Why are you loading very little quantity of ballast? Just thrée bucket full of 5tonnes each?How can these trucks break even financially? Chinese trucks load 8 times what is being shown here. It's not a wonder European contractors lost all construction jobs in 3rd world to the Chinese.
Three men laid the foundation for Volvo Construction Equipment: Johan Theofron Munktell and the brothers Jean Bolinder and Carl Gerhard Bolinder.[2]
In 1832, Johan Theofron Munktell, then only 27, founds what became Volvo Construction Equipment in Eskilstuna, Sweden. In 1913, Munktell and his team produce Sweden's first tractor. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Sweden, other entrepreneurs were making progress: brothers Jean and Carl Gerhard Bolinder of Stockholm had been since 1844 manufacturing steam engines and crude engine oil.
In 1932, exactly one-hundred years after Johan Theofron Munktell’s start in Eskilstuna, Bolinder moves to Eskilstuna and both companies merge under the name AB Bolinder-Munktell. In 1934, Bolinder Munktell produces the legendary BM 25 tractor.
In 1950, Volvo buys the machine manufacturer Bolinder-Munktell (BM). Four years later in 1954, the company produces its first wheel loader H10; the world's first to feature a parallel lift arm system and attachment bracket, establishing Volvo as one of the leading construction companies in the world. They produced the world's first articulated hauler: the Volvo DR 631 Gravel Charlie - in 1966.
In 1973, the company name changes to Volvo BM AB. In 1985, Volvo BM allies itself with the American manufacturer Clark Equipment and its subsidiary Euclid Trucks. The product name Clark Michigan was abbreviated to Michigan and the three brand names Volvo BM, Michigan and Euclid were incorporated in the new company VME Group.
