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i am a trucker in sweden and i live in my truck 4-5 nights a week and have been doing so for 20 years. i have got 2 bunkbeds, tv, refrigerator, freezer, microwave, coffeemaker and 7,6 feet in total inner height :) Totalweight of my rig loaded is 64 tonnes. 82 feet long and 15 feet tall.
Here trucks are limited to 55mph, and they always stay in the right lane.. 97% of the time you will never see a truck hogging the fast lane here, we follow the driving laws well here
The speed limit in the UK on motorways is 70 mph, but trucks are electronically limited to 56. The reason we only drive for 9 hours is to avoid drivers falling asleep at the wheel. We also have to take 3 breaks and everything is recorded on a flash drive or tachograph. The police do spot checks and if you've gone over your driving hours or not taken your breaks correctly you get a big fine and points on your licence or even disqualified. An out of control 50 ton truck can kill a lot of people and do a lot of damage. I drove "semi's" for 15 years and it's very tiring. ✌️❤️🇬🇧
The maximum weight of 18 wheelers in Europe is over 6000 lbs higher than the max weight in the US. It is limited in the US on the interstates. The maximum weight in some Nordic countries is almost 3 times higher than in the US.
in Finland it is allowed to have 34.5m (114 feet) trailer and 76 000kg (167 000 lb) max weight. Also you can steer mercedes truck with one finger, i liked it when i drove one.
Here in Germany, it, s the normal to work 7,7 hours a shift, as Nurse. Only nightshift are 9 hours... Between two shifts there must be 11 hours to rest(by law).. /..
The best advantage of European trucks is the maintenance of the engine. Since the entire driver's cab is opened to the front here, you can access all engine parts without any obstacles. As far as the driving times are concerned, the 9 hours are of course not in one piece. You can drive a maximum of 4.5 hours. Then you have to take a 45-minute break before you can get behind the wheel for another 4.5 hours. These times apply for a period of 24 hours. You can even increase the driving times to 10 hours twice within 7 days. The maximum speed for these trucks is 80 km/h on German autobahns and 60 km/h on country roads.
@@tomweuts And that's where the problem lies. As long as he is in Belgium everything is fine. If he then drives to Germany and the driving times are checked, it gets expensive. 🤣...😯...😭
Fun fact: Mercedes is a brand of Daimler-Benz. And Daimler Truck North America is the producer of the well known US brand "Freightliner" (e.g. the Coca-Cola Truck) - so "your" US Freightliner is technically spoken a german owned Company...
there usually are bunks in the european trucks as well but just not as roomy as the american counterparts. Here in scandinavia we also see the trucks hauling two trailers. Trucks in europe usually stay in the right lane, europe do enforce that rule way more rigiously than the americans. Especially the passing on the right. In denmark and I believe most of northern europe at least the trucks are electronically limited to max. 90 km/h I guess that would be about 55 mph.
Funny you mentioned Mercedes as dad said the Mercedes in Sweden used to be the regular taxi car of choice. I still see Mercedes rolling around Stockholm as they are part of the regular taxi fleet here just like Toyota and Skoda and other brands.
There are several videos about how strong truck engines are in Europe vs in the USA. And it turns out that the strongest trucks are made in Sweden. There are beds in most trucks - also in Europe.
0:20 one misconception of european vans is that you can buy different body style of vans. One option is open bed. long bed, short bed, single cab or dual cab.
Most of the drivers here, if you drive international cargo also sleep in their cabin, there is a bed behind the seats, not a kingsize bed but it is a decent one, we don't need that much space.. If you do want a kingsize bed, you should find a company that ownes Scania Longline trucks or become a Driver/owner and buy one yourself..
@@Dan-fo9dk If they are only allowed to go 80 km/h and the regular speed is 100 they are effectively glued to the right lane. There are also lots of streets where they aren't allowed to overtake other vehicles period.
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You say in Texas it being a problem if there's a difference between the speed of cars and trucks. Imagine Germany where you have cars unlimited and trucks limited to 56mph, and when we say limited we mean it's fitted with a device which cuts of the fuel at that speed not that's just the speed limit. They have cars doing 150mph 3 feet from a truck doing 50mph and it's fine, but much much better lane discipline than in the US.
Min. 9:00 The speed limit and the limits about working hours are supervised by digital equipment, which is easy to control for the "police". ... Police simply takes the drivers card (which contains all data of a year) and connects it to a laptop. Within minutes, the driver gets his card returned and can wait for tickets, which are mailed to him. ... Additional to the tickets for the drivers, there will be tickets to the company (which owns the truck), which are often twice the amount as for the driver. (I am German. Maybe, it´s not the same all over Europe.)
