Cabovers

Let's put it like this. The top line I drive my biggest complain is the small fan that cools the ac temperature sensor is making a wining noise witch is annoying.
Bumpiness, naaah it's full air so it rides really nice. If a big bump comes up to fast to slow down I just use a button to put it in the higher ride position so it gets longer suspension travel. It rides smother than whats good for the frame.....

 

I was referring to the fact that the driver in the car from which the video was made was going way too fast in the curves and was passing everything in sight..........in an everyday common traffic, with the general public sight seeing and going much slower, and many parked all over the sides of the road. I'm literally cringing at the thought that a small child or a pet were to wonder in front of that car in a curve where cars were parked on the side of the road. I don't think that any amount of brakes would've helped the situation. Well but, that's just my two cents in the matter at hand.

I've gotcha on the construction materials delivery in residential areas. There are plenty of places here in the USA just like that one in the picture, mainly in mountainous regions of rural Pensilvania and many otner places through Appalachia. Anyway, those places are not accesed daily by 73' long tractor trailers, nor that they were meant for such a traffic. My point is, that common sense dictates that you use the proper delivery method for the job at hand.

 

I know that this thread is meant for the subject of COE trucks and the corelating isues like cab space and the advantages and disadvantages of COE vs conventional designs, but, every now and then you bump in a discussion that brings in some political tone, just like this one.

I sense some resentment in the affirmation ["since NATO isn't "liberated" any nation....."]!!!!
Let me put it succinctly: there is more good done by NATO in this screwed up world of ours, then at any other time and any other pact or alliance in human history, including the UN and the Warsaw pact.
For dose that disagree, well, Quit Calling Washington DC every time a despotic dictator starts a war in this world!
I could't just stand there and let this one go, and now y'll now where I stand on these isues!

I'm DONE talking on this isue and now let's go back to talking truks!

PS: I think that your truckers and trucking companies that provided services for NATO were well compensated $$$$$ for the job!

 

Yes Siree Scania man! Not bad, not bad at all!

 

If you were to drive an American truck you wouldn't be able to hear the "smal AC sensor fan" at all. Not that the fan is so quiet, but cause there'll be so many other noises that it would make the small fan noise impossible to be detected! LOL

PS: Smooth ride "bad for the frame".......that's a new one!

 

Let me put it this way, driver: Them Euro COE trucks ain't nothing like the American built trucks, COE or other ways. They've got things perfected like you wouldn't even imagine.
Ya, on this side of the world, the only thing that seems to be important in a truck is a 6'+ hood and lots and lots of shiny chrome, but the rest of it, if you could manage it not to fall apart, i guess that everything is hunky dory.
The only advantage we have here is the excessing room in the sleeper area. The front part of the cab, especially in the clasic trucks, it's too darn small and you literally have to squeeze trough in between the seats in order to access the sleeper.

Anyway, the American COE trucks were a disaster, thus the unpopularity for that design even to this day.
The truth is that the American drivers have no idea what kind of truck is the Euro built COE truck. No Euro COE truck made it to the US market with the excepion of the few Scania trucks back in the mid 80s. The Scania trucks that made it over here were so few that the majority of US drivers are unaware of their existence. They were awesome and the few still remaining in service to this day are not for sale.
The nain complaints back in those days were, that the truck was too well built and thus a little on the heavy side. Of course, the rules have changed since then and now we run even heavier trucks(Volvo VN 780 and others like it) then what the old Scanias were.

All of this said, I think that it would be a good thing if the US would allow Euro COE trucks to be imported to the US, for those drivers and companies that would prefere a COE over a Conventional for whatever reason they may have.
Australia, New Zeeland and other parts of the world are running both US COE and Conventionals and Euro COE. It doesn't look like it hurt them and their economies at all.

PS: If you're talking about the new Volvo FH, I'll have to agree with you on that one. It is more the ugly, it is fugly! But most of the Euro COEs are really good looking trucks. I really like the new MB Actros. It's one sharp looking truck, if you'd ask me!

 

Well didn't know how to put it.
It's just the ride in the cab is so smooth that you are going to fast over the bumps, potholes and that stuff with a risk of damaging the frame, axles and so on....

 

It all depends on the guy behind the steering wheel! Right?

 

Maybe after a feed of Guinness washing down the bush mills shots you'd be better in a tight spot rather then having too much space where you could fall and really hurt yourself! LOL

 

How did u know about bushmills?? Ya fecker! I'm saying no more except there's a reason Scania supply luggage nets for the bunks!