Differences between American and European trucks

I heard there was a low bridge what you can't see in the film and some one had stolen the warning sign from the crossing they are coming from?

 

i also heard this and some various other reasons

here in my area was pretty often if you for example want to exit in place "X" and exit on highway is only in one direction and you make U-turn on highway but you need to be very careful both when you are in truck and on foot ( to open and close gate) and when you have 55-56ton on 5axles it can be really problematic .........i do not have any more need for it they made exit in other direction too .....

also here was pretty often than you enter for example in city Split on highway and go to town Zagreb (206 mille -333km and toll is 90€about 120$ and you stop near town Zagreb on gas station and buy entry ticket from guys with cross motorcycle and pay only only like 5€ and guys with motorcicles escape through broken fence out of motorway ....but they were busted because there was too many entry´s

 

Just found this on a british trucking board. Why is it that US truckers think that Caterpillars are the best engines in the world when in Europe they never were worth nothing. This is about White truck used by some british haulier, they are of course comparing it to european trucks/engines of the same era.

"Performance-wise it had a 3406 CAT lump, which when it was fresh, would pull like a train! but the longevity of the CAT was not good and it needed regular re-builds. Nothing wrong with the box, it was a Fuller Roadranger 10-speed and worked well with the big CAT. The back end on ours was double-drive bogie borrowed from a Volvo and the front axle was modded to run on spiggott mounted Volvo rims."

 

let me disagree. Cat 3406E is the really very reliable engine. Yeah, 3126 is not good for cold winters, but 3406 - I love it!

C15 is good too.

About electronic issued. wiring and sensors. not more

damaged inside ECMs - the result of wrong battery polarity and when fuse fails dumb drivers put 30A fuse in ore jump fuse and board is toasted! That is all

so, seems to me man who say that 3406 is bad engine... he is not lucky

 

He was talking about mechanical 3406 in the 80s. We have very bad experience about C-18 in Finland, even worse is C-15 Acert, it's propably the worst engine made in 21st century.

What I don't get is when Volvo D-12 starts to leak from injector sleeves (because of bad maintenance) it's a very bad engine in USA, but when Cat blows head gaskets, scores liners, cracks block, blows a turbo etc. it's still the best there is.

 

Oh yeah, and Macks..

I hear they were the toughest trucks build in USA but when british operators used them, especially in middle-east work in the 70s and 80s, they were quite unreliable compared to Euro trucks. One driver said "it was not a truck, it was an insult! "

 

problems of 3406B were usually related with injection pump and fuel pipes. Some mechanics did not use clamps and pipes were damaged with vibration.

About ACERT. This is emission thing, unreliable like all new emission toys, It is the quation what is more reliable? ACERT, SCR ore EGR?

 

it is usually best to drive/own most frequent product in your area i am sure that is problem both with us trucks here same as euro engines/trucks in US

for example in my area is best to own Mercedes or MAN same as in most part of croatia
on peninsula Istra and around city Rijeka is pretty good to own Iveco Italy is near most people speak Italian parts are cheap there is lot of mechanic (unauthorized) who know to maintain/repair Iveco
usually people here are skeptical of Renault even with volvo parts ....
also people are afraid of scania expensive pars

last tuesday( ond the end of the day) my father broke big 13ton "Europa" differential on 8x4 Mercedes dump truck in mud and repair take only one day....he even though to buy low quality Italian replacement parts .....because it is important that the truck is ready to work as soon as possible

he tried to buy parts in official Mercedes importer/service but they dont have them and need to wait 2days at the end of search he found original parts at the non official shop/service ......those things are not so easy if you have scania volvo daf or other manufacturer here....