Why European Trucks Are Different

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Personally, I want to see the cabover design make a comeback in North America. I saw one the other day while I was driving to my lead paint removal class and it made me want to scream and shout and bash my head on the steering wheel but I decided not to because then the person in front of me would assume that I was honking at them and I don't really want to create another "situation" that takes up fifteen months of my time and thousands of dollars in legal fees. And also it would give me a headache.
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The man said, "No, woah, woah, what was that?"
And the duck said, "It was just a question."
And the man said, "That was uncalled for, I'm going to have to ask you to leave."
And the duck said, "Hey man it's a free f*****g country man, don't TOUCH ME MAN!"
And the man said, "Okay, okay, just please leave or I'm going to call the police."
And the duck said, "I'm getting the h*ll out of here, bud!!!"
And then he waddled away. (Waddle, waddle) 'Till the very next day.
When he brought a solution of two household cleaners to the lemonade stand. There were no survivors.

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@barcodereader Год назад

The question should be "why American trucks are different"

@toonaconsooma5941 Год назад

His demographic is probably mostly American so it makes sense to them I think

@elirusgaming7236 Год назад

@@toonaconsooma5941 i believe it is also because trucking is much more popular in america (just my opinion though)

@androidphone1901 Год назад

hell naw

@malte_t_n Год назад

@@toonaconsooma5941 It makes sense to americans, as long as they think they‘re the center of the world and everyone is different instead of the other way around.

@barcodereader Год назад

@@elirusgaming7236 European truck are way more popular

@noodlery7034 Год назад

European trucks are also flat because they need to fit inside ferries and be space efficient when parked.

@mileshenessey Год назад

I say the same, usually America just ships on their own contry, Canada and Mexico, they have mostly wide roads and places in which the trucks can drive and their parking spots normally are huge enough to park as you want. The opposite happens in Europe, it has mostly narrow roads, even most of city roads are narrow so trucks are done with that space-friendly aspect so they fit in most of roads and spots, that's why trucks are different in america and viseversa, i don't think that there is only that reason of why trucks are different between continents but that's the most logical reason i found.

@niemma2 Год назад

Here Finland the maximum permitted height is 4.4 meters but trucks are around 4m, the height of the car deck is higher than that, it varies from ship.

@myfriendmoses Год назад

They also need to fit on trains

@zeblanmaidaynovich796 Год назад

Answer is because USA is most dumb and dumber about many things but there is a second answer🤮there should not be any rules about this just buy and drive whatever🤩but i know why exactly US just want it to protect American soil and brands from European brands that if allowed would kill US truck industry because as usual European car and truck brands way better simple

@mentonschekulin2985 Год назад

No not just the ships, but I used to drive a truck (steyr 19s25 4x4) in a mine (not on the road) and it meant also really tight places, and thank god it wasn't an american cab design so I could always fit everywhere

@Regan_Tatham Год назад

1:22 New Zealander here, our roads are not at all straight and wide they are narrow and have many corners because of our mountains. Also long nose trucks are rare here we mostly have stubby short nose trucks.

@qupada42 Год назад

I was wondering if I'd somehow been living in a different New Zealand this whole time when I heard that.

@glenn9k Год назад

@@qupada42 But you guys speak English, therefore the roads must be as big as in America. :D

@behindthen0thing Год назад

Just like your stubby Johnsons

@Jeff-gb5rt Год назад

Depends on where in nz you are. Tauranga has many long nose trucks driving around due to the port

@Regan_Tatham Год назад

@@Jeff-gb5rt I live in New Plymouth, here our roads are very twisty.

@VioletGiraffe Год назад

This video didn't feel like it was only 3 minutes, it felt much longer. I wish more RU-vid videos were like this! Not necessarily in length, but in the density of information .

@tr1ppyh1ppy Год назад

@electricvehiclehead Год назад

@pokemon3742 Год назад

@youngvegas8115 Год назад

This might sound quite dumb, but me being an european, i can already tell the difference between playing american truck simulator and ets2. In ATS, like he said in the video, turns are made less often, roads are straighter, wider, there are barely rondabouts and city driving is pretty similar to highway driving thanks to the huge multiple lane avenues. However, roads in ETS 2 feature way more small turns, are narrower, there are many rondabouts and generally you won't drive for long in highways, but rather taking exits and secondary roads. Also, city driving is way more different.

@marco_grt4460 Год назад

Don't forget Tamari entrance, i saw Milan enter in this factory with a double trailer

@nickakers7985 Год назад

I can tell you as an American truck driver, it’s generally expected that you will drive on the curb.

@lianvitos Год назад

thats why ats and ets2 should be considered as educational software

@saymosgamersim1183 Год назад

Same bro

@tuftyterror983 Год назад

not dumb, that's interesting. As an American, I can confirm our interstates are wide and long.

@pilotmanpaul Год назад

Australia: *We'll take both and have them pull three or four trailers to the middle of buttfuck nowhere where roads don't even exist!*

@ASRIANAS20 Год назад

nice

@lueroso1540 Год назад

Honestly, sounds fun, but like a nightmare for navigation systems.

@aryboss15 Год назад

@@lueroso1540 The nightmare is taking the goods places. I think there is a netflix series called Outback Truckers iirc and one guy's truck kept getting stuck in mud. Theres usually only one road to take things to remote places, so navigations not a problem, the roads are.

@TYSuggested Год назад

Aussie truckers are in a league of their own

@totalrecone Год назад

Buttfuck Nowhere. Is that near Dingo Piss Creek?

@junafani1 Год назад

Here in Finland the maximum length is 34.5 meters and weight 76 tonnes. Ofc the chances you see largest ones in the heart of Helsinki are very slim, but they are increasingly used between terminals and for timber transport.

@theVoyage Год назад

76 tonnes is a very heavy truck, in New Zealand very few are over 50 tonnes, and these, I think, require a special permit. most new trucks are what we call 50max class. how many axles do yours typically have?

@junafani1 Год назад

@@theVoyage 8-11 axles seem to be most common

@Fetguf Год назад

didn't you made it legal for timber trucks to have a max weight of 110 ton?

@tuke222 Год назад

@@Fetguf it was test because in lappland we have long distances. And it was 104t. Idk if the test is still going on.

@roscolawson5541 Год назад

@@theVoyage 53 tonnes in nz, i work in carting logs, good roads we can cart 53 tonne, freight trucks can also carry 53 tonnes, easy to spot, they usually tow 6 axle b trains,

@ddelkano333 Год назад

This video just popped in my recommendations for no reason but can i just say that i love that you linked some example vids in the description of what you talked about. Good way to give the viewer a better idea while not stretching out your own video.

@lulwhat Год назад

Nbr koçum

@Spheredalai Год назад

if you look at the oceanic countries like Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, they actually have both European as well as American trucks there, if you go to a common busy roads there you'll see Scanias, Volvos, Ivecos, as well as Kenworths, Macks, International etc passing by, it's wonderful too see both European and American trucks live in 1 place

@brunocascardo3327 Год назад

also in South America. In Panama the vast majority are american semis

@theuncalled_64 Год назад

@@brunocascardo3327 that's because its cheaper for a person to buy a second hand big sized truck from the US

@totalrecone Год назад

All hail the Aus built KW K100.

@myfriendmoses Год назад

Also NZ roads are similar to Europe's outside of the cities and we don't have motorways connecting most of the country

@Its_Me_Romano Год назад

Yeah sounds awesome as a truck lover!

@bmused55 Год назад

Some good points here. You missed an important one though. The cab-over design allows for much better visibility for the driver. They don't have a car sized hood to look over! Less blind spots = safer motoring. Additionally, it's much easier to manouvre a cab-over as the driver sits over the wheel. Far better for judging lane position, space needed, etc.

@WillBilly. Год назад

Although modern drop nose trucks has visibility just as good if not better. The issue with the video is there are many different trucks driving in the us right now same as in EU and its hard to compare every little thing.

