Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

hm about this 90% of european transport is in circle of 500km(310mille) , but there are some people here that run very long distances

some companies are specialised in middle and far east , because when you drive to west prices are already low, and we cant compete with cheap companies from poland romania and bulgaria , also on west if you do some mistake you can get big fines , on east few euros of bribe correct everything

most of those loads come from frankfurt and last destination is ulan bator this is 5200milles in one direction , companies that are not specialised in this avoid to go ahead of ekaterinburg/čeljabinsk or rarely go to novosibirsk because is hard for them to get return load

willi betz did trips from germany to južno sahalinsk , google says it is 7200milles in one direction


here take a look at this site, this company is pretty small just 10 trucks they do east
http://www.pakar-prijevoz.com/#gallery

 

In Ireland most of our products are export so that wouldn't be true for us, just say multinational companies like intel and Pfizer are based here so deliveries are Europe wide and our meats and dairy products go to Libya, Algeria as well as Russia and right along the Mediterranean, Italy is a massive market for us, fish exports are European wide as are live exports. My father has sent livestock over near the Chinese border many years ago

 

That's it, I think it was a 10mpg truck, great achievement for its time

 

Well you can do what ever you want with statistics. It just depends on what you want it to show. That 500km radius is enormous if you count in every transport being made. On other hand just counting trucks going abroad 500km radius is way to small.
Have to love statistics. No rules for it and you can present it to suite you a 100% without lying ☺

 

Yes but that one came later and was short lived.

 

Yes but that truck averaged 47 MPH in a controlled environment on a test track. I think the test proves that steady throttle and absence of four wheelers are the key to MPG.

 

Scania set 12.1 mpg loaded to 40,000kgs in real world conditions with hills, traffic secondary roads etc with the 410 hp engine

http://www.verkehrsrundschau.de/green-truck-1078735.html

http://newsroom.scania.com/en-group/2014/04/22/scania-field-test-record-in-low-consumption/

a local company is reporting 13Mpgs from their actros fleet , however most of their work is to Belgium and holland (totally flat and all highway) and loads are very light, computers and pharmaceuticals mostly

 

Scania man, I once read that a British mile was different than an American mile. Seriously, I'm not grabbing at straws here, I don't have a dog in this hunt.

How many miles in 100 KM?

 

A US mile is slightly longer then a british mile and mile per gallon are measured differently as well. That is why Americans would get angry with Canadian car dealerships if they bought a car in Canada because they advertise using the british mpg for fuel effeciency which differs from American gallons so the care appears to be get more miles per gallon than it actually does using U.S. miles per gallon. Here is a conversion tool you can play with. http://www.unitjuggler.com/convert-fuelconsumption-from-mpg-to-mpgimperial.html