For many years there has been a huge lack in parking spaces for trucks around the Autobahn. Existing truck stops are always overloaded with trucks parking dangerously on the on-ramps and off-ramps connecting to the Autobahn. In addition the traffic with trucks being limited to 90 and cars being allowed to do practically any speed is dangerous. I've had multiple occasions myself on two-lane parts of the autobahn where one truck would start to overtake another without even checking for cars closing on from behind. If you're coming in at 130 it'll be fine but some people take the whole "no speed limit" thing up to 11.
If you’re going 180 you should be the defensive driver and look out make sure nobody is pulling out infront if you. I’m a service technician and I drive anywhere from ~500-2000km a week. I see way to many people who just because they are going fast, think they own the road.
definetly not! Many interstate highways lack sufficient truck parking for the night, many rest areas don't have any toilet at all or the available toilet is rather dirty and only cleaned every now and then; Many industrial and commercial areas don't want truckers to stay over night and place large obstacles into the parking spots, limiting their length to car and van parking spots. Sure trucks are and remain a vital part to move stuff around, but many places could or should make more use of the rail network. However also rail often lacks free capacity ... on mixed use rail lines you see anything from freight trains to commuter trains, regional trains all the way up to long distance and high speed trains. Those tracks are often running close to full capacity already. Upon that freight traffic by rail is rather expensive and many rail providers can barely provide a reliable time frame when they will get or deliver a freight car to a customer. A truck is cheaper and is more than half-way through the country or even has reached its destination at the other end of the country before rail freight cars are collected and organized to trains at the starting point. With that you see more and more trucks out on the road, which doesn't make the situation any better. Quick look at my village: located right next two 2 highways and 1 main railway line. THe village is split in half, with one half being commercial and industrial area. There you find central and distribution warehouses from several large supermarket chains, postal and logistics companies, car manufacturers, large DIY stores and furniture stores, car dealerships etc ... althought he rail line goes right past the district, even has several staging tracks and used to have connecting tracks to various plots in the district, today 100% of in and outgoing goods traffic is carried out by trucks only, with not any freight train serving the district. All the passenger and freight trains rush past the district at a rather high speed
@@wondermenel2811 they are valid tho? Lack of truck parking is an enormous issue here in Germany. Basically giving the drivers the choice between getting a fine for staying behind the wheel to long or a fine for incorrect parking
Anyone who actually drives a truck for a living knows that Germany is a nightmare to drive in. No space for parking at night, constant construction and traffic, no overtaking for absolutely no reason on many three and four lane stretches. Everyone hates driving in Germany ("stauland"). There is a reason that we all say that Germany is only tolerable at night.
@@Iamtheliquor Wait... You mean to tell me that there is a road that connects those two locations? I thought it was just a long chain of roadworks and excavators... :P
They surely don't have more contractions happening on the road than Italy? I drove from Southern Italy to Austria and I swear I saw construction zones every 10-20km. And Italian drivers drive like lunatics, by far the worst driving of 5 countries I've driven to
From WC USA, Be glad that there is now 2 Autobahns to/through Regensburg! In 1964 when I was stationed there they were under construction but I’m not sure when they were completed, especially the north-south one that was being built through the mountain on the north side of Regensburg! Back then there was was only some small 2 lane roads to/through Regensburg!
My dad worked as a Truckdriver for the german Post (DHL) and was always complaining about the, nearly impossible to reach, goals when it came to transporttimes and the tight cityroads he had to drive through. I guess it is the same situation when it comes to long distance freight. (I think my dad drove the Truck around in what is mostly a 100 km 62mile radius around Darmstadt). It is a tough job if you want to do it right, with loading and unloading freight once about every hour in my dad´s case. I have alot of respect for those guys on the road, most of them are extremely good drivers and are always gratefull if you help them out, by letting them merge into lanes easier for example.
@@davidambrozi8179 not only is it mischaracterising german trucking and the conditions our drivers face, he is also wrong about german colors,mercedes being a particularly expensive brand,etc aswell as just getting stuff plain wrong, german max truck weight isnt 50tons but 40tons, max length isnt 18,75 for semis, its 16,5(straight truck plus trailer is 18,75m but mist people will compare with americam semi length) and a lot more
correction: trucks generally are up to 40 tons instead of 50, although it can be increased to 45 if the truck has a 2nd rear axle, but its not that common.
As a german truck driver i wanna point some things out! 1. The autobahn is nice and all BUT there are so many constructionsites that makes 3 lanes into 2 and that casues the autobahn to stock up for kilometers! The constructioncompanies are deliberately delaying finnishing the construction because when the government pays for the repair or extention for another lane the gov is paying the company monthly wages so they wanna drag out the construction as far as possible! if a non government-entity is paying for the construction they get a bulk sum of money at the start and they ARE fast then! There was construction on all lanes to renew the asphalt! i expected them to take at least half a year if the gov pays them! but they were finnished in 2 months! i was amazed XD! 2. Yes the mercedes is bought most but me and everyone in my company loathes them and we are still FORCED to drive them! around 25% have resigned cause they had to drive a mercedes when we were bought up by a bigger company. they have no power too much gimmick inside and all around not a pleasure to drive! MAN, DAF and Scania are the good ones(my colleagues say scanias are awesome! The only ones who like Mercedes are the companies that buy them not the Drivers themselves! they get discounts i bet! 3. like some comments here yes theres not enough parkingspace in reststops!
Used to love my DAF XF460. Never had the pleasure to try one of the modern mercedes trucks. Only an old one with split gears which was a joy to drive. Didn't know modern Mercedes trucks are that terrible. Good to know.
Yes mercedes trucks have terrible power, I drive rigid mercedes with 290hp in theory and 8 gears... It is much slower than the old DAF LF (210hp, 4 cylinders, 6 gears) we also have, even when using kickdown + manual shifting on the mercedes. Ofcourse DAF XD 400hp is way faster as well, even with full trailer. Craziest thing is that fuel consumption of the mercedes rigid is closer to the XD + full trailer than to the LF rigid. Cheap mercedes reduces costs for the operator but they are garbage trucks for the driver. Im sure a well specced mercedes is a good truck but most are terribly cheap.
Articulated trucks (Tractor trailer/Semi) as shown at 3:18 are in fact limited to 16.5 meters in length. The 18.75 meters goes for what I would guess US would call a straight truck + trailer.
