Late last week Volvo Group North America announced it planned to lay off hundreds of workers at its Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks operations in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia over the next three months. The global truck maker is taking the action to “align production with reduced demand for our vehicles,” a company spokesperson said.
TIL Volvo owns Mack Trucks
Aktiebolaget Volvo also owns Renault Trucks, but I don’t think that’s very popular in the US.
This is not to be confused with Volvo Personvagnar Aktiebolaget (“Volvo Cars”), as Volvo Cars was sold off Zhejiang Geely in 2010.
Renaults haven’t been sold in the states in many, many decades. I’m not actually sure they were available outside of grey market imports at any point