I got my first Volvo in 1981 It was an F10. This was after driving Leyland . Foden ,ERF , Atkinson . It was like being in a different world even then . My truck had 16 speed, Air conditioning . An amazing heater and a bed. They were so far in front every driver in the UK wanted them They have evolved far more by now . Im 72 years old now and would love to be still driving them.
12:40 - Yeah in that kind of test (speeding into a short immovable object) they clearly just want the cab to come off as a solid unit to reduce the g-forces that the driver experiences, if it would actually stop you then you would get such a massive kick that the safety belt is going to pretty much be having the opposite effect, trucks don't come with 4-6 point belts like race-cars, but technically they carry way more energy because of all that weight, that energy needs to go somewhere.
the truck you see hit the bollard is for crumble zone testing. they want things to go under the cab and not upwards piercing the driver. same as on cars. most cars push down and to the side.
It's mandatory for Europe. Not only Sweden. Europe has high safety-standards when it comes to other traffic. Like guards on the side of trucks/trailers to prevent pedestrians and cyclists from getting under the wheels.
Both Swedish truck makers have a long and well-established history when it comes to building automotive vehicles and a lot of their high standards stem from just how bad the winter roads get in these Northerly countries. Volvo and Saab/Scania has to work twice as hard as many others in their fields to help ensure that their vehicles were able to withstand the bitterly cold temperatures and environmental that is the case during the Scandinavian winters. The knock-on effect was a very high standard and that is seen in the quality of vehicles these two truck manufacturers are able to produce. Volvo are known to build the most powerful trucks and buses/coaches in the world. I also believe that Scania are owned by a German company these days so you can be assured of very good standards there. Volvo and the Daimler Group (Mercedes Benz) are also in partnership to develop hydrogen powered vehicles.
9:55 DAF is owned by PACCAR and PACCAR also own the American truck brands Kenworth and Peterbilt so same engine and spare parts and same automatic transmission
These rising bollards are made to keep traffic out of areas, where they should not be (pedestrian zones). First signposts were used for that, but it was found out, that terrorists don't care about signposts (e.g. Marseille in France, or was it Nizza?).
@@gimble447 yes it is, it started after the terrorist attack in stockholm some years ago when a terriorist drew a truck into people and killing several.
It is important that a bomb truck driver survives even after the crash. How else are you supposed to conduct an interrogation? You can't make ground meat talk, even with water boarding. *sarcasm off*
13:13 yes the cab is supposed to detach and its supposed to stay rigid or whatever you want to call it all the way through the crash for driver safety.
The weight drop test at around 8:50 ... The 'truck bed' they drop the weight into - I built those 'buckets' for 8 years, and was even a part of the team developing that model.. called ZD4. :)
We had terror-attacks with trucks in Europe (driving a truck into public events). These poles/ballads are anti terror barriers and designed to withstand a truck.
More trivia. Volvo cars and Volvo (trucks, heavy equipment, busses etcetera) have nothing in common nowadays except the name. Well, maybe the safety doctrine.
Yeah, Volvo AB is still Swedish whereas Volvo Cars was sold to Ford and then to Geely and is now owned to like 90% by Geely and the rest being traded on the Stockholm Stock Exchange with some major Swedish institutional investors such as retirement funds
I think the crash you see at 12:50 with the DAF destruction should proove on the one hand that the driver will be protected from beeing impaled from below, but on the other hand that pillar looks pretty similar to the terror defence systems we use in many european countries to protects pedestrian zones or important facilities from weaponized vehicles
Yes and also that pillar going forward will let the kinetic energy disperse for passenger survival. Otherwise you would have a non compatible life g force
The most deadly accident we had was when a truck runs up full speed into a standing ques and smash a car to another truck. Volvo developed and patented the 3 point safety belt. But then gave the patent free for all.
I drive a next gen scania here in the uk and one of the best crash protection features is the way the cab is designed to release from the chassis upon heavy impact to protect the driver. You can see it in some of these videos, especially the crew cab front impact clip.
It's nice seing you giving recognition to the Volvo Trucks. I work at Volvo in Sweden and I've worked with both processing of the cylinder heads and the assembly of the 13L engines. You should check out the videos from the factories, it's an awesome watch!
8:55 I appreciate the effort they put into developing good mountings for engines and gearboxes, but there's always that one excavator operator that makes it his life mission to ruin every single truck he lays his eyes upon.
First Volvo, especcialy all F16 and Fh 16; this bis 16 ltr Engin with 750 HP and more tham 3000 nm, ist the King in Europa, since 1987, greatings from minich
DAF is a Dutch car brand. They invented the variomatic transmission. The first DAF cars with variomatic transmission could drive as fast in reverse as in drive! For a while in the 1970s and 1980s there were reversing races in the Netherlands, where you had to drive a car in reverse through a motocross circuit, and obviously DAF cars excelled at that sport. The car division of the brand was taken over by Volvo and the DAF line was continued in models like the Volvo 340 and 460 so later models like the Volvo C30 and V40 could also be seen as DAF offspring. DAF Trucks continued on its own though and still exists.
4:00 The one problem with those systems, are other drivers that cut sharp into your line after they did overtake you. The truck will react with an emergency brake.
