“Unwrapping” new scania truck

Beautiful machine.

 

I watched the one video about it where he said it weighs about 22k pounds.

 

It’s not a single screw, the rear axle just lifts. The rear drive axle can be disengaged and picked up when it’s not needed.

 

For a tandem drive sleeper truck, which is what it is, that’s right in line.

 

It is? That’s about 3k more than my truck full of fuel with all my junk in it.

 

Don’t forget it has a little bigger engine then USA truck. It’s a V8 and 770 HP and 2,729 torque. All that power would need bigger axles and frame rails I would think. Wouldn’t drivers in USA like to have that much power. They claim no DPF not sure about EGR. The engine seems to be a more then a couple years ahead in technology

 

My last truck (t800) was 23,600 bobtail. This t680 is almost identical

 

That is crazy to me. If they’re just highway trucks why are they spec’d so heavy? My last truck I was right at 30k empty with a 1600cu ft Mac pneumatic and 30500 with a 72” side triple axle Timpte hopper. Blows my mind that a bobtail is only 6000 lighter than one of my old combos.

Shoot, even the old 8 axle flatbeds I ran we’d be 35k empty and that was also packing stakes and bows and sides for our grain kit, on top of our regular flatbed gear. Truck alone was still lighter than 23k and it had a lift axle.