As a Nordic driver I will not take all that credit, there is some insane truck builds in all countries of Europe. One thing I really like with it is you sometimes can tell just by seeing a truck and how it’s build/customized what country/part in Europe it comes from. Personally I love how the Danes and Dutch guys customizes there trucks, love the old school looks. And as a Swede I take extra pride when I see a Scania/Volvo that is customized from another country, makes me glad to see someone perfecting something my country invented/built and making there own take on it. Big credit to everyone who keeps there truck clean and stylish wherever you come from!
It's worth saying that Volvo and Scania is really leaning into the community.. not only making there trucks look really cool stock, but also having lots of extra and making them easily upgradable.
@@TruckTropia love the channel tho!! Easy mistake with the stats, not easy if your not actually driving in that country. Continue giving us videos please!
Finland has few unique combos, for example there is one semi operating with a 104 ton wood load and they're called HCT which means High Capacity Transport
Not only just Nordics Netherland and Belgium also styling their trucks too they are so famous about truck styling and its called Holland style And also Greek too And yeah European truck styling is just beautiful and on another level Old school style is my favorite style
And also in the Netherlands we drive 25,25m long and 60ton amd the 18,75m and 16,50m up to 50tons the Dutch are also know for there trucks in Europe look at assen truckstar festival
Dutch style is almost a copy of Danish tho so not too much of a difference there also a few dutch companies adopted the paintjobs from old danish trucks
One more important aspect of styling the truck is that you become a rolling commercial board for the company. When I was working at a truck company that had suction and flushing trucks alongside container trucks. Each car was fitted whit the same custom paint and airbrushed exclusive theams. All trucks got high gloss stainless steel sides and alloy wheels The containers was powder coated in the company colors whit the company name and contact information on them. We stood apart from other firm's that way and whit the same price they always choose our firm. Because we made the contractors look better. As a reference of how mad the customized scene is: the last time I fetched a newly painted interchangeable 8cubic/m suction tank the painter was anxious that maybe 25liters of clear coat on the tank was to little for my boss... Hand Washing the hole truck every day on company time. was mandatory and written in the employment agreement as well as the at least once a week high gloss finish polishing of alloy wheels and the stainless steel.
Yup. I believe the 23 meters is for a semi-truck. If you add another trailer, it's 34,5 meters. When the truck is longer than 25,25 meters (the old limit), it must have a sign on the back stating it's a long vehicle. As far as I can tell, there is really no restrictions on where you can drive the longer trucks, but you most certainly want to check the route beforehand so you don't get stuck. Making a U-turn or reversing with 34,5 meter long truck with 2 or even 3 trailers is not something you really want to do on a public road.
Not a driver but a dispatcher mainly for Scandinavia and a car enthusiast / tuner. Always great to see people modifying and caring about their cars and trucks!
3:23 That paint job is so recognizable that I know the owner of the company and my teacher from when I was in highschool as well as an old classmate works there. I also got my wheel loader certification on their yard.
I do believe most northwestern nations of Europe customize their trucks to the fullest. As a Swede that has been literally all the way from north, to the south, I’ve seen plenty to custom trucks, and we have more trucks than most of us expect. But I do take pride and joy that people love the Scanias and the Volvos, I’ve got buddies from the United States, they say that the Scania and Volvo is “Really Cool”, which just gives me more pride of our trucks.
Easiest way to tell a Nordic operated truck and one from the continent in winter is whether it's on it's side in a ditch or not. No one else seems to care to use proper winter tires when they truck things from Spain to Sweden.
One time the factory my brother worked at refused to let a driver leave with the multi million NOK project because he was pretty much driving on racing slicks in the middle of winter.
In Finland the maximum length is 34,5 meters currently. And there's no height limit, but free limit is 4,4. Anything under 4,4 is always marked with signs, but transporting higher than that requires bridge maps. You also need special personell (route planner, "safety" car etc) to transport overheight cargo.
I wonder if finnish heavier truck rules stem largely from you guys having alot of granite for road construction, finnish roads seem always much better and stronger than in Estonia where we have to use sedimentary limestone.
I want to make a small correction. The official max length in Finland is 25,25m not 23m and it is fairly easy to get a license for a 34m. 34m can be either semi + 2 trailers or a 31,5m tandem.
Replace in 5-7 years? American trucks from before the 2000s are still a common sight and some still doing revenue work from the 60s and 70s all while doing double the yearly mileage.
Watching all these videos is making me want to move back to Norge and become a trucker there... I could be a trucker in Alaska, but why not go back to where I grew up
Great video, but those stats at 3:19 are wrong for Finland atleast. Couple of years ago we got the new rules for length etc. The max lenght for example is 34,5m EDIT: well there was also other mistakes in the video but i can see the confusion!
The 23m is on "normal trucks" the 34.5m is only for Road Trains..? Which is not included: www.itf-oecd.org/road-transport-group/weights-and-dimensions/finland. i must admid there is alot of different rules in this countries ;)
@@TruckTropia www.traficom.fi/sites/default/files/media/file/76%20t%2034%2C5%20m%20in%20Finland.pdf btw we consider 34.5m truck a "normal truck" not a road train
I've been to the Stryn motorshow last year in Norway and these trucks look so good! i've aslo been to Finland and also there the equiment looks amazing! I hope that one day I get the chance to go there and drive for a company in Scandinavia.
@@jirislavicek9954 I don’t know. Us british enjoy things stock and bland. I'd wish for more companies doing mods to lorries but it just doesn't happen on the same scale of the EU
@@SxpticFlxsh Yeah, mainland Britain is a bit different matter. Company fleets are boring, but the private lorries could be quite nice. Guys in Ireland and Northern Ireland definitely like their lorries well decorated. Nice paint, light bars, bull bars.. lot of these accessories aren't even legal on mainland Europe.
