RARE Scania Cabover Semi Truck, I Just Bought It! So Sick!
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- This truck is years ahead of its time here in the USA! I need your help finding someone to turn the horsepower up! Please help!
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Congratulations, you are about the 13th owner of this truck. That yellow plate with BR-HZ-47 is the Dutch license plate (NL = Netherlands). I can send you the Dutch history of the truck, it is a 2.5 MB pdf file. Those RDW papers you found were the last government inspection report. From 2009 tot 2015 this truck was used to transport fair attractions. If you want a real cool Scania, try to find a Scania Longliner. It has a kind of apartment on board.
Yep , it's Dutch I noticed it directly ;-) Nice to see this truck in the USA ;-)
@@doubledeckerbus-foundation De naam "Vermolen Amusement" was ook al een hint ;-)!
@@doubledeckerbus-foundation I noticed it directly too ... the "Schausteller Betrieb" -> german language and means showman company
@@spekhans Klopt, Ik heb echter een tijdje in de USA gewerkt en gewoond en je komt er veel Nederlandse namen tegen, die ze totaal anders uitspreken daar ;-) Dus Dat was mijn eerste attentie toen het woord "Amusement' en dan de weggever de NL plaat an de voorkant... Leuk hoor zo'n Scania daar te zien...
Ik kwam in de jaren 90 een Nederlandese politieauto tegen compleet met striping en al... uiteraard met Amerikaans kenteken.. daar keek ik wel van op
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Yes Hollands Glorie in the States 🙂
The speedo will work once you put a paper tachograph in it. Also the injector pump should tune up real easy! Also you can pull a fuse to loose the speed limiter! If your stuck for parts I can get most things and ship them out 😎
@@budddove6480 it’s sent
@@budddove6480 I'll take 2
@@budddove6480😂
Speedo will work without a tacho in it
You’re a legend mate! Your comment needs more likes to be seen!!
As a former Swedish trucker I can only congratulate you to a great truck!
The Scania V8's sound awesome, especially when they're climbing a hill at full throttle.
A tip about tipping the cab: Always remove all objects in the back of cab. Be sure the doors on the cabinets on back wall is secured. The cab tilts almost 85 degrees! Almost vertical!. Everything inside the cab WILL fall down onto the front window... (don't ask how I know...) AND the first time tipping the cab : it's always scary when the weight of cab tilts over the tippingpoint. This happens at around 70 degrees. So the last 15 degrees the cab is "freefalling". There is nothing you can do to stop it when it first goes over. A lot of weight on theese top-line cabs.
Americans don't seem to know how to tilt a cab proper, they aren't familiar with European cab-overs.
I drove a coworkers scania to the shop once for service and this absolute genius had a car jack in the top bunk. Let me just say it needed a new windshielda after.
Seen wine bottles flyin through the windscreen😂😂😂
@@automation7295There's cabovers in the U.S. but not very common. The know-how is out there, you just gotta find the right guy to talk to.
@@marcusjosefsson4998us military veterans be like.....
Sounds like it's already straight piped.. The Scania V8 sound is legendary. I drove trucks like these for many years. Great quality, and great ride if the suspension is in good working order. Watch the cooland and oil.
yes this is straight piped
yes i love the scania v8 open pipe is lovley
Sure is, awesome sound.@@Erik.Troeen
and remember when a scania v8 aint wet of oil on the top its broken 😂.
Scania mal passieren…
Eiropean drivers of this type had to put a sticker on it with „SUPER“, because the truck wasn‘t…
I prefered and still prefer trucks from Eindhoven, they are really tough, oh, I mean DAF
the 144 means that the truck has a 14 litre engine and the third 4 means that its a 4 series. the 530 means how much horsepower it had , and the remote is to lift and lower the back air suspension, oh and the truck is already piped
It could still be made louder😄
@@KINGV8KING yes but u need to make the pipe twist all over the place😂
Trucker Tin Channel in the Uk
@@zachtermonia6684that's just for the crackle
Dang 530 pretty good for that little truck
Finally you got a modern truck in the US!