@mattthorn4789 Год назад

This is not really true, just watch some blindspot collisions in YT

@SilverStarHeggisist Год назад

@@mattthorn4789 No it's true, alot of the more modern trucks, that hood drops down faster then your vision does from the driver's seat. Though mirrors make this moot, as most long nosed trucks have mirrors that let you see your front bumper from the cab, as well as along the entire front side of the truck

@cheloveque8257 Год назад

@@mattthorn4789 hmmm Look on the truck construction? NO I BETTER WATCH YT VIDEOS

@sgxbot Год назад

"much better visibility" followed by driven over a cyclist that was in a blindspot that are everywhere

@marcfuchs6938 Год назад

I am a driving instructor in Germany and used to drive for a living for 9 years throughout entire Europe. Truck drivers always being disrespected and being seen as road obstacles always annoyed me lots. Which is why they have a special status to me. I teach my learner drivers to be as considerate with truckers as possible, and I let them do whatever they need to. I am helping them whenever I could. I remember a day in my town, I was on the bicycle. And there is this truck with hazard lights just standing there. In front of a bridge, whose sign said, that bridge is supposed to be too low for the truck. The female driver was searching for a solution, but seemed lost. Her destination was just past this bridge, but alone she couldn't do much and turning around on this street with heavy traffic wasn't possible without at least 2 people stopping traffic in various directions. So I teamed up with her. To me it looked like the truck would fit (I used to drive a tall van, where I also squeezed along under bridges with signs, which said it was too low). So that bridge in town was an arched bridge, with the highest spot in the middle. I stepped into the middle of the street and stopped traffic to both directions, then I guided her to the middle and gave her hand signals, how much space there is between the bridge and her roof. It didn't turn out to be very close. And boom, problem solved, she could finish her job. It was pretty simple, but she needed a fellow commercial driver who knows, what he's doing. You couldn't expect that from your common car driver.

@Leopold_van_Aubel Год назад

"Truck drivers have always been disrespected". Let's talk about how truck drivers are some of the worst people on the road.

@marcfuchs6938 Год назад

@@Leopold_van_Aubel So be it, let's talk about it. Why would they be some of the worst? Sure, some of them are true assholes, and others may drive badly because of ridiculous stress in their job, but they aren't bad drivers by any means, some may just make ig orant decisions.

@Leopold_van_Aubel Год назад

@@marcfuchs6938 OK. Fine. Then the rude car drivers you encounter perhaps made ignorant and bad decisions as well. Maybe it's not that they're assholes.

@marcfuchs6938 Год назад

@@Leopold_van_Aubel I am not sure what your point is supposed to be, but ignorant and asshole drivers are everywhere. In my experience as a commercial driver with a million miles driven, truck drivers take up a very small amount of the truely bad drivers out there.

@moos5221 Год назад

i'd expect a professional truck driver to only use the roads capable for their truck, otherwise they become an annoying road obstacle (like you mentioned). but mistakes like that happen, we are only human, so no problem really. what really is a problem is when a truck driver doing 82km/h decides he needs to bypass the truck in front of him, because that one is only doing 80km/h, so he overtakes him to save 2 minutes of his own time and slows 1000 people down for 3 minutes of their time for a total of 3000 minutes wasted due to selfishness and stupidity. can't wait for automatic driving systems to replace truck drivers on highways.

@RustyCyler Год назад

No annoying intro. No BS jibber jabber. No mid-video commercial about VPN's. No "subscribe, comment and rate" begging. No slow talking. No over dramatic BS. No beating around the bush. No stretching out the video to 10 minutes. No dumb outro. No thanking of Patrons. No wondering off topic. I can't believe I found a YT video like this. You just earned a subscriber.

@maltainu3621 Год назад

Because of the smaller engines in Europe scania has a v8 diesel rather than the long i6's in the us. However the v8 scanias can make 770 bhp on the newer models with the 770 v8 from factory and custom ones are probably pushing well over a thousand. And they also produce way more torque too so dispite their smaller stature a euro lorry can out compete an American semi with loading capabilities.

@b34rdy Год назад

fun fact the scania v8 was originally an AEC engine (remember them) so it started life old as hell, granted it has been uprated just a shame most of them sound like ass claps.

@b.w.9392 Год назад

Most american trucks have european engines in them though, for instance all paccar truck engines (peterbilt, kenworth) are build at DAF in the netherlands and shipped over

@maltainu3621 Год назад

@@b34rdy yeah, personally id rather have it kept stock and quieter for longer driving

@BlueShift2000 Год назад

Really? Even though U.S. trucks sometimes haul 3+ trailers?

@maltainu3621 Год назад

@@BlueShift2000 and? In Australia some lorries can have like 5 trailers

@goferlp7011 Год назад

I'm a German truck driver and I love my job. I'm working 8 h a day and can read my kids every evening the night story. And the salerys was skyrocketing in the last 2 years. Thanks for the informative video.

@zidan40o0 Год назад

how much do you make per year?

@celeroon89 Год назад

@@williamrae9954 Do your real work? Dude stfu, I rather work 8hrs a day, coming home every day seeing my kids and be with the family than sitting in a truck for a whole week... Your comment is the most stupid thing i've read in a long time.. jeez man

@klaus-udokloppstedt6257 Год назад

@@williamrae9954 I bet German truck drivers would love it, when Polish and Romanian drivers would not do the 'real work' for ridiculous low money. and as German logistic businesses have to comply with German laws and regulations regarding work place rules, compensation and vehicle maintenance, they can't compete with east-europe slave labor. thus they focus on domestic freight hauling, where it is more difficult for abroad companies to offer their service for cheap without bypassing or breaking the laws.

@FreeMusic54 Год назад

Guys stop fighting poor vs. poor. The Romanian and Polish drivers were sent by their government willingly so they can extract money from Germany. The German government and the rich people in Germany don't care. The rich will always let the poor fight against each other. If you cannot see this, they win. And they are winning for decades now. All of the European truck drivers need to unionize. Otherwise the rich will keep ********* you.....

@iseeyou3129 Год назад

@@williamrae9954 money is the answer. For a German person, 2k euro a month isn't a lot. For some from eastern Europe, it's a lot.

@GariSullivan Год назад

As a Brit, I just want to say thanks for taking the time to use metric measurements and acknowledge British have a way of saying things differently to Americans. It's so nice to finally watch an American video that doesn't assume the world is American.

@ironfront9573 Год назад

UK is only partially metric. Especially when it comes to driving. We have miles, horsepower, yards..

@gerardmontgomery280 Год назад

@@ironfront9573 I always find it a little weird that I drive in me and cycle in kilometres. I personally find the metric system easier to work with.

@samleyton5316 Год назад

Perhaps you should stop thinking that the world belong to the uk...

@dannyboyy31 Год назад

@@samleyton5316 Perhaps you should stop misinterpreting others' comments. Also, 'UK' should be capitalised as it's the initials of a nation, hence it's a proper noun.

@GariSullivan Год назад

@@samleyton5316 Your silly assumption is not worthy of further comment.

@rsprenger79 Год назад

I used to work for a trucking planning department at the Rotterdam office of a well known Danish container shipping company. We had some drivers with a 'standard' cab (or 'with nose' as we'd call them), but you could't assign any 45ft containers to them due to length restrictions. Thanks for the interesting video!

@timokho20 Год назад

hmm i wonder if you meant Maersk

@taylorjames184 Год назад

A lot of European trucks have air bag suspension under the cab, taking out a lot of road bumps.

@kylegentile2007 Год назад

Everything single American truck has had that for decades

@b34rdy Год назад

On the rear axle as standard. on the front its optional.

@taylorjames184 Год назад

You can see the cab suspension on that scania with the grill up both sides of the radiator. Cab suspension is the same as axle suspension but its very own airbags

@b34rdy Год назад

@@taylorjames184 no its not, the majority of trucks in the uk dont have airbags on the front, those that do can adjust the suspension height just like they can on the rear, the cab suspension is nothing to do with the axle its like saying the air seat in the cab is the same as axle suspension.

@taylorjames184 Год назад

At 2:27 you can see them both sides of the radiator. Air bags between the chassis and cab. Not steerer suspension, cabin suspension.

@690_5 Год назад

I do appreciate the video but I feel like there were a few things missed out on. I'm a chipper driver pulling Super-B Tycrop trailers Another benefit to a cabover is also visibility and overall width of the truck making it easier to judge lane positioning and road size. You have the added benefits of being placed higher, as well as on average decreased weight compared to a conventional cab because you can put in a shorter frame. You can also stretch your cabover's frame and put on a proper custom sleeper and still have the same turning radius as a conventional truck. Conventionals have the advantage of easier pre-trips and maintenance (sort of) Please stop buying paper, my job will cease to exist and I won't have to suffer.

@YourMomGay258 Год назад

Are you working for Dunder MIfflin?

@deus_ex_machina_ Год назад

If people just stop buying paper, there'll just be something else for you to haul, your suffering will never end.

@690_5 Год назад

@@deus_ex_machina_ No, Tycrop Avalanche trailers are only used to haul wood chips. Basically all of my suffering comes from the main dumper at the pulp mill.

@deus_ex_machina_ Год назад

@@690_5 Oh, I guess that's why my license only goes up to 4 wheels, not 18. On the other hand, suffering is a fact of life. _Perhaps_ adjusting your attitude to focus on the skills required and utility of your tasks could alleviate the perception of the suffering?

