@@drayke8886 Some transports require cold or heat. I don't use it very often but sometimes it happens. Paint and such liquids are sensitive to frost, so that's when the heat is required, just to keep it from freezing during transportation :)
Nearly all European truck drivers drive with no shoes on. Hence why almost every European truck brand has created a shoe storage of the last step before getting in the cab. The door covers the last step so you don't lose your shoes.
We don’t (at least not legally😁). Because in many countries (Germany, austria, france, italy are the ones I’m absolutely sure) it’s illegal to drive without proper footwear. Many use two pairs, some for „outside“ in the shoe compartment, as you suggested, and some for the road. If you drive short routes with multiple stops it’s not always handy to change, and that’s the point where the air compressor comes in handy 😉
Driving without shoes is a great security risk! Try to slam on the break pedal with full power in a case of an emergency and you quickly know why. You can't get enough force into the pedal without shoes. It hurts like hell!
I’m no longer driving a truck but have been driving trucks buses taxis and trains for over 32 years now. Driving a truck or a bus is very different but the big responsibility is ever present. Driving an articulated bus with 100+ people on the freeway going 55mph is demanding and even more demanding when you actually think of the responsibility you have both for your passengers but also not crashing into traffic or pedestrians often in urban settings. Drivers are the ones that make the world turn! A super important job handled by skilled pros the world over every hour of the day! I agree with Cassie here at the top! Nice wholesome react video! I also always preferred SCANIAS before other brands especially buses but have driven VOLVO buses too. I do like that Sweden, such a small country have not one but two well renowned truck and bus manufacturers. Makes me proud to be Swedish 🇸🇪
My first work place we had a Scania R620 with a manual. It was fun at the start but I had alot of short trips delivery so it became what more of a pain then fun. So when I switched job over to fuel haulage they only had Scania with automated gearboxes. And its alot better for the everyday work. Work smarter not harder as they say. What she didnt show you with the buttons was the ability to shift weight on the drive(main axle) where the taglift/midlift are slowly lifted up to add more weight on the main axle. Works great in winters when you either are stuck on snow or have a up hill road where you can add more weight to the drive so you dont have problems with like spinning. And the shoe thing is pretty much a thing in most Scandinavian country. Even in our company most drivers take of their shoes even if its a short trip.
There are a few traditional American trucks on the road here in Sweden, probably brought over by enthusiasts for their iconic look. The first time I saw one though, I became quite surprised by how small they are. They look so impressive in movies and TV-series, but the cab was narrower and lower then I expected. The hood not as large. The grille not as massive. Now, I realize that more modern US trucks are wider and higher with full-width cabs and aerodynamic sleepers, but my first encounter with a US truck was a true aha-moment. The design language of European truck hide their size. The big cab Scanias, Volvos and Mercedes are really impressive-looking parked beside some cromed-out Peterbuilt.
Yeah, I know a few guys over at Östervalls who have at least one of those imported american trucks and they really are less impressive when you see it up close.
@@Skelterbane69полностью согласен с вами,в России тоже в начале нулевых привезли американских грузовиков,в реальности они маленькие и не уклюжие,в России их не любят!!!
Even the modern American trucks are just different in the cab, the frame and everything pretty much has never changed. They are just now starting to come into the modern age. Also there is starting to be a lot of European carryover with engines, transmissions, and different bits. The new cascadias are just Mercedes without the badge. Volvo showed signs of its White motor company past up until the current model, although the new new one I think completely severs that. It’s really bad how little they’ve changed and even worse that the so called real truck drivers (the long nose drivers) completely slag off the new trucks when the only difference is the smaller cab old style they are sitting in.
@@joshkiej6601 Ah fair enough, I've never really gone up that high, usually changing at 1700 if I'm climbing a hill; I tend to find not much happens after that. Otherwise changing at 1400/1500 in normal conditions. But these are Paccar MX13 around the 450/470 area.
Keep in mind, the opticruise isn't a true automatic transmission 😊 It's actually a manual gearbox, with a clutch, that's computer operated 😊 This means you have the power of a manual gearbox, without the hassle of having to manually shift through 12 - 14(most common) gears 😁
just like every other "automatic" truck gearbox. I've only seen that regular oil-pressure automatic truck gearbox in a terminal shunter truck. I guess there is a reason why no manufacturer using it, probably because the high maintenance and low lifespan
@@johnnyhun1 An automatic gear box uses power (oil pressure doesn't come without friction) and increases the fuel consumption. This is another good reason, I guess...
@@ontheroadagain4773 truck auto gearboxes same as manual transmissions but with an automated mechanism. Its not the same as the automatic shifters in cars. And fyi even fully manual transmissions are bathing in oil LOL
@@johnnyhun1 I have driven a smaller truck with 8 gear true automatic gearbox. It had an Allison gearbox. Busses in Sweden, Volvobusses in general for commersial uses are using the good ol' Allison gearbox to this day as well. But no, it is not common to see trucks using Allison-gearboxes. Some of them tho that can't haul heavy goods can have Allison gearboxes tho. But I am not sure of that. Because I only drive the big rigs.
Yeah, but there are some exeptions tho. Opticruise and Volvo's I-shift are both manual trannsmissions that are computer operated. Some exeptions are the smaller trucks that going from customer to customer in the cities. Some of them can have Allison-gearboxes which are true automatic transmission box. Yeah, I know. I am baffeled over this because I have my self driven one of these. PostNord got some of their trucks having Allison. Some smaller Mercedes-trucks and also DAF got the good old Allison transmission gearbox. The buses in commersial uses got Allison as well. But these are smaller trucks that ain't going to haul heavy stuff.
Hi, Ian. The big knob on dashboard is a park brake, not a shifter. That compressed air gun is pretty common in most of truck in Europe for long time (so do fridges). Here in Europe are two basic type of rigs: tractor+ semi-trailer like you´ve got in the US and tandems- a box truck with equally sized trailers (no dolly, some of them with the doors on both sides for easy no-need-to-uncouple load-through). Tandems are actually a bit bigger, they can hold up to 39 pallets, 3 more than semi-t. I have some experience with both (both M-B New Actros with 420hp and 12sp. auto-trans.)But i like manual transmission more, because I want to be in control over the selected gear I need. Thats why I liked 16spd manual transmissions in MAN trucks and in Tatra in my last jobs. Now I drive Iveco Crossway bus with 6spd. manual. It is OK but MAN trucks were better, smoother, finer (Le18.280 box truck and tgx26.400 flour cistern truck). Tatra I drowe was 6x6 10spd. dump truck- perfect for construction hard jobs. Mud, sand... doesn´t matter, it get´s everywhere. I like your reaction, keep it up. Bye from Czech republic.
In Sweden, where cassi drives, it is more common to have room for 48-51 pallets, depending on whether you have a wagon or dolly and semi-trailer behind the truck with a total length of 24-25,25 meters.
US trucks have these yellow square knob for parking brake and a red round knob, i think for trailer brake and a blue one for what ever. EU-Trucks have only one handle for the complete road train. With the spring-loaded brake, you need compressed air to release it, but not all axles have spring-loaded brakes. That is why the parking brake lever has a test function in which the spring-loaded brakes of the tractor remain applied and the brakes of the trailer are released. This can be used to check whether the tractor can hold the entire train on an incline without compressed air. If not, chock the trailer's wheels or tighten their manual brakes if available.
Fun fact for a Scania fan. Scania is the most southern part of Sweden, the red griffin that Scania uses are the coat of arms of Malmö (and Scania / Skåne). Scania is also the name setter for Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) (And not the same as Norden). Scania has it's own flag that is way older that Sweden's flag (Red flag with a yellow cross in the same size as the Danish flag). BTW you should get over to Sweden and do a proper test run of different Scania models, maybe have a try to drive a 25.25 or a 32 meter hauler. ;) The "Shifter" you talk about @ 09:39 is actually the parking break, there is no "Shifter", instead there is an arm like the turn-signal arm on the right side of the steering wheel that controls gears, retarder and exhaust breaking (@11:39 you can see this arm better trough the steering wheel, you'll see "N" netrual, exhaust break on/off and retarder on/off also @17:47) . @10:31R500 that she is in is a inline 6, R500 use to be V8 but the inline 6 is way more fuel efficient than the V8 with basically the same power/torque specs. Blue segment of RPM means most fuel efficiency, This truck is not an Automatic, it has an Automatically shifted manual gearbox. All these systems are a great assistant to your driving, I Drove a route of 300 km (186 miles) loading and offloading on different stops in Norway and it is not known to be a flat land, but I did not use my breaks once, well I had to break reversing in to terminal to not run into it. But no breaks used at all in traffic.
@thequ4lm69. Before I give you the answer, please tell me where you think the name , `Scandinavia` comes from. You would never guess. Look forward to your reply.
Several hundred years BC , the Greeks sailed as far north as `Scandinavia` which was not inhabited at that time. It was so far away from Greece that they they called that particular sea journey ... "Esxati naufs" pronounced "Es-hatee nafs",( the stress is on the E as in egg) which, roughly translated means the furthest sail, cannot sail further, the most extreme sea journey. Over the centuries it has been changed to Scandinavia, Scandi from Esxati . The "E" has been dropped and "x" changed to c. leaving Scandi and naufs prounounced nafs now navia. Naus is where we get "Navy" from. So, Scandinavia =Es-hatee nafs. Is there nothing the Greeks didn`t give us barbarians. Ah! Barbarian, another interesting story behind that word, too.
I AGREE, with this young lady, that all car drivers should be made to ride in a large truck for a while so that they can appreciate the truck drivers problems. a 40 TON truck cannot stop like a car. Most tankers have baffles in the tanks to control the fluid movement. My brother in law who is a long distance truck driver and is licensed to drive any truck. Told me, that one of the most difficult trucks to drive was a tanker without the baffles in the tank and that's a milk tanker. For obvious reasons, the baffles would make the milk curdle! But make the truck a handful because of the movement of the milk. Oh and by the way, he loved Scania's!
I have a uncle that drives tuck in the U.S. that says that he mostly drives automatic trucks lately. It seems like America is slowly moving away from manual transmission.
I never used to drive without boots on but since I moved to Australia i'm no longer a trucker but now a farmer and I can no longer drive with boots on. it's amazing how much more comfortable you are without them and in the Aussie sun the difference between boots on and off is the difference between air conditioning full blast and minimum.
I was pretty much trained to never wear shoes inside the truck when I started driving, but mostly because it had a nice interior with really plush and hard to clean floor mats. I never liked it in the Scania though. Not because I didn't like driving without shoes, but because Scanias at the time weren't "insulated" on the top step which means your shoes can get wet there! The MAN I drove was different and kept the shoes dry on the top step.
The R500 in this model is an i6. The torque is at it's max between 1000-1500rpm. The blue mark is the optimal rpm for the retarder and exhaustbrake when going downhill. The "shifter" you pointed out is the parkingbrake. This is an automatic, or OptiCruise as it's called in Scania, and the handle is on the steeringcoloumn.
