As a Swede it makes me proud seeing everyone pulling to the side - as you should - which means everyone in the right lane needs to slow down in order to let those to the left in.
Its funny to watch how a people from USA are surprised by this. First its common sense and basic human decency to make space and let emergency vehicles pass cause you never know when you will be the one being transported. Second, its enforced by law, here in Poland its not just traffic violation to not let them pass, its considered a felony/crime, you will pay fine, in extreme cases you will loose your driving license for 12 months and you will have to pass driving license exam again and if your stubborness on the road will affect people lives(person transported will die or firefighter wont get to fire on time) then you will end in prison.
Damn, didn't think about that. Very IQ and honorable move by the red trailer. License plate is German though, so no credit to the Swedes in this situation. We have to bow to the world champions of Autobahn manners and strategies.
@@TheFlyingDutchman1997 The car on the poster is an Australian Holden Commodore. You can read all about it on good ol' wiki and and watch the whole race 1995 Bathurst 1000 here on RUclips. The Australian, and also in New Zeeland, Supercars racing series (formerly V8 Supercars). Yes I know, not for the topic of this thread but just to answer a question.
When they exit the tunnel and pass the truck that was in the way the driver says "Tacka! Tacka!" (roughly translated to "thank [him] thank [him]" which I guess is an instruction to the person in the passenger seat to thank the truck driver. Made me happy :)
As a Swede, I feel I need to correct you a little bit. He said "Tackar, tackar" which translates to "Thanks, thanks" in English. He did that to thank the truck driver because he folded his mirror in for them to give the ambulance that little more space, that mirrors take up.
You didn't notice, after passing the roadtrain in the narrow section... The other truckers blocked an on-ramp, so no other vehicule could make dangerous situations...
Every time I see emergency viechles here in Sweden, I get a profound feeling of gratitude to all the other drivers on the road; everyone is really doing everything they can to give way: up on curbs, sidewalks, running red lights (safely), etc., cleaning up the "mess" when there's no more sirens around.
In Sweden if you block the road for emergency vehicles, not only you get $150 fine but you could risk getting your drivers licens suspended for a few months.
@@JanNyman. Sadly the fines aren't bad enough, they have to hurt significantly. Something like at least 2 Monthly Salaries and 6-12 Month license suspension.
@@lolly166541 Theres always a balance, if you suspend someones license for a year so they cant work you are hurting society more then you are hurting them.
Jag hittar ingen sån information, Du får blockera utryckningsfordon om du inte kan flytta på dig, men skulle omständigheterna vissa sig att du kan flytta på dig på ett säkert sätt utan att bryta mot lagen så är de önskvärt, Det är upp till chauffören av utryckningsfordonet att avgöra hur de tar sig fram på snabbast sätt, utan att göra att människor bryter mot lagen, dvs köra mot rött, de får man ABSOLUT inte göra även om man har en tutande brandbil i röven på en! men självklart ska man se till att underlätta deras framkörning, eftersom de är på väg till o rädda liv
Nice one! The electronic siren you hear first is the default Swedish siren, the loud one is added because it is much more clearly audible from afar. Really needed nowadays. Did you notice the amount of light coming from the front flashers, especially in the tunnel? Of course almost every car you see in Sweden is a Volvo. The factory is located in Gothenborg, Sweden.
Excact same siren sounds in Germany on fire trucks and ambulances. They are usually called "Stadthorn" (city horn - the electronic siren with a more 360 degree angle, but less sound pressure) and "Landhorn" (country road horn - pneumatic, much louder but with general angle focused maybe 90-120 degrees to the front, so drivers on inersections farther away, and/or going higher speeds are alerted much easier; high sound pressure).
The louder horn was the sirens we used to hear on emergency vehicles before the electronic sirens came along. Firetrucks had them the longest. Cool to hear them again.
Translated roughly the convo at the tight truck pass. 7 to 9 minutes in Responder 1: I dont think i can pass him(the truck)... its going to be alittle. Responder 2: Yeah its going to be alittle too tight. Responder 1:[something] Responder 2: Maybe now. Now it might work Responder 1: Hell if i know, there is the poles also on that side. Responder 1: Like so. Responder 2: He's on his way up on the side now Responder 2: This will work.
Respect for emergency vehicles is drilled into us when we learn to drive in Sweden. And in most of Europe. When you hear those sirens there is only one thought, get out of the way, at any cost. Rims and tyres can be replaced, a life cannot.
I recognized every bit of that road... Have driven that many times, and in some places it is very narrow and nowhere to go. I have actually seen a firetruck drive 20-30 km/h through a street smack full of people (pedestrians), everyone just moved away and let them pass, that was during a firework/waterfestival in Stockholm in late 1990ies. Sometimes people can cooperate...
This is from the large road intersection "Gubbängs motet" (Macdonald place going north into Stockholm over one of its bridges and into the tunnels. This looks to be the middle of day traffic because it's really light. Had it been morning or afternoon it would have been choked. However there is a busslane going along the rout with the Macdonald that the ambulance most likely would have used.
The first siren is an electronic "city" siren. Loud but not overly so. The second one is the "overland" siren, usually put out by two sets of two air horns, one set each for high and low tone. Those are very loud and worst case able to harm childrens ears. Until about a year ago my volunteer fire department only had the air horn siren on our trucks and at night with little to no traffic we would only turn the sirens on a bit before intersections in order to not disturb the sleeping inhabitants. This intensive care ambulance is as heavy as most regular fire engines in Switzerland. Regular ladder trucks at most volunteer departments are usually 16 tons. Just today I went on a drive with our rescue/pioneer truck (12 ton). We need to keep used to driving these trucks when usually all I drive is a Skoda station wagon if I'm not using public transit (train, bus, tram).