@@jirislavicek9954 indeed Irish if you see them on the mainland they are propper looking. English I like them of they have old style signwriting on them.
as a north american, a lot of people have extremely customized trucks, lots of chrome, big exhaust stacks are really common here trucking isn't just an industry, it's a community
While driving to work at 4AM, I regularly pass multi axle supertrucks on the Belgium highways. They still are specially regulated, but it's quite a sight to see.
Nordic country combine are less than 20 milions people on a very huge area, population are mostly into 2 3 areas, therfore 1 trip whit a more heavy carco is less expencive than al lots of small trip
We have a research truck that has dedicated route which is 104tn in Finland. Also im just a student now but on training i drove on road E18 and trucks up to 34.5m was a normal sight there
The more I learn about European road culture, the more I am discovering that even the things America prides itself on the most are just done better by the Europeans. Germany puts more effort into it's personal vehicles, the Nordic countries put more effort into their commercial vehicles, and nearly all of Europe scores better than we do on the freedom index. Why are other Americans so proud of our country again? About the only thing we're the best in is the military, and that's just because we throw so much money at the problem.
These freedom indexes are absolute BS though. Most of these supposed Western "free" countries ban political parties, have hundreds to thousands of people in jail for speaking their mind, treated people that didn't want an experimental drug for a disease that didn't pose a threat to them as second-class citizens, have a "free" press that largely lives of gov't grants, huge gov't-run or gov't granted corporate monopolies and oligopolies, etc. Ad the defense is always "well in some XYZ country they still hook a guy's balls up to car battery for that, so consider yourself lucky/free!".
Don't forget the "company image" if your trucks looks clean and really cool that says something about the level of detail, neatness and how the oparete.
I'vw finally been in sweden this year, i live in italy, as a family of truckers i trought there were much more powerfull truck around roads, but i've seen a lot of 6 cyl scanias and 460/500 hp volvos in 25 meters long, it's been amazing.
One important thing though, I'm unsure about the other Nordic countries, but all Norwegian tractors have Tandem axels where one is liftable, this is to shift the weight distribution of one loose traction up a hill (more weight on the axel) during winter, also the extra axel give a steadier semi on winter roads, it also allows for higher weight in a safer way. If a semi is blocking the road at wintertime it is always European trucks with a tractor with only 2 axels. The Norwegian trucks also have a different set of chains than further south in Europe, as they have "spikes"
Midlift axles are de facto in the UK as well. I believe the difference is due to taxation - most European countries tax by number of axles, whereas axle WEIGHT is more important in the UK (or so I have been told). This is just one theory, the other is that having a midlift axle greatly reduces your fuel capacity, but personally I'd rather fuel every day and have an extra axle.
@@JaidenJimenez86 usually the liftable axel in Norway is the rear one out of the 3, this helps enormous if it is slippery in a hill climb, as the weigh distribution on the axel shifts and give better force and traction. It is usually lowered however unless needed, because it almost remove the possibility that the truck and trolly is scissorsing on the flat or downhill.
@@Xirque666 And when the truck has low load you wan't to lift the rear most axle of the ground to make tyre wear less of an issue. More important for work trucks that are used in tight twisty areas than for those long haulers.
@@SipuliSankari if slippery however, one will lift the rear axel on the way up, to get enough traction as long as the load is heavy enough to cause issues.
These types of trucks are everywhere, come to master truck in poland (opole) its an event where you see all trucks parked up, even the most iconic ones such as BACA,transbud (all polish) we have our styles aswell
Fun fact, the first truck in this clip is from Tverås, which had the first 770s for testing! :D And would like to add that their style is called Dutch style...
Here in Northern Norway, trucks with fancy painting and/or lights are extremely rare. Almost all of them have their company name and/or logo, and maybe a special color the company wants to be recognized by (ie Bring's green ones), but that's it.
Regarding Truck-mania you forgot about Netherlands ! They also do the same thing with their trucks : custom paint, custom interior, custom features and Hi-End engines.
In Brazil the preferred trucks are they same Scania and Volvo, with in last 2 years a strong participation of Daf fighting for second place of Scania. One curiosity about brazilian truck style, truckers prefer colors more discreet, like grays, black and white. Have exceptions, but in general the trucks have only little modifications, large tank for Arla/Def, Aluminum Wheels, tint in windows. Have one only culture of modifications called by truckers "Verdureiros", this guy's modify rear suspension of trucks to be more high as possible, is not pratical in day by day use, but in sense of these guys is beautiful!
Excellent video! Your channel is top notch. Here in Brazil we mover from 45 ton GCW and 18.15 mt OAL years ago tô 74 Ton and 30 mt OAL...recently the max allowed GCW grew to 91 ton, specifically to meet the sugar cane segment. However on-highway, the prevailing combinations are up to 9-axle and 74 Ton GCW. Defintely a long country... However, most tractors are 13L 6x4 in the 440-560 PS. Volvo, Scania, DAF, Mercedes dominate the segment the HD segment. As as suggestion, it would be nice for your channel to cover other overseas countries, such as India, South Africa, Argentina, Middle East, China, Brazil, Australia, etc etc. please keep up the outstanding vids! 🏆💪🏽👍🏽😎
I saw some awesome customized trucks in Poland too, all 3 were Scania trucks 2 of them were white and red, like our country's flag and one of them was beautifully dark blue with the name of a town on it, I loved it
Im finnish and currently serving in army. I was chosen to be a driver so i will get a free truck lisence so after i get out of the army getting a job should be easy because of the driver shortage.
