Here in Norway we have big problems with foreign trucks (and drivers) that simply aren't up for the climate and terrain that completely stop traffic across our mountain passages (which are absolutely essential) because either they lack the power to climb the mountains, or they don't have proper ice-chains, a lot also just end up choosing the wrong roads because they don't expect the roads to be as tight as they are.
And they have 2 axle trucks, witch should be forbidden in Norway! I call them dry road masters! When dry the push to the limit (90km/h something) on the high way and when they see a flake of snow they drop to 60-70 km/h when I stand my 83km/h any weather. Those guys know how to stand in the way. It doesn't matter how big the area is they manage to find the only spot where they are in the way!
Same in Sweden, when the roads can turn one day from, Ice Free even in the south with 10 C temperatures in the middle of December, to suddenly 60mm rain and -20 C temperature overnight, which renders the roads with 1 to 2 cm uneven ice sheets, that can puncture tires etc. And here comes the Polish or Lithuanian truck driver, and oh look, they're stuck on a shallow incline...
Not only that - people keep dying because such trucks not equipped with winter tires and/or competent drivers (and often non-maintained brakes etc) completely destroys cars when the trailer whips out in slight curves and/or slight downhill.
Im a heavy mechanic here in Australia, I love Volvo and Scania, they're easy to keep going for 1 million +KMs and have great support for parts. Scania cabs are so comfortable too.
As an Aussie living in sweden Iknow what you mean but this video talks about high HP volvos and scanias but when I built trailers for car carriers and general frieght 20 yrs ago these manufacturers only made max 450 hp and you needed to order them with cummins or detroit to get the power you wanted
@@kellytetley-jones2510 so they know are over 700hp, i think this engine are not so reliable like going over 1M km because of the HP no? Yeah 20years ago power was not so important to say:) Only truck with high HP over 20 years ago from history that i know is from the DAF that truck from DAKAR race that had over 1000hp or something crazy like that...
@@alexanderupb4546 ok daf Rally truck, i know little about Scanias but have trycker mates in Australia that love them because even after a million kms they drive like new but it was quite normal to have 600 and even 800 hp kenworth Mack or Ford Louisville 20 to 30 yrs ago in Australia mainly because of the distances and sizes of the equipment
@@alexanderupb4546 i think they wouldnt make them that powerful without being sure they would perform just as good as the lower hp ones. they are production vehicles.. hp isnt everything either, i know that a bunch of years ago i read that volvo made they strongest truck ever with like over 3000nm of tourqe.. this was built to handle pretty much hauling stuff from forests and stuff like that. alot of the new trucks today also have automatic gearboxes wich probably havent bin a thing anywhere?
MY truck driver friend from Norway swears to Scania. He refuses to even sit in anything else. Apparently they are the best/easiest/most confortable to drive. I can't see how any truck can be easy to drive, as they just look like massive bricks haha.
Also in Finland they changed the maximum length to 34,5 meters couple of years ago so it's much more eco friendly to haul more cargo or haul to distant and rural places. The long trailer doubles are called HCT- Doubles (High Capacity Transport) that are made of 2 semi trailers with a dolly.
The argument may work for rural regions, but probably not for urban regions. For urban regions, I doubt that larger trucks are more environmentally friendly. Because in that case, truck driving becomes cheaper, which leads to more truck transport. More trucks are not environmentally friendly. One obtains an induced demand effect. Similar to how more roads don't solve the traffic problem (there are simply more traffic) and more parking spaces don't make cities more attractive (yes, that argument used to exist).
@@schnelma605 I dont really get your message here. Anyways they increased the length because with previous length limitations some trucks with light load, had to haul with half of the weight allowed. Now they can get proper load with lightweight stuff like parcels.
@@shaggings i curently drive for DB Schenker and have not seen a 34m fulltrailer combinations, only HCT of that lenght. the standard base of the modular container truck and fulltrailer is a 10 ish m truck and 15m trailer with longer trailers up to 19m. but i have seen Posti using a rigid truck driving with a B-double trailer that would make it about 34m @schnelma HCT trucks dont drive in cities they are used mostly for city to city transport and are a more economical way of transporting goods as it eliminates the need for another truck on the same rout. but the 23-24m fulltrailer combinations do work in cities and allow one driver to transport more lowering the need for back and forth driving and lowering emisions
@@schnelma605 Stuff needs to be transported and Trucks are actually more environmentally friendly the larger they are. It's better to use one large truck then two half the size or even more smaller ones.It's similar reasons why buses are more efficient then cars.
@@lws7394 Because he wants other people's opinion on the Finns, it's a thing i've been digging for the past 10 years just as a Dane, there's something special about watching someone experiencing something you take for granted or simply just very accustomed to.
I've worked as a truck driver in two companies in Norway and they really do go all out. first truck i drove was a hand me down truck from a coworker, an "old" Volvo fully kitted out and was so comfortable to drive. The second company, i got to choose my own configuration and truck. so you know i went to town on that. Just wanna point out that in Norway Max weight is 60t and max length is 25.25m similar to Sweden.
There actually is no legal limit to the height of a vehicle in Sweden. 4.5m is called "the free height", which means that there are no markings at bridges and other obstacles if a vehicle of that height can pass under it. It's rare for a vehicle to exceed this height, but it is legal, and if so you have the responsibility to ensure that you can fit safely on the route you take.
Suggestion: do a series on driving tests for a driver's licence in Europe vs USA. Minimum age requirements, auto vs manual, licence weight limits, trailer licence, truck permits, truck cargo permits (dangerous cargoes, oversized loads etc). May be an eye opener.
The trucker shortage is a problem here in Sweden since we have to compete with foreign (mostly from eastern europe) trucks and drivers. I miss trucking but the salary way to low and the demands are way to high. It’s not just to drive a truck. You also have to be your own transport supervisor and planner. I’m a machine operator now and if I wanted to start driving trucks again I’d have to almost cut my current pay in half and increase the workload with the double.
I worked in Logistics a 10 years ago and i was suprised by the conversations i had with truckers here in Norway. I had the most conversation with truckers from Schenker and they were not happy with the pay, hours and benefits at all. I honestly can't recall a single one of the who enjoyed their job anymore. Most of them were short distance truckers tho, mostly in and around Oslo. Might be different for long distance drivers, but i expect that has its own set of challenges.
@@koff41 In my book it is Scandinavian/Nordic because Swedish as one of national languages and its influence on the culture ! 😁 Or would you rather be labeled as 'former Russian state' 🤔 For what I understood, Finns don't use the nordic mile a lot.
@@lws7394 scandinavia is an area, not a language 😁 of course you are free to think how ever you like, but you are simply wrong. Some parts of Finland are on the Scandinavian peninsula, but Finlans as a whole is just Nordic. Greetings from Finland.
Northern countries are small compared to US so distance is quite shorter here than in US. Don't know why you think otherwise. Also in the US they do not talk distance. They talk about how long it takes to drive. Seems like abwtter way.
Trucker from Finland here. Stats on the video about Finland lenghts etc. are way off. We never had those exact ones that are shown on video. Our max length has been 25,25m for years. Now couple of years ago they increased it to 34,5 meters. 4,4m heigth and 76tn weight are in effect now as well. And this is different to rest of nordics, these maximums can be used in ANY road, not in restricted roads like denmark and norway for example.
As a swedish truck driver for 22 years. Yes. Work can be miserable, especially during the winter months. But during summer. Its the best job in the world!
The problem in europe to get more people to work as a long distance trucker is still existing. The problems are that the young generation dont wanna work that much and be away at least 2 weeks from home. And the companies should really start to pay better. Greetings from a trucker from austria
It's not working as much. It's the 2 weeks away from home. It's going to be rough to make any relationship function under such conditions. The only way to get people to take these jobs is if the pay is really great.
there's also a big impact when it comes to culture.. most nordic people are/were used, to and ok, with being alone for a long time. the massive increase of immigrants / refugees during the last couple of decades from other cultures where families are closely connected sort of results in an increase of demand whilst not having enough people who are used to solitary.
i worked as a truck driver for 5 years in the Uk moved back to my home country and left trucking, here the employers want basicaly slaves to work long hours for little money
Its more then just the pay. Like some countries there are lack of facilities like truck stop with toilets and showers(in Norway toilets along the roads are closed), yeah the time away is another thing. The pay for "longhaul" is basically almost the same as forklift driver here in my country. So who on earth want to spend most of their weeks away when you are like in the development periode with wife and kids? But costumers and truck companies dont want to pay correctly and wants the cheapest haul. So when they complain about lack of drivers they should start to look inwards they are the problem. Nobody wants to be paid in bananas for a living when you are away for a long just for the company.
