How The Nordic Trucks Stand Out From Rest Of Europe
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- How The Nordic Trucks Stand Out From Rest Of Europe
If you have driven through one of the Nordic countries like Denmark, Sweden, Finland or Norway, you may have noticed some of the unique trucks you will come across.
The trucks in these countries stand out quite a bit from the rest of Europe with their unique decorations, colors and equipment, where each haulier has a unique look on their trucks.
And where trucks are rebuilt and painted beyond recognition.
But why make so much out of a truck that might have to be replaced 5-7 years later? That and much more, you will get the answer to in this video
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00:40 Small and medium-sized
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02:51 Their unique truck rules
04:00 How the Nordic Trucks
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04:40 Lack of truck drivers
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As a Nordic driver I will not take all that credit, there is some insane truck builds in all countries of Europe. One thing I really like with it is you sometimes can tell just by seeing a truck and how it’s build/customized what country/part in Europe it comes from.
Personally I love how the Danes and Dutch guys customizes there trucks, love the old school looks.
And as a Swede I take extra pride when I see a Scania/Volvo that is customized from another country, makes me glad to see someone perfecting something my country invented/built and making there own take on it.
Big credit to everyone who keeps there truck clean and stylish wherever you come from!
It's worth saying that Volvo and Scania is really leaning into the community.. not only making there trucks look really cool stock, but also having lots of extra and making them easily upgradable.
exact the same I thought. By styling u can often read out where the truck is from
Sweden is the only place I have ever seen concrete mixer trucks with fancy one of paintjobs for a whole fleet
as a dutchman i can confirm that, there are some insane customized truck over here 😂 look for : truck weeda and u will see some beautifull trucks
Heard mostly are painted in Holland i found out and build by vlastuin..
Sweden has NO height limit, 4.5 is just free height. There is NO height limit and this year length will be up to 34.5 meters
Thanks for sharing 👍
The "free hight" is 4.5 meter in both Norway and Sweden
@@TruckTropia love the channel tho!! Easy mistake with the stats, not easy if your not actually driving in that country. Continue giving us videos please!
Height limit in U.K. is 16.1 feet trailers
Let’s hope they don’t have to go under any bridges 🙃
Not only just Nordics Netherland and Belgium also styling their trucks too they are so famous about truck styling and its called Holland style
And also Greek too
And yeah European truck styling is just beautiful and on another level
Old school style is my favorite style
Thanks for sharing 👍
And also in the Netherlands we drive 25,25m long and 60ton amd the 18,75m and 16,50m up to 50tons the Dutch are also know for there trucks in Europe look at assen truckstar festival
yea it think this is tru for all but the easter eurpeen trucks, they will drive the cheapest truck they can find with no extras
Don’t forget the Italians there are some very nice extreme custom trucks there
Dutch style is almost a copy of Danish tho so not too much of a difference there also a few dutch companies adopted the paintjobs from old danish trucks
Here in Estonia we also customize trucks A LOT! It's very important that your trucks stands out!
Finland has few unique combos, for example there is one semi operating with a 104 ton wood load and they're called HCT which means High Capacity Transport
One more important aspect of styling the truck is that you become a rolling commercial board for the company. When I was working at a truck company that had suction and flushing trucks alongside container trucks. Each car was fitted whit the same custom paint and airbrushed exclusive theams. All trucks got high gloss stainless steel sides and alloy wheels The containers was powder coated in the company colors whit the company name and contact information on them. We stood apart from other firm's that way and whit the same price they always choose our firm. Because we made the contractors look better. As a reference of how mad the customized scene is: the last time I fetched a newly painted interchangeable 8cubic/m suction tank the painter was anxious that maybe 25liters of clear coat on the tank was to little for my boss...
Hand Washing the hole truck every day on company time. was mandatory and written in the employment agreement as well as the at least once a week high gloss finish polishing of alloy wheels and the stainless steel.
Oh. Wow.
I do believe most northwestern nations of Europe customize their trucks to the fullest.
As a Swede that has been literally all the way from north, to the south, I’ve seen plenty to custom trucks, and we have more trucks than most of us expect. But I do take pride and joy that people love the Scanias and the Volvos, I’ve got buddies from the United States, they say that the Scania and Volvo is “Really Cool”, which just gives me more pride of our trucks.
