2025 VOLVO VNL 860

The Volvo VNL is built to exceed your expectations. It has been pushing the boundaries for a quarter century and will continue to set the standards of excellence today and tomorrow.

Our flagship model, the high-roof VNL 860, builds on Volvo’s foundation of fuel efficiency, driver productivity, safety, and uptime. The upgraded 77-inch sleeper has plenty of space, storage, and amenities to let team drivers feel at home, away from home.

A completely redesigned exterior offers improved airflow, along with state-of-the-art LED lighting for improved visibility and reduced maintenance. Inside, seating has been ergonomically optimized, while the dashboard and steering wheel bring controls and information efficiently to the driver with minimal distraction.

The Volvo VNL is built for the needs of today’s—and tomorrow’s—long-haul trucking operations. This VNL is built on Volvo’s foundation of fuel efficiency, driver productivity, safety, and uptime. It’s optimized to keep you competitive in today’s marketplace and offers industry leading features to meet a driver’s needs. An aerodynamic front end manages airflow, while state-of-the-art LED lighting creates outstanding visibility and reduced maintenance. Inside, seating is ergonomically optimized, while the dashboard and steering wheel bring controls and information efficiently to the driver.

The VN line was introduced in 1996 with a revolutionary aerodynamic shape to dramatically improve fuel efficiency. The low-profile hood and contoured features have influenced every other North American aero truck design since.

Introduced in 2007 and made standard in 2013, the revolutionary I-Shift set a new benchmark for performance. I-Shift created the industry-wide trend away from manual transmissions.

Volvo has made the industry’s most advanced automated transmission even better. The latest edition of the I-Shift includes upgraded hardware and software, greater durability and a new countershaft brake for improved performance and smoother shifting. The electronic control unit can handle any load and any road, shifting perfectly every time. We’ve also improved clutch durability and torsional dampening in both our D11 and D13 models. So I-Shift not only keeps fuel costs down, it can help slow driveline wear, reduce noise, extend transmission life, and lower maintenance costs.

First introduced in 2012, Volvo’s industry-leading Remote Diagnostics is found in every Volvo truck model today. It helps you avoid unexpected downtime by providing 24/7 personal support with staff at the Volvo Uptime Center and features the most robust diagnostics information available on the market.

The next generation Volvo D13TC was first launched in 2019 and delivers up to 6% greater fuel efficiency than the D13 VGT. Now standard in our most popular VNL models, the D13TC turns potentially wasted energy back into horsepower that gets put back into the system to reduce fuel consumption.

For applications operating primarily at cruise speed, Volvo’s D13TC uses turbo compounding to recover lost energy and save fuel. By employing a secondary exhaust turbine downstream of the main turbocharger, the normally lost energy is routed to the flywheel, recovering as much as 50 hp and helping to improve fuel economy by up to 11% compared to our previous generation of powertrains.