Volvo’s safety-focused A50 ADT design wins Red Dot Award

A true collaboration between teams 

Nina Augustsson, design director at Volvo CE, said: “This award recognizes years of work to put safety at the heart of articulated hauler design, not as a feature, but as a fundamental design principle. Design and engineering worked as one team from the very beginning. We challenged each other constantly, always with safety, functionality, and serviceability as our starting point. This long-term partnership has made it possible to raise standards, deliver true modularity, and create a product with real character, outstanding quality, and demonstrably higher safety.”

“The challenge was to make shared components work across very different proportions while still creating a strong and coherent family identity. When seen together, the smallest and largest haulers are clearly related, despite their dramatic differences in scale.”

Daniel Tiger, expert system owner Articulated Hauler at Volvo CE Braas, said: “The A50 is not a standalone product, but part of a modular articulated hauler platform with shared components across a wide range of sizes. From an engineering perspective, it brings together diverse stakeholder requirements into a single, best-in-class product concept that delivers in terms of safety, efficiency, durability, environmental performance, and total cost of ownership.”