I've learned about it few months ago and I really try to sort myself carefuly back in front of trucks and leave more space then I used to just to make lives of truck drivers just a tad easier and avoid startling this automatic system.
@@mortisCZ The "rule of thumb" i learned in driving school, is that you should wait until you see the light bars of the car/truck in the INTERIOR rerview mirror before you go back into the right lane, so you have the proper distance.
You can overrule the system if you actually are interested in your truck and read the manual. With my truck I need to press the kick down on my gas pedal or steer. But most truck drivers are to dumb or stupid or lazy to do that.
I don't understand why the heck my company chose to not have the delivery trucks ( around the 15.250 MAN) with ACC activated. I'd be using CruiseControl way more if I had the option especially in city traffic
@@zoolkhan this is less a question about comfort but additional safety for me as the driver and a participating in traffic, but yeah greed( less spending) is definitely part of it
Keep in mind euro truck cabs are on 4 suspension points and tilt forward for engine access. They rip off fairly easily compared to a solid bolt connection
@@zoolkhan manual gear shifter in neutral, check for lose items that damage the windshield when they fall forward. all clear start pumping. and voila easy access to all around the engine. makes it very nice to work on. yeah I can say I very much like that fact. but I worked on more cars than semi trucks. so yup cramped spaces
I drive Mercedes Actros for work and few times truck thought it saw something on the road (but there wasn't nothing front of me). Then it beeps and then also comes red warning In gauge screen and if you are driving with cruise on it starts very powerful braking unless you are fast enough to press gas pedal it wont brake. But you can imagine that how it felt first time when it started full braking from 85km/h with no reason.. 😅 But that can be helpful when comes real sitiation when you need it, but i hope that situatuon never comes...
At least in Germany the emergency braking system is mandatory in new trucks for several years now. For one or two years it's also installed in new passenger vehicles
Almost all truck brands offer safety systems on their newest models, some offer them as standard and some niche or very cheap brands don't even have any. DAF is part of PACCAR, which also manufactures Kenworh and Peterbilt trucks in the US. The base design of the DAF XF truck is actually quite old: it was introduced in 1997 and had seen many improvements over time. The XF's design is an evolution of its predecessor (the DAF 95) introduced in 1987! Last year, a completely new series of XF, XG and XG+ have been introduced to replace the XF series you see in the video.
And then there is Edison Motors, who even brags about that trucks dont need ABS or even front wheel brakes and that trucks dont crumble zones, instead they need massive "killbars" in front, so that you can think you are still in controll of the truck after you run over and killed a family of four
These emergency brake system (EBS) its something else. I did a safety training with a special prepared tankertruck that can tip over. It was impossible to tip it over til 50km/h and with a emergency stop even with 50 tons it stops on a dime. This training was to make you aware that its your mind that tells you you cant brake that hard but the tech can. It was surreal
Answer to the DAF truck section, yes its what they want it to do. If you go from 60 to a sudden stop = dead person. As internal organs keep travelling at 60. if you go from 60 - 0 over a longer duration, with a few bumps where the cell is fully padded with airbags its a lesser internal injury for the crew. Yes it will hurt more, but you are alive!
Of course all the big brands offer all sorts of driving assistant systems. But the thing is: they cost money. And companies do not like to spend money on things that are not mandatory. I'n not sure if the emergency brake assistant is mandatory in Germany yet. If not, I'm sure you will find plenty of trucks (even new ones) without it.
@@Iceeeen Make sure to keep the sensors etc clean, if it keeps b*tching then its your turn to b*tch to the manufacturer, this is what warranties and service contracts etc are for, it shouldn't find false things all the time, the occasional mistake is okay (because you'd rather have it detect a little too much then have it not detect well enough) but it shouldn't be bothering you, so go fix it with what i've said above ^^
An unfortunately right now the Freightliner Cascadia is actually the most common truck I saw something online the other day says that 45% of trucks registered in the US right now are Cascadia
DAF is a brand from the neatherlands, at least where i live they are always looked down on a bit, along with iveco, and dont have the same respect as volvo/scania and mercedes, but the daf trucks i've driven have been abselutely fine. its kinda funny that most of the european brands instead of braking in the american market, just swooped in and bought the estableshed brands you guy allreasy had, mercedes own freightliner and western star, volvo owns mack, vw (man/scania) owns navistar. but paccar actually bought DAF, so its the only brand that its the other way around
Maybe you where wondering about our rankings for these Europe-Trucks! Top Tier Scania,Volvo Mid Tier Man, Daf, Mercedes Lower Tier Renault, Iveco (Ford unknown, kinda new over here) i have driven all of these, my favorite is MAN, Enough interior space, won't break the bank, Just a really user friendly truck with decent power.
Mate of mine was involved in a truck rollover many years ago, had a post come through the drivers window. So with no aids what so ever you can guess the result, at least his end was quick.
not to mention Australian road trains are pulling real weight not just a tandem van half loaded with pillows and dildos . The fact that single trailer drivers need this safety crap makes me sick
@@TerrenceIII there is a big difference driving in the middle of nowhere and then drive in old european cities. alot of places leave no room for mistakes. you cant compare those 2 things. its like saying a fiat 500 and the most expensive ferrari is the same because its same company that owns them.