As for gas mileage, the American trucks are of course better aerodynamically, which saves fuel - but they are going so much faster than the European ones. All in all it is safe to say that a Euopean truck going 90 km/h (55mph), despite its inferior aerodynamics, will still get significantly better gas mileage than an American truck going towing the same weight. 70-75mph . Very small speed differences can already have a noticeable effect on gas mileages. In Europe, trucks must be limited to no more than 90 km/h, but some companies will voluntarily limit theirs to 85 km/h or less - these few km/h less will save thousands of Euros on fuel each year.
With same speed, with same total weight and with same hp on the engine the European truck will by far outperform it US engine. It has much more torque, much lower fuel consumption and the emission of pollution is much lower. The European engine are far more efficient and advanced. That aerodynamic argument isn't worth much.
In europe we have different ways of transports All acros. So we Can decide whats best for What cargo AMD What situation. Trucks Vans Riverboats Seaboats Containerschip Plane Trains
I don't know much about this, though I think that here in Europe, if you need to deliver large ammount of something, it is preferably done by train or boat, at least for a portion of the journey. That is actually why the drought was such a big problem last summer. The water level in the Rhine was very low and they usually use the river to deliver coal to the power plants (if I remember correctly). To deliver one boatload with trucks, you'd need at least a few hundred of them.
ill like to add on to that ... trains are also alot more fuel effecient (even old now obsolete fuel train was)... a normal train car takes 4-5 times the load of a truck..a train wit 100 cars 400-500 trucks..transporting over a long distance the economical and eniromental win is huge compared to a truck...its also alot faster...(a rail is a dedicated transport system)... for distributing goods in a city or fairly short distanses... trucks are nessesary... the main reason US dont uses rails it because thay cant... the US rail system is critically underdimensioned.... also for a single company with say 10 trucks it may ecven in europe be an economically good option...when there need be enugh goods transported say like a shipment... trains rly the only option... also since more and more trucks being replaced by electric trucks, the damage to the enviroment in CO2 is going down... thay are also safer, more ecomomic, more silent, can acceleraste faster and more enviromental friendly... drawback atm: lower operational range (usually)... EV trucks r going to take some time in US...
Another reason American trucks dont run in Europe is the narrower highways they wouldnt fit on and certainly not in European cities because unlike American cities, most European cities have a historic ancient/medieval layout and are not arranged in blocks like "newer" American cities. So European cities have lots of bottlenecks, curves, sharp intersections and other things that would end in a traffic jam if an American truck drove into such a place.
I think they mentioned manoeuvrability in the video. US trucks are even more narrow, 2,45m, than the European which is 2,55 - 2,60 m wide. It is simply do to the nose, the poor overview and poor turning circle which make it not well suited for city environment.
9:51 70 mph is *deadly* Too much weight to slow down in case something happens. 57 is way, way better. They stay in the slow lane only, that's why everyone else pass them.
I am not a truck driver in the UK but I am a driver. On three lane roads HGVs (Heavy Goods Vehicles) are limited to two lanes, the left and centre lanes (in the USA that is the right and centre lanes). In the UK the most distant you are from the coast is 71 miles. This means normally you are within 300 miles of a good port. On Main Land Europe, this is not the case in many countries. BUT, the road infrastructure even though being subject to 2,000 years of development is still based on ancient road layouts. For example, there are still working roads that were first build during the Roman occupation of Britian, almost 2,000 years ago. I often use them! All, I can say is check out the roads in India! That is SCARY! I was not driving but I was constantly trying to press the brake pedal!
In europe you can live in truck for a week or something like that and then company that you work at, has to give you hotel and its mandatory, thats why there is less space in europe trucks. Btw its mandatory to have speed tracker build up in trucks in europe, thats why you will never see truck speeding in europe and because of that they always in a slow lane, not bothering anyone.
