Trucking in North America vs around the world

@daf105paccar much long can they be? you wrote that already but cant find

 

I did like the Schwarzmueller more. More stable but a bit heavier.

 

All planned by the school ......every transfer and the whole site seeing schedule.....

 

Hope she enjoys it.

 

Got logs....?

 

Keep in mind that traffic density is much higher in many european countries/areas.
Spending a lot of time in stop-go traffic and traffic jams (often there for no obvious reason at all) will make you appreciate the automated transmission.
Specially when most people around you don't understand that keep driving at a slow but constant speed is actually faster and more relaxing.
Whenever there is the smallest gap, they simply accelerate as fast as possible to close the gap, only to have to slam the brakes again when they get too close to the vehicle in front.

But yes, if you spend most time on the open highways, the benefit of being more driver friendly is reduced, and probably outweighed by the simplicity, reliability and ease of service of the non-synchro manual.

 

The longest i can drive without shifting is 40km=27miles.
And that is if there's no traffic.

 

My dad had the company with my uncle, trucking and cow farm. My dad was more interested in the cows. In mid-late 80's my uncle started to have health issues, and the trucking side of business (except for one cattle truck) was sold.

In 60's it was mostly Scania's (75/76 conventional and few cabover 76's) in the fleet, and few Berliet GR and GCK.
Berliet importer was very nearby which was advantage, and was also Steyr importer. After introduction of 90-series a few Steyr's were bought. At about the same time also 4 new Scania's, 3 x 140, 1 x 110.

The 110 Scania was OK, but the 140's were disaster specially in the first couple of months, and as a result these 4 were the last Scania's bought new. A few used 110's and 111's were bought later on, mostly 6x2 conventional rigids, with drawbar trailer. But no more new Scania's.

The Steyr's did very well, good performance, excellent reliability, very good fuel economy.
From then on the new trucks were mostly Steyr, with few Berliet.
Drivers were not too happy about them, untill the moment they actually started driving them. After that they were quite happy and many of them did not want to go back to Scania.


The MAN was F7 320 (I think, it is long time ago) I think 304 was V8, 320 was non-turbo V10.

 

their ultralight curtainsider starts at 4850kg.
schwarzmueller is very popular here (3rd on market), they cost about 20% more than mass produced german trailers, but are much better quality. schwarzmueller is best buy in many products like kipper tandem trailers, rear tipper semitrailers, and simple low loaders.
have very wide product portfolio, also tailored individual products.
but once you go in some specialized field their products are not most refined.
take for example getreidekipper, they are heavier than german, cost about same, if you want some individual solution they will cost more, they are about 2inch higher from ground, dont look that good (but still most popular on our market due aftersales)

 

this combination where trailer is loaded on truck when empty (short timber) is only used in switzerland due extremely expensive toll