As a truck driver i always watch my mirrors at a frequent rate to see what is coming up behind me, and alot of times i've had emergency vehicles pass me that i was aware of due to seeing their lights in the mirror, awareness is key, alot of drivers don't have that, almost ended up in an accident because of it
@@sihiri_kabari De säger så på körskola för att ha ett faktiskt tidsspan, 10sekunder är ofta överflödigt, andra gånger inte tillräckligt. Poängen är snarare att trycka hem vikten av att hålla uppsikt runt sig, även om det kan kännas dumt som ny förare att "ansvara" för bakomvarande fordon. Något man med erfarenhet, och IQ över rumstemp, inser är otroligt viktigt. Kör själv lastbil, beroende vart jag kör och vad som sker framför mig kan det gå 30-40sec utan att jag kikar i speglen, oftast ser man i perifierin om det kommer ett fordon på endera sida fordonet (kör sällan släp, då kollar jag markant oftare) och då kollar man såklart - kommer inget så går det som sagt längre mellan att man kollar. Körvana och att veta vad man skall titta efter är inget man har när man övningskör, man är ju helt ny på det hela. Sen, skadar det att kolla var 10sec? Absolut inte, men det är ingen absolut hård regel man skall stressa över, ibland kräver ju faktiskt förhållanden i trafiken att man håller mer uppsikt framåt än "normalt".
What’s critical is that drivers in traffic give other drivers the room to also get out of the way. You often see very differently, where traffic doesn’t cooperate and drivers block others causing the emergency vehicles not being able to pass as quite if at all..
You will always get one idiot. Here most vehicles move right over to let emergency vehicles through but often there will be that one driver who either thinks the rules don't apply to them or they try using the siren to speed up ahead of the emergency vehicle (I've seen a few pulled over for that lark). Regards from Ireland.
lots of drivers stopped their cars at locations where there was no car on the opposite lane, so that the MCIU could "weave" through all available lanes. that is also the advantage if the traffic law dictates to *"enable passage to emergency vehicles"* instead of _"stop for emergency vehicles"._ as could be seen, making space was only possible by continueing to drive, creating gaps for other drivers to merge, or also driving over red lights. if all those cars would have stopped instead, they would completely have blocked many other drivers, and thus also the ambulance.
If you see an ambulance just remember that someone is really in pain and having the worst day if not the last day in theire life. You dont pull over for the ambulance you pull over for the person who needs the ambulance.
Just as you saw, the emergency lights are all blue. Although, it is likely that they have some yellow strobes too. In Sweden all emergency vehicles use blue only to clear the road, while police and customs can use blue/red combo to tell you to stop. So you clearly see the difference between if the cops behind you wants to overtake or stop you.
This truck's frame is also used for fire trucks. That's why the roads and traffic laws are made to fit this MICU in traffic in every situation. It's the same size
Thanks for covering my suggestion I knew you would like it. Funnily enough as I watched it originally I thought to myself if you do cover it you will definitely say something about the bright pink Mercedes.
Those Martin air horns are otherwise characteristic of fire brigades here in Sweden. This particular clip is fun, incidentally, as it's all through very familiar areas; it starts at the Circle K (formerly Statoil) at Sköndal, and just before the cut at 4:00 the MICU is actually approaching the junction that leads to where I live. I've seen the MICUs in the harbour where I work occasionally. Remarkable vehicles.
6:55 "that would not happen that gracefully and quickly in the u.s." i remember watching a video from emergency vehicles in new york i believe and they had like led signs saying "move over! it's the law!" ... yea i guess you're right with your assumption :D
Funny you noticed the flags on the Circle K station. Circle K established themselves in Sweden by buying the station network off of the Norwegian brand Statoil when they pulled out of the gas station business. Part of the Statoil branding was that the stations should have a row of flagpoles. Now, what's the lowest number of flagpoles that could be considered "a row"? That's right, many of the station featured a row of three flagpoles. The day of the handover, the STATOIL flags came down, and the K flags went up. After two weeks, the middle K flag was lowered, at first leaving an empty flagpole, later adorned with some advertisement flag... 😁
Haha, I remember that and how some gas stations were late in replacing their flags. So they were flying ”non-politically correct flags” for several days.
In 1999 I worked in Amsterdam for my UK company for five years. Most of the time I wasn’t driving but I did hire a car a few times for personal use, the Dutch drivers are used to “Zipping” when one lane of the Motorway is closed. They all slow down on both lanes and the lane that remains open go slow enough to allow the closing lane to ZIP in one behind the other. Never saw this in the US or UK.
Except for the Arab immigrants that likes to burn police vehicles and throw stones at Ambulance drivers, Police and firefighters. Apart from that, You are correct.
About Circle K - Norwegian oil company Statoil had a gas station chain in Scandinavia, Baltics, Poland and maybe somewhere else. They sold their entire chain to Circle K. That's how we got Circle K.
Around 5:40 in this video you mention that they just leave way for the emergency vehicle? We are taught to make space for other vehicles so that others may merge and leave way.
In traffic you have NO rights. Only obligations. With that sentiment there’s a lot less road rage. But sure we have a few pricks as well 🤣 The video starts quite close to my home and then goes into the city center and then out to Karolinska hospital or Danderyd I presume. I have not watched the linked video yet. Awesome truck and video. Big thanks. We Swedes help each other ❤🎉
As I understand it, this veichle is a mobile intensive care ward rather than an ambulance. While the ambulance is staffed with paramedics who are first-responders, this veichle has doctors and nurses working on the patient while it is on the move. Sweden is a large but sparsely populated country. Fully capable hospitals are only present in the major cities and some specialist units may only be found in a single hospital in the whole country. Veichles like this make it possible to safely move critically ill patients from any place in the country to those specialist units. This is for when a 30 minute helicopter ride would be enough to kill a patient.
It is not quite right. The intensive care ambulance, MICU, is staffed with a specialized team to handle the most critical cases during transport. Typically, the team consists of; A specialist-trained intensive care nurse - with specific expertise in intensive care, often with experience from both hospital ICUs and ambulance care. An ambulance technician - responsible for driving and ensuring safety during transport, and also assisting with medical equipment and monitoring the patient. In certain cases, a doctor may also be part of the team, especially if the patient is in a condition that requires more advanced medical treatment during the journey, or if the intensive care ambulance is transferring a patient between hospitals for highly specialized care. Patients are always under anesthesia.
I believe the main reason drivers move so quickly for ambulances in Sweden, and likely in other parts of Europe, is that ambulances only use blue lights and sirens when responding to life-threatening situations. If a person needs to go to the hospital but their condition isn’t critical, the ambulance travels without lights or sirens. There’s also a middle level where only the blue lights are used-indicating urgency, but not an immediate life-threatening emergency. Additionally, in Sweden, emergency vehicles have full-speed flashing lights that help them become visible sooner by reflecting off the mirrors of cars ahead, making them more noticeable than the blue lights alone. You can see it on some road signs hanging above the road.