@@PlittHD no, he is right, the fifth-wheel trucks are limited to 16.5m but if u have a drawbar-trailer with a truck that has its own dry van or whatever youre using youre allowed to be up to 18.75m because of the "extra space" that the drawbar takes
@@PlittHD Yes in EU the overall length are measured and for tractor trailers (semi) the maximum total length is 16.5 meters. The 18.75 meters goes for 2 or 3 axle cargo box trucks (straight trucks) + trailer. Then in some countries you have the 25.25 meter trucks (Lang LKW) which exist in different combinations. Link trailer. Cargo box truck + dolly + semi or tractor trailer with a centre axle trailer.
@@martinpoulsen6564You get to be longer in Sweden and Finland. Sweden allowes 34,5 meter and 74 tons and Finland also allowes 34,5 meter but at 76 tons.
Here on the Autobahn it's not uncommon to see a kilometers long chain of Semi trucks all driving along. Sometimes I think the trains are for people and the roads are for goods. As for the famous maintenance of Germany's roads...well that means you can't drive 50km without running into roadwork slowing everything down. Still neat tho
Two things that make worsen the experience of trucking and long distance driving in Germany: There are way too few parking spaces for the trucks currently on the road. Many rest areas are literally overflowing with trucks, some being forced to park on the hard shoulder of the on ramps. Not only does this suck for the drivers of those trucks, it's also pretty dangerous for all road users. The other thing is that we built a lot of our Autobahn network in a relatively short timeframe, leading to many pieces of infrastructure failing at roughly the same time, which happens to be right now. For example, the Autobahn 45, a very important link, especially for trucks, in western Germany, is notorious for being more construction work than normal Autobahn at this point. Recently, a bridge on that route was found to be in such a poor condition that it had to be torn down completely, sending motorway traffic through the nearest town. That being said, it's overall still a more than usable road network. One can only hope that we find proper solutions to the issues we have today, and it could even become a great network.
we might have nice roads here in Germany, but quality wise they are very bad when comparing them to our neighbor to the east, the Netherlands. Their roads, highway and rural, are from another world. They are always extremely well paved, no potholes or little patches. German roads, especially urban, tend to be a clusterfuck of patchwork. Every construction site uses a different pavement to fill the road up after finishing the work, which results in ugly roads and, depending on the pavement used, sections of the road being completely scattered with potholes or bumps.
Ohh yeah. In my town (2000 people) we have roads straight from the 70s on some stretches mostly bombarded with fixes which makes them so uncomfortable to drive on. But you have to say that the parts of the Autobahn which are not under construction are often nicely paved
There are massive holes in the Antwerp ringroad, I know exactly where they are because they've been there for years and I deliver to Belgium once a week. Delivery starts from NL, ofcourse roads are smooth here but one winter I noticed a pothole formed on my usual route... Next week it was patched, but it was still a bit rough so they came back again and made it smooth.
Great video! my dad had been a trucker in germany for almost 25 years, always took me and our dachshund with him, it was so cool and made me gain so much respect for truckers, furthermore he let me steer the truck in the company on occassion, now imagine a 4 year old parking a truck xD. we got caught by ice on the A5 while uphill, he just locked the diff and let the tires spin until they melted the ice and the truck regained traction, I love my dad man.... what i would give to get these times back
Me and my dad always watch videos you made. We love it especially my dad. My father is a retired truck driver. He drove leather from Italy to the Netherlands for 40 years.
Might be my personal opinion but so many times the frequently praised Autobahn is simply a nightmare to drive on. With the biggest issue mainly the no speed limit thing. I mean it's great and all when you can utilize it, but far more often it is simply too crowded to safely do so, and it leads to many preventable dangerous situations. It just doesn't work to have a two lane highway, sometimes even without a hard shoulder, with the right lane completely filled with trucks nose to end going 90km/h and the left lane occupied by everybody else, and still having to move left and right because you can't restrict the cars that "have the right" to go as fast as they want, especially if you have a car that can't easily go 200km/h
trucking through Germany is amazing, but as a dutchman, trucking in the Netherlands is just that 1 step better. better, cleaner facilities. more/better handling of main artery roads. on/off ramps that are longer than 100 meters and that don't end in a flat 90 degree corner right at the end. funny thing about those is, they're called "Ausfahrt" in Germany, or at least plenty of them are marked with that, which translates to "exit." but it also sounds suspiciously like the Dutch word Uitvaart, which translates to funeral... that, and here in the low lands we're already running rigs up to 25.25 meters and 60 ton limit for economic and environmental reasons. can't hold a candle to the fine folks down under, but we're making strides.
I'm a truck driver for the Norwegian national postal service (Posten Norge). I drive locally to pick up mail. The fleet for local driving is mostly Mercedes Atmos. I borderline loathe that truck. The mirrors are way too large, and they don't have a split so you can see behind the mirrors. This have caused many nasty surprises with motorcyclists. The infotainment system crashes constantly, The display have 20-30 different pages, yet only 4 of them do I find remotely useful, as opposed to Scania, where I found myself using nearly every single page on their display (plus you can even pin a page to the top half!) The truck keeps disabling the lift, so I need to keep the truck running on idle to use the lift, It doesn't change gears when slowing down unless I come to a full stop. When I approach a roundabout, do I always keep rolling (as I've been taught), but because of this, does the truck keep it's 5th (of 8) gear, so when I can drive into the roundabout is the truck not ready to drive because it needs to change into 2nd gear, and my window of opportunity is now gone, and I need to come to a full stop anyway. My boss have told me that he has received a ton of complaints from the other truckers about the Mercedes Atmos trucks. The only other brand I've driven is Scania, and my god is that superior to the Mercedes Atmos in every way I can think of.
Do you mean Antos? What used to be Antos has been renamed to Actros now, so it must be an older truck. The issue you described with the gearbox is also my experience with older trucks (MP2/MP3), newer MP4 I drove did a reasonably well job, at least most of the time. But I have also talked to a Mercedes Trainer that the described issue is a often a driver error because drivers approach too fast without making use of the retarder, at least he told me since they offered additional training, they didn't have problems any more.
There are so many beautiful clips of "Sascha LKW Fahrnünftig" a retired trucker from Germany who uploaded many clips (over 300 episodes) over many years driving for Hermes in an Actros. He wouldn't go 2000 km without a false emergency brake and the gearbox was also a thing he had issues with
You will also see quite a sum of Renault trucks here. The Renault Magnum was very popular in the 2000s, and the new T-Series is getting a lot of customers too. 2:52 Truck tired. Truck goes to sleep now.
