So since both this manual swapped truck and the blue donor truck are both Norwegian trucks, that should interest you to visit Norway! The blue truck is from Thor Tenden Transport in Stryn. All their trucks are with that stylish paint job. Also, most of europe use only 2 axle trucks, but in Norway the norm is 3 axle trucks. Some with lift axles, most with tandem drive. So go hit up some trucking videos from the western part of Norway, see the scenery and the trucks they drive and the roads they drive on. I myself drive mobile cranes here. Great series Bruce!
There's no rule about 3 axles.. but it's the most convenient for weigth distribution and for winter driving. Eller kan du referere til en bestemt lov jeg ikke har hørt om? Vi har derimot fritak fra diverse EU bestemmelser når det kommer til distanse mellom hytte og tralle på semi.
Next time you should also check out the small finnish truck manufactor Sisu truck, they built trucks with Mercedes V8, hybrid system and fuller gear, many axles, lifteable, steerable.. old Sisu trucks were built with, Cummins, CAT engines..
The Finnish guy is very Finnish. Doesn’t smile all the time, doesn’t interrupt, no constant nervous smalltalk, just listens and replies. All business. Very Finnish. Takes some time to get used to but as soon you do, you just relaxe
I have a feeling that talks a lot more and jokes when talking finnish, he has a really stereotypical rally english around B1 level. So he only says thing he is confident that he gets/pronounces right
@@mrm1885 I think Lapin Kulta beer is for tourists only. Finns seem to drink stuff like Karhu or Sandels if they want quality and Pirkka or Kotimaista if they want a cheap one.
god dang it:)) it's that a hard drink, like when i was in Romania I tried that so called "palinca" and we almost fked our reception desk girl in the hotel:), one of the hardest drink like i think was 70 or maybe 80 vol alcohol @@DuBstep115
That is one of the cleanest, sharpest cabs I've ever seen Bruce. The driver can get to everything without over reaching, plenty of storage and lights. Plenty of lights!!! And a coffee maker!?!?!! TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!! LOL
@@matsv201 Its not for everyone. But you have the exact same deal with car pimping.. So this is no different. It mist be a really nice Office, this one. And that is all.
Such a good series of videos from this trip. I was keen on watching every video the day it got put out. Good work Bruce, hope you had fun here in Finland, although it certainly seemed like you did. :D
USA has had a long lasting problem of having too insular markets that do not need to innovate. US car industry in the early 90s was decade behind everyone else, because they didn't have real competition and were lulled to think that customers would not want anything innovative.. Seems that truck side is still the same. Opening up markets spawn competition and give customers what they want, not just what they can get.
@@MrJurssiМожно свами немного согласиться,но в СССР поставлялись такие грузовики,как финнская SISU,чешская TATRA,даже начали собирать тягачи Kenworth T800 на заводе ZIL в 90-х годах,но с развалом СССР все поставки прекратились.Хотя чешская TATRA до 2000 годов поставляла свои грузовики нефтяникам России.
@@titan_forward Tatra is Czech made truck well known from Paris Dakar competiton. Maybe they have as much possibilities to buy trucks from abroad as in former CCCP. Back in the day when CCCP became Russia and they transported cars and stuff from finnish harbours all trucks used were european and even some International trucks were used.... as we know International Navistar and Scania is owned by Traton owned by Volkswagen group...
Kinda sad this adventure is over. I really liked Ville and you guys had great chemistry and I am in love with that shop! What a fun journey this has been! Today I was out in one of our oldest peterbilts , a 2001, picking up milk at our dairies here and just had to shake my head, thinking of what the log haulers and farmers would have thought if they saw This Scania coming down the road. I probably would have had a line of Semis and pickups following me farm to farm to talk and gossip about it.
@@miikahamalainen5343 There is no dealer support and we can hardly get parts for our trucks, which are super common, due to shortages. With our type of industry, I dont know the type of scania that would work for us. But I would absolutely love to drive one. Our Boss and his Father both drove and still own, the cabovers that they first had when they started the company, so rocking the design wouldnt be an issue.
