When you know that Swedish trucks are hauling the worlds longest and heaviest road trains on the other side of the planet, it makes you proud to be Swedish
id like to see a link, In Australia we pull 4 trailer road trains on public roads all over the state of QLD and WA so please let me see your Swedish trucks
@@TindogTravels Uhm, Volvo has manufactured 50.000 trucks in Australia since 1972, mostly for the Australian market. To my knowledge, the Volvo FH16 10x6 700hp rated at 175 tonnes is not that uncommon in the Australian outback. Even the Volvo FH16 6x4 is fairly common down under (but maybe not for the longest road trains).
At the time of filming, this truck had the most powerful factory engine in any commercial truck. Volvo was the first to reach the 700hp mark with the FH16 700 in the late 2000s. Then came the Scania R730 with the 730hp, 16.4L V8. Then came the Volvo FH16 750. Now, Scania has the title for the worlds most powerful truck at 770hp and a mind boggling 3700Nm of torque. No other European brand makes engines with over 650hp anymore. Mercedes stops at 625hp, MAN went back to 640 after touching 680hp with the 15.8L V8 in their previous generation. All others are still in the low-high 500hp ranges. Edit: On the wheels, when in crawler gear, this truck has a torque output of 113 742Nm of torque. That's 83 892lb ft. It's not just the engine, but the really low gear ratios of the transmission makes it able to pull insane amount of weight. Edit 2: I also think I recognise the harbor. If I'm not mistaken that's Gate 6 of the Gothenburg Harbor. The big red and blue cranes you cane see in the distance in some of the shots are part of Gate 3 and 4, operated by APM Terminals.
The Volvo 700hp only had the title of worlds strongest truck for a few minutes actually, Scania reveled the 730hp at the same show and stopped Volvo's whole show, Volvo had to take down the banner that said worlds strongest truck during the show to save face and minimize their total PR campaign failure after hyping it up for months, fun times.
I think other brands have (anymore) no ambition in a competition to have the most HP. Above 500 HP is a small segment and less lucrative for the most manufacturers
@@E33Tpro doesnt sound right as Scanias 730hp is less than Volvo 750hp and only few years ago Scania introduced 770hp engine, so Volvo was at least few years with the highest hp.
I feel like USA an EU are like the complete opposite, here trucks have had automatic gearbox for quite a time now but until very recently the large majority of the cars where manual, and for you guys it seems to be the other way around 😅
The explenation for that is pretty simple. In the early age of automatic gearboxes, they needed alot more fuel than a manuels gearbox. Give that fuel is much cheaper in USA the higher consumption, wasnt as big of a problem and they became popular. Today that automatic gearboxes are much more efficent they also become popular in Europe. Trucks in the USA are often owner operators and given the low population density repair shops are far away when you break down they need to be able to fix it them self, that is much more difficult with an automatic gearboxes. In Europe Truck driver are usely employed and repairshops are on every corner and automatic truck gearboxes are more efficent because they are basicly computer controlled manuel gearboxes.
@@seenile6962 pickup truck ? We don’t have a lot of those here, when you buy such a « large car » especially if it has a big engine, you gonna have to pay and extra fee for it, and then they make people buy a SUV wich is polluting just as much and is 10 times less practical 😅
I-shift is a robotized manual gearbox. I have driven that truck model and it's no different from a normal passenger car aside from the driving position and size of the vehicle. Very comfortable. And I was involved in the development of that truck model.
Volvo trucks has made some amazing commercials over the years, Van Dammes epic split for one. What surprises me with this stunt is not that they managed to get it moving but that the hook/connector/whatever you call it could hold the load from at least ten times more than allowed.
Ten times is not really a problem. The safety limits are somewhere near 15x to 20x the allowed amount to be able to withstand some seriously heavy abuse for several years on end. They go through some of the hardest material and construction testing you can imagine.
@@Dan23_7 Yea, the jaws on the 5th wheel are the normal weak point. Although I have seen one trailer that snapped the Kingpin off, flush with the rubbing plate.
@@nicksykes4575 Do you ever watch “mega machines” channel ? They video massive diggers and dozers getting moved around quarries etc. Som of the low loader angles compared to where the cab is makes you wonder how 5th wheel or kingpin stay intact 😂
It sould. What is in sweden and finaland just called a truck. A double articulated 25meter long vihicle is in a lot of countries called a road train. Also worth saying that 30 meter (or 32 meter, quite exactly recall) can be transported with a permanent permit. Standard truck weight was recently expanded to 74tons. The only thing you need for 74 tons is a standard truck-trailer license. And they can go pretty much anywhere with in the country (apart from places with special bans of case). And we do that pretty much on a regular service going into central Stockholm with flatpack concrete buldings. Intresting there is no hight restriction what so ever. If it fit under the under pass its fine. If you have a 10 meter high sailing boat and you map your route out not going under any underpass. No problem. Also over size load can be pulled with no permit or simple permit. This is the most common heavt thing on swedish roads. They are generally not very long. Like 18 meter or so. But can be 4 meter wide and typically they try sqezing it in under 4.8 meter in hight do clear most overpasses. This is a strange thing in sweden. Most heavy manufacturing is inland in smal towns that nobody heard of. The reason is hydro power. Because back in the 18 century prior to both electricity and steam was a thing, they had to build all those stuff right nexto waterfalls. So loads of industry grew up nexto inland waterfalls. Untill 1970 most things was just transported on chanells. Then railroad. But then the stuff grew to big to be transported on railroad. So that is the reason we have loads of huge trucks The timer and ore industry have just followed along.
@@Aquarium-Downunder We sort of don´t use the term in Nordic countries. But the people down on the continent usually call our trucks for road-trains. Of cause, when they go down to Germany they have to split them on two trucks. The thing is that we have mostly double hinged trailers, they are quite a bit longer than the normal single or semi hinged. At least when pulling lumber, the double hinge are exactly double as long as the semis. And semi trucks are quite rare. Most trucks used truck bed with a double hinged trailer, than if its a long truck, there is a semi after the dubble hinged trailer. That would make it 4 lumberstacks long, its the same length as 3 semi trailers.. I did find two videos of nordic trucks that only exist here. Some of them are actually pretty common, some are a bit rarer. ruclips.net/video/wZB-qZj2GBs/видео.html The first one is probobly just a finish thing, have not seen those here. Second one is really about the lifter, but there are loads of trucks there, looks like there are both 2, 3 and 4 stackers. And nowdays there are high and low stacks also. The high stack fit about 30% more. Third one extreem loads. Those are actually fairly common, even at normal roads. Of cause, loads that big is a bit more uncommon. The fourth one is the multi modular container for gravel. Those are just about everywhere. They also commonly have to changer, so they can run 3 shipments with one truck. Its really nice becasue then you can order 3 different fraction and just pay for one transport. Fifth one is a tall 4 stackers. Those are a bit more uncommon. Really just exist in the north, Down here south they usually run mostly 3 stackers. The thing with the 4 stacker is that they can´t run them with a crane on the truck. So they can´t load them self, they have to swich trailers. So they have to drive to a parking lot to swich trailers, that is only a point if they have very far to drive, that is never the case down south. but up north that is pretty common. Our north is very similar to your outback, but we got cold and raindears in steed of warm and kangaroos. The sith one is also really common. But they usually drive around with a trailer behind it to load. When the logs are carried to the saw mill they ground down all the roots and branches to make heat, electricity and fuel of.
@@Aquarium-Downunder There was a other video as well. I think those videos was really good. Showing stuff that is fairly common to us, but uncommon in the rest of the world. ruclips.net/video/aUuYiTApccI/видео.html A other supersize load. Those are very common on some routes, typically between a place that makes stuff and the harbor. And it can be like 100 or 200 km. And typically the last 5-10km is right throw a city. (well, the outskirts) Second one is just a normal road gravler. I guess they wanted Norway here to. Norway have smaller trucks than Sweden and finland. The text is all wrong here. This is road maintenance, not anti slip graveling. The third one is a huge 4 stacker with a crane, those are only legal in Finland, not in Sweden. That truck is probobly 34 or 35 meters long, but only got one trailer. Those trucks as far as i know, only common in Sweden and Finland. And this one is 2 or 3 meters longer than is alowed in Sweden. The fourth one is a ultra large timer truck. This is sort of a cheat. They run it on sort of a farm equipment license. So its excluded from all maximum load limits. They also have a special concrete road bed for it, so its also excluded from the normal maximum axle load. Looks like they are runing almost 20 ton per axel. That is pretty much train loads. The fifth one is a normal snowplow with gravel and/or salt dispenser. There is probobly over a thousand of those. Really common. The last one a dual modular asfallt transporter. Those are a bit trickier than the gravel transporter. The video kind of missed the point of them. It need a second wagon to fully work. Those are also super common. Wouldn´t suprice me if you had those in Australia to. Would work just as well there.