A Scania from 1996 😁
Cheers from Northern Sweden! 🍻
I used to be a Scania mechanic. Very good trucks and the v8 is absolutely awesome
Some say that theres only two kind of truck, old Scania and new Scania. That is because they never drove a Volvo.I dont know, I have driven Scanias, and Volvos, I do think the Volvo win that fight.
@@rudolphbondefangerer5513 I have driven Scania, Volvo and Mann. Scania clearly wins. It is much better to drive than others
@@railasvuo You Sir, are just plain wrong. But its ok, its your right to be wrong.
144 530 14liter 4series 530hp 1 of the best scania ever built was the 4 series. That's called a Dutch pipe the exhaust system won't get a better sound than that. Plenty of parts here in Ireland I've a cab of 1 in my back yard😂
Those Dutch exhaust sounds horrible😂 A normal Swedish style straight pipe sounds much better👌🏻
Yes swedish or greek sound is beest, from turbine max 2m of pipe no Dutch styl have min 6m+ of pipe and sound like ak47....
I used straight pipe and I drive it nearly 250k miles on it without any problem.
@@dahlmasen3084if it aint dutch it aint much
The Dutch number plate is still one 😂 nice and beautiful sound!
I drive a Scania V8 my self I'm actually sitting in my cab right now watching this 😂 you beating on this 144 is kinda grinding my gears because it's becoming a collector's item over here and almost the holy grail in Holland they are awesome machines 👍👍
It’s the holy grail to a lot of us Americans as well.. but I still wanna see it hot rodded a bit 😂
@j.rowland3488 i had no idea the Scania (V8) was so well known in America 😅 that's actually kinda cool 😎 👍👍greetings from a trucker from Holland.
Give him a little break he's brand spanking new to foreign trucks
@@Robert-nn5nm Not only is it extremely well known over here it’s a dream truck for most of us. I can’t name one truck nut that isn’t drooling over a v8 scania
@@Robert-nn5nm We look up to you guys a lot more than you may realize.
As a truck driver in europe who currently drive such a V8 Scania i am really happy to see that one of this trucks made it to the US. I'm really looking forward to the upcoming videos with that truck.
this truck really needs a lot done. its pretty beat up. but if he does manage to fix all the problems its really a nice truck. just sad to see how bad of a condition its in
@@sgxbot yes very sad to see this truck in that bad shape.
How much is the avearge price in euros to buy a good old Scania like this here in Europe?
I'm subscribing because I finally found a US channel that knows a real truck when they see one. I'm an ex UK trucker that drove one of these beasts for years and I've never found a US truck to even compare with a Euro style machine.
All the things on it are light years ahead of anything we had here in 96. I moved to Vegas in 98 so this is one of the last ones I would've driven in Europe.
Good luck with it and I can't wait to see how much fun you have with it.
You sir , Are a man of Honour.
True
Really cool to see this thing ending in your hands, I used to work with that truck in the Netherlands!
must be cool to see it
That actual truck?
@@wantapgtthis truck was used on Dutch fairs, moving rides
Old Ronny Ceusters truck! 💪🏼
@@thomasmartinez4081willy ceusters
It would be well worth doing a series on it building it up.
There’s so many build video here
its a Scania so ya but only 2 axles :( but 2 axles is good for shows :)
Yes yes ❤
How it's built: czcams.com/video/vieNRFMQAA8/video.html
Really amazing to see this semi truck over in The States now, I remember this unit from the yearly fairground nearby in the 2010s.
Vermolen is a Dutch family active in the travelling fairground business for more than a century and they own quite a lot of rides ranging from the nostalgic carrousel to modern adrenalin rides.
They travelled to fairgrounds all over the Netherlands but also Belgium, Germany and even further away.
The truck is rough looking now, but I don't think it deteriorated that much when it was in the Vermolen family, the owners of fairground rides do care very well for their trucks, they were their shop window.