@@toraabe My first was in a '97 124 400 with a nose and a Vulcan V70 for towing and rescuing other lorries :) Started out as red with Falck logos on it for a few years. Then had Viking Rescue logos, and is now in the Italian alps and painted yellow :)
The R500 is not a V8, it has a 13 liter L6. Makes peak power at around 2000rpm and peak torque between 1000 and 1400/1500rpm, which is were they spend most of their time. Peak torque band is any engine's most efficient one.
Normally I drive my Scania about 2500-3000 km each week and the chairs are amazing. The cooled seats is awesome in the summer. Way more comfortable than my car. Great video btw.
In Europe, we started around 90's, to use transmission oil and gears in trucks that doesn't need to be mixed or stirred. So the mixing stick become obsolete. Old type oil is only used where absolutely necessary (like heavy construction work). In those, you still have to stir the oil and mix gears regularly with the mixing stick. Even Fullers are still used in special occasions. I did like Fuller transmission, or Twinsplitter even more, (mostly only Sisu used them) but there's nothing like automatic.
I'm no trucker but I follow a lot of truckers on youtube and on facebook and I keep hearing about how most of the newer trucks in fleets are automatic nowadays (at least here in Canada) and truck schools will often teach how to drive a semi in automatic so you have drivers who don't even know how to drive manual nowadays. I doubt the market for the manual transmission will ever fully disappear but it probably won't be as common in the future. Just like how a lot of the new trucks also come with lower noses to improve the visibility of the driver vs the big square noses of the past. Thanks for the reaction to one of Cassie's videos, she's pretty cool :)
17:19 The truck will read the road ahead using maps and radars and preselect the right gear (downshitft) if a hill is coming ahead. Also on highways will select the optimum gear for fuel economy. That manual thing is not necesarry because the truck knows better the gear it has to be based on a lot of factors. It knows the weight that it have so that's helping a lot.
Why I drive manually is that many times it bumpy when it doesn't see what is happening on the road, crossroads etc. Or its changing just when you need it to rev to get smooth as possible in to the traffic.
Lots of truckers in Europe leave schoes on the last steps before get in, but they also have some comfort schoes to drive and walk inside the cab, the reason is quite simple. In many companies where truck is loaded and unloaded are safty protocols like; safe shoes, neon jacket, even helmets and safe glases. So if You dont wanna spend all day in hevy safty shoes driving around from one companies to another then just change them when you need to go on some loading or unloading. Second thing. The lever in the middle of dashboard its a parking break not gear stick ;)
At about 16:10 in your video, that stalk is the gear selector. You twist the neck like Cassie did to choose Forward or Reverse. There is a button at the top of the stalk, it toggles between Automatic and Manual Mode of the gear box. A bit earlier in your video when you showed the instruments - There was a tab sticking out on the Left side of the rev-counter, it showed an "A" to indicate that the gear box was in Automatic Mode. You can force gear shifts if you lift the stalk up or push it down (Up or Down shifts, nothing strange there). The gear box will change Up or Down if you do it once, do it twice quickly if you want to skip a gear - You can skip one gear only, no more (from 2nd to 4th, or from 5th to 7th or whatever). That stalk is also the manual control of the Retarder (restricting the oil flow in the torque converter and acting like a brake, optimum effect at the Blue area on the rev-counter like others have said), pull the stalk towards you to use the retarder. It had 11 steps earlier but it might be no steps at all nowadays. The 2 sliding buttons on the head of the stalk - The front one is the On/Off switch for the Cruise Control, the back one is the On/Off switch for the Automatic Retarder. You can set an Maximum speed for when you are going downhill so you wont be over-speeding and get unnecessary speeding tickets for that. Set Speed- buttons for Cruise and Retarder is on the steering wheel. / B.
Unless I forgot how it works on Scandia's, the first step is the engine brake, followed by the various retarder steps. Maybe someone who drives a Scania can confirm this? P.S. I drive a tulip-tractor (DAF) now and with that (and with Mercs and MANs it's definitely that way!
The R500 is straight 6, and is a 13 litre engine. You also get a 13 litre straight 6 with 560 hp. 16 litre V8 comes in 530, 590, 660 and 770 HP. Last generation the R500 and up was V8 and everything under was straight 6.
Good tour and reflections! In Sweden we are proud of Scania and Volvo (for a reason 😉 ) Btw: it is six cylinder in two sizes up to 560 hp, V8 från 530 to 770 hp.
There are some seriously experienced interior designers working on these trucks in production. Every single new model coming out seem to have just a little bit extra improvements in the layout and ergonomics, working around very constrained legislation as they can't increase the overall volume available. I'm proud that we can manufacture some of the best trucks in the world 💪🇸🇪 Oh and the setup could be called a Scandinavian rigid drawbar combo. Full size only allowed in two places, Sweden and Finland having the highest GVW in the entire EU. AND yes any respectable trucker will be shoes off in the cab 🤭, especially in winter. Saves on cleaning and makes less stinky feet, but not only that you actually have a greater pedal feel without bulky steel toes on. Air brakes have huge stopping power so no jerking stuff around 145th thing I thought of (I'll be editing all day here).. Volvo has this awesome feature where the truck can wind crab. Literally at the push of a button steer into the wind keeping your truck straight while going down the highway, minimizing sway and micro wheel inputs (every movement is exaggerated in a high & heavy vehicle). Saves on your arms a ton! That feature sounds so good, so so good. Should be standard everywhere.
Probably half of people in Australia who have to wear boots at work, I.e tradies either drive with shoes off or wear slides. Personally I can’t, it feels too weird to me. I’ll take my boots off and change to sneakers/runners if I can be bothered. 😂
Load carrying trucks with actual trailers are more common than semi trucks here in Finland (and maybe in Sweden too) There are two reasons: - They need less space in curves and road crossings. Therefore they can be longer and carry more volume and weight. - In practice this is a delivery truck with a trailer. For example: Some store chains have both bigger stores and smaller shops. The driver can leave the trailer on the parking lot of a bigger store and deliver stuff to the smaller shops - or private customers - without the trailer. Both the roads and loading locations can be too tight for semi trucks. Of similar reasons also dump trucks and timber trucks usually have actual trailers.
Speaking of it being a stressful job, some old truck drivers I've met have been just unbelievably calm in stressful situations. Like you could tell they've been through some stressful shit in their days and know what matters in life.
Hi Ian, yeah they're beautiful trucks. i sometimes have the pleasure to drive an 2003 164g580(15.6liter v8 580hp) for a construction company where i live delivering rock and other stuff to constructionsites. it's a nice little side gig. especially the brutal v8 diesel sound
Hi, Ian Personally I prefer the the automatic transmission as I drive a scania R770 doing heavy hall around europe and on the steep slopes the automatic shifting through the crawler gears is lovely allowing you to focus on navigating the terrain.
My father is a truck driver (Europe) and I'm ocasionaly lucky enough to go with him, last time we had the Scania R-420. We were transporting multiple loads of gravel.
I learned to drive with a manual transmition with 16 gears (can go to 18), but when I started driving on my own I got a automatic and I can't say I miss the manual lol. But automatic beeing standard is still fairly recent here in europe aswell, so I'm sure a lot of the drivers who drove manual for yrs and got used to it probably miss it. With my private car I prefer manual over automatic cause that's what I'm most used to and feel like I have better control of the car with manual.
Yep, exactly the same here, learned on manual, but don't really miss it (afterall, if you _really_ want to have control over which gear you're driving in, you can disable the automatic and "manually" shift up or down - you _just_ can't shift several gears at once). For regular cars, I prefer manual though, it's just... more fun? In a truck, whenever you _need_ to shift, you need to shift _a lot_ due to the low range of every gear, it's just so much easier with an automatic.
I actually miss the manual transmission it self. I still remember what gear goes on witch speed even its almost 10 years sins last time. But my sore shoulder muscles thanks for these robot transmissions!
im from Greece ,here almost all the trucks even the really old ones have that air pistol inside the cabine :D ,its really usefull to just open the doors and push dust out, and YES everyone in here drives with socks ,no shoes allowed :)))
Except Spain where if you get caught driving without shoes,you get a fine,i can tell it from my own experience,and not on a truck but in a car.They forbid to drive shoeless and shirtless also.
Try pushing the brake pedal all the way down to the max without shoes, which can easily be required for an emergency brake. You'll absolutely feel the pain of that, which is precisely why it's forbidden to drive without shoes here in Germany as well (not by law, but the Federal Office for Goods, or at the very least the trade federation, will want a word with you if they find out about it).
@iwrocker, don’t know of anyone reacted about this before, but the handle you call the shifter @9:40 is actually the parking brake for the whole combination. So it sets all breaks, (if the air lines are connected off course). It is most likely an automated gearbox (or automatic clutch) where changing gears happens directly near the steering wheel, at the steering collum. Maybe she”ll explain that later on in the video (i don’t know that yet)
Ian,keep in mind: we have limits here in europe,the widh,the high ,the lengh,everything,so put the cargo area as low as needed for the job,gives more space in the inside.
I drove a semi truck only in my country and they are amazing, also it was 10yo truck and it was an automatic, we here drive manual only in the heavy situations like when you drive something from a farm field and such because you want greater control over the shifter. But for regular driving on the road and cities it is 90% automatic shifter. Great video, brought me the memories when I used to drive it.
Old time Canadian truck driver... First truck I drove was a dump truck, 1969 Ford 850 Super Duty 534 cubic inch 8.75L gas V8 with 5 spd main and 4 spd aux tranny (1st gear only used for deep reduction). This gives progressive 16 speeds forward and 4 in reverse, 12 yard box, 38000 lbs tandem, 18000 lb steering axel. Takes lot of practice to master 5+4, if you get the main and A box in neutral at same your screwed, and have to stop and start again... Next truck was 1972 Western Star with 350 Cummins and 13spd Road Ranger, what great transmission! One handed operation, gave the same rpm splits as the 5+4 in high range. Only complaint was the big jump from 4th low to 5th in high. After the 13 spd came 18 spd which was the same as the 13spd but you can split gears in low range and fixed the big jump from low to high range. About 1999 the Autoshift came out which automated the Road Ranger trans and maintained the manual clutch. Shift sequencing was not the greatest, mainly ran it in manual mode. But was very handy if you were feeling lazy, drinking coffee or using CB!!!! Autoshift lost the manual clutch and was rebranded Ultrashift, the shifting was still towards the crude side... Around 2013 drove Volvo 760? with D13 and I-Shift. The I-Shift was FANTASTIC. Probably the best improvement in my career! Transmission was totally in sync with load, conditions and driver requirements. Latest trucks have been Cascadia's with DD15's and DT12 transmissions. DT12 is OK, not quite as good as I-Shift. Both the I-Shift and DT12 have superior shift prediction and sequencing compared to Ultrashifts. Think the Ultrashift's are indestructible and very popular in logging, low bed and severe service uses. Also cab ergonomics have come a long way. Gone are the noisy heaters and defrosters that never works properly. Gone are the noisy cabs. Gone are rigid mounted cabs, today all cabs are air ride. Almost all highway tractors have air ride suspensions. Looks to me that European truck engineering needs to come to North America ASAP. I'm not a cabover fan. Driven Freightliner's and K100's. Less climbing with conventional cab. As for automation its all a boost to driving IMO. Not crazy about lane assist, I too turn it off. Forward collision warning and brake application is a plus. For example on Cascadia's 75% of the time it will beep before you can see a Moose or Deer at night. Moose are black at night...
