Thrilling facts about the world’s second biggest truck maker.

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Gothenburg-based Volvo Group, the world's second-biggest truck maker, has compiled a list of remarkable facts about how it’s “moving the world” and how its products “are busy keeping society running smoothly”.

• One in every seven meals eaten in Europe has been transported at some time by a truck from the Volvo Group.

• If all the Volvo buses in the world started at the same time, they would be able to transport more than 10 million people.

• Every day, 300,000 construction machines from the Volvo Group work on constructing roads and buildings and on helping to run mines, forestry operations and farms.

• Throughout the world there are more than 200,000 industrial engines from Volvo Penta, helping among other things to ensure power supply for hospitals, airports and irrigation systems.

• Every year, 2 billion people fly all over the planet. In 2009, Volvo Aero supplied components to more than 90 percent of all the world's large civilian aircraft engines.

• With the 2 million tonnes of refuse that Mack Trucks refuse vehicles transport every week in the USA, it would be possible to build a column of filled refuse bins reaching all the way to the moon.

• 80 percent of all the snow that falls on Japan's roads is ploughed away using vehicles from UD Trucks.