According to Motor Transport, Volvo claims that its engineers have invented a method of HGV construction that significantly reduces weight while maintaining payload.

Reportedly, the idea was derived from the company’s specifically designed aircraft engine components division, in order to make payload a lot easier to conduct.

What is more, the manufacturer also predicts that a 20 per cent reduction in chassis weight will be achievable within the ten or 11 years. Carl Fredrik Hartung, Project Manager at Volvo Technology, has stated that the manufacturer’s team of engineers have long been looking at reducing HGV weight.

In addition to that, Hartung says: “We are creating a super-light HGV in a computer environment that simulates just exactly how hundreds or thousands of small design alterations can reduce an HGV’s total weight, without affecting other key features or characteristics, such as the overall ability of a HGV to carry loads of various types.”

Ultimately, Hartung concludes that Volvo and its team of engineers will, first and foremost, analyse all possible variables and alterations regarding general reduction of HGV weight. This is something which would be of great use to all HGV driving companies.