Life As A Truck Driver In Japan - The Best And Worst Of It
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Life As A Truck Driver In Japan - The Best And Worst Of It
In this video, we'll take a look at how it's like to be a truck driver in Japan. We'll explore the different routes that trucks take, the different drivers and the different conditions truck drivers have to deal with on a daily basis.
Also we share information about the japanese truck brands, Isuzu, UD, Hino and Fuso, as well as the amzing Dekotora japanese trucks.
If you're interested in learning about the nuts and bolts of truck driving in Japan, this video is for you! By the end of this video, you'll have a better understanding of what it's like to be a truck driver in Japan, and what kind of challenges they face.
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01:08 Type of trucks
in Japan
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Pay in Japan
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Truck rules
in Japan
05:01 Dekotora trucks
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Your mispronunciation of archipelago is top tier.
Guess it depends where you come from 😅?
@@TruckTropia on earth we pronounce it correctly 🙄🙄🙄
@@michaelwalker1145 he's on mars
Arxipelágou
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Those decorated trucks remind me of the trucks in Colombia 🇨🇴 with hundreds of LED lights, and ultra bright brake lights that temporarily blind you on dark backroads
as someone who isnt a truck driver i can tell you its hard
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My video made it yay :))
Tōkyō has literally 35 million people.
Here in Australia the American brands dominate the big trucking market, you know brands like Kenworth, MAC and ok a few Volvos. But small to mid sized are dominated by the Japanese brands, Fuso, UD, Mitsubishi, Hino.
Kenworth is part of Paccar as is Daf and Mack is part of the Volvo Truck Group.
In South Africa our long distance trucks are all the standard Euro Spec Cab over trucks like Scania, Volvo, Mercedes, MAN, DAF etc... But our trucks inside the cities to move stuff around the city are these ones especially the Hino and UD which are very common
Some of the dual steering axle Isuzu turn on a dime, pain in the ass as they always 18speeds road ranger
New Zealand needs a look.
They have perfected the twin steer and big trailer types
Second this
Three this
When he said archipelago whe way he did, I spat out a mouthful of tea! 🤣🤣🤣
You mentioned that Hino is part of Toyota Motor, but failed to mention that Fuso is now part of Mercedes Benz Trucks and UD and Isuzu are part of the Volvo Truck group.
Well you incorrectly mentioned that Isuzu is part of Volvo truck group which it is not. Isuzu is just the owner of UD and was once with General Motors. From what I see Volvo is on its own entity and likely owns a small percentage but can't see anything to back up your claim that they're part of Isuzu.
Next video "in depth about japan most popular truck brands (mitsubishi fuso, ud trucks, hino and isuzu)?
I'd love a new zealand video.
They are placed pretty remote in Pacific but they have every single truck brand from around the world. NZ is a paradise for cars/trucks enthusiasts
As an American, I'm very jealous of the NZ (and Australian) car market. You guys get literally everything from every manufacturer. As a JDM fan of course you guys get or can easily import pretty much any Japanese car you want. Ford and GM Australia with the Falcon, Holden Commodore Maloo, etc. are super cool. Additionally, manufacturers which only sell very specific models to the American market sell you guys both US market cars and other-market cars as well so the variety of cars from every manufacturer is endless. And additionally manufacturers that don't have a market in the US such as Peugeot, Renault, Daihatsu all sell you guys cars. The variety and choice is endless.
American safety standards are very strict and additionally, the US market is very picky about what it wants so car manufacturers give us very specific and limited models. And anytime they try to sell us something unique and different, we prove that idea right by not buying them (see wagons and hatchbacks) so they stop making it for us. Very jealous of your guys market.
Most of our trucks come from Japan
Australia is also a paradise for cars/trucks
@@vsetfan2024Ireland is also jdm paradise, I’ve had more Jdm cars motorbikes that Japan has to offer.
Yea man as a truck driver in New Zealand we a drowning in choose
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The area of Japanese territory is totally wrong and it is 377000km2 which is much bigger than Minnesota.