Your videos are fun to watch. As a Swede, and having driven trucks way back, your enthusiasm for European trucks is fun to watch :) and you have a really nice calm voice. Easy on the ears 😊
There is a Scania dealer in New York that have trucks. There are also MANY other dealers around USA, but they sell boat engines. Max Hunt visited the one in NY with his 770.
There were quite a lot of scanias sold in New York and surrounding aera in late 80s then they disappeared, good to see they are back. Scania small in line 6s were fitted in Macks in 80s
I recommend you watch few clips from a Ice Road Rescue show. It's tv series focused on Norway where they tow cars, you'll see the kind of conditions one might have to drive in the Nordics (though Norway roads are terrifying). You'll also understand why there are restrictions on weight, height, width etc. on trucks. It's not easy. At least in Finland there are also laws that restrict you driving time & when you'll have to have a break. Personally I have seen more than 1 accident with a non-nordic truck whose driver is not used to winter conditions here, I tend to overtake those as soon as possible since I don't particularly want to go smoosh in my little car.
The beige fleet with red flowing banner on is from my hometown in Norway. Narator of the video fogot to tell we in Norway also have 25.25m modul trucks on selected roads and areas. Timber trucks can be up to 24m. Max weight is 60 tons for both timber truck and modul trucks.
Those rules are recent enough that they might actually have come in after that video was produced, but yes, seeing more and more 24m combos here in Norway
unless you do heavy recovery, you can pull a whole ass 25m modul combo weighing 60 tonnes with a recovery truck.. (to the nearest safe place to park it, get another truck to pick up the trailer etc)
The landscape varies alot. In the winter it can be very tricky when the temperature changes from day to day. Some days its cold, and then the heat hits and then roads gets from snowy to icey. Thats when taglift comes in handy when you can adjust weight to add more weight on the drive so you dont get stuck..
And when you are drive up a hill, you technically break the law by exceeding the allowed axle weight when lifting the third axle, but no one cares as long as you make it up the hill. when I say no one, I mean NO ONE not even ({insert [law enforcement]})
There has been many occasions in Finland during winter where police has setup checkpoints on top of a hill and they just wave trucks to pass so they don't need to stop on a incline.
@@marcusjosefsson4998we have a big problem here where I live, with that. The small 48 ton trucks from central and southern Europe that come here, often don't make it up the hills. They use trucks with only 2 axles on the tractor (no boggi) and therefore have less load over the driving axle and also some drivers are not used to drive in the snow, and they don't carry chains to put on when needed.
@@magnuslundstedt2659 I know about that very well. I see countless of trucks with Eastern European or Turkish registration stranded even in very small slopes every winter. It gets worse thanks to Swedish law requiring winter/snow tires only on Swedish trucks, not those with foreign registration. Norway is way stricter, winter tires on all trucks and you must carry snow chains regardless of where it's from. Swedish laws and regulations are way too lax about foreign trucks and drivers. I understand that the drivers only tries to make a living, but the difference in requirements between Swedish trucks/drivers and foreign ones gives way too many opportunities for foreign employers to cut costs, and in turn it's not safe.
My brother was driving a Volvo FH16 for a while, which was equipped with an always on coffee, hot cocoa, soup machine/dispenser, on the passenger side dashboard, as well as a microwave under it. The sound system on those Volvos are truly divine. It is absolutely true that truck drivers pick their employers based on what truck they get to drive. It is also very beneficial to the owner of the company and trucks, as the truckers will spend time at the "home base", washing, polishing, cleaning and maintaining those beauties, keeping them in tip-top shape..
24 m was introduced for environmental reasons in Sweden. Sweden has a large wood products industry and there can be long transport distances in the north. Therefore, 24 meters were taken so that the number of truck trips would be less when each truck could take more logs in each turn. Since also 24 meters for longer trucks, it becomes difficult to overtake on a busy road in bad weather.
Some of these trucks spend 2-4 week in the paint shop, before we are finished with every thing, it is a massiv job every time, but seeing them on the road and on shows makes it the coolest job i have ever had in my life-
One big difference between european trucks and US trucks is European trucks usually have disc brakes. American vehicles usually have drum brakes. this is why they are allowed to load so much more because the brakes are good enough to stop almost immediatly even if the load is very heavy.
Here in Denmark we do have trucks at 25.25m length and 4.10m height. They are limited to a specific type/size of roads 🇩🇰. Thanks for your great videos. 👌
Up here in the north, in Sweden and Finland especially, we have a large forest industry and the rules are to allow three bundles of timber to fit. The timber is cut at around 5.5 metres and with a bit of margin you'll end up at around 6 m, and 6x3=18 m. The larger and heavier tests are done to fit a fourth bundle of timber and save roughly 20-25% on the transport cost. Here's a short video on where (regular) timber truck goes to pick up their load: ua-cam.com/video/lmLuoTltGg0/v-deo.html Another one: ua-cam.com/video/QeMqXk1FWwM/v-deo.html
A lot of the Swedish trucks are in Australia, my Volvo had a permitted load of 120 tons for road train and heavy haulage, my longest time away from home was six weeks, so our trucks were our homes most of the time, but being an owner driver was hard competing with large companies, not many youngsters want to work in the transport industry
As a car geek, I love to see trucks with huge engines and massive torque, even HP, but these trucks are next level.... man....how much car audio I can stick in that...😂
I work for a UK brewery company, and we drove Scania's. A Denmark brewery bought out our brewery, now you would think Denmark being a Nordic country that we would be driving Scania or Volvo trucks. We are now driving Mercedes. Don't get me wrong they are good trucks, the technology in these Mercs is a glimpse of how cars will be in the future, all I have to do is be there and instead of mirrors, they have cameras with screens on the door pillars. I'm a driver so I would like to drive the vehicle. I want my Scany back! Due to the shortage of drivers, the driving part of the job is the best job in the world, but when you get to some warehouses, the way we are treated is disgusting, I'm not going to go into it but I don't want to drive anymore. Has I mentioned the shortage of drivers, we have to pick the slack so it's a very long week. My profile picture.
There are no height restrictions in sweden. We have a thing called "free height" which basically means, you can be as tall as you want. But our bridges/underpasses are made to be atleast 4,50m high (there are exceptions ofc). EDIT: And also the length and weight has increased to 34,5m and 74tonnes. Me myself is 4,30cm high, 24m long, 8 axles/18 wheels and a maximum weight of 70tonnes and a forklift hanging between truck and trailer 😁
you're completely right about the extreme weather in the nordic countrys it really takes some balls to drive in northern norway in the winters all of that canadian and alaskan winter trucking is nothing compared to scandinavian winters but its a risk people are willing to take because it really is a lifestyle and people really dont know anything else this is a whole culture that truckers kids and many generations know and they really couldnt think of anything else to be doing other than trucking i cant wait to get my license and drive on norwegian roads like my dad used to and i just gotta say i really love your videos and its really cool to see european trucking and especially scandinavian trucking getting recognised like this and i think it would be really interesting for you to hear about the challenges a scandinavian truck driver comes across especially in the winters because all i can say is i really have heard some great stories from my dad from when he used to drive international to norway in the winters you should try and getting in to more of those things too i really think that would be a very interesting topic for you to hear about
I once hitchiked from southern sweden to stockholm (800km iirc), and the route the truckdriver took was crazy. He drove a lot through small countryside/village roads with 30-50km speed limit. And the roads were such serpentine roads I don't understand how he managed the truck. And he had to take a pause like every 4-6h, 45min or one hour break.
I love American and Nordic Trucks, specially Peterbilt, International, Chevy/GMC, Kenworth, Ford, Scania and Volvo (and Mercedes Benz Truck model like 1113 with Brazilian Version)
Great video again! Check this out "Rekka täydessä lastissa takaisin tielle - The truck was towed back to the road with a full load". Video about the conditions in Finland and the work of the tow truck.
I'm from germany and I know a truck company owner and he told me that his workers tend to look after the trucks better and also be more careful with them, if they look a little extra. Sadly not completely over the top like these ones but still.
2:45 This one has a German licensplate. We do have such nice trucks too. maybe not as regular because in Germany we have more trucks. But whenever i drive 10 minutes of Autobahn i see at least 3, mostly Scanias and DAFs.