I DON'T want my Truck to decapitate the car behind me because it made a decision for me that was programmed in by some asymmetrical haircut skinny jean wearing city slicker who probably doesn't even have a license to drive a car and you do but you are calling ME unsafe? LOL@@automation7295
This system saved me from wild boar once in my Volvo V70 2014, I saw them and I braked, what I thought was the hardest it could, but the safety system kicked in and damn it really used them brakes 110%.
Any good crash you walk away from is a good crash. And yet....every winter trucks are off the road or laid up on the side or in the ditch or stuck in small uphills. Reason. No boogie lift and two axels. Here in Sweden the three and four axels are almost mandatory in tractor trailer combos. City or delivery trucks is another thing but three axel is always an advantage. ( I am a former buss and truck driver IRL )
I had a big crash last month. A volvo fh crasht in to me in traffic. The driver of the volvo survived the crash but his cab slide 1 meter to the the back. I saw him comming so ik released the braeks before the inpact. He did not have adaptive cc so he crasht with 75 km/h in to my trailer but i had a distance of 50 meters before i could hit the cars in front of me but it was enough i just needed 20 meters to brake again so i did not hit the cars in front of me😅. It was a huge crash but every body was pretty o.k. i am perfectly o.k. to😊. But he survide it because of the volvo safty👏👏. Sorry for the bad englisch😂😂😂
Hello 👋. DAF truck's itself is made in Netherlands (Holland) , but ☝️ it's owner is the American PACCAR family. So in one way it's an American Euro Truck, but not sold as DAF ofcourse in the states, they want to protect the American market ofcourse 😉 I'm from Norway 🇧🇻, but live in Germany 🇩🇪 with my Wonderful German wife, and yes I'm a truck driver 💯🤘🥳
In 2022 Freightliner semi trucks had 37.9% while Volvo only had 10.6%. Even if you include Mac 6.7% (who is owned by Volvo) they are still far off from Freightliner.
Daf is from Eindhoven the Netherlands. Check out their Dakar rally racing history. They used to ride dual motor 1000hp Turbo engines and won tbe dakar multiple times
Sometime ago there was a total ‘sicko’ terrorist attack performed with (I think it was-) a Scania… The guy that tried to attempt a terrorist attack hitting crowds of people on a Christmas-fair was stopped soon (but unfortunately too late for some….) because the truck ‘realised’ it had been involved in an accident and ‘de-mobilised’ itself….
Sometimes one of the more recent Scania trucks I get to drive ‘are scared’ by the low bridges we have to cross driving along the N381 in the Netherlands!! It will start with an emergency braking but just when the speed goes down and my heartbeat goes up it recognises ‘a bridge’…. Scary sh*t for the ones behind me….
@12:50 You want deceleration to get rid of the G-force. The roll-over (if you have airbags) is less harmfull than a full stop. A sudden full stop will crush your organs to a mush. Newton first law of motion According to Newton’s First Law, also known as the Law of Inertia, an object at rest will remain at rest, and an object in motion will continue to move with a constant velocity, unless acted upon by an external unbalanced force. Or simpler: An object’s natural behavior is to maintain its state of motion (either rest or motion).
Volvo emergency breaking system is ingredible BUT it sucks when it even reacts small rabbits. Volvo slams breaks then you just wonder wtf just happened and why truck reacted like that and you see small rabbit running side of the road. Lane system that warns when drifting over line and beebs and nice also BUT. It sometimes react when you drive on icy road and it thinks you drift off the lane then keeps beeping like hell.. Sure those assist systems can toggled off but you have to do that each time you start engine/ turn power on again. And volvo radar systems does not work when its raining wet snow or windows gets slightly foggy. when this happens volvo beeps and notifies that radar is not working properly and assisted breaking is offline. Also Latest volvos has mirror cams BUT fun fact you have to pay then they activate those cams. Drivers manual that is usually thick book is now on touch screen radio app.. (and it is bad. Imagine loosing power and needing that books to figure out like fuses relays etc). Last but not least touch screen radio on volvo (least truck im driving) sucks ass.. Sometimes radio gliches and sounds like robot trying to scream from bottom of well. Sometimes radio firmware gets corrupted and radio goes to recovery mode and only way get it work again is restore factory settings so you loose all settings and connected accounts, radio stations, Connected Bluetooth devices etc. Couple times radio did go on as usual when turning power on BUT (again) it plasted on full volume and buttons did nothing touch screen was off and didnt turn on. steering wheel buttons did nothing. Only way to fix that volume and button problem is disconnect battery... Ive been driving latest Volvo Fm and Fh models past 2 years and founded lot of issues and Mailed volvo about those and they never replied anything. I dont know does scania have any similar problems but those ive found and experienced with volvo sucks
for example when u get stuck on the railroad in a truck... the cabin is designed to rip off the chassis upon impact in order for the driver to survive... The cabin intself is connected to the chassis by 2 milled aluminium blocks which break in a collision. ruclips.net/video/TCO_UCBfBTY/видео.html Here is an example... this is for u to survive. If the train hits an american truck it would have been much more lethal I think.
You drive throu an Exit nobody is in Front of you. Suddenly a car slips in front of you The emergency breaks reacts and you are sitting on you Steering wheel
American cars have always been known for BAD handling compared to european and japanese cars but they have become good handling cars now. Atleast some brands and i think the safety level will come around too the same way as the handling has.