In the EU sleeping in the truck does not count as actual rest. Every 72 hours you would need to sleep in a real bed outside the truck to reset your clock time. So the bunk in a European truck is only used when you are in the middle of a haul and have reached the 9 hours. So it is not a camper where you can live in it for weeks
@@acd1202 "The driver can choose to take their daily rest or a reduced weekly rest period in the vehicle only if it has suitable sleeping facilities and is stationary. " the ban of taking a 45-hour rest period in the truck cabin which is applied in some EU countries"
All that is required to count as a suitable cab to take a daily or weekly rest in is a bed, nothing else is required in law and there is no specification in the rules for the size of the bed. The latest update in regulations has indeed tightened up on the number of nights which can be taken in the cab. You can sleep in the can for all of week one, weekend one and week two; weekend two cannot be taken in the cab but there is no requirement to take it in a hotel just away from the truck, so in a tent, under the trailer are legal not that anybody does, then week 3, weekend 3 and week 4 can all be in the cab, weekend 4 must be at home, but you can leave the truck and fly home for the weekend. This regulation was introduced after complaints to the EU from namely German and French hauliers about unfair competition from Eastern hauliers in particular Romanian and Lithuanian companies leaving drivers running between Germany and France for 6 months without ever going home. The requirement for drivers of other countries to be paid at least the minimum wage for the country in which they are driving is also down to this. Nothing at all about no more than 72 hours in the cab. This also disproves the statements in the videos about US truckers spending longer periods in the truck than Europeans, just not true, when I started 30 years ago 6 weeks was not at all unusual and the guys who did Middle East and Kazakhstan 2 to 3 months was the norm, in fact UK to Khazak and return in the winter could take 3 months for one trip.
@@FavourInternational Pretty sure most truckers don't go much above 60mph as the gas mileage plummets after that. Many of the big ones like Fedex and such have limiters in place as well to prevent drivers wasting fuel.
@@FavourInternational That is your point of view. Here, cars are allowed to drive 62 mph, trucks during the Day 50 mph and at night 37 mph. Police is checking the speedlimit all the time (manual and automaticly). IT is safer. On the highway we have about 2,5 millions trucks each year, all 8 second one between 05:00 and 22:00.
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In Denmark we have just allowed what we call extra long "Modular Trucks" only for special roads. A trailer with an extra close trailer in the end. And European trucks have stronger engines.
We call them lorrys and a lot of them are liveable with beds Microwaves ech they just are a bit more clever with layouts so everything folds away in the day, an American truck certainly would not fit on the roads here where I live the roads are under 12ft wide with lots of bends, lorrys still have to go down them to deliver to the local shops as for moterways lorrys are not the slowist things on there if you tow a trailer you are also limated to 60 and some cars have a top speed of 52mph (look up the Renault Twizy, I own one drove it 30 miles allong the moterway every day for 4 years between two city's for work) or a lot of our 900cc cars or under struggle to get to 60, still a lot of under 500cc cars still kicking like the clasic Fiat 500 hell the new one has a 900cc engine option
lots trucks in Europe still use v8 diesels, tend to have bigger engines, in usa more common a 6 cylinder diesel with smaller engines less pulling power. not saying we do not have small engine trucks we do. one the most powerful we get in europe is the Scania 16-litre V8 770 hp 3700 Nm Torque 2022 Scania 770 S V8 or lowest power scania trucks around 270hp 6 cylinder. sadly the eco nut slowly getting there way and more and more going away from the great v8 diesel. if you want an idea of what its like pov to drive truck on very narrow country roads there many vids on youtube in Norway Kristo Boginski his channel he drives a Scania S520 mid range heavy loads on very tight roads worth a look, very pretty countryside too
should check out New DAF XF, XG XG+ Trucks - INTERIOR (2023) youtube vid. think its new reg allowed for more space. a lot more space than you expect in a cab over truck
"...lots of trucks...". Nope.... Scania is the only brand that still has a V8 serie in their line up of engines. They also have 6-cylinders. Every other brand use 6-cylinder. Scania V8 770 is not "one of the most powerful" .....it is the most powerful ...period..... Volvo's most powerful engine is 750 hp and has 3550 Nm of torque ....and that is a 6-cylinder .... Your arguments that 6 cylinder's are somewhat for the smaller engines are rather on thin ice.
@@Dan-fo9dk but are far larger, even the 6 cylinder the europe lower powered ones kill your more powerful ones with toque. example Volvo FH16 is now available with 750 hp and 3550 Nm with a massive 16.1. few other examples smaller scaina engines. straight 5-cylinder diesel 280-360 hp, and torque outputs of 1,400-1,700 Nm, the 9-litre engine is suited to medium-duty (up to 40t), or 6-cylinder diesel engine With power outputs of 370-500 hp, and torque outputs of 1,900-2,550 Nm, the 13-litre engine is suited to heavy-duty (40t and over), what ever way you look at it even standard / common smaller engine trucks have same if not more torque than your more powerful usa trucks, torque is hat you need to pull
My father was a truck driver, and owned a Scania 112 with a flat nose and a cabin inside. The model is from the late 80s so as you might imagine, there were very few comforts. No aircon for example. it had 2 beds in the cabin and they were quite comfy for a nap or even a night sleep. I think it also had a fridge but it's been years so I'm not sure. his travelings were inside the country only, and hardly ever more than 500km away from home, therefore he would leave at early morning and be back in the evening. european roads are narrow, to the point of ridiculousness. lol
18,75m (~62 ft) total length is for trucks like an Articulated Truck (Gliederzug) is the German name a Semi-truck in Germany is more likely to be 16m (~ 52,5 ft tractor and trailer) total length
Long nose Trucks mostly in Northern America, the rest of the world have European Style Trucks. Gendell European Style Trucks are more practicial to handle then Long Nose Trucks.
