Trucking in North America vs around the world

thank you, this is interesting. i am impressed by special skills to pay without stopping at 5:30min

is foton available for sale in columbia?

i have met girl from columbia who is product manager for MB there. she told me mb is too expensive for their market and FL sells few times better

 

i have seen that on hendrickson website, i think it is not enough stable as axle linkage will not hold this good.
have you ever tried something with parabolic springs or with progressive parabolic springs?

 

Yes, we have all of Foton's range available here. The heavy duty vehicles are sold by the Cummins authorized dealer that also offers all the range from International, light and medium duty Iveco, Agrale buses and Case / Hyundai construction equipment.

One of my colleagues bought one EST-A 460 6x4 last month (The one in my profile) and he is quite pleased with the truck; it was cheaper than anything else with that characteristics (All American Trucks costs about 26.000 USD more for a basic daycab config), and has better pulling and comfort that the Chevrolet Super Brigadier N14 he used to drive (That truck is the same Autocar White/Volvo ACL64 from the 90's).

Now, the Mercedes seems to be a good offer over the FL or any other truck in the market. They are selling stock Actros 2648 LS Classic Space (2.3 m wide and low roof with engine tunnel) for about 10.000 USD less than the Freightliner Cascadia, with the huge difference of the Actros having a bunk, while the FL is Daycab.

But anyway, most people here is very traditional in their chooses, so they prefer to stick with the common American makes (Mostly Kw and International).

 

btw that foton use same chassis as actros, they sold them licence

how about volvo prices? or any other eu trucks. here in my country prices goes like this:
-scania
-mb
-volvo
-man
-daf
-iveco
-renault

 

Was able to buy 28 rolls of TP today....... must be my lucky day......


I grew up on Mack camelback suspension..... my back still hurts........

 

btw what is highest GCW there? you shift lot of times, on this road/weight, here no driver would be willing to shift that much.

what is preference among drivers? manual or amt?

 

I think the most popular configuration of trucks are 3 and 4 axle (tridem) hook loaders in Sweden.
They are used for transporting almost everything. Asfalt, construction equipment, waste containers, gravel, general cargo thats normally transported on flatbed trucks.
Lots of contractors have hook loader trucks as they can use them for transporting their own equipment and also move material like a dump truck.
No cable lift in Sweden as no one wants to drive them.

 

Yes, the Foton is básically an Actros MP3 with a cummins X12 engine and ZF gearbox. I'm watching the quality and dependability of my colleague's EST-A to decide if it worth to buy one, but at the moment, I'm very leaned to purchase a Scania R440 highline, that cost the same as a fully equipped daycab T800 with X15 400 engine. Anyway, the purchase will be the next year I think, if not late, due to the current situation with the pandemic.

For the prices, they are like this:
-Kenworth
-Freightliner
-International
-Scania
-DAF
-Mercedes
-Hino
-Iveco
-VW Truck
-Chevrolet (Izusu)
-Foton
-Misc. Chinese Brands.

*Volvo and Renault trucks have a very bad dealer, and therefore are almost non-existent here, and MAN is not sold here, but her "sister" VW truck and bus.

 

thanks
here roll off are still being used mostly in recycling industry. here with 40t we cant afford extra dead weight for asphalt truck etc. so not every truck can be roll-off.
also among tipper trucks 3way is almost must have. my father works for 5years in same company as contractor because it is 3way and all their 4axle trucks are rear tippers.

what kind of job do they make with rolloff instead of previously used tipper+crane?
like delievery of small excavators?

 

The max for road vehicles is 52 metric Ton on a 3 axle tractor and 3 axle trailer. Anything beyond that requires a permit.

The preference here are the manual Eatons, either 15 or 18 speed, and Cummins engines.