Why US Trucks have a "Nose" (and European ones don't)
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- čas přidán 29. 02. 2024
- You see them in films, in music videos - and of course live on the streets in the USA: huge trucks, significantly larger and longer than those in Europe. And another design element is characteristic of the trucks in the US: the long hood in front of the driver's cab. Why do US trucks have a “snout” - and European ones don’t?
A film by Matthias Schwarzer.
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Sources for the video:
Why US trucks have a "Nose" (Spiegel.de, German):
www.spiegel.de/auto/fahrkultu...
"The smart Mr. Seebohm" (Der Spiegel, 1957, German):
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/der...
"The return of the long-nose lorry" (including the study mentioned in the video):
www.transportenvironment.org/...
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One truck manufacturer used to make cab-overs in the US. I think every truck driver in the '60s and '70s just wanted to drive a Peterbilt which many considered the "Cadillac" of the trucks of the day.
Sound is out of sync with the video at the start.
Impressive research!
As a American truck driver i miss driving a cabover truck i got into trucking in 1988
Short cabs were popular in the 70s and 80s.
Great job!
Really interesting thank you 👍
When I first began in the freight business, here in the US, in 1980, cabovers were the majority of long-haul tractors, and quite normal. This was because, like Germany, there were strict length restrictions on the combination of tractors and trailers on our interstate highways. Then when Ronald Reagan became President, his administration eliminated the overall length restriction and instead regulated only trailer size. Trailers that had been 48 feet in length were allowed to grow to 53 feet and were widened as well. Also smaller 28 foot "pup" trailers were allowed to be combined in tandem throughout the country, when previously they were only allowed west of the Mississippi. The driving force behind the increase in tractor size and the change from cabover to "conventional" was fuel economy and ease of repair. Even routine maintenance is more expensive in a cabover design where the entire cab is hinged and there is little room to work. And even small gains in fuel economy can add up quickly when truckers are having to drive the great distances they do here in the States.
Im pretty sure there isn't any rule that actually says you can pass on the right in the US, they are supposed to follow the same lane discipline as here in Europe, they just either don't know they are or they don't care, I've heard lots of americans complaining about the lack of lane-discipline on US highways
There is zero lane discipline in the USA! Overtaking on the right is NOT allowed in any state, but since almost everyone does it, it’s hard to enforce on just that, so police picks the drivers who also speed for example. Drivers passing on the shoulders - left and right shoulders -, passing on an exit ramp, passing on the shoulder and continuing to the next on ramp to get back into traffic, and passing over solid double white or yellow lines leads to many major accidents.
While most Americans think or assume that cabover trucks are less fuel efficient, it all has mainly to do with maintenance. European roads are better maintained and not many trucks drive internationally. The USA has many over the road truck drivers, who drive all 48 lower states and often Canada and sometimes Mexico. The roads are of inferior quality and often have potholes. The long distances over bad roads leads to many instances where maintenance is required. Often that maintenance cannot be performed at the terminal of the truck company and so in this case time is double money, because if you need maintenance you can’t drive and you have to pay for the hours of service performed by third parties. The faster you’re back on the road the better, also to limit the cost you have to pay for that maintenance.
Second reason to use conventional truck over cabovers, is comfort. The longer wheelbase of the conventional truck makes driving, especially long distances, more comfortable. The problem here is that American manufacturers (who are often owned by European companies) invest less in technology and advancement and so this is no longer true.
My truck is a new 2024 model Freightliner Cascadia and uses more fuel per mile than any European cabover truck uses, even when I’m driving at European speed limits.
In the UK, lorries/trucks needing to go by ferry to continental Europe et vice versa, is also a factor for snub nosed trucks. Not a huge factor or anything, it'd just be more expensive, and this also doesn't include ferries that only transport the trailers, just a small influence.
In Russia both types of trucks are used because they don’t limit the length the tractor unit, only the trailer.
Just wait til you see what American Yard Mule trucks look like. Ive been driving one for the past 8 years.
So.. it is not legal in every state to over take on the right. It's generally frowned upon across-the-board.
Great video, tho!
And a next video: why the heck is 60 km/stunde the max speed on german bundesstrasse ? for trucks...
They didn't give out licenses for noses, that's why.
Scania do lorries with noses, don't they?
Not anymore. They stopped the T series Scania in 2003.
If you are traveling at 75 MPH on a US highway the long nose adds life saving "crush space" in case of an accident. The flat nose trucks in my opinion look way more modern but you are siting on the nose of an 80,000 pound arrow in the US market. Thanks for a nicely done video and an interesting topic.
What are you hitting like an arrow when you're sitting above it?
But the truck driver are sitting way up.
And the common collision is between the truck and a car.
My understanding is that flat nose trucks have to pass the same safety standards. Those standards are much stricter in the EU.
You should watch some crash tests of Euro style trucks, yes they don't have the big crumple zone up front, but that has prompted the manufacturewrs to devlop some very impressive safety systems so you are alot safer than you might think up there
I always thought that the main reason was the tighter road geometry of European roads compared to N. America. N.A. tractors are longer, needing wider turning radii. The change from cabover to front engine allows for much better aerodynamics and more room in the cab for the sleeper.
the scania T has nose just like usa trucks, but yes lot don't
wow, I must say, that this is a great video, my friend. Always don`t understand this difference. And now I see. Just stupid politics.
It is my understanding that English actually came from someplace like Hamburg Germany. I forget which town it came from but how did that work out that the Germans taught English to the English and therefore that language eventually made its way to America so our language actually came from Germany. We know that the Scott’s talked whatever kind of gibberish they talked in the, Welsh had their language and the Irish had their language Gaelic but what did the English do to communicate with each other before the Germans taught him how to speak English this has been a very fascinating subject for me. Do you have any inside into this? I only have really American sources to turn to because I don’t travel to Germany, although I would love to I’d love to see the castle there and all that stuff and that’s the culinary and meat cutting center of the culinary and meat cutting arts. It’s also where they invented the trade guilds which is what made America very strong because instead of having idiots that didn’t know what they were doing that were masters of many trades. We ended up with people who were masters of their trade, and therefore able to produce many products that making us less vulnerable to war because we could produce our enemies and we all that to the Germans and the trade the trade guilds of Germany well anyway thank you you have enlighten me about European trucks and American trucks. I’ve often wondered what they were made that way specially, Volvo trucks seemless thought out anyway, have a great day and keep up the good work good Nobin
Old English emerged from the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples, Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, who invaded & settled Britain in the 5th century CE after the Romans buggered off. This displaced Common Brittonic, which was the celtic language previously spoken there, and Latin. I imagine some pointy and blunt instruments were used to implement these changes. No gibberish languages have ever been spoken in the British Isles. If you want to follow the evolution of Old English to Modern English, or find out more about the Celtic languages spoken in Wales, Cornwall, Irland, Scotland & Brittany then search engines are there to help you. As an English speaker learning German, I am so very glad we got rid of masculine, feminine & neuter genders, those conjugations do my head in.
The less said about the American war machine the better.
Hands down Australia 🇦🇺 have the best trucks in the world
I answered before watching the entire video but I believe US trucks have a hood to be more aerodynamic allowing for driving faster and more efficiently