No shoes inside the truck is a nice way to keep it clean, especially for us that live in our truck from Sunday to Friday every week. Just look at your car, all that mud and growel that follow you inside. Its also nice in the winter as the floor keeps dry. You spend maybe 15 min every friday clean out and dust the cabin and it be fresh and nice for next week to come living on the road.
More and more trucks here in Sweden have automatic gearboxes rather than manual. There are a few reasons as to why it has been standard with automatic, but 2 of the "bigger" reasons are that it's better for the fuel consumption and it is also better for the driver if they don't have to change gear constantly if you have many stops. So it's good for the drivers physical health as well.
Well, this is actually a manual gear box where the gear shifting happens automatically controlled by a computer. The computer uses gps data and topographic maps with the weight of the whole truck to determine what gear to use. (With manual override)
We all like Cassie, and her dog Viggo. Besides trucking Cassie is also involved in plowing the roads. And we also like another polish trucker called Iwona (something). She´s done basically everythig as a trucker. She has also been to Alaska. If you dont´t know her or Cassie. Check them out. Iwonka drives a Volvo
It’s a 13 litre inline 6. Now you can get the same engine with 560 hp. The V8’s are available only in 590, 660 and 770 hp. V8 has 16 litre volume. The blueline on the revmetre is called the cooling range. The gearbox on those trucs (and busses) has a hydraulic retarder integrated in the gearbox. The heath energy from the retarder is transferred to the engine cooling liquid and exhaused through the radiator. The exhaustbrake is (automatically) activated as required together with the retarder. And the ideal rev for getting the most effective braking power is at the blue range. The flow of the cooling liquid is also optimal at this rpm to get rid of the heath generated by the force of the retarder. The retarder generate about 600 hp in braking force.
The blue part of the rev counter is to indicate ideal rpm for cooling. When using the retarder on a long descent the cooling system has to work harder as its cooling the engine, as well as the retarder. If the rpm is kept in the blue band the engine fan spins fast enough to provide sufficient cooling by sucking lots of air through the radiator.
Kind of regarding the height: We get pulled over a lot for spot checks for truck condition, load restrictions and time regulations regarding how long we can drive each day/week etc. Always lock the doors when you're pulled into one of those in a truck! The first thing the person checking things is gonna do is grab your handle and open the door. Just to make it easier to talk to each other really. It's generally accepted that this will happen and most people don't care, but according to law in most EU countries that's actually illegal. Might be in the US as well. They're not allowed to open or enter your vehicle without your permission unless they have probable cause, but they 100% will in that situation. Also if I was running light I would drive with the 3rd axle on the truck lifted as well as one of the trailer axles. When I turned the truck off both axles would repressurize and make a lot of hissing noises while doing so which made it impossible to hold a conversation with the person doing the checks until both axles were fully inflated. I always had my things in order and usually had plenty of time mess around so these checks never messed up my day even if I prolonged them so I could play games like this. None of this will gain you any favors, but it is satisfying to annoy these people who assume you're a criminal until you've proven yourself innocent when you know you're innocent and can prove it. But that's one of the reasons I got out of trucking. The government treats all of us like criminals by default and that shit got old real quick. We get checked all the time and the attitude of the people working at those checks is that we're criminals until we get weighed in and can provide the paperwork to prove we're not. Every single time I've been in one the people there were just trying to bust you. For something. Anything. A good day at work for them was handing out lots of fines. My particular truck had 75 (Seventy-five!) filament bulbs for all the lights on the truck/trailer combo (This was before LED's). Even though I checked them before I set off from anywhere chances were one of them would have given up during the drive. That's inevitable. I changed at least one bulb every day. If you were caught with one out at one of these checkpoints: There you go, $100 fine. Per bulb. And that's personal fines, not company ones. This comes out of my goddamn paycheck! Pulling over and checking people who had everything in order like I had, and most truckers do, annoyed the living hell out of them and that's the only thing that kept me going for those years. I still miss the driving and even loading, but I don't miss the business if that makes any sense. If I'm gonna be treated like a criminal for doing my job and risking those kinds of fines for things I can't even help and try to avoid I better be making criminal money but I wasn't.
@IWrocker, when she says total weight is 62 tons that is metric tons, its equal to 120 american/english tons :) And the combination is called truck and trailer, and is simulare to how you hook up your camper/trailer to your car . In Norwegian: Vogntog, in Swedish: Bil och släp. The other combination you refere to is TractorTrailer witch mean you hook your trailer on top of the chassi of the tractor
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US ton is 2000 lbs, so 62 metric tons equals 68.3 US tons. (or 61 UK tons) Couldn't we all just use SI units already...
I grew up in the high coast and being able to manualy shift is a must in the winter for trucks, without it, they are screwed. Some only learn to drive with automatic and companies that hires them have a lot of unwanted trouble. She's not the only driver that does that with the shoes. Since I have friends in this profession I have had the opportunity to ride along in a Scania.
regarding manual/automatic gears, it is pretty much the total oposite of the US, here in the EU, our cars have manual stick shifts, and you have to get your licence in a manual gear car (there are some rules that allow you to do it in an automatic) and our trucks have automatic gears for the most part (you can find trucks with manual gears, but the norm is automatic transmision for trucks) also worth to note, when Cassie mentioned 64 tons, it is metric tons, not imperial tonnes (metric is heavier) 64 metric tons is 62,99 imperial tonnes. the BLUE line on the RPM meter, is where the engine brake is most effective. and i totally agree with Cassie regarding the camera screen, all the annoying text on the camera, when you switch gears or activate the camera, it steals my vision when emptying a container ( a drive a different configuration truck than Cassie, i tip my container to empty bulk loads, and my container because it is longer than the bed of the truck, it tilts down and blocks 3/4 view of my camera. and also the big annoying text bubble taking about 80-90% of the screen, whern we get a trafic warning is really annoying, when trying to reverse and connect to your trailer, as it blocks all view. i would LOVE to have a little chat about all that with a SCANIA engineer, and get and update to all that stuff about the camera in the scania. Altso, IWrocker, if you ever consider a vacation in Denmark, let me know, would love to give you a ride along, so you could se stuff like this real up close :D
I love how you get hyped up about so trivial things that come standard with euro trucks🥰 like being able to look up axle loads in the instrument cluster or a pull out fridge 😄 These modern automated gearboxes - especialy from the likes of Volvo and Scanis - are so good that you never need to touch the gear selector. No matter the road infront of you. They work so well! You should look up Volvo's wireless work remote, fantastic stuff! Mine has it!
1:48 - that style of the truck is called rigid, and it's a truck with cargo capacity and not a semitrailer tractor. Then you have the trailer with wagon steer and that's a lot trickier to reverse than a semitrailer.
I used to drive a rigid/trailer compo and backing up or docking wasn't an issue at all. Then I switched to semis and later on to truck/trailer combos with central axes on the trailer. I the had to drive one of those articulated trailers for a few days and I drove like a nOOb 🤣 One needs to rewire the brain since the steering inputs are reversed!
We have one driving in New Brunswick Canada, V8 R in neo Green, belongs to a German who bought it in Sweden and, now International LT is getting the new Scania normal 500 HP 6 zylinders, but don't know if we will get the 770 HP V8 engine, let's see. The trucks in Europe are 10 to 20 years ahead of North America, they don't have red and yellow air bottons only one release valve, you saw in your video red sticker with 82 on it, that's the V max speed you have on this Vehicle, it all set V max from country to country and company.
I have been following Trucker Cassie for a few years and really do enjoy her videos!! Same goes for Stravos969 an Irish trucker and his hilarious journeys!!
2:00 this setup is fairly common in northern europe, where you have a box truck and a trailer. I believe it's called a "full trailer combination" or something, täysperävaunuyhdistelmä in Finnish. Though we also use semi trailers, sometimes they also get another trailer connected to the first trailer for a really crazy combination.
People have no idea how important trucks and truck drivers are, i'm not a truck driver but i work in a warehouse loading and unloading trucks. Sometimes i drive the company trucks inside our industrial park and let me tell you, people have no idea how big a truck is. Big shout out to anyone who drives one on a daily basis.
HI Ian, to answer your questions: concerning the revs: the readline means "maximum revs" so pls avoid in order not to damge the engine. The blue is recommended if you use the powertrain to brake the truck. Then you are using the engine beeing "pulled" instead of having to push the powertrain. This puts less strain on the engine, higher ravs cause better braking. So you can dare to go higher in terms of revs. This comes in handy on long descents, because in this range, jakebrake performs way better than in low revs! Using this you can easily keep pace of a fully loaded truck, but be careful on slippery terrein because you're only "braking" the driven axles, so you can easily spin out of the road. So use with care! This gets even worse, when you use the "retarder" beeing nowadays a hydraulik brake, slowing down the gearbos and thus also only braking the driven axles. Here it really takes to consider the circumstances on the road! Have fun! Greets from Austria!
I came across your channel not very long ago and I did recognize your simping for Scania trucks pretty fast. So when all of a sudden I got this exact video by Trucker Cassie recommended to me, my first thought was 'Well, that would be something for Ian!'. The timing did suggest it was made just for you - even if that would be very far fetched to assume. Greetings from Germany.
Before the automatic selectors at the steering column, a lot of trucks had semiautomatic transmissions, with the selector integrated into the right armrest. So gearshifters haven’t taken up room on the floor for some years
I think many of the automatic trucks are actually automated manuals, not torque converter automatics. Drivetrain losses start to play a part with big vehicles.
@@PropperNaughtyGeezer Those with torque converters are mostly used for municipal uses (trash collection etc). The ones most people refer to as "automatic" are actually - as you correctly stated - automated non-synchromesh gearboxes. The non Synchromesh is the main reason these gearboxes actually have a longer service life than the older synchronized double-h gearboxes. Plus the fact that there is no such thing as "user errors" breaking them (or the engine by over revving it).
The no shoes thing is something that i would say is something 8 of 10 truckdrivers in Sweden are doing. And it’s legal to drive with upp to 74ton (metric) here, i’m driving a r580 timbertruck in northen sweden and we have been driving with over 70 tons for about 4 years now🙏
Here in germany is illegal. Not directly by law but by the Occupational Safety Act. The police will forward this to the trade association or the Federal Office for Goods Transport. You will then receive an invoice from them.
@@miriamreiss i needed to do that a cuple of times, mooses are running around like rats here. Never been an issue and i dont really see what the problem should be with that?
@@miriamreiss you can easily make an emergency stop without shoes on, because the brake pedal is very light and sensitive. I know, i'm a Scania test driver
@@tmjaspers I haven't driven a Scania yet, but I _have_ driven DAF, Volvo, MAN, and Mercedes - and I'd _hate_ to have to press the brake pedal of any of those _all the way_ down without shoes. The "pedal to the metal", only with brake instead of accelerator. Which is what an actual emergency brake may very easily require.
