Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

If you read some threads on TTR,there are many.
I really surprised me.
BTW no dumpvalves here.
Raise and lower on truck and trailer.
And them there is guys like me.
Few off us but easely done,full suspension controls for both truck and trailer in the cab.

 

Cat,thats what i mean.
There are a lot off trucks that don't have even a basic dumpvalve.

 

so judging by posts between this and my previous we have found out you maybe still need to develop your trucks a little bit?

 

Is it possible that the North American "keep it simple stupid" way of evaluating product usefulness has finally proven a European over design wrong. (inconceivable!)

 

Very good commercial . But the mining operations . There are trucks made for that job , that will haul two of those trucks in its bed . Wrong truck for the job . We handled building a pipeline in cold conditions also , Alaska pipeline .
You are saying ours are better ... But that is a option , yes ?
Caesar post couple of videos . One here , truck was on a road he should not been on . Ok . One of the other videos , to show how much better , in his mind , EU trucks are . In that video , if there had been guardrails up , he would not made it . And he did not make it with out damage . So both videos show a fail !

 

Dump valve ? Yeah got those .

 

Cnsper,lets say you run a reefer with spreadaxle.
Your loading around 4pm on a friday.
Loading place closes at 4.30pm for the weekend.
Closest Cat scale is 10 miles away.
You scale 14000 41000 20 000.
Old skool USA truck......your stuck for the weekend to rework the load without extra pay or you run the risk with the scales.
Modern USA truck with the gadgets from EU,you push a button ......last traileraxle deflates untill first traileraxle is at maximum allowed weight thus taking enough weight off the tractor which makes you legal to run.

You decide which you prefer.

 

Air ride controls are really available on trucks and trailers that could use them. The typical general freight truck/trailer only needs a dump valve. Specialized trailers such as rgns that have a need for them, can order them on new units or add them to existing units. This has been around a long time.

A word about dump valves, the big mega fleets don't normally have them because of the quality of drivers they use. They can't trust their talking monkeys not to drive down the highway with the suspension dumped and burn up the tranny and drive axles.

Disc brakes have been an option here for quite a few years. I guess a person could argue that because it's not required, we are behind the curve, but that opens up a huge can of worms about or culture differences, we don't like forced regulations, and they don't mind them. That conversation would go exactly like a conversation of guns and our 2nd amendment.

 

Sorry Daniel but big difference between a dumpvalve and full up and down controls.
Example someone leaves a empty trailer at a dock.
They load it .
The guy who dropped it there is a extra rented truck with a high 5th wheel.
You have to hook up to it.
.........

 

Build in safety ,above 10mph the valve goes to rideheight.