Volvo takes aim at vocational trucks with 540-hp VNX launch

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. — Volvo Trucks North America unveiled the all-new VNX on Wednesday, a vocational and heavy-haul truck built for a segment where Volvo is looking to expand its market reach. Peter Voorhoeve, president of Volvo Trucks North America, put the company’s share of North American vocational sales at 2% to 3%. The VNX shares an electrical architecture with the long-haul VNL and regional-haul VNR , the result of what Volvo said was a $3 billion investment in product development and manufacturing. Vocational work makes up about a quarter of the North American truck market, Voorhoeve said at a preview event at Volvo Construction Equipment’s Customer Center.