@690_5 Год назад

@@deus_ex_machina_ eh, the driving is my absolute favourite. I drive in the night through two national parks, man. It's hard to beat looking up at the stars knowing I'm the only person out here. I love my job, genuinely, but truckers are an abused bunch. "What's that? You haven't slept for 29 hours? Get on the road and drive, Bud." The suffering almost entirely comes from the mill or being overworked. I do get told I'm negative but it's not always bad.

@plowboy7700 Год назад

An old truck driver told me another reason the cab overs here fell away was the safety record. He said when you drive a cab over you are always the first one to the crash.

@PrivateMcPrivate Год назад

Yeah the long nose adds protection to the driver, but the cabover just throws you into the crash.

@petert3355 Год назад

@@PrivateMcPrivate If it was a choice between hitting a camel at 100km/hr in a cabover vs bonneted truck. I sure know which I'd choose.

@sidewind131258 Год назад

That was then, now it's another ballgame, even in an headon collision with another semi, the driver usually walks away unscated, a US truck with it's engine in front, waltzes the engine into the cabin and the truckers lap gets a REALLY close relationship with the engine

@sidewind131258 Год назад

@@petert3355 I'd also choose the cabover, because the longnose truck pitch the camel up over the bonnet and straight thru the windshield

@petert3355 Год назад

@@sidewind131258 I'd actually choose the bonneted truck. Camels are tall, but not tall enough for the situation you point out. The bullbar will catch on the rib and pull the camel down.

@mmmbbop9351 Год назад

I'm a lorry driver in the uk and his thanks and gratitude at the end of the video really made my day. Thanks man. Even though I have to agree, I genuinely think without truckers across the world are the most important key workers. Planes and trains are great, but you can't really do local deliveries with them.

@procyon826 Год назад

In Europe the maximum drive time per day is 9 hours, yes, but the WORK DAY is 15 hours. You have 9 hours for driving and 6 hours for other things like refueling, loading, unloading etc. Also, the driving time can be extended to 10 hours per day twice a week.

@nikolabruncic1324 Год назад

Regular day is: 9h driving, 13h overal, 11h rest 2x a week you can drive 10h 3x a week 15h overal with 9h rest After max 4.5h of driving you have to stop to rest 45min minimum Regular Weekend is minimum 45h, you can do 24h but before the end of the 3rd week you have to do 45h+ the hours that you did less than 45h before This is probaly confusing for americans but I can't imagen my self driving 11h non stop

@compprufus Год назад

@@nikolabruncic1324 Give it some time ;) I sure can imagine driving 10 hrs a day 6 or 7 days a week when I am on a tour. Certainly better spent a day while driving and be home earlier than spent it standing on a tight spot with a fence around without any way to escape that place. Often the regulations are marketed as truck drivers friendly and for their comfort (apart from being a safety for general traffic, but in all honesty look at us, is it tha more unsafe? I don't think so), but more comfortable would be to get home sooner and enjoy the rest there, not on the road.

@drister007 Год назад

@@compprufus Driving 10 hours straight without any break is dangerous for the driver and other people on the road, that why we don't allow it in civilised countries.

@compprufus Год назад

@@drister007 yeah, well call us uncivilised/undeveloped, doh. 10 hours a day for driving is perfectly alright if somebody we are talking about is healthy, had a good sleep before and didn't waste his rest time watching movies late up the "night" (given that the driving may happen independently on calendar day and day time). Each to his own. I'd rather do longer hrs during work week than postpone getting home for the real rest begins. Resting on the road sucks big time

@drister007 Год назад

@@compprufus "yeah, well call us uncivilised/undeveloped, doh." Driving for 10 hour straight without any brake is uncivilised 100 %. It is dangerous. "10 hours a day for driving is perfectly alright " NO, it is not! It si statistically proven that 10 hours of driving non stop without break increases crashes significantly. It is not alright at all. It is recommended to take a 15 minute to 30 minute break every 1,5 hours of driving. By law truck drivers should NOT drive more than 4,5 hours, then they have to do 45 minute break.

@dirkmunk8352 Год назад

Unfortunately this RU-vid clip has a few mistakes. In Europe, diesel fuel is quite expensive. So it is important that a truck uses as little fuel as possible. Good aerodynamics are important for that goal, and so every European truck is tested and improved in wind tunnels. Don't let their appearance fool you, they are quite aerodynamic, and with the new EU regulations in place to allow for a slightly longer tractor, aerodynamics will improve even more. As others have written already, there are off the shelf European truck engines that are (far) more powerful than any US truck engine. Comfort in a European cabover truck is also better than in a US conventional, just ask Australian drivers, they know both. European cabs are shorter, but higher and wider. It is possible to make the cabs longer, Scania had the Longliner cab. However that means in Europe you can only use a shorter trailer, not very attractive. In the US, that would not be the case. American drivers often have old US cabovers in mind when they speak about cabovers in general. However, those are completely different from modern European versions.

@tuftyterror983 Год назад

Yeah i have noticed about 70% of cabs on US roads are. What you just clarified makes total sense.

@985476246845 Год назад

sitting right above the engine as opposed to sitting right behind it, i think there is very little difference. its not like your seat is attached to the engine in the cab over..

@jgclonegunner Год назад

The US version is better in every way lol

@F1Onboards. Год назад

@@jgclonegunner It really isnt

@arjanvanraaij8440 Год назад

@@985476246845 It makes sense, sitting in the middle of a bus is the most comfortable. That why De Rooy made a bonnet racetruck for the Dakar ralley. But the cabin of a european truck has verry good suspention and the us has not or little.

@platoscavealum902 Год назад

Thanks for being informative while keeping it short and to the point.

@dave-smarttrucking7515 Год назад

Good video and thank you for recognizing truck drivers! Appreciate it!

@b.w.9392 Год назад

Truckdriver here, a regulair tractor/trailer here in europe is limited to 16.50 meters, with a maximum of 13.60 for a basic three axle trailer. A so called 'combi' (boxtruck + short trailer) is allowed to be 18.75 meters and and 'lzv' (lang-zwaar-voertuig; long heavy vehicle, basicly the dutch/euro version of a roadtrain) is allowed to be 25.25 meter in various configurations. A solo boxtruck has a maximum of 12 meters. About living in your truck: in europe there are a lot of regulations and laws regarding working and resting in trucking. You can spend your 'shortend' weekend break of 24h in your truck but it is illegal to have a 'regulair' weekend break of 45h in your truck and your boss/employer will have to arrange a place to stay (so a hotel or someting) then

@TaronTT Год назад

Longest European truck combinations are Finnish, HCT setup. 2 full size trailers with the rear one being on a dolly connected to the first one.

@tomasotawa Год назад

@@TaronTT I saw multiple of those driving through Czech Republic with, I think, Polish plates. So it's probably no longer just Finnish thing, if thats what you meant.

@MohsinAli-jn5jx Год назад

Im a truck driver too, but i have never saw or red about 25.25 mt trucks. I drive in Italy.

@marco_grt4460 Год назад

@@MohsinAli-jn5jx just think about that we have the mountains to go up and down

@MrBotyesz Год назад

@@MohsinAli-jn5jx come to Sweden it's standard here

@MrBrander Год назад

You forgot to mention the fact that when you don't have a long bonnet on your truck, you have smaller blind spot spaces around your cap which makes the trucks safer for everyone else. There still are huge blind spots around them but not as huge as with truck which have a long bonnet.

@mattthorn4789 Год назад

This is not necessarily true, the engine can be placed just to fill up the blindspot in the front, hence making it safer

@cheloveque8257 Год назад

@@mattthorn4789 huh? Thats not the how blindspots are working. Hood is creating an new blind spot

@kristoffer3000 Год назад

@@mattthorn4789 That's not how that works at all... In European trucks you have a mirror to show you directly in front of the nose so your blind spot is very small. Having a protruding nose is not safer, you're deluded.

@VolkenIsBusy. Год назад

@@mattthorn4789 xᴅ

@johnye4433 Год назад

American truck is more aerodynamic, safer and more efficient to do quick fix

@LPPhoenixRed Год назад

im kinda impressed, you made a video about european trucks and included the metric measurements with no problem thats not what im used to see from an american content creator. but still, thanks for that

@Sillybutts Год назад

Excellent video! Short and straight to the point!