A Dutch truck magazine called Truckstar organizes a a 2-day truck show at the end of Juli each year on the moto gp circuit in Assen. For taste look up "truckstar festival".
It is a fairly common swedish combo. Straight 3axle truck with an articulated trailer of either 4 or 5 axles. The articulated part may be fixed to the trailer, or separate 2axle dolly that will take most any regular standard 5th wheel trailers, usually around 40'. As for transmission, almost anything new sold in Europe is an automated manual, as it has the fastest shift rate, lowest consumption and highest torque curve. Less than 10% of drivers, maybe way less, can outshift them. They are VERY efficient. Scania has the opticruise, volvo the ishift etc. There are instances where a manual is still preferable. This relates to the predictability in the shift pattern, where for instance a fuel or food tanker with no baffles in the tank, need to be shifted in relation to what the load is doing out back, sort of like playing catch up with a crane hook. It takes rhythm. Engage the gear at the wrong time, and you run the risk of trashing either the clutch, gearbox or both. A highly skilled driver will know, but it still takes practice and foresight to nail it. So in case you may wonder why tankers many times go slower, leaves more space in front of themselves etc., that is the explanation. So please make sure there's plenty of room in front of them, when you overtake. The big lever on the dash is the parking brake. Most drivers, as mentioned everywhere, drive without shoes. For multiple reasons. Regardless of these, it is illegal, and will be fined. If nowhere else, then at least on the German Autobahn. Closed fitting shoes with a sturdy sole is mandatory, as they don't slide off, and enables the driver to apply maximum pressure on the brake pedal in an emergency. Those are the rules. How they may differ in enforcement, whether it's still relevant with advanced ABS, collision alert etc., I will not be the judge of. But illegal it is, same as no heels clogs, which some also prefer. Clean pair for the cab of course.
When auto gearboxes first came in there were a few teething problems, like reversing could be be a bit scary. The torque converter was badly adjusted and caused you to lurch backwards like a rocket especially up a slope. Once the problems were adressed though I found that driving an auto is actually less tiring. I think this is because you don't have to think about changing gears all the time, you just drive. In a manual you are always making judgements about what gear you need to be in and how to go about that in relation to the road conditions.
My hubby is a trucker and drives a Scania R660 Streamline (2022) pretty much alike this one inside the cabin, very spacious and enjoyable. He follow some trucking videos here on UA-cam, Trucker Cassie is one and Angelica Larsson i another but she haven´t done anything in quite a while now. It was something about negative response (stalking) due to her being a hot young lady being determind with a sharp tounge and a capable dr
First rule of trucking, shoes goes off in the cab! Many of the dutch truck drivers I know drive without shoes, or with wooden clogs :) (mainly not used outside)
I don't drive trucks, but I had the opportunity to climb into some trucks, Mercedes-Benz MP4 and MP5, and Scania R410 with natural gas powered engine. The Mercedes-Benz MP5 are minimalistic, the buttons inside are reduced to strict minimum and the mirror cams are great. The best point of the Scania is the driving position.
R is the second highest model. Difference between R and S is that S model has flat floor. This R one has tone of space in the cabin, but you can still notice theres lil a hump in the middle. S version doesnt have that. Great vide overall! I love to see american guy genuenly excited about stuff, withou keeping that "america is better" attitude. Every country is different, theres no need look down at anything. Great videos bro! Keep doing good job :))
cool video reaction. That video shows the strengh of EU trucks. Making the most out of small space. It is very comfy to drive an automatic truck and its a lot easier when the truck knows "I can do the next hill in 10th gear" However not learning how to move a manual truck, you miss alot from the job. I own a 32year old Mercedes SK with a manual split-gearbox (please do a reaction to that kind of truck) and an Actros MP 4. The old one is way more fun and people always look stunned and happy to see such an old truck. I went to a few truck festivals since summer with the SK and i always got the same kind of questions / comments. Compared to modern trucks, the SK is tiny. So "young truckers" always are like this ""Wow its older thn me! But...where do you sleep?"" Me: "Uhm.... in te bed?!" Them ""Bed? That thing has a bed? WHERE??" Me:"Uhm like yours, behind the seat?" They cant understand that and have to look for themself.... i love that. The comments on the other hand are from veteran drivers. They are like this "Can you fire it up? I wanna here a propper truck once more" or "All of these kids here, they call themselfs ""tucker"" because their boss spends money on chrome or plastics, but 90% of the driver here couldnt move a Mercedes double H split ...they simply couldnt (the reason i put trucker in "" "" in germany a quote on qoute trucker is a bad thing. The correct translation is Lorry driver or long distance truck driver. if a german says trucker ... well its a kid with more Horsepower thn brain ;) )
I see the term "trucker" _little_ bit different, I basically use it for those who actually make their truck their home, putting a lot of money and effort into it, leather upholstery, additional lights, that kind of stuff. Everyone else (including me) is a truck driver (LKW Fahrer) or "Brummifahrer" (and if relevant, long or short distance driver, "Fermfahrer" or "Nahverkehrsfahrer"). So "trucker" for me doesn't have any negative annotation per se (only when someone for example overdoes it and turns his truck into a poser Christmas tree...).
I drive one of these and it's great.The horsepower isn't as important as torque which on this lorry is around 2,500 Nm. You can also change the sensitivity on things like lane-assist but in some circumstances it is less distracting to keep it off.
I wrecker wherever you come from whatever you drive it’s a truck and you are responsible for it! Thanks to all the truck drivers around the world you feed us and make our lives possible! Thank you truckers
This one is well packed with features. But when you buy new Scania list of features is very long. Like 10t first axle, 14t rear axles, strengthened chassis, drive axle with signle or double reduction, 12 or 16 speed transmission, 3 sizes of retarder, cameras instead rear view mirrors. That is common in last few years, A pillars are LCD monitors and outside are small hi res cameras. Great thing for night driving, camera sees what you can not and stickout is small.
In scandinavia it is extremely common to drive without shoes. Also only old/cheap trucks use manual. I'm not a truck driver but I have tried driving some of the newest trucks. Amazing machines.
My cousin had an R440 that used to belong to two women. The cab was so clean. In Sweden and Finland they have those big cargo areas where the doors open all along the side with a hydraulic ramp at the back as well and they're 4m (10+ ft) tall, so illegal in any other country in Europe.
This what you recognized as a gear shifter, is handbrake. When is off this handle stay vertical and can see outside through the windshield. If you want to leveling the truck, but it is parked on slope, just push handbrake down. That release trailer brakes only. The blue section on the tachometer is the efficient RPMs for the engine brake.
Just wanted to add that heated seats are pretty much standard in all cars and ”trucks” in Sweden (not only vehicles made in Sweden) since maybe the 1980's or so, at least for the driver's seat.
Scania has had CAG=computer aided gearbox since mid eighties. Not sure today but back then you just pushed the clutch down and it would shift to the proper gear.
the blue part on the refcounter is for the engine brake. the operation rpm when driving is about 1200 rpm. but when you go downhill you can shift down and get the rpm up till 2500rpm in the blue part and the engine brake is strong enough so you can keep the speed steady.
The company i work for has dozens of these trucks with the Inline-6 engines that run on CNG and they are amazing to drive and work with. Ours also have a standalone electic AC too. Scania is King of the Road. Volvo can be the queen :D
While we're on the topic of trucks, you should check out videos of the Dakar Rally as that starts on December 31st. Mainly because there are five different classes with trucks being one of them.
Ive had the great pleasure of going in trucks with my brother when I was younger. And more recently done a couple of experience days where i got to drive trucks, a Volvo, Renault and a Pete, yes you read right, a full on 13 speed US Peterbilt. Apparently not too far away you can drive a Kenworth W900, so definitely going to be doing that one day, especially as it's a proper 18 speed no synchro manual and round a racetrack.
The S500 (or 500S since Mercedes complained about using the same model name) is an inline 6. The smallest V8 is the 530S, or 520S from the previous gen (Euro5) Quite a few truckers drive without shoes, although it is very dangerous. If you have to brake suddenly it may cause pain and can make your stopping distance a lot longer (many new trucks have automatic emergency brake assist, so not that big of an issue anymore)
Driving without shoes is the best especially in a manual since you can feel when the clutch bites, it helpful it you're on an incline. In general you feel the car more
What a lovely and wholesome reaction video! :D
Thank you so much for featuring me! 🤗
Hej. Jag tycker ni ska göra en video ihop när han besöker dig och får se Scania i verkligheten. 👍👍
Love your videos Cassie, kör försiktigt
@@fredriksafstrom1615 Håller med :)
Hi, can I ask why refrigerator track is used as normal? I mean it's just a waste... Is it common?
@@drayke8886 Some transports require cold or heat. I don't use it very often but sometimes it happens. Paint and such liquids are sensitive to frost, so that's when the heat is required, just to keep it from freezing during transportation :)
Nearly all European truck drivers drive with no shoes on. Hence why almost every European truck brand has created a shoe storage of the last step before getting in the cab. The door covers the last step so you don't lose your shoes.
We don’t (at least not legally😁). Because in many countries (Germany, austria, france, italy are the ones I’m absolutely sure) it’s illegal to drive without proper footwear. Many use two pairs, some for „outside“ in the shoe compartment, as you suggested, and some for the road. If you drive short routes with multiple stops it’s not always handy to change, and that’s the point where the air compressor comes in handy 😉
Was going to say the same for the UK.
Driving without shoes is a great security risk! Try to slam on the break pedal with full power in a case of an emergency and you quickly know why. You can't get enough force into the pedal without shoes. It hurts like hell!
@@miriamreiss not true at all.
Road drivers leave shoes on upper step. In dump or timbertrucks drive shoes on
I’m no longer driving a truck but have been driving trucks buses taxis and trains for over 32 years now. Driving a truck or a bus is very different but the big responsibility is ever present. Driving an articulated bus with 100+ people on the freeway going 55mph is demanding and even more demanding when you actually think of the responsibility you have both for your passengers but also not crashing into traffic or pedestrians often in urban settings. Drivers are the ones that make the world turn! A super important job handled by skilled pros the world over every hour of the day! I agree with Cassie here at the top! Nice wholesome react video! I also always preferred SCANIAS before other brands especially buses but have driven VOLVO buses too. I do like that Sweden, such a small country have not one but two well renowned truck and bus manufacturers. Makes me proud to be Swedish 🇸🇪
She Nailed it. Everyone should be in a truck, especially car drivers. Respect.
Oh cassie! She works just across the fence from my job. My father used to work where she is loading the pipes. If you got it, a trucker brought it
Personally I do think angelica is the funnier to watch. But she also does drive more strange.loads
My first work place we had a Scania R620 with a manual. It was fun at the start but I had alot of short trips delivery so it became what more of a pain then fun. So when I switched job over to fuel haulage they only had Scania with automated gearboxes. And its alot better for the everyday work. Work smarter not harder as they say. What she didnt show you with the buttons was the ability to shift weight on the drive(main axle) where the taglift/midlift are slowly lifted up to add more weight on the main axle. Works great in winters when you either are stuck on snow or have a up hill road where you can add more weight to the drive so you dont have problems with like spinning. And the shoe thing is pretty much a thing in most Scandinavian country. Even in our company most drivers take of their shoes even if its a short trip.