At that place with all those tricks I once came on the on ramp and saw an ambulance or something trying to get through, and trucks with nowhere to move. I decided to stop on the ramp so the truck could move forward (since there were no cars coming from the ramp) and they could then use that lane to move to the side.
9:12, just before, in the tunnel, n the end of it (downtown Stockholm railway station, just before the tunnel ends there is an off-ramp, and just after it’s a double on-ramp. The truck driver in the white truck probably, take a bit of the on ramp to let the ambulance has a free pass. Great job. Specially then car drivers sneaks up on the right side ( blind spot) must pass the truck.
This attitude is part of driving training in many European nations but NOT all. Think about it! Could be your family that needs help! Respect! Far too 13:10 little on the roads today. I think many drivers get their licence from a corn flakes box! When we have more vehicles on roads today. Allowing people to merge. And reporting bad driving is a must.
The first signal sound is on smaller roads, than in the high ways comes in the second signal sound so all cars gets aside. This is a normal rutine in Sweden.
Sometimes here in Sweden the authorities will send out a traffic alert on the radio to all drivers in a region to give them advance notice of an ambulance needing a clear path ahead, when time is really critical.
Don't know if you noticed, but most first responder vehicles has an intermitent bright light on. Best button on my car except for the siren of course. Every car sees you km away. Edit I've driven the same roads in an emergency, buy I drive a "tiny" vw passat, pales in comparrison
English Translation of the Truck Passing part: *Sigh* -I don''t think I can pass that one. -No, it seems a bit too tight. (Something, maybe about taking the mirrors in?) -Maybe now then? -Yeah, but damn it seems -Now then? -He is on his way upp on the edge now, yeah now it''s chill -He is taking his (mirrors) in as well, thank you, thank you.
So thankful for our rigorous and hard tests for driving licences and the same for motor vehicles! Its a real horror to see the badly educated drivers and totally insane wrecks of vehicles allowed in certain countries (no names...but you know who), big hugs from Sweden!
here in sweden you have to leave free passeges to emergency veichel if not u can get a fine and mabey lose your driverslicens aswell. and that truck u are looking on there is a mobile unit that moves sick ppl from hospital to hospital so there is doctors and all that stuff in the back aswell.
The "loud" siren is a pneumatic air horn, while the "quite" one is electric. The constant loudness of a standard four horn Martin signal is 125 dB, which is louder than the peak loudness of a Federal Q2B, you should be more familiar with. That's why you often see people covering their ears when a fire engine or ambulance is driving by in countries that use German two-tone sirens.
On the Highways in Austria, in case of Emergency we have a "Rettungsgasse" (Emergency Alley), every driver have to clear left or right (depends how much lanes) to make a driveway so the Ambulance, Police, Firefighters can drive through quickly. If you don't play along with it, you get a fine and this costs alot of money. The heavy sound of this truck on the highway - same sound we have on our firefighters vehicles.
We have the same in Sweden. We have electronic screens with the speed limit and if they need to close a lane they'll put a big red X on the screen. They also put an arrow a few screens ahead to indicate that you need to switch lanes
I am also impressed of the traffic. That road part in Stockholm is stressful even without emergency vehicles trying to pass you ... :) But Stockholm traffic is quite friendly. It is easy to switch lanes if you ended up in the wrong one and coming from another road entering goes like a zipper ...
In Sweden you're taught to make space for the emergency vehicles such as ambulance, firefighters, police. If not then you might lose your licence for a few months and pay a fine. It's also allowed to drive past a red light if that's the only way you can make room for an emergency vehicle to pass. The only thing is that it needs to be the only thing you can do (think like one lane way with walls on the sides) and it needs to be done careful to not cause another accident with the traffic that has a green light.
One decibel level for populated areas and a louder one to be heard when you are on higher speed roads to compensate since road noise in cars escalate the higher the speed you drive.
I have driven this road many times, and yes my truck is smaller only 9.1m long, 2.6m wide and 3.2 high but seeing the emergency light coming from behind is stressful since if an ambulance you know it might be a matter of life and death and in some spots there is just no place to go, also in the tunnel with 2 lanes, had it been rush hour traffic both lanes might have cars standing still, would have made it way harder.
Had to drive up on the Siderail on the local big bridge to get the Firefighters and the ambulances through. Its abit scary sitting with your Volvo 745GL with a 45 degree angle 50 meters over the sea, luckily for me i was alone in the car. ofc the firetrucks was Scanias as im Swedish and a westcoaster to. The reason i had to drive up on the Bridges siderail aka protection was simply due to it beeing under renovation so there was only 1 lane ope for both sides of the traffic to share. and since it was during summer the time i had been stuck up there was 4 hours. So basically it was either we get as much out of the way as every Centimeter counted or there might be fatalities. Luckily everything went well, turned out to be a house on fire which had spread to a small forest to and since it had not rained for a month the situation was rather dire.
the part the trucks where they just try to get as fast most of the time there isnt a ton of space but its more about not speed up fast or slow down fast its just keep moving anyway
I hate emergency vehicles coming up behind me. Especially before when I used to drive SCANIA 18m bendy buses and had nowhere to hide 😂 I have also driven emergency vehicles for the commuter bus company before with sirens and blue lights helping drivers in distress and at traffic accidents. So I know the adrenaline you get from driving fast with sirens.
Impressive driving and good comments! Still waiting for you to react to some Chris Martin EMS stuff, imo the best emergency response driving in youtube.
There's about 6 videos and i had to watch them all. The driver's handling of that vehicle in tight spaces was incredible. Most of the car drivers were well behaved but there were a couple who didn't seem to notice till the last minute. Also did you notice the Ford Ranger utes in the video you had up. Damn things are like a plague on the planet.
Wow what a huge Ambulance Truck...I can not recall that I have ever seen one like this here in The Netherlands, I therefor think that they are not in service here, but then again, I could be wrong...
It's an ICU transport, I don't know the ICU capacity in the Netherlands but in Stockholm not every hospital have them and the few that do have very limited numbers of them so patients could need transport between hospitals but they are also used in larger accidents becuse they are equipt like an ICU ward, I think there are some that even can do advanced surgery on the move.
