Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

if you deal with winterservice this is far best vehicle, great turning circle, great payload, great traction and mobility....can switch weight and improve weight distribution....

my brother clean most difficult road here, only 2 trucks (4drivers) of 250 trucks goes there.
it takes him 4hour to clean 27km(17milles) of road. road is single lane with like 30 switchbanks in 4 milles. when he is just spreading salt (right now) and if road is icy(without snow) when going downhill and when he is already close to empty, heavy robust plow on front put lot of weight to front axle, and since it is so steep he says rear of truck can slide despite winter ice tires....sometimes on some section of roads he even have to turn and go down in reverse

with setup below you can always have at least 50% of weight of truck to rear axle

 

Plowing snow is one of the most destructive functions on a truck. A unit like that might be okay for soft, powdery snow in small accumulations. Here, a lot of landscape companies run pickups with plows, but even the heavy-duty ones get really destroyed... especially if they're plowing dense, wet snow, after there is a thaw-freeze cycle, or heavy accumulations. Even the heavy-duty class 7 & 8 trucks aren't good for much more than bush or farm use after they have been used as plow trucks.

 

really big one, not too many of 5axle 88k lbs trucks in this

 

They have started using a beet juice mixture in the last few years in a lot of Canadian municipalities.

Chemistry Explains How Beet Juice Makes Ice and Snow Melt | Inverse

Calgary expands use of beet juice to de-ice roads
Calgary expands use of beet juice to de-ice roads
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I looked at the size of the container for my reply, but of course the trucks you showed are in use as well. However, for those trucks you need a CDL, for the smaller one I showed, you don't. For most simple work the smaller ones ar sufficient.

No, I already showed the trucks for the main highways.

 

When I lived in Canada, couple of years ago:





More recently, I worked on some of these:




Volvo 11 liter in front, 13 liter in back.

 

what is reason to use part of articulated dump truck instead of normal 4x4 tractor

 

A sleeper like that would make life much nicer for some drivers in europe.
But their bosses won't buy it for them.....

 

I've seen a few where the salt has corroded things so bad that double frames have rust jacked to the point where the outer rail opens up like a zipper along the lower bend. These are really old trucks though mind you. The stresses of those wing plows have been known to give the frame "sidesway" too. Definitely causes a lot of stress on those trucks no matter how heavy they're built.

 

Well, I had a look, and a new Sprinter with container will cost you from € 25,000 upwards. Of course you can spend twice as much, depends on the size, max. weight, engine and so on. I don't think you can buy a 7.5 tonne truck for that money.