There are a few traditional American trucks on the road here in Sweden, probably brought over by enthusiasts for their iconic look. The first time I saw one though, I became quite surprised by how small they are. They look so impressive in movies and TV-series, but the cab was narrower and lower then I expected. The hood not as large. The grille not as massive. Now, I realize that more modern US trucks are wider and higher with full-width cabs and aerodynamic sleepers, but my first encounter with a US truck was a true aha-moment. The design language of European truck hide their size. The big cab Scanias, Volvos and Mercedes are really impressive-looking parked beside some cromed-out Peterbuilt.
Yeah, I know a few guys over at Östervalls who have at least one of those imported american trucks and they really are less impressive when you see it up close.
They should have used a Scania tow truck in the Terminator 2 film instead of that Freightliner. 😂
@@Skelterbane69полностью согласен с вами,в России тоже в начале нулевых привезли американских грузовиков,в реальности они маленькие и не уклюжие,в России их не любят!!!
Even the modern American trucks are just different in the cab, the frame and everything pretty much has never changed. They are just now starting to come into the modern age. Also there is starting to be a lot of European carryover with engines, transmissions, and different bits. The new cascadias are just Mercedes without the badge. Volvo showed signs of its White motor company past up until the current model, although the new new one I think completely severs that. It’s really bad how little they’ve changed and even worse that the so called real truck drivers (the long nose drivers) completely slag off the new trucks when the only difference is the smaller cab old style they are sitting in.
The blue zone on the tachometer is where the engine braking is most effective. Peak power is around 1300-1500 rpm, I think.
peak torque on the dc13 is 2550nm from 1000-1400 rpm, peak power is 500hp at 1900rpm
MB have green zone and is true 1200-1550 Rpm
the blue zone is where the engine break is the most effective
And I guess green zone is visible only when you driving
@@joshkiej6601 Ah fair enough, I've never really gone up that high, usually changing at 1700 if I'm climbing a hill; I tend to find not much happens after that. Otherwise changing at 1400/1500 in normal conditions. But these are Paccar MX13 around the 450/470 area.
must not forget, this is also a home for many
and most people take off their shoes when they are inside.
Always show respect to truck drivers. They are the backbone of the world and without them we would all starve and nothing would be in the stores
Keep in mind, the opticruise isn't a true automatic transmission 😊 It's actually a manual gearbox, with a clutch, that's computer operated 😊 This means you have the power of a manual gearbox, without the hassle of having to manually shift through 12 - 14(most common) gears 😁
just like every other "automatic" truck gearbox. I've only seen that regular oil-pressure automatic truck gearbox in a terminal shunter truck. I guess there is a reason why no manufacturer using it, probably because the high maintenance and low lifespan
@@johnnyhun1 An automatic gear box uses power (oil pressure doesn't come without friction) and increases the fuel consumption. This is another good reason, I guess...
@@ontheroadagain4773 truck auto gearboxes same as manual transmissions but with an automated mechanism. Its not the same as the automatic shifters in cars. And fyi even fully manual transmissions are bathing in oil LOL
@@johnnyhun1 I have driven a smaller truck with 8 gear true automatic gearbox. It had an Allison gearbox. Busses in Sweden, Volvobusses in general for commersial uses are using the good ol' Allison gearbox to this day as well. But no, it is not common to see trucks using Allison-gearboxes. Some of them tho that can't haul heavy goods can have Allison gearboxes tho. But I am not sure of that. Because I only drive the big rigs.
Yeah, but there are some exeptions tho. Opticruise and Volvo's I-shift are both manual trannsmissions that are computer operated. Some exeptions are the smaller trucks that going from customer to customer in the cities. Some of them can have Allison-gearboxes which are true automatic transmission box. Yeah, I know. I am baffeled over this because I have my self driven one of these. PostNord got some of their trucks having Allison. Some smaller Mercedes-trucks and also DAF got the good old Allison transmission gearbox.
The buses in commersial uses got Allison as well. But these are smaller trucks that ain't going to haul heavy stuff.
Hi, Ian. The big knob on dashboard is a park brake, not a shifter.
That compressed air gun is pretty common in most of truck in Europe for long time (so do fridges). Here in Europe are two basic type of rigs: tractor+ semi-trailer like you´ve got in the US and tandems- a box truck with equally sized trailers (no dolly, some of them with the doors on both sides for easy no-need-to-uncouple load-through). Tandems are actually a bit bigger, they can hold up to 39 pallets, 3 more than semi-t. I have some experience with both (both M-B New Actros with 420hp and 12sp. auto-trans.)But i like manual transmission more, because I want to be in control over the selected gear I need. Thats why I liked 16spd manual transmissions in MAN trucks and in Tatra in my last jobs. Now I drive Iveco Crossway bus with 6spd. manual. It is OK but MAN trucks were better, smoother, finer (Le18.280 box truck and tgx26.400 flour cistern truck).
Tatra I drowe was 6x6 10spd. dump truck- perfect for construction hard jobs. Mud, sand... doesn´t matter, it get´s everywhere.
I like your reaction, keep it up. Bye from Czech republic.
In Sweden, where cassi drives, it is more common to have room for 48-51 pallets, depending on whether you have a wagon or dolly and semi-trailer behind the truck with a total length of 24-25,25 meters.
You can manually shift an automated manual. Seriously you didn't know? I don't even drive truck.
" MAN trucks were better, smoother, finer ..." my words. They are such quite.
US trucks have these yellow square knob for parking brake and a red round knob, i think for trailer brake and a blue one for what ever. EU-Trucks have only one handle for the complete road train.
With the spring-loaded brake, you need compressed air to release it, but not all axles have spring-loaded brakes. That is why the parking brake lever has a test function in which the spring-loaded brakes of the tractor remain applied and the brakes of the trailer are released. This can be used to check whether the tractor can hold the entire train on an incline without compressed air. If not, chock the trailer's wheels or tighten their manual brakes if available.
I had to pump up a flat front tyre with the airline from the cab once, it's really slow! :D
Fun fact for a Scania fan. Scania is the most southern part of Sweden, the red griffin that Scania uses are the coat of arms of Malmö (and Scania / Skåne). Scania is also the name setter for Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) (And not the same as Norden). Scania has it's own flag that is way older that Sweden's flag (Red flag with a yellow cross in the
same size as the Danish flag). BTW you should get over to Sweden and do a proper test run of different Scania models, maybe have a try to drive a 25.25 or a 32 meter hauler. ;)
The "Shifter" you talk about @ 09:39 is actually the parking break, there is no "Shifter", instead there is an arm like the turn-signal arm on the right side of the steering wheel that controls gears, retarder and exhaust breaking (@11:39 you can see this arm better trough the steering wheel, you'll see "N" netrual, exhaust break on/off and retarder on/off also @17:47) . @10:31R500 that she is in is a inline 6, R500 use to be V8 but the inline 6 is way more fuel efficient than the V8 with basically the same power/torque specs. Blue segment of RPM means most fuel efficiency, This truck is not an Automatic, it has an Automatically shifted manual gearbox. All these systems are a great assistant to your driving, I Drove a route of 300 km (186 miles) loading and offloading on different stops in Norway and it is not known to be a flat land, but I did not use my breaks once, well I had to break reversing in to terminal to not run into it. But no breaks used at all in traffic.
@thequ4lm69. Before I give you the answer, please tell me where you think the name , `Scandinavia` comes from. You would never guess. Look forward to your reply.
@@johnl1262 The name Scandinavia comes from that of a region in southern Sweden called Skåne or Scania as I stated originally.
@@thequ4lm69 And who came up with the name, Skane`?
@@thequ4lm69 And who thought of the name` Skane`?
Several hundred years BC , the Greeks sailed as far north as `Scandinavia` which was not inhabited at that time. It was so far away from Greece that they they called that particular sea journey ... "Esxati naufs" pronounced
"Es-hatee nafs",( the stress is on the E as in egg) which, roughly translated means the furthest sail, cannot sail further, the most extreme sea journey. Over the centuries it has been changed to Scandinavia, Scandi from Esxati . The "E" has been dropped and "x" changed to c.
leaving Scandi and naufs prounounced nafs now navia. Naus is where we get "Navy" from. So, Scandinavia =Es-hatee nafs. Is there nothing the Greeks didn`t give us barbarians. Ah! Barbarian, another interesting story
behind that word, too.
I AGREE, with this young lady, that all car drivers should be made to ride in a large truck for a while so that they can appreciate the truck drivers problems. a 40 TON truck cannot stop like a car.
Most tankers have baffles in the tanks to control the fluid movement. My brother in law who is a long distance truck driver and is licensed to drive any truck. Told me, that one of the most difficult trucks to drive was a tanker without the baffles in the tank and that's a milk tanker. For obvious reasons, the baffles would make the milk curdle! But make the truck a handful because of the movement of the milk. Oh and by the way, he loved Scania's!
The seat in Swedish trucks are amazing, you are sitting as good as in any office workplace. Its relay is better than any luxury car's seat.
Way better than in any office!
Scania has been a brand of the German company VAG for years.
On YT is a guy from florida. Bruce Wilson, he got a few scania’s over there.
I have a uncle that drives tuck in the U.S. that says that he mostly drives automatic trucks lately. It seems like America is slowly moving away from manual transmission.
I never used to drive without boots on but since I moved to Australia i'm no longer a trucker but now a farmer and I can no longer drive with boots on. it's amazing how much more comfortable you are without them and in the Aussie sun the difference between boots on and off is the difference between air conditioning full blast and minimum.
I was pretty much trained to never wear shoes inside the truck when I started driving, but mostly because it had a nice interior with really plush and hard to clean floor mats. I never liked it in the Scania though. Not because I didn't like driving without shoes, but because Scanias at the time weren't "insulated" on the top step which means your shoes can get wet there! The MAN I drove was different and kept the shoes dry on the top step.
The R500 in this model is an i6. The torque is at it's max between 1000-1500rpm. The blue mark is the optimal rpm for the retarder and exhaustbrake when going downhill.
The "shifter" you pointed out is the parkingbrake. This is an automatic, or OptiCruise as it's called in Scania, and the handle is on the steeringcoloumn.
Been so long since I drove a Scania I forgot about their parking brake handle. It's so much better than Volvos hidden away spring-switch.
@@rosen9425 It sure is. I never liked that electric parking brake on the Volvo either. Should be an option to chose which one you want.
I was driving a 124 with 420 hp. Wery good engine. Lots of low end power. The turbo kicks in well below 1000 rpm..