Just found your channel and really enjoyed the content. I´m driving in northern Sweden and up here we are allowed 74 tonnes on certain roads. (I drive a 74 ton Scania tank truck). I feel fortunate particulary in the winter with cross differential, full diff on 8 wheels if necessary, boggi press, automatic gearbox and sandboxes that can be controlled from the cabin. Very rarely get stuck with this baby. Tridem and 28 wheels makes it very stable despite weather and road condition. Sometimes I feel really sorry for foreign drives constantly stuck on the hills. However, I would really love to try an american truck. They look so amazing!
My dad is a truck driver here in Sweden (local deliveries, so he sleeps at home every night). They have always experienced shortage in drivers. The bosses are always telling the drivers to ask around for people who want to take a job. And it's not like there are no foreign drivers here. But the demand is just too big. I don't really know why that is. But if you are looking to drive a truck in Sweden, you can get the job tomorrow. You don't even have to speak Swedish if you speak decent streets English
Whos paying for the licenses?.... Last time i was looking for work the requirements for everything were 15 years experience and lots more looney stuff at best... never heard about any truck stuff that was actualy possible... not that ive been looking for years now...
At least in Finland it didn't help a bit that they took away the chance to drive truck licence directly when you take the driving licence when 18 yo. At the same time they lifted the age to 21 for truck licence. When I took my trailer licence at age 20 it cost 100€ with only requirement of enough experience of professional truck driving. And then came the directive from EU for professional drivers witch was marketed as safety feature. All of this affects for the lack of young summer employees who have to find something else for the summer. Who pays hundreds of euros and takes courses for to get paid in hundreds as salary?! All this was a shot in the foot for transporting industry and is costly for government as they pay maybe 90+% of the licences anyway. Army, schools and adult institutes are educating nearly every truck driver today. These instances pumps the wheels of these future drivers that have this foot high stack of cards that NOW you are the best driver in the world and capable of everything! It sad where this industry is going more so as we know how important it is for today's everyday living! The salary is quite the same between our countries but way too low compared to responsibility of 100's to 1000's of peoples lives on the roads and loading/unloading places and handling big machinery in difficult weather conditions etc.
No mention about Finnish Sisu trucks with 900hp hybrid powerplant. Engine itself is 625hp Mercedes. And that mentioned 23m is max lenght of semi truck, with full trailer max lenght is 34,5m in Finland.
Cheap drivers from other countrys and high fuel prices keep the salary for nordic truckers quite low concidering the time you spend in the truck, thats some of the main reasons that not many want to become a truckdriver anymore . Love your vids Swedish trucker since 2002
I drive a Scania, it's old but it's a tool, a hole puncher for road guardrail posts. when we put the wire rails, the car is 25.25m. when you punch holes for the railings, you drive the car with radio control with hydraulic operation.
I work on a Company that do this transformation of a regular northern truck in Sweden.. it's a very nice and fun job in many aspects, but mostly by meeting the customers that want this type of rebuild.
My husband has 11 Mercs and took delivery of a new Scania last year. The demand for the Scania had gone up so much, he was offered 40G not to accept it. He did take it and wished he’d ordered 2. 😄
I live in the north of Sweden and got 2 buddies working at the Volvo Trucks factory where they make the cabins and such for the trucks. It's baffling how precise the work is!
Another way to save money is tyres. Whenever you see a stuck, or even sliding truck on a slippery icy slope in Norway.. It's almost certain a foreign truck
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Some of the hooklift-trucks, with a trailer can be upto 25.25 meters long. Meaning, they are transporting not just 2 containers, but 3 of them at the same load.
Greetings from Austria! I like your videos a lot. You genuinely seem to be interested in the stuff you react to and your reactions seem very authentic, that's really nice to see. Also i could learn new a thing or two myself from your videos, so thank you for doing a great job! :) One thing that i noticed tho is that you seem to refer to all european coutries as eu, tho eu is not the same as europe. Norway for example is not part of the EU, nither is Switzerland or GB, but all of then are located in Europe. Maybe you could find a video on that topic and react to that, might be interesting to watch aswell, especially since most americans seem to make that "mistake" ;)
You should take a look at Guldager trucking company and see that custom designs they have among them are Pirates of the Caribbean theame inside and out and fun fact about that is that i worked at a factory in southern Denmark where that truck came by now and again and I did look at it every time and that factory had a 100 truck rolling in and out every day so yeah 😊
Yes the problem is huge on the driver shortage. For example my new car was waiting for something like a month to be brought here in Finland from France after it was finished.
cant agree mor. Finnish roads are joy to travel, flat as ironing boards, no quick repairs etc. Finland build their roads with intelligence. The let the road settle before they start to do the last thing, asphalt. I envy Finland, here is Sweden we often has damages done when the thaw set in. potholes fixed quickly with some quick asphalt tar filling to cracks and potholes. many countries could benefit from doing roads the Finnish way.
What I found a bit strange/weard in Europe it is quite common to fit (even on company basic models) extra head lights (high beam) for dark roads, but in the USA you never see that! Why is that? There are many dark windy road in the USA and Canada as well! Don't you need extra light for crossing animals and so on?
I live in denmark, back when the show "american chopper" was popular, I was driving home from work, I had to pull over and take pictures, when i drove past a house with a bright orange truck with a picture af Junior on one side and senior on the other.
this isnt completely true due to trucks also being modified to a certain degree in the rest of europe(atleast here in the Netherlands), a company that operates near me uses Scania that look absolutely insane(N. Valk Hilversum). And for the company i work for, you get a truck(mainly DAF) and as long as the livery is intact or if the colour is still the same, you can do any modification you want to, its more common to do smaller modifications but you still see some trucks at our company that have added side skirts, rims in black and then the bolts in the colour of the truck, added detail lights and custom interior
I think it meant that nordic countries have majority of small companies and they are very usual and because of that we have more and heavily customized (mostly, the smaller the company is, more customized trucks) idk if that made any kind of sense to you because its kinda hard to tell that, atleast in english
@@tompsu9536 true, i've worked for a company with over 400 trucks it's simply a waste of money to do extensive paint jobs. the livery is on their that's it.
Yesterday I watched a video interview of Iwona B. of Imagination a Polish truck driver on the subject of truck drivers life and work in Europe. Interesting and informative vlog. She is a great admirer of VOLVO. After many years in this profession she is today an tuck operator and business owner with two VOLVO trucks.
I use to work for Euromaster with helping truckers that were stranded out in the woods on some shitty forrest road in the middle of nowhere with flat tires etc. Sometimes it would take 2-4-6-8 hours before someone could come out and help them. Especially in the north of Sweden where there's no mechanics or anyone around really...
I drove one of the main roads between the middle of Norway and the capital city in southeast of Norway every week by car summer and winter for the last year (6 hours each way). There i meet a lot of drivers and i’ve also seen a lot of elk. The exterior lighting on the trucks is not just for decoration to put it that way. After fitting some proper LED extra light on my car myself, i have started stopping for elk much earlier than before. These conditions can be very hard at times. I have seen trucks tipped over fully on the side, trucks in the ditch, i’ve been behind trucks struggling up icy hills, i’ve seen trucks surrounded by police cars after hitting elks, and trucks sliding over and hitting eachother and so on, and this is just during the last year. But i’ve seen that trucks can often have lots of advantages by being costumized.
I'm not a trucker myself, but I know a few. I think truckers around the world individualise their truck if it is possible. I personally know at least one company that lets their drivers choose what they want to add, as long as the main color of the truck is black and the company logo is where it should be and in dark grey. They can even choose the type of truck (not brand) if it's not too expensive. The reason behind it is they want to keep their drivers. A good trucker will drive economically/efficient, does extra hours when needed and the overall atmosphere amongst the truckers is better. Funny thing is that every truck gets a name too. I also think that heavy haulage is more prone to having their trucks customised. I frequently receive goods that are over normal weight and these trucks have the tendency to go all out. The two that immediately come to mind? A DAF with retro colors and pinstriping, including the Nooteboom trailer. Too bad that guy had to strip everything down to get below the weight limit. He specially drove back empty to us to get his stuff back, haha. The other one is a Peterbilt with fading colors, a nasty V8, four axles and some very nice paint brush jobs. All american style. This is a guy that just has the truck and is driving for special transports over 80 tons. Which means that you have trucks on the european roads that go over the 45 ton limit easliy, but they (mostly) have to drive at night and can't drive on highways unless with approval and police escort in some cases. And yes, they have to let every country know that they're coming, get permits to drive in these countries. Some countries will give a route that has to be followed, etc. etc. It can take up to two months to get such a permit.