As a full time euro truck simulator 2 player, I can say that the lack speeding tickets on the larger roads of Germany, make going thru them, very pleasing
Reasons why Germany kinda sucks for trucking: 1) The Autobahn is terrible for truck drivers. Constant roadworks and insane traffic jams make it an absolute nightmare to drive anywhere reliably. Outside of that, truck stops are mostly very small with quite terrible amenities that are run-down. No speed limit is fun until you realize that many parts of the Autobahn only have 2 lanes to drive on, meaning that it takes just 1 or 2 old people to put down the average speed to 80km/h 2) Quite often, they have to drive through smaller towns, which is an absolute nightmare. There is a large amount of streets across Germany that have no street markings and are barely wide enough for two passenger vehicles to pass each other, making it a nightmare to traverse for larger trucks 3) The regulations are very strict (true for all EU countries). American trucks are wayy more comfortable, as they are longer and have more room in the back to sleep in.
The autobahn is completely overrated internationally, anytime I've had to drive it its not efficient, full of construction, congestion, stopped traffic, and just generally not pleasant to drive on at all.
sure some stretches are more affected by traffic jams than others, and so are some periods of time more affected by construction works (especially holidays). But there are also lots of sections where you can travel across the country without much disturbance, without numerous and long construction zones etc
i'm not a gamer so when i saw the midtown madness video i just kept going by. but since you said it's the best thing on this channel, i'll check it out. glad your back making these beautiful bite-sized morsels, too
Some details are missing: Trucks are not allowed to exceed 80km/h on the Autobahn, but most drive 92km/h because when they get caught they deduct at least 2km/h and under 11km/h over they just face a 60€ fine. It´s not uncommon to be on the right lane and have a Truck overtake you if you go under 100km/h. On county roads they should not exceed 60km/h, this rule is not really strictly enforced, as far as I know. Some shipping companies still obey to this law, like Aldi, where the driver is monitored by GPS and gets a pay bonus for driving slow. Personally I think this law ist dated and should be changed.... In general you´ll see moore eastern european registered Trucks on the road than german, for example romania, poland, czech..... This is because there is a lack of drivers for the high demand. The gouvernment is alway saying that they want to put moore freight on rail, but that takes time. The Deutschebahn was a state owned railway till 1994. Then they thought it was a good idea to privatise the company. The managers got bonuses for saving money, so they got rid of all backup tracks and now they are building them again. lol Like many others pointed out the general weight limit is 40 Tons dedicted by axle weight limits, but I don´t know how that actually works. And of cours the lack of parking spaces is very noticable. Some industrial complexes even put in concrete placeholders to stop trucks from parking there. It´s actually really dumb. Having trucks deliver everything and banning them from parking. In general we have good roads, but that come at the cost of having many many constructions.
Citys here in Germany can be tight as Hell. Was working for Garbage collection sadly didn't drive the Truck but there were spots were you had to fold mirrors or just stay at the road and cause a huge jam. And the Parking problem on the Autobahn is terrible since years and it keeps getting worse. Roads which only "the locals know" can be in very bad condition in rural areas. In general the bigger roads are ok or good to drive on. But we have lots of Baustelle which often take forever to complete you dont see a progress for weeks sometimes or you see one guy in an Extravator sitting in a 6km building site. Poor guy
Hey dude, love your videos. Would you consider putting Norwegian Trucking on your list? Truckers here are proud of what they do and their trucks show that.
As with any German manufacturer they move their production facilities cheaper countries such as Poland and Turkey. All their city busses are made in poland for example
@@an2thea514 Beginning 1893 Rudolf Diesel puzzled for four years with future MAN engineers in a laboratory in Augsburg until his first diesel engine was completed and fully functional.
Please redo this video - as other people pointed out German Trucking is far from the best. Truckers work awful hours, are treated terribly and are under huge stress to make tight deadlines. The German trucking industry also has to compete with cheaper eastern european companies which can be very hard to do. Add to that insanely expensive Diesel and another upcoming increase in tolls and you are in for a lot of bankrupt trucking companies. Furthermore its almost impossible to find parking as a trucker in Germany or clean toilets for that matter. Your focus on styling also seems odd as there are very strict rules here especially regarding lights and other addons.
Well I wanna correct something, the maximum allowed weight is 40 tons, it may be raised to 44 tons for intermodal transport Also, the max length is 18.75m, yes but it's for truck and trailer combination It's only 16.5m for tractor trailer combinations
One thing I can think of, is how the trailers look safer to hit if you did run into one. The American trailers look like they're there to protect the cargo over the person hitting the trailer.
Wooooo, one of my home countries. Just need Poland now!!! Always happy to see another one of your videos. Really brings joy to my day to hear you talk about your interests
you may have a point, but honestly I get really annoyed at all the trucks on the Autobahn, the best solution both for our climate and everyone else in traffic would just be to put all the freight on rail. Use trucks as a last resort where rail is not possible, and to deliver the cargo its last mile, from the train hub to its destination. There also is way to little infrastructure to support all of those trucks, many can't properly park at night due to a lack of parking spaces and have to drive into nearby villages, cluttering the streets there.
sadly that needs a lot of investment into the rail network....which doesn't seem to be coming soon I am also a big fan of allowing trucks on rails in a Roll On, Roll Off model
Actually it seems impossible. E.g. the A4 between Poland and Dresden would need a new high capacity railroad (20 trains/h) and full loaded trains to get most of the truck traffic in rail (doesn't include terminals or passenger rail). It's clearly no political goal to build this megaprojects - other projects (Hamburg-Hannover, Mannheim-Basel) are blocked by politicians and NIMBYS or take eternities (Mannheim - Basel ~2050).
As a (former) truck driver I fully agree, but our government has continuously mistreated our rail infrastructure and now we're suffering the consequences. Huge investments need to be made now, but at the same time the road infrastructure needs huge investments as well to keep it from crumbling and to improve working conditions for drivers (e.g. more and better parking spaces etc.)
aside of the lack pf parking that is mentioned below there is also a big problem in the job culture surrounding trucking. The job is not very attractive to young germans and most replacements for retired workers come from east europe creating problematic competition (since they can work different hours) and working conditions for the new workers since they work far more away from family then the german drivers and suffer from exploitation since they are sometimes not bound to german labour laws. The job also gets more and more lonely since language barriers build up among truckers.
I drive with my truck from Italy to Germany trough Switzerland. The difference between drivers in Italy and Germany is night and day. At least I turn the left signal on the autobahn and cars go to the 3rd lane. Not like in iotaly that they're on their phone and crash in to my trailer even trough they were like good km away,
In ets 2, yeah. I can drive as fast as I can in smooth mostly straight highway, not like england that have winding highway. And no speed camera on the highway.