@@matsv201 We have some trucks with 100's of wheels for big loads that need police escourts for things getting mover from point A to mines. The army has trucks with up to 10 wheel drive
Used to drive between east and west of Norway crossing some steep mountain roads five nights a week for four years in a Volvo with I-Shift. Hurricanes, snowstorms and icy steep hills were common, but only once did I have to use the manual override on the transmission. The I-Shift-system is superior when it comes to traction and shifting automatically. Also rarely used chains, because of our way of loading trucks, winter tyres and liftable axles. In the winter, I usually put around 19 tonnes on the two rear axles of the tractor unit, and could lift the rear one to get about 22 tonnes on the driving axle in a pinch. That gives a lot of traction when needed.
Well, you got something called friction as well. Try count how many wheels that truck is pulling. Each wheel is putting out resistance. From what I can count, there are 392 wheels in total on all those semi's (that's not included the truck itself), and that's a lot of rolling resistance which the truck still need to pull.
@@neovo903 duh "inertia is greater" ´cause 750 "is greater" than 188... Still a TRUCK should be a lot stronger than a HUMAN, not just 750/188 = ~4x times.
Scania has the most powerful production truck engine at 730 horsepower, then Volvo overtook them with this 750 horsepower unit Last year Scania came back with its 770 horsepower engine that produces 3700nm (2728,98 pound-force feet) of torque
A company near me has 3 T cab 770’s My bro was saying Scania don’t actually produce the Tcab, it’s a Dutch firm that builds them from the S model. £750.000 each they are. My bro is a truck mechanic and diesel technician, he also drives a Volvo 750 💪🏼💪🏼 for ALB transport near Southport They have a fleet of 750’s and a good old 4 series 580 Scania, manual gearbox of course 😁
Keep in mind: This engine is availble in the U.S. as well and not only in Volvo Trucks. It's also available for marine usage. However, one of the most popular engines in U.S. Trucks is actually a joint venture. As far as i know, while paccar bought DAF in the late 90's, the engineering of the MX-13 engine is still done as a joint venture. The MX-13 engine is used in Peterbilt, Kenworth and DAFs alike. Freightliner and Western Star use Mercedes engines (or rather - Daimler Truck, since last year..) and Volvo Powertrains are in MACK Trucks (for example) So, this isn't just a European exclusive ;) oh and - the FH16 shown in the Video is a special heavy duty version with 325 Tonnes of capacity from the factory. Mercedes calls the Actros Hevy Duty Version "SLT" and it has "ultra hevy duty couplings" capable of up to 1000 Tonnes and up to 8x8 drive (so all axles are driven) - i'm sure Volvo also has such a special version and it's absolutely bonkers
GO figure that there are Volvo powertrains in MACK since Volvo OWNES MACK since they bought Renault Trucks and they in turned owned MACK at the time. ;)
750 hp is not limit on serial production trucks in Europa. Its Scania R 950 SERIAL producto´ions. Of cause it can make tuning and more power ,but transmission not handle more then 1600 hp./ 5000 Nm.
@@toomasargel8503 the engine can easily produce 1150hp continuously, and does so from factory (just a retrofit from the normal engine in the factory) but the cooling of the truck limits it to a continuous max of 770hp, remember that 770hp is made to haul so it’s no good if you can’t use it
@@toomasargel8503 true, but for daily use, we dont usually go above 500 HP. Plenty enough for hauling 40-44 tons which is the maximum allowed weight, atleast in my country, depending on the truck/trailer combination you use. Speedlimit is 80 km/h and trucks are electronically limited to 85-90 km/h so 450-500 HP is kinda the sweetspot.
Volvo trucks are pretty beast mode. Anther difference is Euro trucks tend to have modern interiors. In Australia obviously we use both and the American olschool style are decked out nicely. However i have to admit with my last job we had an new Mercedes that was all modern and it was a really nice change.
Remember my first ride in a Volvo FH 700 I- shift...( first time I-shift) Had loaded a bottom section af a windmill tower... totally 220 tons.. I thought: you will never get out of here... uphill climb to start with.. started up. and what happened? knocked the pedal and engine went to 2000 rpm... 2-3 secs...hysticically... and then we started mowing... and got almost soundless... out of the harbour... hilly climb afterwards... no problem... austrian/german/italian alps no problem...it a beast
Truck driver's wife here. I thought cab-overs were regarded as old hat in the US? Looks like Volvo has converted you back! Amazing trucks, incredible build quality and built-in ROPS to beat anything after-market can offer. Also, according to the husband, some of the comfiest seats around, a bit important if you're doing long days and huge distances.
The last factory long nose truck we had in Europe was the Scania T cab last built in 2005. The newer T cab we see in Europe and Brazil are made in a shop, not by factory
@@Daniel-zv5mi see adan answer. It was years ago the last official T Scania left the factory. The Dutch usually rebuild Scania and Volvo trucks to make them nose.
For a stock factory truck this is really awesome. Imagine how hard it must have been to start such an ammount of weight. But as a railroader i think, yeah 750 hp for 750 tons, normal, 1 hp per ton, go full throttle, let torque converter convert, and wait for the train to get up to speed :D
Actually no. The Volvo I-Shift is an automated manual transmission, its essentially a manual (13+2 crawler gears) with a computer system assisting in selecting the correct gear for any situation.
For me nothing beats a V8 Scania. There are many videos with them doing drive by's. Compare them to other makes and you'll be hooked! Guaranteed 😍😍😍😍😍🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
Hi just a bit of background from here in Ireland/Europe. Volvo really are the pioneer of truck auto trans here in Europe with the iShift. It is ultra reliable, tough and smooth. I personally know loafs of truckers and every last one of them rave about iShift.
It's the same cab size as all Volvo FH cabs, the 16 in the model is irrelevant to the cab size a 500hp Volvo FH has the exact same cab if desired as it can be ordered with a low cab or flat top too for vehicle fuel delivery applications where low forecourt canopies would restrict entry with high cabs. The cab is comparable to Shania Highline formerly Topline, Merc's Mega space or DAF's Super space cabs. All makers have the same engine, gearbox and wheel combinations as ghe top end cabs but with small "squat" cabs (low roof line, flat with top of the doors). Typically though all cabs are the larger cabs unless local or day work use only. Few trucks sold today in the UK (where I know more about), have day cabs (no bed short length cab (front to rear)). The majority are sleeper cabs single bunk, then double bunk then day cab configuration in that order of majority.
Both i-shift and Scanias Opticruise are however no longer sychronized, since the computer and the robotics are so fast, and so accurate that they do not need a syncromesh, so to save on parts and repairs they have removed the syncros in newer models. i think volvo got rid of theirs in the FH3 and scania in the Next Generation
The truck was straight out of the factory, with a full tank of fuel and NO extra modifications to it. That takes balls the size of crash helmets to try and succeed like that.
Magnus placed on podium several times and won the worlds strongest man one year. He is also kind of known for breaking his opponents arm the only year armwrestling was a part of WSM. He had experience of it as opposed to most of his opponents.
Altough this rig seems ridiculous, because it's so long and so many containers, but it is actually not that far off from what this truck has to do in reality. This truck is not your regular semi-truck that is transporting regular goods on the road. This is a heavy hauler, the kind of truck used for special hauls (not american so no idea how to call it in english), super heavy industrial equipment, wind turbines and so on, the kind of hauls where roads have to get blocked for them to fit through. Some of these loads actually get up to 400-500 tonnes Would be fun to look at a video of one such super heavy haul
Automatic gearboxes for truck have advanced in leaps and bounds for heavy vehicles. I remember when they were first coming on the market and the doubts that old-school truckies had about them. I was lucky enough to have a run in an automatic prime mover pulling a B-double from Mackay to Gympie 10 or so years ago. No, I wasn't driving, I was hitch-hiking. But the driver and I had a great yarn about the truck and how good the box was. I'm an ex-truck driver, so we had a good old yarn.
Allison's were the first auto that I remember but now with computers, automated manuals are extremely capable. If a little weird to drive at first. This vid shows the importance of gear ratios.
i love how european car manufacturers present their cars like as if theyre a piece of art with stunnig music and camera work. And here we are in the truck industry putting in final boss fight music portraying their truck as the only thing capable of beating thor
it makes you realize how efficient trains are when it comes to moving huge amounts of cargo, a single locomotive can easily pull a few thousand tonnes at considerable speeds
On another channel, I read about some guy driving one of these in the US (either Volvo or Scania). On the plains, all the US trucks were overtaking his rig that was governed at 92 km/h (~57-58 mph). Then they got to the mountains. His truck was still governed at 92... the others ran out of power to power up the hill and he went past them like they were standing still...