There are equally outstanding trucks in e.g. Germany and the Netherlands, just like there are also some boring looking basic trucks in the nordic countries as well. Although Scania is a Swedish brand, the the black one you show at 1:11 and several times later on in the video is registered in southern Germany Tbh I'm not sure to which extend Sweden and Finland have steep hills in their road network, Norway sure does, but there are equally steep climbs e.g. in the Alps. Of course, the way lower population density, long distance between places and low traffic volumes allow an entirely different approach with longer trucks, and over the decades you can adapt the entire network and construction codes to allow heavier and taller trucks compared to the rest of Europe as well
Finland doesn't have many long steep hills, but I can tell you, there are steep hills especially outside the major highways. There are certain places, where the hill forces the truck to crawl at a slow speed, like 20-40 km/h, even with the 700+ hp engines. For whatever reason, in the busiest roads, we tend to have a short passing lane on such places (not the best solution, but it's a solution). Over time, the bridges have been reinforced / rebuilt to withstand heavier loads. Roundabouts have been built with kerbs, that allow even the longer vehicles to pass. Zoning codes make sure that companies that use the larger vehicles are located where those vehicles don't cause too much trouble. I think the most impressive thing about these larger vehicles is that one use case for them is hauling wood from the middle of the forest to factories. I mean, they quite literally drive these things in narrow dirt roads where you could not drive your regular car, and they are doing that while having a total weight of 76 tonnes. I bet, that is the most difficult environment for these vehicles. Yes, larger vehicles require some modifications to road network, but they are relatively minor changes. Reinforce bridges on main roads, maybe redesign some curbs on some intersections, and maybe set length/weight restrictions where modifications are not reasonable.
Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands all have a very strong trucker culture. That's essentially why they put so much intricate detail in their trucks. While Poland, Romania, Croatia etc have their own flavor of trucker culture where they decorate the inside of their trucks mainly while generally keeping the outside of the truck looking rather stock. It's a money issue for the latter named countries. Paintjobs and a few nice features is really nice and i am all for it. But the moment truckers start putting things in their windscreens or near their A-pillars... Essentially anything that blocks their view or swings around inside the cab, i am very very much against it and would have their truckers license BURNED if i were an authority. As if Polish/Romanian truckers didn't have enough problems in the Nordic due to winter road conditions, adding a bunch of drapes and stuff in their field of view just makes them a security risk on the roads.
I would like to point out that not all countries allow these modifications. Of course paintjob is ok but more lights, bull bars, light ramps etc. are simply not allowed in many countries. For example here in CZ is by law specified how much of any kind of light you can have on the vehicle and you basicly cannot add more lights on your truck. Its not road legal and you will have problems on the road. And as a ex-owner of trucking company i can say you that you barely make some decent money of that these days so i quit and sell my trucks, its not worth it to modify it.
Norway allows up to 60tons actully however that is on certain roads and usually is in the 25.25m configuration. The reason as to why only on certain roads is because a lot of infrastructure is either too old or built after old specs thus bridges i.e. might not support that load or even worse rural roads that's just tarmac laid on top of soil without any ground work thus has a hard time trying to cope even at 50 tonnes.
Our trucks in Sweden can be a lot bigger and heavier to than in the rest of Europe, max gross here is 74 tons on some roads, 64 tons of most big roads, not 40-44 tons like in most of EU
The 50t limit in Norway depends on axle configuration. You can't just come with a two axle truck + two axle trailer and have that weight. It requires 5 axles at least and the tandem on the trailer has to be a certain distance apart. Doing with without a rear tandem on the tractor is pretty much impossible, as the axle load on a single would be to much.
That is true for every country in Europe. Single axel can have a maximum load of 10 tons. And tandem axels can have a single axel load of 9 or 8 ton depending on road quality.
@@matsv201 Several classes of road here at least. 10/50, 10/42, 8/50, 8/40, 8/32 and 6/28. All national roads are 10/50. Same with primary county roads. There are however 5606km of county roads with 8/50, and most of those are 10/50 in winter time. I'm guessing the 10t axle limit is the same for for those higher total weight limits in Sweden and Finland? Do you know?
@@Gazer75 we have bk1, 2, 3 and 4. And bk1 is just normal road. Bk2 is with reduced axel load, bk3 is additional reduction for total load, and bk4 is ironically for 100 ton trucks. Of cause there is local axel and boggi load as well as total weight restriction. But they just have a special sign for that. That only exist in municipality or privately owned roads. The nation road network is all to bk1 or bk4 standard. Bk4 was introduced just a few years go, so it's still a bit uncommon
@@matsv201 Ahh so the class name is just a number. Here its Bk10-50 and if its reduced its BkT8-50, I just didn't include that. There is also a few roads with Bk10-60, BkT8-60 and Bk10-56 for logging trucks only. And most of the national and main county roads can also support 12/100 special transport via application. There is also a dispensation system for mobile cranes with 6 axles and 12/72.
gotta check on those facts even spain has a length limit of 32 meters now for duo trailers, same in germany, i think b-double configuration was being tested in france as well
video idea: open pipe on different trucks, why the drivers put open pipe on their truck,compare the different manufacture's trucks sound, or the rules in different countries etc...
Most of this is inaccurate. Most of the modifications made are functional. But company owners also like to take take of their employees. The big Engines are more common in Norway than Sweden or Finland, due to the big ass mountains not even mentioned in this video
I am a trucker at Alviks Trafik in northern Sweden and will choose to drive Volvo in all respects. Scania in all its glory, but Volvo is the best in every respect / Elisabeth
It's not just them we are doing the same thing in Scotland and UK, and Ireland to we have some of the niece's trucks in the whole of Europe and have the trophies to show for it to.
Hats down to all truck drivers. Its not easy work, as a matter of fact its hard work. Sitting for hours driving. Kiddneys and spine are often first to be problematic espeically as you grew older. I am driver myself but i do not drive big trucks, only small delivery vans and spending 8-9h every day in it no matter the fact that you stop, go out, deliver, is not always easy, especially for the back. Its not for everyone to be a truck driver so hats down to all truckers in the world. Its a bloody job.
A couple days ago I started playing Euro Truck Simulator 2. I played with game settings, some make the game more realistic, some make it less. But there were one thing I couldn't fix, and since everything else was great I started to think maybe it's actually accurate: RPM don't match the speed. I mean, if I'm in god knows which gear, I have about 1000 RPM on my tacho and I'm going about 40 kph. I press accelerator and soon reach 1500 RPM, but my speed is not 60, it's somewhere close to 45-50! There's 12 gears in that Scania transmission, and in each speed depending on conditions I can almost double the revs - and all that happening UNDER 90 kph. My first and simplest guess was that it's poor simulation. But maybe there's some specific device built in a semi truck transmission that make it slip like a torqe converter or something. Do you know anything about it?
