HayWay provides truck, trailer and haulage yard rental services as well as transporting goods for customers. (Volvo Trucks North America)
January 30, 2026 2:05 PM, EST
Key Takeaways:
- HayWay ordered 80 Volvo VNL 860 tractors as it expands operations into the U.S. market.
- The company expects to scale its American fleet to 1,400 vehicles by 2029.
- Volvo Trucks reports steady January orders and anticipates stronger Class 8 demand later in 2026.
HayWay Logistics is set to buy 80 Volvo VNL 860 sleeper tractors as part of the rollout of the Polish transportation group’s North American ambitions.
Parent company HayWay Group employs 900 staff in Europe and operates in 11 European countries, CEO Artur Lewandowski said in an interview with Transport Topics.
By June, the company’s European operations will have 600 trucks. It has 200 trucks on order, the executive said.
The company provides truck, trailer and haulage yard rental services as well as transporting goods for customers.
HayWay currently has seven U.S. employees but is set to receive its first five trucks by the end of March, Lewandowski said, with 20 by June.
“The U.S. is the place where you can see the people who can in one year or five years reach something that in Europe is impossible. The country is so big,” Lewandowski said.
HayWay’s trucks are being registered in Wyoming but will not be located there. The carrier will use the 80 tractors for longhaul, cross-country operations, transporting freight between Southern California and New York for Amazon.
“What we want to focus on is the deliveries from [Los Angeles] to New York, from New York to Chicago, from Chicago to L.A.,” Lewandowski said.
The company will operate team drivers. It is registered for the DAT Freight & Analytics and Amazon Relay load boards. “We want to focus specially on critical delivery,” Lewandowski said.
(Volvo Trucks North America)
“For me personally, this step represents the American dream in action, building something new, taking smart risks and investing for the long term,” the executive noted in a statement accompanying the purchase of the trucks.
Looking ahead, HayWay plans to expand its U.S. fleet to 1,400 vehicles by 2029.
But first comes the debut of the company’s initial trucks in North America, working in partnership with Volvo Trucks North America.
Despite the ongoing freight recession, there are carriers starting out, and the Volvo Group division is working hard to support their ambitions in an especially tough market, VTNA Regional Vice President-West Jared Ruiz told TT.
“What we did with Artur is we worked together to come up with a good plan for a schedule for deliveries and tried to match that up with the growth and rollout of his company so that we’re all on the same page — making sure we are in close coordination,” Ruiz said.
“I think it’s important that there’s close coordination from the beginning, and we set the right type of expectations and growth to support it. Also, with financing obviously a big part of growth for somebody expanding or entering a new market … we’ve included our friends at Volvo Financial Services — our financial arm within Volvo — closely, before we ordered any trucks and made sure that we all had everything in place that’s needed,” Ruiz said.
Over in Europe, HayWay’s SIS Trans division placed an order earlier in January for 150 Volvo FH Aero trucks.
“HayWay Group’s decision to enter the U.S. market with an order of 80 all-new Volvo VNLs is a bold move and a strong signal of confidence in our brand,” said Peter Voorhoeve, president of VTNA.
“The order builds on a long-standing relationship with Volvo Trucks in Europe, and we are proud to partner with HayWay for their U.S. expansion. HayWay’s commitment to safety, innovation and long-term growth aligns closely with how we support customers expanding into new markets,” he added.
North American truck orders were weak for much of the final quarter of 2025, so much so that Volvo Group production plants will be shut for a number of isolated weeks in the first three months of 2026, but the company is optimistic about 2026.
Ruiz told TT that January had seen steady orders after the rush of orders in December.
Preliminary Class 8 truck orders soared 118% in December to 42,700 units from 19,547 in November and rose 16% year over year, according to ACT Research data.
“Right now, I’m starting to hear and see from fleets that some of the freight rates are increasing, which is positive. Interest rates are down; if those stay where they’re at, I think that it’ll help this market stay in a good place and make a ramp-up,” Ruiz said.
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“Obviously there’s a lot of talk about EPA ’27 regulations, and we do think that they will spark a degree of pre-buy. The degree is to be determined, but we do think there will be some increase,” he said.
“If you look at the full year of 2026, it’ll be heavier volumes in the back half of the year is what we’re forecasting here. A lot of the sentiment and appetite from the fleets seem to match that stance. So we’ll see how it plays out from here,” Ruiz added.
VTNA and Mack Trucks parent Volvo Group lifted its full-year 2026 industrywide Class 8 sales expectations by 15,000 trucks or 6% to 265,000 vehicles when releasing its fourth-quarter 2025 earnings Jan. 28.
Mack orders in North America totaled 5,615 trucks in Q4, a 30% slump year over year from 7,969 trucks. VTNA won 5,472 orders in Q4, a 39% dive compared with 8,960 trucks a year earlier.