@thedutchhuman Год назад

That 9 hours of driving time is for the protection of the driver against the employer here in Europe. Working hours should also be no more than 15 hours, to ensure that no accidents occur if the driver becomes fatigued by stress, work pressure, and the heavy traffic here. Although there are companies that give the driver an extra tachograph card to run double hours, that is also where most accidents happen (and it is illegal to drive with more than one card). And if they get caught with that double card, well..... then the driver is fined or worse (he chooses it himself) and the company (since they have given the order)

@ImForwardlook Год назад

I sure hope that you don't believe in that bullshit.

@martijn9568 Год назад

Not only protection for the driver, but also protection for any other road user.

@mypdf Год назад

@@martijn9568 exactly, you don't want truck drivers on the road in their heavy vehicles to be tired and potentially causing accidents due to a lack of sleep, concentration, etc.

@polakrodak3224 Год назад

There is a solution for fooling tachograph with magnet

@Zommari Год назад

9 hours 🤔 as far as I remember we have here in Slovenija 8 hours and in this time you need to have 2x15 minit or 1 30 minit break 🤔 meaby something change I don't know.

@Mrsnugglepants842 Год назад

As an Ex truck driver im gonna say thank you for the acknowledgment. When i was still driving i was treated like i wasnt human most of the time. Hearing that someone out there appreciate us made me smile. Have a good one mate!

@erwinj9697 Год назад

I can imagine that as a truck driver you'd be "in the way of some asshole" every day.

@mrsean1999 Год назад

. I’d shake your hand and buy you a beer if I could. Modern life wouldn’t exist without truckers and countless other working men and women. All the best to you

@limehawk4989 Год назад

In europe or usa?

@heyitsfranklynn168 Год назад

No youre not. Your name is mr snuggle pants and you have the subscription spread of a 14 year old boy

@catalintimofti1117 Год назад

Nah we are all fucked without truck drivers thank you for doing such a hard job

@365net6 Год назад

Love the video. Also love the little pockets of gold you put at the bottom of your video descriptions. Duck Song American edition goes hard.

@DevMoSofi Год назад

2:18 that map is hilarious. Great video though. Keep it up 👍

@tva911 Год назад

As a driver myself that has and is still driving extremely long distances in Europe (3000-5000km trips) i can say that living in a european truck for weeks on end is doable. But it is not easy.

@mortisCZ Год назад

Understood but it's fair to admit that there are much fewer drivers travelling from Valencia to Tallin than San Diego to Chicago for example. 🙂

@tva911 Год назад

@@mortisCZ agreed I luckily had the privilege to do some crazy drives in my 10 year short time but overall transportation is focused on Western Europe

@romanrat5613 Год назад

@@mortisCZ Majority of long distance transport is done by freight trains in the US. Amtrak might be shit, but the freight trains are getting longer and longer

@eurasianlynx Год назад

@@tva911 do you have time in your day for enough physical exercise and some relaxing?

@derorje2035 Год назад

@@mortisCZ why tho? The US was built on rails, these rails could haul a multitude of cargo than trucks.

@tntfreddan3138 Год назад

2:14 Smaller engines in European trucks? The two biggest European engines are the Scania DC16 (16.4L V8) and the Volvo D16 (16.1L I6). These two engines are the only commercial truck engines I could find that makes over 700hp. They even have a couple of trims below that that are still more powerful than their competitors. You can get a Volvo FH16 with 540, 550, 600 (Merc's most powerful engine makes 625hp), 650 (MAN's most powerful engine still made today makes 640hp), 700 and 750hp. The Scania DC16 in the R and S-models have the following trims: 520, 530 (Daf's most powerful engine makes 530hp), 580, 590, 650, 660, 730 and 770hp. And if the horsepower figures don't say enough, the Scania R/S580 produces 3050Nm of torque. The R/S730 makes 3500Nm of torque The S770 makes 3700Nm of torque. The Volvo FH16 700 makes 3150Nm of torque and the 750 makes 3550Nm of torque.

@IdiotRace Год назад

All those fancy high output ones aren't that common though. I mostly see 400 to 500bhp and I very rarely see scania V8's that aren't specialised transport.

@tntfreddan3138 Год назад

@@IdiotRace Up here, in Sweden, Scania V8s are very common. You rarely see lumber trucks or excavation trucks that aren't Scanias with V8s or Volvo FH16s.

@LintulaV Год назад

@@IdiotRace Here in Finland most used type of truck is box with full trailer, most of them are 500/540. But almost all lumber and gravel trucks, which are very common, are 730/750hp

@Ghostrider-gn8ml Год назад

Benz doesnt build any V8 since 2013. And their current top of the line engine is a 15,6l l6 with 625hp.

@randommaniac245 Год назад

@@IdiotRace It all depends on different regulations in each country.In Finland the max weight was lifted to 76 tons few years ago,those are all Volvo's with 700-750 hp,or Scania's with 730-770 hp.

@hasanrzayetis1373 Год назад

Hi i'm from Turkey. I'm a truck driver. It's really challenging to drive these trucks but meanwhile have some fun. The front wheels under the seats and it provides sharper turning scale. Thats cool thing. You can fit really narrow roads with that system.

@oyku.akbulut Год назад

I wonder what will US trucks work like in Turkey. Roads are not really all that smooth here, but streets are not that wide, maybe even worse than many EU countries.

@hasanrzayetis1373 Год назад

@@oyku.akbulut Amerikan tırları Türkiye'de asla çalışamaz. Manevra yapılamaz onlarla. Çok uzunlar.

@eivinstens6091 Год назад

Yep. Mostly due to length restrictions. Biggest drawback is that you have to tip the cab over to get to the engine. The tipping mechanism is not always reliable, especially if it hasn't been used for some time.

@jrgenw4795 Год назад

Well made video! But back to whats said about smaller enggines. We really do have some enormous engines. Scania with their 16l 770hp v8, Volvo with the 750hp i6 etc. Theese engines are very useful in the mountains of scandinavia with the maximum weight for logging trucks can exceed 70 tonnes. Most of the modern trucks have air suspension all round on all axles, on the cab and even in the seat, so the trucks are very very comfortable to drive for long times.

@tnc7399 Год назад

I know American trucks also have air suspension to balance out when loading trailers. But I have seen many cabovers there the body has so much more roll and bounce than the normal type.

@Legogazer Год назад

offended European encountered "no no our trucks are AMAZING. no downsides!"

@tnc7399 Год назад

@@Legogazer there are, like trying to repair the truck can be more difficult. And they are probably more complex mechanically. But they also have advantages.

@thomasbouvier3203 Год назад

@@tnc7399 well depending on speed it sure have more roll than american cab. That said on bumpy road with low speed eu truck cab are verry comfy while driving. And engines aren’t that ridiculous as some are bigger with more power and sometimes even more fuel efficient than us brands engines. That said, maintenance may be more fastidious since its under cab engine and very dense ones. Main feature of us truck is not subject to roll over 90kph turn due to longer wheelbase and lower cab. And with longer chassis comes more cab space. That said if you take a argosy design today us truck could have a f-ing condo instead of the « small » cab they have.

@NFSGamerful Год назад

@@thomasbouvier3203 gotta remember though, the cab on a European truck will almost tilt as far forward as an American truck hood. If you ever have a gearbox problem it's actually easier because you can access it from behind the cab

@samsaliba1532 Год назад

As a European (Maltese) there was one "long nose" truck in the whole country. Granted Malta is only 316 square kilometres but whenever I saw that truck as a child I was fascinated.

@Arcifer Год назад

probably still took it a few hours to get from a to b because of the traffic :P but i guess most resupplies are done more around nighttime, cant even remember. I do vividly remember trying to take the bus from sliema to qawra (with the "new busses") and it took over 2 hours for the bus to show up and another 1.5 hours to drive up there. One time i waited for over an hour and a half, and finally gave in and took a cab, which drove me there in what, 15 minutes? Though i dont recall there beeing so many different bus lines to get up there fast, i do know that it takes a very long way around the whole coast line. Quite scenic and nice in its own way to do once or twice but not if you are trying to meet someone up there or take the ferry to gozo :D

@stephenroberts7459 Год назад

Sam Salba GC!

@w4llie189 Год назад

I have seen only one American-Type truck and I've lived in both Poland and Germany. They are rare as hell

@moos5221 Год назад

whenever i saw the old busses on malta as a kid, i was really fascinated. i'm from germany but we visited malta 3x in the late 80s - early 90s and back then malta had these really old cool busses (most of them were green-white iirc, but some were even older and fancier. in germany we had modern but boring busses, those on malta were like vintage cars. sadly the old busses were gone when i revisted malta in the mid 2000s.

@Arcifer Год назад

@@moos5221 I believe they were old busses from the UK, i think i saw some episode with some enthusiast in the UK who was looking for one of those busses and actually imported his back from Malta xD

@Syveck Год назад

Hell yeah on linking those trucks in tight situations, just for that I liked and subscribed.