It is depressing to drive on German highways at night and see truckers park on the side of a motorway (!!!!) because there isn't enough parking for them....
the reason trucks look rather simple in germany is, that nearly all trucks are companie owned, and while lightbars and stuff look cool, from an economic view, they only cost money ...
I drive often in Germany by truck. It seems 80% of trucks have a Polish license plate and their drivers are from former Soviet countries. I speak German but most of my colleagues dont.
There are two quite considerste drawbacks in Germany. 1: the amount of road works. Don't know why, but there seams to be to much roadworks in Germany, even compared to countries with simular quality roads. 2: the very low limit on length and weight.
the length limit is the same in quite a few countries, the weight probably as well. As for the roadworks there's just an entirely different standard and expectation to the quality and thus the need to maintain and repair the surface is met way earlier. The very same pothole might be still good in Poland but would need instant basic repair in Germany. Also makes sense: driving through said pothole at 140 kph or 240 kph makes quite a difference. Also the wear and tear on German roads due to the insane traffic loads is quite a bit higher than in most countries, as Germany is one of the few countries in central Europe with lots of throughgoing traffic in all directions
@@EnjoyFirefighting True, but roadworks can also be a good thing if you want crack or potholes to be gone. Sometimes they also have to replace the heating pipes under the road, you don't want a ruptured steam pipe? Of coarse, there are some roadworks lasting for months.
@@automation7295 we don't have any heating pipes under the road. We have lots of roadworks which last for years, and when they're done with a site at one end they basically have to start over again at the other end. Porous asphalt lasts only 10 years before it needs to be resurfaced. Lots of small potholes are quickly repaired with cold instant asphalt, which however doesn't last very long, so it has to be done over and over again, and with the next spring it sums up with new potholes, larger potholes etc Germany faces lots of short time and long time road construction zones and lots of repair being necessary right after the winter
Yeah nice video but you didnt say any of the core problems of german trucksworld. That you cant drive on sunday and the fare to few parking spaces for trucks. Specifically free parkingspace become rare. That is big problem for eastern europe lkw driver who typically dont get no money for such things.
induced demand? Larger highways will pull larger amounts of traffic and won't solve traffic problems. Sure they look impressive, but that's about it. Sure 2 lanes might not be sufficient in a place where you need 4 or 5 lanes, but at some point it's ust not necessary to have e.g. 3 lanes everywhere, or to add another and yet another lane to "solve" traffic problems
If you have 2 lanes traffic will come until it's congested then they look for alternatives such as trains or even remote jobs. Then they add a lane so traffic flows again. Now traffic increases until it's congested. Now people look for alternatives such as trains or remote jobs. Then they add alane so traffic flows again. rinse and repeat The 10+ lane highways of the US don't have trafifc flowing either.
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"Excessive potholes", "Overwhelmingly drab landscape", "Ten lane Highway". LMFAO he just had to maim, kill and execute American road standards. Nice! 🤣🤣🤣
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its kinda sad that the Deutsche Bahn is one of the biggest trucking companies on the planet. shouldnt it be the goal to move transportation of goods on rail? i think its kinda cynical that a railway company is doing so much trucking
It always confuses me when non-germans call it "the autobahn" as if it was a singular road or a special type of road, not found anywhere else. "Autobahn" is just the german word for highway / interstate so if the video is in english, why not call it that? It's basically the same as in any other country with the exception of it beeing partialy non-speedlimited (but even then you get hit with a construction zone every few kilometers which slows you down again, crushing your dreams of becoming one with the speed force).
For many years there has been a huge lack in parking spaces for trucks around the Autobahn. Existing truck stops are always overloaded with trucks parking dangerously on the on-ramps and off-ramps connecting to the Autobahn. In addition the traffic with trucks being limited to 90 and cars being allowed to do practically any speed is dangerous. I've had multiple occasions myself on two-lane parts of the autobahn where one truck would start to overtake another without even checking for cars closing on from behind. If you're coming in at 130 it'll be fine but some people take the whole "no speed limit" thing up to 11.
i am a frequent victim of elefantenrennen :)
@@fazeobama8872man I love German words
If you’re going 180 you should be the defensive driver and look out make sure nobody is pulling out infront if you. I’m a service technician and I drive anywhere from ~500-2000km a week. I see way to many people who just because they are going fast, think they own the road.
11 km/h is not that fast. It's actually less than 130 km/h
It’s the same way in the USA and gets worse in the northern part of the USA
definetly not!
Many interstate highways lack sufficient truck parking for the night, many rest areas don't have any toilet at all or the available toilet is rather dirty and only cleaned every now and then; Many industrial and commercial areas don't want truckers to stay over night and place large obstacles into the parking spots, limiting their length to car and van parking spots.
Sure trucks are and remain a vital part to move stuff around, but many places could or should make more use of the rail network. However also rail often lacks free capacity ... on mixed use rail lines you see anything from freight trains to commuter trains, regional trains all the way up to long distance and high speed trains. Those tracks are often running close to full capacity already. Upon that freight traffic by rail is rather expensive and many rail providers can barely provide a reliable time frame when they will get or deliver a freight car to a customer. A truck is cheaper and is more than half-way through the country or even has reached its destination at the other end of the country before rail freight cars are collected and organized to trains at the starting point. With that you see more and more trucks out on the road, which doesn't make the situation any better.
Quick look at my village: located right next two 2 highways and 1 main railway line. THe village is split in half, with one half being commercial and industrial area. There you find central and distribution warehouses from several large supermarket chains, postal and logistics companies, car manufacturers, large DIY stores and furniture stores, car dealerships etc ... althought he rail line goes right past the district, even has several staging tracks and used to have connecting tracks to various plots in the district, today 100% of in and outgoing goods traffic is carried out by trucks only, with not any freight train serving the district. All the passenger and freight trains rush past the district at a rather high speed
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If there is one universal thing it's the lack of safe havens for truckers.
all true!
The moment you said "interstate" you arguements became no longer valid
@@wondermenel2811 they are valid tho? Lack of truck parking is an enormous issue here in Germany.
Basically giving the drivers the choice between getting a fine for staying behind the wheel to long or a fine for incorrect parking
Anyone who actually drives a truck for a living knows that Germany is a nightmare to drive in. No space for parking at night, constant construction and traffic, no overtaking for absolutely no reason on many three and four lane stretches. Everyone hates driving in Germany ("stauland"). There is a reason that we all say that Germany is only tolerable at night.
It once took me 4hrs 25 mins from Geiselwind truck stop to Regensburg on the A3…. In the middle of the night.