Could you let the video run for more than a few seconds before you stop it? Perhaps play a whole section and then comment, stopping every few seconds is really distracting..
the bollards are designed to stop trucks. like so you can't ramm them into goverment buildings military bases and stuff. they are massieve in weight underground to stop trucks dead
I'm pretty sure that the first images of a small car crashing into the front of the Scania, is more about what it would do to the passengers of the car, and less about the driver of the truck. He's high up there, pretty safe. Am I right?
There is a famous video off a Volvo fh emergency brake that reacted to inches to about to run over a kid,wish was not staged and the kid ran behind a school bus,this was really crazy how tech can save life's.
How can you say the Scania is not your favourite in looks and especially in sound? The V8 has the best stock sound in the world not to speak of its power. For both things esoecially the sound you have to spend a lot of money in different stacks for US trucks to get close to a V8 Scania sound and still they could not hold a candle to the Scania.
The problem with the radar breaking systems is when they apply the break with very little warning or alarm out of no where they startle you as a driver, and can cause the load to shift, accidents do happen involving trucks and collisions etc which its great when it works. but alot of these safety systems in bad weather ie snow etc just turn off and leave it 100% to the driver. same as the adaptive cruise control second it has an issue it just tells the driver to take control which, if your not guarding the brakes when theyre needed could be an issue. So whilst i think some of these systems a cool in the wild theyre not as great.
Its realy annoying when on open road at night time and you drive out of a tunnel and the AEBS thinks that the edge of tunnel light is some object and it brakes for no reason.
Volvos safety is out of this planet its their main goal they went out and said that their new models car at least don't know about their trucks but I guess they go for them as well but yeah the new safety they have they claim no one in the car will die but they have to pull that back they did this on one of the older cars as well this is what they said (you can drive head on into a brick wall in 40kmh and drive away after they needed to pull that back as well since people actually tried this out 😂
someone from volvo said to me once "things can be replaced. people can't". in other words, if the lorry is totaled but the occupants survive = win!
the swedish don't mess around with safety
I miss SAAB they made so safe vehicles but GM didnt listen to them... @@NonsensicalSpudz
As a Swede, my dad always said that to me as well. Parental saying I suppose
The Dead do NOT buy any more cars.
easier to replace a steel beam than a human head
I got my first Volvo in 1981 It was an F10. This was after driving Leyland . Foden ,ERF , Atkinson . It was like being in a different world even then . My truck had 16 speed, Air conditioning . An amazing heater and a bed. They were so far in front every driver in the UK wanted them They have evolved far more by now . Im 72 years old now and would love to be still driving them.
12:40 - Yeah in that kind of test (speeding into a short immovable object) they clearly just want the cab to come off as a solid unit to reduce the g-forces that the driver experiences, if it would actually stop you then you would get such a massive kick that the safety belt is going to pretty much be having the opposite effect, trucks don't come with 4-6 point belts like race-cars, but technically they carry way more energy because of all that weight, that energy needs to go somewhere.
the truck you see hit the bollard is for crumble zone testing. they want things to go under the cab and not upwards piercing the driver. same as on cars. most cars push down and to the side.
The Trucks is also made so that smalle cars DON'T go under on a collision crash, it''s a safety feature all swedish trucks have.
It's mandatory for Europe. Not only Sweden. Europe has high safety-standards when it comes to other traffic. Like guards on the side of trucks/trailers to prevent pedestrians and cyclists from getting under the wheels.
All those safety systems are mandatory on all euro trucks built after 2018 .it's law
Both Swedish truck makers have a long and well-established history when it comes to building automotive vehicles and a lot of their high standards stem from just how bad the winter roads get in these Northerly countries.
Volvo and Saab/Scania has to work twice as hard as many others in their fields to help ensure that their vehicles were able to withstand the bitterly cold temperatures and environmental that is the case during the Scandinavian winters.
The knock-on effect was a very high standard and that is seen in the quality of vehicles these two truck manufacturers are able to produce.
Volvo are known to build the most powerful trucks and buses/coaches in the world.
I also believe that Scania are owned by a German company these days so you can be assured of very good standards there.
Volvo and the Daimler Group (Mercedes Benz) are also in partnership to develop hydrogen powered vehicles.
9:55 DAF is owned by PACCAR and PACCAR also own the American truck brands Kenworth and Peterbilt so same engine and spare parts and same automatic transmission
These rising bollards are made to keep traffic out of areas, where they should not be (pedestrian zones). First signposts were used for that, but it was found out, that terrorists don't care about signposts (e.g. Marseille in France, or was it Nizza?).
The bollard test is testing the bollard, not the truck. The bollard is used to protect sites from truck bomb attacks, pedestrian areas etc.
You beat me to it, not the same footage but a good video
ruclips.net/video/HAkCypsQIQk/видео.htmlsi=Mv6Fji6x-0vb31kT
Totally not the case 😂
@@gimble447 yes it is, it started after the terrorist attack in stockholm some years ago when a terriorist drew a truck into people and killing several.
It is important that a bomb truck driver survives even after the crash. How else are you supposed to conduct an interrogation? You can't make ground meat talk, even with water boarding.
