Scania receives large truck order in Brazil

Scania receives large truck order in Brazil

Scania is delivering 260 tipper trucks to the Brazilian company Odebrecht. The
delivery includes driver training and on-board transport planning computers. It
is the largest single truck order in the 51-year history of Scania Brasil.


Odebrecht is Latin America's largest engineering and construction company.

“This is a very important transaction, not only because it includes many trucks
but because it also confirms and strengthens Scania's position in the
construction segment. According to Odebrecht, our trucks meet all their
requirements and provide the best overall operating economy,” says Robert
Leoncini, Scania Brasil's sales manager.

Delivery of the trucks has begun and will continue until the end of the year. 

All the vehicles are Scania P 420 model three-axle trucks with 420 hp engines.
All trucks will be supplied with on-board computers for real-time vehicle
monitoring and transport planning. One hundred of the trucks will be equipped
with the computer-aided Scania Opticruise gearchanging system. Odebrecht's
choice of Scania Opticruise is based on the company's own tests, which confirmed
the benefits of the system in terms of driveability and efficiency.

Scania will train drivers on the spot at the construction sites where the trucks
go into service. The training course will include economical and safe driving
techniques that will help reduce both fuel consumption and vehicle wear.

Scania delivers driver training in nearly 40 countries worldwide. Driver
training is an investment with a very short repayment period, since drivers can
improve fuel economy by an average of about 10 per cent by changing their
driving behaviour.

Brazil is the hub of Scania's Latin American operations, with more than 3,000
employees and with production and central marketing units in São Paulo. Since
establishing its Brazilian operations in 1957, Scania has manufactured more than
240,000 vehicles in the country, 200,000 of them trucks. About 40 percent of the
heavy trucks on Brazilian roads today carry the Scania brand.
For further information, please contact Hans-Åke Danielsson, Press Manager, tel.
+46 8 553 856 62



Scania is one of the world's leading manufacturers of trucks and buses for heavy
transport applications, and of industrial and marine engines. A growing
proportion of the company's operations consists of products and services in the
financial and service sectors, assuring Scania customers of cost-effective
transport solutions and maximum uptime. Employing 35,000 people, Scania operates
in about 100 countries. Research and development activities are concentrated in
Sweden, while production takes place in Europe and South America, with
facilities for global interchange of both components and complete vehicles. In
2007, invoiced sales totalled SEK 84.5  billion and the net income amounted to
SEK 8.6 billion. 

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