Trucking in North America vs around the world

Używane Kenworth - 45 000 PLN, 500 000 km, 1978 - otomoto.pl

 

A former Swiss truck.
https://www.friderici.com/en/the-business/our-history/

 

With real engine inside

 

Funny fact is that the new ones I just got are built in Sweden actually ..

BUT my dealer told me that there is actually no difference, we will see.

 

Do we add costs of lost customers, and gray hair on my head?

I would just like to remind you, that I have one daf which is using 30-32l/100 km of fuel for past 5 years (and Daf says it's perfectly ok, I was told by my dealer that it's bad luck!!), where those new I-save Vovlos use 22-23l/100 km. That's 10l/100 km of difference, that's how POS those Dafs are in real world.

In Volvo if something breaks down at X amount of KM, it will probably break down at each truck, you can prevent it, replace faulty part earlier. At Daf, you never know, every single day could be different, unexpected thing, and what will your dealer tell you? Oh, yes, it's normall, sometimes it happens.

 

Look, you can get so many different options, cab on spring, cab on full air, cab on spring/air, then front suspension on spring or air.

And at the moment I have 3 different specs of Volvo:

first came from factory on 385/55 front
second came from factory on 315/70, replaced with 385/65
Now I got 385/65 from factory

And each one of them has different height in front, different amount of leaf, different sitiffness I also think.

Then you can get I think 3 types of front seat.

So all in all, I don't agree that Volvo is uncofmortable or stiff, you can really spec it however you want, and you can go from seasick to no susepsnion travel, it's up to you. And honestly, none of my drivers complain .. I also don't see a problem, but I have car with bucket seat and rock hard suspension, so I'm quite used to firm cars.

 

This says it all. Debate over!

 

That's Awesome Fuel economy, The benefit of only driving at 80kmh I guess ...

 

Nothing, no fault codes, Daf told me I should be happy that my other truck is more efficient.

This is how POS they are in real life Caesar.

 

Both are locked at 85km/h