Nice video and regarding the paint they are mostly correct here in the Nordic countries, however there are companies that work with type franchises like mc donalds etc do when it comes to restaurants. So if you drive for DHL, for example, you must paint the truck and trailer in their colors And that's why I have a lot of Hulk green BDX trucks on my channel because they are very common in my region
I got very proud seeing this video. Scania and Volvo Trucks are important companies in Sweden for jobs (manufacturing), but it was nice to see the comments from all around the world, saying it's a good product.
The drivinglicence takes a lot of effort to get, the YKB (in english: WorkingSkill Competence licence) take just as much, the number of rules you need to follow about loadsecurity, payload, workingtime, drivingtime and more when working is massive and the load/unloadwork is (universal I guess) physical hard labour.
Norway allows 2.6 meters with as well depending on the type. If you're running a freezer unit you are allowed 2.6 meters so you can fit three EURO pallets with the insulation. :) As to driving Volvo vs Scania they have their differences. I like the Scania Engines but the interior and seats of the Volvos. The Dashboard are nice in both but in the Scania you are a bit more, "into" the dash if that makes sense. Granted it has been some years since I was active on the roads.
I lived and worked in Sweden and Norway. I drove there from London,England in my car.(Skoda Rapid) at the time. Denmark is pretty flat, a few forests and lots of Bridges, the coolest going from Copenhaven to Malmo! South Sweden is like North England with Rolling Hills and Farmland. when you get up to Goteburg it starts to get more rugged and Foresty. South Norway is more like Northern California. When you get as far north as Lillehammer (a great show on Netflix) then the Massive Fjords start taking over the scenery. When you get up to the Arctic Circle it is a mix of Tundra and Fjords, tunnels and Bridges and the occasional Ferry is par for the Course! Want to do Denmark, Pharoh Islands and Iceland from where I live now in Belfast Northern Ireland! Love the show and the fact you get a kick out of Skoda Cars. My road trip was 9000 miles in mine with no issues or even a puncture! Keep on IWrock'n!
Checkout Eddie Stobart trucking, there are loads of videos and a TV show about the company, one quirk is that all drivers have to wear a shirt and tie whilst driving.
In the Netherlands many container truckers drive exorbitant trucks. LAW tol, weeda, poppelaars, roy landsdaal and many many more. Epic trucks. Weeda even says, if you work there you can choose a special paint wich will be added especially for you.
When discussing tons, keep in mind the difference between metric ton and the short ton used in USA. One short ton equals 0.907 metric ton. In other words: 64 metric ton (max in Sweden) equals 71 ton in USA. Also UK use a different ton (long ton), but it's closer to metric ton (1.016)
Back in the 80s I worked for one of the biggest companies for building trailiers and truck beds in Sweden (BRIAB, unfortunately it doesn't exist anymore). Since Sweden has the max length of 24 meters, many truckers ordered trailiers where the connect arm to the truck could be altered in length to able to use in other countries. When they got stopped by the police to check the length they could shorten the total length by flipping a switch in the truck cabin. So the shortened elength would be 18 meters (the max length in the rest of EU), but the driving length would be like 2 meters more. Of course, with the shortened length getting the trailier and truck really close together, it would be impossible to turn, which some truckers found out when the police asked them to make a short turn. We also produced truck beds that would withstand loads of like 100 tons, even if the max load is far less. Some truckers just gambled no one would stop and check them. 😁
Bruce Wilson on youtube channel owns 2 164 V8 scanias in usa. In finland there are trucks with total lenght of 32 meters ( truck+ semitrailer+dolly+ semitrailer and other different options).
I got some friends and acquaintence that is in the business. One friend used to work at a Scania factory, he said that if it was a basic model it was often a private driver. If it had much equipment and add on it was for a company where the driver got to specify his wants. Another friend knew a driver who shiped metal junk, one freight there was a full load, when he got to the re-cycling site there was a scale to weight the cargo. It turned out that he had almost 50% over the limit, the supervispr just said " we write it as two freights"
Have no idea how I came to watch this video. Thought that “well, it’s just 14 minutes, I’ll just keep watching it.” At 5:52 I was like “wait, I know that barn! That truck is just about to go past my house.” 😀
volvo trucks is a client of mine, been to the assembly line a few months ago for the custom trucks, they disassemble the already assembled truck just to customize it again lol
In the Netherlands they also started allowing longer and heavier trucks, length up to 25,5 meters and gross weight max 60 tonnes, this to alleviate the shortage of truck drivers and road congestion. In western Europe the trucking market is dominated by large companies, their trucks ar chosen to be economic as possible and are often driven by more than one driver to maximize their use. Therefore you won't see as much customised trucks as in the Nordic countries. The independent truckers owning their own trucks will fit them out to make them look nice, and they also will drive the same truck for a longer time than a large company does. Here in the Netherlands the trucks working in the agricultural sector (flowers, livestock, produce and supplies) are known to often look nicer as the others.
Interesting video, have'nt thought much about this even though I live in Sweden. When I drove a small rental car in the US I was impressed by the trucks speed limits (or even a little scared when they passed me :). 70 mph (112 kmh) is common in the US (and I think many drives way faster) but in Sweden it is 50 or max 55 mph (80-90 kmh) so even with the strongest engines they are moving much slower here.
Raise a hand if you ever crossed Kåringen in Northern Nordland, Norway in winter and made it across without blocking all traffic and require salvage😅 Happens every winter, 11° pass, some mayhem at almost every snowfall🙄
In Australia the 2trailer set up has 82 tonne the 3 trailer has from 94 to 102 tonne, then you have the mining set ups being from 5 to 8 trailers there weight is out of the universe
I love so much the nordic style of trucks, way more than the italian style, where they abuse with crome on every bit of the truck! And I'm italian as well 😂
Seeing your interest in the EU trucks it's a little sad you're a bit late. Last year a Danish truckdriver took his Scania 770 to the US and did 10k miles around the states. Find "Scania Danmark" and look for the "max hunt i usa" videos. You might not understand much of what he is saying but the truck is pretty nice.
as a northern swede i see loads of trucks ..and volvo and scania is the ones to operate everywhere;)they can take the nature and the cold aswell as the heat,
Here in Norway we have big problems with foreign trucks (and drivers) that simply aren't up for the climate and terrain that completely stop traffic across our mountain passages (which are absolutely essential) because either they lack the power to climb the mountains, or they don't have proper ice-chains, a lot also just end up choosing the wrong roads because they don't expect the roads to be as tight as they are.
Very true. American trucks wouldn’t stand a chance on the roads here in Norway haha
And they have 2 axle trucks, witch should be forbidden in Norway! I call them dry road masters! When dry the push to the limit (90km/h something) on the high way and when they see a flake of snow they drop to 60-70 km/h when I stand my 83km/h any weather. Those guys know how to stand in the way. It doesn't matter how big the area is they manage to find the only spot where they are in the way!
Same in Sweden, when the roads can turn one day from, Ice Free even in the south with 10 C temperatures in the middle of December, to suddenly 60mm rain and -20 C temperature overnight, which renders the roads with 1 to 2 cm uneven ice sheets, that can puncture tires etc. And here comes the Polish or Lithuanian truck driver, and oh look, they're stuck on a shallow incline...
Same in all Nordic countries. They take the ferries from Poland and has no idea what what’s for them in the snowy north.
Not only that - people keep dying because such trucks not equipped with winter tires and/or competent drivers (and often non-maintained brakes etc) completely destroys cars when the trailer whips out in slight curves and/or slight downhill.
Im a heavy mechanic here in Australia, I love Volvo and Scania, they're easy to keep going for 1 million +KMs and have great support for parts. Scania cabs are so comfortable too.
As an Aussie living in sweden Iknow what you mean but this video talks about high HP volvos and scanias but when I built trailers for car carriers and general frieght 20 yrs ago these manufacturers only made max 450 hp and you needed to order them with cummins or detroit to get the power you wanted
@@kellytetley-jones2510 so they know are over 700hp, i think this engine are not so reliable like going over 1M km because of the HP no? Yeah 20years ago power was not so important to say:)
Only truck with high HP over 20 years ago from history that i know is from the DAF that truck from DAKAR race that had over 1000hp or something crazy like that...
@@alexanderupb4546 ok daf Rally truck, i know little about Scanias but have trycker mates in Australia that love them because even after a million kms they drive like new but it was quite normal to have 600 and even 800 hp kenworth Mack or Ford Louisville 20 to 30 yrs ago in Australia mainly because of the distances and sizes of the equipment
@@alexanderupb4546 i think they wouldnt make them that powerful without being sure they would perform just as good as the lower hp ones. they are production vehicles..
hp isnt everything either, i know that a bunch of years ago i read that volvo made they strongest truck ever with like over 3000nm of tourqe.. this was built to handle pretty much hauling stuff from forests and stuff like that.
alot of the new trucks today also have automatic gearboxes wich probably havent bin a thing anywhere?