I'm a swede with finnish ancestry, and I just love how sparse ville is with his words 🤣 growing up in Sweden I've learned to fill the silent pauses, but something in me would prefer to be like ville 😆
Bruce, if you are coming back with the family I would recommend late May or early June so you can experiense the nightless nights. Especially at north where sun does not set at all that time of the year.👍
This is very special, it's not enough to talk about it, you have to experience it yourself. You work with your car till it gets dark... Then you suddenly realise it's midnight... And you have to get up at 5 o'clock in the morning... So I hope you can sleep also when the sun is "high" above the horizon... 😉
I'm currently on vacation in Florida and I've gotten to see American trucks up close, they look a lot bigger in pictures than in reality. The cabin of the Scania is huge compared to the Peterbilt, I sat in one and almost got shocked. Otherwise, the trucks here are built lighter, well, in Finland we drive with twice the total weight than in the US
I can say that American trucks are smaller than their European counterparts other than sleeper pods. The US trucks can be longer in wheelbase, but for obvious reasons this can't be the case in Europe. Width, height etc European are larger, if you cut the sleeper pod off a US truck, it's pretty small, narrow, rattles, uncomfortable and generally of a different era (past, long past). I'd go European all the time, truck wise. The US pop out propaganda of how great the US truck is (and of course everything else US), it's only really believed in the US. Back in the 60's they could believe it for real, but really over the past 3-4 decades Europe has led the way for truck and driver comfort.
Back in the early 90s my dad drove a V1 Volvo FH a got the chance to drive a KW back in NZ. He said he hated it. The KW was uncomfortable, rattled like he was going over speed bumps with no suspension, and nearly killed his back. So he was euro trucks for ever on. I drove an V1 when I first started driving and now I'm driving a V4 FH (Not had the experience of a Scani yet but will do shortly) the comfort from the V1 to a V4 is far more better, so I would love to know how to euro compare to the US first hand.
@@cpbtrading4822yep. The attitude persists in Australia. People don't like the digital dash in new kenworth's and call them daf's even though they are still pos kenworth's for the rest of it.
I can't blame anyone for hating on our trucks. Our country is stuck in the past with pre-historic infrastructure. Yeah our old school trucks are pretty cool, and long nose trucks look cool. But european design, is all about driver comfort, and being efficient.
That is an assume looking truck. Those extra lights is a 4x4 truck owners dream in the United States. I like the wood grain & leather super nice touch. Then converting it to a true straight drive. That team does great work hands down. That looked more like a luxury car than a Semi truck. Coffee maker was a nice touch. US needs to open the door for Scania Trucks.
Bruce maybe you'v already got them organised, but just in case don't forget your 2 small light up Michelin Men for the cab roof of your new truck, they may be easier to find over there than in the USA.
@@ImForwardlook well, his own scania literally was a circus wagon, before it was imported to north america - so its a perfect fit. (i happen to read dutch & german, finnish and swedish - and understood the decals on his truck)
These builders did a lot of work ,to change this transmission over. id say this is the most advanced shop, you've ever worked at. 😊 Gotta get this guy to Florida show him a good Time. No work, truck pulls, alligators, tannerite, mud racing.
as a finn i must say, the sentiment is really nice. But if the shop owner leaves his shop behind for holidays, he maybe want to see something else than work when he travels abroad - and his family probably has a strong say in whats beeing done :)
its funny how american truckers are so deadfast against emissions and DEF, say it doesnt work, and stuff, its just that american trucks are decades in the past compared to european and asian trucks. Like this one, 650 horsepower v8, running DEF, having strict emissions rules but still can output really good power, have crazy good torque, and have really good reliability at the same time, also, the automatic transmissions in scanias are so good, drove a r650 '18 from 2018 until 2020, after a crazy accident that flipped the truck and made me have to retire from trucking.
@kizi86 sorry about your accident...glad you lived to talk about it. I agree, the US is so backwards when it comes to trucking, only after some serious modifications can the US engines crank out 600, 800 and possibly more HP, and as for automatic trans.....still far behind the European market
3:25 that Right-Turn signal activated camera is SO GOOD. Well I don't know about the quality of that one mounted here, but I know how good they Can be atleast. In the new Volvo I drive, it works perfectly in any weather condition, any time of day, and its quality is so good, you can see if the biker (bicycle) right next to you (in the camera) has shaven or not before going to work that morning.
The 650 is a phenomenal truck finished to a very high standard. The spot lights with the lazer light in the middle is like daylight when lit up.The dipped dash is just a bit of class. The 360 camera system gets used a lot on municipal vehicles or ones in big city centres. Its a great thing for eliminating blind spots. It has been a very productive week in Finland for you bruce and can't wait to see what you end up doing to your own Scania. 👍
Great progress my man. You've discovered the E in the end of Ville's name and you can even pronounce Ylivoimala already. Most people also probably think Finns such as Ville are not very talkative, but in reality it's just that actual casual conversation in English is something that people are not very confident about at first, but I see Ville is progressing in that aswell. My advice is that you should get wasted together, if drinking is your thing.