I passed my class 1 licence in 1987 and my lorry had a 6 speed synchro box..... my first job.... a bloke throwing the keys to me for a motor with a 10 speed spicer box, crash box, double de- clutching
Well, in Baalbek Libanon the moved stone blocks around 1000 tonnes in ancient times, there are still stone blocks in the quarry that weight 1600 tonnes! Also the Egyptians moved stone blocks that are insanely heavy over long distances and with bumpy roads and up and down hills, that is just on another level!
I got my trucking licence in a volvo truck. Small (box truck) and then lorry+trailer. Both amazing vehicles, I fell in love with Volvo trucks right then and there. And they look good to, inside and out.
There is a video when Magnus is competing in strongman and he faces of against a bigger dude in armwrestling, magnus ends up snapping the other guys arm
Back in the day you had to pay extra for automatic shift, but from what I understand this has now shifted, and you actually have to pay extra for a manual shift truck here in Norway
@@luketickner5305 no there not, there’s variants busses run a fully automatic transmission like you find in cars, cement trucks run automatics where I am in Australia local bin trucks are automatics…
This particular tractor is clearly made for super-heavy hauling. Moving ~400 tonnes up and down inclines with 2 tractors and passing obstacles. Here in Germany, many long-existing companies making big and heavy things need to transport their products by tiny roads, through tiny villages. Destillery columns, wind-turbine blades, transformers - you name it!! Check super-heavy hauling videos made in Germany!!
I'm a trucker for DHL UK, we drive Volvos, previously I've driven the new gen Scania, would be nice to see the Volvo FH16 750 "rival" Scania V8 S770 going through this same challenge.
I really like your attitude! Always happy, always curious, always open for new things. And always very positive! A fresh and very welcome exception to the usual stuff on YT nowaday!
The record for the longest road train is 1,474.3 m (4,836 ft 11 in) where a single Mack Titan prime mover, driven by John Atkinson (Australia), towed 113 trailers for a distance of approximately 150 m (490 ft) in an event sponsored by Hogs Breath Café, in Clifton, Queensland, Australia on 18 February 2006. This length is the equivalent of 156 London buses!
you need to put a couple asterisks in there buddy: 1) it was done in perfect atmospherical conditions 2) the truck has 3 drive axles 3) the truck was not stock
@@Moribax85 and yet that same truck was used to pull loads on Aystralian rds. Meaning it was legal. No other attempt has come close. And while we're at it Australia holds the record for the longest and heaviest train 7.3km 682 cars 99700 tons
@@nipponsuxs legal doesn't mean stock, what's your point? In the US is legal to travel on public roads with what are basically race cars that have the chassis stock, in Italy you can't put anything on that isn't listed in the vehicle registration, i.e. your registration sais you can have 16'' to 18'' rims, you put 19'' rims on, your car is illegal. The asterisks should be there to denote the fact that one was completely stock, the other wasn't, a out of the factory Mitsubishi Lancer versus an official WRC Mitsubishi Lancer, the classis comparing of oranges to apples.
Nearly a mile, long, could be other imperial stuff like chains (74 chains) But no 113 trailers is translated to 156 london busses to make it more precise.
@@2adamast I know he means the stereotypical double decker buses, but if you consider that TFL also operates bendy buses, which are much longer, it makes even less sense.
truck "automatic" boxes are automated manual. you have a shift control computer that takes a regular transmission that you would traditionally use a stick and clutch pedal to shit cogs. AMT boxes replace the clutch pedal with a computer controlled servo, then have a shift contril unit on the top of the gearbox where the stick normally goes. So when the computer detects the time to change it sends a signal to split the clutch (like you would press the clutch), it then sends a signal to she shift control mechanism to go from first to 3rd (a 12 speed has 6 high and 6 low gears so first to 2nd is 1lo to 1hi - again this is computer controlled) Once it detects the shift has taken place a signal is sent to the clutch to re-engage. this video was done just for the hell of it - and to get one up on Scania!
I drove a cabover, there's plenty of room in the cab. It was a Mitsubishi Fuso 6 cyl, 12 litre diesel, turbo, developed 335kW (320HP) @ 1900 rpm & 1622 lb.ft (2200Nm) @ 1100 rpm through a Road Ranger 13 speed and 6x4. The thing went everywhere effortlessly and I hardly noticed when I had a full load.
Volvo has always been about stability and safety...I remember as a child or teen there was a TV ad by Volvo in which they had an elephant standing on the top of a Volvo station wagon ( only a small Indian elephant🙃) to demonstrate the superior build and stability (Swedish steel !!!)
Hi Ian, In Finland the trucks can be up to 35 meters long, 4,4 meters high, 2,6 meters wide and total weight of 74 ton. on public roads! And the strongest truck at the moment is the 770 hp V8 Scania. You are wellcome to ask any thing abaut europeean trucks! ruclips.net/video/VkTTS0cyRVA/видео.html Film from Power truck show Finland ruclips.net/video/l1-jxTpCtLE/видео.html Greetings from a truck driver in Finland!
I love the I-Shift on my 2022 Volvo FM. It's so quick and smooth and great at choosing the right gears on these steep Norwegian roads. On my old one i often went into manual mode on the hilliest roads. Now i don't feel like i need to.
Thanks bro! The Swedes make great cars and trucks! It was so sad what happened to SAAB! Thanks GM!! Idiots! The legendary Saab 900 turbo alone! I was lucky that my girl friend`s father had one in the early 80s. It was out of this world! So sad! Regards from Finland!
Kitos/ Thx Jari. The 900 Turbo sure was a beast in its own way. Lol i remember a family from south Sweden visited us and Percy, the husband just bought one of these and back then it was very hyped so he went out started it up for a while, then took a cpl of laps around our area to warm it up 😊
Although I was only born in Sweden and have not been there for 50 years, I have always been, and always will be, proud of the technological capabilities,of a nation with a population of only 10 million, to be so significant and a leader, in so many technological fields. Far beyond countries with 10 times more population. A special DNA runs through the Swedes blood. I hope that I also received something from this, from my Swedish half.
There was a truck in Australia that pulled 113 trailers which was 1474.3 metres long or 4836 ft 11 inches and weighed 1300 tonnes or 2866009 pounds for the Americans!
Volvo, Scania, DAF, MAN trucks all awesome. A lot of torque We've a lot of FH16/FH12 Volvo's here in Portugal, they're beasts and they prove it in our mountains also
@@zerique6360 já nem falo dessas que nos últimos anos têm entrado bem, aliás conheço muita gente que mandou as Renault com os porcos e trocou precisamente por Mercedes e Volvo's
For stock truck that's damn impressive. I know in Australia they tune their trucks well into the 1500 - 2000hp range for the massive loads they haul daily, but stock and pulling 750 tones. That's some seriously good engineering.
@@blacksmith2316 doesn´t mean anything without knowing about the actual force needed to overcome friction/rolling resistance. On a level surface, "weight" means nothing when you do NOT have to move it against gravity.
Volvos have always been the "ugly kid", laughed at, whether it's trucks or cars, but they are the unsung heroes that will come to your rescue whenever you least expect it. It's the geeky nerd in glasses, shirt and tie, but if you ever rip the shirt, you will notice the big \S/ under it. I LOOOVE Volvo :)
Most truck manufacturers are phasing manual gearboxes out, a few of them dont do them anymore and its an optional extra on the one's that do as now they come standard with auto gearboxes in Europe.
BTW, the Volvo I-Shift transmission is available in the US for the Volvo VNL (but not that insane 750 horse powerplant). Also, that trailer setup reminds me of a double stack intermodal train, without the well cars...
If you're interested in heavy haulage, look for some videos of power station transformers being transported, ALE transport and Allelys, plenty of vids on RUclips. How they move those around is just epic.
Automated-manuals have been pretty common in European commercial vehicles for about 20 years. I passed [my test] in a manual in 2003, but rarely do I see a manual vehicle. If there is a manual about at work, I'm one of the few drivers in the company licensed to drive it. Over here if you take your test in an auto, you can only drive autos. All that said I wouldn't like to actually use a manual for work. Manuals are rare nowadays, so If I do see one, it's usually an old shed of a vehicle. So while I like a manual gearbox, modern tech is much nicer to live with & nobody wants to sit in a rattly old cab.
I havnt seen a fully manual in decades... a while those manual-automatic hybrids was a thing where the truck had like 4 manual gears then there was a automatic shift up half gear. Go back a bit more (like early 80tys) those half gears was half automatic. That is, you dont neet to clutch but you still had to hit it. There was also some version with 4 split gears. (I never seen those, only heard about them)
To such a degree that they had to allow students to take their test on these "automatics" (in manual mode) because it's hard for the schools to get hold of used trucks with a manual gearbox.
How heavy is the biggest stone at Baalbek? A team of German and Lebanese archeologists just uncovered the largest manmade stone block ever discovered. The block, which was found in a limestone quarry in Baalbek, Lebanon, measures 64 feet by 19.6 feet by 18 feet, Gizmodo reports, and weighs an estimated 1,650 tons. They needed a Volvo to move it....