Europe Normal work days on average 8 hours per day....40 per week. 25 payed vacation days Unlimited sickdays. Pension plan for All employees from day One....no matter the hours. GL usa
Trucks are not allowed on the left lane....period. If They do fines are high. Some areas have a No passing time for trucks. Also trucks need to leave space for cars to enter and exit the highways.
@@FavourInternational loth of americanes ho are reacting to EU they are little confuse, but Europe is simple and complicat at the same time, over all is awsome place to live Just a not for your reaction on European Union explaine hugs
Europe trucks are made for tight, curvy roads, city transit and non flat roads, reason why they commonly have more power & torque than US trucks and also a more compact size.
The longer and heavier the truck, the emptier the country or the more long roads this country has... Scandinavia, Australia, Russia and the USA have the longest and heaviest trucks.
Greetings. In case you are curious, I leave a link where you can see the interior of a European truck. Truck Cab Interior Tour for Newbies! | Scania R500 ruclips.net/video/jyRl1_l5PXo/видео.html
Yes, that's true, but Mercedes often screw up with little things because they are so fixated on their high-tech. I've had ones that had such bad suspension that no one wanted to ride them, and the trend towards touchscreen panels isn't for everyone either.
Did you know the Tesla semi truck? It’s no different from a European semi truck. Is the same shape Except a different engine you know tesla electric basic stuff?
There are a number of points in that video that is pure nonsense. Come with any US truck which can match a European truck in driving comfort....!!! It was not even mentioned that European truck are way more powerful and pull much more load but still they use much less fuel. European trucks are way more effective and advanced in every aspect.
TO be realy clear the trucks are limited to a maximum speed of 100km /hr in europe , also they are much more powerfull than the american trucks . There are a few videos that have an american and european truck going head to head . Hear is a nice vdeo onengine power of EU trucks vs American trucks. Why European Trucks Have Up To 770 HP And US Don’t ruclips.net/video/LVDIGe0y-to/видео.html
@@dirkspatz3692 Correct , forgot about germany , the netherlands had the same 80 km rule for cars with caravans or trailers. they changed it to 100 km a few years ago.l
In finland they haul like 100 000 kg, Like 200 000 lbs. I drove with max 65 tonnes about 164 000 lbs. And here also Volvo etc don't own trucks, its companies and also people who drive their own trucks.
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in England the National speed limit is 70mph so no place in England can go above 70mph
i am a trucker in sweden and i live in my truck 4-5 nights a week and have been doing so for 20 years. i have got 2 bunkbeds, tv, refrigerator, freezer, microwave, coffeemaker and 7,6 feet in total inner height :) Totalweight of my rig loaded is 64 tonnes. 82 feet long and 15 feet tall.
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Here trucks are limited to 55mph, and they always stay in the right lane.. 97% of the time you will never see a truck hogging the fast lane here, we follow the driving laws well here
Yearh a big truck hugging the passing lane would lose their license within a few days
@@TrashskillsRS Yep. Here in spain, its a hefty €€€ fine, and lose the license for a couple of days or a week. Depending on how many times you do it,
3 lane motorway lanes 1&2 they can legally only use in uk
The speed limit in the UK on motorways is 70 mph, but trucks are electronically limited to 56. The reason we only drive for 9 hours is to avoid drivers falling asleep at the wheel. We also have to take 3 breaks and everything is recorded on a flash drive or tachograph. The police do spot checks and if you've gone over your driving hours or not taken your breaks correctly you get a big fine and points on your licence or even disqualified. An out of control 50 ton truck can kill a lot of people and do a lot of damage. I drove "semi's" for 15 years and it's very tiring. ✌️❤️🇬🇧
The maximum weight of 18 wheelers in Europe is over 6000 lbs higher than the max weight in the US. It is limited in the US on the interstates.
The maximum weight in some Nordic countries is almost 3 times higher than in the US.
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@@CO0L_CAT USA har bare 40 tonn totalvekt som max.
@@Dan-fo9dk vi har rundt 120 tonn?
in Finland it is allowed to have 34.5m (114 feet) trailer and 76 000kg (167 000 lb) max weight. Also you can steer mercedes truck with one finger, i liked it when i drove one.
but in Germany you need two semi trucks to split up the long one from Scandinavia.
