Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

I'm sure the little fiats are comfy at 110 mph.....

 

Yes, they were compact, but I suppose it was assumed that their undercarriage was better then that of a full size US car. I don't think any one would have dared driving a full size US car with 110mph on the autobahn in those days, knowing it's soft hopelessly under damped suspension. It would have been suicide. You couldn't actually steer those things, "pointing them somewhat in the right direction" it was called.

 

Yes they are. They are designed and tested to drive safely at those speeds. I've driven my Skoda Octavia at over 135 mph, no problem.

 

A proper car....

 

That's exactly what I mean about a V8.

 

A Chevy Vega lol... In Europe there is virtually no such thing as an independent one truck guy. My friend from Poland told me it was near impossible the obstacles to own a truck and make a living with it over there.

 

Don't believe everthing a Pole tells you.

 

He'll laugh when he see's that post lol

 

autobahn, is a good and bad thing in one,

roads in excellent conditions, no speed limit....

but at same time no speed limit means lot of braking, because most of people have different speeds means lot of speed variation , lot of fuel spent without reason and lot of traffic jams and lot of accidents

germans tend to use their brakes too much , not only germans, austrians too, and i find about every tourist here use brakes when it is not necessarily, i use brakes only when i have to stop or reduce speed significantly in unplanned situation, i always use much longer distance than required , that allows me to keep speed more linear.

In germany they use at least 90% of braking without any reason, one car get to slower one and instead of reduce accelerator on time and approach to car with inertion, they hit brake, car behind brakes more , next one brakes even more, 10th car stop to standsill 15th car crash into car in front, and than you have 2hour traffic jam, but not only in this direction, in other one too ,because they slow down to see what happened on opposite side,and you have 2hour traffic jam in this direction too, and because of that someone crash in this direction too, so you have non stop traffic jams in germany

related to unnecessary braking, i think automatic cars with cruise control and low resistance tires/bearings/driveline creates bit more braking than it would be required on old cars, i think car manufacturers should create brakes that dont engage brake light at 1st cm of pedal travel , and also light intensity should be variable. also germans are too rich so they dont care for fuel consumption, here i think twice before every acceleration that is why i have much even speed.

related to autobahn, last time when i was going to factory week before it was some holiday in germany so they went on vacation and already to slo border was traffic jam it took me 1h2 to pass, in slo was ok,at border with at, at tunnel because of crash took 2hours, i get idea of avoiding tunnel too late ( i could not return), in at i had 2 big construction sites so this too extra 1hour, just i cross to de border at bad reichenhall traffic jam started it took me 2.5hour to get to a99 and i used balkan methodes to overtake cars trough exits and fuel stations, all together it took me 10hour for something that could be done in 4hour of good ride or 5 in real conditions. automatic is necessary in germany because of those traffic jams , proximity control in trucks can start and follow traffic as well stop.

It took me another 4hours to cross 310km to factory , and i was driving like idiot, to get on time in hotel ( i get 5mins before they close) , i had 2 more construction sites, and 3 heavy braking without any reason, in meantime i was driving between 110-135mph

somewhere before ulm, i was driving about 105mph and in front of me was vw golf 4 variant, and he did not want to go on right lane and since i am in foreign country i cant flash lights, overtake him on right lane or similar so i approach more to him and he finally move to right lane ( which was more or less free) when i overtake him i accelerate at 110mph and was driving like that for 10 more milles, he was driving on my tail, as i always use lot of distance to car in front of me, last in line was new a6 ,and at one small bridge my car jump and i could see across hill that cars are braking, audi is still does not brake , i put my leg on brake to give signal to golf he should brake, he did not react on this i start to use brakes more , he approach to me very close on 1-2m i release brakes to prevent him to hit me, cars in front of me are already heavy braking, so i started to balance between distances. at end i had to go on right lane to avoid crash , golf manage to stop just near audi.

when i was going home there were some holidays week after so there was again traffic jams, it was raining very hard so several crash some roads were closed so it took me again 14hour for something that can be done 6-7
in germany you often have braking where you all stuff from backseat go forward , like stopping from 100mph in 110yards

once i was with friend we were going to heilbronn and after few hours of looking trucks we went to dortmund and we spend few hours looking for trucks,we were returning back and somewhere between ulm and augsburg it was heavy braking situation, we were already tired, i did not realize that is something happening in front of us, dont know if he notice anything but his brake reaction would be too slow anyway, car was braking by itself and we stop safely , all things including jackets water and laptops from backseat were flying, so selfbraking cars are necessary too.


speed limit allows better filter how many cars you want to have in certain areas with good setup on speed limit on real time you can avoid accidents, and traffic jams,

also they should install barrier between opposite lanes to prevent people to look on other side during accidents and traffic jams

 

We have it with load and smoke too: