firefighters pension change; spy plane bill dies
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
Feb. 6 ST. LOUIS
The Board of Aldermen on Friday gave final approval to legislation giving a firefighter-controlled board supervision of all city fire pensions over the objections of two key city financial officials.
Aldermen passed the bill, 19-3, despite warnings from Comptroller
Darlene Green and Budget Director
Paul Payne that the measure reverses some of the reforms passed in 2012 that put a check on the city s pension liabilities.
The issue, backed by the politically influential firefighters union, now goes to Mayor
Lyda Krewson, who has yet to take a position on it.