Here in Germany, it, s the normal to work 7,7 hours a shift, as Nurse. Only nightshift are 9 hours... Between two shifts there must be 11 hours to rest(by law).. /..
The best advantage of European trucks is the maintenance of the engine. Since the entire driver's cab is opened to the front here, you can access all engine parts without any obstacles.
As far as the driving times are concerned, the 9 hours are of course not in one piece. You can drive a maximum of 4.5 hours. Then you have to take a 45-minute break before you can get behind the wheel for another 4.5 hours. These times apply for a period of 24 hours. You can even increase the driving times to 10 hours twice within 7 days.
The maximum speed for these trucks is 80 km/h on German autobahns and 60 km/h on country roads.
it is 9 hours DRIVING time but a european truckdriver can WORK 15 hours in belgium just gotta take 30 mins brake every 6 hours
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And that's where the problem lies. As long as he is in Belgium everything is fine. If he then drives to Germany and the driving times are checked, it gets expensive.
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Fun fact: Mercedes is a brand of Daimler-Benz. And Daimler Truck North America is the producer of the well known US brand "Freightliner" (e.g. the Coca-Cola Truck) - so "your" US Freightliner is technically spoken a german owned Company...
there usually are bunks in the european trucks as well but just not as roomy as the american counterparts. Here in scandinavia we also see the trucks hauling two trailers. Trucks in europe usually stay in the right lane, europe do enforce that rule way more rigiously than the americans. Especially the passing on the right.
In denmark and I believe most of northern europe at least the trucks are electronically limited to max. 90 km/h I guess that would be about 55 mph.
unless you run a day cab that is
90 max for DE
only the weirdos cross the channel run fast
Funny you mentioned Mercedes as dad said the Mercedes in Sweden used to be the regular taxi car of choice. I still see Mercedes rolling around Stockholm as they are part of the regular taxi fleet here just like Toyota and Skoda and other brands.
There are several videos about how strong truck engines are in Europe vs in the USA. And it turns out that the strongest trucks are made in Sweden.
There are beds in most trucks - also in Europe.
0:20 one misconception of european vans is that you can buy different body style of vans. One option is open bed. long bed, short bed, single cab or dual cab.
Most of the drivers here, if you drive international cargo also sleep in their cabin, there is a bed behind the seats, not a kingsize bed but it is a decent one, we don't need that much space.. If you do want a kingsize bed, you should find a company that ownes Scania Longline trucks or become a Driver/owner and buy one yourself..
Full sized trucks are literally not allowed to leave the right lane in 98% of all circumstances almost everywhere on the European continent.
What kind of reality are you living in....???
@@Dan-fo9dk
If they are only allowed to go 80 km/h and the regular speed is 100 they are effectively glued to the right lane. There are also lots of streets where they aren't allowed to overtake other vehicles period.
Funfact: Daimler Truck (Mercedes Benz) builds the following Brands: Mercedes-Benz Trucks (EU) , Freightliner Trucks (US) , Western Star (US), FUSO (JAPAN) , BharatBenz Trucks (INDIA) and Thomas Built Buses (The Yellow School Buses US).
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You say in Texas it being a problem if there's a difference between the speed of cars and trucks. Imagine Germany where you have cars unlimited and trucks limited to 56mph, and when we say limited we mean it's fitted with a device which cuts of the fuel at that speed not that's just the speed limit. They have cars doing 150mph 3 feet from a truck doing 50mph and it's fine, but much much better lane discipline than in the US.
Min. 9:00 The speed limit and the limits about working hours are supervised by digital equipment, which is easy to control for the "police". ... Police simply takes the drivers card (which contains all data of a year) and connects it to a laptop. Within minutes, the driver gets his card returned and can wait for tickets, which are mailed to him. ... Additional to the tickets for the drivers, there will be tickets to the company (which owns the truck), which are often twice the amount as for the driver. (I am German. Maybe, it´s not the same all over Europe.)
As for gas mileage, the American trucks are of course better aerodynamically, which saves fuel - but they are going so much faster than the European ones. All in all it is safe to say that a Euopean truck going 90 km/h (55mph), despite its inferior aerodynamics, will still get significantly better gas mileage than an American truck going towing the same weight. 70-75mph .
Very small speed differences can already have a noticeable effect on gas mileages. In Europe, trucks must be limited to no more than 90 km/h, but some companies will voluntarily limit theirs to 85 km/h or less - these few km/h less will save thousands of Euros on fuel each year.
With same speed, with same total weight and with same hp on the engine the European truck will by far outperform it US engine. It has much more torque, much lower fuel consumption and the emission of pollution is much lower. The European engine are far more efficient and advanced.
That aerodynamic argument isn't worth much.
