CASE STUDY: VOLVO
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"Most manulacturers produce manuals for dismantling trucks, often in PDF form," says Roy Cattley, legislation and environmental manager at Volvo UK, Our position is that unlike cars, which tend to get dumped at the side of the road, trucks by their very nature of construction contain a large percentage of metals that have an end-of-life --
value and therefore either tend to be scrapped effectively or sold on to other (possibly third-world) countries. Thus there is not a need for legislation to control a non-problem-otherwise we have 'gold plating' of regulations.
"Volvo Trucks has long considered dismantling options as part of the design brief, including having had chemical classification as part of our black (nonapproved) and grey (to be designed out materials. In a typical truck out of 7,000kg about 5,250kg is steel."