Fun fact: Volvo has VNL for the North American market.
The max lenght in Finland is actually 34,5 meters
Yep, without a special permit
Finland is truckers promised country
Yup. I believe the 23 meters is for a semi-truck. If you add another trailer, it's 34,5 meters. When the truck is longer than 25,25 meters (the old limit), it must have a sign on the back stating it's a long vehicle. As far as I can tell, there is really no restrictions on where you can drive the longer trucks, but you most certainly want to check the route beforehand so you don't get stuck. Making a U-turn or reversing with 34,5 meter long truck with 2 or even 3 trailers is not something you really want to do on a public road.
I have a cabover bucket truck here in the US, I love the tight turning radius and the good visibility, these cabovers are absolutely beautiful!
Not a driver but a dispatcher mainly for Scandinavia and a car enthusiast / tuner. Always great to see people modifying and caring about their cars and trucks!
Easiest way to tell a Nordic operated truck and one from the continent in winter is whether it's on it's side in a ditch or not. No one else seems to care to use proper winter tires when they truck things from Spain to Sweden.
One time the factory my brother worked at refused to let a driver leave with the multi million NOK project because he was pretty much driving on racing slicks in the middle of winter.
Are you sure about that? Have you watched Ice Road Rescue?
The largest train in Finland is the giant 104 ton log hauler. It's 33.5 meters in length. I'd love to drive that thing for work.
Thank you for this video !
No problem 👍
As a person from Denmark, I can say I have never seen a heavily modified truck. The most I’ve seen is the pain of a company
3:23 That paint job is so recognizable that I know the owner of the company and my teacher from when I was in highschool as well as an old classmate works there. I also got my wheel loader certification on their yard.
In Finland the maximum length is 34,5 meters currently. And there's no height limit, but free limit is 4,4. Anything under 4,4 is always marked with signs, but transporting higher than that requires bridge maps. You also need special personell (route planner, "safety" car etc) to transport overheight cargo.
Same in Sweden, 34.5m and 74ton.
They're like JDM cars of the trucking industry.
Noticed it when driving from Holland to Oslo.. so many nice trucks!
👍🚚
Can't forget the Dutch. Another nation which bangs out some beautiful lorries. :)
And Irish. Brits to a certain extent.
@@jirislavicek9954 I don’t know. Us british enjoy things stock and bland. I'd wish for more companies doing mods to lorries but it just doesn't happen on the same scale of the EU
@@SxpticFlxsh Yeah, mainland Britain is a bit different matter. Company fleets are boring, but the private lorries could be quite nice. Guys in Ireland and Northern Ireland definitely like their lorries well decorated. Nice paint, light bars, bull bars.. lot of these accessories aren't even legal on mainland Europe.
@@jirislavicek9954 indeed Irish if you see them on the mainland they are propper looking. English I like them of they have old style signwriting on them.
@@jirislavicek9954 brits always have those dumb kelsa bars, but the colours and the lettering are always amazing
While driving to work at 4AM, I regularly pass multi axle supertrucks on the Belgium highways.
They still are specially regulated, but it's quite a sight to see.
Watching all these videos is making me want to move back to Norge and become a trucker there...
I could be a trucker in Alaska, but why not go back to where I grew up
I've been to the Stryn motorshow last year in Norway and these trucks look so good! i've aslo been to Finland and also there the equiment looks amazing! I hope that one day I get the chance to go there and drive for a company in Scandinavia.
not just Nordic, All Euro countries have your own style
UK have supermarket design🤮
@@chrisa5631 hahahaha
Totally agree, some countries more than others though :-)
The netherlands and Germany have quitw a big custom truck scene.
I want to make a small correction. The official max length in Finland is 25,25m not 23m and it is fairly easy to get a license for a 34m. 34m can be either semi + 2 trailers or a 31,5m tandem.
No special permits needed for 34m anymore
You don't need a special license for 34m. CE is good for it.
I love when they have tons of lights. It is so fascinating ❤️
Nice video
Denmark and The Netherlands are probably the two biggest truck customizers, but more countries do it as well, like Greece.
But Denmark and The Netherlands get huge paycheck salary compared to Greece, In Greece salary is very low compared to West Europe
I appreciate you used the term "Nordic countries" correctly.