MY truck driver friend from Norway swears to Scania. He refuses to even sit in anything else. Apparently they are the best/easiest/most confortable to drive. I can't see how any truck can be easy to drive, as they just look like massive bricks haha.
As a Swede, I am damn proud that we make the two best trucks in the world.
You should be!
Most industrial products from Sweden are awsome, both in design, quality and innovation! 👍
(envious Norwegian)
Sweden is a very innovative country, whereas Norway... mostly energy and fish.
Godt jobbet, søta bror 🙂
@@rosland63TV am
Cars too: Volvo and Koenigsegg. If only Saab was still around...
@@dbclass4075
I wish I could afford a Koenigsegg 😄
Also in Finland they changed the maximum length to 34,5 meters couple of years ago so it's much more eco friendly to haul more cargo or haul to distant and rural places. The long trailer doubles are called HCT- Doubles (High Capacity Transport) that are made of 2 semi trailers with a dolly.
But we also have normal fullsize trailer trucks of 34.5m that are I think more common with larger companies like DB Schenker.
The argument may work for rural regions, but probably not for urban regions. For urban regions, I doubt that larger trucks are more environmentally friendly. Because in that case, truck driving becomes cheaper, which leads to more truck transport. More trucks are not environmentally friendly. One obtains an induced demand effect. Similar to how more roads don't solve the traffic problem (there are simply more traffic) and more parking spaces don't make cities more attractive (yes, that argument used to exist).
@@schnelma605 I dont really get your message here. Anyways they increased the length because with previous length limitations some trucks with light load, had to haul with half of the weight allowed. Now they can get proper load with lightweight stuff like parcels.
@@shaggings i curently drive for DB Schenker and have not seen a 34m fulltrailer combinations, only HCT of that lenght. the standard base of the modular container truck and fulltrailer is a 10 ish m truck and 15m trailer with longer trailers up to 19m. but i have seen Posti using a rigid truck driving with a B-double trailer that would make it about 34m
@schnelma HCT trucks dont drive in cities they are used mostly for city to city transport and are a more economical way of transporting goods as it eliminates the need for another truck on the same rout. but the 23-24m fulltrailer combinations do work in cities and allow one driver to transport more lowering the need for back and forth driving and lowering emisions
@@schnelma605 Stuff needs to be transported and Trucks are actually more environmentally friendly the larger they are. It's better to use one large truck then two half the size or even more smaller ones.It's similar reasons why buses are more efficient then cars.
As a Finn, i’d love to see more content about Finland or the nordics overall. Great video as always, keep up the good work Ian!
Yes! Denmark too!
React to the finnish truck SISU
He is obsessed with australia,he likes the gifts from the aussies
Why do you want more content about Finland? As a Finn you would be well informed about your own country isn't it?
@@lws7394 Because he wants other people's opinion on the Finns, it's a thing i've been digging for the past 10 years just as a Dane, there's something special about watching someone experiencing something you take for granted or simply just very accustomed to.
I've worked as a truck driver in two companies in Norway and they really do go all out. first truck i drove was a hand me down truck from a coworker, an "old" Volvo fully kitted out and was so comfortable to drive. The second company, i got to choose my own configuration and truck. so you know i went to town on that.
Just wanna point out that in Norway Max weight is 60t and max length is 25.25m similar to Sweden.
Hello.
It's actually 34.5 meter since September this year👍
There actually is no legal limit to the height of a vehicle in Sweden. 4.5m is called "the free height", which means that there are no markings at bridges and other obstacles if a vehicle of that height can pass under it. It's rare for a vehicle to exceed this height, but it is legal, and if so you have the responsibility to ensure that you can fit safely on the route you take.
Suggestion: do a series on driving tests for a driver's licence in Europe vs USA. Minimum age requirements, auto vs manual, licence weight limits, trailer licence, truck permits, truck cargo permits (dangerous cargoes, oversized loads etc). May be an eye opener.
Good suggestion!
The trucker shortage is a problem here in Sweden since we have to compete with foreign (mostly from eastern europe) trucks and drivers.
I miss trucking but the salary way to low and the demands are way to high. It’s not just to drive a truck. You also have to be your own transport supervisor and planner. I’m a machine operator now and if I wanted to start driving trucks again I’d have to almost cut my current pay in half and increase the workload with the double.
I worked in Logistics a 10 years ago and i was suprised by the conversations i had with truckers here in Norway. I had the most conversation with truckers from Schenker and they were not happy with the pay, hours and benefits at all. I honestly can't recall a single one of the who enjoyed their job anymore. Most of them were short distance truckers tho, mostly in and around Oslo. Might be different for long distance drivers, but i expect that has its own set of challenges.
Exactly. That's why i stopped driving bus in Skåne. Now i work in industry instead.
Fun Fact : distances are bigger , so they use 'Scandinavian Miles' in NOR and SWE, aside of kms ! 1 nordic mile = 10km = plm 6.25 miles.
Glad you did not inclucude Finland in scandinavia, hehehe!
@@koff41 In my book it is Scandinavian/Nordic because Swedish as one of national languages and its influence on the culture ! 😁 Or would you rather be labeled as 'former Russian state' 🤔
For what I understood, Finns don't use the nordic mile a lot.
@@lws7394 scandinavia is an area, not a language 😁 of course you are free to think how ever you like, but you are simply wrong. Some parts of Finland are on the Scandinavian peninsula, but Finlans as a whole is just Nordic. Greetings from Finland.
@@lws7394 and we don't use "Mil" at all, never have, that is for the Swedes and Norwegians.
Northern countries are small compared to US so distance is quite shorter here than in US.
Don't know why you think otherwise.
Also in the US they do not talk distance. They talk about how long it takes to drive. Seems like abwtter way.
Trucker from Finland here. Stats on the video about Finland lenghts etc. are way off. We never had those exact ones that are shown on video. Our max length has been 25,25m for years. Now couple of years ago they increased it to 34,5 meters. 4,4m heigth and 76tn weight are in effect now as well. And this is different to rest of nordics, these maximums can be used in ANY road, not in restricted roads like denmark and norway for example.
As a swedish truck driver for 22 years.
Yes. Work can be miserable, especially during the winter months.
But during summer. Its the best job in the world!
The problem in europe to get more people to work as a long distance trucker is still existing. The problems are that the young generation dont wanna work that much and be away at least 2 weeks from home. And the companies should really start to pay better. Greetings from a trucker from austria
It's not working as much. It's the 2 weeks away from home. It's going to be rough to make any relationship function under such conditions. The only way to get people to take these jobs is if the pay is really great.
there's also a big impact when it comes to culture.. most nordic people are/were used, to and ok, with being alone for a long time.
the massive increase of immigrants / refugees during the last couple of decades from other cultures where families are closely connected sort of results in an increase of demand whilst not having enough people who are used to solitary.
i worked as a truck driver for 5 years in the Uk moved back to my home country and left trucking, here the employers want basicaly slaves to work long hours for little money
A very global problem
Its more then just the pay. Like some countries there are lack of facilities like truck stop with toilets and showers(in Norway toilets along the roads are closed), yeah the time away is another thing. The pay for "longhaul" is basically almost the same as forklift driver here in my country. So who on earth want to spend most of their weeks away when you are like in the development periode with wife and kids? But costumers and truck companies dont want to pay correctly and wants the cheapest haul. So when they complain about lack of drivers they should start to look inwards they are the problem. Nobody wants to be paid in bananas for a living when you are away for a long just for the company.
Your videos are fun to watch. As a Swede, and having driven trucks way back, your enthusiasm for European trucks is fun to watch :) and you have a really nice calm voice. Easy on the ears 😊
There is a Scania dealer in New York that have trucks. There are also MANY other dealers around USA, but they sell boat engines.
Max Hunt visited the one in NY with his 770.
There were quite a lot of scanias sold in New York and surrounding aera in late 80s then they disappeared, good to see they are back. Scania small in line 6s were fitted in Macks in 80s
I recommend you watch few clips from a Ice Road Rescue show. It's tv series focused on Norway where they tow cars, you'll see the kind of conditions one might have to drive in the Nordics (though Norway roads are terrifying). You'll also understand why there are restrictions on weight, height, width etc. on trucks. It's not easy. At least in Finland there are also laws that restrict you driving time & when you'll have to have a break. Personally I have seen more than 1 accident with a non-nordic truck whose driver is not used to winter conditions here, I tend to overtake those as soon as possible since I don't particularly want to go smoosh in my little car.