@Forestmtb Год назад

This was really educational, I was wondering this myself but I have never looked it up as to why that is. The video found me in the right time. Thank you for the provided info :) .

@nickhargreaves681 Год назад

It's hugely impressive the spots our truck drivers fit their trucks into

@nickakers7985 Год назад

Definitely, most American truck drivers are spoiled with large warehouses, but I will say, seeing a dog nose Pete back into a loading dock in a downtown area is pretty impressive in and of itself.

@sogerc1 Год назад

What I'm most impressed with is when a truck driver turns his truck and the front of the vehicle is not even above the tarmac, the driver is floating above the roadside canal or something and yet he knows how far the front wheels can go.

@Killer99215 Год назад

@@sogerc1 Comes with practice. Same with driving a car. By checking mirrors, and "becoming one with the vehicle", you know exactly where you are.

@mathiastheapprentice Год назад

In the US the weight limit is 80.000 pounds right? Thats 36 tonnes. Here in Denmark its 56 tonnes or 123.000 pounds for “normal operations” or whatever. If its special cargo, it could be more. Dad had a DAF XF510 and drove from Denmark, a third way up Sweden and down along the water. One week he’d do 3 trips, the following 2 trips, then 3 trips again. He lived in the lorry from Sunday till Saturday on long weeks. From Sunday to Thursday night on short weeks. There was enough space to live comfortably and the engine sound hardly came into the cab (only during harder acceleration and engine braking)

@honkhonk8009 Год назад

I live in Canada so I assume its a similar story to the US. I think roads here in general suffer more abuse. Cars are used a shit ton more in general. You need special roads built to survive the abuse that trucks in general put on. I think my city had to ban commercial trucks going on certain roads and such, because they would keep tearing up the roads that werent built to handle that repeated stress.

@biohazard_613 Год назад

Our standard nationwide limit is 80,000lbs for a 5 axle combination. I live in Oregon. In the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, I run 105,500 lbs on 8 axles, which is almost 48 metric tons if I remember correctly. I’ve done special cargo also on RGN rigs. With the correct permits, I’ve ran loads as heavy as 287,000 lbs, somewhere close to 130 metric tons. I drove in Sweden for a few years back in the ‘90s and used to do the weight conversion a lot easier but haven’t had to do that in a long time.

@williamrae9954 Год назад

Yeah...lightweights in the US,though some States are 120.000lbs...just don't cross that invisible line on the same road when it's 80k next door...madness

@williamrae9954 Год назад

@@biohazard_613 130t...that's just a decent excavator move...we've better heavy haulers here in Europe

@stanburk7392 Год назад

@@honkhonk8009 Maximum load in Canada without getting permits is 63,500 kg. (140,000 lbs.) on an eight axel configuration. maximum length is 23 meters or 75.5 feet. heavier and longer loads are caried but require more axels and special permits.

@garryferrington811 Год назад

You packed a lot of information into a small space. Thank you.

@qwstrfgqwstrfg360 Год назад

i appreciate this video being 3 minutes, it includes all that there needed to be said. i hate when channels bloat up videos with tons of unnecessary und barely related stuff to take 17 minutes answering 1 question

@robertozamcu3533 Год назад

I live in Europe and my dad is a trucker. He has a modern 2018 volvo truck and I was inside of it. It is like a home: he has a mini fridge under the bed and on the roof there is a large window. He is a full-time trucker and I see him only two times a week.

@treesome3979 Год назад

That sucks, man. When automation gets here your dad's job will be among the first to become useless, I wouldn't advice you to follow his footsteps

@dubl33_27 Год назад

2 times a week? Lucky

@MrRinre Год назад

Bruh you guys are being too real on a kid.

@BarryB.Benson Год назад

You’re dad is a true hero to society

@dubl33_27 Год назад

@@treesome3979 with how self driving cars are going, i wouldn't expect it anytime soon.

@nemesis8664 Год назад

One of the reasons is because european trucks need to be agile and "small" enough to operate in pretty small roads sometimes and deal with some real tight corners, specially in european mountain roads, urban and countryside areas. My Actros from 2019 uses the OM 471 engine, wich delivers "just" 650 hp but it has enormous torque and runs smooth as silk. My truck is my job companion out there, my friend and family, also my home. It's comfy, beautiful and super reliable.

@MrYouMeYou59 Год назад

Cool cus Actros is one of my favorite vehicles!(and my favorite truck) And ur rigth like in Mountain Coutries with thigtg spaces is almost imposibile for a Vito with a trailer that isnt more then 10 m Wut about a 16 m long truck its good for exemple Romania's Mountains Roads are like hell to drive in with a 7 m vito about trucks they go Slow around 30 to 50 kph onto that roads and a personal story:My dad works at a stilist fance company as a driver and ive go eith him with small trucks(idk what they are called but are that ones without a trailer) and some times I was going with him and got a Costumer in Brașov(a mounty like road) we were going like 50 to 60 but in corners 40 to 50 And I saw my dad (that have that type of car license since 2009 and normall cars since 2006 he was a type of pro driver and this happened this february)stresed and and from then at a titgh corners I tend to get my hand on that holding thing :D(im Romanian and idk some words in english) Wish u safe deliverys!

@Moribax85 Год назад

Mercedes trucks are living rooms on wheels... But I honestly prefer Volvo for driving (even if I would kill to have the bunk of a Mercedes).

@shaggings Год назад

I dislike the Actros because it's turning radius is shit. Doesn't rotate as well as a Volvo or a Scania in tight places.

@theoteddy9665 Год назад

@@shaggings I currently drive iveco, dont talk about turning radius, it sucks so much!

@Paltse Год назад

Urban and countryside covers basically everything there is. Countryside being the side of the country not being urban.

@lucidddddddddddddddddddddddddd Год назад

Concise to the point, no frills style of content. You earned a like and sub :)

@mattmobley2664 Год назад

Love the appreciation shown to the truckers at the end. I already knew the basic idea but you still made it interesting.

@Mental_Illboy Год назад

My sister loves truck drivers she's almost every day meeting them at the highway truckstop over here close by. I can't tell my parents she said I don't know why..

@-.-.-.-.-.---.----....-_- Год назад

😐 well this is a hard one...

@Kai-ky6tf Год назад

Lol

@susa.k.a.pinkguy2036 Год назад

lmao

@suntzu1409 Год назад

😏😏😏😏

@bartys227 Год назад

😂😂😂😂

@ikmarchini Год назад

Our fleet of 200 trucks did metro NY/NJ. Believe me, we had mostly cab-overs to go into Manhattan. The last thing you want there is extra size. If I went in with a 45 foot trailer I could drive blocks before I was able to make a turn. With a cab-over straight job I could park in a car space sometimes. And there is a distinction between long distance over-the-road rigs and local expedition. We distributed a lot of goods brought to us by big rigs from the South who didn't want to bother with local conditions. And most of them didn't know how to back up. They'd pay me to dock their rig. You haven't lived until you try to put a 40 foot trailer into a building with 3 inch clearance, on the blind side, and every car in the street honking like crazy.

@harpsdesire4200 Год назад

I've driven in Manhattan with a long nose, it's hard but doable.. Brooklyn on the other hand is a whole different beast

@alliwishis_2 Год назад

@@harpsdesire4200 I can concur on all on what you had just said.. and I can add Brooklyn Bronx and Philadelphia as well as Pittsburgh and some parts in Baltimore and Washington DC are really hard but doable

@alliwishis_2 Год назад

Been there done that that is a lot of stress when you have two blocks of traffic honking at you waiting for you to hurry up and put that thing in so they can go about their miserable way

@innomind Год назад

It boggles my mind why cars like Lexus have 360 view cameras around the car to show birds eye view when backing up, but huge semis with expensive cargo don't, or the ones that do have some inferior cameras that don't give full picture.

@GeneralKenobi69420 Год назад

As a European I didn't know cabovers were even available in the us in the first place tbh...

@shoghunuk7428 Год назад

Thank you for answering some questions I forgot I had! Being an European and living all around Europe I’m used to our ‘trucks’ and even got my license to drive one when I became a grown up, so I’m used to their size, speed limits and lane limitations. Imagine my surprise whilst I was in New York State, driving down the motorway (Highway, sorry) at the legal speed limit of 65 when a truck thundered past me at what seemed to be Mach 1!! Now I know 👍

@Utonian21 Год назад

Actually, what you call the "motorway" we call the "freeway," or "Interstate". Highways are much smaller and still have intersections and lights

@shoghunuk7428 Год назад

@@Utonian21 lol, I couldn’t even get that right! Sorry, interstate. It’s another reminder that we both speak ‘English’ but different languages 😉👍

@AuGrrr Год назад

Well the thing is tractors should be running at around 65 to 70 and no more because of multiple safety reasons and also the biggest reason being recapped tires. Recapped tires I believe have a 70 mph speed cap and going over will increase the risk of it just blowing up.