@@samolofsson2401 Wow seriously...? It actually isn't such a bad idea to have some of these ICU Ambulance Trucks roam around, for like you said; heavy accidents..or even to do advanced surgery on the move...Wow this is such a good idea actually !🤔👍🙂
@@LarkspeedNL Really....? Then this Scania MICU must have been hiding for me, since I have not seen one of the fantastic units. Could be related to the area I live in: Near Amsterdam. So if this unit basically roams North or North-East, East or South or South-East, then chances are slim for me to see this unit, since I live in West Netherlands...
@@samolofsson2401 All emergency hospitals also have an intensive care unit. However, some hospitals have greater/higher knowledge. Normally, the patient is transported from an emergency hospital to KS in Solna.
Indeed he is, which is a bit odd since he started in the south near where the beltway could have taken him around the city and straight there but he went through the middle instead. Dunno, maybe they don't use the beltway. I expect him to go to the southern hospital when he drove into the city but he continued north.
Just want to make you a bit jealous! 😁 I work as a bus driver in Sweden, and we have our busses parked out in the nowhere. We rent a space from a timber truck company, and they just received new Scania 770hp trucks! 😎
Please do, also, it would be nice if you make them take some classes with a driving instructor. In large parts of the US people mainly learn from their parents, including their bad habits. So up to date teaching without those bad habits is a good thing.
Driving here (in Sweden, but Europe over all) is an expensive thing, not only do you spend between 1000-3000 euros on your license, if you wanna keep that, you need to stay out of trouble, as something "minor" in the US is considered a serious offense and will result in an automatic suspension or revokification of your license or even arrest. One example of this is running a red light, this would be considered a serious offense, which results in a fine and suspension of your driving privileges for 1-12 months.
Here are two videos from the Midlands are where ther are several Motorways and Scotland from London to the North. Very busy roads and the Police are having to use Trucks (HGV) tractor units to monitor traffic. They find it easier to look inti cars and cabs. Op Tramline - Warwickshire Police roads policing - RUclips Motor Cops in Truck get Drunk trucker - RUclips
There exist sort of 3 typers. One that is just transport for icu passagerare. Is bassically movable icu beds. Then its a emergancy responsen truck (this is probobly it) that is beasicallt one or two full service operation rooms. And the. Its also the emergnacy C&C that is basically more like a office. Those are often branded as Fire fighting in stead of ambulances.
A few weeks ago you did a video on American license plates and I mentioned how expensive they can be in the UK 2 fellow Americans have just released a video about it ( Reacting to my roots) it blew them away . No need to react to it but I would suggest you watch it
In Sweden, and most of Europe, traffic is a teamwork, not a competition like in the USA.
Very well expressed! It's a completely different mindset.
As a Swede it makes me proud seeing everyone pulling to the side - as you should - which means everyone in the right lane needs to slow down in order to let those to the left in.
Agree, I felt proud too ❤
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Its funny to watch how a people from USA are surprised by this. First its common sense and basic human decency to make space and let emergency vehicles pass cause you never know when you will be the one being transported. Second, its enforced by law, here in Poland its not just traffic violation to not let them pass, its considered a felony/crime, you will pay fine, in extreme cases you will loose your driving license for 12 months and you will have to pass driving license exam again and if your stubborness on the road will affect people lives(person transported will die or firefighter wont get to fire on time) then you will end in prison.
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Hi Tadeusz Przyszlak ! Its the same in Sweden.
09:10 On awareness, that truck with the red trailer stopped and _blocked_ the traffic to let the ICU truck pass before the merge.
Damn, didn't think about that. Very IQ and honorable move by the red trailer. License plate is German though, so no credit to the Swedes in this situation. We have to bow to the world champions of Autobahn manners and strategies.
@@Henkibojj Only the trailer has German plates, the tractor is Swedish.
And to the right across the tracks is the Stockholm Central mass transit hub
As a firefighter here in Norway, this is almost the same vehicle as I drive. Scania R400 @22tonnes.
Hello "Sötebror" we know you only have the best equipment 👍🇳🇴 Scania do makes one of the best if not the best firetruck there is.
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@@donquixote1502 a friend of mine works at scania
What kind of car is that on your wall? The white racing car to the right, looks awesome
@@TheFlyingDutchman1997 The car on the poster is an Australian Holden Commodore. You can read all about it on good ol' wiki and and watch the whole race 1995 Bathurst 1000 here on RUclips. The Australian, and also in New Zeeland, Supercars racing series (formerly V8 Supercars). Yes I know, not for the topic of this thread but just to answer a question.
When they exit the tunnel and pass the truck that was in the way the driver says "Tacka! Tacka!" (roughly translated to "thank [him] thank [him]" which I guess is an instruction to the person in the passenger seat to thank the truck driver. Made me happy :)
As a Swede, I feel I need to correct you a little bit. He said "Tackar, tackar" which translates to "Thanks, thanks" in English. He did that to thank the truck driver because he folded his mirror in for them to give the ambulance that little more space, that mirrors take up.
@@Jumbo_storm I stand corrected!
You didn't notice, after passing the roadtrain in the narrow section...
The other truckers blocked an on-ramp, so no other vehicule could make dangerous situations...
they respect each other. like bus drivers always saying HI with a hand motion when they pass another bus
Every time I see emergency viechles here in Sweden, I get a profound feeling of gratitude to all the other drivers on the road; everyone is really doing everything they can to give way: up on curbs, sidewalks, running red lights (safely), etc., cleaning up the "mess" when there's no more sirens around.
In Sweden if you block the road for emergency vehicles, not only you get $150 fine but you could risk getting your drivers licens suspended for a few months.
I read its actually 2500kr (approx. $250) but I might be wrong on this matter. Most European countries have a fine for hindering emergency vehicles.
@@JanNyman. Sadly the fines aren't bad enough, they have to hurt significantly. Something like at least 2 Monthly Salaries and 6-12 Month license suspension.
@@lolly1665412 Monthly salaries is to much.
@@lolly166541 Theres always a balance, if you suspend someones license for a year so they cant work you are hurting society more then you are hurting them.