*sarcasm off*
*Truck ramming* terrorist attacks, not truck bombs
13:13 yes the cab is supposed to detach and its supposed to stay rigid or whatever you want to call it all the way through the crash for driver safety.
The weight drop test at around 8:50 ... The 'truck bed' they drop the weight into - I built those 'buckets' for 8 years, and was even a part of the team developing that model.. called ZD4. :)
Thats awesome! Can you tell what standards did you use?
We had terror-attacks with trucks in Europe (driving a truck into public events). These poles/ballads are anti terror barriers and designed to withstand a truck.
More trivia. Volvo cars and Volvo (trucks, heavy equipment, busses etcetera) have nothing in common nowadays except the name. Well, maybe the safety doctrine.
Yeah, Volvo AB is still Swedish whereas Volvo Cars was sold to Ford and then to Geely and is now owned to like 90% by Geely and the rest being traded on the Stockholm Stock Exchange with some major Swedish institutional investors such as retirement funds
Volvo and Scania makes awesome trucks 👍🏻
I think the crash you see at 12:50 with the DAF destruction should proove on the one hand that the driver will be protected from beeing impaled from below, but on the other hand that pillar looks pretty similar to the terror defence systems we use in many european countries to protects pedestrian zones or important facilities from weaponized vehicles
Yes and also that pillar going forward will let the kinetic energy disperse for passenger survival. Otherwise you would have a non compatible life g force
The most deadly accident we had was when a truck runs up full speed into a standing ques and smash a car to another truck.
Volvo developed and patented the 3 point safety belt. But then gave the patent free for all.
I drive a next gen scania here in the uk and one of the best crash protection features is the way the cab is designed to release from the chassis upon heavy impact to protect the driver. You can see it in some of these videos, especially the crew cab front impact clip.
That's interesting. Thanks for pointing that out, was so distracted by the airbags I hadn't noticed the cab detaching.
It's nice seing you giving recognition to the Volvo Trucks. I work at Volvo in Sweden and I've worked with both processing of the cylinder heads and the assembly of the 13L engines. You should check out the videos from the factories, it's an awesome watch!
8:55
I appreciate the effort they put into developing good mountings for engines and gearboxes, but there's always that one excavator operator that makes it his life mission to ruin every single truck he lays his eyes upon.
Look at the cab on that destroyed truck. It's pretty whole despite the crash. The driver has a good chance of walking away if the seatbelt was in use.
First Volvo, especcialy all F16 and Fh 16; this bis 16 ltr Engin with 750 HP and more tham 3000 nm, ist the King in Europa, since 1987, greatings from minich
Daf is Parcar.. if you go look at kenworth and peterbilt.. the small "town" delivery cabovers. they are DAF cabs.
DAF is a Dutch car brand. They invented the variomatic transmission. The first DAF cars with variomatic transmission could drive as fast in reverse as in drive! For a while in the 1970s and 1980s there were reversing races in the Netherlands, where you had to drive a car in reverse through a motocross circuit, and obviously DAF cars excelled at that sport. The car division of the brand was taken over by Volvo and the DAF line was continued in models like the Volvo 340 and 460 so later models like the Volvo C30 and V40 could also be seen as DAF offspring. DAF Trucks continued on its own though and still exists.
The automatic emergancy braking and lane posìtion warnings are mandatory in all European trucks since 2015.
You REALLY don't want to roll a pickup truck. A semi usually "rolls" 90°, it tips over. Pickup truck barrel rolls until it doesn't.
The driver is safest inside the cabin. Better for it to shear off, because that is just a fraction of the g's the occupant has to take.
4:00 The one problem with those systems, are other drivers that cut sharp into your line after they did overtake you. The truck will react with an emergency brake.
I've learned about it few months ago and I really try to sort myself carefuly back in front of trucks and leave more space then I used to just to make lives of truck drivers just a tad easier and avoid startling this automatic system.
@@mortisCZ The "rule of thumb" i learned in driving school, is that you should wait until you see the light bars of the car/truck in the INTERIOR rerview mirror before you go back into the right lane, so you have the proper distance.
You can overrule the system if you actually are interested in your truck and read the manual. With my truck I need to press the kick down on my gas pedal or steer. But most truck drivers are to dumb or stupid or lazy to do that.
I don't understand why the heck my company chose to not have the delivery trucks ( around the 15.250 MAN) with ACC activated.
I'd be using CruiseControl way more if I had the option especially in city traffic
greed? your comfort matters not - if they can save a buck.
@@zoolkhan this is less a question about comfort but additional safety for me as the driver and a participating in traffic, but yeah greed( less spending) is definitely part of it
Keep in mind euro truck cabs are on 4 suspension points and tilt forward for engine access. They rip off fairly easily compared to a solid bolt connection
since the cabs are often filled with personal items and driver belongings...
...do you like the fact it needs to be tilted over for maintenance?
@@zoolkhan manual gear shifter in neutral, check for lose items that damage the windshield when they fall forward. all clear start pumping. and voila easy access to all around the engine. makes it very nice to work on. yeah I can say I very much like that fact. but I worked on more cars than semi trucks. so yup cramped spaces
@zoolkhan
At least it forces you to clean your working space : D
I drive Mercedes Actros for work and few times truck thought it saw something on the road (but there wasn't nothing front of me).