We quite recently watched this video in class at my truck drivers school here in Sweden, this pull is pretty awesome and it’s 100% true that it happened! The VOLVO I-Shift gearbox is an electro-pneumatic automated single (or as of recently double) clutch gearbox with 12 forward and 4 reverse gears ore, as in this truck, 12 forward and 4 reverse gears +2 crawl gears for a total of 14 forward and 6 reverse gears. I can confirm that this gearbox is pretty awesome and very intelligent and together with I-See, which is a system that takes the topography of the road into account when selecting gears and when using the adaptive cruise control, it can bring some huge fuel savings to a truck.
I currently own a volvo vnm630 here in the USA with a D13 motor and i-shift trans. I went from a freightliner to volvo and haven't looked back since. I just wish they still offer us the D16 motor.
Volvo can also make prime movers go very fast from standing start. The Iron Knight achieved 13.710 seconds over 500 metres with an average speed of 169kph and completed the 1,000 metre run in 21.29 seconds at an average of 131.29kph. That's 0.311 miles in 13.710 second with average speed of 105 mph and 0.621 miles in 21.29 seconds at an average of 81.580 mph.
7:15 Trivia: Trains and trucks have "fail to safety"-setup brakes. If there's a pressure-loss in the system the brakes apply. Their failure-mode is the safe one. Cars do not. If a car loses system pressure, you lose that brake-system.
i drive a volvo daily and nowadays it's all automatic gearboxes.....when you want a manuel transmision you have to pay more then a automatic that's why it's all automatic now, and volvo truck have space enough inside and trucks in europe are compact on the outside, i work in the event branche and i love to see american truck but i'm gladd i drive a volvo here because in know for sure that i can't go at the tight places that i needed to go in a american truck ......even with the volvo i drive it's all about inches and sometimes i need realy all of them when you have to go to an old city centre or a festival but hey there you learn to drive....greetings from the Netherlands
What he said about the most difficult part of it is to start it moving is correct. Basically, tha line of trailers has a lot of inertia while still, and that is what it's keeping it still. Once it starts moving, it's inertia will try to keep it moving. For those people who didn't understand a thing of what I said, that statement is correct because physics.
Dude, I can't imagine the amount of stress that is going on the trail hook, that must be at least 10 times more than maximum capacity. We all talking about engine, transmission, wheels etc, but the real hero of this venture is the hook
Did you know that in almost all of Europe, trucks are limited to 80 KPH (49.8 mph) and trucks over 16.535 lbs, 60 KPH(37 MPH) except on Autobahns, 80 KPH Limit.
One thing that still really confuses me in regards to the American language is why Semi trucks are called that. A big pickup truck which is actually just an oversized car with a glorified bucket on the back is called a full sized truck, but an even larger Lorry with a dedicated container or trailer towing capacity is called a Semi. Keep in mind that the word "semi" means "half" in Latin.
Now I could be wrong in how i am remembering this but here it goes. The name comes the idea (and times) that a truck is both drive unit and load, so when trucks started coming out as a cab and trailer each was considered a semi, or of half of a full truck
Basically what was said above. Semi truck/semi trailers are called that since they dont hold the load on their own body or frame. They are "half a truck" compared to a full body truck.
It is a heavy duty truck, so it is driven on a predetermined route with mandatory stops, most special transport trucks do not have a sleeper berth, in this case the owner has decided to put in a couple of seats to have more people inside of it
@@marco_grt4460 I guess for spotters, guides and other crew if we're talking about wide loads and other heavy loads. I was impressed with the obvious safety features and sport-style seats.
It's a demo truck for volvotrucks, to show customers what they are buying. Normally you only see seats where the bed should be in driving school trucks.
I think the biggest pull I've seen was the Ford F150 Lightning doing a 1,000,000lbs pull. But that was on rail, so friction is like 50x lower. The real vehicles for heavy haulage are ballast tractors, which are often eurotrucks with 40 ton concrete instead of a 5th wheel to massively increase traction. Mammoet demostrate some of their skill on youtube.
It is a super great truck. Expensive tho but they could have gone faster but the "stopping" afterwards is a challenge to (you just can't stop so many tons with just a truck if it was going faster). But yea, Volvo do great machinery/engineering
The truck is amaizing. I have a volvo car and I love it. But don't you think, that here is more involved physics? As an ex-engine driver, I can assure you, that a locomotiw 110t, 2100 hp, can easily pull a 2000 t train. In America and Australia, even in Russia you have trains of 8,9, 10 000 tones. I think it is amaising and good add, but add.
Ian if you look on you tube just came on titled transponder Bathurst trucks no cars 2022 on candid tourist site It's the transporters going through Bathurst in on for the race this week end on the 9th If your interested nice rigs Cheers mate
When you know that Swedish trucks are hauling the worlds longest and heaviest road trains on the other side of the planet, it makes you proud to be Swedish
I didn't know that. I Australien?
Not quite the longest, but close 😉
id like to see a link, In Australia we pull 4 trailer road trains on public roads all over the state of QLD and WA so please let me see your Swedish trucks
@@TindogTravels but as far as I've understood the truck itself is a Volvo, at least sometimes
@@TindogTravels Uhm, Volvo has manufactured 50.000 trucks in Australia since 1972, mostly for the Australian market.
To my knowledge, the Volvo FH16 10x6 700hp rated at 175 tonnes is not that uncommon in the Australian outback.
Even the Volvo FH16 6x4 is fairly common down under (but maybe not for the longest road trains).
At the time of filming, this truck had the most powerful factory engine in any commercial truck. Volvo was the first to reach the 700hp mark with the FH16 700 in the late 2000s. Then came the Scania R730 with the 730hp, 16.4L V8. Then came the Volvo FH16 750. Now, Scania has the title for the worlds most powerful truck at 770hp and a mind boggling 3700Nm of torque. No other European brand makes engines with over 650hp anymore. Mercedes stops at 625hp, MAN went back to 640 after touching 680hp with the 15.8L V8 in their previous generation. All others are still in the low-high 500hp ranges.
Edit: On the wheels, when in crawler gear, this truck has a torque output of 113 742Nm of torque. That's 83 892lb ft. It's not just the engine, but the really low gear ratios of the transmission makes it able to pull insane amount of weight.
Edit 2: I also think I recognise the harbor. If I'm not mistaken that's Gate 6 of the Gothenburg Harbor. The big red and blue cranes you cane see in the distance in some of the shots are part of Gate 3 and 4, operated by APM Terminals.
The Volvo 700hp only had the title of worlds strongest truck for a few minutes actually, Scania reveled the 730hp at the same show and stopped Volvo's whole show, Volvo had to take down the banner that said worlds strongest truck during the show to save face and minimize their total PR campaign failure after hyping it up for months, fun times.
@@E33Tpro shiat happends, kippis perkele :D
I think other brands have (anymore) no ambition in a competition to have the most HP. Above 500 HP is a small segment and less lucrative for the most manufacturers
@@E33Tpro doesnt sound right as Scanias 730hp is less than Volvo 750hp and only few years ago Scania introduced 770hp engine, so Volvo was at least few years with the highest hp.
@@crocket1971 yes, the strongest trucks are mostly beneficial for mountainous areas and heavy loads.
I feel like USA an EU are like the complete opposite, here trucks have had automatic gearbox for quite a time now but until very recently the large majority of the cars where manual, and for you guys it seems to be the other way around 😅
The explenation for that is pretty simple.
In the early age of automatic gearboxes, they needed alot more fuel than a manuels gearbox.
Give that fuel is much cheaper in USA the higher consumption, wasnt as big of a problem and they became popular.
Today that automatic gearboxes are much more efficent they also become popular in Europe.
Trucks in the USA are often owner operators and given the low population density repair shops are far away when you break down they need to be able to fix it them self, that is much more difficult with an automatic gearboxes.
In Europe Truck driver are usely employed and repairshops are on every corner and automatic truck gearboxes are more efficent because they are basicly computer controlled manuel gearboxes.
Euro trucks gearboxes aren't true automatics. They're still manual but a computer does the shifting.
@@jonasstahl9826 yeah manuals are way easier to maintain and fix you can just go to a junkyard buy a gearbox and here you go
Because...RTL020918 Road Ranger boxes are the bosssof the roaod lol..plus cheap n economical to repair.
@@seenile6962 pickup truck ? We don’t have a lot of those here, when you buy such a « large car » especially if it has a big engine, you gonna have to pay and extra fee for it, and then they make people buy a SUV wich is polluting just as much and is 10 times less practical 😅
I-shift is a robotized manual gearbox. I have driven that truck model and it's no different from a normal passenger car aside from the driving position and size of the vehicle. Very comfortable.
And I was involved in the development of that truck model.
Volvo trucks has made some amazing commercials over the years, Van Dammes epic split for one. What surprises me with this stunt is not that they managed to get it moving but that the hook/connector/whatever you call it could hold the load from at least ten times more than allowed.