Give it some care and TLC, getting the parts may be hard in North America.
Your best video ever Bruce.! Love to see that Scania in your hands . Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪👍
Cool to see another Scania in the US.
It used to be a truck from a famous Belgium trucking company called Ronny Ceusters, it was a famous show truck that time. They only used the fifth wheel.
After that it was sold to a fairground company in the Netherlands called Vermolen. They put the frame on the chassis to put a sleeping box on it and tow their attraction at once.
Willy ceusters
Of course, my bad, Willy Ceusters
The beast is still alive 🤩🤩🤩
So I think corect that are was a Ex former Willy Ceusters
I know that truck, I am Belgian also. Lol
Hi Bruce and congrats on a real truck. You need to use the clutch each time you shift gears. The tranny is fully synckromeshed and have low and high series. Burnouts is a no no.. the V8 has so much torque it will kill tranny and rear end. I'm sorry to see the truck in such bad condition. I drove Scania V8's in Europe for some 30 years. They are the most reliable truck if serviced correctly. Take care of it and don't wreck it!
No burnouts? Don’t wreck it? You’re kidding, this is Bruce we’re talking about.
@@glossamano1899 Thats a Scania we are talking about. not a pete or kw
A real truck ? A real truck first of all has a Cat for a motor seconde Peterbilt or KW them are real trucks I don’t shop at the dollar store 🙂 lol cool truck tho
It's hardly a real truck 🤣🤣
@@catdiesel7143💀🤡
There's nothing quite like a Swedish truck. Simply the best! 🤘🏼🇸🇪🤘🏼
If you mean Volvo-Sure.Scania is mostly crap,now Volkswagen owns it!
Hello Bruce, there's a Portugese guy named "Telmo Abreu" who's in Newark, NJ. He's restoring and maintaning the Scania's which once have been driven in the US in the 80's and 90's. I recommend to contact him if you need any specific information about the Scania Truck. Cheers from Germany and hope that the 164 gives you a lot of fun ;-)
I believe you can get a gauge cluster from the UK and get it swapped over to MPH
Remember to always open the grille when you need to tilt the cab up Bruce. Cool rig👍👍
And always remember to flare out the side panels of the hood as well, otherwise they will also get busted.
Americans don't seem to know how to tilt a cab proper, they aren't familiar with European cab-overs.
Congrats on becoming the new owner of this legendary beast, and let's hope you give it the TLC and respect it needs and deserves. The very first truck i drove a few days after passing my HGV thirty years ago was a Scania 143M 450 V8, i had a few fights with the gears finding my way around the range change and splitter but we didn't take long to become very good friends, and let me tell ya, she used to pull like a freight train and the growl coming out of those twin chrome stacks was awesome. Hope you keep us updated on everything and enjoy✌
Scania are the equivalent of Peterbilt over here in the UK, widely regarded as the king of trucks. Its weird to see you guys so amazed by a truck that you see on almost every street over here.
absolutely amazing. I’ve been waiting for people to do this forever in the usa. Get in contact with some folks overseas, get that thang in nice condition and turn that motor up
Can't beat the sound of a straight piped V8 Scania 🤙🏻
V8 iveco turbo star Is much better
@@fabiocammaroto9084
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@@Alwaysoverlandnz😂😂😂😂
@@fabiocammaroto9084turbo star sounds amazing straight piped but the scania 164 580 straight piped is the best in my opinion
@@fabiocammaroto9084we know, but they don’t. They all think “ Oh let’s overtake that Turbostar before i get to the mountain. Then the mountain comes and the only thing they are seeing are backlight of a Turbostar getting smaller and smaller in front of them.
Turbostar V8 has lots more power than the Scania does.
Wow. Very curious how a Dutch Scania 144 truck ends up in the States! The photo shows it was a carnival hauler, probably moving the attraction through Holland, Belgium and Germany.
