As a dutch truck driver I have to say this video is 9.5/10. Only slight error is that a standard tracktor/trailer is limited to 16.5m (with trailers to 13.6) and combination trucks are indeed 18.75m The rest was just spot on!
road trains are up to 25 meter a couple of years now. you need to have 4 years trucking experience and additional training and exam to drive them. There combinations are not going to Belgium as they are not allowed there. but saves fuel and additional road movements.
Heey! Since you are a Dutch truck driver, what is like living and working in Netherlands driving truck/lorry with trailer? Is the pay good? Worth it? Compared to other jobs in the Netherlands? Thanks for answering!
@@ronaldderooij1774 no it isnt. The Daf is still Dutch as a independent company with its own board of directors. It is just part of the larger corporation of Paccar (and tbh Daf is carrying paccar hard except on the production of plastic parts where paccar excels)
The Netherlands also takes effort to separate vulnerable traffic from fast and heavy machines. This is why it's a joy to drive as well as cycle and walk.
And that right there is why i don't get at all that Singapore supposedly has better roads. Singapore doesn't even have proper cycling infrastructure. They easily could but they don't.
@@moladiver6817 It's probably partly the climate. When it's that hot and humid most of the year it's hard to persuade people to cycle. Better to focus on air conditioned mass transit.
@@Croz89 Holland can be hot and humid, it can be cold and nasty, it often is very windy. None of that keeps people from cycling. Just build the infrastructure and people will use it. Guaranteed.
@@moladiver6817 The climate in the Netherlands is nothing like Singapore. Hot and humid in the Netherlands is not like the hot and humid in Singapore. 30 C as a normal high year round with an average humidity of 83%. Cold and blustery can be somewhat alleviated with a waterproof jacket, but when it's 30 C at 80+% humidity, not even cycling naked would stop you being bathed in sweat. In those conditions you don't want to be exercising outside for extended periods.
@@Croz89 Yeah it doesn't matter. Nothing stops people from using proper infrastructure. These excuses are very common and very commonly false. You hear them from all cycling unfriendly countries in all shapes and sizes and it's always just that. An excuse. I've been to Singapore several times. I know the city quite well. The weather doesn't stop people from walking just like it doesn't in any other SE Asian city. The reason being it's a pedestrian friendly environment. The very same could and should apply to cyclists. Most countries simply don't get cycling, that's the real issue. It's something to do for fun, not to get around with. The plethora of reasons people come up with is exhaustive.
I'm English and I'll admit the Dutch are the best truckers about. See them all the time delivering to garden centres over here so speak to alot of them and they're also the friendliest truckers about as well.
As an American who moved to The Netherlands in 2015, I was pleasantly surprised and shocked to witness the rear wheel sets on trailers being able to move independently from each other, sharply reducing turn radius in the narrow old city streets here. I wish your video had shown that feature. I don't know what the technical name is for such a system but I had never in my life seen it in the USA. Great video!
erwise called self-tracking axles. Been around a long time 60/70s, they also reduce tyre scrub. Primrose Group in Britain & Primrose-Ceshi in Italy being notable past manufacturers. Why are they fairly uncommon - cost?
As a dutch person myself who used to work at a truck washing company, I have to agree with the trucks being really beautiful here! Keep up the good work! Or as we say in dutch: Lekker bezig pik! Ga zo door :D
As a Dutch trucker myself, I feel proud to be part of our tiny Country's infrastructure and to be able to participate in it. Keep 'm rolling fellow Truckers and Trucksters 💪🏻🚛🚚
My main man actually did a vid of our little country, been waiting for this a long long time, thank you so much buddy ! Have a great day & "een fijne dag kerel !"
As bizzare as it sounds your videos are my favourite thing to watch when I'm stressed or sad. It's just nice knowing that someone out there with a soothing voice is willing to talk about trucks, something that a lot of people would just find mundane.
If you have particular interests in Dutch roads, then there is also Not just bikes, a Canadian who lives in the Netherlands, and takes a closer look at our cycling infrastructure (I had never looked at it that way myself as a dutchy 😉)
I have been a fan since the trucking Sim video. but now seeing a video come up about trucking in my home country gets me a whole different kind of excited.
5:35 In my home town we actually had this thing called 'truckersdag' (truckersday) during which all the local truckers would decorate their trucks with flowers and drive through the town in a big honking parade. They would also often take some local (mentally) handicapped people along and it was just generally a wholesome thing.
As someone who has done deliveries and pickups around downtown Montreal with a 40 foot trailer I can only imagine how hard it must be to do the same in a Dutch city, though my deliveries would probably have been handled in a Class 3 instead of a Class 1.
