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French commercial truck and military vehicle manufacturer

Key facts

Company type
Subsidiary
Industry
Automotive
Predecessor
Saviem , Berliet , Dodge UK
Founded
1978 (as a merger between Saviem and Berliet )
Headquarters
Saint-Priest , Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes , France
Key people
Antoine Declaux (President)
Products
Trucks, military vehicles
Revenue
€6.42 billion (2024)
Net income
€201 million (2024)
Number of employees
7,554 (2018)
Parent
Volvo
Subsidiaries
Renault Trucks Defense
Website
www.renault-trucks.com

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Official website

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With 55,000 vehicles sold in 2025, Renault Trucks is one of the world leaders in heavy goods vehicles. The 10 000 employees of our company are involved in the design, production and sales of trucks and services. Whether delivering goods, collecting waste or supplying urban construction sites, Renault Trucks E-Tech vehicles glide silently and efficiently through the city, producing zero local emissions. Pedestrians and cyclists move safely alongside these trucks, electric utility vehicles, electric cargo bikes and refurbished lorries fitted with remanufactured parts. Lower emissions, reduced resource consumption – Renault Trucks is is paving the way for more virtuous transport, where electromobility and the circular economy go hand in hand. For several years already, the manufacturer has been leading the way in the large-scale decarbonisation of the transport sector. Today, in 2025 . Behind this transformation are dedicated men and women – mechanics, engine plant team leaders, engineers, and managers in R&D, specialised in energy transition. Across Renault Trucks’ workshops and offices, they are designing, producing, and optimising mobility solutions. Meet Harry, Samantha, Kamilia, Ahmed, Harm, and Felix, working every day to drive the future of more efficient and sustainable transport. The new corporate film was awarded the trophy for Best Innovation in the Corporate Movie category at the All for Content exhibition in Paris in June 2025. With a legacy of over 130 years of French truck know-how, Renault Trucks has kept its headquarters in Lyon, France, since 1894, where all its medium and high-tonnage trucks are designed and manufactured. Renault Trucks also offers a range of services that include solutions for financing and insurance, predictive maintenance, and optimizing fuel use, as well as the supply of spare parts. We offer our customers a wide range of cargo bikes, light commercial vehicles, and new and used trucks (from 350 kg to 60 t), as well as services adapted to a wide range of transport activities, including distribution, construction, heavy construction, long-distance, and special use. Renault Trucks vehicles are powered by diesel engines and alternative energy sources, namely electricity, compressed natural gas, and biofuels. Committed to the energy transition, Renault Trucks offers trucks with controlled fuel consumption as well as 100% electric vehicles, both with an extended operating life. Renault Trucks vehicles and their related services are delivered to professionals through a network of over 1,500 sales and service outlets in more than 150 countries. To supply our 1,200 dealers and a dozen regional and local stores worldwide, our spare parts distribution centre in Lyon ships 15,000 orders daily, totaling over 60,000 part numbers, to 115 countries. To provide assistance for customers in the purchase of their trucks, Renault Trucks Financial Services offers a complete range of financial products (credit, lease purchase, finance leases, and service contracts) and insurance services (financial loss, damage, and public and employer's liability). Every day, 1,100 people design and develop these trucks, and 4,600 people produce all the components and assemble them. Convinced that environmental protection requires a virtuous economy, we also offer reconditioned used trucks that are perfectly adapted to the needs of hauliers and the environmental constraints of the countries in which they are used. The company is accelerating its transition to a circular economy and has set up its own recycling and reuse system for the parts for heavy goods vehicles. Renault Trucks manufactures its trucks and most of its components in France. For some destinations in Africa and the Middle East, we rely on local partners who assemble vehicles imported as spare parts (CKD: Completely Knocked Down). Renault Trucks, which employs 10,000 people worldwide, is part of the Volvo Group , one of the world's leading manufacture

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Encyclopedic overview

Renault Trucks is a French commercial truck manufacturer with corporate headquarters at Saint-Priest near Lyon. Originally part of Renault, it has been a subsidiary of Volvo since 2001.

From its beginnings in 1978 to 2002, the company was called Renault Véhicules Industriels (Renault Industrial Vehicles), from 1992 on officially written as Renault V. I.. Until 2002, Renault Véhicules Industriels also manufactured buses.

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