@@toraabe My first was in a '97 124 400 with a nose and a Vulcan V70 for towing and rescuing other lorries :)
Started out as red with Falck logos on it for a few years. Then had Viking Rescue logos, and is now in the Italian alps and painted yellow :)
The R500 is not a V8, it has a 13 liter L6. Makes peak power at around 2000rpm and peak torque between 1000 and 1400/1500rpm, which is were they spend most of their time. Peak torque band is any engine's most efficient one.
Normally I drive my Scania about 2500-3000 km each week and the chairs are amazing. The cooled seats is awesome in the summer. Way more comfortable than my car. Great video btw.
In Europe, we started around 90's, to use transmission oil and gears in trucks that doesn't need to be mixed or stirred. So the mixing stick become obsolete.
Old type oil is only used where absolutely necessary (like heavy construction work). In those, you still have to stir the oil and mix gears regularly with the mixing stick.
Even Fullers are still used in special occasions. I did like Fuller transmission, or Twinsplitter even more, (mostly only Sisu used them) but there's nothing like automatic.
late 90's, early 2000's
I'm no trucker but I follow a lot of truckers on youtube and on facebook and I keep hearing about how most of the newer trucks in fleets are automatic nowadays (at least here in Canada) and truck schools will often teach how to drive a semi in automatic so you have drivers who don't even know how to drive manual nowadays. I doubt the market for the manual transmission will ever fully disappear but it probably won't be as common in the future. Just like how a lot of the new trucks also come with lower noses to improve the visibility of the driver vs the big square noses of the past. Thanks for the reaction to one of Cassie's videos, she's pretty cool :)
Reason is it still is a manual gearbox in most cases just controlled with air and electrical signals
17:19 The truck will read the road ahead using maps and radars and preselect the right gear (downshitft) if a hill is coming ahead. Also on highways will select the optimum gear for fuel economy.
That manual thing is not necesarry because the truck knows better the gear it has to be based on a lot of factors. It knows the weight that it have so that's helping a lot.
Why I drive manually is that many times it bumpy when it doesn't see what is happening on the road, crossroads etc. Or its changing just when you need it to rev to get smooth as possible in to the traffic.
Lots of truckers in Europe leave schoes on the last steps before get in, but they also have some comfort schoes to drive and walk inside the cab, the reason is quite simple. In many companies where truck is loaded and unloaded are safty protocols like; safe shoes, neon jacket, even helmets and safe glases. So if You dont wanna spend all day in hevy safty shoes driving around from one companies to another then just change them when you need to go on some loading or unloading.
Second thing. The lever in the middle of dashboard its a parking break not gear stick ;)
At about 16:10 in your video, that stalk is the gear selector. You twist the neck like Cassie did to choose Forward or Reverse. There is a button at the top of the stalk, it toggles between Automatic and Manual Mode of the gear box. A bit earlier in your video when you showed the instruments - There was a tab sticking out on the Left side of the rev-counter, it showed an "A" to indicate that the gear box was in Automatic Mode. You can force gear shifts if you lift the stalk up or push it down (Up or Down shifts, nothing strange there). The gear box will change Up or Down if you do it once, do it twice quickly if you want to skip a gear - You can skip one gear only, no more (from 2nd to 4th, or from 5th to 7th or whatever). That stalk is also the manual control of the Retarder (restricting the oil flow in the torque converter and acting like a brake, optimum effect at the Blue area on the rev-counter like others have said), pull the stalk towards you to use the retarder. It had 11 steps earlier but it might be no steps at all nowadays. The 2 sliding buttons on the head of the stalk - The front one is the On/Off switch for the Cruise Control, the back one is the On/Off switch for the Automatic Retarder. You can set an Maximum speed for when you are going downhill so you wont be over-speeding and get unnecessary speeding tickets for that. Set Speed- buttons for Cruise and Retarder is on the steering wheel. / B.
Unless I forgot how it works on Scandia's, the first step is the engine brake, followed by the various retarder steps. Maybe someone who drives a Scania can confirm this? P.S. I drive a tulip-tractor (DAF) now and with that (and with Mercs and MANs it's definitely that way!
You can jump 3 gears when light weight and small gears! 1 -> 3 for example. On Scania only. Other companies trannies are too slow.
The R500 is straight 6, and is a 13 litre engine. You also get a 13 litre straight 6 with 560 hp. 16 litre V8 comes in 530, 590, 660 and 770 HP. Last generation the R500 and up was V8 and everything under was straight 6.
Good tour and reflections! In Sweden we are proud of Scania and Volvo (for a reason 😉 )
Btw: it is six cylinder in two sizes up to 560 hp, V8 från 530 to 770 hp.
There are some seriously experienced interior designers working on these trucks in production. Every single new model coming out seem to have just a little bit extra improvements in the layout and ergonomics, working around very constrained legislation as they can't increase the overall volume available. I'm proud that we can manufacture some of the best trucks in the world 💪🇸🇪
Oh and the setup could be called a Scandinavian rigid drawbar combo. Full size only allowed in two places, Sweden and Finland having the highest GVW in the entire EU. AND yes any respectable trucker will be shoes off in the cab 🤭, especially in winter. Saves on cleaning and makes less stinky feet, but not only that you actually have a greater pedal feel without bulky steel toes on. Air brakes have huge stopping power so no jerking stuff around
145th thing I thought of (I'll be editing all day here).. Volvo has this awesome feature where the truck can wind crab. Literally at the push of a button steer into the wind keeping your truck straight while going down the highway, minimizing sway and micro wheel inputs (every movement is exaggerated in a high & heavy vehicle). Saves on your arms a ton! That feature sounds so good, so so good. Should be standard everywhere.
Probably half of people in Australia who have to wear boots at work, I.e tradies either drive with shoes off or wear slides. Personally I can’t, it feels too weird to me. I’ll take my boots off and change to sneakers/runners if I can be bothered. 😂
I'm currently driving a Scania 500S series and to be honest Scania is the best truck I have ever driven.
Load carrying trucks with actual trailers are more common than semi trucks here in Finland (and maybe in Sweden too) There are two reasons:
- They need less space in curves and road crossings. Therefore they can be longer and carry more volume and weight.
- In practice this is a delivery truck with a trailer. For example: Some store chains have both bigger stores and smaller shops. The driver can leave the trailer on the parking lot of a bigger store and deliver stuff to the smaller shops - or private customers - without the trailer. Both the roads and loading locations can be too tight for semi trucks. Of similar reasons also dump trucks and timber trucks usually have actual trailers.
Speaking of it being a stressful job, some old truck drivers I've met have been just unbelievably calm in stressful situations. Like you could tell they've been through some stressful shit in their days and know what matters in life.
the truck and trailer combo is optimized for the trailer to follow the truck as good as possible. One of the reason we can do a 25 m load
It’s called a rigid setup 😊
@@MrStian78 well.. that will cut a lot.. even.. if.. well. You only have to care about two axels
Hi Ian, yeah they're beautiful trucks. i sometimes have the pleasure to drive an 2003 164g580(15.6liter v8 580hp) for a construction company where i live delivering rock and other stuff to constructionsites. it's a nice little side gig. especially the brutal v8 diesel sound
Hi, Ian
Personally I prefer the the automatic transmission as I drive a scania R770 doing heavy hall around europe and on the steep slopes the automatic shifting through the crawler gears is lovely allowing you to focus on navigating the terrain.
My father is a truck driver (Europe) and I'm ocasionaly lucky enough to go with him, last time we had the Scania R-420.
We were transporting multiple loads of gravel.
Heaviest Scania here in Finland is around 100 tons (35 meters) with special permit.
Here is one Cassie follower ;) She is so great person o7
I learned to drive with a manual transmition with 16 gears (can go to 18), but when I started driving on my own I got a automatic and I can't say I miss the manual lol.
But automatic beeing standard is still fairly recent here in europe aswell, so I'm sure a lot of the drivers who drove manual for yrs and got used to it probably miss it.
With my private car I prefer manual over automatic cause that's what I'm most used to and feel like I have better control of the car with manual.
Yep, exactly the same here, learned on manual, but don't really miss it (afterall, if you _really_ want to have control over which gear you're driving in, you can disable the automatic and "manually" shift up or down - you _just_ can't shift several gears at once). For regular cars, I prefer manual though, it's just... more fun? In a truck, whenever you _need_ to shift, you need to shift _a lot_ due to the low range of every gear, it's just so much easier with an automatic.
I actually miss the manual transmission it self. I still remember what gear goes on witch speed even its almost 10 years sins last time. But my sore shoulder muscles thanks for these robot transmissions!
im from Greece ,here almost all the trucks even the really old ones have that air pistol inside the cabine :D ,its really usefull to just open the doors and push dust out, and YES everyone in here drives with socks ,no shoes allowed :)))
Except Spain where if you get caught driving without shoes,you get a fine,i can tell it from my own experience,and not on a truck but in a car.They forbid to drive shoeless and shirtless also.
Try pushing the brake pedal all the way down to the max without shoes, which can easily be required for an emergency brake. You'll absolutely feel the pain of that, which is precisely why it's forbidden to drive without shoes here in Germany as well (not by law, but the Federal Office for Goods, or at the very least the trade federation, will want a word with you if they find out about it).
@iwrocker, don’t know of anyone reacted about this before, but the handle you call the shifter @9:40 is actually the parking brake for the whole combination. So it sets all breaks, (if the air lines are connected off course).
It is most likely an automated gearbox (or automatic clutch) where changing gears happens directly near the steering wheel, at the steering collum. Maybe she”ll explain that later on in the video (i don’t know that yet)
After shouting out the truck drivers, he has my subscriptio. Thank you for the recognition ❤
Ian,keep in mind: we have limits here in europe,the widh,the high ,the lengh,everything,so put the cargo area as low as needed for the job,gives more space in the inside.
I drove a semi truck only in my country and they are amazing, also it was 10yo truck and it was an automatic, we here drive manual only in the heavy situations like when you drive something from a farm field and such because you want greater control over the shifter. But for regular driving on the road and cities it is 90% automatic shifter. Great video, brought me the memories when I used to drive it.
Old time Canadian truck driver... First truck I drove was a dump truck, 1969 Ford 850 Super Duty 534 cubic inch 8.75L gas V8 with 5 spd main and 4 spd aux tranny (1st gear only used for deep reduction). This gives progressive 16 speeds forward and 4 in reverse, 12 yard box, 38000 lbs tandem, 18000 lb steering axel. Takes lot of practice to master 5+4, if you get the main and A box in neutral at same your screwed, and have to stop and start again... Next truck was 1972 Western Star with 350 Cummins and 13spd Road Ranger, what great transmission! One handed operation, gave the same rpm splits as the 5+4 in high range. Only complaint was the big jump from 4th low to 5th in high. After the 13 spd came 18 spd which was the same as the 13spd but you can split gears in low range and fixed the big jump from low to high range. About 1999 the Autoshift came out which automated the Road Ranger trans and maintained the manual clutch. Shift sequencing was not the greatest, mainly ran it in manual mode. But was very handy if you were feeling lazy, drinking coffee or using CB!!!! Autoshift lost the manual clutch and was rebranded Ultrashift, the shifting was still towards the crude side... Around 2013 drove Volvo 760? with D13 and I-Shift. The I-Shift was FANTASTIC. Probably the best improvement in my career! Transmission was totally in sync with load, conditions and driver requirements. Latest trucks have been Cascadia's with DD15's and DT12 transmissions. DT12 is OK, not quite as good as I-Shift. Both the I-Shift and DT12 have superior shift prediction and sequencing compared to Ultrashifts. Think the Ultrashift's are indestructible and very popular in logging, low bed and severe service uses. Also cab ergonomics have come a long way. Gone are the noisy heaters and defrosters that never works properly. Gone are the noisy cabs. Gone are rigid mounted cabs, today all cabs are air ride. Almost all highway tractors have air ride suspensions. Looks to me that European truck engineering needs to come to North America ASAP. I'm not a cabover fan. Driven Freightliner's and K100's. Less climbing with conventional cab. As for automation its all a boost to driving IMO. Not crazy about lane assist, I too turn it off. Forward collision warning and brake application is a plus. For example on Cascadia's 75% of the time it will beep before you can see a Moose or Deer at night. Moose are black at night...
