Hive runs your Volvo wheel loaders remotely from a single operations centre in Norway. Retrofit-free. Operator-supervised. Deployed today with Veidekke, Yara, the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Feiring Bruk.
Every quarry, aggregates yard and industrial site we talk to says the same thing. The operational constraint is no longer the equipment. It is the people who can run it — and the hours those people are allowed to spend in a cab.
We experience a labor shortage of skilled operators. We needed a solution that can retrofit our existing heavy mobile equipment, rather than replace it — and deliver a clear payback in installation and operating costs.
— Heidelberg Materials, public procurement criteria for autonomous haulage
We wanted a single, user-friendly interface that makes the work of our skilled operators easier — not more complex. And we needed to keep employees out of potentially hazardous situations.
— Heidelberg Materials, same source
Autonomy vendors either bolt hardware onto your machines, lock you into a single OEM, or build for US-only fleets. Hive is the only operator running a remote operations centre model with zero physical changes to your existing Volvo equipment.
Hive uses the sensors, the CAN bus and the telemetry your L-series already has. No rack bolted to the roof. No electronics in the engine bay. The machine you bought is the machine you keep.
Volvo L60 through L350 (2018+) is supported today. The operations model — not the hardware — is the product. When we extend to additional platforms, your operators do not learn a new tool.
One trained operator supervises several machines at once from a single European operations centre. Your people stay on the site doing what they do best. The keyboard-and-joystick hours move to a facility built for them.
We do not quote "global leaders" or "Fortune 500." We quote specific names, specific sites, specific operational outcomes. Here is what is running right now.
Remote wheel-loader snow clearing on one of Norway's most exposed mountain routes — an active avalanche zone where the state does not want operators on site. Supervised live from our Kristiansand operations centre, in production with Presis Veidrift under the Statens Vegvesen contract.
Wheel-loader feeding industrial bulk flows at one of Europe's largest mineral fertiliser plants.
Remote loader operation inside a live Nordic tunnel build — operators out of the confined space.
L-series wheel loader running in an active production quarry. Retrofit-free, Volvo remains under warranty.
Fleet operator partnership — wheel-loader supervision extending across mixed-site operations.
Hive enters through two doors. The same operations centre, the same supervision model, the same retrofit-free hardware position — serving two customer categories with different procurement logic.
Wheel loaders on active production sites. Customers measure themselves in cost per tonne, LTIF, and how fast a new shift can be unlocked without hiring. Margin pressure sits firmly inside this segment — and so does procurement readiness.
The segment where wheel loaders live inside a production process — feeding hoppers, handling bulk raw material, operating inside facilities with strict safety and uptime requirements. A premium segment, not commodity warehouse AMR territory.
Our customers' boards care about LTIF, not features. Hive removes people from the cabs that matter — avalanche zones, confined tunnels, dusty bulk yards, heat-exposed industrial floors — and puts them in a facility built for operator welfare. This is not a secondary benefit. It is the primary boardroom argument in every conversation we have with Skanska, NCC, CRH and Veidekke safety leadership.
We deliberately do not ask customers to commit a fleet on day one. One machine, one site, one supervised shift — a production pilot built to return a payback number their CFO can sign.
A production deployment, not a demo. Your Volvo, your operators, your KPIs. We share the payback math.
We scale the pilot across a site's wheel-loader fleet. Your KPIs become production targets. We commit to them.
The same model Heidelberg is running: 1 quarry proven, 100+ machines rolled out. No re-engineering required.
Heidelberg Materials moved from a single Texas quarry to a 100+ autonomous truck rollout across 12 sites globally. The pattern is not accidental — it is how industrial buyers de-risk autonomy. Hive is designed around this curve, not against it.
A founding team with operational experience in both the operations centre and the quarry. Contact any of us directly — we run this commercially, not through layers.
Not a form. Not a queue. If you operate Volvo L60 – L350 wheel loaders and you are trying to unlock a shift without hiring, the fastest conversation you will have this quarter is a direct one.
ronny.liverod@hiveautonomy.no →