Ten times is not really a problem. The safety limits are somewhere near 15x to 20x the allowed amount to be able to withstand some seriously heavy abuse for several years on end. They go through some of the hardest material and construction testing you can imagine.
@@gundalfthelost1624 Aha didnt know that, it just seems like a lot of strain on something as small as that!
@Solar Plexus Not forgetting the 5th wheel what the kingpin latches into
@@Dan23_7 Yea, the jaws on the 5th wheel are the normal weak point. Although I have seen one trailer that snapped the Kingpin off, flush with the rubbing plate.
@@nicksykes4575 Do you ever watch “mega machines” channel ?
They video massive diggers and dozers getting moved around quarries etc.
Som of the low loader angles compared to where the cab is makes you wonder how 5th wheel or kingpin stay intact 😂
This is a record that Volvo Truck dealers can show when selling trucks in Australia. Yes it will work as a roadtrain.
It sould. What is in sweden and finaland just called a truck. A double articulated 25meter long vihicle is in a lot of countries called a road train.
Also worth saying that 30 meter (or 32 meter, quite exactly recall) can be transported with a permanent permit.
Standard truck weight was recently expanded to 74tons. The only thing you need for 74 tons is a standard truck-trailer license. And they can go pretty much anywhere with in the country (apart from places with special bans of case).
And we do that pretty much on a regular service going into central Stockholm with flatpack concrete buldings.
Intresting there is no hight restriction what so ever. If it fit under the under pass its fine. If you have a 10 meter high sailing boat and you map your route out not going under any underpass. No problem.
Also over size load can be pulled with no permit or simple permit. This is the most common heavt thing on swedish roads. They are generally not very long. Like 18 meter or so. But can be 4 meter wide and typically they try sqezing it in under 4.8 meter in hight do clear most overpasses.
This is a strange thing in sweden. Most heavy manufacturing is inland in smal towns that nobody heard of.
The reason is hydro power. Because back in the 18 century prior to both electricity and steam was a thing, they had to build all those stuff right nexto waterfalls. So loads of industry grew up nexto inland waterfalls.
Untill 1970 most things was just transported on chanells. Then railroad. But then the stuff grew to big to be transported on railroad. So that is the reason we have loads of huge trucks
The timer and ore industry have just followed along.
@@matsv201 It must be a truck with no less than 3 trailers to be a roadtrain in Australia, 3 to 10 trailers are norma for roadtrains.
@@Aquarium-Downunder We sort of don´t use the term in Nordic countries. But the people down on the continent usually call our trucks for road-trains. Of cause, when they go down to Germany they have to split them on two trucks.
The thing is that we have mostly double hinged trailers, they are quite a bit longer than the normal single or semi hinged. At least when pulling lumber, the double hinge are exactly double as long as the semis.
And semi trucks are quite rare. Most trucks used truck bed with a double hinged trailer, than if its a long truck, there is a semi after the dubble hinged trailer. That would make it 4 lumberstacks long, its the same length as 3 semi trailers..
I did find two videos of nordic trucks that only exist here. Some of them are actually pretty common, some are a bit rarer.
ruclips.net/video/wZB-qZj2GBs/видео.html
The first one is probobly just a finish thing, have not seen those here.
Second one is really about the lifter, but there are loads of trucks there, looks like there are both 2, 3 and 4 stackers. And nowdays there are high and low stacks also. The high stack fit about 30% more.
Third one extreem loads. Those are actually fairly common, even at normal roads. Of cause, loads that big is a bit more uncommon.
The fourth one is the multi modular container for gravel. Those are just about everywhere. They also commonly have to changer, so they can run 3 shipments with one truck. Its really nice becasue then you can order 3 different fraction and just pay for one transport.
Fifth one is a tall 4 stackers. Those are a bit more uncommon. Really just exist in the north, Down here south they usually run mostly 3 stackers. The thing with the 4 stacker is that they can´t run them with a crane on the truck. So they can´t load them self, they have to swich trailers. So they have to drive to a parking lot to swich trailers, that is only a point if they have very far to drive, that is never the case down south. but up north that is pretty common. Our north is very similar to your outback, but we got cold and raindears in steed of warm and kangaroos.
The sith one is also really common. But they usually drive around with a trailer behind it to load. When the logs are carried to the saw mill they ground down all the roots and branches to make heat, electricity and fuel of.
@@Aquarium-Downunder
There was a other video as well. I think those videos was really good. Showing stuff that is fairly common to us, but uncommon in the rest of the world.
ruclips.net/video/aUuYiTApccI/видео.html
A other supersize load. Those are very common on some routes, typically between a place that makes stuff and the harbor. And it can be like 100 or 200 km. And typically the last 5-10km is right throw a city. (well, the outskirts)
Second one is just a normal road gravler. I guess they wanted Norway here to. Norway have smaller trucks than Sweden and finland. The text is all wrong here. This is road maintenance, not anti slip graveling.
The third one is a huge 4 stacker with a crane, those are only legal in Finland, not in Sweden. That truck is probobly 34 or 35 meters long, but only got one trailer. Those trucks as far as i know, only common in Sweden and Finland. And this one is 2 or 3 meters longer than is alowed in Sweden.
The fourth one is a ultra large timer truck. This is sort of a cheat. They run it on sort of a farm equipment license. So its excluded from all maximum load limits. They also have a special concrete road bed for it, so its also excluded from the normal maximum axle load. Looks like they are runing almost 20 ton per axel. That is pretty much train loads.
The fifth one is a normal snowplow with gravel and/or salt dispenser. There is probobly over a thousand of those. Really common.
The last one a dual modular asfallt transporter. Those are a bit trickier than the gravel transporter. The video kind of missed the point of them. It need a second wagon to fully work. Those are also super common. Wouldn´t suprice me if you had those in Australia to. Would work just as well there.
@@matsv201 We have some trucks with 100's of wheels for big loads that need police escourts for things getting mover from point A to mines.
The army has trucks with up to 10 wheel drive
I used to work at Volvo Trucks Brazil and I tell you: these trucks are real beasts when you put them to the test. Awesome engineering and reliability.
Used to drive between east and west of Norway crossing some steep mountain roads five nights a week for four years in a Volvo with I-Shift. Hurricanes, snowstorms and icy steep hills were common, but only once did I have to use the manual override on the transmission. The I-Shift-system is superior when it comes to traction and shifting automatically. Also rarely used chains, because of our way of loading trucks, winter tyres and liftable axles. In the winter, I usually put around 19 tonnes on the two rear axles of the tractor unit, and could lift the rear one to get about 22 tonnes on the driving axle in a pinch. That gives a lot of traction when needed.
The hardest thing is getting past the inertia. Once he's moving, on a flat surface like that, it doesn't need anywhere as much grunt to keep it going.
Well, you got something called friction as well. Try count how many wheels that truck is pulling. Each wheel is putting out resistance.
From what I can count, there are 392 wheels in total on all those semi's (that's not included the truck itself), and that's a lot of rolling resistance which the truck still need to pull.
I love the comments on Volvo and Scania pecking each other's head like lives depend on it. Both brands from Sweden or at least originally from Sweden.
although just for demonstration and for a short distance, that's still impressive and shows how it can put the power onto the street
And really impressed with the VBG coupler and kingpin holding all that!
if you consider that a man has pulled a 188 t plane, whats impressive about a truck pulling 750 t?
And also how easy it is that even someone with no experience can use it
@@gshaindrich resistance and inertia is greater with the 750 ton trailers
@@neovo903 duh "inertia is greater" ´cause 750 "is greater" than 188... Still a TRUCK should be a lot stronger than a HUMAN, not just 750/188 = ~4x times.
2min into the video I'm already saying "good luck getting enough air to the trailers!" 🤣
Scania has the most powerful production truck engine at 730 horsepower, then Volvo overtook them with this 750 horsepower unit
Last year Scania came back with its 770 horsepower engine that produces 3700nm (2728,98 pound-force feet) of torque
And they are both swedish :)
A company near me has 3 T cab 770’s
My bro was saying Scania don’t actually produce the Tcab, it’s a Dutch firm that builds them from the S model.
£750.000 each they are.
My bro is a truck mechanic and diesel technician, he also drives a Volvo 750 💪🏼💪🏼 for ALB transport near Southport
They have a fleet of 750’s and a good old 4 series 580 Scania, manual gearbox of course 😁
Just wait till Volvo makes A 800 hp engine.
And one of them 770 have taken a round tour of the US. ruclips.net/video/HzMyfI1gp7E/видео.html&ab_channel=ScaniaDanmark
Fun fact tho, Volvo gets 750HP out of a straight 6, Scania still needs a V8 to get that....