I'm no expert, but you have low and high gears. I have driven trucks, but only in closed off area. I have no truck license. "Low" gears are really slow. This was a long time ago, but even 3rd or 4th gear may only do 15kph unless you rev it as mad. "Drivers won’t use all the gears all of the time; they’ll ‘block shift’ or skip gears to reduce wear and tear on the gearbox. A truck driver with 12 gears is never going to need first gear unless they are heavily loaded and starting uphill, or they need very fine control for manoeuvring. They then are unlikely to use all remaining 11 gears and certainly not while changing down while slowing to a stop. In a six-speed truck, it’s more normal to start in second gear; in a 12-speed truck, you would start in third or fourth if you are empty and perhaps second or third if you are pulling a load."
Just wondering; why isn't a SISU mentioned? SISU is Finland's truck brand, but not everybody in the Nordic/Scandinavian countries knows the SISU trucks. I haven't seen them in Denmark or even in Sweden.
I actually saw a Sisu in northern Sweden a couple of days ago. The first Sisu i have seen for many years. I guess the reason you don't see Sisu in Sweden is because we have both Volvo and Scania.
like others said its everywhere in europe but mostly in belgium netherlands and those nordic countries. germany has it to. would rather see you redo this vid to include everyone so it can be a correct representation and maybe look at the differences in each country
Where do you get these numbers?? For example in Finland the total lenght was 25,25 since stone age,now for few years it has been 34 meters already.Also good luck with cruising with 4,5 m height in Norwegian country roads..
As a Nordic driver I will not take all that credit, there is some insane truck builds in all countries of Europe. One thing I really like with it is you sometimes can tell just by seeing a truck and how it’s build/customized what country/part in Europe it comes from.
Personally I love how the Danes and Dutch guys customizes there trucks, love the old school looks.
And as a Swede I take extra pride when I see a Scania/Volvo that is customized from another country, makes me glad to see someone perfecting something my country invented/built and making there own take on it.
Big credit to everyone who keeps there truck clean and stylish wherever you come from!
It's worth saying that Volvo and Scania is really leaning into the community.. not only making there trucks look really cool stock, but also having lots of extra and making them easily upgradable.
exact the same I thought. By styling u can often read out where the truck is from
Sweden is the only place I have ever seen concrete mixer trucks with fancy one of paintjobs for a whole fleet
as a dutchman i can confirm that, there are some insane customized truck over here 😂 look for : truck weeda and u will see some beautifull trucks
Heard mostly are painted in Holland i found out and build by vlastuin..
Sweden has NO height limit, 4.5 is just free height. There is NO height limit and this year length will be up to 34.5 meters
Thanks for sharing 👍
The "free hight" is 4.5 meter in both Norway and Sweden
@@TruckTropia love the channel tho!! Easy mistake with the stats, not easy if your not actually driving in that country. Continue giving us videos please!
Height limit in U.K. is 16.1 feet trailers
Let’s hope they don’t have to go under any bridges 🙃
Finland has few unique combos, for example there is one semi operating with a 104 ton wood load and they're called HCT which means High Capacity Transport
Not only just Nordics Netherland and Belgium also styling their trucks too they are so famous about truck styling and its called Holland style
And also Greek too
And yeah European truck styling is just beautiful and on another level
Old school style is my favorite style
Thanks for sharing 👍
And also in the Netherlands we drive 25,25m long and 60ton amd the 18,75m and 16,50m up to 50tons the Dutch are also know for there trucks in Europe look at assen truckstar festival
yea it think this is tru for all but the easter eurpeen trucks, they will drive the cheapest truck they can find with no extras
Don’t forget the Italians there are some very nice extreme custom trucks there
Dutch style is almost a copy of Danish tho so not too much of a difference there also a few dutch companies adopted the paintjobs from old danish trucks
Here in Estonia we also customize trucks A LOT! It's very important that your trucks stands out!
One more important aspect of styling the truck is that you become a rolling commercial board for the company. When I was working at a truck company that had suction and flushing trucks alongside container trucks. Each car was fitted whit the same custom paint and airbrushed exclusive theams. All trucks got high gloss stainless steel sides and alloy wheels The containers was powder coated in the company colors whit the company name and contact information on them. We stood apart from other firm's that way and whit the same price they always choose our firm. Because we made the contractors look better. As a reference of how mad the customized scene is: the last time I fetched a newly painted interchangeable 8cubic/m suction tank the painter was anxious that maybe 25liters of clear coat on the tank was to little for my boss...
Hand Washing the hole truck every day on company time. was mandatory and written in the employment agreement as well as the at least once a week high gloss finish polishing of alloy wheels and the stainless steel.
Oh. Wow.
I have a cabover bucket truck here in the US, I love the tight turning radius and the good visibility, these cabovers are absolutely beautiful!
The max lenght in Finland is actually 34,5 meters
Yep, without a special permit
Finland is truckers promised country
Yup. I believe the 23 meters is for a semi-truck. If you add another trailer, it's 34,5 meters. When the truck is longer than 25,25 meters (the old limit), it must have a sign on the back stating it's a long vehicle. As far as I can tell, there is really no restrictions on where you can drive the longer trucks, but you most certainly want to check the route beforehand so you don't get stuck. Making a U-turn or reversing with 34,5 meter long truck with 2 or even 3 trailers is not something you really want to do on a public road.
Not a driver but a dispatcher mainly for Scandinavia and a car enthusiast / tuner. Always great to see people modifying and caring about their cars and trucks!
3:23 That paint job is so recognizable that I know the owner of the company and my teacher from when I was in highschool as well as an old classmate works there. I also got my wheel loader certification on their yard.
I do believe most northwestern nations of Europe customize their trucks to the fullest.