My dad lives in scania for 4 months straight no problems for him. And ofc i preffer 770hp v8 scania
in Denmark there are many who drive 25 meter trucks and it is about to be approved with 32 meters (32 = 104.99ft) and trucks with 800-900 hp
In europe we have different ways of transports All acros.
So we Can decide whats best for What cargo AMD What situation.
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Riverboats
Seaboats
Containerschip
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I don't know much about this, though I think that here in Europe, if you need to deliver large ammount of something, it is preferably done by train or boat, at least for a portion of the journey. That is actually why the drought was such a big problem last summer. The water level in the Rhine was very low and they usually use the river to deliver coal to the power plants (if I remember correctly). To deliver one boatload with trucks, you'd need at least a few hundred of them.
ill like to add on to that ... trains are also alot more fuel effecient (even old now obsolete fuel train was)...
a normal train car takes 4-5 times the load of a truck..a train wit 100 cars 400-500 trucks..transporting over a long distance the economical and eniromental win is huge compared to a truck...its also alot faster...(a rail is a dedicated transport system)... for distributing goods in a city or fairly short distanses... trucks are nessesary... the main reason US dont uses rails it because thay cant... the US rail system is critically underdimensioned....
also for a single company with say 10 trucks it may ecven in europe be an economically good option...when there need be enugh goods transported say like a shipment... trains rly the only option...
also since more and more trucks being replaced by electric trucks, the damage to the enviroment in CO2 is going down... thay are also safer, more ecomomic, more silent, can acceleraste faster and more enviromental friendly... drawback atm: lower operational range (usually)... EV trucks r going to take some time in US...
@@Patrik6920 the EU is financing a lot of project for hight speed freight train (250kmh), to take awey boat and trucks
Regarding the Mercedes star, its arms are pointing to where their products are in use; on land, on sea, and in the air.
Another reason American trucks dont run in Europe is the narrower highways they wouldnt fit on and certainly not in European cities because unlike American cities, most European cities have a historic ancient/medieval layout and are not arranged in blocks like "newer" American cities. So European cities have lots of bottlenecks, curves, sharp intersections and other things that would end in a traffic jam if an American truck drove into such a place.
I think they mentioned manoeuvrability in the video. US trucks are even more narrow, 2,45m, than the European which is 2,55 - 2,60 m wide. It is simply do to the nose, the poor overview and poor turning circle which make it not well suited for city environment.
9:51
70 mph is *deadly*
Too much weight to slow down in case something happens.
57 is way, way better.
They stay in the slow lane only, that's why everyone else pass them.
Cabovers have the advantage of having much easier engine access for servicing and overhauls.
I am not a truck driver in the UK but I am a driver.
On three lane roads HGVs (Heavy Goods Vehicles) are limited to two lanes, the left and centre lanes (in the USA that is the right and centre lanes).
In the UK the most distant you are from the coast is 71 miles. This means normally you are within 300 miles of a good port.
On Main Land Europe, this is not the case in many countries. BUT, the road infrastructure even though being subject to 2,000 years of development is still based on ancient road layouts.
For example, there are still working roads that were first build during the Roman occupation of Britian, almost 2,000 years ago. I often use them!
All, I can say is check out the roads in India! That is SCARY! I was not driving but I was constantly trying to press the brake pedal!
In europe you can live in truck for a week or something like that and then company that you work at, has to give you hotel and its mandatory, thats why there is less space in europe trucks.
Btw its mandatory to have speed tracker build up in trucks in europe, thats why you will never see truck speeding in europe and because of that they always in a slow lane, not bothering anyone.
Trucks are built for the roads they work on. Simple as.
In the EU sleeping in the truck does not count as actual rest. Every 72 hours you would need to sleep in a real bed outside the truck to reset your clock time.
So the bunk in a European truck is only used when you are in the middle of a haul and have reached the 9 hours.
So it is not a camper where you can live in it for weeks
Simply untrue.
@@acd1202 "The driver can choose to take their daily rest or a reduced weekly rest period in the vehicle only if it has suitable sleeping facilities and is stationary.
" the ban of taking a 45-hour rest period in the truck cabin which is applied in some EU countries"
All that is required to count as a suitable cab to take a daily or weekly rest in is a bed, nothing else is required in law and there is no specification in the rules for the size of the bed.
