Volvo limits 2027 truck order slots in North America

Volvo Group is limiting the availability of 2027 order slots for trucks in North America even as production plants across the region ramp up hiring and output, CEO Martin Lundstedt said Oct. 23. Uncertainty about how demand in the North American truck market will unfold as a result of the Environmental Protection Agency failing to finalize nitrogen oxide emissions regulations ahead of a Jan. 1 launch meant production slots deeper into 2027 were being rationed, Lundstedt said during the company’s third-quarter 2026 earnings call. “We have been restrictive in our order slotting [in North America] in quarter 3 to secure not having an order book that is filled too far into 2027,” he told analysts. Volvo Trucks North America and Mack Trucks opened their order books for 2027 at the start of September. Each of the two Volvo Group divisions reported increased sales in the most recent quarter, and Lundstedt expects production to ramp up further as 2026 comes to a close, particularly after a slow start to the year. VTNA is hiring up to 500 more workers for its New River Valley plant in Dublin, Va., company President Peter Voorhoeve told Transport Topics. Q3 2026 Volvo Capacity at the Virginia plant has been raised and new hires are being onboarded, Voorhoeve told TT in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of American Trucking Associations’ 2026 Management Conference & Exhibition. Mack Trucks added about 270 staff at its Lehigh Valley Operations production plant in Macungie, Pa., in recent months. The current head count at Mack’s biggest assembly plant is now…

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