As a Swede that has been literally all the way from north, to the south, I’ve seen plenty to custom trucks, and we have more trucks than most of us expect. But I do take pride and joy that people love the Scanias and the Volvos, I’ve got buddies from the United States, they say that the Scania and Volvo is “Really Cool”, which just gives me more pride of our trucks.
Fun fact: Volvo has VNL for the North American market.
Easiest way to tell a Nordic operated truck and one from the continent in winter is whether it's on it's side in a ditch or not. No one else seems to care to use proper winter tires when they truck things from Spain to Sweden.
One time the factory my brother worked at refused to let a driver leave with the multi million NOK project because he was pretty much driving on racing slicks in the middle of winter.
Are you sure about that? Have you watched Ice Road Rescue?
It can be annoying, to be oncoming traffic to one of those christmas lights.. but if that's what they like
In Finland the maximum length is 34,5 meters currently. And there's no height limit, but free limit is 4,4. Anything under 4,4 is always marked with signs, but transporting higher than that requires bridge maps. You also need special personell (route planner, "safety" car etc) to transport overheight cargo.
Same in Sweden, 34.5m and 74ton.
As a person from Denmark, I can say I have never seen a heavily modified truck. The most I’ve seen is the pain of a company
The largest train in Finland is the giant 104 ton log hauler. It's 33.5 meters in length. I'd love to drive that thing for work.
I wonder if finnish heavier truck rules stem largely from you guys having alot of granite for road construction, finnish roads seem always much better and stronger than in Estonia where we have to use sedimentary limestone.
I want to make a small correction. The official max length in Finland is 25,25m not 23m and it is fairly easy to get a license for a 34m. 34m can be either semi + 2 trailers or a 31,5m tandem.
No special permits needed for 34m anymore
You don't need a special license for 34m. CE is good for it.
Replace in 5-7 years? American trucks from before the 2000s are still a common sight and some still doing revenue work from the 60s and 70s all while doing double the yearly mileage.
Noticed it when driving from Holland to Oslo.. so many nice trucks!
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Watching all these videos is making me want to move back to Norge and become a trucker there...
I could be a trucker in Alaska, but why not go back to where I grew up
I appreciate you used the term "Nordic countries" correctly.
Look Auvinen,and Ristimaa truck,made by Perttu Papunen from Finland
They're like JDM cars of the trucking industry.
Great video, but those stats at 3:19 are wrong for Finland atleast. Couple of years ago we got the new rules for length etc. The max lenght for example is 34,5m
EDIT: well there was also other mistakes in the video but i can see the confusion!
The 23m is on "normal trucks" the 34.5m is only for Road Trains..? Which is not included: www.itf-oecd.org/road-transport-group/weights-and-dimensions/finland. i must admid there is alot of different rules in this countries ;)
@@TruckTropia www.traficom.fi/sites/default/files/media/file/76%20t%2034%2C5%20m%20in%20Finland.pdf btw we consider 34.5m truck a "normal truck" not a road train
@@TruckTropia Wrong I say, before 34.5m trucks, 25.25m one was the normal one for us, not 23m.
@@TruckTropia 23m is the maximum lenght allowed for a tractor semi combo. 34,5m is allowed for module combinations with several articulation points.
Got them wrong for all countries
I've watched this video so many times, I’ve lost count, haha. I've been practicing for my CDL test for free on CDL Prep. Wish me luck!
I've been to the Stryn motorshow last year in Norway and these trucks look so good! i've aslo been to Finland and also there the equiment looks amazing! I hope that one day I get the chance to go there and drive for a company in Scandinavia.
In Sweden there are some 34m long road trains. At this point only on prescribed roads. But there are plans to expand service.
That is normal in Finland to use and see HCT trucks with lenght of 34,5m on main highways.
I thought they had passed the rule about 34.5m in Sweden to be introduced in august 2023.
Same in Denmark on selected roads
Can't forget the Dutch. Another nation which bangs out some beautiful lorries. :)
And Irish. Brits to a certain extent.
@@jirislavicek9954 I don’t know. Us british enjoy things stock and bland. I'd wish for more companies doing mods to lorries but it just doesn't happen on the same scale of the EU
@@SxpticFlxsh Yeah, mainland Britain is a bit different matter. Company fleets are boring, but the private lorries could be quite nice. Guys in Ireland and Northern Ireland definitely like their lorries well decorated. Nice paint, light bars, bull bars.. lot of these accessories aren't even legal on mainland Europe.
@@jirislavicek9954 indeed Irish if you see them on the mainland they are propper looking. English I like them of they have old style signwriting on them.
@@jirislavicek9954 brits always have those dumb kelsa bars, but the colours and the lettering are always amazing
not just Nordic, All Euro countries have your own style
UK have supermarket design🤮
@@chrisa5631 hahahaha
Totally agree, some countries more than others though :-)
The netherlands and Germany have quitw a big custom truck scene.
as a north american, a lot of people have extremely customized trucks, lots of chrome, big exhaust stacks are really common here
trucking isn't just an industry, it's a community
Denmark and The Netherlands are probably the two biggest truck customizers, but more countries do it as well, like Greece.
But Denmark and The Netherlands get huge paycheck salary compared to Greece, In Greece salary is very low compared to West Europe
Thank you for this video !
No problem 👍
While driving to work at 4AM, I regularly pass multi axle supertrucks on the Belgium highways.
They still are specially regulated, but it's quite a sight to see.
I love when they have tons of lights. It is so fascinating ❤️
As a American OTR I sure wish I could drive one of those fancy Volvo, 700 HP my company’s truck only has 500 HP 😂 awesome video
Well! Can't say America got bad trucks , I mean their engine's are highly modifiable, upto 1500 and more horsepower for a work horse.
@@sameer5634 true if your a O/O but I’m not maybe one day till then I’ll just drive the freight shacker in the granny lane 🤣
Yeah but that long nose classic styling is just to nice plus the engines can easily be tuned up
come to australia, we get both. even our own made kenworths which usa didnt get
Only 500 bhp, really?