Man, Scania and Mercedes sell trucks in a part of Norteamérica (actually only in México)
Cassie is a whery good driver ❤ And Angelica Larsson is super 😂 so small and drive everything😅 And truckers in Sweden take of the shoes 😂
No shoes inside the truck is a nice way to keep it clean, especially for us that live in our truck from Sunday to Friday every week. Just look at your car, all that mud and growel that follow you inside. Its also nice in the winter as the floor keeps dry. You spend maybe 15 min every friday clean out and dust the cabin and it be fresh and nice for next week to come living on the road.
Try and find Bruce Wilson on youtube. He bought a 1996 Scania 4 series, lives somewhere in Florida
More and more trucks here in Sweden have automatic gearboxes rather than manual. There are a few reasons as to why it has been standard with automatic, but 2 of the "bigger" reasons are that it's better for the fuel consumption and it is also better for the driver if they don't have to change gear constantly if you have many stops. So it's good for the drivers physical health as well.
Well, this is actually a manual gear box where the gear shifting happens automatically controlled by a computer. The computer uses gps data and topographic maps with the weight of the whole truck to determine what gear to use. (With manual override)
We all like Cassie, and her dog Viggo. Besides trucking Cassie is also involved in plowing the roads.
And we also like another polish trucker called Iwona (something). She´s done basically everythig as a trucker. She has also been to Alaska. If you dont´t know her or Cassie. Check them out. Iwonka drives a Volvo
It’s a 13 litre inline 6. Now you can get the same engine with 560 hp. The V8’s are available only in 590, 660 and 770 hp. V8 has 16 litre volume. The blueline on the revmetre is called the cooling range. The gearbox on those trucs (and busses) has a hydraulic retarder integrated in the gearbox. The heath energy from the retarder is transferred to the engine cooling liquid and exhaused through the radiator. The exhaustbrake is (automatically) activated as required together with the retarder. And the ideal rev for getting the most effective braking power is at the blue range. The flow of the cooling liquid is also optimal at this rpm to get rid of the heath generated by the force of the retarder. The retarder generate about 600 hp in braking force.
The blue part of the rev counter is to indicate ideal rpm for cooling. When using the retarder on a long descent the cooling system has to work harder as its cooling the engine, as well as the retarder. If the rpm is kept in the blue band the engine fan spins fast enough to provide sufficient cooling by sucking lots of air through the radiator.
Kind of regarding the height: We get pulled over a lot for spot checks for truck condition, load restrictions and time regulations regarding how long we can drive each day/week etc. Always lock the doors when you're pulled into one of those in a truck! The first thing the person checking things is gonna do is grab your handle and open the door. Just to make it easier to talk to each other really. It's generally accepted that this will happen and most people don't care, but according to law in most EU countries that's actually illegal. Might be in the US as well.
They're not allowed to open or enter your vehicle without your permission unless they have probable cause, but they 100% will in that situation. Also if I was running light I would drive with the 3rd axle on the truck lifted as well as one of the trailer axles. When I turned the truck off both axles would repressurize and make a lot of hissing noises while doing so which made it impossible to hold a conversation with the person doing the checks until both axles were fully inflated.
I always had my things in order and usually had plenty of time mess around so these checks never messed up my day even if I prolonged them so I could play games like this. None of this will gain you any favors, but it is satisfying to annoy these people who assume you're a criminal until you've proven yourself innocent when you know you're innocent and can prove it.
But that's one of the reasons I got out of trucking. The government treats all of us like criminals by default and that shit got old real quick. We get checked all the time and the attitude of the people working at those checks is that we're criminals until we get weighed in and can provide the paperwork to prove we're not. Every single time I've been in one the people there were just trying to bust you. For something. Anything. A good day at work for them was handing out lots of fines. My particular truck had 75 (Seventy-five!) filament bulbs for all the lights on the truck/trailer combo (This was before LED's). Even though I checked them before I set off from anywhere chances were one of them would have given up during the drive. That's inevitable. I changed at least one bulb every day. If you were caught with one out at one of these checkpoints: There you go, $100 fine. Per bulb. And that's personal fines, not company ones. This comes out of my goddamn paycheck!
Pulling over and checking people who had everything in order like I had, and most truckers do, annoyed the living hell out of them and that's the only thing that kept me going for those years.
I still miss the driving and even loading, but I don't miss the business if that makes any sense. If I'm gonna be treated like a criminal for doing my job and risking those kinds of fines for things I can't even help and try to avoid I better be making criminal money but I wasn't.
@IWrocker, when she says total weight is 62 tons that is metric tons, its equal to 120 american/english tons :) And the combination is called truck and trailer, and is simulare to how you hook up your camper/trailer to your car . In Norwegian: Vogntog, in Swedish: Bil och släp. The other combination you refere to is TractorTrailer witch mean you hook your trailer on top of the chassi of the tractor
US ton is 2000 lbs, so 62 metric tons equals 68.3 US tons. (or 61 UK tons)
Couldn't we all just use SI units already...
I grew up in the high coast and being able to manualy shift is a must in the winter for trucks, without it, they are screwed. Some only learn to drive with automatic and companies that hires them have a lot of unwanted trouble. She's not the only driver that does that with the shoes. Since I have friends in this profession I have had the opportunity to ride along in a Scania.
You can still use a manual shift mode even if it's a automatic gearbox. I can even do that on my VW Transporter/Multivan.
@@Dragonited I know
regarding manual/automatic gears, it is pretty much the total oposite of the US, here in the EU, our cars have manual stick shifts, and you have to get your licence in a manual gear car (there are some rules that allow you to do it in an automatic) and our trucks have automatic gears for the most part (you can find trucks with manual gears, but the norm is automatic transmision for trucks)
also worth to note, when Cassie mentioned 64 tons, it is metric tons, not imperial tonnes (metric is heavier) 64 metric tons is 62,99 imperial tonnes.
the BLUE line on the RPM meter, is where the engine brake is most effective.
and i totally agree with Cassie regarding the camera screen, all the annoying text on the camera, when you switch gears or activate the camera, it steals my vision when emptying a container ( a drive a different configuration truck than Cassie, i tip my container to empty bulk loads, and my container because it is longer than the bed of the truck, it tilts down and blocks 3/4 view of my camera.
and also the big annoying text bubble taking about 80-90% of the screen, whern we get a trafic warning is really annoying, when trying to reverse and connect to your trailer, as it blocks all view.
i would LOVE to have a little chat about all that with a SCANIA engineer, and get and update to all that stuff about the camera in the scania.
Altso, IWrocker, if you ever consider a vacation in Denmark, let me know, would love to give you a ride along, so you could se stuff like this real up close :D
I love how you get hyped up about so trivial things that come standard with euro trucks🥰 like being able to look up axle loads in the instrument cluster or a pull out fridge 😄
These modern automated gearboxes - especialy from the likes of Volvo and Scanis - are so good that you never need to touch the gear selector. No matter the road infront of you. They work so well!
You should look up Volvo's wireless work remote, fantastic stuff! Mine has it!
Great video and comment again. Thank you. Much respect from Italy and Belgium. Happy holidays too you and your famely. 🇮🇹🎄🇧🇪
1:48 - that style of the truck is called rigid, and it's a truck with cargo capacity and not a semitrailer tractor. Then you have the trailer with wagon steer and that's a lot trickier to reverse than a semitrailer.
I used to drive a rigid/trailer compo and backing up or docking wasn't an issue at all. Then I switched to semis and later on to truck/trailer combos with central axes on the trailer. I the had to drive one of those articulated trailers for a few days and I drove like a nOOb 🤣 One needs to rewire the brain since the steering inputs are reversed!
We have one driving in New Brunswick Canada, V8 R in neo Green, belongs to a German who bought it in Sweden and, now International LT is getting the new Scania normal 500 HP 6 zylinders, but don't know if we will get the 770 HP V8 engine, let's see.
The trucks in Europe are 10 to 20 years ahead of North America, they don't have red and yellow air bottons only one release valve, you saw in your video red sticker with 82 on it, that's the V max speed you have on this Vehicle, it all set V max from country to country and company.
I have been following Trucker Cassie for a few years and really do enjoy her videos!!
Same goes for Stravos969 an Irish trucker and his hilarious journeys!!
2:00 this setup is fairly common in northern europe, where you have a box truck and a trailer.
I believe it's called a "full trailer combination" or something, täysperävaunuyhdistelmä in Finnish.
Though we also use semi trailers, sometimes they also get another trailer connected to the first trailer for a really crazy combination.
not a trucker. but driven a scania r500 and a volvo fh 16 660hk. gives you a big smile :)
People have no idea how important trucks and truck drivers are, i'm not a truck driver but i work in a warehouse loading and unloading trucks. Sometimes i drive the company trucks inside our industrial park and let me tell you, people have no idea how big a truck is. Big shout out to anyone who drives one on a daily basis.
HI Ian, to answer your questions: concerning the revs: the readline means "maximum revs" so pls avoid in order not to damge the engine. The blue is recommended if you use the powertrain to brake the truck. Then you are using the engine beeing "pulled" instead of having to push the powertrain. This puts less strain on the engine, higher ravs cause better braking. So you can dare to go higher in terms of revs. This comes in handy on long descents, because in this range, jakebrake performs way better than in low revs!
Using this you can easily keep pace of a fully loaded truck, but be careful on slippery terrein because you're only "braking" the driven axles, so you can easily spin out of the road. So use with care! This gets even worse, when you use the "retarder" beeing nowadays a hydraulik brake, slowing down the gearbos and thus also only braking the driven axles.
Here it really takes to consider the circumstances on the road!
Have fun! Greets from Austria!
I came across your channel not very long ago and I did recognize your simping for Scania trucks pretty fast.
So when all of a sudden I got this exact video by Trucker Cassie recommended to me, my first thought was 'Well, that would be something for Ian!'. The timing did suggest it was made just for you - even if that would be very far fetched to assume.
Greetings from Germany.
Before the automatic selectors at the steering column, a lot of trucks had semiautomatic transmissions, with the selector integrated into the right armrest.