Then it beeps and then also comes red warning In gauge screen and if you are driving with cruise on it starts very powerful braking unless you are fast enough to press gas pedal it wont brake.
But you can imagine that how it felt first time when it started full braking from 85km/h with no reason.. 😅
But that can be helpful when comes real sitiation when you need it, but i hope that situatuon never comes...
At least in Germany the emergency braking system is mandatory in new trucks for several years now. For one or two years it's also installed in new passenger vehicles
Almost all truck brands offer safety systems on their newest models, some offer them as standard and some niche or very cheap brands don't even have any.
DAF is part of PACCAR, which also manufactures Kenworh and Peterbilt trucks in the US. The base design of the DAF XF truck is actually quite old: it was introduced in 1997 and had seen many improvements over time. The XF's design is an evolution of its predecessor (the DAF 95) introduced in 1987!
Last year, a completely new series of XF, XG and XG+ have been introduced to replace the XF series you see in the video.
And then there is Edison Motors, who even brags about that trucks dont need ABS or even front wheel brakes and that trucks dont crumble zones, instead they need massive "killbars" in front, so that you can think you are still in controll of the truck after you run over and killed a family of four
Fun fact :) The Scania machinery company is founded in Skåne (Scania means Skåne in Latin)
These emergency brake system (EBS) its something else. I did a safety training with a special prepared tankertruck that can tip over. It was impossible to tip it over til 50km/h and with a emergency stop even with 50 tons it stops on a dime. This training was to make you aware that its your mind that tells you you cant brake that hard but the tech can. It was surreal
Answer to the DAF truck section, yes its what they want it to do. If you go from 60 to a sudden stop = dead person. As internal organs keep travelling at 60.
if you go from 60 - 0 over a longer duration, with a few bumps where the cell is fully padded with airbags its a lesser internal injury for the crew. Yes it will hurt more, but you are alive!
Of course all the big brands offer all sorts of driving assistant systems. But the thing is: they cost money. And companies do not like to spend money on things that are not mandatory. I'n not sure if the emergency brake assistant is mandatory in Germany yet. If not, I'm sure you will find plenty of trucks (even new ones) without it.
It is since 2015. Also Turn assistant, lane departure warning, ESP, ABS and also some other things like parking heater.
It's mandatory sadly (stupid EU laws and with cars since this year). It doesn't work and it beeps and finds false things all the time.
If these technologies are saving you 1 incident a year, it saving the company money.
@@Iceeeen Make sure to keep the sensors etc clean, if it keeps b*tching then its your turn to b*tch to the manufacturer, this is what warranties and service contracts etc are for, it shouldn't find false things all the time, the occasional mistake is okay (because you'd rather have it detect a little too much then have it not detect well enough) but it shouldn't be bothering you, so go fix it with what i've said above ^^
@@IceeeenOnly DAF does that. It's really annoying when it starts emergency braking at the entrance of a tunnel. Volvo never does that.
we had a few years ago a truck driving into a christmas market in Germany so they testing that that pole stops a truck
I have zero interest in trucks but your enthusiasm is contagious so I find my self watching one of these videos again.
i am a truck driver in europe, volvo i a great truck
Volvo i think invented or were the first to use v style seatbelt as well, the safety is part of the legacy there
An unfortunately right now the Freightliner Cascadia is actually the most common truck I saw something online the other day says that 45% of trucks registered in the US right now are Cascadia
... which is owned by Mercedes Benz...
DAF is a brand from the neatherlands, at least where i live they are always looked down on a bit, along with iveco, and dont have the same respect as volvo/scania and mercedes, but the daf trucks i've driven have been abselutely fine.
its kinda funny that most of the european brands instead of braking in the american market, just swooped in and bought the estableshed brands you guy allreasy had, mercedes own freightliner and western star, volvo owns mack, vw (man/scania) owns navistar. but paccar actually bought DAF, so its the only brand that its the other way around
Maybe you where wondering about our rankings for these Europe-Trucks!
Top Tier
Scania,Volvo
Mid Tier
Man, Daf, Mercedes
Lower Tier
Renault, Iveco
(Ford unknown, kinda new over here)
i have driven all of these, my favorite is MAN, Enough interior space, won't break the bank, Just a really user friendly truck with decent power.
Mate of mine was involved in a truck rollover many years ago, had a post come through the drivers window. So with no aids what so ever you can guess the result, at least his end was quick.
Don't go expecting trucks in Australia to stop! Most of our trailers (maybe all) are not fitted with ABS so all the wizbang features won't work.
not to mention Australian road trains are pulling real weight not just a tandem van half loaded with pillows and dildos . The fact that single trailer drivers need this safety crap makes me sick
This is very true mate,.
@@TerrenceIII I guess you on'y care about your own safety and don't care about other people's safety?
@@TerrenceIII there is a big difference driving in the middle of nowhere and then drive in old european cities. alot of places leave no room for mistakes. you cant compare those 2 things. its like saying a fiat 500 and the most expensive ferrari is the same because its same company that owns them.