@@Iamtheliquor Wait... You mean to tell me that there is a road that connects those two locations? I thought it was just a long chain of roadworks and excavators... :P
They surely don't have more contractions happening on the road than Italy? I drove from Southern Italy to Austria and I swear I saw construction zones every 10-20km. And Italian drivers drive like lunatics, by far the worst driving of 5 countries I've driven to
Absolutely true bro
From WC USA, Be glad that there is now 2 Autobahns to/through Regensburg! In 1964 when I was stationed there they were under construction but I’m not sure when they were completed, especially the north-south one that was being built through the mountain on the north side of Regensburg! Back then there was was only some small 2 lane roads to/through Regensburg!
My dad worked as a Truckdriver for the german Post (DHL) and was always complaining about the, nearly impossible to reach, goals when it came to transporttimes and the tight cityroads he had to drive through. I guess it is the same situation when it comes to long distance freight. (I think my dad drove the Truck around in what is mostly a 100 km 62mile radius around Darmstadt). It is a tough job if you want to do it right, with loading and unloading freight once about every hour in my dad´s case.
I have alot of respect for those guys on the road, most of them are extremely good drivers and are always gratefull if you help them out, by letting them merge into lanes easier for example.
Good video, but the lack of truck parking is an enormous problem which shouldn't be put under the rug
as a german i must say this video glosses over quite a few key details...
its basically the wrongest video i have ever seen on german trucking
You should make your own video
@@gregyoungman i am not a videographer, i am a truck driver, i cant make videos but i can damn well tell when one is simply bad
@stevengunter4990 what's wrong with the video? I don't know about trucking but it's interesting to learn about
@@davidambrozi8179 not only is it mischaracterising german trucking and the conditions our drivers face, he is also wrong about german colors,mercedes being a particularly expensive brand,etc aswell as just getting stuff plain wrong, german max truck weight isnt 50tons but 40tons, max length isnt 18,75 for semis, its 16,5(straight truck plus trailer is 18,75m but mist people will compare with americam semi length) and a lot more
correction: trucks generally are up to 40 tons instead of 50, although it can be increased to 45 if the truck has a 2nd rear axle, but its not that common.
also wrong, it can be incresed to 44 tons if the truck transports a 40foot+ container in intermodal transport, everything else is permit based
@@stevengunter4990 oh I did not know that. Explains why we only see the 40 ton trucks then
As a german truck driver i wanna point some things out!
1. The autobahn is nice and all BUT there are so many constructionsites that makes 3 lanes into 2 and that casues the autobahn to stock up for kilometers! The constructioncompanies are deliberately delaying finnishing the construction because when the government pays for the repair or extention for another lane the gov is paying the company monthly wages so they wanna drag out the construction as far as possible! if a non government-entity is paying for the construction they get a bulk sum of money at the start and they ARE fast then! There was construction on all lanes to renew the asphalt! i expected them to take at least half a year if the gov pays them! but they were finnished in 2 months! i was amazed XD!
2. Yes the mercedes is bought most but me and everyone in my company loathes them and we are still FORCED to drive them!
around 25% have resigned cause they had to drive a mercedes when we were bought up by a bigger company. they have no power too much gimmick inside and all around not a pleasure to drive! MAN, DAF and Scania are the good ones(my colleagues say scanias are awesome! The only ones who like Mercedes are the companies that buy them not the Drivers themselves! they get discounts i bet!
3. like some comments here yes theres not enough parkingspace in reststops!
Used to love my DAF XF460. Never had the pleasure to try one of the modern mercedes trucks. Only an old one with split gears which was a joy to drive.
Didn't know modern Mercedes trucks are that terrible. Good to know.
Yes mercedes trucks have terrible power, I drive rigid mercedes with 290hp in theory and 8 gears...
It is much slower than the old DAF LF (210hp, 4 cylinders, 6 gears) we also have, even when using kickdown + manual shifting on the mercedes.
Ofcourse DAF XD 400hp is way faster as well, even with full trailer.
Craziest thing is that fuel consumption of the mercedes rigid is closer to the XD + full trailer than to the LF rigid.
Cheap mercedes reduces costs for the operator but they are garbage trucks for the driver. Im sure a well specced mercedes is a good truck but most are terribly cheap.
Articulated trucks (Tractor trailer/Semi) as shown at 3:18 are in fact limited to 16.5 meters in length. The 18.75 meters goes for what I would guess US would call a straight truck + trailer.
@@PlittHD no, he is right, the fifth-wheel trucks are limited to 16.5m but if u have a drawbar-trailer with a truck that has its own dry van or whatever youre using youre allowed to be up to 18.75m because of the "extra space" that the drawbar takes
@@PlittHD Yes in EU the overall length are measured and for tractor trailers (semi) the maximum total length is 16.5 meters. The 18.75 meters goes for 2 or 3 axle cargo box trucks (straight trucks) + trailer. Then in some countries you have the 25.25 meter trucks (Lang LKW) which exist in different combinations. Link trailer. Cargo box truck + dolly + semi or tractor trailer with a centre axle trailer.
You don't get to be longer with a rear steer axle, as long as you fit inside the turn radius? Only by permit?
@@martinpoulsen6564You get to be longer in Sweden and Finland. Sweden allowes 34,5 meter and 74 tons and Finland also allowes 34,5 meter but at 76 tons.
Here on the Autobahn it's not uncommon to see a kilometers long chain of Semi trucks all driving along. Sometimes I think the trains are for people and the roads are for goods.
As for the famous maintenance of Germany's roads...well that means you can't drive 50km without running into roadwork slowing everything down. Still neat tho
Two things that make worsen the experience of trucking and long distance driving in Germany: There are way too few parking spaces for the trucks currently on the road. Many rest areas are literally overflowing with trucks, some being forced to park on the hard shoulder of the on ramps. Not only does this suck for the drivers of those trucks, it's also pretty dangerous for all road users.
The other thing is that we built a lot of our Autobahn network in a relatively short timeframe, leading to many pieces of infrastructure failing at roughly the same time, which happens to be right now. For example, the Autobahn 45, a very important link, especially for trucks, in western Germany, is notorious for being more construction work than normal Autobahn at this point. Recently, a bridge on that route was found to be in such a poor condition that it had to be torn down completely, sending motorway traffic through the nearest town.
That being said, it's overall still a more than usable road network. One can only hope that we find proper solutions to the issues we have today, and it could even become a great network.
we might have nice roads here in Germany, but quality wise they are very bad when comparing them to our neighbor to the east, the Netherlands. Their roads, highway and rural, are from another world. They are always extremely well paved, no potholes or little patches. German roads, especially urban, tend to be a clusterfuck of patchwork. Every construction site uses a different pavement to fill the road up after finishing the work, which results in ugly roads and, depending on the pavement used, sections of the road being completely scattered with potholes or bumps.
