After six days, 3000+ kilometres and 365 photos I'm back home. What a ride. This was truly one of those things you will remember the rest of your life and I'm glad I did it. Before I make my last post and give you a compilation of the Volvo stuff we saw on our trip I'd like to thank all of my fellow student friends and teachers. Without you this wouldn't been possible. So Rami, Ilkka, Minna, Teija, Erno, Mikael, Sanna, Nina and Vili. Thank you!
Volvo museum at Göteborg
Thursday began promising. Our goal was to attend local logistics and trasport fair at the "svenska mässan" center. I was the first to arrive. Soon we noticed that the fair was a bit small and it took us about an hour or two to stroll everything. Shame. I was hoping to see something mindblowing. Anyway, me Mikael and Erno decided to travel back in time and go to the Volvo museum. The journey there took about 45 minutes. We used tram and bus like pro traffic engineers. No problems what so ever. Well unless we count the time we almost scared to death when the bus routescreen said "next stop ID-control". We tought that were going to check our passports or something. Also we were out of out ticket range. Daytickets are valid only inside Göteborg city zone.
The museum itself was astonishing. There were Volvo cars and truck from 1920's to nearby future. They also had thrown in couple of Volvo jet fighters and an Volvo ocean race theme. Tickets were 60 kronors. Mikael was like a child in a candystore when he found the hall packed with Volvo 200-series models. He own a late 200-series Volvo and still drives it while summer. You just can't kill a 200-serier. Those bricks run from here to eternity. I used to learn how to drive with one. It was my friends car and I flipped it over one time but the damn thing didn't die. Just needed some paintwork and malleting.
My personal favorite was this super coll looking concept car from the past. It was like a mixture of Volvo, Packard, Kaiser, Lincoln and some other cars. I want one!
There was also a new model for people who need couples counselling.
Volvo trucks Tove
Early friday morning we met at the SWF city hotel lobby to go for our final visit at Tove Volvo trucks factory.Tove factory lays nearby and it was easy to go there by tram and bus. At the plant we got our private tour train because the another group was late and these people clearly don't have time to wait. Unfortunately taking photos was forbidden inside the factory gates so these are the only photos you are going to see.
Tuve plant is an assemblt plant which means that most of the truck parts like the engine, transmission and cabin come preassembled from other Volvo plants in Sweden. Only thing they make here are the frame rails. These rails are made of swedish steel and the they are formed using high pressure and lasercutting. This particular plant produces 50 trucks a day. Here you can see a cabin examble for model FMX they are assembling at Tuve. This photo was taken at the logistics fair.
The plant works in one line. Frame rails go in and finished truck comes out. Most of the work is just bolting pieces together so there were no welding robots or stuff. The line keeps moving very slowly nad each worker follows one truck 50-70 meters before moving in to another truck. After the finished product has come out it is shipped to the customer after a series of tests and dynometer run.You can also pick up your own truck at the plant and when out group left I think I saw one guy doing just that.
So overall it was a wonderful trip. And I would definately do it again.
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