differences between US and EU trailer

that was not so rare there was one company from germany used to build trucks on base of mercedes

with cab at ground level you seat like in sport car lot of parts from mercedes cars

truck could accept BDF body on top of it or longer semitrailer i have to find images .....

 

reason is to get more space for load and better maneuverability , i have seen few US trucks from new zeland on same way i think they were western star

 

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here would be illegal to run trailer with just one compartment because of stability for liquids

things like bitumen is hauled in single compartment trailers

 

how to perform this in small place with such differences in ratio of wheelbases?

i can see mainly people do this

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here we get good drivers comparing to east european countries , during winter roads are not perfectly cleaned(especially in last few years due to crisis so they know how to drive on snow ....

also since we have lot of technically incorrect trucks , overloads bad tires bad roads and lot of working hours(3tacho plate is almost normal) there is not too many accidents

but problems are drivers who used to be in different professions and they drive just because they had to but dont have clue about driving that is problem in east europe .....

my father drive from 1968 until today he have no any accidents

he used to drive everything from new trucks to big crap

loads were huge

somewhere from 1980-1990 he used to drive 6x4 mercedes with 3axle drawbar tipper trailer gross weight were 90+ tons

he used to be driver and owner operator in germany but he get back in 1974

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our trucks used to drive salt for roads , so they have priority on roads usually here if roads are with snow police dont allow to pass on critical parts of hills (that can least for 2-3days)

our trucks were rarely excluded from road

they have be allowed to drive even on sundays

they used to load from 33-40ton of salt most trucks were 15-16ton empty so that is up to 56t

my father used chains only once because police required that and put only right one and he dont know how to put it and put it on opposite and chain broke....

so he says that he need only good michelin tires ( summer at that moment no one know for winter ones)

we are now starting to use more and more M+S tires because of germany and austria

they used to drive lot of hours because of big demand for salt and in other direction they were loaded with grain

and there is one funny fact about him

he dont know to reverse semitrailer and centralaxle

he says real men should drive drawbar , once he and his group had to reverse it for 3km they were on one small narrow country road and there was no space for turn , also once he broke wooden bridge in one village and his group had to drive 6kmk in reverse ....


i have uncle(brother of my father) he better drive truck+drawbar trailer in reverse than forward he can go anywhere in reverse


....no no like you say for norway but truck and 2 trailers with centralaxle