Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

Ginaf is the cool dump truck for very rought terrain

Hydrolic suspention lets use it on hills, any other tipper flps.

But, Ginaf is the expencive solution.

The cheapest dump truck on our market is KRAZ. Brutal, tought. Eats drivers. LOL

It is noisy, dusty, low comfort.

But here MAN, DAF, MB, Scania, Mack, Freightliner, International, and many asian dump trucks are used.

I like Actros 8x8 with om502 engine, Volvo FMX, Mack Granite and International WorkStar tippers

 

Terra Pro and Renault Kerax would be good too, but not so popular here.

 

There were not that many dumptrucks with a GVW of 110,000 lbs and all wheel drive on the market here, and Ginaf and Tenberg could supply them. So you see quite of them here, specially for big building projects.

Now Mercedes, MAN and others are also producing similar trucks, but I doubt if they are cheaper.

 

That "flimsy euro truck" doesn't work in Australia, for one thing it's left hand drive, and no one here has ever heard of a Nicholas truck anyway. For road trains that big its Kenworth all the way.

 

If you're talking off-highway dump trucks, how about the Kenworth C540, 500 tonne road train. American rugged power without the over-sophisticated European fragility.

 

One of the things the Western Europeans will never understand is that if you break down in Baker City, Oregon, or Bastrop, Texas, or even Ely, NV, there's a guy with a service truck within a hundred miles that can fix just about anything on a Kenworth with a 12.7, an N14 or a 6NZ.

Anything much newer or more complicated, and it's a 400 or more mile tow, at temps of say, -25 C to a dealer to stand in line to get worked on. The guys in Eastern Europe and Asia will instantly relate to that. Simplicity is a goal in itself.

 

Yep, owners need easy to fix construcktion mashines, but.....

Regulations force truck makers use complicated engines with DEF on dump trucks too.

 

Jubilant? Get that help.

 

Lets point out for like the 50 th time . Paccar (Pete ) owns DAF. Volvo owns Mack. Mercedes owns Freightliner . Freightliner owns Western Star , Thomas Bus, Oshkosh , and Detroit. The engineering teams overlap . Try and grasp the facts. You can not claim the same engineers are smart one day and dumb the next , to fit your case.