About your question: there's no doubt in my mind that this truck was build by Scania Factory in Zwolle, the Netherlands. If you send them an email with the VIN you might get quite some information. Oh, and by the sound of it: this will be an "open" exhaust. Sounds great, as Scania V8 always sounds great.
The scania V8 sound is on par with the V12 rolls Royce merlin engine it's a legend. Those scanias were the truck every kid wanted to drive. As for the governor there will be a fuse you can pull to derestrict it but you usually lose the speedometer and tachometer.
Completely normal here in the UK to see 600-800hp trucks, but we’re limited to 56mph. Unless you’re Irish 😂 those boys are trying to go back to the future.
You watch em coming off the train on Saturday night flying into Belgium.... It's a Irish thing!!
Haha 🇮🇪
@@gertjanvangastelhow do they do it with Tachos and all that. Didn’t think you could cheat them anymore.
@@ajm407 nature.. finds a way
@@ajm407Tachos ??? What are they ? Are they like a speed limiter ? 😂
Very cool, Bruce! Congrats! Can't wait to see more content with it. Remember, it's old, and the only way to make it completely reliable is to go front to back and fix, repair, or update everything. Like Blue Collar never got, it was fixed as needed. All these old cabovers can be made very reliable if completely restored.
So nice to see y'all have so much fun with an old Dutch Scania. And the awesome sound this v8 makes already! 💪🏼
People in the US are still too late. If you drive a Scania or any European truck, you would hear people say "What is that piece of junk? Get a real American truck!"
You got yourself a good truck there, Scania is the king of the road.
you have to put a paper tacho disk in it and then the speedometer will work, to switch well it is best to double clutch and give intermediate gas. it is a super good truck take care of it
Man that thing was a absolute show truck back in its time.... Absolutely sad it see it in this bad of condition... really hope you bring her back to her glory days
As my friend, a transporter said; if you want to find drivers, get them a Scania. Freakin’ king of the road! Drove one of those during my military service. They rip.
I've lived in Sweden for more than 8 years. It's nice to see y'all saying "Oh! A Scania!" It's just "a truck" over here. Hell, I'd help you import one if you wanted.
Finally!!! Scania is manufactured in the city of Södertälje, just south of Stockholm. The V8 is sometimes called "The Södertälje Symphony Orchestra", because of its beautiful sound.
And manufactured also in Zwolle, Netherlands.
@@johnvanhal2450 The Zwolle plant is a assembling plant, yes
@@jerrythiger6748 I assume there's one in Brazil as well?
If your gonna tilt the cab open the Grille up so you don't rip it apart. I used to work on them.
This truck was used to haul carnival rides around the Netherlands, pretty cool to see it in the US but it's probably going to need a lot of work.
It would be cool to watch this being fully restored!. Can't beat the sound of a straight piped V8 Scania .
It would be cool to watch this being fully restored!
What a beautiful truck. Love seeing a scania over in the USA. Rare sight.
It was a lovely truck back in the day ! Remember seeing it at truckshows in the early 2000’s when it was still from Ceusters
Nice to see an American gets to enyoy our Scania trucks! My dad worked for Scania for almost 30 years. Greetings from Sweden boys!
Finally a proper truck on this channel . Scania the best truck in the world , this one needs returning to its former glory , please do not tear it up have some respect.
Yep, they're not easy to find here. If he ruins it, he may not be able to get another one.
Burnouts he will keep doing, he's young & foolish.
A burnout wont kill a scania
Now this is gonna be cool! Love Scania's 👍 Excited to see people in the USA know about Scania.
Indeed, we have some of them here in Canada too, though I don't personally know of anybody who owns one, but they're seen on the major highways from time to time.