Nordic country combine are less than 20 milions people on a very huge area, population are mostly into 2 3 areas, therfore 1 trip whit a more heavy carco is less expencive than al lots of small trip
We have a research truck that has dedicated route which is 104tn in Finland. Also im just a student now but on training i drove on road E18 and trucks up to 34.5m was a normal sight there
It's rare to see semi-trucks here in Finland. Rigid trucks are way more common. Semi trucks are mostly used by other drivers from Europe.
Thanks for showing my truck several times 🤩🥰🥳 (White and green Scania hooklifter)
No problem 👍 truly a great looking truck
Where and when are these truck shows taking place? Nice video, thanks.
Norway has ALOT more varied landscape than Both Finland and sweden.
The more I learn about European road culture, the more I am discovering that even the things America prides itself on the most are just done better by the Europeans. Germany puts more effort into it's personal vehicles, the Nordic countries put more effort into their commercial vehicles, and nearly all of Europe scores better than we do on the freedom index. Why are other Americans so proud of our country again? About the only thing we're the best in is the military, and that's just because we throw so much money at the problem.
These freedom indexes are absolute BS though. Most of these supposed Western "free" countries ban political parties, have hundreds to thousands of people in jail for speaking their mind, treated people that didn't want an experimental drug for a disease that didn't pose a threat to them as second-class citizens, have a "free" press that largely lives of gov't grants, huge gov't-run or gov't granted corporate monopolies and oligopolies, etc.
Ad the defense is always "well in some XYZ country they still hook a guy's balls up to car battery for that, so consider yourself lucky/free!".
Yea?? Really?? Can you name some of them? Or one?? Do you even know we're Europa is on a map??@@christophe9602
Nice video
5:46 look at that yellow S series Scania BDF on the right next to Green Scania 😍
I don't even like trucks but this channel might change my views since I find this interesting as a Swede.
Don't forget the "company image" if your trucks looks clean and really cool that says something about the level of detail, neatness and how the oparete.
My favorite is the little Michelin men lit up on top!
I'vw finally been in sweden this year, i live in italy, as a family of truckers i trought there were much more powerfull truck around roads, but i've seen a lot of 6 cyl scanias and 460/500 hp volvos in 25 meters long, it's been amazing.
Thanks for sharing 👍
One important thing though, I'm unsure about the other Nordic countries, but all Norwegian tractors have Tandem axels where one is liftable, this is to shift the weight distribution of one loose traction up a hill (more weight on the axel) during winter, also the extra axel give a steadier semi on winter roads, it also allows for higher weight in a safer way.
If a semi is blocking the road at wintertime it is always European trucks with a tractor with only 2 axels.
The Norwegian trucks also have a different set of chains than further south in Europe, as they have "spikes"
Midlift axles are de facto in the UK as well. I believe the difference is due to taxation - most European countries tax by number of axles, whereas axle WEIGHT is more important in the UK (or so I have been told). This is just one theory, the other is that having a midlift axle greatly reduces your fuel capacity, but personally I'd rather fuel every day and have an extra axle.
@@JaidenJimenez86 usually the liftable axel in Norway is the rear one out of the 3, this helps enormous if it is slippery in a hill climb, as the weigh distribution on the axel shifts and give better force and traction. It is usually lowered however unless needed, because it almost remove the possibility that the truck and trolly is scissorsing on the flat or downhill.
@@Xirque666 And when the truck has low load you wan't to lift the rear most axle of the ground to make tyre wear less of an issue. More important for work trucks that are used in tight twisty areas than for those long haulers.
@@SipuliSankari if slippery however, one will lift the rear axel on the way up, to get enough traction as long as the load is heavy enough to cause issues.
not a tandem, but bogey. which means its just there for weight distribution not traction.
These types of trucks are everywhere, come to master truck in poland (opole) its an event where you see all trucks parked up, even the most iconic ones such as BACA,transbud (all polish) we have our styles aswell
Should do something on New Zealander truck driving it’s pretty interesting
I Will consider 👍
The table of vehicle size is incorrect. Denmark allow for 25,25m truck semitrailer combination or tractor link and semi.
Fun fact, the first truck in this clip is from Tverås, which had the first 770s for testing! :D
And would like to add that their style is called Dutch style...
Here in Northern Norway, trucks with fancy painting and/or lights are extremely rare. Almost all of them have their company name and/or logo, and maybe a special color the company wants to be recognized by (ie Bring's green ones), but that's it.
Regarding Truck-mania you forgot about Netherlands ! They also do the same thing with their trucks : custom paint, custom interior, custom features and Hi-End engines.
they will totally need the powerful engines to climb the steep mountain ranges the Netherlands are famous for 😉
@@EnjoyFirefighting more for quickly accelerating from a red light so they dont hold up traffic to long
@@EnjoyFirefighting They're international haulers, so the fact that the Netherlands itself is flat won't really effect their engine choice.
@@tommeiner9983 Germans are international as well and still you barely see German trucks with such powerful engine choice
@@EnjoyFirefighting Just like how you'll rarely see Dutch trucks with more than 500 horsepower.
Hi! Driver from Finland here, max lenght in here is now 32meters without special permit. 34 meters with permit and up to 100 tons
Thanks for sharing, Finland do have some incredible rules :)
OMG, this video was so beautiful from the begging to the end! 🖤
In Brazil the preferred trucks are they same Scania and Volvo, with in last 2 years a strong participation of Daf fighting for second place of Scania.
One curiosity about brazilian truck style, truckers prefer colors more discreet, like grays, black and white. Have exceptions, but in general the trucks have only little modifications, large tank for Arla/Def, Aluminum Wheels, tint in windows.
Have one only culture of modifications called by truckers "Verdureiros", this guy's modify rear suspension of trucks to be more high as possible, is not pratical in day by day use, but in sense of these guys is beautiful!
i get angry when i see brazil trucks with lifted back. or driver seats with no air. this is totally bullshit
@@maikamoustara6248 Most of the Brazilian truckers agree with you. The verdureiro culture is only a niche of Brazilian drivers.
