Waberer’s To Increase Volvo Fleet
Hungarian road transport and logistics company provider, Waberer’s Optimum Solution, has signed an agreement with the Hungarian subsidiary of Volvo trucks, to obtain some 1500 of the Volvo FH Model trucks.
Building on a previous agreement in 2006, the new agreement will see Waberer’s take delivery of the Volvo trucks, the completion of deliveries expected by 2011. Waberer’s already enjoys a fleet of some 2500 vehicles as well as having access to 600 sub-contacted vehicles.
Speaking to the ten years of cooperation between Waberer’s and Volvo, David Illes the Managing Director of Volvo Hungary said that “collaboration between the companies began in 1998, and since then Volvo Trucks has delivered on average more than 200 trucks to the company every year.”
Volvo Trucks has operated in Hungary since 1997, at present the company’s presence in the country consists of the Volvo Truck Centre in Budapest, as well as partnerships with nine privately owned workshops throughout Hungary. In 2007 Volvo Trucks delivered 771 trucks to the Hungarian market, an increase of 22 percent compared to the previous year.
Waberer’s Optimum Solution, currently serves as Central Eastern Europe’s largest own-truck, road transportation and logistics company, the company being based out of the Budapest Intermodal Logistics Centre.
Source: Business Wire and Waberer’s Group of Companies