@AuGrrr Год назад

@CHAD THE BORIS you mean moonlandings per defense budget spending liberal

@iamgroot4080 Год назад

Great video Sir. Right straight to the point, no unnecessary BS

@Snaily Год назад

1:50 there's a road in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, that trucks aren't actually allowed down because it's so tight, but very rarely some madlad will try to for through. 9 times out of 10 they fail, block it for hours and are generally an annoyance, but every once in a while someone somehow fits their truck through. Still takes them long enough to get in trouble though. Lower Town is modelled to concerning accuracy in Promods for ETS2 if you're willing to give it a go.

@nevreiha Год назад

theres a road near me with a little old arch shaped bridge that would immediately kill or be killed by a hgv, its always funny when aristocrats come along in their low bottom racing sports cars for a country drive and have to make a u turn

@ohiopower Год назад

The old town I used to live in there was a large dam that intersected a main road on a grade. Well trucks making that turn especially if the had low boy trailers for carrying equiptment would bottom out and get stuck halfway through the turn. Tie up the road for hours. The city finally came and graded the shit out of the intersection and re profiled the turn. No worries after that.

@chickenpopper Год назад

I've done this one in my old Scania with full length trailer. If I remember rightly, there's a few overhangs to look out for but I made I through without drama.

@tdp2612 Год назад

I might have a go on that in promods thanks now

@GinoFoto Год назад

Here in Europa, driving comfort significantly differ between brands, air suspension, or just leaf springs also makes a huge one.

@MrDoubleD93 Год назад

You meant leaf springs not coil springs i guess😉

@GinoFoto Год назад

@@MrDoubleD93 depends on the actual tonnage and also age of a vehicle, but your right, in this context, definitely leaf springs, btw it's interesting how tired, wear out those can be after 450K/km, as trucks then temps to lean on front end as a lowriders... that's arguably all about cost-cutting, but air is definitely a way to go nowadays...

@hawkeyegough9090 Год назад

if you drive a Mercedes you get backpain, shoulder pain, neck pain and eye strain without any added fees

@JAYDOG1337A Год назад

My dad was a lorry driver before he retired (he's 49 years older than me), and he used to take me with him as a kid sometimes, we'd sleep in the bunk beds in the back, bring sweets, stop at burger king to spend the vouchers we'd get for buying so much fuel at the services, it was great.

@CheDCanal Год назад

Short and useful. Brilliant video, thanks!

@Mt.Everest Год назад

2:06 "speed limits are Higher" Meanwhile on the Autobahn: *no speed limits*

@Kkyzzler Год назад

He speak about truck 🧐

@helenafranzen9828 Год назад

There are always speed limits for trucks, even on Autobahn.

@ImForwardlook Год назад

128 km/h in many US states for trucks....only 80 km/h on the Autobahn.

@nirfz Год назад

In central europe at least to my knowledge 80 kph is the standard limit on highways for trucks above 7500 kg (7.5 tons) and 100 kph for busses above that weight. Has to do with safety, and fuel economy. 80 kph is where the aerodynamic drag roughly equals rolling resistance in effect on fuel efficiency. Even most ICE cars are most fuel efficient around 80 kph. (not so with EV's though as most of them have no multi speed gearing) Below, the aerodynamics are not that important. And above, the aerodynamic influence increases by a squared factor. (doubling the speed means 4 times more impact ect.)

@asnodt42 Год назад

An alternate title: Yet another thing America does differently from the rest of the world. Its not just Europe that uses that truck design.

@ronblack7870 Год назад

we also have freight trains 5 miles long ( 8 km ) . that's unheard of in europe.

@cheloveque8257 Год назад

@@ronblack7870 i just imagined that. Truck with 5 carts trying to drive through the narrow streets of Venice

@bluedrink5928 Год назад

@@ronblack7870 maybe 3km long, definitely not 8

@twodollarking8009 Год назад

In America they literally have this truck design too. Idk where this dude lives. It's not too common but it's not rare either. I work as an arborist and you usually see this truck design being used a lot with different tree service companies

@boka_3451 Год назад

@@bluedrink5928 I had a hard time imagining a 3km train... then I googled what's the largest freight train and its apparently 7,352 m long. its called BHP iron ore

@davidsh9678 Год назад

Excellent video; very clear and informative!

@maartenbaas2308 Год назад

i have wondered about this many times. thanks for making a video on this.

@gemma3877 Год назад

I was frightened of British lorry cabs as a child, when I'd see them driving without an attached trailer. They look so front-heavy that a puff of air would cause them to roll onto their fronts!

@asbjrnhusum7881 Год назад

Actually the weight distribution is so low because the motor and transmission is are all the way at the bottom. And the tall bit is mostly air and chassis. So it's not really a concern for truckers.

@limehawk4989 Год назад

@@asbjrnhusum7881 If only Gemma knew that as a child lmao

@Mockheed_Lartin Год назад

Lol, me too

@glenn07777 Год назад

I am still afraid of them!

@MappingWithYakko Год назад

@@himbo84 its a bit like me, being scared of the disney dvd fastplay

@user-jk2zm7uq5s Год назад

European trucks' trailers also have an underride protection (side guard) ("Unterfahrschutz") which somewhat protects cyclists and pedestrians against being crushed by the trailer's rear wheels when turning at an intersection because of the trailer's tractrix.

@divingquokka Год назад

This also prevent Tesla's driving under them. Happened a while ago in the US.

@financialchimes4546 Год назад

They also have protection at the back preventing cars from driving under them.

@brodriguez11000 Год назад

@@financialchimes4546 That's what that bar in the back of some trucks is for.

@PrivateMcPrivate Год назад

They're also in the US, except they're really rare because it isnt law.

@michaelmccarthy4615 Год назад

@@brodriguez11000 Mansfield bar. Named after the famous actress Jane Mansfield who died hitting a trailer.

@nagys36snn Год назад

This was the most perfect video. In every regard. Length. (Only as long as necessary for the information to be conveyed) Getting to the point within the first second. Enough pictures and now low quality bs, if no good pictogram exists a real photo does a better job anyways. Proper comparison. Saying goodbye like a human being. Thanking truckers not just out of 'trying to be cool'. I mean literally, their job is very important. Overall 10/10, spot on.

@r0m0pr0 Год назад

nice short and informational video

@moistpeas Год назад

yeah and european truck drivers are literally the best drivers

@josephpe90 Год назад

Europe sucks

@inertboi Год назад

Yeah, the narrow streets and spaces they pull through is definitely panic attack inducing. I could never do that. I'm from EU, but driving a car and a truck are two different universes. Kudos to truck drivers.

@berempamuk123 Год назад

ill soon be one, and ill be damn proud of it

@b.w.9392 Год назад

@@inertboi it is indeed harder to get into the avarage european industrial estate then downtown manhattan

@Sparrowash97 Год назад

Europeans in general are better drivers than Americans

@bluered1322 Год назад

American truck driver here. I visited Ireland this year and it was awesome to see the different truck design and brands in person. It's surreal sharing the road with them in a rental car.

@gustavmeyrink_2.0 Год назад

Given all that space American trucks have for the engine why are they so relatively puny? When I go on the Kenworth or Peterbilt site the most powerful option they advertise is a 12.9L, 510hp engine with about 1800lb ft of torque but Scania offers a cabover with a 16L, 770hp engine with 2700 lb ft.

@crackheadcampus8199 Год назад

@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 usa isnt a country that have made great automobile, they have stylistic and demon fueled car but in term of engineering its bottom tier

@oyku.akbulut Год назад

@@crackheadcampus8199 Nothing to do with that. On average, US trucks are simply used more. Less strain on engine with underpowering it to a degree can help with maintanence costs and longevity.

@TheNeonLynx Год назад

@@oyku.akbulut Just to not spout something wrong I checked since I had been told otherwise. While it i not 100% certain it is proven that modern smaller Motors have about the same lifetime as old Motors did. However from the limited information available this would not count for a heavy duty motor like a truck. The smaller parts experience much more strain especially on roads like they are in Europe where starting and stopping is much more common than in the US. The only reason you can get away with such undersized Motors there is because most of the roads are just long straight roads where the motor is running at a constant velocity where the lifespan differences are not affected as much. So no those smaller motors do not help with maintenance, quite the opposite. However the advantage is fuel efficiency which matters the most on long straight drives with few turns. (though I do not know exact numbers on how fuel efficient one or the other is for sure). Also I would probably suggest that "Last mile delivery" probably should use European Trucks. TL;DR: Both small and big motors have their reasons why they are used where they are.

