Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

Wouldn't surprise me if the Ginaf is cheaper. And since the Ginaf can do almost as much as two Western Star trucks, you would need to have very extreme fuel and maintenance costs to bridge that gap.

 

Very likely. Engines are placed much lower in European trucks than in US trucks.

 

might be.
on new mb trucks with common engine with dd they have to move front axle 4inch back to create room for oilpan on awd trucks. they have raised engine up from frame too....trucks become much higher due that engine everyone complains about it

 

I'm under 30 and Canadian and I actually prefer to use imperial for measuring stuff like gear backlash, bearing clearances, measuring length, pressure etc. I even use acres when refering to land sizes. The only metric units I use on a regular basis are kilometers and litres. Hell I even use cups, teaspoons and tablespoons when I cook and bake.

 

Im the exact same way @AModelCat Temperature in a house or outside is in celcius. But when we start talking engine temps/ cooking temp or heating bearings... its all farenheit.

 

We like to use Reaumur.

 

By that logic we should be typing to each other in Chinese because is most common language spoken in the world.
I have no problems with SI system, just is not the primary unit of measurement used in my country. Most all engineering is expressed in SI system no doubt.
You seem to be a big fan of "globalization", that is if it fits your viewpoint.

 

My thoughts on the metric system:

 

Yes, but not the majority, not even by far.

Yes, and all cars (trucks as well??) are build with metric components

Your are the only country in the world that has not adopted the SI system as the only official system. You have adopted it (and you're even using it in many places) , and then you redefined your customary units as conversions of SI units. So the customary system as such does not exist, it's merely a set of conversions stacked on top of the SI system.

It's costing you a fortune. Suppose I design some piece of machinery, and I use the SI system. Then I might put a 50mm drive shaft in it. You might design it in the customary system, so it would be a 2 inch (50.8) mm drive shaft. So the bearing factory has to produce 50 mm bearings and 50.8 mm bearings, very costly.

 

Of course it is still possible to find industries or disciplines in europe that still use non-metric units. For example, Desk Top Publishing. To quote from Wikipedia
"The advent and success of desktop publishing (DTP) software and word processors for office use, coming mostly from the non-metric United States, basically revoked this metrication process in typography. DTP commonly uses the PostScript point, which is defined as 1⁄72 of an inch (352.(7) μm)."

Ask yourself, are the fonts you are use metric ?