Scottish contractor and plant hirer Advance Construction is further expanding its excavator fleet with an additional 11 compact Volvo machines, in addition to the 10 Cats that it recently purchased.

Advance has bought five Volvo EC55C and six Volvo ECR88 Plus excavators after trialling an initial batch of EC 55s last year.

“We decided to purchase our first batch of Volvo EC55C’s based on their sound reputation and strong third party references,” said 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.”

Mr Shields described the 8.8t ECR88 Plus excavator as “a very good all-rounder, with good dig depth and reach”.

Advance runs a fleet of 400 items of mobile plant, including 75 excavators.

Plant manager Gareth Mollan said: “Our initial batch of Volvo machines have been extremely reliable and have become a firm favourite with our operators. Equally the product is very user friendly when it comes to routine service and maintenance.”

Advance Construction also recently took delivery of 10 new Caterpillar excavators – it’s first major Cat purchase.

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