Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

A bit more. In the Netherlands there is no weight limit on a front axle as such. The weight limit on a single axle (front or rear) is 10,000kg/22,000lb if it is non-driven, for a driven axle it is 11,500kg/25,000lb.
Furthermore heavy European trucks often have two steerable axles, two at the front, or one at the front and the first axle at the rear. With heavy dumper trucks (etc.) the last rear axle(s) may also be steerable, not as with normal steering, but the whole axle may turn a bit.

 

This isn't exactly true, gross weight here is 80,000 lbs, 34,000 on tandems, so on a 5 axle set up, it would be, 12,000 steers, 34,000 on drives, 34,000 on trailer tandems, totaling 80,000, but front axle go by a rating in most states, ranging from 500 lbs to 700 lbs per inch of tire, there is only a couple of states that only allow 12,000, 4 I think

 

MBE 900 family (OM 904, OM 924, OM 906 and OM 926) are very sucsessfull engines.

Unfortunatly PLD technology cant meet Euro-6 and EPA2012 so they will not be developed and be discontinued soon

 

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kinda neat euro heavy hauler.

 

we use to call too sufisticated and too technologically advanced trucks -"woe from wit"

who used to read russian literature understands what I try to say

 

btw, really the only reason to redesigne Actros and Volvo FH is new emission standard.

EPA2014 and Euro-6 engines require more air for cooling, and it is not all, aftertreatment system reqire more room, and previous actros engine was v-designed. New is six in line, really Actros MP-IV engines are the same like DD11, DD13, DD-15 and DD-16 but with Mercedes Logo.

 

Hm maybe not today, but in past it was opposite , until late 60s our trucks were behind americans , than at end of 60s there was german idea to introduce minimum power of 8hp/ton and than first trucks stronger than 300hp appeared , also longer routes , and routes to middle east and asia open need for stronger engines , who knows maybe ww2 slow down progress here, but in same hand it could make progress faster who knows

scania itself would probably not exist if they did not have collaboration with american manufacturers


after economic crash in 1929 , truck sales in sweden drop significantly, scania had many different products and expensive production as most were made in small series or individual , so no big serial production

scania studied american twin coach bus in 1929 but it was very complex. scania opt for simpler version and first were sold in 1932 , those were very popular , because they allowed much more passengers,as it moves center of gravity more to front axles( with strict weight laws from that time), and it was most advanced bus back than in europe,

EDIT: this help scania to recover from problems, and buses become main product than




also from this time scania started to make their first cabover trucks called bulldog

latter scania have some collaboration with mack , scania used mack differentials on certain models until 1974-1976 i dont remember , scania have sold mack direct injection in 1949, latter scania engineers were sent often in USA to study mack products , one mack bus was imported in sweden for testing, scania get right to sold it worldwide except north america, scania adopt it to metric system and for its components, this was first bus with selfsupporting bus bodywork in europe, scania latter developed smaller versions ....

after ww2 scania had many models, high development costs, and expensive production , they could not compete with volvo who made small light trucks in serial mass production, and scania was seeking for more money sources ,

....and scania become dealer in 40s and 50s for willys overland jeep , but they quit this ,because of poor quality ( for scania standards) as scania image was harm in reputation due to jeep products

than scania become dealer for VW that bring them a lot of money , and actually saved them from one many possible bankrupt

than scania stared to export more , and more and soon exported products become majority .....

 

The other way around is more accurate. Daimler Benz designed these engines to be used all over the world, Europe, the America's, Africa, Asia. They were first used in the US as Detroit Diesel.

 

Sure, but that is 50 years ago, and that was just 20 years after WWII. Those were very different times, and there were dozens of truck factories in Europe. Remember Hanomag, Büssing, Henschel, Krupp, Magirus Deutz, Wartburg, Leyland, Scammel, Foden, Ford, Bedford, Berliet, Unic, Fiat, Pegaso, Saurer, Kromhout, and so on? Some of them had rather unique features, Magirus Deutz with their air cooled diesels (they sold a few thousand of them to Siberia) , Büssing with their underfloor diesels etc. The famous London Routemaster doubledecker busses for instance were extremely modern. They were build like an aircraft (a bomber more precisely), and had no chassis.

And sure, I remember seeing very big Mack trucks delivering paving bricks, I suppose at the time there were no European trucks of that size. But that's all in the past.

 

there is no epa2014. only epa2010