The truck is from Juni 10, 1997 (according the Dutch licence plate) This truck is used for transporting the equipment of a mobile fair company. Most of the mobile fair companies use trucks which had done a lot of miles (kilometers in Europe) and therefore are cheap to buy. The mobile fair companies don't travel a lot and also not long distances. Also the fifth wheel is used a lot in Europe we have lots of trailers. FYI the text "Schousteller Betrief" is a German tekst. These trucks don't have to pay roadtax (Maut) in Germany
Yea fifth wheel is almost essential as soon as we are talking about anything but just a box lorry. Oversized cargo van. Even with a cargo bed or a box on the back axle your most likely still pulling a dolly behind you with a fifth wheeler on it. It is a very short trailer with a fifth wheeler on it And in turn you can hook a full on EU trailer on it. Or even just strait up running a link trailer that connect to a lorry with just a fifth wheeler on it. It accomplishes the same thing in practice. Just depends on the lorry/truck fleet usage.
Never seen a cargo box single axle that also pulls a wagon. And ontop of it being a truck/lorry with a fifth wheeler??? What a odd creature this was in its past life. It was pulling a wagon trailer. When nowadays we are mostly running the USA style trailers on a dolly trailer that in turn connects to a lorry/truck without a fifth wheeler built onto it. That is 3 vehicles in the road train. 3 different registered vehicles. A wagon is a complete vehicle that do not need a dolly. A trailer needs a fifth wheeler connection. Agen it is complicated but point is that fifth wheeler is VERY common in EU. Even in the lands of Scania. Maybe just less common to have it on the lorry/truck. Still plenty of them exist.
Agen with licenses we in Sweden run up to 25.25 meter long vehicle trains without a fifth wheeler on the turck. Behind it you just connect a wagon trailer OR a dolly trailer since that would give you that fifth wheeler to pull a truck trailer. A full sized EU trailer usually then end you up at 25.25 meter long. With the normal accepted max limit being 24m. But there are plenty of trucks with just a fifth wheeler all over EU and Scandinavia. You need to shorten a full size truck without a fifth wheeler OR the trailer needs to be shorter to fit in 24meters. Why it is far more common to get the exemption for 25.25meters transport.
You can also run a link trailer from a fifth wheeler truck and reach up to 25.25m or less if you need. But link trailer trucks are a bit more rare of a vehicle on the road. Useful to ditch the link part or the trailer for tight places to load and unload. And still keep the capacity of any other vehicle combination. But links are the rare one for sure. Nothing else.
Accepted weight limits are general up to 64 000kg hole road train weight. And with some licenses up to 74 000kg. Just rare and limited to special road ways and bulk transport of wood etc. It is hard to get and experimental. Still with exceptions you can get the green light for more ofc with the right paperwork. Military for example.
"what's a kilometre?" - British person
Scania v8 allways sounds good, here in Denmark we have lots of them, at the night I can hear them pulling away from an nearby steel factory, It's music to my ears.
Never late in a V8 🥰 king of the road🇸🇪
I like that saying, thank you.
You mean king of the slowest truck of the road? Besides, going over 90 with that tiny wheelbase is suicide...
This is a short wheelbase scania, in sweden they are usually much longer
@@MrAtterhagen But they are still super slow, the Swedes tend to stay at 50...
@ImForwardlook bc theyre limited, take the limiter off and it'll go faster
Wow nice Bruce! And also nice that you drive a former dutch truck that have been driven in the Netherlands. Vermolen is a dutch carnival company.
Have fun with the Scania.
Greetz from the Netherlands
nederlands 👍
Dutch united :P 🤙
Remember, its a synchronised gearbox, so use the clutch
As in sure many people have already pointed out, the majority of our trucks DO have 5th wheels on them, this truck was what you'd call a showman's truck (alteast in the UK) you can haul loads in configurations that aren't usually legal, but for circuses/fairgrounds, they can obtain a licence/permit (I believe) that allows them to bypass that.
Usually you'd have 1 of 2 configurations of trucks and trailers
1. A semi truck unit with a 5th wheel and a trailer
2. A semi box truck with a nearly equal length trailer pulled by drawbar or dolly
(Both of these configurations being limited to a length just under 19 metre's, around 62 feet)
The picture you showed of it driving in Europe is close to the 2nd configuration in setup, but alot longer, because of the showman's load he is hauling.