Jag hittar ingen sån information, Du får blockera utryckningsfordon om du inte kan flytta på dig, men skulle omständigheterna vissa sig att du kan flytta på dig på ett säkert sätt utan att bryta mot lagen så är de önskvärt, Det är upp till chauffören av utryckningsfordonet att avgöra hur de tar sig fram på snabbast sätt, utan att göra att människor bryter mot lagen, dvs köra mot rött, de får man ABSOLUT inte göra även om man har en tutande brandbil i röven på en! men självklart ska man se till att underlätta deras framkörning, eftersom de är på väg till o rädda liv
Nice one! The electronic siren you hear first is the default Swedish siren, the loud one is added because it is much more clearly audible from afar. Really needed nowadays. Did you notice the amount of light coming from the front flashers, especially in the tunnel?
Of course almost every car you see in Sweden is a Volvo. The factory is located in Gothenborg, Sweden.
You now, it really is called Göteborg. ;-)
Excact same siren sounds in Germany on fire trucks and ambulances. They are usually called "Stadthorn" (city horn - the electronic siren with a more 360 degree angle, but less sound pressure) and "Landhorn" (country road horn - pneumatic, much louder but with general angle focused maybe 90-120 degrees to the front, so drivers on inersections farther away, and/or going higher speeds are alerted much easier; high sound pressure).
Yeah, the doppler effect works better with the secondary siren, which is based on the old Swedish sirens.
The louder horn was the sirens we used to hear on emergency vehicles before the electronic sirens came along. Firetrucks had them the longest. Cool to hear them again.
Translated roughly the convo at the tight truck pass. 7 to 9 minutes in
Responder 1: I dont think i can pass him(the truck)... its going to be alittle.
Responder 2: Yeah its going to be alittle too tight.
Responder 1:[something]
Responder 2: Maybe now. Now it might work
Responder 1: Hell if i know, there is the poles also on that side.
Responder 1: Like so.
Responder 2: He's on his way up on the side now
Responder 2: This will work.
Respect for emergency vehicles is drilled into us when we learn to drive in Sweden. And in most of Europe. When you hear those sirens there is only one thought, get out of the way, at any cost. Rims and tyres can be replaced, a life cannot.
They often warn drivers on the radio when this unit is out on the road too, so people are extra vigilant. It has hsppened to me twice.
I recognized every bit of that road... Have driven that many times, and in some places it is very narrow and nowhere to go. I have actually seen a firetruck drive 20-30 km/h through a street smack full of people (pedestrians), everyone just moved away and let them pass, that was during a firework/waterfestival in Stockholm in late 1990ies. Sometimes people can cooperate...
This is from the large road intersection "Gubbängs motet" (Macdonald place going north into Stockholm over one of its bridges and into the tunnels. This looks to be the middle of day traffic because it's really light. Had it been morning or afternoon it would have been choked. However there is a busslane going along the rout with the Macdonald that the ambulance most likely would have used.
The first siren is an electronic "city" siren. Loud but not overly so. The second one is the "overland" siren, usually put out by two sets of two air horns, one set each for high and low tone. Those are very loud and worst case able to harm childrens ears.
Until about a year ago my volunteer fire department only had the air horn siren on our trucks and at night with little to no traffic we would only turn the sirens on a bit before intersections in order to not disturb the sleeping inhabitants.
This intensive care ambulance is as heavy as most regular fire engines in Switzerland. Regular ladder trucks at most volunteer departments are usually 16 tons. Just today I went on a drive with our rescue/pioneer truck (12 ton). We need to keep used to driving these trucks when usually all I drive is a Skoda station wagon if I'm not using public transit (train, bus, tram).
I was actually part of building this thing! 😊 Great project and alot of firsts!
scania in södertälje? a friend works there
@@krisstopher8259 no, Groth Kaross in Mönsterås. We did all the outfitting with construction of the "box", and installed all tech and lights
As a truck driver i always watch my mirrors at a frequent rate to see what is coming up behind me, and alot of times i've had emergency vehicles pass me that i was aware of due to seeing their lights in the mirror, awareness is key, alot of drivers don't have that, almost ended up in an accident because of it
"alot" is not an actual word
Man ska kolla bakåt med max ca 10 sekunders mellanrum fick jag lära mig
@@sihiri_kabari De säger så på körskola för att ha ett faktiskt tidsspan, 10sekunder är ofta överflödigt, andra gånger inte tillräckligt. Poängen är snarare att trycka hem vikten av att hålla uppsikt runt sig, även om det kan kännas dumt som ny förare att "ansvara" för bakomvarande fordon. Något man med erfarenhet, och IQ över rumstemp, inser är otroligt viktigt. Kör själv lastbil, beroende vart jag kör och vad som sker framför mig kan det gå 30-40sec utan att jag kikar i speglen, oftast ser man i perifierin om det kommer ett fordon på endera sida fordonet (kör sällan släp, då kollar jag markant oftare) och då kollar man såklart - kommer inget så går det som sagt längre mellan att man kollar.
Körvana och att veta vad man skall titta efter är inget man har när man övningskör, man är ju helt ny på det hela.
Sen, skadar det att kolla var 10sec? Absolut inte, men det är ingen absolut hård regel man skall stressa över, ibland kräver ju faktiskt förhållanden i trafiken att man håller mer uppsikt framåt än "normalt".
What’s critical is that drivers in traffic give other drivers the room to also get out of the way. You often see very differently, where traffic doesn’t cooperate and drivers block others causing the emergency vehicles not being able to pass as quite if at all..
european traffic laws💪💪👍👍❤️❤️
You will always get one idiot. Here most vehicles move right over to let emergency vehicles through but often there will be that one driver who either thinks the rules don't apply to them or they try using the siren to speed up ahead of the emergency vehicle (I've seen a few pulled over for that lark).
Regards from Ireland.
yea it's a lot of adjustment (in 2 dimensions). the whole traffic is like a single organism
lots of drivers stopped their cars at locations where there was no car on the opposite lane, so that the MCIU could "weave" through all available lanes.
that is also the advantage if the traffic law dictates to *"enable passage to emergency vehicles"* instead of _"stop for emergency vehicles"._
as could be seen, making space was only possible by continueing to drive, creating gaps for other drivers to merge, or also driving over red lights.
if all those cars would have stopped instead, they would completely have blocked many other drivers, and thus also the ambulance.