The beige fleet with red flowing banner on is from my hometown in Norway.
Narator of the video fogot to tell we in Norway also have 25.25m modul trucks on selected roads and areas. Timber trucks can be up to 24m. Max weight is 60 tons for both timber truck and modul trucks.
Those rules are recent enough that they might actually have come in after that video was produced, but yes, seeing more and more 24m combos here in Norway
Eyyyyh, same here! Ændal ❤️🔥
unless you do heavy recovery, you can pull a whole ass 25m modul combo weighing 60 tonnes with a recovery truck.. (to the nearest safe place to park it, get another truck to pick up the trailer etc)
The landscape varies alot. In the winter it can be very tricky when the temperature changes from day to day. Some days its cold, and then the heat hits and then roads gets from snowy to icey. Thats when taglift comes in handy when you can adjust weight to add more weight on the drive so you dont get stuck..
And when you are drive up a hill, you technically break the law by exceeding the allowed axle weight when lifting the third axle, but no one cares as long as you make it up the hill. when I say no one, I mean NO ONE not even ({insert [law enforcement]})
There has been many occasions in Finland during winter where police has setup checkpoints on top of a hill and they just wave trucks to pass so they don't need to stop on a incline.
@@CarriedAtomTrue.
It can very easy and very fast get extremely dangerous if a truck gets stuck in an incline in winter.
@@marcusjosefsson4998we have a big problem here where I live, with that. The small 48 ton trucks from central and southern Europe that come here, often don't make it up the hills. They use trucks with only 2 axles on the tractor (no boggi) and therefore have less load over the driving axle and also some drivers are not used to drive in the snow, and they don't carry chains to put on when needed.
@@magnuslundstedt2659 I know about that very well. I see countless of trucks with Eastern European or Turkish registration stranded even in very small slopes every winter.
It gets worse thanks to Swedish law requiring winter/snow tires only on Swedish trucks, not those with foreign registration.
Norway is way stricter, winter tires on all trucks and you must carry snow chains regardless of where it's from.
Swedish laws and regulations are way too lax about foreign trucks and drivers. I understand that the drivers only tries to make a living, but the difference in requirements between Swedish trucks/drivers and foreign ones gives way too many opportunities for foreign employers to cut costs, and in turn it's not safe.
My brother was driving a Volvo FH16 for a while, which was equipped with an always on coffee, hot cocoa, soup machine/dispenser, on the passenger side dashboard, as well as a microwave under it. The sound system on those Volvos are truly divine. It is absolutely true that truck drivers pick their employers based on what truck they get to drive. It is also very beneficial to the owner of the company and trucks, as the truckers will spend time at the "home base", washing, polishing, cleaning and maintaining those beauties, keeping them in tip-top shape..
Europe trucks are usually cabover because long bonnets are a waste of length and that is restricted.
I’m Cornish (Kernow), but I’ve spent a lot of time in Scandinavia. I’d like to see more content about these countries. I’m always learning 🧐🏴☠️
24 m was introduced for environmental reasons in Sweden. Sweden has a large wood products industry and there can be long transport distances in the north. Therefore, 24 meters were taken so that the number of truck trips would be less when each truck could take more logs in each turn. Since also 24 meters for longer trucks, it becomes difficult to overtake on a busy road in bad weather.
Some of these trucks spend 2-4 week in the paint shop, before we are finished with every thing, it is a massiv job every time, but seeing them on the road and on shows makes it the coolest job i have ever had in my life-
One big difference between european trucks and US trucks is European trucks usually have disc brakes. American vehicles usually have drum brakes. this is why they are allowed to load so much more because the brakes are good enough to stop almost immediatly even if the load is very heavy.
Here in Denmark we do have trucks at 25.25m length and 4.10m height. They are limited to a specific type/size of roads 🇩🇰. Thanks for your great videos. 👌
yes its the same here in Germany.
No its not ,only 40 tons in Germany at 25.25 meter.
@@xanderejby I have seen 25m sett in north Germany on the way to Danmark
yes and they are allowed to weigh up to 60 tons
Scania company have 27 meters truck going a special router with parts for the trucks.
Up here in the north, in Sweden and Finland especially, we have a large forest industry and the rules are to allow three bundles of timber to fit. The timber is cut at around 5.5 metres and with a bit of margin you'll end up at around 6 m, and 6x3=18 m. The larger and heavier tests are done to fit a fourth bundle of timber and save roughly 20-25% on the transport cost.
Here's a short video on where (regular) timber truck goes to pick up their load: ua-cam.com/video/lmLuoTltGg0/v-deo.html
Another one: ua-cam.com/video/QeMqXk1FWwM/v-deo.html
There is no rule how many bundles you can take. The weight is the is the limit. You can take 5 bundles 3 meter fiber or 4 bundles spesial dimentions
@@petrihakkinen2336 I agree, there's no regulation on teh number of bundles. But the lenght specifications isn't there by random.
A lot of the Swedish trucks are in Australia, my Volvo had a permitted load of 120 tons for road train and heavy haulage, my longest time away from home was six weeks, so our trucks were our homes most of the time, but being an owner driver was hard competing with large companies, not many youngsters want to work in the transport industry
As a car geek, I love to see trucks with huge engines and massive torque, even HP, but these trucks are next level.... man....how much car audio I can stick in that...😂
I work for a UK brewery company, and we drove Scania's. A Denmark brewery bought out our brewery, now you would think Denmark being a Nordic country that we would be driving Scania or Volvo trucks. We are now driving Mercedes. Don't get me wrong they are good trucks, the technology in these Mercs is a glimpse of how cars will be in the future, all I have to do is be there and instead of mirrors, they have cameras with screens on the door pillars. I'm a driver so I would like to drive the vehicle. I want my Scany back! Due to the shortage of drivers, the driving part of the job is the best job in the world, but when you get to some warehouses, the way we are treated is disgusting, I'm not going to go into it but I don't want to drive anymore. Has I mentioned the shortage of drivers, we have to pick the slack so it's a very long week.
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There are no height restrictions in sweden. We have a thing called "free height" which basically means, you can be as tall as you want. But our bridges/underpasses are made to be atleast 4,50m high (there are exceptions ofc).
EDIT: And also the length and weight has increased to 34,5m and 74tonnes.
Me myself is 4,30cm high, 24m long, 8 axles/18 wheels and a maximum weight of 70tonnes and a forklift hanging between truck and trailer 😁
you're completely right about the extreme weather in the nordic countrys it really takes some balls to drive in northern norway in the winters all of that canadian and alaskan winter trucking is nothing compared to scandinavian winters but its a risk people are willing to take because it really is a lifestyle and people really dont know anything else this is a whole culture that truckers kids and many generations know and they really couldnt think of anything else to be doing other than trucking i cant wait to get my license and drive on norwegian roads like my dad used to and i just gotta say i really love your videos and its really cool to see european trucking and especially scandinavian trucking getting recognised like this and i think it would be really interesting for you to hear about the challenges a scandinavian truck driver comes across especially in the winters because all i can say is i really have heard some great stories from my dad from when he used to drive international to norway in the winters you should try and getting in to more of those things too i really think that would be a very interesting topic for you to hear about
I once hitchiked from southern sweden to stockholm (800km iirc), and the route the truckdriver took was crazy. He drove a lot through small countryside/village roads with 30-50km speed limit. And the roads were such serpentine roads I don't understand how he managed the truck. And he had to take a pause like every 4-6h, 45min or one hour break.
01:17 Small nation, big heart.
I love American and Nordic Trucks, specially Peterbilt, International, Chevy/GMC, Kenworth, Ford, Scania and Volvo (and Mercedes Benz Truck model like 1113 with Brazilian Version)
Great video again! Check this out "Rekka täydessä lastissa takaisin tielle - The truck was towed back to the road with a full load". Video about the conditions in Finland and the work of the tow truck.
I'm from germany and I know a truck company owner and he told me that his workers tend to look after the trucks better and also be more careful with them, if they look a little extra. Sadly not completely over the top like these ones but still.
2:45 This one has a German licensplate. We do have such nice trucks too. maybe not as regular because in Germany we have more trucks. But whenever i drive 10 minutes of Autobahn i see at least 3, mostly Scanias and DAFs.
