Is mercedes a good engine compare to detroit or caterpilar?

yes but those are general problems for f2000

it is possible to load 27 ton of dry wheat in 20ft container ( but in one with roof ) planks are installed on rear between "ribs" and you leave last 15cm free and you pull through pipe and load container so bruto weight of 20ft container is about 29.3ton my brother used to drive man tga ts in 2004/5 it is truck with super single tires really light and spitzer tipper silo tank 66m3 empty weight was only 13ton and he load 27ton of wheat and unload it in Austria to container truck and drive gypsum from austria to here

yea tipper and timber trucks are really killed there are some guys who have 25m3 tipper body on 4axle tipper they can easily have more than 60ton on 4axle truck (133000lbs) i think that is record now here 63-4ton which is 140 000lbs

 

There is 36 ton weight limit in Ukraine, there were many cops on roads this summer becouse pavement was soft, it was hot. And when cops dissapeared tonight, heawy trucks with overload kept running, but pavement was not so hot like in daytime and they ran when it is dark. Night patrol cops did not check trucks for overload.

 

well, about Mercedes engine.

Lets imagine there is no problems with parts and all Mercedes ECMs are reprogrammed for higher low end torque... Will you, guys, concides OM460 good engine?

 

trully, I do not like OM460. My favorite engine is OM 502LA (16L V 8, but this engine does not fit US trucks becouse of cabine designe. It is wide, but not tall. We tried to do conversion.

 

but not so economic until revision in 2004/5

now scr single turbo is pretty economic truck

also they now have direct drive gearbox and hypoid reduction as road truck

 

company trucks I work with are '04-05.

 

scr?

they are good but before they are used to have easily 40L /100km

i know a guy have 1857 and 164 580

and he said that difference is at least 5-7L

but younger om502la are pretty good with direct drive gearbox hypoid diff single turbo and scr

 

yeah, I like early V 8