Scania is Looking for Drivers For Documentary

Not a lot of these trucks here in the U.S.
The trucks look good, would like to run one here.

 

I wish I could get an R730 in Texas. Farqin gorgeous trucks.

 

@98989 might know some drivers like that

 

I just posted a link to this thread on Security Check Required

there are several Scania drivers there

 

Not too much of those particular trucks here in the USA.

We don't always have the troubles you specifically listed.

Extreme weather depends on the situation. If it's a proper hurricane big or small I usually have the 18 wheeler buried in a particular way where the wind cannot get to it. Or clean clear of the forecast cone. But it does not always work out every time.

We were in Akron-Seville area one evening after being told eat hearty, sleep all night and call us sometime in the morning after breakfast after running particularly hard for a week or more. There are 4 truckstops at the time in that particular area (Also known as Xenia) A 76, speedway, a TA and I think a Pilot but Im reaching. I chose the old TA across from the speedway for my stay.

At about 8PM the heavens opened up. And tornadoes walked the earth west due east above and below the entire truckstop complex with really big time lightning. Needless to say there was no sleeping through that. Not after seeing everything inside the entire cab flex and shake with every blast of wind and lightning strike in our row. It got a little worrisome when the CB radio started talking about which of us had hazmat and what kind in the 4 truckstops. The two interstates were long since emptied. There was about two dozen hazmat, particularly one or two tankers maybe a few explosives and the rest acid, flammable etc.

The sun came up the following morning after the night of tornados. Dispatch on the phone using a jovial bright and cheery attitude ask me you ready to run did you catch up on sleep? *&^% no. Of all the places in the midwest I had to pick that one. They gave me another day to really get some rest from the first day.

If you ever want to research what a tornado can do to a truckstop, take a look at Bruces Texaco in the early 80's I believe I think we lost 15 truckers there and at the same time lives were saved that day. The building is still open when we run through Tulsa OK and had a small memorial there plus a preservation of the structural cracks and damage sustained in that particular one.

We had a blizzard one time in winter of 1993 I think Janurary. (Not sure, will have to research it) Anyway where we were in Maryland we took 42 inches of snow in our back yard in 24 hours flat. 50 by midday next. Beyond that there was no measuring anything as the winds started screaming. That wind howling went away on day three. Meaning our house was buried. (We had plenty of oil and kept the large fireplace going.) A week later we dug out.

The snow was beyond the hieight of Telephone poles and wires when all said and done. A friend of mine was called by his company to go get a load. Well his tractor trailer was under 60 feet estimated. He spent sometime digging with a shovel. (No one is going anywhere at that time)

It took a front end loader about a few days and nights to scoop a access connection to I-70 off State 27. It was a ten foot wide path down the middle between 50+ foot walls higher than the telephone poles into a tiny strip of sky. We got to the I-70 Truckstop on 2 feet of slushy on I-70 from New Market West. There to learn that the interstate was essentially closed from there on west. The entire truckstop was knee deep. But people were still moving big trucks around and doing their usual. I got alot of teasing and how stupid I was to take my car with it's michelin hard compound tires onto that slush. But it did well there and back. (They don't make cars like that anymore)

It was into June that year and we still had snow in shady spots.

I can tell more, but I think that's enough for here.

 

Not really here 99% of scania trucks are long distance ones, work in boring predictable conditions

 

first, as mentioned not too many (if any) scania trucks here.

let's also look at the dealer network, or lack of one.

it's a Swedish truck, as Volvo, and look at the problems Volvo's have that cannot get fixed right from what ever volvo dealers there are.

then too, a Scania is nothing but a dumbarse cabover.

i don't wanna be the first one at an accident, driving one.

 

there are about 300 scania trucks in USA

 

hardly enough to support a dealer network. given that it is a foreign truck at that, parts availability must be what else...a nightmare.