Keep in mind: This engine is availble in the U.S. as well and not only in Volvo Trucks. It's also available for marine usage. However, one of the most popular engines in U.S. Trucks is actually a joint venture. As far as i know, while paccar bought DAF in the late 90's, the engineering of the MX-13 engine is still done as a joint venture. The MX-13 engine is used in Peterbilt, Kenworth and DAFs alike. Freightliner and Western Star use Mercedes engines (or rather - Daimler Truck, since last year..) and Volvo Powertrains are in MACK Trucks (for example)
So, this isn't just a European exclusive ;)
oh and - the FH16 shown in the Video is a special heavy duty version with 325 Tonnes of capacity from the factory. Mercedes calls the Actros Hevy Duty Version "SLT" and it has "ultra hevy duty couplings" capable of up to 1000 Tonnes and up to 8x8 drive (so all axles are driven) - i'm sure Volvo also has such a special version and it's absolutely bonkers
GO figure that there are Volvo powertrains in MACK since Volvo OWNES MACK since they bought Renault Trucks and they in turned owned MACK at the time. ;)
Is it available in VNL?
@@dbclass4075No. The VNL only get's the D13, not the D16.
Coverting to US units that's: 750 horsepower truck, 826 short tons, 984 feet un lenght. Pure awesomeness.
750 hp is not limit on serial production trucks in Europa. Its Scania R 950 SERIAL producto´ions. Of cause it can make tuning and more power ,but transmission not handle more then 1600 hp./ 5000 Nm.
@@toomasargel8503 the 950 is not a mass produced engine. Scanias flagship V8 is the 770hp model, with around 3700nm of torque
@@toomasargel8503 the engine can easily produce 1150hp continuously, and does so from factory (just a retrofit from the normal engine in the factory) but the cooling of the truck limits it to a continuous max of 770hp, remember that 770hp is made to haul so it’s no good if you can’t use it
@@kalle5548 On tractor pull they use even MI8 jet enignes
@@toomasargel8503 true, but for daily use, we dont usually go above 500 HP. Plenty enough for hauling 40-44 tons which is the maximum allowed weight, atleast in my country, depending on the truck/trailer combination you use. Speedlimit is 80 km/h and trucks are electronically limited to 85-90 km/h so 450-500 HP is kinda the sweetspot.
Volvo trucks are pretty beast mode. Anther difference is Euro trucks tend to have modern interiors. In Australia obviously we use both and the American olschool style are decked out nicely. However i have to admit with my last job we had an new Mercedes that was all modern and it was a really nice change.
One that nice interior gets trough the more rural parts of the country.. the shine might fade rather quickly I guess..
On the big port terminals you can see trucks pull four trailers dubble stacked all the time. So there are some powerful machines driving around.
Remember my first ride in a Volvo FH 700 I- shift...( first time I-shift) Had loaded a bottom section af a windmill tower... totally 220 tons.. I thought: you will never get out of here... uphill climb to start with.. started up. and what happened? knocked the pedal and engine went to 2000 rpm... 2-3 secs...hysticically... and then we started mowing... and got almost soundless... out of the harbour... hilly climb afterwards... no problem... austrian/german/italian alps no problem...it a beast
Truck driver's wife here. I thought cab-overs were regarded as old hat in the US? Looks like Volvo has converted you back! Amazing trucks, incredible build quality and built-in ROPS to beat anything after-market can offer. Also, according to the husband, some of the comfiest seats around, a bit important if you're doing long days and huge distances.
In Europe it is the only thing selling. The only truck with hood I have driven was a 1970 Volvo when I was in school.
@@magnusE7 not only. Scania is building an Truck, the Scania T. but i dont know where u can buy it.
The last factory long nose truck we had in Europe was the Scania T cab last built in 2005.
The newer T cab we see in Europe and Brazil are made in a shop, not by factory
@@Daniel-zv5mi see adan answer. It was years ago the last official T Scania left the factory. The Dutch usually rebuild Scania and Volvo trucks to make them nose.
@@magnusE7 It's restrictions that are to blame for cabover sales. Otherwise, I doubt people would want them.
Added to the challenge is the fact that it is a SERIAL PRODUCTION TRUCK! It’s not a supercharged one of a kind vehicle!
For a stock factory truck this is really awesome. Imagine how hard it must have been to start such an ammount of weight.
But as a railroader i think, yeah 750 hp for 750 tons, normal, 1 hp per ton, go full throttle, let torque converter convert, and wait for the train to get up to speed :D
This thing has a clutch though, I hope crawler gears were big enough to let it engage fully and not slip all the way xD
@@seban678 its not quite a normal clutch, is a special coverting one that can be used as both converter and clutch.
Actually no. The Volvo I-Shift is an automated manual transmission, its essentially a manual (13+2 crawler gears) with a computer system assisting in selecting the correct gear for any situation.
@@matsv201 no single plate clutch ultra low gear
(10 year's of driving haulage FH 16 700-
FH 16 750)
isn´t it actually pretty lame, if you consider that a man has pulled a 188 t plane...
For me nothing beats a V8 Scania. There are many videos with them doing drive by's. Compare them to other makes and you'll be hooked! Guaranteed 😍😍😍😍😍🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
Hi just a bit of background from here in Ireland/Europe. Volvo really are the pioneer of truck auto trans here in Europe with the iShift. It is ultra reliable, tough and smooth. I personally know loafs of truckers and every last one of them rave about iShift.
the cabin doesnt look small because that is the Globetrotter cab of the FH16(the biggest cab for that truck) which is made for long haul
It's the same cab size as all Volvo FH cabs, the 16 in the model is irrelevant to the cab size a 500hp Volvo FH has the exact same cab if desired as it can be ordered with a low cab or flat top too for vehicle fuel delivery applications where low forecourt canopies would restrict entry with high cabs.
The cab is comparable to Shania Highline formerly Topline, Merc's Mega space or DAF's Super space cabs. All makers have the same engine, gearbox and wheel combinations as ghe top end cabs but with small "squat" cabs (low roof line, flat with top of the doors). Typically though all cabs are the larger cabs unless local or day work use only.
Few trucks sold today in the UK (where I know more about), have day cabs (no bed short length cab (front to rear)). The majority are sleeper cabs single bunk, then double bunk then day cab configuration in that order of majority.
the Australian market has an even bigger cab available.
@@phalanx3803 Yes, the Globetrotter XXL. Something like that (not sure if the same) is available in Europe, too.
Swedish trucks have been equipped with automatic gearboxes for at least 25 years. Synchronized gearboxes since at least 60 years ago.
Both i-shift and Scanias Opticruise are however no longer sychronized, since the computer and the robotics are so fast, and so accurate that they do not need a syncromesh, so to save on parts and repairs they have removed the syncros in newer models. i think volvo got rid of theirs in the FH3 and scania in the Next Generation
That Strongman Guy is a VERY LARGE UNIT . He has to weigh 300 kg , all Muscle . He seems like a Nice Bloke too .
150kg.
The truck was straight out of the factory, with a full tank of fuel and NO extra modifications to it. That takes balls the size of crash helmets to try and succeed like that.
Magnus placed on podium several times and won the worlds strongest man one year. He is also kind of known for breaking his opponents arm the only year armwrestling was a part of WSM. He had experience of it as opposed to most of his opponents.
Altough this rig seems ridiculous, because it's so long and so many containers, but it is actually not that far off from what this truck has to do in reality. This truck is not your regular semi-truck that is transporting regular goods on the road. This is a heavy hauler, the kind of truck used for special hauls (not american so no idea how to call it in english), super heavy industrial equipment, wind turbines and so on, the kind of hauls where roads have to get blocked for them to fit through. Some of these loads actually get up to 400-500 tonnes
Would be fun to look at a video of one such super heavy haul
Automatic gearboxes for truck have advanced in leaps and bounds for heavy vehicles. I remember when they were first coming on the market and the doubts that old-school truckies had about them. I was lucky enough to have a run in an automatic prime mover pulling a B-double from Mackay to Gympie 10 or so years ago. No, I wasn't driving, I was hitch-hiking. But the driver and I had a great yarn about the truck and how good the box was. I'm an ex-truck driver, so we had a good old yarn.
Allison's were the first auto that I remember but now with computers, automated manuals are extremely capable. If a little weird to drive at first. This vid shows the importance of gear ratios.
Scania had automatic gearboxes in some of their military and civilian 4x4 and 6x6 trucks. And that was some 40-45 years ago. Worked very well on them.
@@secularnevrosis I had to look them up, but they were Allison's.
In the trucks anyway.
@@tropicsalt. Aha. Thnx! I only knew they were automatic gearboxes :)
i love how european car manufacturers present their cars like as if theyre a piece of art with stunnig music and camera work. And here we are in the truck industry putting in final boss fight music portraying their truck as the only thing capable of beating thor
WOW that would pull the bend out of a river.
🇦🇺👍
That's the most Aussie thing I've heard today! Love it.
