Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

some of us don't want european technology, and your metric system!. that's why the united states was founded to get away from all that stuff. globilization is not a good thing. were perfectly happy with how we do things. although there is some portion of the populace that would love a one world government..

 

Its the rest of the world that's moved away from the imperial system which began in the UK ....so it's a system adopted by the US, here's a map of the countries not using metric http://www.zmescience.com/other/map-of-countries-officially-not-using-the-metric-system/
the advantages of metric is a no brainer, the US will have to go that way eventually, it's pointless resisting. A one world government is still in the realm of conspiracy theories and fantasy in my opinion

 

kind of like the star trek episodes with borg " resistance is futile". Well i'll keep kicking and screaming about it until i'm gone.

 

What I meant was it's better for the consumer if everything's metric, opens up new markets and brings down prices

 

really it is impossible to stop mixing imperial and metric units. for example in Europe water fittings are all in inches.

Ok, air system fittings are available of imperial and metric sizes and transer fittings are available on market. I can easily fit European brake chamber on my freightliner just changing 1/2" fitting to M16x1.5

 

when i was living in USA i was wondering same why they dont use metric system , this imperial make me crazy, i asked one wise man , he answer me if we went to metric we would need 10-15year to adopt it and this would slow down industry and economy , he also think this stop Canada a lot

 

metric system is better for engeneering and desighn. There is SI system used for mathematic calculations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units
Imperial system is for "cyvil use" in USA and UK now

 

agree on first , but i was talking with my cousin and his wife they are masters of mechanical engineering at sikorsky aircraft they say they completely use imperial system

 

in aviation industry they use nautilic miles, knots and feet. But fuel weight in kg!

 

As Scania man stated the Imperial sytem was a British system , just as English was a British language , both imported and standardized in the US.
On of the US's biggest strengths is that they will take what is good from all over the world and commercialize it.
Then sell it back to the world.
Somehow this seemed to bypass the metric system and trucking technology.
Probably because there was no money in it.