Yeah, big trucks are mostly forbidden in city centers, they go to logistic hubs around and then are transferred to smaller trucks that are permitted to go into the smaller streets. Big supermarkets inside the city are often on places where there is a big street nearby that is exempt for the prohibition of big trucks so they can reach that, and the supermarket or other big store doesn't have 3 trucks a day in front of their door.
@@thommyneter168 I drive a 40ft (12m) city-trailer(semi, double axle forced steered) and half of my addresses are in city-centers. Only a few cities don't allowed big trucks (Utrecht, Amsterdam). A lot more have hour-blocks to allow bigger trucks in. Mostly between 06:00 and 12:00. But city-centers are the easy stops. Residential areas (woonwijken) are the real pain in the exhaust. Narrow streets, concrete or steel poles everywhere and wrongly parked cars in literately every corner. Try navigating that with a backswing of over 4 meters.
@@cautarepvp2079 No. They are complaining they can't get any drivers, but they are not willing to increase the payment by more then a few percentages a year, while inflation is over 10%. There are better payed jobs out there. But a truckdriver is not only a job. It's a way of life.
If you wanna be successful, you most take responsibility for your emotions, not place the blame on others. In addition to make you feel more guilty about your faults, pointing the finger at others will only serve to increase your sense of personal accountability. There's always a risk in every investment, yet people still invest and succeed. You must look outward if you wanna be successful in life.
Wow I know Mrs Naomi and I have also been trading with her, She's such an amazing woman with good skills and keeps me happy all week knowing I earn 15thousand extra income weely trading with her.
After I got 300K trading with Mrs Naomi. I bought a new House and I'm now able to send my kids to a better school in the states thanks to mrs Naomi's trades. When someone is straight forward with what he or she is doing people will always speak up for them.
i work in retail here in the netherlands and i must say, the trucks that are used for retail delivery are quite nice and well outfitted. depending on the quantity of the delivery there's also a good range of trucks in use regarding the ones i've experienced. you got your standard semi-trucks, but nowadays there are a lot of fixed box trucks in use to cope with a general lack of space, especially in urban environments. many trucks delivering in urban areas are nowadays also hybrid or even fully electric.
I am Dutch and I would be surprised if this were actually legal. This modification bypasses the Emission regulations and therefore could get the truck a so called "WOK". This means the truck has to be checked again before it can resume driving on public roads. The trucker would also get a massive fine (commercial traffic fines are usually higher than non-commercial traffic fines)
Danish trucking! Danish truckers usually have a very strong sense of national identity, you'll often see trucks littered with danish flags and decorations. It is extremely common for trucking companies in Denmark to be named after the founder (e.g. Frode Laursen, Alex Andersen) and all the companies have their own distinctive color scheme and design on their trucks. Usually danish trucks aren't modified very much, but it's common to see things like curtains, horns and extra fog lights. Danish trucks are all limited to 80kph. Danish truckers commonly drive Scania, Volvo, Mercedes and MAN. And a few truckers choose to drive DAF, Iveco and Renault. In denmark there are a lot of smaller trucking companies ("Vognmænd", basically the founder of the trucking company) usually with 2-10 trucks in total. Most towns usually have a few "vognmænd" who usually name their company after themselves.
It's also usually very easy to drive with truckers on the roads in the Netherlands, rarely are there situations where you get stuck behind a truck on a road or where a maneuver jams up an intersection
I love working in logistics, I handle paperwork all day mostly but I also get to speak to sometimes a hundred truck drivers in a day and they always have good stories to tell
As a croatian I can say Holland is the best country for driving. People was great and friendly. Almost every company have room for drivers. Showers and free coffee. U could drive big cities without gps. They have 'haven' numbers in industrie zone. Roads are great,small towns are beautiful. Every brick is on the place. I didnt have one problem with police. Its something positive in them. And everybody of them speak german or english. Stay safe.
I saw a Scania truck with the Kraemer livery here in Norway once! It was so cool, though I don't know what it was doing here... Anyway, a lot of people probably didn't even realise that they saw a one of a kind truck (the paint at least)!
The “rij en rusttijden” is Europees geregeld. Je mag max 4,5h aaneengesloten rijden, daarna 45min pauze, of splitsen binnen 5h15 2x pauze waarvan de laatste minimaal 30min. Ook moet je aals je niet aan je rijtijd komt maar wel veel werkuren hebt na max 6h, 30min pauze maken (arbeidstijdenbesluit). Een werkdag telt 24uren, en die start bij aanvang dienst. In die werkdag ben je verplicht om dagelijks 11h rust te maken, wat resulteert in max 13h werken. Je max 3x afwijken van die regel en 9h rust maken waardoor je 15uren overhoud om te werken. In die 13 of 15 uren moet je aan bovenstaande pauzetijden houden, en mag je max 2x per week max 10h rijden, en de rest max 9h. Met een max van 56h per week, en een max van 90h per 2 weken… Er zijn nog meer regels, maar dit is het belangrijkste. Daaraan gekoppeld is de snelheidsbegrenzer en de tachograaf, die rij en rusttijden registreert van de laatste 100 dagen plus/minus, waarvan er op dit moment de lopende dag en de voorgaande 28dagen gecontroleerd kan worden wat vanaf 31dec2024 zal dat de lopende dag plus de daarvoor 56 kalenderdagen zijn..