Ohh yeah. In my town (2000 people) we have roads straight from the 70s on some stretches mostly bombarded with fixes which makes them so uncomfortable to drive on. But you have to say that the parts of the Autobahn which are not under construction are often nicely paved
Where I live tolled motorways have potholes
...that all ends when you hit Belgium!
There are massive holes in the Antwerp ringroad, I know exactly where they are because they've been there for years and I deliver to Belgium once a week. Delivery starts from NL, ofcourse roads are smooth here but one winter I noticed a pothole formed on my usual route... Next week it was patched, but it was still a bit rough so they came back again and made it smooth.
Great video! my dad had been a trucker in germany for almost 25 years, always took me and our dachshund with him, it was so cool and made me gain so much respect for truckers, furthermore he let me steer the truck in the company on occassion, now imagine a 4 year old parking a truck xD.
we got caught by ice on the A5 while uphill, he just locked the diff and let the tires spin until they melted the ice and the truck regained traction, I love my dad
man.... what i would give to get these times back
Me and my dad always watch videos you made. We love it especially my dad. My father is a retired truck driver. He drove leather from Italy to the Netherlands for 40 years.
Might be my personal opinion but so many times the frequently praised Autobahn is simply a nightmare to drive on. With the biggest issue mainly the no speed limit thing. I mean it's great and all when you can utilize it, but far more often it is simply too crowded to safely do so, and it leads to many preventable dangerous situations. It just doesn't work to have a two lane highway, sometimes even without a hard shoulder, with the right lane completely filled with trucks nose to end going 90km/h and the left lane occupied by everybody else, and still having to move left and right because you can't restrict the cars that "have the right" to go as fast as they want, especially if you have a car that can't easily go 200km/h
trucking through Germany is amazing, but as a dutchman, trucking in the Netherlands is just that 1 step better.
better, cleaner facilities.
more/better handling of main artery roads.
on/off ramps that are longer than 100 meters and that don't end in a flat 90 degree corner right at the end.
funny thing about those is, they're called "Ausfahrt" in Germany, or at least plenty of them are marked with that, which translates to "exit."
but it also sounds suspiciously like the Dutch word Uitvaart, which translates to funeral...
that, and here in the low lands we're already running rigs up to 25.25 meters and 60 ton limit for economic and environmental reasons.
can't hold a candle to the fine folks down under, but we're making strides.
I'm a truck driver for the Norwegian national postal service (Posten Norge). I drive locally to pick up mail. The fleet for local driving is mostly Mercedes Atmos.
I borderline loathe that truck. The mirrors are way too large, and they don't have a split so you can see behind the mirrors. This have caused many nasty surprises with motorcyclists.
The infotainment system crashes constantly,
The display have 20-30 different pages, yet only 4 of them do I find remotely useful, as opposed to Scania, where I found myself using nearly every single page on their display (plus you can even pin a page to the top half!)
The truck keeps disabling the lift, so I need to keep the truck running on idle to use the lift,
It doesn't change gears when slowing down unless I come to a full stop. When I approach a roundabout, do I always keep rolling (as I've been taught), but because of this, does the truck keep it's 5th (of 8) gear, so when I can drive into the roundabout is the truck not ready to drive because it needs to change into 2nd gear, and my window of opportunity is now gone, and I need to come to a full stop anyway.
My boss have told me that he has received a ton of complaints from the other truckers about the Mercedes Atmos trucks.
The only other brand I've driven is Scania, and my god is that superior to the Mercedes Atmos in every way I can think of.
Mercedes doesn't even sell a truck called Atmos. You're either driving an Actros or an Atego
Do you mean Antos? What used to be Antos has been renamed to Actros now, so it must be an older truck. The issue you described with the gearbox is also my experience with older trucks (MP2/MP3), newer MP4 I drove did a reasonably well job, at least most of the time. But I have also talked to a Mercedes Trainer that the described issue is a often a driver error because drivers approach too fast without making use of the retarder, at least he told me since they offered additional training, they didn't have problems any more.
There are so many beautiful clips of "Sascha LKW Fahrnünftig" a retired trucker from Germany who uploaded many clips (over 300 episodes) over many years driving for Hermes in an Actros. He wouldn't go 2000 km without a false emergency brake and the gearbox was also a thing he had issues with
You will also see quite a sum of Renault trucks here. The Renault Magnum was very popular in the 2000s, and the new T-Series is getting a lot of customers too.
2:52 Truck tired. Truck goes to sleep now.
For someone planning to get into the German trucking industry, I'm pleased for this information.
As a full time euro truck simulator 2 player, I can say that the lack speeding tickets on the larger roads of Germany, make going thru them, very pleasing
with a truck you get speeding tickets irk tho
Reasons why Germany kinda sucks for trucking:
1) The Autobahn is terrible for truck drivers. Constant roadworks and insane traffic jams make it an absolute nightmare to drive anywhere reliably. Outside of that, truck stops are mostly very small with quite terrible amenities that are run-down. No speed limit is fun until you realize that many parts of the Autobahn only have 2 lanes to drive on, meaning that it takes just 1 or 2 old people to put down the average speed to 80km/h
2) Quite often, they have to drive through smaller towns, which is an absolute nightmare. There is a large amount of streets across Germany that have no street markings and are barely wide enough for two passenger vehicles to pass each other, making it a nightmare to traverse for larger trucks
3) The regulations are very strict (true for all EU countries). American trucks are wayy more comfortable, as they are longer and have more room in the back to sleep in.
I love how short and sweet these vids are
Forgot to mention that freight trucks aren’t allowed on highways on sundays.
Someone needs to tell the drivers then. All you see are big rigs on the Autobahn around Hof and Weiden.
The autobahn is completely overrated internationally, anytime I've had to drive it its not efficient, full of construction, congestion, stopped traffic, and just generally not pleasant to drive on at all.
sure some stretches are more affected by traffic jams than others, and so are some periods of time more affected by construction works (especially holidays). But there are also lots of sections where you can travel across the country without much disturbance, without numerous and long construction zones etc
i'm not a gamer so when i saw the midtown madness video i just kept going by. but since you said it's the best thing on this channel, i'll check it out. glad your back making these beautiful bite-sized morsels, too
Some details are missing: Trucks are not allowed to exceed 80km/h on the Autobahn, but most drive 92km/h because when they get caught they deduct at least 2km/h and under 11km/h over they just face a 60€ fine. It´s not uncommon to be on the right lane and have a Truck overtake you if you go under 100km/h.