I DON'T want my Truck to decapitate the car behind me because it made a decision for me that was programmed in by some asymmetrical haircut skinny jean wearing city slicker who probably doesn't even have a license to drive a car and you do but you are calling ME unsafe? LOL@@automation7295
I've made some of these volvo cabovers. I specifically mounted the tires 😅
Look up. Jean Claude Van Dam.. reversing Volvo Truck Video.. doing the splits.. it's brilliant..
This system saved me from wild boar once in my Volvo V70 2014, I saw them and I braked, what I thought was the hardest it could, but the safety system kicked in and damn it really used them brakes 110%.
That was a cool video. It is amazing the effort and tech that goes into these new trucks
Any good crash you walk away from is a good crash. And yet....every winter trucks are off the road or laid up on the side or in the ditch or stuck in small uphills. Reason. No boogie lift and two axels. Here in Sweden the three and four axels are almost mandatory in tractor trailer combos. City or delivery trucks is another thing but three axel is always an advantage. ( I am a former buss and truck driver IRL )
Crash with Ballard was crash test of ballards to stop therrorist attack using vehicles
I had a big crash last month. A volvo fh crasht in to me in traffic. The driver of the volvo survived the crash but his cab slide 1 meter to the the back. I saw him comming so ik released the braeks before the inpact. He did not have adaptive cc so he crasht with 75 km/h in to my trailer but i had a distance of 50 meters before i could hit the cars in front of me but it was enough i just needed 20 meters to brake again so i did not hit the cars in front of me😅. It was a huge crash but every body was pretty o.k. i am perfectly o.k. to😊. But he survide it because of the volvo safty👏👏. Sorry for the bad englisch😂😂😂
Paccar owns DAF which also own peterbuilt and kenworth Volvo owns MACK
Hello 👋. DAF truck's itself is made in Netherlands (Holland) , but ☝️ it's owner is the American PACCAR family. So in one way it's an American Euro Truck, but not sold as DAF ofcourse in the states, they want to protect the American market ofcourse 😉
I'm from Norway 🇧🇻, but live in Germany 🇩🇪 with my Wonderful German wife, and yes I'm a truck driver 💯🤘🥳
In 2022 Freightliner semi trucks had 37.9% while Volvo only had 10.6%. Even if you include Mac 6.7% (who is owned by Volvo) they are still far off from Freightliner.
DAF, van Doorne Automobiel Fabriek, originally dutch, but i think they merged with Packard yrs ago
Hey, quick thing you said at 10:05 that you guys do not have the brand DAF, the PACCAR group is also part off Daf so indirectly you have daf😂😂😂
10:33 Bad timing lmao
Must watch if you love trucks and rallies look up this tittle. .
Title :
This 1988 Six-Turbo Truck Was Too Powerful For The Dakar Rally
Daf is from Eindhoven the Netherlands. Check out their Dakar rally racing history. They used to ride dual motor 1000hp Turbo engines and won tbe dakar multiple times
Sometime ago there was a total ‘sicko’ terrorist attack performed with (I think it was-) a Scania…
The guy that tried to attempt a terrorist attack hitting crowds of people on a Christmas-fair was stopped soon (but unfortunately too late for some….) because the truck ‘realised’ it had been involved in an accident and ‘de-mobilised’ itself….
Sometimes one of the more recent Scania trucks I get to drive ‘are scared’ by the low bridges we have to cross driving along the N381 in the Netherlands!!
It will start with an emergency braking but just when the speed goes down and my heartbeat goes up it recognises ‘a bridge’….
Scary sh*t for the ones behind me….
DAF is part of PACCAR, I heard a lot of development of PACCAR is done by DAF.
@12:50 You want deceleration to get rid of the G-force. The roll-over (if you have airbags) is less harmfull than a full stop. A sudden full stop will crush your organs to a mush.
Newton first law of motion
According to Newton’s First Law, also known as the Law of Inertia, an object at rest will remain at rest, and an object in motion will continue to move with a constant velocity, unless acted upon by an external unbalanced force.
Or simpler: An object’s natural behavior is to maintain its state of motion (either rest or motion).
Volvo emergency breaking system is ingredible BUT it sucks when it even reacts small rabbits.
Volvo slams breaks then you just wonder wtf just happened and why truck reacted like that and you see small rabbit running side of the road.
Lane system that warns when drifting over line and beebs and nice also BUT.
It sometimes react when you drive on icy road and it thinks you drift off the lane then keeps beeping like hell..
Sure those assist systems can toggled off but you have to do that each time you start engine/ turn power on again.
And volvo radar systems does not work when its raining wet snow or windows gets slightly foggy. when this happens volvo beeps and notifies that radar is not working properly and assisted breaking is offline.
Also Latest volvos has mirror cams BUT fun fact you have to pay then they activate those cams.
Drivers manual that is usually thick book is now on touch screen radio app.. (and it is bad. Imagine loosing power and needing that books to figure out like fuses relays etc).
Last but not least touch screen radio on volvo (least truck im driving) sucks ass..
Sometimes radio gliches and sounds like robot trying to scream from bottom of well.
Sometimes radio firmware gets corrupted and radio goes to recovery mode and only way get it work again is restore factory settings so you loose all settings and connected accounts, radio stations, Connected Bluetooth devices etc.