Just to go off on a tangent, showman's trucks are some of the only examples of more than one trailer being hauled in the UK, it's usually something like a truck with a box on the back, pulling a ride, then pulling a caravan, which is a cool sight to see when usually we're limited to a just under 19m configuration for both of our configurations.
there is a 3rd type thats similar to the semi box truck. its a truck with a container chassis installed on it that takes containers or special swap bodies that fit on this chassis. most of the time they also have a trailer that does the same. thats the more common one if you see a semi box truck with a trailer. real semi box trucks with a fixed box usually are smaller 12t trucks like the scania p250 or the mercedes atego. they also tend to not use trailers as much
Don't break it Bruce! 😊
if you want to change the dash to MPH just get the cluster from the UK, also a good place for bling is a company called KUDA, i see its missing lots of trim and run up ramps are gone.. tops lights will come on with high beams, should be a switch to select bottom light and top lights
These things are bulet proof, sounds down on power for a 530 though, it was really struggling to spin the tires in the burnout clip. Might want to get that looked into. Also, fuse number 5 brings her alive ;)
I’ll bite, what does fuse 5 do? 🤣
@@Robdutton91may or may not deactivate the 56mph limiter 😉
much better than the 6 bangers you have in the USA. much more power! also that guy is wrong we use 5th wheel in the uk i dont know where he got his information from maybe france or spain or something lol
Great one Bruce. My son is a diesel technician for Scania Group in Australia. The 770hp V8’s are nuts
I prefer the Australian or South African configuration, European specs look soft with that single axle
@@AppydemMost scanias here in Ireland always have a lift axle, or double drive but not a lot
@@AppydemEuropean and American trucks are so light 😂
But European still have fennoscandia, Finland and Sweden have real mass with these 😎👌
In Finland 76 metric tonnes, 3-5 axles at the truck, and even 6 axles at trailer. 👍
And Scanias and Volvos everywhere in Finland, third one is Mercedes.
Old Ceusters transport at the origin and after that he went to Netherlands and USA, a real legend than you have now in your hand for some truck fans here in West Europe 🤩
Hahaha its cool that it still has our original Dutch license plate on the front! Greetings from the Netherlands!
I love the sound of the V8 Scania open exhaust. Awesome! There's some here in Canada, so I'm pretty sure you can locate parts for them in Florida. I wouldn't be too rough with it though, until you figure out how and where to get replacement parts.
Mexico has Scania
Scania's are also made in Brasil so a good place to start for part's too.
Scania is owned by Volkswagen group these days so maybe they can help you out
International dealership can get all the parts you need
Kool truck. Use to drive Scania full truck and trailer 18 wheelers for a living. My first day was a nightmare reversing up to a loading dock. Took an hour. What made it worse was all the dock workers and office staff were watching in amusement 😂
You forgot to switch up to high range on the gearstick. thats why so high rpm. that 4 and 3 serie scania gearsticks there is a pushdown ring on the bottom of the stick to enable/disable high/low range.
If this old truck is years ahead then you should drive the NextGen Scania.
You never want to leave the truck again.
Nothing can beat an Scania
In europe a good majority of semi trucks use a 5th wheel.
Only really see box trucks pull trailers via pintle mount
You need to use the clutch every time dude!
Euro trucks has no gear gouverneur. It's all manual laubour. No wonder you don't get it in gear properly!
Those gearboxes is silky smooth to operate when you do it properly.
Greetings from a norwegian.
That truck is from the place where i life, every day i see that sort of truck driving on the road, the truck like you have is special here
Zo speciaal is een 4 serie niet hoor 😂
@@MitchWelters ja k bedoelde die scania eigenlijk niet🙃
Hi Bruce, this thing used to belong a traveling fair (company or family). It used to be registered in the Netherlands and this is just the way these kinds of people liked to tow their stuff. We have loads of 5th wheel trailers here, but the traveling fair people tend to have their attractions behind the truck in the way you showed in the image and the guy talked about, the weights are just for added traction cause those things weigh quite a lot. Kinda nice seeing a dutch truck in the us
Reason why it’s an older truck and not a newer truck is because you’re not allowed to import vehicles younger then 25 years.