Just found your channel and really enjoyed the content. I´m driving in northern Sweden and up here we are allowed 74 tonnes on certain roads. (I drive a 74 ton Scania tank truck). I feel fortunate particulary in the winter with cross differential, full diff on 8 wheels if necessary, boggi press, automatic gearbox and sandboxes that can be controlled from the cabin. Very rarely get stuck with this baby. Tridem and 28 wheels makes it very stable despite weather and road condition. Sometimes I feel really sorry for foreign drives constantly stuck on the hills. However, I would really love to try an american truck. They look so amazing!
sweden is testing out 96 tons and 34.5 meter on some roads
Volvo are testing a 900hp engine. And with new BK4 rules 90 tones are allowed in Sweden
My dad is a truck driver here in Sweden (local deliveries, so he sleeps at home every night). They have always experienced shortage in drivers. The bosses are always telling the drivers to ask around for people who want to take a job. And it's not like there are no foreign drivers here. But the demand is just too big. I don't really know why that is. But if you are looking to drive a truck in Sweden, you can get the job tomorrow. You don't even have to speak Swedish if you speak decent streets English
Whos paying for the licenses?....
Last time i was looking for work the requirements for everything were 15 years experience and lots more looney stuff at best... never heard about any truck stuff that was actualy possible... not that ive been looking for years now...
At least in Finland it didn't help a bit that they took away the chance to drive truck licence directly when you take the driving licence when 18 yo. At the same time they lifted the age to 21 for truck licence. When I took my trailer licence at age 20 it cost 100€ with only requirement of enough experience of professional truck driving. And then came the directive from EU for professional drivers witch was marketed as safety feature. All of this affects for the lack of young summer employees who have to find something else for the summer. Who pays hundreds of euros and takes courses for to get paid in hundreds as salary?!
All this was a shot in the foot for transporting industry and is costly for government as they pay maybe 90+% of the licences anyway. Army, schools and adult institutes are educating nearly every truck driver today. These instances pumps the wheels of these future drivers that have this foot high stack of cards that NOW you are the best driver in the world and capable of everything! It sad where this industry is going more so as we know how important it is for today's everyday living! The salary is quite the same between our countries but way too low compared to responsibility of 100's to 1000's of peoples lives on the roads and loading/unloading places and handling big machinery in difficult weather conditions etc.
No mention about Finnish Sisu trucks with 900hp hybrid powerplant. Engine itself is 625hp Mercedes.
And that mentioned 23m is max lenght of semi truck, with full trailer max lenght is 34,5m in Finland.
Nordic drivers of heavy vehicles are world class. Heard stories of Canadian and American companies coming to Norway to try recruit truckdrivers.
Cheap drivers from other countrys and high fuel prices keep the salary for nordic truckers quite low concidering the time you spend in the truck, thats some of the main reasons that not many want to become a truckdriver anymore .
Love your vids
Swedish trucker since 2002
Great video, and greetings from Sweden! 🇸🇪
I drive a Scania, it's old but it's a tool, a hole puncher for road guardrail posts. when we put the wire rails, the car is 25.25m. when you punch holes for the railings, you drive the car with radio control with hydraulic operation.
We do have 104 tn trucks here in Finland too. But those are on a special permit.
I work on a Company that do this transformation of a regular northern truck in Sweden.. it's a very nice and fun job in many aspects, but mostly by meeting the customers that want this type of rebuild.
My husband has 11 Mercs and took delivery of a new Scania last year. The demand for the Scania had gone up so much, he was offered 40G not to accept it. He did take it and wished he’d ordered 2. 😄
@@deadzio £40,000
I live in the north of Sweden and got 2 buddies working at the Volvo Trucks factory where they make the cabins and such for the trucks. It's baffling how precise the work is!
Another way to save money is tyres. Whenever you see a stuck, or even sliding truck on a slippery icy slope in Norway.. It's almost certain a foreign truck
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I know this. But out of curiosity wonder if it is only visible for me - the target, or if others can see it as well... Do they pay UA-cam to hide it, or?...
Some of the hooklift-trucks, with a trailer can be upto 25.25 meters long. Meaning, they are transporting not just 2 containers, but 3 of them at the same load.
Greetings from Austria! I like your videos a lot. You genuinely seem to be interested in the stuff you react to and your reactions seem very authentic, that's really nice to see. Also i could learn new a thing or two myself from your videos, so thank you for doing a great job! :)
One thing that i noticed tho is that you seem to refer to all european coutries as eu, tho eu is not the same as europe. Norway for example is not part of the EU, nither is Switzerland or GB, but all of then are located in Europe. Maybe you could find a video on that topic and react to that, might be interesting to watch aswell, especially since most americans seem to make that "mistake" ;)
i just watched the "the EU explained" video, so apparently you already do know, my bad :D
also, all the best wishes to you and your growing family :)
Nice that the truck 11:20 in to the video matches your trucker cap 😁 Now u know what to ask Santa for when Christmas is coming
You should take a look at Guldager trucking company and see that custom designs they have among them are Pirates of the Caribbean theame inside and out and fun fact about that is that i worked at a factory in southern Denmark where that truck came by now and again and I did look at it every time and that factory had a 100 truck rolling in and out every day so yeah 😊
Yes the problem is huge on the driver shortage. For example my new car was waiting for something like a month to be brought here in Finland from France after it was finished.
Finnish roads are really well built. I wish Sweden built ours as well
cant agree mor. Finnish roads are joy to travel, flat as ironing boards, no quick repairs etc. Finland build their roads with intelligence. The let the road settle before they start to do the last thing, asphalt. I envy Finland, here is Sweden we often has damages done when the thaw set in. potholes fixed quickly with some quick asphalt tar filling to cracks and potholes.
many countries could benefit from doing roads the Finnish way.
What I found a bit strange/weard in Europe it is quite common to fit (even on company basic models) extra head lights (high beam) for dark roads, but in the USA you never see that! Why is that? There are many dark windy road in the USA and Canada as well! Don't you need extra light for crossing animals and so on?
One good place to check those art works is power truck show in Finland.
I live in denmark, back when the show "american chopper" was popular, I was driving home from work, I had to pull over and take pictures, when i drove past a house with a bright orange truck with a picture af Junior on one side and senior on the other.
this isnt completely true due to trucks also being modified to a certain degree in the rest of europe(atleast here in the Netherlands), a company that operates near me uses Scania that look absolutely insane(N. Valk Hilversum). And for the company i work for, you get a truck(mainly DAF) and as long as the livery is intact or if the colour is still the same, you can do any modification you want to, its more common to do smaller modifications but you still see some trucks at our company that have added side skirts, rims in black and then the bolts in the colour of the truck, added detail lights and custom interior
I think it meant that nordic countries have majority of small companies and they are very usual and because of that we have more and heavily customized (mostly, the smaller the company is, more customized trucks) idk if that made any kind of sense to you because its kinda hard to tell that, atleast in english
@@tompsu9536 true, i've worked for a company with over 400 trucks it's simply a waste of money to do extensive paint jobs. the livery is on their that's it.
Yesterday I watched a video interview of Iwona B. of Imagination a Polish truck driver on the subject of truck drivers life and work in Europe. Interesting and informative vlog. She is a great admirer of VOLVO. After many years in this profession she is today an tuck operator and business owner with two VOLVO trucks.
I use to work for Euromaster with helping truckers that were stranded out in the woods on some shitty forrest road in the middle of nowhere with flat tires etc.
Sometimes it would take 2-4-6-8 hours before someone could come out and help them. Especially in the north of Sweden where there's no mechanics or anyone around really...
25,25 meters. is the limit in Norway now.
I drove one of the main roads between the middle of Norway and the capital city in southeast of Norway every week by car summer and winter for the last year (6 hours each way). There i meet a lot of drivers and i’ve also seen a lot of elk. The exterior lighting on the trucks is not just for decoration to put it that way. After fitting some proper LED extra light on my car myself, i have started stopping for elk much earlier than before. These conditions can be very hard at times. I have seen trucks tipped over fully on the side, trucks in the ditch, i’ve been behind trucks struggling up icy hills, i’ve seen trucks surrounded by police cars after hitting elks, and trucks sliding over and hitting eachother and so on, and this is just during the last year. But i’ve seen that trucks can often have lots of advantages by being costumized.