Couple times radio did go on as usual when turning power on BUT (again) it plasted on full volume and buttons did nothing touch screen was off and didnt turn on. steering wheel buttons did nothing.
Only way to fix that volume and button problem is disconnect battery...
Ive been driving latest Volvo Fm and Fh models past 2 years and founded lot of issues and Mailed volvo about those and they never replied anything.
I dont know does scania have any similar problems but those ive found and experienced with volvo sucks
SCANIA Emergency Services Trucks are so BadAss!! 💪🔥
As a Dutchie, pity you are not familiar with DAF trucks. Take a look here of the rallybeast DAF turbo twin driven bij Jan de Rooij
Hey @IWrocker, you should google what the TÜV is in Germany! 🙂
I can confirm, Volvo selling good in the North American market nowdays.
DAF is from holland, but it's a parte of Paccar Group, the same own Kenworth
for example when u get stuck on the railroad in a truck... the cabin is designed to rip off the chassis upon impact in order for the driver to survive... The cabin intself is connected to the chassis by 2 milled aluminium blocks which break in a collision.
ruclips.net/video/TCO_UCBfBTY/видео.html
Here is an example... this is for u to survive. If the train hits an american truck it would have been much more lethal I think.
In the 80's, everyone who had nearly died in an automobile accident drove Volvo. They just wanted the safest car.
Too bad Mercedes isn't mentioned. At this time by far the safest trucks. Though my heart still lies with Scania.
You drive throu an Exit nobody is in Front of you. Suddenly a car slips in front of you The emergency breaks reacts and you are sitting on you Steering wheel
American cars have always been known for BAD handling compared to european and japanese cars but they have become good handling cars now. Atleast some brands and i think the safety level will come around too the same way as the handling has.
Have you seen the new fully electric Scania trucks? With 750 hp.
Could you let the video run for more than a few seconds before you stop it? Perhaps play a whole section and then comment, stopping every few seconds is really distracting..
the bollards are designed to stop trucks. like so you can't ramm them into goverment buildings military bases and stuff. they are massieve in weight underground to stop trucks dead
I'm pretty sure that the first images of a small car crashing into the front of the Scania, is more about what it would do to the passengers of the car, and less about the driver of the truck. He's high up there, pretty safe. Am I right?
I read something about brake checking being a growing problem, so that could assist in combating the problem.
There is a famous video off a Volvo fh emergency brake that reacted to inches to about to run over a kid,wish was not staged and the kid ran behind a school bus,this was really crazy how tech can save life's.
Have you seen the 4year old girl, remote control a 8x4 FMX? Pretty funny
All of this isn't win win most of the time it will brake for nothing and even my mercedes car has the same problem it panic brakes for nothing....
How can you say the Scania is not your favourite in looks and especially in sound? The V8 has the best stock sound in the world not to speak of its power. For both things esoecially the sound you have to spend a lot of money in different stacks for US trucks to get close to a V8 Scania sound and still they could not hold a candle to the Scania.
The problem with the radar breaking systems is when they apply the break with very little warning or alarm out of no where they startle you as a driver, and can cause the load to shift, accidents do happen involving trucks and collisions etc which its great when it works. but alot of these safety systems in bad weather ie snow etc just turn off and leave it 100% to the driver. same as the adaptive cruise control second it has an issue it just tells the driver to take control which, if your not guarding the brakes when theyre needed could be an issue. So whilst i think some of these systems a cool in the wild theyre not as great.
Would suprise me if Volvo's safety systems aren't fitted to eu and us spec trucks as for the Daf engines being build into eu and us Paccar trucks
Anyone here seen Bruce Wilson's video of his & some truck mechanics reactions to a 1997 scania?
Volvos are the default truck for anybody who only speaks Russian and only wears sandals
DAF is under Paccar these days, so in the same group as Peterbilt and Kenworth
Töötamiseks Volvo/Renault või Scania. Man, daf, mercedes, iveco =💩💩💩💩
Its realy annoying when on open road at night time and you drive out of a tunnel and the AEBS thinks that the edge of tunnel light is some object and it brakes for no reason.
Volvos safety is out of this planet its their main goal they went out and said that their new models car at least don't know about their trucks but I guess they go for them as well but yeah the new safety they have they claim no one in the car will die but they have to pull that back they did this on one of the older cars as well this is what they said (you can drive head on into a brick wall in 40kmh and drive away after they needed to pull that back as well since people actually tried this out 😂
I am surprised that you're surprised about the testing.
Don't they do this in the US?
13:34. La prueba consiste en conseguir que la cabina se desprenda lo suficiente para no separarse y el movimiento asuma el impacto, la deceleración
Those curtain airbags are also good on shielding ypu from glass shards should the window shatter.
2:10 also makes me wonder why people try brake check trucks... crazy
The reason you never see DAF trucks in the US is probably due to the fact that they are owned by the same company who owns Kenworth and Peterbildt
PACCAR
Fiy, you have DAF in the states under the name of peterbild!
Design has gone a bit further than just hoping something works. 🙈🙈
The red truck flip test is actually att Scania technical center and their test track.Never knew why they paved that slope on the track :)
Because otherwise you'd wear it down rather fast, pressing the bank material out on the lower road and necessitate a rebuild.