On county roads they should not exceed 60km/h, this rule is not really strictly enforced, as far as I know. Some shipping companies still obey to this law, like Aldi, where the driver is monitored by GPS and gets a pay bonus for driving slow. Personally I think this law ist dated and should be changed....
In general you´ll see moore eastern european registered Trucks on the road than german, for example romania, poland, czech..... This is because there is a lack of drivers for the high demand. The gouvernment is alway saying that they want to put moore freight on rail, but that takes time. The Deutschebahn was a state owned railway till 1994. Then they thought it was a good idea to privatise the company. The managers got bonuses for saving money, so they got rid of all backup tracks and now they are building them again. lol
Like many others pointed out the general weight limit is 40 Tons dedicted by axle weight limits, but I don´t know how that actually works.
And of cours the lack of parking spaces is very noticable. Some industrial complexes even put in concrete placeholders to stop trucks from parking there. It´s actually really dumb. Having trucks deliver everything and banning them from parking.
In general we have good roads, but that come at the cost of having many many constructions.
Citys here in Germany can be tight as Hell. Was working for Garbage collection sadly didn't drive the Truck but there were spots were you had to fold mirrors or just stay at the road and cause a huge jam. And the Parking problem on the Autobahn is terrible since years and it keeps getting worse. Roads which only "the locals know" can be in very bad condition in rural areas. In general the bigger roads are ok or good to drive on. But we have lots of Baustelle which often take forever to complete you dont see a progress for weeks sometimes or you see one guy in an Extravator sitting in a 6km building site. Poor guy
Hey dude, love your videos. Would you consider putting Norwegian Trucking on your list? Truckers here are proud of what they do and their trucks show that.
That's a different breed... Mountain trucking in winter in Norway isn't for the faint-hearted. Chain up!
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1:40 the reason being, you are limited on how much light you can have forward
3:20 we also have gigaliner (25,25m)
Mercedes-Benz and MAN are two major truck brands of Germany. Speaking of MAN, it's headquartered in Munich just like the luxury car brand, BMW.
Fun fact: The Diesel Engine was invented by Rudolf Diesel at MAN.
As with any German manufacturer they move their production facilities cheaper countries such as Poland and Turkey.
All their city busses are made in poland for example
@@jonny2954 at MAN? I've been told Rudolf worked at Deutz when he invented Diesel.
@@an2thea514 Beginning 1893 Rudolf Diesel puzzled for four years with future MAN engineers in a laboratory in Augsburg until his first diesel engine was completed and fully functional.
God bless everyone. Have a good day.
Short answer: ye
Long answer: ...yes
Please redo this video - as other people pointed out German Trucking is far from the best.
Truckers work awful hours, are treated terribly and are under huge stress to make tight deadlines.
The German trucking industry also has to compete with cheaper eastern european companies which can be very hard to do. Add to that insanely expensive Diesel and another upcoming increase in tolls and you are in for a lot of bankrupt trucking companies.
Furthermore its almost impossible to find parking as a trucker in Germany or clean toilets for that matter.
Your focus on styling also seems odd as there are very strict rules here especially regarding lights and other addons.
i know these short vids do better but still that midtown madness vid was awesome, keep up the variety!
Well I wanna correct something, the maximum allowed weight is 40 tons, it may be raised to 44 tons for intermodal transport
Also, the max length is 18.75m, yes but it's for truck and trailer combination
It's only 16.5m for tractor trailer combinations
He’s on a roll!
The Autobahn is one big construction site. And nothing is well maintained, there is a lack of truck parking spaces.
Truck drivers in germany deserve more respect
My boy back
One thing I can think of, is how the trailers look safer to hit if you did run into one. The American trailers look like they're there to protect the cargo over the person hitting the trailer.
Nice video man, keep up the good work! (You could have spoken a bit more about MAN )
Wooooo, one of my home countries. Just need Poland now!!!
Always happy to see another one of your videos. Really brings joy to my day to hear you talk about your interests
My uncle is a trucker in europe, he says that in the recent years there has been more thieves on parking lots, especially in germany and france.
Autobahn traffic jams deserve an episode on it’s own😂
you may have a point, but honestly I get really annoyed at all the trucks on the Autobahn, the best solution both for our climate and everyone else in traffic would just be to put all the freight on rail. Use trucks as a last resort where rail is not possible, and to deliver the cargo its last mile, from the train hub to its destination.
There also is way to little infrastructure to support all of those trucks, many can't properly park at night due to a lack of parking spaces and have to drive into nearby villages, cluttering the streets there.
sadly that needs a lot of investment into the rail network....which doesn't seem to be coming soon
I am also a big fan of allowing trucks on rails in a Roll On, Roll Off model
Actually it seems impossible.
E.g. the A4 between Poland and Dresden would need a new high capacity railroad (20 trains/h) and full loaded trains to get most of the truck traffic in rail (doesn't include terminals or passenger rail). It's clearly no political goal to build this megaprojects - other projects (Hamburg-Hannover, Mannheim-Basel) are blocked by politicians and NIMBYS or take eternities (Mannheim - Basel ~2050).
As a (former) truck driver I fully agree, but our government has continuously mistreated our rail infrastructure and now we're suffering the consequences. Huge investments need to be made now, but at the same time the road infrastructure needs huge investments as well to keep it from crumbling and to improve working conditions for drivers (e.g. more and better parking spaces etc.)
aside of the lack pf parking that is mentioned below there is also a big problem in the job culture surrounding trucking. The job is not very attractive to young germans and most replacements for retired workers come from east europe creating problematic competition (since they can work different hours) and working conditions for the new workers since they work far more away from family then the german drivers and suffer from exploitation since they are sometimes not bound to german labour laws. The job also gets more and more lonely since language barriers build up among truckers.
I suggest making a video of what it is like driving trucks from country to country in the EU
Could you make a video about Polish Trucking next?
2:34 bro really pulled up with ass fart there
Nice video, but I think you made an error with the maximum weight. It's 40 metric tonnes or 44 for container trucks instead of 50.
44 only for 40foot containers and a 3 axle tractor tho
I drive with my truck from Italy to Germany trough Switzerland. The difference between drivers in Italy and Germany is night and day. At least I turn the left signal on the autobahn and cars go to the 3rd lane. Not like in iotaly that they're on their phone and crash in to my trailer even trough they were like good km away,
In ets 2, yeah. I can drive as fast as I can in smooth mostly straight highway, not like england that have winding highway. And no speed camera on the highway.