OMG, this video was so beautiful from the begging to the end! 🖤
Thanks for showing my truck several times 🤩🥰🥳 (White and green Scania hooklifter)
No problem 👍 truly a great looking truck
Norway has ALOT more varied landscape than Both Finland and sweden.
As a American OTR I sure wish I could drive one of those fancy Volvo, 700 HP my company’s truck only has 500 HP 😂 awesome video
Well! Can't say America got bad trucks , I mean their engine's are highly modifiable, upto 1500 and more horsepower for a work horse.
@@sameer5634 true if your a O/O but I’m not maybe one day till then I’ll just drive the freight shacker in the granny lane 🤣
Yeah but that long nose classic styling is just to nice plus the engines can easily be tuned up
come to australia, we get both. even our own made kenworths which usa didnt get
Only 500 bhp, really?
Most interesting.
Great video, but those stats at 3:19 are wrong for Finland atleast. Couple of years ago we got the new rules for length etc. The max lenght for example is 34,5m
EDIT: well there was also other mistakes in the video but i can see the confusion!
The 23m is on "normal trucks" the 34.5m is only for Road Trains..? Which is not included: www.itf-oecd.org/road-transport-group/weights-and-dimensions/finland. i must admid there is alot of different rules in this countries ;)
@@TruckTropia www.traficom.fi/sites/default/files/media/file/76%20t%2034%2C5%20m%20in%20Finland.pdf btw we consider 34.5m truck a "normal truck" not a road train
@@TruckTropia Wrong I say, before 34.5m trucks, 25.25m one was the normal one for us, not 23m.
@@TruckTropia 23m is the maximum lenght allowed for a tractor semi combo. 34,5m is allowed for module combinations with several articulation points.
Got them wrong for all countries
Where and when are these truck shows taking place? Nice video, thanks.
In Sweden there are some 34m long road trains. At this point only on prescribed roads. But there are plans to expand service.
That is normal in Finland to use and see HCT trucks with lenght of 34,5m on main highways.
I thought they had passed the rule about 34.5m in Sweden to be introduced in august 2023.
Same in Denmark on selected roads
Oh man, here in the Balkans we have similar Nordic Trucks, but cheap designed 😎 Balkan life
Don't forget the "company image" if your trucks looks clean and really cool that says something about the level of detail, neatness and how the oparete.
Very nice...
Thanks :)
5:46 look at that yellow S series Scania BDF on the right next to Green Scania 😍
These types of trucks are everywhere, come to master truck in poland (opole) its an event where you see all trucks parked up, even the most iconic ones such as BACA,transbud (all polish) we have our styles aswell
as a north american, a lot of people have extremely customized trucks, lots of chrome, big exhaust stacks are really common here
trucking isn't just an industry, it's a community
I saw some awesome customized trucks in Poland too, all 3 were Scania trucks
2 of them were white and red, like our country's flag and one of them was beautifully dark blue with the name of a town on it, I loved it
In Brazil the preferred trucks are they same Scania and Volvo, with in last 2 years a strong participation of Daf fighting for second place of Scania.
One curiosity about brazilian truck style, truckers prefer colors more discreet, like grays, black and white. Have exceptions, but in general the trucks have only little modifications, large tank for Arla/Def, Aluminum Wheels, tint in windows.
Have one only culture of modifications called by truckers "Verdureiros", this guy's modify rear suspension of trucks to be more high as possible, is not pratical in day by day use, but in sense of these guys is beautiful!
i get angry when i see brazil trucks with lifted back. or driver seats with no air. this is totally bullshit
@@maikamoustara6248 Most of the Brazilian truckers agree with you. The verdureiro culture is only a niche of Brazilian drivers.
Excellent video! Your channel is top notch. Here in Brazil we mover from 45 ton GCW and 18.15 mt OAL years ago tô 74 Ton and 30 mt OAL...recently the max allowed GCW grew to 91 ton, specifically to meet the sugar cane segment. However on-highway, the prevailing combinations are up to 9-axle and 74 Ton GCW. Defintely a long country... However, most tractors are 13L 6x4 in the 440-560 PS. Volvo, Scania, DAF, Mercedes dominate the segment the HD segment. As as suggestion, it would be nice for your channel to cover other overseas countries, such as India, South Africa, Argentina, Middle East, China, Brazil, Australia, etc etc. please keep up the outstanding vids! 🏆💪🏽👍🏽😎
Thank you so much 👍😃
My favorite is the little Michelin men lit up on top!
