Comments by "jpsholland" (@jpsholland) on "American Reacts to Crazy European Trucking Clips.." video.

  1. Mammo-at .... 😁 The give away is their logo, the big, extinct elephant. Mammoth. You can pronounce it that way. Mammoet is the dutch spelling of mammoth. For dutch, the "oe" part of mammoet can be pronounced as the "oe" part in shoe. The "a" part of mammoet is pronounced as the last "a" in America About Mammoet. Mammoet is a dutch company which is made from 3 other dutch companies to create a stronger position in the market for heavy handling, so to call. The 3 companies are: 1: Smit Tak, later Smit International, heavy maritime operations, especially heavy towing like oil platforms. For decades they owned the strongest sea tugs of the world, often especially made to for their operations. But also heavy lifting. Smit Tak is an old company merged in 1949 from 2 companies that were specialized in maritime transport and salvage, L. Smit & Co. Sleepdienst (1842) and Bergings en Transportbedrijf W. A. Tak (1905) 2: Stoof Breda, heavy transport on land. This is an old company (1927) started in the early days of the truck itself. After the war (WW-2 is called "the war" (de oorlog) in the netherlands) they specialized in oversized transport with surplus US Army wreckers and trailers. 3: Van Seumeren, a company dedicated to heavy and extreme lifting on land. Also a very old company (1807). For a long time they were pioneering in large, road legal telescopic cranes. Later the British company ALE, Abnormal Load Engineering UK (1983) joined Mammoet. Except for ALE, the roots of all companies goes back tot he early days of the industrial revolution. A ton of experience, and that is what makes this company so special and why you see them operating world wide. If Mammoet can't transport it is untransportable.
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