Great video! Here in Lithuania we actually had a journalist investigation on the working conditions of the truck drivers, called Truck Slaves, so, it would be interesting to see how are the conditions according to different parts of the world!
A max speed of 50 mph is only practical in a small country like the Netherlands. That simply wouldn't suffice in America. Even at the national speed limit of 65, that's 15 more miles an hour. If it's 10 hours, that's 150 miles! America is pretty big, and getting it done faster means less time driving. I'm also surprised about the smoke shooting out from underneath the truck. That's different, maybe not even bad. It's probably better to shoot it onto the ground then into the air. It was so ridiculously black though. That's a really "rich" tune for a diesel. Honestly though, I'm not even sure that's a bad thing, because you might not want the dirt all mixed up into the air. Soot seems better, lol.
They have valves in their exhaust to basically straight pipe the V8 engine, it's all about the sound, the smoke is just a side effect. That the exhaust are low is just a space and weight saving thing. But low exhaust can be quite annoying on construction sites though (dirt roads/dust)
i work at a transport company that does pallet transport, we have cooled trailers for 2 companies we work closely together with and curtainsider's for the transport of anything else(asside from 2 trailers, one is a low loader and another is an enclosed trailer). at my company you get a truck and you are allowed to make modifications to it as you wish(as long as they are semi-legal and dont change the euro emission class) one of my collegues has build a full leather interior into his DAF CF 106. we operate mostly DAF CF 106's but have some CF 105's and XF 2022
At 4:19 is filmed in my street. Funny to see it end up in this video. Though the footage is quite old, there have been major changes made to the road and parking some years ago.
As a former delivery driver I love truckers, great driving etiquette and by long and far the most considerate drivers on the road. I also love when they thank you with their blinkers. Makes me feel a little like a trucker too! :D
Ok, just to give you a refresher: The netherlands is the place where prostitutes are legal while Neverland is the place where the prostitutes are minors.
I think most people here respect truck drivers. Honestly they are all really good drivers, for sure when navigating the small dutch towns. I am not really in that truck modding world, but what I can say is truck drivers are usually very nice people. But still we have our fair share of issues with highway accidents. I know overworking is a big part of this. Bigger companies are very strict on break regulations, but I know some are still pressured to work more than safe, causing deadly accidents
It's also one of the few widely available "low education" job that still pays really well. Not that driving a truck is easy, but you don't need prior education to start learning and many companies in need of workers pay for the education and licenses
I don't know if you read my previous comments, but let me tell you one thing straight: Speed limits and truck length and weight limits are for the whole Europe the same. One exception is for the trucks of 25.25m, that depends from country to country where they are allowed. One example is Norway. Those trucks are allowed only from the Swedish border up to Oslo area. In the last years they are trying to go north up to 200km from Oslo. Anything further up the north is not possible because of the tight roads. I see plenty of Dutch truckers commenting here. One note to you and the truckers from Netherlands: I see constantly your trucks have very loose speed limits on the trucks. I don't know what you do in Netherlands but in Germany ( where the speed limit is very loose) all of your trucks go between 92km/h and 95/h, which is waaaaaay above 90km/h
GEKOLONISEERD! 🇳🇱 Cool vid man, didn't know our trucks where considered one of the prettiest and loudest. You did miss the oportunity to mention that DAF is a dutch truck brand, even though they have been boughg by I believe VW
I've sen one video of Kazakh trucker who lives in Germany, and he said that in Netherlands, drivers are much more respectful to truckers, than in Germany
The Netherlands is so small that as a Dutch citizen I recognize a lot of pictures and shots of the infrastructure. I live close to the aquaduct you see here on 1:28.
1:05 The Highway is controled by the Ministery of Infastructure and Watermanagment the National road is controled by the Province and the other roads are made by the local authority
Seeing as you have now covered the Netherlands I think it would be interesting if you covered Belgium as well. I think that would make for an interesting comparison showing how Belgium is the polar opposite in many aspects. General horrible quality of the roads (some of which untouched since the 70's/80's), outdated and dangerous infrastructure with even newly built infrastructure still mixing and creating conflict between heavy traffic and bicycle traffic and the many accidents as a result, blatant lack of maintenance, complete nonexistance of any form of intelligent traffic lights to provide proper flow of traffic, unreasonable amounts of traffic congestion every single day and the non-stop construction works everywhere disrupting traffic even more, horrible and often aggresive mentality of drivers,... Whenever I take a trip into the Netherlands it's a complete cultural shock for me to experience how much better it is there to drive. Almost impossible to imagine it's a country right next to us and half of us even speak the same language.