@arjanvanraaij8440 Год назад

@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 The engines KW and peterbilt use are disgn and developed at DAF those engines are built to be fuel efficient and enviroment friendly.

@nicolasbusse Год назад

Loved the short and sweet video. Never realized this difference.

@FW190D9 Год назад

Great Videos, thanks for making them !!

@adamkwiatek318 Год назад

Thanks for this cool video. I just want to point out 2 things. 1:03 In most of Europe 18.75-meter limit applies to (box) trucks with trailers. Semi trucks (w/ fifth wheels) with trailers cannot exceed 16.5 meters. Also, I wouldn't agree that EU truckers' routes are shorter. Despite stricter limits and smaller cab space plenty of truckers spend 3 weeks on the road at a time. Also, to avoid regulations many people drive small box trucks with less comfort features for even longer.

@SpencerHHO Год назад

In Australia you see more cabovers in the cities a mix around industrial areas and more longnose when you get out of the cities. Go far enough out and you can see 4 trailer road trains on massive private mining leases or farmland you sometimes even see more than 4 but that's rare.

@davisdf3064 Год назад

Wow! Almost like each design can be specialized for certain tasks because each has their advantages!

@greyed Год назад

So, you're saying Mad Max is REAL!?

@markusjuenemann Год назад

very well explained! Great work!

@Steven_Olson Год назад

Short, sweet, and to the point!

@dmglolmasterplays3353 Год назад

You will see some people arguing in the comments about which is superior but in my opinion both American trucks and Euro trucks serve different purposes and aren’t really comparable they are for two different environments each truck best suited for their purpose

@olepedersen5420 Год назад

excactly, they fit to different laws and infrastructure.

@bruhbbawallace Год назад

exactly, like my favorite brand is peterbilt but i sure as hell would prefer to be in a scania if im doing any kind of city driving

@Twin_Turbo Год назад

@@bruhbbawallace agreed brother. But for a straight highway of 250+ miles you better believe I’m going for a stretched Pete😂

@mediocreman2 Год назад

Yeah that is the dumbest competition ever. It boggles my mind what people get weird about. Especially when Europe isn't a country.

@derbigpr500 Год назад

EU trucks are objectively vastly superior in every way. It's just a fact, they're like 30 years ahead in terms of engineering and tech. Far superior comfort, refinement, performance, range, load capacity, efficiency, etc.

@andresruiloba322 Год назад

When u thanks truck drivers at the end made my heart melt, we barely get recognition for what we do, greetings from Argentina

@chunkycheeze1067 Год назад

I would say that the vast, vast majority of jobs don't get much recognition for what they do. When was the last time you heard someone thanking all the tax accountants out there, or carpenters, or mechanics, or computer repairmen, or the people who make cheese, or paper mill employees, or phone operators?

@berryconway4296 Год назад

When I've traveled in Europe I noticed the difference but when I've asked tour guides they couldn't provide an answer. So many thanks.

@thomasgunther Год назад

Thank you, I have always wondered why there are those different designs.

@AgentSmith911 Год назад

As a European, I love seeing American trucks here as they're quite rare. I live in Norway and sometimes I see imported long nose American trucks being used for hauling stuff and I even saw one that sounded like it was straight piped 😆

@The-Cat Год назад

I hate American trucks. Inefficient and they just dont innovate as quick as European trucks specifically because they lack regulation that would push innovation to become safer and efficient. EU has self driving trucks. and Americans are only looking at Elongated Musketeer to bring that to them while Peterbiult is on its billionth typical same old designs they's always had.

@AgentSmith911 Год назад

@@The-Cat That's incredibly boring. Also, 99.99% of all trucks on the road in Europe are NOT self driving, thank God, because a lot of the autonomous tech isn't ready yet. It's much more cool with a good old V8 diesel or straight six and a good driver 😆

@kevinhickey4889 Год назад

Try listening to them every day.

@richards4219 Год назад

@@AgentSmith911 I think you outlined why most American industries are getting left behind the rest of the world quite well.

@The-Cat Год назад

@@AgentSmith911 Nobody said all of them are, the point is they're way ahead of the pack when it comes to driver safety, pedestrian safety, driver assist, efficiency and productivity innovations. At the end of the day every driver wants to get home unharmed. Not everyone is an adrenaline pumped wild cowboy on the road wanting a high octane exiting ride. It gets old real quick on European roads where driving skills/precision actually matter more.

@JaseyRae Год назад

While for me living in Australia, we manage to have the best of both worlds in terms of Prime Movers (for both long and short distances)

@Sparrowash97 Год назад

Shame your wildlife is nightmare inducing

@Jefferson-ly5qe Год назад

@@Sparrowash97 that's what bullbars are for

@honkhonk8009 Год назад

@@Sparrowash97 idk why we americans talk about Australian wildlife being nightmare inducing, when our wildlife is litterally teh same lmfao. The tarantulas here are somehow more kinder than the ones in Europe. The ones in europe would ripe your face off if given the chance. The ones in america would give you a handshake and walk off.

@JoseMora-wc5zz Год назад

@@honkhonk8009 eh, I’m not worried about the wild fires you guys have. I’m more worried about the Kangaroo that beat the shit out of me because I had a gun.

@odaysal1491 Год назад

Thanks for info!

@funkyuk1 Год назад

Thanks! This has answered questions that I’ve thought about in the past, but never remembered to look up and find out. Oh. And the overlay maps are fantastic 👍🏼👍🏼

@johnnyhun1 Год назад

you should really make a separation between Eastern European drivers and Western European drivers. East drivers LIVE in the truck for 2-3-4 weeks, many of them for months without going home, and Western drivers usually live in the truck from Monday to Friday or they go home every day (and they still get a better salary). Also east drivers do much longer distances, usually above 1000 km (620 miles), my longest trip was 3000 km (1865 miles), maybe its not a big deal for american drivers, but I am a middle eu driver, more east drivers do longer routes and much more often (polish, ukrainian, romanian etc... drivers). Oh yea, and living in these smallers cabs are perfectly fine too, and they are much more comfortable to drive and has much more advanced technology than the american trucks, but I'm not saying its better in every aspect, just different ...

@huskytail Год назад

Uhm, you think that a driver who goes from Bucharest to Cluj-Napoca or from Sofia to Athens, or Zagreb to Prague lives in the truck for weeks on? 😁 The fact that you only see those who are the furthest away from their home, doesn't mean Eastern European truck drivers work only in Western Europe.

@johnnyhun1 Год назад

@@huskytail here in Hungary 90% of the drivers and companies work in west-eu, nobody really likes to go to the East because of the days of staying in each border, or because they dont speak russian and without that you are fucked, and stuff... So i can't really speak about the places east to hungary because I've never been there and I am not even planning to go there.

@huskytail Год назад

@@johnnyhun1 nobody is talking about the far east of Europe but about the EU countries. Although most drivers will go for long hauls to the Western part of the union, hence being much further away from home much more often and spending much more time in the truck, not everyone does it. Eastern Europe has become a much more interconnected place than it used to be

@janhavel8208 Год назад

Perfect! I really like the length too :)

@CrimeVid Год назад

England, where I live was full of overnight truck stops Fifty years ago. The development of distribution networks and the completion of the Motorway system obviated the need for “nights out” in most cases. Guys used to sleep in their cabs sometimes in the narrow bunk behind the seats, but cold and uncomfortable & no facilities . The one example of long trips out that I can remember was Pickfords (removals) known as the “lone rangers” who would go out driver only, and use local labour to load and unload. They’d get their next job on the phone, and so on, they could be away for weeks.

@davidstamenkovic5107 Год назад

As someone who works in the Australian heavy vehicle industry, this is very interesting. Australia is a mix of both US and Europe, but we have our own stuff that is exclusive to us. You should look into PBS (Performance Based Standards) here in Aus, it’s quite unique and the whole (truck) world is observing it.

@Arltratlo Год назад

road trains could solve the Russian supply problems in the Ukraine, but they wouldnt work besides our EU highways, because our villages are up to 2000 years or even older... something they dont have in Aussieland....i am living in the newest settlement in my area, my town is just 850 years old.