I'vw finally been in sweden this year, i live in italy, as a family of truckers i trought there were much more powerfull truck around roads, but i've seen a lot of 6 cyl scanias and 460/500 hp volvos in 25 meters long, it's been amazing.
Thanks for sharing 👍
We have a research truck that has dedicated route which is 104tn in Finland. Also im just a student now but on training i drove on road E18 and trucks up to 34.5m was a normal sight there
It's rare to see semi-trucks here in Finland. Rigid trucks are way more common. Semi trucks are mostly used by other drivers from Europe.
I don't even like trucks but this channel might change my views since I find this interesting as a Swede.
0:50 I thought they were all decorated alike... until I saw the sides. Great truck-art there 👍🏼
It can be annoying, to be oncoming traffic to one of those christmas lights.. but if that's what they like
I see alot of awesome costumized trucks here in netherland too especially on the truckers festival
Fun fact, the first truck in this clip is from Tverås, which had the first 770s for testing! :D
And would like to add that their style is called Dutch style...
Should do something on New Zealander truck driving it’s pretty interesting
I Will consider 👍
British trucks are often highly customised too
We also have SISU Trucks. ✌🏻
SISU's axels are used in highly modified trucks by Terberg and Ginaf in the Netherlands.
Regarding Truck-mania you forgot about Netherlands ! They also do the same thing with their trucks : custom paint, custom interior, custom features and Hi-End engines.
they will totally need the powerful engines to climb the steep mountain ranges the Netherlands are famous for 😉
@@EnjoyFirefighting more for quickly accelerating from a red light so they dont hold up traffic to long
@@EnjoyFirefighting They're international haulers, so the fact that the Netherlands itself is flat won't really effect their engine choice.
@@tommeiner9983 Germans are international as well and still you barely see German trucks with such powerful engine choice
@@EnjoyFirefighting Just like how you'll rarely see Dutch trucks with more than 500 horsepower.
One important thing though, I'm unsure about the other Nordic countries, but all Norwegian tractors have Tandem axels where one is liftable, this is to shift the weight distribution of one loose traction up a hill (more weight on the axel) during winter, also the extra axel give a steadier semi on winter roads, it also allows for higher weight in a safer way.
If a semi is blocking the road at wintertime it is always European trucks with a tractor with only 2 axels.
The Norwegian trucks also have a different set of chains than further south in Europe, as they have "spikes"
Midlift axles are de facto in the UK as well. I believe the difference is due to taxation - most European countries tax by number of axles, whereas axle WEIGHT is more important in the UK (or so I have been told). This is just one theory, the other is that having a midlift axle greatly reduces your fuel capacity, but personally I'd rather fuel every day and have an extra axle.
@@JaidenJimenez86 usually the liftable axel in Norway is the rear one out of the 3, this helps enormous if it is slippery in a hill climb, as the weigh distribution on the axel shifts and give better force and traction. It is usually lowered however unless needed, because it almost remove the possibility that the truck and trolly is scissorsing on the flat or downhill.
@@Xirque666 And when the truck has low load you wan't to lift the rear most axle of the ground to make tyre wear less of an issue. More important for work trucks that are used in tight twisty areas than for those long haulers.
@@SipuliSankari if slippery however, one will lift the rear axel on the way up, to get enough traction as long as the load is heavy enough to cause issues.
not a tandem, but bogey. which means its just there for weight distribution not traction.
Replaced in 5-7 years? Wow. here in Greece the average truck is over 20 years old, maybe more like 23.
Here in Northern Norway, trucks with fancy painting and/or lights are extremely rare. Almost all of them have their company name and/or logo, and maybe a special color the company wants to be recognized by (ie Bring's green ones), but that's it.
Hi! Driver from Finland here, max lenght in here is now 32meters without special permit. 34 meters with permit and up to 100 tons
Thanks for sharing, Finland do have some incredible rules :)
Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands all have a very strong trucker culture. That's essentially why they put so much intricate detail in their trucks.
While Poland, Romania, Croatia etc have their own flavor of trucker culture where they decorate the inside of their trucks mainly while generally keeping the outside of the truck looking rather stock. It's a money issue for the latter named countries.