I was too comment on it.
@@miles5600 also the import tax on trucks is 25% so it helps a LOT with the price to have an older, less expensive truck if you're importing
@@boxr_4214 that’s true, although i would love to see a brand new scania in the US hauling
Bruce has learned a LOT about Scanias since he bought this one. It's funny to watch this which is his first Scania video.
You should take your time and check what parts you need, and get someone who can ship everything to you. It would be worth it. / A Swede
One of the best trucks you can get.
Don’t break it, because they are an absolute fortune in parts.
And just FYI, 90% of the charts in the UK or fifth wheel. Some are drag radios page on the country that they’re operating and some use drag Trailers to keep the height down.
Talk to Trucker Tim in 🇬🇧 he has a CZcams channel 😊
Congratulations. You finally bought a real truck! ❤. The 4 series Scania with 16 liter V8 is a truck that I have driven many miles in here in Sweden. The gearbox is so easy to shift once you learn HOW to do it correct. You don't need to use all the low range gears, you can start on 1 and go directly to 3. The pull up the ring on the shifter and choose gear number 4. ( Same position as gear number 1) . Then up to 5. And then 6. The switch is the split button on the side of the gear shift knob. With a trailer with full cargo weight connected you use the split on 5th and 6th gears. In steep uphill on 4th gear.
The Scania 6x4 Longliner version is very common in Australia. They are rivalling the Mack Superliner for long haul doubles and tribles. There is a Volvo version too. Kenworths are dinosaurs now...noisy, bad ride, no room, bad fuel consumption. These are like driving a car.
This is an ex-showman’s wagon so basically it would have had something like a generator on the back to power the ride/arcade that it pulled but most trucks like his in Europe would have a fifth wheel on it to haul a trailer the same as in the us
Also the steps on that 4 series arr like gold dust so if you break them and need to replace then good luck haha
Probably towed a draw bar at the same time, thus the extended rear and weights.
That was 100% a mobile fair ground truck, there is loads of export scania used parts if you check bruce best of luck with it from the UK...
Euro trucks have syncro gearboxes. Need to use the clutch for every shift, including splitting gears.
Congratulations to the Scania from Sweden 🇸🇪
I'm glad you bought a swedish built truck, it will be interesting to hear what you will have to say about it in some time. Also your channel is very good greetings from Sweden!
Absolutely awesome! Come see more of them here in New Zealand, you've got a whole heap of followers over here watching your videos 🤙🏻🤙🏻
This carries some history, and for that well before the production year of the rig itself.
The name Scania is latin for Skåne which is the southern most province of Sweden.
The logos and artwork depicting the head of a griffin is part of the Skåne´s coat of arms and dates back to about year 1430.
SAAB, short for and translated to Swedish aeroplane AB (LLT) also uses the griffin as a logo and some Saab cars even had it as specs, ie the Saab 9000 griffin.
My stepdad used to be a truck driver in finland and growing up i used to spend summers sitting a scania, neat to see one in the states.
Hello Bruce. the schania truck officially comes from Holland I saw your video I think damn I drove in there before. Yes I worked at the fair for a few years and I know this question to me how did that truck get to America. But I rode it when I was young. Vermolen was a fairground operator, this truck comes from the Netherlands Holland
Great video Bruce! The truck is in pretty bad shape but it was still fun to watch. A little tip, when using reversing gear, hit some main gear first, because reverse gear is not synchronised and there is no clutch brake 😁
Scania are great trucks. My first trucking job was in an S500. Flat floor. Glass down to your knees. Fridge and microwave. Bloody loved it.
hello the scania used to be a carnival truck thats why the funny box in the back these are extra parts for the ride and its also the ticket booth! normal trucks just have the 5th Wheel so you got something even more special
Sweet old scania..there's a youtuber by the name of STAVROS and he lives in Ireland they have a ton of Scanias over there I'm surprised that it's left hand drive
We have plenty of 5 wheels in Europe mostly on the continent mac 18m. Up in Scandinavia we have different rules so we are allowed to have 25,25m but on some roads it's on test 32m so we usually use longer combinations and skip the 5 wheel.