@MaverickLadd Год назад

As a trucker myself in the UK, you absolutely nailed the part about big rigs in tight places, I’ve been driving rigid body trucks at an 18 tonne mass weight for 3 months and each week I have to go into Oxford city centre, the amount of restrictions makes it incredibly awkward, especially when you have to ignore many of them just to get to a delivery address. Thankfully I’m now on the full size trucks (artics) after a 2 week break I’m taking. This video serves as a great perspective and good understanding of us Europeans despite you living in the US so major kudos to you.

@theymusthatetesla3186 Год назад

Very informative! Cheers!

@boreal3255 Год назад

read the description...

@theymusthatetesla3186 Год назад

@@boreal3255 Yeah, you're right....I should have panned it SMH :(

@leiflillandt1488 Год назад

Maybe it's mentioned below but in Finland and in Sweden the maximum length since a couple of years is 34,5 m, and the weight in Sweden seems to be 80 ton and in Finland, I think, it is 76 (for some reason).

@PAcifisti Год назад

Limits tend to be based around bridge constraints. Our bridges are already struggling with the 76 tons so I presume it's the upper limit someone calculated that won't degrade most of the bridges too badly.

@Khimil Год назад

In the EU, driving time per day can be up to 10 hours twice a week, otherwise max 9 hours. And a workday can last up to 15 hours for twice a week, normally 13 hours. At least in Finland, trucks can be up to 37,5 meters in length and up to 76 tonnes in mass.

@beebol2581 Год назад

I’ve seen the 37m truck also in the Netherlands. I know only two companies that operate those though

@Henrix1998 Год назад

Yeah, he didn't mention trailers at all

@b.w.9392 Год назад

@@beebol2581 37m? Or do you mean the 25.25m lzv's?

@beebol2581 Год назад

@@b.w.9392 no LZV i see often, 37m I’m talking about. Zeeman and Blokker use those. I always used to see them on the A2 on my way to work.

@randommaniac245 Год назад

Yes,as a Finn i can tell this video is full of errors.Computer game trucker should not make a video about "facts" of trucking.

@nathansharma87 Год назад

Great video. In Australia we run American, European and Japanese trucks. It's common to see a Kenworth B double (two trailers) parked up next to a Volvo b triple (yes you guessed it) at a truck stop. Our trucks are branded the same but built slightly different. The Volvo cab overs for example have loads of cab suspension and you can hammer over big road undulations without a worry. Most have bigger AC systems, bigger cooling systems etc They all seem to do quiet well. It's common to have three bunks for a 3 up crew (3 drivers) taking a triple road train from Perth to Sydney (roughly 4000km) in 2 or 3 days.

@mortisCZ Год назад

They seems to me more of a ship crew than truck drivers. 🙂 But it's understandable in your very open country.

@Telcom100 Год назад

ON our trip to Europe, I was also fascinated by the wheel arrangement of their trailers. Instead of the typical two axles with four wheels each, they have three axles with two wheels each.

@TheOwenMajor Год назад

EU mandates using those ultra-wide tires. They are more aerodynamically efficient than using dual tires, but come at the cost of a lower weight limit and also being much more expensive and hard to change.

@rogueteacake2792 Год назад

Thanks for the appreciation, I'm a "Lorry" driver here in the UK been driving since I was 19 (Apprenticeship) i'm 30 now. I started too hate the job due to lack of services, IE: food overly expensive in service stations, lack of washing facilities, idiocy of other drivers and finally lack of appreciation and the three P's (Piss Poor Planning) I've done many things since then from being a prison officer (correctional officer) to a mutli-million £ yacht builder with Fairline Yachts. Now i'm back driving on the roads due to Covid and the driver shortage, to be honest we are still under valued and under appreciated . you have lifted my spirits thank you @yukon

@notagoodcat7263 Год назад

Actually one of the pro’s of the europeans “small engine” (some are even 1000 hp) is that you pay much less gasoline. Talking about the look american’s trucks are really cool. But if we talk about safety… i’m sorry but Volvo is european!

@devinavant368 Год назад

But Volvo makes long nose trucks found in America too

@notagoodcat7263 Год назад

@@devinavant368 yes but i’m not dire that american’s volvos have the safety brake that have the european’s one, Just because of the weight. And Volvo make definetly more trucks in europe that in US

@notagoodcat7263 Год назад

@@devinavant368 but yeah your technically right

@chickenfishhybrid44 Год назад

Nothing in Europe with 1000 hp is a "smal engine" everyone knows about the top spec Scania V8s, but that's not the most commonly seen spec.

@chippyyyy Год назад

technically you pay zero gasoline since they are diesel engines and not gasoline engines

@Alfie92C Год назад

As a UK trucker I'm always jealous of how much space US truck cabs have compared to EU cabs. US cabs look like mini apartments

@Winchester1979 Год назад

In the EU (and UK), you *can* have a bigger sleeper, but you'll need a shorter trailer with less room. (There's been plenty of custom builds with longer cabs on youtube in recent years, and Scania used to actually make them as a factory option). In the US, you won't need the shorter trailer... but instead every kilogram or pound of weight spent on your comfort is one you can't chuck in the back of your trailer and get paid to haul. And the US max gross weight limit is only about 90% of the overall EU limit (36 tons vs 40).

@carl_marks1626 Год назад

Smaller than a prison cell but with a longer sentence an old trucker told me once when I was just starting out 30 years ago. He was full of wisdom old Donald.

@lordwalrus8615 Год назад

@@Winchester1979 in the nordic countries weight limit difference is even bigger with maximum 76 tons allowed

@drpompo Год назад

@@lordwalrus8615 That's huge, I think in Canada it's 59 tons or something like that. I always forget how low it is in the US, must be a pain for them sometimes

@lordwalrus8615 Год назад

@@drpompo sometimes i got the feeling that i have barely anything on my truck but i still would've blasted straight through us limits and even normal eu limits

@panzfaust9812 Год назад

Thanks for the explanation

@JCTBomb Год назад

Truck driving has got to be one of the most underrated careers in existence.

@dannyhaya Год назад

Bigger engines in the USA????? Europe: Volvo FH16/750 HP, Scania S/770 HP!

@automation7295 Год назад

Horsepower alone doesn't always means bigger, smaller engine can still make big horsepower Sure US trucks are less powerful, the most powerful engine offered by truck manufacturers are usually 600+, but below 700hp. Even US Volvo trucks don't offer 750hp, unlike the Volvo FH. I find it funny US trucks are less powerful than European trucks from the factory.

@ImForwardlook Год назад

@@automation7295 But many owner operators have far over 1000hp, some even over 2000hp in the US...

@automation7295 Год назад

@@ImForwardlook They're tuned by the owners, most trucks in the US has 600+hp or less from the factory.

@ImForwardlook Год назад

@@automation7295 True, your point is?

@automation7295 Год назад

@@ImForwardlook My point was that, North American trucks aren't as powerful from the factory. In the US, most powerful trucks have round 600hp, even Volvo VNL most powerful engine has around 600hp, Volvo FH most powerful engine has 750 hp. Scania now offers 770hp for their S-Series and probably R-Series as well.

@Toepferle Год назад

Small correction: 18.75m is the limit for rigid truck with trailer. A semi in Europe is limited to 16.5m due to the greater turn radius. At least that's the limit in most places, hence the combination you can find most often. Otherwise nice video! :) Driving comfort in a cab over nowadays doesn't fall behind your standard semi. With air suspension, air ride cabin, newly designed air ride seats plus a great deal of insulation, you tend to not even hear a European engine when it's running and you go over bumps quite smoothly. Also, laws start changing and drivers are allowed some more space. We only talk a couple centimeters here, but it's a start. I can only encourage everyone to try out a new European semi if they have the chance to. The engineering in the last 5 years has done some amazing things for driving comfort. :)

@kentagent6343 Год назад

In sweden it's 25m. Next year maybe 34m

@hughjass1044 Год назад

Good summation of the differences and reasons for them. I drove quite a few miles in each of Europe and North America and it's two pretty different worlds for sure. I found that in Europe, you needed a lot higher skill level due to the many more confined spaces you needed to get into but despite that, it was a more enjoyable experience. Better pay, more respect, and I never spent more than two nights away. Stateside, the roads are bigger, the trucks nicer and more comfortable but the job is not as nice overall. Pay sucks, little respect and often away for nearly a month at a time.

@jonathanticotrucker5635 Год назад

Great video! now I'm subscribe to your channel, greetings from Costa Rica 🇨🇷

@Zomb-CZ Год назад

Incredibly well explained and edited video! [also nice description]

@deus_ex_machina_ Год назад

Wow it's been years since I've seen someone mention the description. I stopped reading them when it became a bunch of link spam for socials, merch store etc.

@randommaniac245 Год назад

Nope,this video was full of errors,guy has no knowledge of european trucking.