If you see an ambulance just remember that someone is really in pain and having the worst day if not the last day in theire life. You dont pull over for the ambulance you pull over for the person who needs the ambulance.
Just as you saw, the emergency lights are all blue. Although, it is likely that they have some yellow strobes too.
In Sweden all emergency vehicles use blue only to clear the road, while police and customs can use blue/red combo to tell you to stop. So you clearly see the difference between if the cops behind you wants to overtake or stop you.
This truck's frame is also used for fire trucks. That's why the roads and traffic laws are made to fit this MICU in traffic in every situation. It's the same size
Thanks for covering my suggestion I knew you would like it. Funnily enough as I watched it originally I thought to myself if you do cover it you will definitely say something about the bright pink Mercedes.
2:30 - What's funny is that it looks exactly like the ones you see outside of the big cities here in Portugal, even the "DRIVE" sign!😄
Impressive awareness by the Swedish drivers. Onya!!
Those Martin air horns are otherwise characteristic of fire brigades here in Sweden.
This particular clip is fun, incidentally, as it's all through very familiar areas; it starts at the Circle K (formerly Statoil) at Sköndal, and just before the cut at 4:00 the MICU is actually approaching the junction that leads to where I live.
I've seen the MICUs in the harbour where I work occasionally. Remarkable vehicles.
6:55 "that would not happen that gracefully and quickly in the u.s." i remember watching a video from emergency vehicles in new york i believe and they had like led signs saying "move over! it's the law!" ... yea i guess you're right with your assumption :D
Funny you noticed the flags on the Circle K station. Circle K established themselves in Sweden by buying the station network off of the Norwegian brand Statoil when they pulled out of the gas station business. Part of the Statoil branding was that the stations should have a row of flagpoles. Now, what's the lowest number of flagpoles that could be considered "a row"? That's right, many of the station featured a row of three flagpoles. The day of the handover, the STATOIL flags came down, and the K flags went up. After two weeks, the middle K flag was lowered, at first leaving an empty flagpole, later adorned with some advertisement flag... 😁
Haha, I remember that and how some gas stations were late in replacing their flags. So they were flying ”non-politically correct flags” for several days.
I used to live really near a Statoil and I just got a good laugh together with my morning coffee when they changed their flags to 3 Ks 🤣
In 1999 I worked in Amsterdam for my UK company for five years. Most of the time I wasn’t driving but I did hire a car a few times for personal use, the Dutch drivers are used to “Zipping” when one lane of the Motorway is closed. They all slow down on both lanes and the lane that remains open go slow enough to allow the closing lane to ZIP in one behind the other. Never saw this in the US or UK.
The same in Sweden.
People in Sweden have huge respect for authority like firefighters, ambulance and police. Sure there are idiots aswell but mostly its respect
Except for the Arab immigrants that likes to burn police vehicles and throw stones at Ambulance drivers, Police and firefighters. Apart from that, You are correct.
It's always fun when you check out things from my home country! Greetings from Sweden!
About Circle K - Norwegian oil company Statoil had a gas station chain in Scandinavia, Baltics, Poland and maybe somewhere else. They sold their entire chain to Circle K. That's how we got Circle K.
Not a double trailer. A Scandinavian tandem, they are pretty much the standard configuration of nordic trucks. 7:57
Usually 64 tonne.
Around 5:40 in this video you mention that they just leave way for the emergency vehicle? We are taught to make space for other vehicles so that others may merge and leave way.
8:50
That threading the needle part is quite impressive, considering the MICU driver is doing this blind on the right side
He has a co driver in the passenger seat watching the right side of the truck for him.
@@norman7334 You have the mirror to see, how much place is left.
@@cliffmclane6271 I think they had to fold the mirror.
In traffic you have NO rights. Only obligations. With that sentiment there’s a lot less road rage. But sure we have a few pricks as well 🤣
The video starts quite close to my home and then goes into the city center and then out to Karolinska hospital or Danderyd I presume. I have not watched the linked video yet.
Awesome truck and video. Big thanks. We Swedes help each other ❤🎉
As I understand it, this veichle is a mobile intensive care ward rather than an ambulance. While the ambulance is staffed with paramedics who are first-responders, this veichle has doctors and nurses working on the patient while it is on the move.
Sweden is a large but sparsely populated country. Fully capable hospitals are only present in the major cities and some specialist units may only be found in a single hospital in the whole country.
Veichles like this make it possible to safely move critically ill patients from any place in the country to those specialist units.
This is for when a 30 minute helicopter ride would be enough to kill a patient.
It is not quite right. The intensive care ambulance, MICU, is staffed with a specialized team to handle the most critical cases during transport. Typically, the team consists of; A specialist-trained intensive care nurse - with specific expertise in intensive care, often with experience from both hospital ICUs and ambulance care. An ambulance technician - responsible for driving and ensuring safety during transport, and also assisting with medical equipment and monitoring the patient. In certain cases, a doctor may also be part of the team, especially if the patient is in a condition that requires more advanced medical treatment during the journey, or if the intensive care ambulance is transferring a patient between hospitals for highly specialized care. Patients are always under anesthesia.
This siren is called "Martin-Horn", or Martinshorn sometimes. It works with Air pressure.
The loud siren that turns on at 2:48 is called a martin horn siren
I believe the main reason drivers move so quickly for ambulances in Sweden, and likely in other parts of Europe, is that ambulances only use blue lights and sirens when responding to life-threatening situations. If a person needs to go to the hospital but their condition isn’t critical, the ambulance travels without lights or sirens. There’s also a middle level where only the blue lights are used-indicating urgency, but not an immediate life-threatening emergency. Additionally, in Sweden, emergency vehicles have full-speed flashing lights that help them become visible sooner by reflecting off the mirrors of cars ahead, making them more noticeable than the blue lights alone. You can see it on some road signs hanging above the road.
almost every week i put my car to eating grass...the road i use is the most used by local ambulance
At that place with all those tricks I once came on the on ramp and saw an ambulance or something trying to get through, and trucks with nowhere to move. I decided to stop on the ramp so the truck could move forward (since there were no cars coming from the ramp) and they could then use that lane to move to the side.
