Volvo Trucks safety tech hits the tarmac

Oct. 27, 2016
Volvo Trucks' advanced safety systems (and some sharp-looking Volvo tractors) got a test run on the tarmac at the OEM's Safety Symposium this week.

At Volvo Trucks' Safety Symposium this week, reporters got a look at the OEM's advanced safety systems in action on the tarmac. Featuring Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems tech, Volvo Enhanced Stability Technology (VEST) and Volvo Active Driver Assist (VADA) were the stars of the show, with VEST able to avoid rollover and loss-of-control crashes and VADA providing collision avoidance/ mitigation through video- and radar-driven active braking.

Along with a Bendix test truck, two fleets — McKenzie Tank Lines of Tallahassee, FL and Hill Bros. of Omaha, NE — lent a few sharp-looking Volvo tractors equipped with active safety systems to participate in the event, which was held at the Michelin Laurens Proving Grounds in Laurens, SC.

Check out more on Volvo Trucks' safety technology — which includes more than you might think — in our article here.

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Aaron Marsh

Before computerization had fully taken hold and automotive work took someone who speaks engine, Aaron grew up in Upstate New York taking cars apart and fixing and rewiring them, keeping more than a few great jalopies (classics) on the road that probably didn't deserve to be. He spent a decade inside the Beltway covering Congress and the intricacies of the health care system before a stint in local New England news, picking up awards for both pen and camera.

He's written about you-name-it, from transportation and law and the courts to events of all kinds and telecommunications, and landed in trucking when he joined Fleet Owner in July 2015. Long an editorial leader, he's a keeper of knowledge at Fleet Owner ready to dive in on the technical and the topical inside and all around trucking—and still turns a wrench or two. Or three. 

And he's never without a camera, or so rumor has it.

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