5:03 using the door and steering wheel to climb down when there are bars just for that reason...
Oh man, here in the Balkans we have similar Nordic Trucks, but cheap designed 😎 Balkan life
Excellent video! Your channel is top notch. Here in Brazil we mover from 45 ton GCW and 18.15 mt OAL years ago tô 74 Ton and 30 mt OAL...recently the max allowed GCW grew to 91 ton, specifically to meet the sugar cane segment. However on-highway, the prevailing combinations are up to 9-axle and 74 Ton GCW. Defintely a long country... However, most tractors are 13L 6x4 in the 440-560 PS. Volvo, Scania, DAF, Mercedes dominate the segment the HD segment. As as suggestion, it would be nice for your channel to cover other overseas countries, such as India, South Africa, Argentina, Middle East, China, Brazil, Australia, etc etc. please keep up the outstanding vids! 🏆💪🏽👍🏽😎
Thank you so much 👍😃
British trucks are often highly customised too
I saw some awesome customized trucks in Poland too, all 3 were Scania trucks
2 of them were white and red, like our country's flag and one of them was beautifully dark blue with the name of a town on it, I loved it
0:50 I thought they were all decorated alike... until I saw the sides. Great truck-art there 👍🏼
Im finnish and currently serving in army. I was chosen to be a driver so i will get a free truck lisence so after i get out of the army getting a job should be easy because of the driver shortage.
There are equally outstanding trucks in e.g. Germany and the Netherlands, just like there are also some boring looking basic trucks in the nordic countries as well. Although Scania is a Swedish brand, the the black one you show at 1:11 and several times later on in the video is registered in southern Germany
Tbh I'm not sure to which extend Sweden and Finland have steep hills in their road network, Norway sure does, but there are equally steep climbs e.g. in the Alps.
Of course, the way lower population density, long distance between places and low traffic volumes allow an entirely different approach with longer trucks, and over the decades you can adapt the entire network and construction codes to allow heavier and taller trucks compared to the rest of Europe as well
Finland doesn't have many long steep hills, but I can tell you, there are steep hills especially outside the major highways. There are certain places, where the hill forces the truck to crawl at a slow speed, like 20-40 km/h, even with the 700+ hp engines. For whatever reason, in the busiest roads, we tend to have a short passing lane on such places (not the best solution, but it's a solution). Over time, the bridges have been reinforced / rebuilt to withstand heavier loads. Roundabouts have been built with kerbs, that allow even the longer vehicles to pass. Zoning codes make sure that companies that use the larger vehicles are located where those vehicles don't cause too much trouble.
I think the most impressive thing about these larger vehicles is that one use case for them is hauling wood from the middle of the forest to factories. I mean, they quite literally drive these things in narrow dirt roads where you could not drive your regular car, and they are doing that while having a total weight of 76 tonnes. I bet, that is the most difficult environment for these vehicles.
Yes, larger vehicles require some modifications to road network, but they are relatively minor changes. Reinforce bridges on main roads, maybe redesign some curbs on some intersections, and maybe set length/weight restrictions where modifications are not reasonable.
25 meters are also allowed on certain roads in Denmark
Very nice...
Thanks :)
Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands all have a very strong trucker culture. That's essentially why they put so much intricate detail in their trucks.
While Poland, Romania, Croatia etc have their own flavor of trucker culture where they decorate the inside of their trucks mainly while generally keeping the outside of the truck looking rather stock. It's a money issue for the latter named countries.
Paintjobs and a few nice features is really nice and i am all for it. But the moment truckers start putting things in their windscreens or near their A-pillars... Essentially anything that blocks their view or swings around inside the cab, i am very very much against it and would have their truckers license BURNED if i were an authority.
As if Polish/Romanian truckers didn't have enough problems in the Nordic due to winter road conditions, adding a bunch of drapes and stuff in their field of view just makes them a security risk on the roads.
I would like to point out that not all countries allow these modifications. Of course paintjob is ok but more lights, bull bars, light ramps etc. are simply not allowed in many countries. For example here in CZ is by law specified how much of any kind of light you can have on the vehicle and you basicly cannot add more lights on your truck. Its not road legal and you will have problems on the road. And as a ex-owner of trucking company i can say you that you barely make some decent money of that these days so i quit and sell my trucks, its not worth it to modify it.
I see alot of awesome costumized trucks here in netherland too especially on the truckers festival
Most interesting.
Norway allows up to 60tons actully however that is on certain roads and usually is in the 25.25m configuration. The reason as to why only on certain roads is because a lot of infrastructure is either too old or built after old specs thus bridges i.e. might not support that load or even worse rural roads that's just tarmac laid on top of soil without any ground work thus has a hard time trying to cope even at 50 tonnes.
Replaced in 5-7 years? Wow. here in Greece the average truck is over 20 years old, maybe more like 23.
Our trucks in Sweden can be a lot bigger and heavier to than in the rest of Europe, max gross here is 74 tons on some roads, 64 tons of most big roads, not 40-44 tons like in most of EU
The 50t limit in Norway depends on axle configuration. You can't just come with a two axle truck + two axle trailer and have that weight.
It requires 5 axles at least and the tandem on the trailer has to be a certain distance apart. Doing with without a rear tandem on the tractor is pretty much impossible, as the axle load on a single would be to much.
That is true for every country in Europe. Single axel can have a maximum load of 10 tons. And tandem axels can have a single axel load of 9 or 8 ton depending on road quality.
@@matsv201 Several classes of road here at least. 10/50, 10/42, 8/50, 8/40, 8/32 and 6/28.
All national roads are 10/50. Same with primary county roads. There are however 5606km of county roads with 8/50, and most of those are 10/50 in winter time.
I'm guessing the 10t axle limit is the same for for those higher total weight limits in Sweden and Finland? Do you know?
@@Gazer75 we have bk1, 2, 3 and 4.