Thats my local McDonald’s in the beginning 😂 Spent to much money over three. Btw my mom has worked in that SCANIA as a nurse.
9:12, just before, in the tunnel, n the end of it (downtown Stockholm railway station, just before the tunnel ends there is an off-ramp, and just after it’s a double on-ramp. The truck driver in the white truck probably, take a bit of the on ramp to let the ambulance has a free pass. Great job. Specially then car drivers sneaks up on the right side ( blind spot) must pass the truck.
Cicrcle K bought all Statoil (now Equinor) gas stations in Sweden, that's why we have them =) We also used to have Texaco gas stations until the 90's
This attitude is part of driving training in many European nations but NOT all. Think about it! Could be your family that needs help! Respect! Far too 13:10 little on the roads today. I think many drivers get their licence from a corn flakes box! When we have more vehicles on roads today. Allowing people to merge. And reporting bad driving is a must.
The first signal sound is on smaller roads, than in the high ways comes in the second signal sound so all cars gets aside.
This is a normal rutine in Sweden.
Sometimes here in Sweden the authorities will send out a traffic alert on the radio to all drivers in a region to give them advance notice of an ambulance needing a clear path ahead, when time is really critical.
Circle K used to be Statoil here before it changed it's name because some large oil companies merged or something.
Don't know if you noticed, but most first responder vehicles has an intermitent bright light on. Best button on my car except for the siren of course. Every car sees you km away. Edit I've driven the same roads in an emergency, buy I drive a "tiny" vw passat, pales in comparrison
English Translation of the Truck Passing part:
*Sigh*
-I don''t think I can pass that one.
-No, it seems a bit too tight.
(Something, maybe about taking the mirrors in?)
-Maybe now then?
-Yeah, but damn it seems
-Now then?
-He is on his way upp on the edge now, yeah now it''s chill
-He is taking his (mirrors) in as well, thank you, thank you.
It is not only nice, it is a blast to drive. Handles like a small car (except from the large ass).
So thankful for our rigorous and hard tests for driving licences and the same for motor vehicles!
Its a real horror to see the badly educated drivers and totally insane wrecks of vehicles allowed in certain countries (no names...but you know who), big hugs from Sweden!
here in sweden you have to leave free passeges to emergency veichel if not u can get a fine and mabey lose your driverslicens aswell. and that truck u are looking on there is a mobile unit that moves sick ppl from hospital to hospital so there is doctors and all that stuff in the back aswell.
At 4:29 was an Volvo V90. To me, at 11:00 seems an Porsche Panamera sw, not an SUV (Cayenne or Macan).
there is almost always a traffic jam on that second tunnel exit in Stockholm. drivers did a good job
The "loud" siren is a pneumatic air horn, while the "quite" one is electric. The constant loudness of a standard four horn Martin signal is 125 dB, which is louder than the peak loudness of a Federal Q2B, you should be more familiar with. That's why you often see people covering their ears when a fire engine or ambulance is driving by in countries that use German two-tone sirens.
we have the same truck over hear in the UK its a military horse box it can carry 6 plus horses
Is it the narrow frame version?
Swedish police have a horse truck aswell 👍
On the Highways in Austria, in case of Emergency we have a "Rettungsgasse" (Emergency Alley), every driver have to clear left or right (depends how much lanes) to make a driveway so the Ambulance, Police, Firefighters can drive through quickly. If you don't play along with it, you get a fine and this costs alot of money.
The heavy sound of this truck on the highway - same sound we have on our firefighters vehicles.
We have the same in Sweden. We have electronic screens with the speed limit and if they need to close a lane they'll put a big red X on the screen. They also put an arrow a few screens ahead to indicate that you need to switch lanes
I am also impressed of the traffic. That road part in Stockholm is stressful even without emergency vehicles trying to pass you ... :) But Stockholm traffic is quite friendly. It is easy to switch lanes if you ended up in the wrong one and coming from another road entering goes like a zipper ...
it is the same sound from a fire engine when using a higher frequency of the siren
In Sweden you're taught to make space for the emergency vehicles such as ambulance, firefighters, police. If not then you might lose your licence for a few months and pay a fine. It's also allowed to drive past a red light if that's the only way you can make room for an emergency vehicle to pass. The only thing is that it needs to be the only thing you can do (think like one lane way with walls on the sides) and it needs to be done careful to not cause another accident with the traffic that has a green light.
The second siren is a German made Martinhorn (air horns tuned to local requirements)
There is a merging lane there that the riff merges into instead of out of to let the ambulance pass
4:17 it’s about 13 kilometers up to this point
One decibel level for populated areas and a louder one to be heard when you are on higher speed roads to compensate since road noise in cars escalate the higher the speed you drive.
And switching off the siren when concentration is needed to pass where it's very tight
Where the video starts. Only like 500 meters before is where a live. This road (Nynäsvägen) is the road i take every day to and from work. 😃
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I feel sory for you. Unles you drive it the "right" way of course. No fun going the "wrong" way. Been there, done that.
@@dennistofvesson6351 I go to work at 5.00. So its no problem. Takes about 20 min. Farsta to near KTH
@@awmperry South side born and raised. 58 years and counting. 👍👍👍
I have driven this road many times, and yes my truck is smaller only 9.1m long, 2.6m wide and 3.2 high but seeing the emergency light coming from behind is stressful since if an ambulance you know it might be a matter of life and death and in some spots there is just no place to go, also in the tunnel with 2 lanes, had it been rush hour traffic both lanes might have cars standing still, would have made it way harder.
Had to drive up on the Siderail on the local big bridge to get the Firefighters and the ambulances through.
Its abit scary sitting with your Volvo 745GL with a 45 degree angle 50 meters over the sea, luckily for me i was alone in the car.
ofc the firetrucks was Scanias as im Swedish and a westcoaster to.
The reason i had to drive up on the Bridges siderail aka protection was simply due to it beeing under renovation so there was only 1 lane ope for both sides of the traffic to share.
and since it was during summer the time i had been stuck up there was 4 hours.
So basically it was either we get as much out of the way as every Centimeter counted or there might be fatalities.