From what I understand, the length of Japan is almost as long as the entire eastern coast of the US from Maine to somewhere in Florida.
I'm from Indonesia and here small detail about trucking in my country. In here truck drivers are called truck drivers or truckers. For semi trucks in my country use the same type as semi trucks in Europe and Japan. So there are many brands here, but the most commonly seen are Japanese brands like Fuso, Hino, UD, although there are also some like Volvo, Scania, MAN, Mercedes Benz and Renault Trucks. On average for the Scania and Mercedes Benz brand there are more buses than trucks. for the truck itself we call it a truck, because the designation of a tractor is a vehicle used by farmers to cultivate fields.
most of the semi trucks here have a bunk place in them but it's rare for the driver to stay in the truck, usually they just take a short nap or rest. Semi trucks in my country are used to transport loading containers. Most are trailers of the flat bed type or the low type for transporting special goods such as machinery or factory components. Because in my country there are many bends and roads up and down mountainous hills, it is rare to have a semi truck that uses the 8x4 arrangement most of them are 4x2 and 6x2.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Let do a video for Indonesia and Thailand as well
@@TruckTropiak LIFE AS A TRUCK DRIVER IN TAIWAN🎉
Indo logistic budget is WORST in the world.
Bad road, bad traffic, bribe money, corruption, collution, nepotism, bribe the DMV and cops to get driving license. 👎👎👎👎
True. The EVs market is not economical in the long run.
5:12 my man joined the wrong server lmao
Can u make the video of Turkish trucking next time?
Please do a video on trucks of Japan Hino, Isuzu, And Mitsubishi Fuso.
vietnam trucks and their chaotic traffic ;)
i live in shikoku and i see trucks every 5 seconds
Go to Vietnam - there are lacking regulations on the national highway for trucking industries. The truckers' killer motorbikes more than the war in Vietnam before 1975.
When I think of dekotora I also think of many trucks in India and Pakistan but when it comes to alcohol limits specific to truckers I think of the US Government-mandated BAC of under 0.04 (but with penalties for drivers with any detectable amount of BAC under 0.04 if breath-tested by police).
US CDL holders are limited to a BAC of .04 even in their personal vehicles as well. On top of that a CDL can be lost if you're caught going more than 15MPH over the limit. There are a bunch of other little things that they can nail you on with a CDL that they don't bother with a regular license such as infractions staying on a database for life, which started recently, and basically in any accident, even when it's obviously not your fault, they blame you first although you are considered a "professional driver" because they think everyone is clairvoyant and can predict that some dipshit staring at their phone was going to decide to use your vehicle for brakes instead while you're sitting in traffic or a red light. (Edit: forgot to state that it's US CDLs)
@@roachymart2318 Penalties are strict for holders of CDLs issued by any US state or DC. I dunno if a CDL issued by the DMV of Guam, Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), American Samoa, Puerto Rico or the USVI can be exchanged for a CDL issued by DC or an American state, with a Quora question on that subject ("Hey I really need help with finding out if a Puerto Rico CDL (class 8 Heavy) is recognized by the DOT on the mainland?") having featured differing answers.
A British Government website, however, DOES mention, for exchanging of bus and heavy truck (HGV) licences, that those those from the British Isles, Gibraltar, Switzerland and other European Union member states are accepted. Anyone looking to exchange a CDL issued by another jurisdiction, even if another British overseas dependency such as the Virgin Islands or Montserrat, will @ best get licences to drive vehicles with gross weight ratings of @ most 3500 kg (7700 lbs). I rented via Zipcar a Honda CR-V SUV. Whether it was a 3rd- or 4th-generation model, the highest GVWR I could find on the Four Wheel Trends website was 4453 lbs (2020 kg). I can't think of a vehicle with a higher GVWR rating than 2020 kg I've ever driven, and I dunno how soon I will drive a vehicle with anywhere near a GVWR of 2000 kg.
Finlands long trucks next?
Will come :)
There are also alot of Scania's in Japan.
As a driver I would not get out of bed for 30 grand a year. Double that at a minimum. That's for home every night tractor trailer.
