Scania, Volvo, Mercedes vs American trucks. How can you stand them?

Hello! I´m from Sweden so you have to forgive me for my spelling.

I´m not trying to be an ###, I´m just courious. Remember that when you read.

When I see American trucks on Tv I can hardly tell if its a 70´s or a 00´s truck. They look the same.
Gauges everywhere.
Unsynchronized gearboxes.
No heating. (Ice road truckers)
Poor brakes.
Load as h**l.
They are ridiculously long. (road trucks)

Is it really that bad or does the Tv fool us?

I understand that you dont want to drive a short european truck.
We have them short because of our length regulations. 24 meters over all length. (sometimes 25,25 meters)

Scania did make the Longline. they don´t do it any more because hardly anyone bought it. you can drive it in Sweden and Finland (with a short 14m trailer) but not international.

I drive the 8 axle Scania R 500 btw.

American trucks look good, I agree on that. If I was a millionarie I would buy one.
It would be hard to register it in Sweden though. It´s something with the safety of the cab and so on. In sweden they crashtest everything..

What do you drive and why?

 

"Is it really that bad or does the Tv fool us?"

I don´t belive all I see. Tv always make Americans look like complete idiots.

 

Approximately how much payload do you take?