The firm bought five Volvo EC55C and six Volvo ECR88 Plus’ for its plant fleet joining the initial batch of EC55’s purchased just over a year ago.

“We decided to purchase our first batch of Volvo EC55C’s based on their sound reputation and strong third party references,” commented Advance Construction’s Managing Director Seamus Shields.

“And it’s proved to be a good decision for us. The machines have performed faultlessly, they give a good return on the investment and not least have been welcomed by our machine operators, so as we needed to expand our fleet it wasn’t a difficult decision to opt for the Volvo product once again.”

The larger 8.8 tonne machines are new to Advance Construction and were selected following a successful demonstration and trials carried out on one of the company’s current site development projects.

“We found the ECR88 to be a very good all-rounder, with good dig depth and reach, the ability to load lorries with ease coupled to a high degree of flexibility and manoeuvrability,” said Shields.