The latest update in regulations has indeed tightened up on the number of nights which can be taken in the cab. You can sleep in the can for all of week one, weekend one and week two; weekend two cannot be taken in the cab but there is no requirement to take it in a hotel just away from the truck, so in a tent, under the trailer are legal not that anybody does, then week 3, weekend 3 and week 4 can all be in the cab, weekend 4 must be at home, but you can leave the truck and fly home for the weekend. This regulation was introduced after complaints to the EU from namely German and French hauliers about unfair competition from Eastern hauliers in particular Romanian and Lithuanian companies leaving drivers running between Germany and France for 6 months without ever going home. The requirement for drivers of other countries to be paid at least the minimum wage for the country in which they are driving is also down to this. Nothing at all about no more than 72 hours in the cab.
This also disproves the statements in the videos about US truckers spending longer periods in the truck than Europeans, just not true, when I started 30 years ago 6 weeks was not at all unusual and the guys who did Middle East and Kazakhstan 2 to 3 months was the norm, in fact UK to Khazak and return in the winter could take 3 months for one trip.
60mph is not terrible it’s safer
Any faster is dangerous it will take longer for the truck to stop and Incase of an emergency that could be fatal 😏
Not in Texas
@@FavourInternational Pretty sure most truckers don't go much above 60mph as the gas mileage plummets after that. Many of the big ones like Fedex and such have limiters in place as well to prevent drivers wasting fuel.
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That is your point of view. Here, cars are allowed to drive 62 mph, trucks during the Day 50 mph and at night 37 mph. Police is checking the speedlimit all the time (manual and automaticly). IT is safer. On the highway we have about 2,5 millions trucks each year, all 8 second one between 05:00 and 22:00.
@@FavourInternational LOL, Texas is not exactly a safe place at the best of times, I think speed limits are the least of your worries.
In UK speed limits Trucks 56 mph. Coaches 60mph. For safety!
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You should do more of European trucks
In Denmark we have just allowed what we call extra long "Modular Trucks" only for special roads. A trailer with an extra close trailer in the end. And European trucks have stronger engines.
We call them lorrys and a lot of them are liveable with beds Microwaves ech they just are a bit more clever with layouts so everything folds away in the day, an American truck certainly would not fit on the roads here where I live the roads are under 12ft wide with lots of bends, lorrys still have to go down them to deliver to the local shops as for moterways lorrys are not the slowist things on there if you tow a trailer you are also limated to 60 and some cars have a top speed of 52mph (look up the Renault Twizy, I own one drove it 30 miles allong the moterway every day for 4 years between two city's for work) or a lot of our 900cc cars or under struggle to get to 60, still a lot of under 500cc cars still kicking like the clasic Fiat 500 hell the new one has a 900cc engine option
Also the bigger trucks would not fit on our tight country roads , Even the ones we have get stuck sometimes.
lots trucks in Europe still use v8 diesels, tend to have bigger engines, in usa more common a 6 cylinder diesel with smaller engines less pulling power. not saying we do not have small engine trucks we do. one the most powerful we get in europe is the Scania 16-litre V8 770 hp 3700 Nm Torque 2022 Scania 770 S V8 or lowest power scania trucks around 270hp 6 cylinder. sadly the eco nut slowly getting there way and more and more going away from the great v8 diesel. if you want an idea of what its like pov to drive truck on very narrow country roads there many vids on youtube in Norway Kristo Boginski his channel he drives a Scania S520 mid range heavy loads on very tight roads worth a look, very pretty countryside too
should check out New DAF XF, XG XG+ Trucks - INTERIOR (2023) youtube vid. think its new reg allowed for more space. a lot more space than you expect in a cab over truck
"...lots of trucks...". Nope.... Scania is the only brand that still has a V8 serie in their line up of engines. They also have 6-cylinders. Every other brand use 6-cylinder.
Scania V8 770 is not "one of the most powerful" .....it is the most powerful ...period.....
Volvo's most powerful engine is 750 hp and has 3550 Nm of torque ....and that is a 6-cylinder .... Your arguments that 6 cylinder's are somewhat for the smaller engines are rather on thin ice.
@@Dan-fo9dk but are far larger, even the 6 cylinder the europe lower powered ones kill your more powerful ones with toque. example Volvo FH16 is now available with 750 hp and 3550 Nm with a massive 16.1. few other examples smaller scaina engines. straight 5-cylinder diesel 280-360 hp, and torque outputs of 1,400-1,700 Nm, the 9-litre engine is suited to medium-duty (up to 40t), or 6-cylinder diesel engine With power outputs of 370-500 hp, and torque outputs of 1,900-2,550 Nm, the 13-litre engine is suited to heavy-duty (40t and over), what ever way you look at it even standard / common smaller engine trucks have same if not more torque than your more powerful usa trucks, torque is hat you need to pull
The speed limit in Europe is mostly 100 and in Germany has roads with out a speed limit
My father was a truck driver, and owned a Scania 112 with a flat nose and a cabin inside. The model is from the late 80s so as you might imagine, there were very few comforts. No aircon for example.
it had 2 beds in the cabin and they were quite comfy for a nap or even a night sleep.