Bruce you had some problems with the pronunciation of "y", it's somewhat close to "e", and "i" is always pronounced "e", etc (which means there are more letters that differ, but maybe you speak (and can read some) Spanish, then you are much closer! The spelling in Finnish is arrived from Swedish and Latin, even though there are no other connections.)
I applaud you for going out of your comfort zone, visiting europe, especially a nordic country, i hope you had a great time buddy 😁 invite ville to florida 😁
ville was just polite :-) As a finnish speaker i can say that the pronounciation in the end was getting closer, but it wasnt there yet. But to a finn that is no surprise, nobody from outside finnlands gets anything pronounced correctly after just a week. I know people from england living here since >10 yrs and while theyre understood - everyone immediately knows they did not grow up here. Finnish language, is the most literal there is by that i mean: they pronounce every letter, there are no silent letters - and A is AAAAh like in the dentist chair.... an E is always an E like Energycrisis .... if something need to be stretched out, they would use two letters. so his name Ville is very different from vi-leh as foreigners pronounce it. Finnish kids learn the pronounciation in school like this: Yli-voi-mala Vil-le - that forces you to not ignore the double "l" as many foreigners tend to do. (ps: voimala is what we call powerplants, yli is basically the finnish "super" in this context - ylivoima would be superpower) Allright, lecture over - lets get a mulled wine (glögi in finnish) and spice it up with some rum ..... brumm brumm
Nicely done manual swap for this custom truck, looks sweet. Here footage of a Scania XXXL Four door Longline ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_KVd5GQ1kDI.html
Bruce at ylivoimala is like a kid in a candy store : "I would like to have this, this, this, this and... well give me one of everything". Are there any plans for Ville to visit you in the states to review your trucks/US trucks in general?
Dunno when you are trying to haul "big" in the USA. I drive now and then scania or volvo with 1058 hiab. Both of them are 5 axel, trucks weight about 30-32tn wihtout load (~66 000 - 70 500 lbs) max is 42tn with load (~92 600lbs) truck alone. Add an trailer and we can go up to 76tn (~167 5000 lbs) total weight.Trucks and trailers we use we get payload about 30-35tn (~66 000- 77 160 lbs) mostly it is our mobile cranes counter weight.
Me, as a biker, realy like the turning signal cameras. 👍🏾😎 Thx to Matti from 🇩🇪 If I would have let the shifting changed to manual, I would have change it into a 3-stick-shift, where the sticks reach up to your ears. 😁
i am sure the truckes also love bikers who keep in mind that trucks have blind spots. Its natural selection otherwise. As a ordinary-car driver, i have that in mind - i hang back so, that i can see his mirrors - it means he also can see me then, i give him room to manuver - I dont hide in his blind spots... etc. The cameras are a nice touch, but the mirrors are more common. Driving the big rigs for a living is not the easiest life. No matter from where you are i try to make their days not worse with my presence. Bike safe out there... cheers with beers from finland
Hey Bruce if u want to visit South wales in the UK we can have a day out with my company's 2023 scania r500 and we also got daf xg aswell they are huge cabs.
@@alexxxXXXrus middle of the night? what do you mean. Thats how days look l ike up north in midwinter. Have you never wondered why artificial lighting is such a priority in the nordics?
@@zoolkhan 😂 i live almost north pole. Anyway more northern than you can imagine. Theres no one people outside. Its a local joke- how do you know its a night behind the polar circle? You just cant ask nobody "what is the time?"
Bruce, its a shame that some think showing excellence some how is disrespectful to your home market. I am sure there is plenty we can learn off each other. It is great finding your channel and these videos. How much was the freight cost of the parts you are sending home?
Monsieur Wilson, il existe en Europe, deux carrossiers, l'un hollandais, l'autre français, qui modifient des scania S770, par exemple, pour leurs ajouter un capot comme sur les camions américains. Ils les font ressembler au ancien scania T. La marque scania a depuis longtemps arrête la construction de ces scania à capots. La société hollandais est la carrossier vlastuin; l'autre Française est la carrossier brevet. Ils existent aussi une autre modification qui consiste à doubler la longueur des cabines des scania de la gamme S. bonnes fêtes de Noël et du nouvel an.