Paintjobs and a few nice features is really nice and i am all for it. But the moment truckers start putting things in their windscreens or near their A-pillars... Essentially anything that blocks their view or swings around inside the cab, i am very very much against it and would have their truckers license BURNED if i were an authority.
As if Polish/Romanian truckers didn't have enough problems in the Nordic due to winter road conditions, adding a bunch of drapes and stuff in their field of view just makes them a security risk on the roads.
gotta check on those facts even spain has a length limit of 32 meters now for duo trailers, same in germany, i think b-double configuration was being tested in france as well
I am a trucker at Alviks Trafik in northern Sweden and will choose to drive Volvo in all respects. Scania in all its glory, but Volvo is the best in every respect
/ Elisabeth
Huh i actualy saw that scania you used in the thumbnail yestoday
Nice 😅👍
Norway allows up to 60tons actully however that is on certain roads and usually is in the 25.25m configuration. The reason as to why only on certain roads is because a lot of infrastructure is either too old or built after old specs thus bridges i.e. might not support that load or even worse rural roads that's just tarmac laid on top of soil without any ground work thus has a hard time trying to cope even at 50 tonnes.
there are a good few of these in the Netherlands too.
25 meters are also allowed on certain roads in Denmark
Here in denmark you can drive a 25m truck on some roads :)
Im finnish and currently serving in army. I was chosen to be a driver so i will get a free truck lisence so after i get out of the army getting a job should be easy because of the driver shortage.
In Denmark it's quite common to come across trucks on the highway that are 25m
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yes bro funny allah to you god bless sweden
Hats down to all truck drivers. Its not easy work, as a matter of fact its hard work. Sitting for hours driving. Kiddneys and spine are often first to be problematic espeically as you grew older. I am driver myself but i do not drive big trucks, only small delivery vans and spending 8-9h every day in it no matter the fact that you stop, go out, deliver, is not always easy, especially for the back. Its not for everyone to be a truck driver so hats down to all truckers in the world. Its a bloody job.
I was just watching some ETS2 playthroughs and ended up here.
The more I learn about European road culture, the more I am discovering that even the things America prides itself on the most are just done better by the Europeans. Germany puts more effort into it's personal vehicles, the Nordic countries put more effort into their commercial vehicles, and nearly all of Europe scores better than we do on the freedom index. Why are other Americans so proud of our country again? About the only thing we're the best in is the military, and that's just because we throw so much money at the problem.
These freedom indexes are absolute BS though. Most of these supposed Western "free" countries ban political parties, have hundreds to thousands of people in jail for speaking their mind, treated people that didn't want an experimental drug for a disease that didn't pose a threat to them as second-class citizens, have a "free" press that largely lives of gov't grants, huge gov't-run or gov't granted corporate monopolies and oligopolies, etc.
Ad the defense is always "well in some XYZ country they still hook a guy's balls up to car battery for that, so consider yourself lucky/free!".
Yea?? Really?? Can you name some of them? Or one?? Do you even know we're Europa is on a map??@@christophe9602
Look Auvinen,and Ristimaa truck,made by Perttu Papunen from Finland
The max and legal length for trucks in Denmark is 25 meters :)
Vlaanderen( northern Belgium) has a weight limit of 48 tonnes
Denmark just increased the total lenght to 34meters as of today.
4:24 And in Finland, it’s mostly Sisu trucks
5:03 using the door and steering wheel to climb down when there are bars just for that reason...
It's not just them we are doing the same thing in Scotland and UK, and Ireland to we have some of the niece's trucks in the whole of Europe and have the trophies to show for it to.
like others said its everywhere in europe but mostly in belgium netherlands and those nordic countries. germany has it to. would rather see you redo this vid to include everyone so it can be a correct representation and maybe look at the differences in each country
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I like watch you so much
Our trucks in Sweden can be a lot bigger and heavier to than in the rest of Europe, max gross here is 74 tons on some roads, 64 tons of most big roads, not 40-44 tons like in most of EU
Any fool who would paint his truck like this would show up at a minister's funeral dressed in feathers.
Cut your hair, get a job so you can get a real life..
A couple days ago I started playing Euro Truck Simulator 2. I played with game settings, some make the game more realistic, some make it less. But there were one thing I couldn't fix, and since everything else was great I started to think maybe it's actually accurate: RPM don't match the speed.