Mostly because Germany was completely rebuild in ETS2 after 1.34. Speed cameras are also present.
It is depressing to drive on German highways at night and see truckers park on the side of a motorway (!!!!) because there isn't enough parking for them....
1:22. not a truck btw but a tracktor
the reason trucks look rather simple in germany is, that nearly all trucks are companie owned, and while lightbars and stuff look cool, from an economic view, they only cost money ...
hey! can you do a video on trucking in tuvalu pleaseeee????
Now we know why every ETS2 driver go there
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Keep on trucking
A video on Germany? I believe in Germany in this situation we say "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Kommentarbereich"
Can you please make a video about tugboats
HOLY SHIT TRUCK ON
Great video
I drive often in Germany by truck. It seems 80% of trucks have a Polish license plate and their drivers are from former Soviet countries. I speak German but most of my colleagues dont.
2:00 Nope, we have so many fucking roadworks that go on for years if not even decades, it's absolutely ridiculous
Can you make a video about Turkish Trucking? It will be awesome
Yes, that'd be interesting.
turkish trucking mostly takes place outside of turkey though, lol.
There are two quite considerste drawbacks in Germany.
1: the amount of road works. Don't know why, but there seams to be to much roadworks in Germany, even compared to countries with simular quality roads.
2: the very low limit on length and weight.
the length limit is the same in quite a few countries, the weight probably as well.
As for the roadworks there's just an entirely different standard and expectation to the quality and thus the need to maintain and repair the surface is met way earlier. The very same pothole might be still good in Poland but would need instant basic repair in Germany. Also makes sense: driving through said pothole at 140 kph or 240 kph makes quite a difference.
Also the wear and tear on German roads due to the insane traffic loads is quite a bit higher than in most countries, as Germany is one of the few countries in central Europe with lots of throughgoing traffic in all directions
I love how people say "amount of road works" when roadworks happen everywhere in the world. Roads can't fix themselves.
@@automation7295 but still they're way more common to see in some places than in some other places
@@EnjoyFirefighting True, but roadworks can also be a good thing if you want crack or potholes to be gone. Sometimes they also have to replace the heating pipes under the road, you don't want a ruptured steam pipe?
Of coarse, there are some roadworks lasting for months.
@@automation7295 we don't have any heating pipes under the road.
We have lots of roadworks which last for years, and when they're done with a site at one end they basically have to start over again at the other end. Porous asphalt lasts only 10 years before it needs to be resurfaced.
Lots of small potholes are quickly repaired with cold instant asphalt, which however doesn't last very long, so it has to be done over and over again, and with the next spring it sums up with new potholes, larger potholes etc
Germany faces lots of short time and long time road construction zones and lots of repair being necessary right after the winter
I came back from the wild
Colombia when
Please make a Norway Trucking
GERMAN TRUCKING IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD, JOJO!
It used to be but ever since the iron curtain fell it became worse year after year ever since low paid eastern european truckers took over .
@@PlittHD wow you really do sound like Stroheim
@@spydere3392he's right though
Mexican Trucking, one of the few countries that use conventional Trucks
Can you please make a video about Belgian trucking? thnx!
3800 euro per month is good salary btw and lack to pay for rent gives advantage to save some money.
Idk not many make that much
Truck driver per month salary in Europe ??
Danish trucking? We’ve got some absolutely beautiful lorries here, something that can actually rival the dutch.
Hate to be that guy but trucks are (normally) limited to 40 tons and 18.75m or 44 tons and 25.25m with double trailers
In my opinion the best roads are in Netherlands, 99% perfect and the worst are in Belgium 99% garbage
Onzin.
2:38 Ausfarht
Yeah nice video but you didnt say any of the core problems of german trucksworld.
That you cant drive on sunday and the fare to few parking spaces for trucks. Specifically free parkingspace become rare. That is big problem for eastern europe lkw driver who typically dont get no money for such things.
I don't understand peoples hate for large highways, they are great in my opinion.
induced demand? Larger highways will pull larger amounts of traffic and won't solve traffic problems.
Sure they look impressive, but that's about it. Sure 2 lanes might not be sufficient in a place where you need 4 or 5 lanes, but at some point it's ust not necessary to have e.g. 3 lanes everywhere, or to add another and yet another lane to "solve" traffic problems
Driving on them can get very boring, unless, of course, you're driving like a lunatic. Also, the view from the car is rarely very pretty.
If you have 2 lanes traffic will come until it's congested then they look for alternatives such as trains or even remote jobs.
Then they add a lane so traffic flows again. Now traffic increases until it's congested. Now people look for alternatives such as trains or remote jobs.
Then they add alane so traffic flows again.
rinse and repeat
The 10+ lane highways of the US don't have trafifc flowing either.
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It may seem a lil obvious, but I'm really curious about US trucking culture
"Excessive potholes", "Overwhelmingly drab landscape", "Ten lane Highway". LMFAO he just had to maim, kill and execute American road standards. Nice! 🤣🤣🤣
Hey Yukon, what about American trucking?
What is the best place to work driving i'm about to get my hgv in in england but i don't want to work here lived here most of my life and i want to live and work somewhere new any recommendations around europe or even USA or anywhere really haha
p.s is there different licences i will need depending on different countries thank you
Faroese trucking next!
You have trucks there?
I thought everything was hauled around strapped to the back of a sheep, or maybe a horse-drawn wagon for heavy objects.
@@Skorpychanhaha!yeah they do, the roads are pretty small outside of Tórshavn (the capital) but they still have trucks.
@@DollyBoy_1923 I guess anywhere big enough to produce a metal band must have some sort of trucking industry.
What's monthly truck driver salary in Germany ?
Can you do trucking in Bolivia?
my home :D
do any of them have a chimp named Bear that rides with them ?
Do pakistan next please
But then again trucks are responsible for well over 90% of all road damage.
Do trucking in Afghanistan next!
That would be rather interesting.
"It's by far the best thing on this channel."
No, you.
its kinda sad that the Deutsche Bahn is one of the biggest trucking companies on the planet. shouldnt it be the goal to move transportation of goods on rail? i think its kinda cynical that a railway company is doing so much trucking
Absolutely.
It always confuses me when non-germans call it "the autobahn" as if it was a singular road or a special type of road, not found anywhere else. "Autobahn" is just the german word for highway / interstate so if the video is in english, why not call it that? It's basically the same as in any other country with the exception of it beeing partialy non-speedlimited (but even then you get hit with a construction zone every few kilometers which slows you down again, crushing your dreams of becoming one with the speed force).
compared to the Dutch German highways are dirt roads
Mercedes Benz is my favourite truck