That's 826.733 Tons or 1,653,467 Libra for our USA friends.
it makes you realize how efficient trains are when it comes to moving huge amounts of cargo, a single locomotive can easily pull a few thousand tonnes at considerable speeds
1:45 Bro, that's not a truck. That's a god damn train 😁
On another channel, I read about some guy driving one of these in the US (either Volvo or Scania). On the plains, all the US trucks were overtaking his rig that was governed at 92 km/h (~57-58 mph). Then they got to the mountains. His truck was still governed at 92... the others ran out of power to power up the hill and he went past them like they were standing still...
Max Hunt. a danish guy, living in Sweden driving Scania S770
I passed my class 1 licence in 1987 and my lorry had a 6 speed synchro box..... my first job.... a bloke throwing the keys to me for a motor with a 10 speed spicer box, crash box, double de- clutching
Well, in Baalbek Libanon the moved stone blocks around 1000 tonnes in ancient times, there are still stone blocks in the quarry that weight 1600 tonnes!
Also the Egyptians moved stone blocks that are insanely heavy over long distances and with bumpy roads and up and down hills, that is just on another level!
I got my trucking licence in a volvo truck. Small (box truck) and then lorry+trailer. Both amazing vehicles, I fell in love with Volvo trucks right then and there. And they look good to, inside and out.
There is a video when Magnus is competing in strongman and he faces of against a bigger dude in armwrestling, magnus ends up snapping the other guys arm
Back in the day you had to pay extra for automatic shift, but from what I understand this has now shifted, and you actually have to pay extra for a manual shift truck here in Norway
yes, it's everywhere in Europe.
The manual gearbox is now phased out = serial production has ended. Still available as a aftermarket gearbox though (from France instead of Sweden). 🙂
The regular I-shift is an automated manual, they also make a dual clutch variant of it
All auto truck gearboxes are automated manuals
@@luketickner5305 no there not, there’s variants busses run a fully automatic transmission like you find in cars, cement trucks run automatics where I am in Australia local bin trucks are automatics…
@@schtix392 thank you
This particular tractor is clearly made for super-heavy hauling. Moving ~400 tonnes up and down inclines with 2 tractors and passing obstacles.
Here in Germany, many long-existing companies making big and heavy things need to transport their products by tiny roads, through tiny villages.
Destillery columns, wind-turbine blades, transformers - you name it!!
Check super-heavy hauling videos made in Germany!!
amazing Volvo single production Truck!
i loved it how you beginns to smile! i smiled too because of technic 😅
I'm a trucker for DHL UK, we drive Volvos, previously I've driven the new gen Scania, would be nice to see the Volvo FH16 750 "rival" Scania V8 S770 going through this same challenge.
I really like your attitude! Always happy, always curious, always open for new things. And always very positive! A fresh and very welcome exception to the usual stuff on YT nowaday!
The record for the longest road train is 1,474.3 m (4,836 ft 11 in) where a single Mack Titan prime mover, driven by John Atkinson (Australia), towed 113 trailers for a distance of approximately 150 m (490 ft) in an event sponsored by Hogs Breath Café, in Clifton, Queensland, Australia on 18 February 2006. This length is the equivalent of 156 London buses!
you need to put a couple asterisks in there buddy:
1) it was done in perfect atmospherical conditions
2) the truck has 3 drive axles
3) the truck was not stock
@@Moribax85 and yet that same truck was used to pull loads on Aystralian rds. Meaning it was legal. No other attempt has come close.
And while we're at it Australia holds the record for the longest and heaviest train 7.3km 682 cars 99700 tons
@@nipponsuxs legal doesn't mean stock, what's your point? In the US is legal to travel on public roads with what are basically race cars that have the chassis stock, in Italy you can't put anything on that isn't listed in the vehicle registration, i.e. your registration sais you can have 16'' to 18'' rims, you put 19'' rims on, your car is illegal.
The asterisks should be there to denote the fact that one was completely stock, the other wasn't, a out of the factory Mitsubishi Lancer versus an official WRC Mitsubishi Lancer, the classis comparing of oranges to apples.
Nearly a mile, long, could be other imperial stuff like chains (74 chains) But no 113 trailers is translated to 156 london busses to make it more precise.
@@2adamast I know he means the stereotypical double decker buses, but if you consider that TFL also operates bendy buses, which are much longer, it makes even less sense.
Volvo is my friends favorite to drive when it comes to trucks, she even has a tattoo that says Volvo, she thinks is the best one in so many aspects.
truck "automatic" boxes are automated manual. you have a shift control computer that takes a regular transmission that you would traditionally use a stick and clutch pedal to shit cogs. AMT boxes replace the clutch pedal with a computer controlled servo, then have a shift contril unit on the top of the gearbox where the stick normally goes. So when the computer detects the time to change it sends a signal to split the clutch (like you would press the clutch), it then sends a signal to she shift control mechanism to go from first to 3rd (a 12 speed has 6 high and 6 low gears so first to 2nd is 1lo to 1hi - again this is computer controlled) Once it detects the shift has taken place a signal is sent to the clutch to re-engage.
this video was done just for the hell of it - and to get one up on Scania!
I drove a cabover, there's plenty of room in the cab. It was a Mitsubishi Fuso 6 cyl, 12 litre diesel, turbo, developed 335kW (320HP) @ 1900 rpm & 1622 lb.ft (2200Nm) @ 1100 rpm through a Road Ranger 13 speed and 6x4. The thing went everywhere effortlessly and I hardly noticed when I had a full load.
At least one number is wrong. 335 kW are not 320 hp.
@@doenermitallem you’re right. It’s meant to be 235kW
Volvo has always been about stability and safety...I remember as a child or teen there was a TV ad by Volvo in which they had an elephant standing on the top of a Volvo station wagon ( only a small Indian elephant🙃) to demonstrate the superior build and stability (Swedish steel !!!)
Hi Ian, In Finland the trucks can be up to 35 meters long, 4,4 meters high, 2,6 meters wide and total weight of 74 ton. on public roads! And the strongest truck at the moment is the 770 hp V8 Scania. You are wellcome to ask any thing abaut europeean trucks! ruclips.net/video/VkTTS0cyRVA/видео.html
Film from Power truck show Finland ruclips.net/video/l1-jxTpCtLE/видео.html
Greetings from a truck driver in Finland!
Scania 770 dump truck ruclips.net/video/MXv-4NPJYns/видео.html
Automated manuals are around 20 years old here in Europe.
I love the I-Shift on my 2022 Volvo FM. It's so quick and smooth and great at choosing the right gears on these steep Norwegian roads.
On my old one i often went into manual mode on the hilliest roads. Now i don't feel like i need to.
Samuelson broke Nathan Jones arm in an arm wrestling competition once ...
Thanks bro! The Swedes make great cars and trucks! It was so sad what happened to SAAB! Thanks GM!! Idiots! The legendary Saab 900 turbo alone! I was lucky that my girl friend`s father had one in the early 80s. It was out of this world! So sad! Regards from Finland!
Kitos/ Thx Jari. The 900 Turbo sure was a beast in its own way.
Lol i remember a family from south Sweden visited us and Percy, the husband
just bought one of these and back then it was very hyped so he went out started it up for a while, then took a cpl of laps around our area to warm it up 😊
Yeah it would have been nice if Saab had kept Saab (that felt like weird sentence) but I don't think that would of worked well.
The Volvo trucks here in Australia are made in Brisbane. I saw a story about the Wacol factory this morning on the Today Show...
Although I was only born in Sweden and have not been there for 50 years, I have always been, and always will be, proud of the technological capabilities,of a nation with a population of only 10 million, to be so significant and a leader, in so many technological fields. Far beyond countries with 10 times more population.
A special DNA runs through the Swedes blood. I hope that I also received something from this, from my Swedish half.
There was a truck in Australia that pulled 113 trailers which was 1474.3 metres long or 4836 ft 11 inches and weighed 1300 tonnes or 2866009 pounds for the Americans!
the strongest, the toughest
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pound for pound ^^
Volvo, Scania, DAF, MAN trucks all awesome. A lot of torque
We've a lot of FH16/FH12 Volvo's here in Portugal, they're beasts and they prove it in our mountains also
my company runs a all DAF line, i think partially due to me being in the Netherlands and DAF being cheaper here because of that
Sérgio, não esqueças a Mercedes. Eu conduzo a ultima geração, com câmeras em substituição dos retrovisores. Isto é um avião!
@@zerique6360 já nem falo dessas que nos últimos anos têm entrado bem, aliás conheço muita gente que mandou as Renault com os porcos e trocou precisamente por Mercedes e Volvo's
Here in Europe most trucks are automatic you can get a manual gearbox but it's an option you pay extra for it
For stock truck that's damn impressive. I know in Australia they tune their trucks well into the 1500 - 2000hp range for the massive loads they haul daily, but stock and pulling 750 tones. That's some seriously good engineering.
if you consider that a man has pulled a 188 t plane, whats impressive about a truck pulling 750 t?