I mean, if I'm in god knows which gear, I have about 1000 RPM on my tacho and I'm going about 40 kph. I press accelerator and soon reach 1500 RPM, but my speed is not 60, it's somewhere close to 45-50! There's 12 gears in that Scania transmission, and in each speed depending on conditions I can almost double the revs - and all that happening UNDER 90 kph.
My first and simplest guess was that it's poor simulation. But maybe there's some specific device built in a semi truck transmission that make it slip like a torqe converter or something. Do you know anything about it?
I'm no expert, but you have low and high gears. I have driven trucks, but only in closed off area. I have no truck license. "Low" gears are really slow. This was a long time ago, but even 3rd or 4th gear may only do 15kph unless you rev it as mad.
"Drivers won’t use all the gears all of the time; they’ll ‘block shift’ or skip gears to reduce wear and tear on the gearbox. A truck driver with 12 gears is never going to need first gear unless they are heavily loaded and starting uphill, or they need very fine control for manoeuvring. They then are unlikely to use all remaining 11 gears and certainly not while changing down while slowing to a stop. In a six-speed truck, it’s more normal to start in second gear; in a 12-speed truck, you would start in third or fourth if you are empty and perhaps second or third if you are pulling a load."
The table of vehicle size is incorrect. Denmark allow for 25,25m truck semitrailer combination or tractor link and semi.
I would like to point out that not all countries allow these modifications. Of course paintjob is ok but more lights, bull bars, light ramps etc. are simply not allowed in many countries. For example here in CZ is by law specified how much of any kind of light you can have on the vehicle and you basicly cannot add more lights on your truck. Its not road legal and you will have problems on the road. And as a ex-owner of trucking company i can say you that you barely make some decent money of that these days so i quit and sell my trucks, its not worth it to modify it.
As a Nordic I’m jealous of some of the American truck builds, makes you want to drive lol
It's also relatively common in Estonia.
Where do you get these numbers?? For example in Finland the total lenght was 25,25 since stone age,now for few years it has been 34 meters already.Also good luck with cruising with 4,5 m height in Norwegian country roads..
In finland we are testing with 100tonne timber trucks
im training to become a Truck driver in germany in a rather big company. we usually drive small mercedeses with only 220 hp and a horrible gearbox. bit jeleous of thise cool trucks, not gonna lie. Im still young, so i guess i could move to sweden or norway when im more experienced and find a job there as i really love the nordic countries anyway.
I didn't knew scania made a 770 engine variant , i trought 730 was the top V8 and volvo had the biggest one with 750
There are equally outstanding trucks in e.g. Germany and the Netherlands, just like there are also some boring looking basic trucks in the nordic countries as well. Although Scania is a Swedish brand, the the black one you show at 1:11 and several times later on in the video is registered in southern Germany
Tbh I'm not sure to which extend Sweden and Finland have steep hills in their road network, Norway sure does, but there are equally steep climbs e.g. in the Alps.
Of course, the way lower population density, long distance between places and low traffic volumes allow an entirely different approach with longer trucks, and over the decades you can adapt the entire network and construction codes to allow heavier and taller trucks compared to the rest of Europe as well
Finland doesn't have many long steep hills, but I can tell you, there are steep hills especially outside the major highways. There are certain places, where the hill forces the truck to crawl at a slow speed, like 20-40 km/h, even with the 700+ hp engines. For whatever reason, in the busiest roads, we tend to have a short passing lane on such places (not the best solution, but it's a solution). Over time, the bridges have been reinforced / rebuilt to withstand heavier loads. Roundabouts have been built with kerbs, that allow even the longer vehicles to pass. Zoning codes make sure that companies that use the larger vehicles are located where those vehicles don't cause too much trouble.
I think the most impressive thing about these larger vehicles is that one use case for them is hauling wood from the middle of the forest to factories. I mean, they quite literally drive these things in narrow dirt roads where you could not drive your regular car, and they are doing that while having a total weight of 76 tonnes. I bet, that is the most difficult environment for these vehicles.
Yes, larger vehicles require some modifications to road network, but they are relatively minor changes. Reinforce bridges on main roads, maybe redesign some curbs on some intersections, and maybe set length/weight restrictions where modifications are not reasonable.
lack of drivers is not there, its just lack of employers who wants to pay as they should :D
the Netherlands does this too think about it man
england has a nice t cab with a hook on back