From Aug 31 the allowed length in Sweden is 34,5m on certain roads.
ask someone in the UK to source your MPH clocks These trucks are in the scrap yards, nice rigs I drove one myself but I prefer the automatics nowadays they can't be beaten for the economy but I see the uses and fun for the manual shift, total control.
damn Scania V8's sound so sweet it never gets old. all the people driving power-jokes are gonna wet themselves when they here it drive by.
One thing you should know. This ain't a eaton fuller shifter. You have to clutch in for every gear you go through. Otherwise, great seeing scanias in america 🔥🔥🔥
Abreu Truck Services out of Newark, New Jersey runs some scania`s in their fleet if you need some help you should reach to them
That's a cool truck. I actually work at Scania in Sweden. The latest 780hp V8 is awesome...
Scania's rock! This one sounds great! Congrats on such a choice find and look forward to seeing more of her in upcoming episodes. (fyi timmy gentry has a couple Scanias in his corral)
Hey I used to help build carnival rides with Vermolen, thats funny! Enjoy the Scania, I love these trucks!
14.2 litre engine was first introduced in 1969 ...was used in the scania LB 140 at 350 bhp then the LB141 at 375 bhp and also the scania 146 ....Then used again in the scania 2 series 142 ..rated at 414 bhp but when the 3 series came out the same 14.2 litre was still used but with higher bhp .....the 14.2 was the replaced by the larger 15,6 litre engine ..and later on the 16,4 litre V8 was introduced.....scania currently produce 770 bhp ..but this one that bruce is looking at still has the old 14.2 litre V8 ...late 90s 4 series top liner..still has the dutch license plates on her ...old skool cool 😎...
First trip was in a 142 V8 down to Portugal in 1988....I was 21yrs old
Congratulations. The manufacturer "HELLA" has a parts catalog for your truck. (Lighting, starter, generator, indicators, relays and, and, and) Maybe this information will help you for your new European truck.
This is normal in sweden, i find it cool u guys get so excited about a cabover
It kinda sounds like a single turbo 6.4 or a straight pipe 7.3 i love it lol
14Liter single turbo v8 with Dutch style straight pipe
Scania 4-series! I used to drive these from 2005 -2012 in the Netherlands. Now I drive a newer Scania R-series😍
Bruce, this is not the first Scania in the States. I have photos of two I have seen in person many times that belonged to the Quatar boat racing team. Two mint examples. There was a dealer/ importer in New York or Pennsylvania back in the mid 80s who ran them in their household moving fleet. A poor product launch and uninformed dealers led it to come to an abrupt end. This is one of the reasons Volvo bought out White/GMC and Renault industries Mack trucks. Volvo now own Renault and Mack. As mentioned this 144 14L 4 series 530 was operated in the Netherlands before being imported. If it was used here as a fairground vehicle it probably didn’t need to conform with interstate DOT regulation as it wasn’t for hire. If it’s over a certain age it may be exempt also.
Check out British and European truck shows, lots of Scania’s old and new to see. 🏴🇺🇸
In the 1990's cars with automatic gearboxes were still pretty rare here in Europe. We were used to manual shifting. And cars, farm tractors and almost every truck had synchronized gearboxes. So driving a big truck was pretty much as easy as driving a small car, except for the difference in size.
Using the clutch is something we just do without even thinking about it.
Today a big part of these new big trucks are automatic.
The step from only having driven automatic to start driving a truck with an unsynchronized gearbox must be pretty big? At least it's good that those gearboxes can't feel pain when novices torture them :)