I'm not a trucker myself, but I know a few. I think truckers around the world individualise their truck if it is possible. I personally know at least one company that lets their drivers choose what they want to add, as long as the main color of the truck is black and the company logo is where it should be and in dark grey. They can even choose the type of truck (not brand) if it's not too expensive. The reason behind it is they want to keep their drivers. A good trucker will drive economically/efficient, does extra hours when needed and the overall atmosphere amongst the truckers is better. Funny thing is that every truck gets a name too. I also think that heavy haulage is more prone to having their trucks customised. I frequently receive goods that are over normal weight and these trucks have the tendency to go all out. The two that immediately come to mind? A DAF with retro colors and pinstriping, including the Nooteboom trailer. Too bad that guy had to strip everything down to get below the weight limit. He specially drove back empty to us to get his stuff back, haha. The other one is a Peterbilt with fading colors, a nasty V8, four axles and some very nice paint brush jobs. All american style. This is a guy that just has the truck and is driving for special transports over 80 tons. Which means that you have trucks on the european roads that go over the 45 ton limit easliy, but they (mostly) have to drive at night and can't drive on highways unless with approval and police escort in some cases. And yes, they have to let every country know that they're coming, get permits to drive in these countries. Some countries will give a route that has to be followed, etc. etc. It can take up to two months to get such a permit.
Nice video and regarding the paint they are mostly correct here in the Nordic countries, however there are companies that work with type franchises like mc donalds etc do when it comes to restaurants. So if you drive for DHL, for example, you must paint the truck and trailer in their colors And that's why I have a lot of Hulk green BDX trucks on my channel because they are very common in my region
I got very proud seeing this video. Scania and Volvo Trucks are important companies in Sweden for jobs (manufacturing), but it was nice to see the comments from all around the world, saying it's a good product.
The drivinglicence takes a lot of effort to get, the YKB (in english: WorkingSkill Competence licence) take just as much, the number of rules you need to follow about loadsecurity, payload, workingtime, drivingtime and more when working is massive and the load/unloadwork is (universal I guess) physical hard labour.
You forgot "ecodriving"
Norway allows 2.6 meters with as well depending on the type. If you're running a freezer unit you are allowed 2.6 meters so you can fit three EURO pallets with the insulation. :) As to driving Volvo vs Scania they have their differences. I like the Scania Engines but the interior and seats of the Volvos. The Dashboard are nice in both but in the Scania you are a bit more, "into" the dash if that makes sense. Granted it has been some years since I was active on the roads.
My hubs and I are tossing around being expats . He has 30 yrs experience and would want local thing home night and part time is this possible?
I lived and worked in Sweden and Norway. I drove there from London,England in my car.(Skoda Rapid) at the time. Denmark is pretty flat, a few forests and lots of Bridges, the coolest going from Copenhaven to Malmo! South Sweden is like North England with Rolling Hills and Farmland. when you get up to Goteburg it starts to get more rugged and Foresty. South Norway is more like Northern California. When you get as far north as Lillehammer (a great show on Netflix) then the Massive Fjords start taking over the scenery. When you get up to the Arctic Circle it is a mix of Tundra and Fjords, tunnels and Bridges and the occasional Ferry is par for the Course! Want to do Denmark, Pharoh Islands and Iceland from where I live now in Belfast Northern Ireland! Love the show and the fact you get a kick out of Skoda Cars. My road trip was 9000 miles in mine with no issues or even a puncture!
Keep on IWrock'n!
Checkout Eddie Stobart trucking, there are loads of videos and a TV show about the company, one quirk is that all drivers have to wear a shirt and tie whilst driving.
My dad has been driving scania for 38years, grew up in it😍
In the Netherlands many container truckers drive exorbitant trucks. LAW tol, weeda, poppelaars, roy landsdaal and many many more. Epic trucks. Weeda even says, if you work there you can choose a special paint wich will be added especially for you.
When discussing tons, keep in mind the difference between metric ton and the short ton used in USA. One short ton equals 0.907 metric ton.
In other words: 64 metric ton (max in Sweden) equals 71 ton in USA.
Also UK use a different ton (long ton), but it's closer to metric ton (1.016)
Back in the 80s I worked for one of the biggest companies for building trailiers and truck beds in Sweden (BRIAB, unfortunately it doesn't exist anymore). Since Sweden has the max length of 24 meters, many truckers ordered trailiers where the connect arm to the truck could be altered in length to able to use in other countries. When they got stopped by the police to check the length they could shorten the total length by flipping a switch in the truck cabin. So the shortened elength would be 18 meters (the max length in the rest of EU), but the driving length would be like 2 meters more. Of course, with the shortened length getting the trailier and truck really close together, it would be impossible to turn, which some truckers found out when the police asked them to make a short turn.
We also produced truck beds that would withstand loads of like 100 tons, even if the max load is far less. Some truckers just gambled no one would stop and check them. 😁
Cab-over trucks are used as a long nose ones would eat into valuable truck length restrictions and therefore reduce capacity per load.
Bruce Wilson on youtube channel owns 2 164 V8 scanias in usa. In finland there are trucks with total lenght of 32 meters ( truck+ semitrailer+dolly+ semitrailer and other different options).
I got some friends and acquaintence that is in the business. One friend used to work at a Scania factory, he said that if it was a basic model it was often a private driver. If it had much equipment and add on it was for a company where the driver got to specify his wants. Another friend knew a driver who shiped metal junk, one freight there was a full load, when he got to the re-cycling site there was a scale to weight the cargo. It turned out that he had almost 50% over the limit, the supervispr just said " we write it as two freights"
Have no idea how I came to watch this video. Thought that “well, it’s just 14 minutes, I’ll just keep watching it.” At 5:52 I was like “wait, I know that barn! That truck is just about to go past my house.” 😀
volvo trucks is a client of mine, been to the assembly line a few months ago
for the custom trucks, they disassemble the already assembled truck just to customize it again lol
In the Netherlands they also started allowing longer and heavier trucks, length up to 25,5 meters and gross weight max 60 tonnes, this to alleviate the shortage of truck drivers and road congestion.
In western Europe the trucking market is dominated by large companies, their trucks ar chosen to be economic as possible and are often driven by more than one driver to maximize their use.
Therefore you won't see as much customised trucks as in the Nordic countries.
The independent truckers owning their own trucks will fit them out to make them look nice, and they also will drive the same truck for a longer time than a large company does.
Here in the Netherlands the trucks working in the agricultural sector (flowers, livestock, produce and supplies) are known to often look nicer as the others.
Interesting video, have'nt thought much about this even though I live in Sweden. When I drove a small rental car in the US I was impressed by the trucks speed limits (or even a little scared when they passed me :). 70 mph (112 kmh) is common in the US (and I think many drives way faster) but in Sweden it is 50 or max 55 mph (80-90 kmh) so even with the strongest engines they are moving much slower here.
Originaly with the Majestic name: Scania Vabis, from a merger beween two Companies, it became reduced to just Scania.
In many trucks, shoes are not allowed on the cabin floor. You leave them at the top step so not to drag dirt inside the cabin. :)
Raise a hand if you ever crossed Kåringen in Northern Nordland, Norway in winter and made it across without blocking all traffic and require salvage😅 Happens every winter, 11° pass, some mayhem at almost every snowfall🙄
Thanks for sharing my truck 😎🫡 The white and green Scania R650 at 1:31 and 3:39 🥳🤩🥳🤩
Nowadays, in Finland, you can have a truck weighing up to 104 tons, the maximum length of which can be 33 meters
My husband is a trucker in Norway. He drives Scania now but I tried most brands.
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As of Jan 2020 these rules in Norway has changed.
I don't know about width and height, but trucks can now be as long as 24m and weigh 60t.
In Australia the 2trailer set up has 82 tonne the 3 trailer has from 94 to 102 tonne, then you have the mining set ups being from 5 to 8 trailers there weight is out of the universe
That scammer is trying to tell me call on telegram for a prize , must think I'm stupid
Around 200 tonnes or 220 short tons that Americans use. There is a good reason they're called "road trains".
There are roads in Norway that allows 25.25m and 60 tons now.
I love so much the nordic style of trucks, way more than the italian style, where they abuse with crome on every bit of the truck! And I'm italian as well 😂
Seeing your interest in the EU trucks it's a little sad you're a bit late. Last year a Danish truckdriver took his Scania 770 to the US and did 10k miles around the states.
Find "Scania Danmark" and look for the "max hunt i usa" videos. You might not understand much of what he is saying but the truck is pretty nice.
Sounds cool I’ll check that out, shame I couldn’t see one of these in person while it was here 🎉
IN Sweden we increased the total length to 34,5 m and weight to 74 tones just a few months ago
We used to have 32 meter trucks in Sweden, my dad used to haul back then.
In Denmark they actually allow 25 meter trucks now.. but they have to drive on speciel routes..
The 25.25 meter trucks are allowed on most major roads here in Sweden. And we are doing 32 to 35 meter up to 90 ton on some roads up north.
as a northern swede i see loads of trucks ..and volvo and scania is the ones to operate everywhere;)they can take the nature and the cold aswell as the heat,
I have driven both Volvo's and Scania trucks. Both are absolute beasts!