And also Japan is a much more expensive country to live so probably truck drivers have a pretty hard time there
@@savedemperor8024 no, its not... if you dont want a big house and a fancy lifestyle, living is quite cheaper than NY or LA or London
even in Tokyo (city not suburbs) a very small but complete apparment (without roomates) cost like 600$ per month.
India.. Need to see the E2E Truck life cycle / Regulation and you can new innovation like Gati Shakti..
I am very happy to see my country in this video.
Tokyo have 38 milioane people, not 9 million
Archipelago is pronounced "ar-ki-pe-la-go".
I won't be interested working as a truck driver in Japan because the pay scale is very low. Only $33,000 USD a year. I earn $80,000 USD as a truck driver here in Canada 🇨🇦.
I’m glad you to edit my country.
Fantastic video thank you
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Hey! It’s Truck-Kun!
The way you pronounced archipelago was so confusing lmao.
@trucktropia21 scam bot ignore it
I’m an ex truckie from New Zealand, living in Japan. I have my Japanese drivers license for car, truck/trailer. I would like to drive trucks in Japan but my Japanese level isn’t good enough. One job I applied for was to deliver from a big distribution to drug stores are the prefecture at night and the truck company was worried that I may have problem with communication
2 things.
1st: hope you found a good job.
2nd: how hard was it to get a Japanese truck and trailer license.
@@misterspeed118 In the case of Japan, an ordinary car license must be at least 21 years old and have been held for at least 3 years.
In my case, I went to a driving school and got my license in 7 months.
The Japanese government has a deal with certain country’s where we can just change our licenses over to Japanese ones without doing the driving school, long waiting times. In my case, all i had to do was book an appointment, go to the license office, do and eyesight test, hearing test watch a video and pay a fee. But, with the eye test, for commercial drivers, we have to look into a box, there are three vertical lines, the middle line moves back and forth, what you have to do is press a button on the side of the box when the middle line matches the Sam level and the side lines, but its not as easy as it sounds.
I’m a 22 year old journeyman heavy duty mechanic from Canada and I was thinking of doing it in Japan but these trucks r all soo small and different compared to the American trucks in Canada and I would probabaly have to go to school in Japan to get a ticket and learn Japanese
As of sep 2023, you can get a driving job if you have a license and your will in this country no matter what. Guaranteed.
The video tells a lot about the road transport in Japan, yet nothing about the truck driver's working life exept the average income and the average monthly working time. You do learn nothing about traffic jams, truck stops, store house managers, loading and unloading duties, fuel stations and so on, thus the title is a clickbait.
Hope you do a series on East African trucking soon.
i'm from trinidad we have alot of fuso,ud trucks,volvo,mack,isuzu,hino
The salary seems very low for such a pretty expensive country as Japan is, probably its quite challenging to live on the average living standard for truck drivers
Japan printing currency since the 90's and having the highest debt to GDP, thus indebting their nation, is the real reason why anyone working there has a hard time. Research Karoshi to learn more.
Yea that’s fr so low would be hard to make a living off that, Canadian truck drivers make like 3x more in some instances
How much can you make a month hauling containers from ports?
Its lower then informed in This vídeo
Frequently driving over the speed limit, pulling out of traffic without indicating, tail-gating cars in front of them, hogging the two outside lanes on highways, ignoring traffic lights, etc..
You've not see much of truck driving in Japan!
I think every country producing trucks should be next
I'd like to see trucking in Russia next. Awesome video
Will come 👍
@@TruckTropia I hope
Russia is the capital of truck melting pots particularly the Eastern area
In soviet Russia, truck drives you.
sri lankan bus drivers would be great one
What the heck is an "Arch-a-pelago?
I always like your videos
Thank you, glad to hear 😃👍
Cool video
Thanks glad you like it 👍
Nice
Hy. Nice video...i live in Europe in România and I think you should do a video about trucking here, and the tipes of trucks we use here.
