Hi, Welcome to the video, here we have some cool trucks from New Zealand probably the coolest trucks in the world we think ;) you will see Scania which has some of the nicest looking rigs out here, other trucks are Kenworth, Mack, Mercedes-Benz, Fuso, Mercedes-Benz, MAN, Daf western star, and more! please enjoy matt
Not sure if there's been any surveys on the number of traditional '6-wheeler' prime-movers still operating in NZ. But there's definitely an increase in the number of 8-wheelers' hauling semis, B-trains, Super-B (Aussie B-double) and the odd A-train. Almost neck-n-neck with 8-wheel truck & trailers. Having said that, I haven't seen too many 8-wheeler prime-movers across 'the ditch' in Aussie, which means NZ is the home of the 8-wheeler prime-mover.
Nice video boys. Watching from Australia. Keeping an eye out for my old Gilmours truck and trailer unit heading back from new Plymouth through sanson going to palmy. Didn’t see it this trip.
Beautiful land, nice folks, awesome iron, but crappy dictatorial goobernment and I hate the backwards right side controls design and the driving on the left side of the road ! I love the fact that you can choose if you want an European brand truck or an American brand truck, thing which is impossible in North America and in Europe also. You the kiwis and the aussies have the best of both designs to choose from. For the rest of us it’s either one or the other, and no more V8 in a class 8 truck in North America since they discontinued the Mack E9 in the nineties ! LOL can’t even import a darn Scania V8 truck (nor an engine for highway application) in the US and Canada unless it’s over 25 years old. (new Scania V8 engines are available only for marine and industrial applications in the US)
I've driven in both 'correct' (left side) of the road and 'wrong' (right-side) of the road countries. Since 90% of the world's population are right-handed, it makes more sense to drive on the left-hand side with right-hand drive vehicles. Consider in the old days when armed horsemen (remember the 90%), would always approach each other from the left-side with their right hand holding their weapon ready to strike. All Navy helicopters (US included), have the chopper commander seated in the 'right seat', to do a 'traditional' left-side approach to ship borne landings, as opposed to the 'left seat' Captain on a civilian commercial aircraft. Blame left-handed Napoleon Bonaparte, for screwing up half the world's road-users.
@@nitsujnaej a truck / motor vehicle ain’t a horse and the days of riding horses and getting into sword ⚔️ fights are long gone, right? You see, even when you walk, your body’s balancing while in motion by synchronizing the movement of your limbs from the right foot to the left hand and from the left foot to the right hand. Clutching with the left foot and shifting gears with your left hand kinda throws your body out of wack and it takes more effort to getting used to it while the movement of clutching with the left foot and shifting gears with the right hand comes more natural to your body. These days when 9 out of 10 new trucks are automatics, it don’t make any difference, but I’m old school and when I started driving trucks for a living there were maybe one in then thousand trucks that had an Allison automatic in it. The rest were all with a clutch pedal and a shifter lever (sometimes two sticks, Spicer 5x3, 5x4, 6x4 etc.) manual transmissions. Anywho, since the right side of the road is undoubtedly the right side to be driving on, it makes perfect sense to have the controls mounted on the left side of the cab, right? LOL
You only have to look at old 'pre-Napoleonic' paintings, to see what side of the road people, horse and carts travelled on, it was the left-side. Studies of Roman quarry haulage in Italy and Britain, show evidence of heavy ruts (under load) made by carts travelling on the left-side out of quarries. As a 90% right-hander (who's driven in South America), experience has shown (auto and manual), that an extra action is necessary, to 'momentarily' release my right (dominant hand) on the wheel, hold the wheel with my left, so I can shift the stick or selector. Then I revert back to my dominant right hand to hold the steering wheel. In a right-hand drive, no such action is necessary. My dominant right-hand never leaves the wheel. In Drury South Auckland NZ, I operated quarry dumpers (which are all left-hand drive), where the above conditions applied when driving a left-hand drive vehicle. Dunno what you're trying to achieve, by going off into Spicer gear shifts. About as relevant in this discussion as Fuller Eaton Road Rangers (which I've also operated). But going back to those sword carrying blokes on horseback, there's always historical context as to why certain thing happen. You should learn the lesson mate.
It's great seeing those trucks across the Tasman. Certainly some familiar companies to what I see daily in Sydney (Mainfreight from NZ, K&S from Aus, Holcim, Linfox from Aus). Mainfreight run Road Trains over here too. They look sharp.
Don’t get me wrong, I like my W900Ls with the 86” studio sleepers and the classic 379 Petes, but I’d love me a big power V8 Scania with that “longline” cab too ! Not possible in America !
@@craigsibley8161 Here in New Zealand super singles aren't as common as dual wheels (which majority of our trailers use). Over here super singles are usually only used for skeletal trailers or large 50 foot semi trailers.
@@dallasfrost1996 Maybe it's a European thing they took hold big time here from the 90s on. It's a rarity seeing duals on a 44 tonner here now. Got to say though NZ has the coolest varieties of trucks from European, North American and Asian truck makers...
@@craigsibley8161 I've watched a few truck spotting videos from Europe and have noticed countries in this region specifically use trailers with super singles (there are some exceptions such as Finland and Sweden, which use dual wheels as well). The reasoning may have to do with weight, most European countries have a max weight limit of 40-44 tonnes, whereas here in New Zealand that's just the starting point. Many of our trucks are around 50-55 tonnes, and some even reach up to 62 tonnes. Yeah, we New Zealander's and also Australian's are quite lucky, we're spoiled for choices when it comes to trucks. Majority of the "American" trucks over here are actually New Zealand/Australian specific models which you'll not find in the States. Our versions are extra beefed up compared to their true American counterparts. We do also have true American models as well, such as the Mack Anthem, Freightliner Cascadia, International Lonestar, Western Star 47X and 49X.
