Tomorrow’s transportation will be sustainable in terms of both ecology and economy. That will be Volvo Trucks’ main message at the IAA show in Hanover on September 23-30, when the company will stake out the path for the future by showing unique new green technologies. The new Volvo FMX construction truck will also be premiered at IAA.

60 per cent of all accidents in which a truck collides with a pedestrian or cyclist can be blamed on the driver’s blind spot. Many of the people injured are children. In Denmark, Volvo Trucks and several other organisations have therefore joined forces in a project designed to teach children how to behave when there are trucks around.

A large-scale safety research project is now being rolled out in collaboration with DHL Tradeteam in the UK and Dutch haulage firm Nijhof-Wassink. The aim is to study driver behaviour in various traffic situations and to examine how this behaviour interfaces with the truck’s on-board safety systems.