Thank you kindly🙏
I thought I was in Pakistan truck show ,when I saw those decorated trucks 😁
"Japan is one of the worlds most densely populated and urbanised countries in the world" - that along with "Arch-ih-pallago" gives you away as a Martian :D
Please look at Sweden next 🇸🇪 /an up-and-coming Swedish truck driver.
Is on the Way 👍
@@TruckTropia Cool 😎👍🏼🤘🏻
Turkey and there truck up next 👍
Vary nice
Thanks 👍
50mph damn that is slow...
only 33 000? I thought Japan's wages were about the same as Canada
Jamaica you should check out
Shit, I'll be a Japanese trucker. If they pay my way over. I'll even deal with the tiny apartment.
Heres a Jp Girl trucker for ya ばばしちゃねる Has breathalizer right in truck to use before engine starts.
Can you do life as a truck driver in the UK?
Yes but. In proverty
Isn’t isuzu the largest manufacturer in japan?
I can drive a prime mover truck and have experience of it so can i just go to japan and start working there?😊
Wait up, you say here that Japan's land area is 88000 sq miles, but it says on multiple sources that it's around 145000 sq miles, maybe you mean land area that can be traveled by road?🤔
❤❤ I love it Japan country and I will visiting Someday
Bulgaria next
I am a German trailer truck driver with 6 years experience.
My Japanese is low, but I'd take private lessons if there was a way to get a chance there...Does anyone know if there's a visa program in Japan for truckers?
I'd like to start a new adventure in the Tokyo area 🙇🏻♂️
Contact Japanese embasy !
Polish truck driver here with a little more experience with trailers. I was thinking the same thing and due to my contacts in Japan I could at least ask if they would hire me. At first possiblity to find a company brave enough to hire Gaijin is pretty low even with N3 certificate and back then 5 years of experience. It's not impossible but very hard to find a job. I was even asking for distribution on small trucks. I was ready to move there, make my driving license but the answers were no.
I don't say it's impossible but the chances are very low. Ok maybe for a German it will be easier due to how they see Germans but remember you are gaijin and not fluent in Japanese.
Of course I wish you good luck and hope you can get what I am aiming for too. Remember to say if you'll get lucky and find a job as a truck driver in Japan.
Dang that pay scale sucks.
Japan should hire foreigners for driving their trucks, particularly from India
aslong as they can drive professionally and safely, here in California they have a bad reputation sadly, not all but for *some being bad drivers like driving on the fast lane(far left lane), loaded going up hill at 45-50mph on 2nd or 3rd lane making traffic, cutting drivers off, going over double yellow lines to getting stuck doing random u turns on unleaveled roads.
2:27 - That's the UK...
Truck-Kun loves to isekai in japan
The next episode should be titled Life as a truck driver on the planet Mars - Best and worst of it.
Nice titel 👍
I'm American, can I get work visa to do this in Japan?
Philippines next
I really appreciate you mentioned the obligatory 'women oppressed' and 'emmissions scary' talking points. They're obviously crucial to the existence of our industry.
Pakistani bedford truck next
1:38 wtf does this sentence even mean? Is Tokyo the only city in whole Japan?
Can you do life as a truck driver in Finland
Already in the making 👍😃
@@TruckTropia hey you have a scam comment issue
Next india ❤️🇮🇳
Mizoram,India
do trucking in china pls
You should do South Africa next🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
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Thailand transport trucks most popular on Isuzu Hino Mitsubishi Fuso and barely EU trucks such as Scania Volvo and Mercedes
I didn't see Renault
Thai's truck drivers have test their skills on the northern
Trinidad
take a look at Iran.
Jamaica
I would like to see south africa.
if a company has a Volvo, mercedes, scania or MAN then you know they have money haha
Yah do Indonesian
someone employs me there in japan
it's an island how hard can it be
Do a video for truckers in Brazil and South Africa
I Will 👍
How about China truck market?
Next country...Pakistan, Nepal, India ,Brazil...Congo, Senegal
Indonesia Please..
Iceland
£27000 p/a I wouldn't even get out of bed for as a UK HGV driver.
Next South Africa 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
It Will come 👍
do a truck hpilippines pls