Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

98989....................i think you need a wife with a STRONG mind..

 

@98989 , I don't like to generalise but do you also find the men from Montenegro to be lazier than they are tall ?
I had two Serbian business partners and they always said that.
I have a friend who has a street in Serbia named after him and my other business partner is married to a Serb.

 

yes they are, not only them but also croatians from coast , they are lazy too, they are looking to live from nothing, if there is no tourism there they would die from hunger......ok life was really difficult there, no industry , no land, just rocks.....same as in my part of bosnia
most of croatians that went to live in other countries are from that area

 

Someone suggested I put this in here :S

It's an Scania R500 2008 with 870 000miles on the odo. It recently became the first daily used truck to pass the 1000hp magical mark at 1750rpm on the bench and 3283 torque at 1300rpm. Every week it puts down around 2600 miles grossing about 120 000 pounds. Mechanically nothing has been done except the upgrades that are r730 clutch, injectors and different turbo. It sends it's power through the opticruise gearbox.
Some magical numbers are 2826 torque at 1010rpm. 767hp at the wheels at 52mph. Max rwhp is 909.
The consumption is pretty much the same as the 15 other trucks at the fleet, slightly lower

Hope I got the the numbers correctly converted to us std

 

With the help of Photoshop I was enable to improve your pictures a bit:

 

custom made tridem trailer, it is made to transport oversize loads, it uses small 205/65r17.5 tires, and loading height is 81cm, roof can be raised and it is possible to get 3.45m interior height, it can fit wide loads under tarpaulin, rear corner posts can be widen to 3.5m middle posts are moved away, and tarpaulin have its extensions that are folded inside...... trailer weights 5t and have 20t payload

i have noticed they could build trailer even lower or use larger tires, it have plywood above wheels, if they have used sheet metal like lowloaders have it could be made lower.....





there is one company that have even lower , use 10inch wheels and have 3.6m interior loading height


there is lot of companies that have focus on oversize loads under trapoulin, some have semitrailers that can load wheeloader and dumpers, some have trailers that can load sheet metal 4m wide , some have semitrailers that can take very high loads under trap

3.93m


3.8m

 

Interesting sight from Japan, American, Japanese, and European trucks pulling double road trains with 120tonnes -265 000lbs

 

Was this some kind of test? It appears so.

 

We know what truck won !