So gearshifters haven’t taken up room on the floor for some years
Volvo and Merc still do but the function is the same! Robot trannies with double clutch.
I think many of the automatic trucks are actually automated manuals, not torque converter automatics. Drivetrain losses start to play a part with big vehicles.
Yes, you're right. Some trucks have torque converters as extra equipment.
@@PropperNaughtyGeezer Those with torque converters are mostly used for municipal uses (trash collection etc). The ones most people refer to as "automatic" are actually - as you correctly stated - automated non-synchromesh gearboxes. The non Synchromesh is the main reason these gearboxes actually have a longer service life than the older synchronized double-h gearboxes. Plus the fact that there is no such thing as "user errors" breaking them (or the engine by over revving it).
A danish truck driver was asualy in the USA whit his Scania 770 in 2022 or 2021. He also have a UA-cam chanel. God video love them
The no shoes thing is something that i would say is something 8 of 10 truckdrivers in Sweden are doing. And it’s legal to drive with upp to 74ton (metric) here, i’m driving a r580 timbertruck in northen sweden and we have been driving with over 70 tons for about 4 years now🙏
Here in germany is illegal. Not directly by law but by the Occupational Safety Act. The police will forward this to the trade association or the Federal Office for Goods Transport. You will then receive an invoice from them.
If you drive without shoes, I hope you never will have to perform an emergency break! Crazy people, sorry.
@@miriamreiss i needed to do that a cuple of times, mooses are running around like rats here. Never been an issue and i dont really see what the problem should be with that?
@@miriamreiss you can easily make an emergency stop without shoes on, because the brake pedal is very light and sensitive. I know, i'm a Scania test driver
@@tmjaspers I haven't driven a Scania yet, but I _have_ driven DAF, Volvo, MAN, and Mercedes - and I'd _hate_ to have to press the brake pedal of any of those _all the way_ down without shoes. The "pedal to the metal", only with brake instead of accelerator. Which is what an actual emergency brake may very easily require.
A Dutch truck magazine called Truckstar organizes a a 2-day truck show at the end of Juli each year on the moto gp circuit in Assen.
For taste look up "truckstar festival".
It is a fairly common swedish combo. Straight 3axle truck with an articulated trailer of either 4 or 5 axles. The articulated part may be fixed to the trailer, or separate 2axle dolly that will take most any regular standard 5th wheel trailers, usually around 40'.
As for transmission, almost anything new sold in Europe is an automated manual, as it has the fastest shift rate, lowest consumption and highest torque curve. Less than 10% of drivers, maybe way less, can outshift them. They are VERY efficient. Scania has the opticruise, volvo the ishift etc. There are instances where a manual is still preferable. This relates to the predictability in the shift pattern, where for instance a fuel or food tanker with no baffles in the tank, need to be shifted in relation to what the load is doing out back, sort of like playing catch up with a crane hook. It takes rhythm. Engage the gear at the wrong time, and you run the risk of trashing either the clutch, gearbox or both. A highly skilled driver will know, but it still takes practice and foresight to nail it. So in case you may wonder why tankers many times go slower, leaves more space in front of themselves etc., that is the explanation. So please make sure there's plenty of room in front of them, when you overtake.
The big lever on the dash is the parking brake.
Most drivers, as mentioned everywhere, drive without shoes. For multiple reasons. Regardless of these, it is illegal, and will be fined. If nowhere else, then at least on the German Autobahn. Closed fitting shoes with a sturdy sole is mandatory, as they don't slide off, and enables the driver to apply maximum pressure on the brake pedal in an emergency. Those are the rules. How they may differ in enforcement, whether it's still relevant with advanced ABS, collision alert etc., I will not be the judge of. But illegal it is, same as no heels clogs, which some also prefer. Clean pair for the cab of course.
When auto gearboxes first came in there were a few teething problems, like reversing could be be a bit scary. The torque converter was badly adjusted and caused you to lurch backwards like a rocket especially up a slope. Once the problems were adressed though I found that driving an auto is actually less tiring. I think this is because you don't have to think about changing gears all the time, you just drive. In a manual you are always making judgements about what gear you need to be in and how to go about that in relation to the road conditions.
This gearbox is in fact a manual gearbox where the gear shifting is controlled by a computer. There is no torque converter in it.
My hubby is a trucker and drives a Scania R660 Streamline (2022) pretty much alike this one inside the cabin, very spacious and enjoyable. He follow some trucking videos here on UA-cam, Trucker Cassie is one and Angelica Larsson i another but she haven´t done anything in quite a while now. It was something about negative response (stalking) due to her being a hot young lady being determind with a sharp tounge and a capable dr
First rule of trucking, shoes goes off in the cab! Many of the dutch truck drivers I know drive without shoes, or with wooden clogs :) (mainly not used outside)
I don't drive trucks, but I had the opportunity to climb into some trucks, Mercedes-Benz MP4 and MP5, and Scania R410 with natural gas powered engine.
The Mercedes-Benz MP5 are minimalistic, the buttons inside are reduced to strict minimum and the mirror cams are great.
The best point of the Scania is the driving position.
9:38 that is the E-break.
The transmission is manual engaged automatically through elektroic's and hydralics combined with pneumatics.
R is the second highest model. Difference between R and S is that S model has flat floor. This R one has tone of space in the cabin, but you can still notice theres lil a hump in the middle. S version doesnt have that.
Great vide overall! I love to see american guy genuenly excited about stuff, withou keeping that "america is better" attitude. Every country is different, theres no need look down at anything. Great videos bro! Keep doing good job :))
cool video reaction. That video shows the strengh of EU trucks. Making the most out of small space.
It is very comfy to drive an automatic truck and its a lot easier when the truck knows "I can do the next hill in 10th gear" However not learning how to move a manual truck, you miss alot from the job. I own a 32year old Mercedes SK with a manual split-gearbox (please do a reaction to that kind of truck) and an Actros MP 4. The old one is way more fun and people always look stunned and happy to see such an old truck. I went to a few truck festivals since summer with the SK and i always got the same kind of questions / comments. Compared to modern trucks, the SK is tiny. So "young truckers" always are like this ""Wow its older thn me! But...where do you sleep?"" Me: "Uhm.... in te bed?!" Them ""Bed? That thing has a bed? WHERE??" Me:"Uhm like yours, behind the seat?" They cant understand that and have to look for themself.... i love that. The comments on the other hand are from veteran drivers. They are like this "Can you fire it up? I wanna here a propper truck once more" or "All of these kids here, they call themselfs ""tucker"" because their boss spends money on chrome or plastics, but 90% of the driver here couldnt move a Mercedes double H split ...they simply couldnt (the reason i put trucker in "" "" in germany a quote on qoute trucker is a bad thing. The correct translation is Lorry driver or long distance truck driver. if a german says trucker ... well its a kid with more Horsepower thn brain ;) )
I see the term "trucker" _little_ bit different, I basically use it for those who actually make their truck their home, putting a lot of money and effort into it, leather upholstery, additional lights, that kind of stuff. Everyone else (including me) is a truck driver (LKW Fahrer) or "Brummifahrer" (and if relevant, long or short distance driver, "Fermfahrer" or "Nahverkehrsfahrer"). So "trucker" for me doesn't have any negative annotation per se (only when someone for example overdoes it and turns his truck into a poser Christmas tree...).
I drive one of these and it's great.The horsepower isn't as important as torque which on this lorry is around 2,500 Nm. You can also change the sensitivity on things like lane-assist but in some circumstances it is less distracting to keep it off.
I wrecker wherever you come from whatever you drive it’s a truck and you are responsible for it! Thanks to all the truck drivers around the world you feed us and make our lives possible! Thank you truckers
This one is well packed with features. But when you buy new Scania list of features is very long. Like 10t first axle, 14t rear axles, strengthened chassis, drive axle with signle or double reduction, 12 or 16 speed transmission, 3 sizes of retarder, cameras instead rear view mirrors. That is common in last few years, A pillars are LCD monitors and outside are small hi res cameras. Great thing for night driving, camera sees what you can not and stickout is small.
In scandinavia it is extremely common to drive without shoes. Also only old/cheap trucks use manual. I'm not a truck driver but I have tried driving some of the newest trucks. Amazing machines.
My cousin had an R440 that used to belong to two women. The cab was so clean.
In Sweden and Finland they have those big cargo areas where the doors open all along the side with a hydraulic ramp at the back as well and they're 4m (10+ ft) tall, so illegal in any other country in Europe.
This what you recognized as a gear shifter, is handbrake. When is off this handle stay vertical and can see outside through the windshield. If you want to leveling the truck, but it is parked on slope, just push handbrake down. That release trailer brakes only.
The blue section on the tachometer is the efficient RPMs for the engine brake.
Top Video. Thanx. And Great respect for Cassie and good luck.
Just wanted to add that heated seats are pretty much standard in all cars and ”trucks” in Sweden (not only vehicles made in Sweden) since maybe the 1980's or so, at least for the driver's seat.
Scania has had CAG=computer aided gearbox since mid eighties. Not sure today but back then you just pushed the clutch down and it would shift to the proper gear.
the blue part on the refcounter is for the engine brake. the operation rpm when driving is about 1200 rpm. but when you go downhill you can shift down and get the rpm up till 2500rpm in the blue part and the engine brake is strong enough so you can keep the speed steady.
1,75 m (175 cm) = 5,9 feet.
Passenger car in US: automatic shifter vs. truck: manual. EU: passenger car: manual vs. truck: automatic. That is crazy :D
in a big rig you ALWAYS take your shoes of it is the drivers home, and yyou always take your shoes of in peoples home .... Right
Fun fact Scania discontinued the manual trucks as of 2021 . So that's what the Scania representative told me when I picked up my 500xt Scania
The company i work for has dozens of these trucks with the Inline-6 engines that run on CNG and they are amazing to drive and work with.
Ours also have a standalone electic AC too.
Scania is King of the Road.
Volvo can be the queen :D
While we're on the topic of trucks, you should check out videos of the Dakar Rally as that starts on December 31st. Mainly because there are five different classes with trucks being one of them.
Ive had the great pleasure of going in trucks with my brother when I was younger. And more recently done a couple of experience days where i got to drive trucks, a Volvo, Renault and a Pete, yes you read right, a full on 13 speed US Peterbilt. Apparently not too far away you can drive a Kenworth W900, so definitely going to be doing that one day, especially as it's a proper 18 speed no synchro manual and round a racetrack.
The S500 (or 500S since Mercedes complained about using the same model name) is an inline 6. The smallest V8 is the 530S, or 520S from the previous gen (Euro5)
Quite a few truckers drive without shoes, although it is very dangerous. If you have to brake suddenly it may cause pain and can make your stopping distance a lot longer (many new trucks have automatic emergency brake assist, so not that big of an issue anymore)
Driving without shoes is the best especially in a manual since you can feel when the clutch bites, it helpful it you're on an incline. In general you feel the car more
Ive driven both types of Scania, both the "old generation" and the NextGen version. I would say, i like the nextgen that is on this video.