I think it also had a fridge but it's been years so I'm not sure.
his travelings were inside the country only, and hardly ever more than 500km away from home, therefore he would leave at early morning and be back in the evening.
european roads are narrow, to the point of ridiculousness. lol
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Japan has the same design as Europe. More practical in smaller countries and of course the rules of the road.
18,75m (~62 ft) total length is for trucks like an Articulated Truck (Gliederzug) is the German name
a Semi-truck in Germany is more likely to be 16m (~ 52,5 ft tractor and trailer) total length
Long nose Trucks mostly in Northern America, the rest of the world have European Style Trucks. Gendell European Style Trucks are more practicial to handle then Long Nose Trucks.
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To go faster than 80 seems like madness to me! Many truckers go 90 or even 100 which I sometimes find acceptable.
Trucks are not allowed on the left lane....period.
If They do fines are high.
Some areas have a No passing time for trucks.
Also trucks need to leave space for cars to enter and exit the highways.
The finnish HCT truck has entered the chat. In Finland we do things a little differet ruclips.net/video/gBdvIvN8ybo/видео.html
Truck Marks from Europe Mercedez-Benz, IVECO,MAN, from Germany Volvo ann SCANIA from Schweden, Renault from France and DAF from Nederlands.
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@@FavourInternational loth of americanes ho are reacting to EU they are little confuse, but Europe is simple and complicat at the same time, over all is awsome place to live
Just a not for your reaction on European Union explaine
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Europe trucks are made for tight, curvy roads, city transit and non flat roads, reason why they commonly have more power & torque than US trucks and also a more compact size.
The longer and heavier the truck, the emptier the country or the more long roads this country has... Scandinavia, Australia, Russia and the USA have the longest and heaviest trucks.
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European trucks also have bunks to sleep in and some even have two. No need for a hotel. ;)
California have a 55mph limit for trucks btw
Greetings. In case you are curious, I leave a link where you can see the interior of a European truck. Truck Cab Interior Tour for Newbies! | Scania R500
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Mercedes Trucks certainly are in the upper segment but the Scandinavian brands VOLVO and SCANIA are above
Hehee same little companies own their own trucks here too.. not like volvo owns no trucks in road..
I am a european trucker and we sleep in the cab
If accommodation is factored into your wages, why would you prefer to sleep in your cab?
10:30 - Mercedes makes even buses, you can drive a mercedes even when you are homeless in europe 😀
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In my opinion, Mercedes trucks are the most luxurious European trucks, and the most advanced. They have more technology than Mercedes sedans.👌👌👌
Yes, that's true, but Mercedes often screw up with little things because they are so fixated on their high-tech. I've had ones that had such bad suspension that no one wanted to ride them, and the trend towards touchscreen panels isn't for everyone either.
Volvo holds all the ace cards in trucks
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European trucks have stronger engines. 660hp is a standard in USA and in Europe is 760-770hp.
Did you know the Tesla semi truck? It’s no different from a European semi truck. Is the same shape Except a different engine you know tesla electric basic stuff?
The power it's more in Europe, 770 HP . In USA 550 HP.
Not really. Most Independent Truckers here in the U.S. run 7-900hp engines. Just depends on the job application and preference.
And European Trucks are much more Powerful... the Engines. More HP
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There are a number of points in that video that is pure nonsense. Come with any US truck which can match a European truck in driving comfort....!!!
It was not even mentioned that European truck are way more powerful and pull much more load but still they use much less fuel. European trucks are way more effective and advanced in every aspect.
TO be realy clear the trucks are limited to a maximum speed of 100km /hr in europe , also they are much more powerfull than the american trucks . There are a few videos that have an american and european truck going head to head .
Hear is a nice vdeo onengine power of EU trucks vs American trucks.
Why European Trucks Have Up To 770 HP And US Don’t
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In Germany 80km/h (+10% inofficial tolerance).
@@dirkspatz3692 Correct , forgot about germany , the netherlands had the same 80 km rule for cars with caravans or trailers. they changed it to 100 km a few years ago.l
Only UK and Italy are over 90km/h, most have 80km/h.
the yanks make the best trucks
Any evidence for that ?
No they don't!
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The person thats talkin here have no idea what he talkin about.
In finland they haul like 100 000 kg, Like 200 000 lbs. I drove with max 65 tonnes about 164 000 lbs. And here also Volvo etc don't own trucks, its companies and also people who drive their own trucks.
shorter cab means lighter truck. And our trucks are also fuel effiviant