@@gshaindrich the weight that it's hauling...
yea mostly heavy tuned scanias on th enegine you see in europ is mostly tuned in greece they puut also some crazy numbers out
@@blacksmith2316 doesn´t mean anything without knowing about the actual force needed to overcome friction/rolling resistance. On a level surface, "weight" means nothing when you do NOT have to move it against gravity.
Volvos have always been the "ugly kid", laughed at, whether it's trucks or cars, but they are the unsung heroes that will come to your rescue whenever you least expect it. It's the geeky nerd in glasses, shirt and tie, but if you ever rip the shirt, you will notice the big \S/ under it. I LOOOVE Volvo :)
Guys, this video is 100% genuine.
Most truck manufacturers are phasing manual gearboxes out, a few of them dont do them anymore and its an optional extra on the one's that do as now they come standard with auto gearboxes in Europe.
3500 nm! Only a automatic gearbox can handle it!
BTW, the Volvo I-Shift transmission is available in the US for the Volvo VNL (but not that insane 750 horse powerplant).
Also, that trailer setup reminds me of a double stack intermodal train, without the well cars...
If you're interested in heavy haulage, look for some videos of power station transformers being transported, ALE transport and Allelys, plenty of vids on RUclips.
How they move those around is just epic.
with 750 tons, you won't notice that it's slippery.
I-shit is great to work with.
Nice to see your reactions'
Automated-manuals have been pretty common in European commercial vehicles for about 20 years.
I passed [my test] in a manual in 2003, but rarely do I see a manual vehicle. If there is a manual about at work, I'm one of the few drivers in the company licensed to drive it. Over here if you take your test in an auto, you can only drive autos.
All that said I wouldn't like to actually use a manual for work. Manuals are rare nowadays, so If I do see one, it's usually an old shed of a vehicle. So while I like a manual gearbox, modern tech is much nicer to live with & nobody wants to sit in a rattly old cab.
in the Netherlands there are manual trucks but those are mostly older, my company has 2 i believe and both are DAF CF 85s
I havnt seen a fully manual in decades... a while those manual-automatic hybrids was a thing where the truck had like 4 manual gears then there was a automatic shift up half gear. Go back a bit more (like early 80tys) those half gears was half automatic. That is, you dont neet to clutch but you still had to hit it.
There was also some version with 4 split gears. (I never seen those, only heard about them)
To such a degree that they had to allow students to take their test on these "automatics" (in manual mode) because it's hard for the schools to get hold of used trucks with a manual gearbox.
How heavy is the biggest stone at Baalbek?
A team of German and Lebanese archeologists just uncovered the largest manmade stone block ever discovered. The block, which was found in a limestone quarry in Baalbek, Lebanon, measures 64 feet by 19.6 feet by 18 feet, Gizmodo reports, and weighs an estimated 1,650 tons.
They needed a Volvo to move it....
We quite recently watched this video in class at my truck drivers school here in Sweden, this pull is pretty awesome and it’s 100% true that it happened!
The VOLVO I-Shift gearbox is an electro-pneumatic automated single (or as of recently double) clutch gearbox with 12 forward and 4 reverse gears ore, as in this truck, 12 forward and 4 reverse gears +2 crawl gears for a total of 14 forward and 6 reverse gears. I can confirm that this gearbox is pretty awesome and very intelligent and together with I-See, which is a system that takes the topography of the road into account when selecting gears and when using the adaptive cruise control, it can bring some huge fuel savings to a truck.
I currently own a volvo vnm630 here in the USA with a D13 motor and i-shift trans. I went from a freightliner to volvo and haven't looked back since. I just wish they still offer us the D16 motor.
Volvo can also make prime movers go very fast from standing start. The Iron Knight achieved 13.710 seconds over 500 metres with an average speed of 169kph and completed the 1,000 metre run in 21.29 seconds at an average of 131.29kph. That's 0.311 miles in 13.710 second with average speed of 105 mph and 0.621 miles in 21.29 seconds at an average of 81.580 mph.
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Trivia: Trains and trucks have "fail to safety"-setup brakes. If there's a pressure-loss in the system the brakes apply. Their failure-mode is the safe one.
Cars do not. If a car loses system pressure, you lose that brake-system.
A friend told me that scanias v8 with volvos transmission would be the ultimate truck.
The fact the kingpin didn't snap is kind of amazing IMO.
It’s amazing that in Egypt they were preparing to move a 1000 ton obilisk, but it cracked & they left it.
i drive a volvo daily and nowadays it's all automatic gearboxes.....when you want a manuel transmision you have to pay more then a automatic that's why it's all automatic now, and volvo truck have space enough inside and trucks in europe are compact on the outside, i work in the event branche and i love to see american truck but i'm gladd i drive a volvo here because in know for sure that i can't go at the tight places that i needed to go in a american truck ......even with the volvo i drive it's all about inches and sometimes i need realy all of them when you have to go to an old city centre or a festival but hey there you learn to drive....greetings from the Netherlands
This has that Chevy Cheyenne hauling logs commercial feeling
After this Video Ian we expect you to wear Full Volvo Gear !!!!!!!!!!!!
What he said about the most difficult part of it is to start it moving is correct. Basically, tha line of trailers has a lot of inertia while still, and that is what it's keeping it still. Once it starts moving, it's inertia will try to keep it moving.
For those people who didn't understand a thing of what I said, that statement is correct because physics.
Dude, I can't imagine the amount of stress that is going on the trail hook, that must be at least 10 times more than maximum capacity. We all talking about engine, transmission, wheels etc, but the real hero of this venture is the hook
The big dude driving is the Swede Magnus Samuelsson, he have been competed in the "Worlds strongest men" earlier.
Did you know that in almost all of Europe, trucks are limited to 80 KPH (49.8 mph) and trucks over 16.535 lbs, 60 KPH(37 MPH) except on Autobahns, 80 KPH Limit.
One thing that still really confuses me in regards to the American language is why Semi trucks are called that.
A big pickup truck which is actually just an oversized car with a glorified bucket on the back is called a full sized truck, but an even larger Lorry with a dedicated container or trailer towing capacity is called a Semi. Keep in mind that the word "semi" means "half" in Latin.
Now I could be wrong in how i am remembering this but here it goes. The name comes the idea (and times) that a truck is both drive unit and load, so when trucks started coming out as a cab and trailer each was considered a semi, or of half of a full truck
Basically what was said above. Semi truck/semi trailers are called that since they dont hold the load on their own body or frame. They are "half a truck" compared to a full body truck.
The big problem would be to air up all those trailers
Just go thru volvos commercials, they make some of the funniest and best ones ever.
Volvo and Scania the best trucks in the world!!
tip look for trucks in Finland they have some awsome pimped trucks!!
I drive a v70 Volvo Car today , a few years ago Volvo f10 ,F12 FH 12 & FL 7 & F7 . Love all things Sweden/ Gothernberg .- Sweden are the BEST
2:10 Hang on one second here! look at the interior of that cab! That is something special.
It is a heavy duty truck, so it is driven on a predetermined route with mandatory stops, most special transport trucks do not have a sleeper berth, in this case the owner has decided to put in a couple of seats to have more people inside of it
@@marco_grt4460 I guess for spotters, guides and other crew if we're talking about wide loads and other heavy loads. I was impressed with the obvious safety features and sport-style seats.
It's a demo truck for volvotrucks, to show customers what they are buying.
Normally you only see seats where the bed should be in driving school trucks.
Two most badass truck brands, both from Sweden. Coincidence, I think not
1hp for every ton
I think the biggest pull I've seen was the Ford F150 Lightning doing a 1,000,000lbs pull. But that was on rail, so friction is like 50x lower.
The real vehicles for heavy haulage are ballast tractors, which are often eurotrucks with 40 ton concrete instead of a 5th wheel to massively increase traction. Mammoet demostrate some of their skill on youtube.
This is 1,650,000 lbs.
1 Tonne/HP, surprised the driveshafts didnt break 😁
check out the Scania V8 engine sound
Loud pipes save lives 😉
It is a super great truck. Expensive tho but they could have gone faster but the "stopping" afterwards is a challenge to (you just can't stop so many tons with just a truck if it was going faster). But yea, Volvo do great machinery/engineering
The truck is amaizing. I have a volvo car and I love it. But don't you think, that here is more involved physics? As an ex-engine driver, I can assure you, that a locomotiw 110t, 2100 hp, can easily pull a 2000 t train. In America and Australia, even in Russia you have trains of 8,9, 10 000 tones. I think it is amaising and good add, but add.
Lower friction on rail.
Ian if you look on you tube just came on titled transponder Bathurst trucks no cars 2022 on candid tourist site
It's the transporters going through Bathurst in on for the race this week end on the 9th
If your interested nice rigs
Cheers mate
In case of I'm winning a lottery, two of this badass truck will be in my garage! Paid by cash!