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Why go all the way to Europe to buy a uniquely European truck and then strip it of its European uniqueness? 🤦‍♂️
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@ Exposed fuel tanks isn’t a customer preference. It’s a manufacturer preference. It’s cheaper to make!
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I appreciate what you’re trying to do, but I think you’re missing a few major points. 1. Cabovers are ideal for cities because of tight turns. 2. Euro cabovers generally have small sleepers because their distances are shorter. 3. The USDOT has been actively promoting longer trucks in order to spread out the weight to minimize damage to bridges and overpasses. If you want these trucks to sell, you need to pitch them to urban local drivers and regional fleets, not long distance operators. Long haulers want huge sleepers and have no need for cabovers. Start by showing up in cities, not rural truck stops. Hook it up to a 40” sea container chassis or a car carrier and drive it to a port in Long Beach, Baltimore or Newark. That’s who wants these.
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@ EVERY trucker cares about MPGs. It’s a business machine.
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 @sannmarc How? It will literally cover the entire suspension from being seen.
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@ No one drives trucks on any cobblestone streets in Europe, man… have you ever even been there?
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@ No, their corporate owner is a foreign company, but they’re still designing and producing their own trucks, in the US. Racisf? Which drugs are you on?
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 @AcloYde Unfortunately, technology makes for a lot of complex repairs and with US distances and remoteness the it isn’t a great idea.
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@ Then you should stop talking about cobble stone streets. This isn’t the 1600s.
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@ No full-size trucker goes into medieval town center where everything, but the smallest of cars won’t fit. Even in Gamla stan in Stockholm you won’t find any and that has fairly wide streets compared to Central Europe.
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@ Ok, ok… we may not be as colloquial here in the US, but we definitely know how reliable (not) Volvos are when it comes to specifically technology, and when I say technology, I don’t mean suspension air bags. Those are universally bad. I mean actual electronics.
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@ That doesn’t work in the US. EGRs are required here. You think Sweden is large? HA! From tip to tip, Sweden is just 977 miles (1,572km) long. Our truckers drive Mexico to Alaska, but just Seattle to Miami is 3,300 miles (5,300km).
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@ Of course there are, but not as frequent as you’d think and they work on mechanical stuff. Software is a whole different thing and requires special skills, licensing and training by the manufacturer, and familiarity. Cars have TONS of problems with this and they’re not on tight schedules. As tough as Europe is on cars, they are very relaxed on trucking regulations because trucks aren’t limited your primary way move heavy cargo. Not in the US. We are a freight train country. We even load truck trailers onto trains and move them that way. Truckers have very thin margins because they have competition and state governments are trying to reduce the impact of truck pollution and highway degradation.
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@ As much as you’d like to make fun of others, air suspensions have been in the US since the 1990s. What the US doesn’t have is manufacturers making them. They’re sold as optional kits and many trucks have them. They’re usually called “Air Ride”.
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@ That puts nothing in perspective. The subsidiaries work entirely independently of their owner umbrella corporation.
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@ Yes, entirely. You do yours.
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@ Very common in the US as well, especially on smaller trucks.
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 @SonsOfLorgar Volvo North America is a truck company. We’re talking about trucks. It makes the VNL and Mack trucks exclusively for the US. Both are designed and manufactured in the US as well.
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@ No one is comparing Volvo cars to trucks.
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@ Scania already owns a well-established US truck manufacturer called International Harvester. They won’t be exporting Scania trucks here. Too expensive. Besides, American truckers tend not to buy anything foreign.
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@ Don’t be obtuse. The entire planet has some remote regions, but Europe has very few of them and they’re less remote than other continents.
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@ Okay… And Australians primarily use American trucks for long distances. You won’t find Euro trucks doing any of your truck train routes.
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@ Why? The US-built Volvos are very popular and much cheaper because there’s no import tariff.
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@ You get that Mack and Kenworth are American, right?
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@ Okay… I’m both, European and American…
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@ Absolutely! Any urban application, including most tankers.
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 @teotik8071 China always makes more.
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@ Volvo cars.
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@ Except that’s factually wrong, despite it being “international.”
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@ Talk about copes! You bring politics into it? What a wanker!
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@ What drivers can do is VERY different from what they typically do, and European drivers typically drive A LOT shorter distances than those in North America.
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@ This truck can haul it easily. That’s not the issue. The issues are ease of maintenance (with miles comes maintenance), comfort (a HUGE part of what long distance haulers need) and profitability. Is this truck even compliant with CA standards?
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 @tapio_m6861 European drivers very rarely do 2000 mile trips because Europe is so densely populated. You drive an hour and you’re in a new city. In the US you can drive 1,000 miles and not see a city. The middle of the country is very empty. Our OTR (over the road) truckers usually do 2 weeks at a time and with a partner and they drive literally 24 hours a day, for 14 days, minus the load/offload. During that time they are rarely ever in a hotel. They want a large sleeper for that. Euro trucks don’t offer that. The length isn’t important because the government wants you to have a long truck and trailer to spread the weight. You want a long truck because long wheel bases ride nicer and you only drive on motorways. The average tractor-trailer in the US is 22 meters. That’s the average, so about half are longer. EU regulations limit them in Europe to 18.75 meters. In the US trucks aren’t limited in length except in the largest of cities (where it isn’t enforced anyway). There is actually a minimum length of trailer of 48 feet (14.63m). Now… local and regional truckers are very different. They do 8-10 hours a day with a day cab and go home. They want a shorter truck for driving on streets. They would love these.
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@ Exactly.
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@ Not an issue when it’s not an issue.
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@ Yes, but that’s rare in Europe and the norm in the US. Also, if you live in one, you get one with a larger sleeper. For example, you have the Scania XXL Long Line. If they had brought that to the US, it would have performed MUCH better and have MUCH more appeal to truckers here… except in price. When you consider it with the tariffs, it’s simply priced way too high compared to domestic trucks.
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Here is what I would do.. it’s the right blue for it too… I’d have small Swedish flags painted on it.
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