Luckily everything went well, turned out to be a house on fire which had spread to a small forest to and since it had not rained for a month the situation was rather dire.
the part the trucks where they just try to get as fast most of the time there isnt a ton of space but its more about not speed up fast or slow down fast its just keep moving anyway
I hate emergency vehicles coming up behind me. Especially before when I used to drive SCANIA 18m bendy buses and had nowhere to hide 😂
I have also driven emergency vehicles for the commuter bus company before with sirens and blue lights helping drivers in distress and at traffic accidents. So I know the adrenaline you get from driving fast with sirens.
I'be been inside one traveling between hospitals and it's like an RV. I sat in a big leather seat behind the driver
First sound is the police siren, the second one if from our firetrucks.
Impressive driving and good comments! Still waiting for you to react to some Chris Martin EMS stuff, imo the best emergency response driving in youtube.
Yes! His stuff is fascinating, particularly as he often annotates the videos to detail his choices.
There's about 6 videos and i had to watch them all. The driver's handling of that vehicle in tight spaces was incredible. Most of the car drivers were well behaved but there were a couple who didn't seem to notice till the last minute. Also did you notice the Ford Ranger utes in the video you had up. Damn things are like a plague on the planet.
Wow what a huge Ambulance Truck...I can not recall that I have ever seen one like this here in The Netherlands, I therefor think that they are not in service here, but then again, I could be wrong...
It's an ICU transport, I don't know the ICU capacity in the Netherlands but in Stockholm not every hospital have them and the few that do have very limited numbers of them so patients could need transport between hospitals but they are also used in larger accidents becuse they are equipt like an ICU ward, I think there are some that even can do advanced surgery on the move.
@@samolofsson2401 Wow seriously...? It actually isn't such a bad idea to have some of these ICU Ambulance Trucks roam around, for like you said; heavy accidents..or even to do advanced surgery on the move...Wow this is such a good idea actually !🤔👍🙂
I don't know exactly how many there are but I know for a fact there is at least one of these Scania MICU units here in The Netherlands
@@LarkspeedNL Really....? Then this Scania MICU must have been hiding for me, since I have not seen one of the fantastic units. Could be related to the area I live in: Near Amsterdam. So if this unit basically roams North or North-East, East or South or South-East, then chances are slim for me to see this unit, since I live in West Netherlands...
@@samolofsson2401 All emergency hospitals also have an intensive care unit. However, some hospitals have greater/higher knowledge. Normally, the patient is transported from an emergency hospital to KS in Solna.
Love the martin horn.
Swedish: Ska typ installera det i epan, fan va fett, har redan anerikanska sirener installerade.
If every driver realised that the emergency vehicles are in a hurry for someone's family maybe theirs .
Nicely presented and commented! 😊
There is really no way not to see or hear this thing in the tunnel.
0:46 For once, little Sweden has something, an ambulance, that's actually bigger than any ambulance you've ever seen in the US. 😄
And its almost free to use
You should look up Copenhagen Danmarks mobil unit, insane ambulance truck
The second siren that is heard is used by fire trucks in Stockholm. That siren is very, very loud, I've seen people cover their ears when it comes.
I dont know if its the case here, but there exist a special narrow body Scania for emergancy use. Just slitghly wider than a normal car.
This looks like a normal size Scania 255cm wide The Volvo he is passing is either 255 or 260cm wide. Normal cars are around 180-190cm
I think they would learn pretty quick in the US if there was a fine and loss of licence attached to not moving over
Going to Karolinska.
Indeed he is, which is a bit odd since he started in the south near where the beltway could have taken him around the city and straight there but he went through the middle instead.
Dunno, maybe they don't use the beltway.
I expect him to go to the southern hospital when he drove into the city but he continued north.
Just want to make you a bit jealous! 😁 I work as a bus driver in Sweden, and we have our busses parked out in the nowhere. We rent a space from a timber truck company, and they just received new Scania 770hp trucks! 😎
Hi! From Sweden here!
2:42 the flags are there from before Circle-k bought all the gas stations form statoil
Fun thing, this video starts very close to where i lived as a child!
Hell Yeah ❤ Military ambulance my self. Dude this is awesome. Today 🇸🇪 mind you Rally Cross events. Broadcast in Sweden.
in europe ull get fined if u prevent emergency vehicles to pass, so almost everyone learn how to do it fast and safely
No wonder you are seeing a Circle K, i believe it's the biggest gas station chain in Scandinavia
Nice we need to make our kids watch this before they can get their license
Please do, also, it would be nice if you make them take some classes with a driving instructor.
In large parts of the US people mainly learn from their parents, including their bad habits.
So up to date teaching without those bad habits is a good thing.
And as a surprise to all American viewers, it doesn't cost the patient 1 cent to need Ambulance or Ambulance helicopter or an entire ICU as seen here.
Driving here (in Sweden, but Europe over all) is an expensive thing, not only do you spend between 1000-3000 euros on your license, if you wanna keep that, you need to stay out of trouble, as something "minor" in the US is considered a serious offense and will result in an automatic suspension or revokification of your license or even arrest. One example of this is running a red light, this would be considered a serious offense, which results in a fine and suspension of your driving privileges for 1-12 months.
Nice road discipline there swedes 😀👍🏻
Here are two videos from the Midlands are where ther are several Motorways and Scotland from London to the North. Very busy roads and the Police are having to use Trucks (HGV) tractor units to monitor traffic. They find it easier to look inti cars and cabs.
Op Tramline - Warwickshire Police roads policing - RUclips
Motor Cops in Truck get Drunk trucker - RUclips
I’ve never seen or even heard of an ambulance TRUCK
Omg
There exist sort of 3 typers. One that is just transport for icu passagerare. Is bassically movable icu beds.
Then its a emergancy responsen truck (this is probobly it) that is beasicallt one or two full service operation rooms. And the. Its also the emergnacy C&C that is basically more like a office. Those are often branded as Fire fighting in stead of ambulances.
@@matsv201 oh waw thank you
Also have you ever been suggested to check out ghost rider , getaway in stockholm Subaru/ AMG 30 ? If not id like to suggest it
He needs to check the Uppsala run.
A few weeks ago you did a video on American license plates and I mentioned how expensive they can be in the UK
2 fellow Americans have just released a video about it ( Reacting to my roots) it blew them away . No need to react to it but I would suggest you watch it