And bk1 is just normal road. Bk2 is with reduced axel load, bk3 is additional reduction for total load, and bk4 is ironically for 100 ton trucks.
Of cause there is local axel and boggi load as well as total weight restriction. But they just have a special sign for that. That only exist in municipality or privately owned roads. The nation road network is all to bk1 or bk4 standard.
Bk4 was introduced just a few years go, so it's still a bit uncommon
@@matsv201 Ahh so the class name is just a number.
Here its Bk10-50 and if its reduced its BkT8-50, I just didn't include that.
There is also a few roads with Bk10-60, BkT8-60 and Bk10-56 for logging trucks only.
And most of the national and main county roads can also support 12/100 special transport via application.
There is also a dispensation system for mobile cranes with 6 axles and 12/72.
You can be 60 tons in Norway with 25.25 meter with "Modulvogntog" and 11 ton drivetrain axle
Huh i actualy saw that scania you used in the thumbnail yestoday
Nice 😅👍
gotta check on those facts even spain has a length limit of 32 meters now for duo trailers, same in germany, i think b-double configuration was being tested in france as well
there are a good few of these in the Netherlands too.
video idea: open pipe on different trucks, why the drivers put open pipe on their truck,compare the different manufacture's trucks sound, or the rules in different countries etc...
We also have SISU Trucks. ✌🏻
SISU's axels are used in highly modified trucks by Terberg and Ginaf in the Netherlands.
In Denmark it's quite common to come across trucks on the highway that are 25m
Most of this is inaccurate. Most of the modifications made are functional. But company owners also like to take take of their employees. The big Engines are more common in Norway than Sweden or Finland, due to the big ass mountains not even mentioned in this video
0:12 Yes we do have quite a bit of Drug issues in Sweden
Terve, olisi kiva jos tekisit katsauksen Sisu kuormaautoista joka on valmistettu Suomessa. Olen katsellut sinun kanavaa ja pidän siitä. 😊
Here in denmark you can drive a 25m truck on some roads :)
I am a trucker at Alviks Trafik in northern Sweden and will choose to drive Volvo in all respects. Scania in all its glory, but Volvo is the best in every respect
/ Elisabeth
It's not just them we are doing the same thing in Scotland and UK, and Ireland to we have some of the niece's trucks in the whole of Europe and have the trophies to show for it to.
Hats down to all truck drivers. Its not easy work, as a matter of fact its hard work. Sitting for hours driving. Kiddneys and spine are often first to be problematic espeically as you grew older. I am driver myself but i do not drive big trucks, only small delivery vans and spending 8-9h every day in it no matter the fact that you stop, go out, deliver, is not always easy, especially for the back. Its not for everyone to be a truck driver so hats down to all truckers in the world. Its a bloody job.
A couple days ago I started playing Euro Truck Simulator 2. I played with game settings, some make the game more realistic, some make it less. But there were one thing I couldn't fix, and since everything else was great I started to think maybe it's actually accurate: RPM don't match the speed.
I mean, if I'm in god knows which gear, I have about 1000 RPM on my tacho and I'm going about 40 kph. I press accelerator and soon reach 1500 RPM, but my speed is not 60, it's somewhere close to 45-50! There's 12 gears in that Scania transmission, and in each speed depending on conditions I can almost double the revs - and all that happening UNDER 90 kph.
My first and simplest guess was that it's poor simulation. But maybe there's some specific device built in a semi truck transmission that make it slip like a torqe converter or something. Do you know anything about it?
I'm no expert, but you have low and high gears. I have driven trucks, but only in closed off area. I have no truck license. "Low" gears are really slow. This was a long time ago, but even 3rd or 4th gear may only do 15kph unless you rev it as mad.
"Drivers won’t use all the gears all of the time; they’ll ‘block shift’ or skip gears to reduce wear and tear on the gearbox. A truck driver with 12 gears is never going to need first gear unless they are heavily loaded and starting uphill, or they need very fine control for manoeuvring. They then are unlikely to use all remaining 11 gears and certainly not while changing down while slowing to a stop. In a six-speed truck, it’s more normal to start in second gear; in a 12-speed truck, you would start in third or fourth if you are empty and perhaps second or third if you are pulling a load."
4:24 And in Finland, it’s mostly Sisu trucks
Just wondering; why isn't a SISU mentioned? SISU is Finland's truck brand, but not everybody in the Nordic/Scandinavian countries knows the SISU trucks. I haven't seen them in Denmark or even in Sweden.
I actually saw a Sisu in northern Sweden a couple of days ago. The first Sisu i have seen for many years. I guess the reason you don't see Sisu in Sweden is because we have both Volvo and Scania.
like others said its everywhere in europe but mostly in belgium netherlands and those nordic countries. germany has it to. would rather see you redo this vid to include everyone so it can be a correct representation and maybe look at the differences in each country
As a Nordic I’m jealous of some of the American truck builds, makes you want to drive lol
Can we just agree that Sweden builds the best trucks in the world? ☝
And Volvo cars are pretty good too.
Volvo is my favourite Chinese car brand.
@@HrHaakon still being built in Sweden tho
@@kohZeei
there's a j/k there bro. I wasn't being serious.
@@HrHaakon well obviously.. let me know when Norway makes a car brand. J/k
@@kohZeei
It was some decades ago, it was bought out by Ford, so it's american now.
Where do you get these numbers?? For example in Finland the total lenght was 25,25 since stone age,now for few years it has been 34 meters already.Also good luck with cruising with 4,5 m height in Norwegian country roads..
lack of drivers is not there, its just lack of employers who wants to pay as they should :D
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Thanks for sharing
Very horrible... drinking cough syrup too much and throwing the bottles and rubbish everywhere
I’m sorry, I’m not a trucker, but I do live in a EU country, the Netherlands, and we have a LOT of customized trucks as well…
In finland we are testing with 100tonne timber trucks
I didn't knew scania made a 770 engine variant , i trought 730 was the top V8 and volvo had the biggest one with 750