Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

Even on my flat dash 900A I can see every gauge without difficulty.

 

using your logic....

so how can you know you dont need it if you have never try one?

 

it is interesting truck , have more space than some center city apartments, some really cool and unique things and it is double floor cab, but that is way too heavy to be usable for commercial works

 

If I had a nickle for every time I wanted to burn a piece of European construction equipment instead of fixing it, I'd need a 2nd bank account in the Caymans. Nothing about it working on it is easy. I can only assume the trucks are designed similar.

 

Air clutch ? You are really asking for headaches ! As many ABS issues trucks have , why make it that complex ? Adds up to a bunch of stuff to break . Like I stated I am testing a new version of a crash avoidance system . Some of this stuff is not worth having ! Had on of the engineers tell we oh it's not doing this / it can not do that . Guy who has never driven a truck is going to tell the guy who logged 70,000 in 5 months in the truck , what it is doing ! Fun having the truck decide , out of the blue , it's time for full brake application , and full engine brake application . Waiting for it to do it on ice . So a lot of these new gismos , I do not care for ! Active Susp yeah give the computer ability to drop the susp on one side only . But it works great till ... it does not .

 

here food in restaurants is healtier than one you can get when you buy food in stores and try to make it by yourself, but problem get when you travel to west, than you are in problem their food taste different and it is pretty expensive and bad quality....so many of those drivers cook food by themself

well i dont cook but when you cook in house you have device that move smell outside, house is big and when smell goes on such high capacity you have no problems but when smell get into cab interior it is bad thing

i understand your needs based on time you guys spend in cab and different climate require more clothes , and more food..... but my point is based on technical development of trucks

 

More manufacturers need to follow the KISS approach:

Keep
It
Simple
Stupid

Sure its amazing what can be accomplished with multiplexing and computers but the reliability is just not there yet IMO. One little nick or some corrosion in a CAN harness and you've got problems.

 

not problem in clutch, scania use electro hydraulic clutch on automated gearboxes.
we have no problems in ABS, EBS or anything like this, from time to time you hear someone needed ECAS calibration today heard someone had problem with axle modulator,

AEBS ( crash avoid) works only when truck is fitted with ECAS EBS , without it it is useless and especially not in slippery conditions

since 1996 ECAS works with EBS to decide which wheel have grip , how to adjust airbag pressure to get better grip, EBS combine possibility to distribute braking force to get more equals brake wear and much more, combine that with ESP,

active suspension acts on shock absorbers

 

Exactly. But your thirty years experience of wrenching means nothing compared to that sales brochure material.

 

Not really a pic , but gives a good idea of the layout .