Fun fact of the name "Ylivoimala" and how to pronounce it. Yli = Over, Voima = Power, "la" conjuction signifies that what ever was before it is created there, so direct translation would be something like "over-power-factory" How to pronounce it. It's easier if we cut it up in syllables. and remember that in Finnish language emphasis is always on first syllable of the word. Therefore if we cut it to syllables Y-li VOI-ma-la
Those two headlights right under the windscreen... I flashed my headlights to a car that brake checked me once, at night... They shined so bright I swear I could have identified every single grain of dust on his dashboard! 🤣 Almost felt sorry for the guy!
never witnessed that kind of roadrage here in finland (brake checking in mean, self defense with lightbeams is legit in my books) You can find those lights also on normal cars in finland, many of us drive through roads that have no artificial lighting and we have frigging deerswarms everywhere, so the bullbar is no decoration, and the lights have an entirely pragmatic reason. most important are the positional lights on the top of your cabin - because it tells oncoming cars there is a truck cabin coming over the crest which leads to me switching off the farlights sooner - no one needs 60 ton veering off course as an oncomer. If you still dont understand, the cab is invisible to me as a car-driver until the headlights underneath come over the crest - that is the time the trucker is blinded by my own -entirely pragmatic- extra lighting. But if a cab has little lights on top of the cabin, i know whats coming - and react faster preserving the truckers nightvision better :)
@@rkan2 It has been so enjoyable to see him like a kid in a candyshop! I am still hopeful he will give some attention to Volvo too! I mean, I like my Volvo :D
Scania stopped offering Longline cab in 2005, just a few years after the release. They're incredibly rare and still stupidly expensive. If you find a newer one it's a one-off modification by one of the shops. Other than that the problem with sleepers in euro trucks is length, you have about 30 inches behind the front seats and that's it meanwhile in the US you can fit a 42-inch bed AND a standing refrigerator like in the Volvo VNL860.
In Finland and Sweden the length is no longer a problem since the introduction of HCT, which allows the trucks to be 34,5 meters long. I really wish the long nose trucks as well as longlines could make a comeback, since they look so cool. The problem probably is that they are less agile in cities, but for regular highway transports I would buy one if there was any on the market.
You forgot that Scania offer the XL (CR23 and CS23) R and S series cabs with 270 mm cab extra length. And that comes with an optional 100 Cm (40") bed. All within the factory external air management side blades and roof spoiler. Scania S series have flat floors so basically the difference with a VNL860 is a 2" bed width ..... The bottom line is the difference between a cabover and a conventional. The former is highly manoeuvrable in all situations and the latter is not. Especially the longer wheelbase options. As a driver do you need an extra 2" of bed for 7 hours sleep or a better quality driving experience for the 13 hours behind the wheel?
@@pavetttoSome, or even many, trucks in Finland go sometimes by ferries to Sweden and then the length matters, as you pay for the length not the weight.
@@leiflillandt1488 Yes, probably not the best option for international transports, but there's many other use cases where it wouldn't be that big of a problem.
Hands down the best content you’ve had in a while, great job and if America had training like the European countries do we would have equipment like this in the states but unfortunately America has dumped down our people to the KISS method of training so sat
Bruce brother thanks for the video and what you are doing for the trucking industry. While you are there in Finland 🇫🇮 can you find out what color of blue is on the SCANIA truck you took the engine out of please I seen the color and now want to paint my 1984 EL CAMINO WITH A FEW MORE COLORS.MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS.
Please Bruce take some inspiration from the lads in Finland to take back to Merica, don't basterdize that lovely R series you have back home, that would be like taking a Bugatti engine out and putting in a flat four into it, youll kill that R series
Man I've been around trucks my whole life and I've never seen this type of truck repairs. My hat's off to you for the great videos and the impressive work that you and Bob do. Wish I could help out on 1 job just because I enjoy seeing anything turned from bad to great 👍 keep up the great work and I'll be waiting on your next video. Be safe and keep them trucks outta the scrap yard....
My 1989 Peterbilt has a Cat 3406B with the Brake Saver, which is a hydraulic retarder. Works pretty well considering it’s age, but is sadly prone to oil leaks.
Sure i can understand why you want a manual, but the Scania automatic gearboxes seams to be really good, why then converting from a auto that works good to a manual? :) BTW: temp wise, -7C is normal and a preferred winter temp any warmer its to warm during the winter 😂 And right now, here in Sweden i have -15C and i live at about the same longitude as you are at in Finland atm :)
Hope you get the chance to do a night delivery in Europe. I delivered fresh goods to supermarkets and corner shops at night, the roads to yourself and the only difficulties were road works, shutting down the highway at night, you get diverted into the city small roads for a few miles, hit about 20 roundabouts, ranging in size from 5 feet to 100 feet before returning to the highway, or delivering to a shop in a small village in the mountains and coming face to face with a 4x4 truck and smiling down at the driver who has just realised they are no longer the baddest on the the road.😊
@@leiflillandt1488 I know, I'm German. 🙂 Like: If we wanted to say _Porsch_ we would write _Porsch_ -- the _e_ in Porsche is not an ornament. It is there and doesn't want to remain silent.