And don’t forget the irrational weaving lanes on the ring road of Brussels. They should entangle them as soon as possible. They are the main reason for traffic jams and pile-ups. On one of their main highway routes, Brussels to Antwerp, you enter the ring road at the left, and immediately you need to cross 5 lanes in high traffic to exit at the right side 500meters down the road. And that’s only the first weaving lanes, at least four are as imminent as the first when driving the route to Antwerp. And those dangerous entering lanes from the left, who invented those? Entering and exiting highways should be on the right side, where the slow lanes are. Not at the left where the fast lanes are.
Especially Flanders has caught up with and passed much of Germany at this point. Over the last decade or so a lot of roads in Belgium (well, Flanders, really) have improved a lot. Wallonia is a lost cause. Having said that, the German roads I speak of are still shitty in comparison to Dutch roads, but that's more on German mismanagement than anything else.
@@therealdutchidiot Wallonia is a lost cause in general. Flanders would be a lot better off to be part of the Netherlands instead of being stuck to Wallonia.
@@grootsChannel I tend to agree. Flanders subsidises Wallonia. If that stops Flanders can actually develop, and Wallonia can maybe finally learn to stand on its own two feet.
@@Jaapst Jep hier in NL. Ik zou het je afraden maar dat is moeilijk om op persoonlijk niveau te doen. Voor mij was het een goede keuze om ermee te stoppen. Kon niet meer tegen de absurd lange werkdagen, stress met parkeren, verkeer (file’s, roadrage etc), nooit iets kunnen plannen want altijd maar werken, vrienden verliezen etc etc
@@Jaapst 't Verschilt heel erg wat je rijdt en waar hoe stressvol het kan zijn. Als uitzendkracht voor distributiecentra naar supermarkten is echt bagger - veel te krappe schema's, zelf moeten uitladen en parkeren bij supermarkten is soms heel krap voor grotere vrachtwagens. Dan heb je nog het seizoenswerk - Bietencampagnes, aardappelen etc. Vaak heel veel dezelfde ritjes en druk om meer mee te nemen dan wettelijk gezien mag. Ook veel tijdsdruk. Maar je hebt ook rustiger vrachtwerk - containers van a naar b door 't land heen. Bijzonder Vervoer en Chemisch Tank transport betalen goed vanwege alle extra certificaten e.d. die je moet hebben. En je hebt nog internationaal vervoer. Vaak rustmomenten op de veerboot of bij controleposten. Volgens mij mag je in Duitsland bijvoorbeeld op bepaalde dagen / tijden niet rijden dus dan moet je soms wachten :-). Misschien een alternatief: Kraanmachinist mobile kraan? Heb je én een beest van een vrachtwagen én een kraan :-). En dat is er zeker een waar zorgvuldigheid het wint van stress.
Great vid, but I caught a little misunderstanding in your research, our economy doesn't consist of 21% agriculture, just our exports :) Otherwise that would be almost in line with 2nd and 3rd world countries!
About the 60 hour a week thing. This is not the max, u can have maximum of 90 hours per 2 weeks of driving (not seen as working.) Most dutch drivers (illigally) fill in that they are on break time, while in actuallity they are working. So that they wont get fined. With this technique its posible to extend your workday to about 16 hours (a day) you are prohibited tho to have at least 11 hours of resting time between each day (could be shortend to 9 hours.) And every 2 weeks need to be at home having a full 48 hour weekend.
Trucking in Germany is terrible; - Max 80 km/h on autobahns (which is low but that's the speed in most european countries) but... 60 km/h (!!) on normal roads. - Toll by OBU via GPS - Strict rules - Boring atmosphere - Bad reputation I would never become a truckdriver in Germany
@@webber7117 The strict rules are European. So every country in Europe has the same trucking-rules. And one violation, can still be ticketed up to 28 days after making the violation. After 31-12-2024 it will be 56 days. So imagine you forget to push a little button to set the tacho to rest on 3 january 2025, you can still be charged a fine on 27 february of the same year. Insane.
I would be interested to know what the trucking scene is like somewhere like Switzerland, with mountainous roads and a very well established rail network (passenger at least, not sure about freight though)
I wonder if there is a difference in road fatalities when comparing Dutch and American trucks. Dutch tractors have flat engine compartments while American tractors have elongated engine compartments and I suspect that the American tractor creates a large blind spot for the driver.
