Well Scott. That has to be one of the best show walk around I’ve ever seen. None of the factory bulls-t spiel. I’ve been to a lot of truck shows in my time (starting with Earls Court in the 60’s) but I must say for a non-professional presenter, that was really good.
Hi David yes i totally agree with you Scott did amazing job making the TH-cam video over in Hanover Germany for all of us 👍👍 and i thought that Scott did amazing job to be totally honest with you i really enjoyed watching it myself. And I've not long sent Scott a message saying about the TH-cam video over in Hanover Germany great work and really nice trucks aswell 👍👍👍 thanks from mark 👍👍
Great video once again Scott. Must agree with the color choice for your own company truck. You should try to get to one of the US truck shows. you need a week to get around them. Seeing all the new technology one can only wonder what things will be like when your my age (82) Keep on trucking brother.
That driver monitoring system is on national express coaches. The problem is if your watching your speed because slowing down then it goes off, if you yarn it goes off, if you look in your nearside mirror for longer than 3 sec whilst turning it goes off. It then sends an alert to national express control to say you've set it off.
I drive them and I've learned to live with it. I have my phone in a holder next to the unit with my speed up so I don't get looking at the dash and set it off. As far as the unit is concerned I'm looking at it.
Enjoyable look round the show, thanks Scott. More detail on the stuff that is not seen in the UK would be great. Think you had the potential to have several more videos out of that trip.
The m.a.n near the end with the front lower cow bar on is for the Australian and South African market not the British market just because it’s r/ h steer doesn’t mean it’s for us
great video Scott, wonder what the repair would be like, and how often you would have to repair the lines etc. on the truck @20:15. especially with close to jack-knifing the trailer like a lot of companies expect you to do driving in their yards. looks like the trailer connections won't go passed a 45 degree angle, good for the motorway, but not ideal for towns and yards. as for the tail-lift @24:30 don't like how quick it folds up, especially if someone was walking in the blind spot, could see quite a few false claims about being hit by a tail lift.
as for the pantograph power lines that is an extremely old concept, it has been on the cards for 20-30 years, and still extremely limited availability of it. and the concept was to have it on the motorways, as that is about the only time a truck will move straight, imagine having to remove the pantograph and having to reset it as well when turning left or right in a town. then be a nightmare to drive a truck.
in the future of trucking the fifth wheel coupling needs to go with something more subtle yet just as tough . . . electro magnetic trailer haul system will replace the fifth wheel coupling for good . . .
Hi Scott I work for a haulier in Cardiff so do drive an Iveco S-Way that is Biomethene CNG powered. It’s quite a good truck that is generally reasonable to drive.The only issue is the relative lack of refuelling stations in the UK.
Thanks Scott for the info of what's coming in the future I'm not quite sure about the electricity side of trucks I deliver lng and its hard enough getting fuel for our trucks
I really enjoyed that Scott. Good to see you getting around a bit too. I don't want to sound picky, but I would have liked to see the interiors of the bigger trucks like the Scania and the Volvo 750, but overall, really good. Congratulations mate.
Great video Scott, having it all explained in a way that a driver can understand is really helpful. Did a class 1 driving assessment this afternoon in wag and drag with a 4 over 4 MAN , I have the option to do class one in that or a Mercedes unit with artic box trailer 🤔 not sure what to go for yet as the hookloaders that can pull the trailers at Perry's recycling are automatic did the reverse park with just one shunt which I was rather pleased with 😊 have a good week
Thanks 😁 Never driven wag and drag. I think i'd choose the artic personally. Auto or manual doesn't really matter these days as everything new is Auto. You don't get the option of manual anymore. With Artics anyway. Thanks again for coming down and saying hello at Shepton 👍😁
@@ScottAndrews that's what I have been thinking today plus most of the hookloaders are autos anyway and it's one less thing to worry about on the test day. That's ok, saw Kev out on the road a while ago so nice to catch up with him too
great to see you scott as always i hope you talked welsh to the germans that would have confussed them lol , shame you didnt tell us what the headroom was in that daf cus lets face it there thousands of them in the uk ,, oh and are you buying a farm like clarkson has now your a tv star
I probably couldn't stand up in the DAF XD. I'd say they're similar to the Super Space CF's we have now. Decent space but the engine hump makes things awkward
Cracking video Scott, lots of information and insight into the future of trucking, would be good if you could do a review of the Iveco and other trucks! Fingers crossed! Got to agree about the MAN mirror cam with the wide angle built into the main lense! Don’t know about the infrastructure for Electric vehicles yet, I just know that the town on the south coast where I live hasn’t got a single roadside charging point yet!! Not good! Keep up the good work and keep safe! 😀🚛
That was agreat videos and some good looking trucks of the future. Do you know when Merc are going to be posting your content so we can check it out also? #MoreScott #LoadsMoreScott
Talking of new trucks Scott, did I see a red 22 plate Mercedes has joined the fleet now? I was up at the layby by Pont Abs services and could swear it was an M&M Greene I saw, but the colour made me doubt myself! Great video once again, keep them coming!
Excellent video without the "sponsor" spiel throughout . I drive for the NHS on agency and we've got two 14T rigid Electric vehicles being used daily. Quiet on the road with instant torque which is great for town work . Any distance runs and once they return have to be plugged in. I can see the attraction at present for day work ( and for being quiet when you deliver to a hospital !! ) but still limited .
@@ScottAndrews They are DAF LF cabs with BETT on the side in green otherwise you can't tell . They've had to be recovered twice in the summer when the range suddenly dropped en route without warning . It's a specialist recovery also as the motors need isolating and disconnecting before towing . Tramping is a long way off though !
Interesting video Scott. Loving the new Mercedes. I wonder when they will launch these news machines in the uk? Any ideas? Not sure if you covered that but if you did, I must of missed it lol…. Keep up the good work Scott 👍
I buddy hope you are well.i am glad you enjoyed your self.some nice trucks there.philip still likes the daf with no mirrors they look awesome in that colour as well.suppose at the end of the day you can not beat your man truck what you drive. I think it is a matter of getting used to the electric trucks like yours. Take care buddy and good luck for the future phil.
Hi Scott matey 👍 it's mark from the Wirral Merseyside..👍 great TH-cam video of you over in Hanover in Germany doing your walk around the whole event it was totally brilliant watching it. But i definitely agree with you about the very nice metallic blue and silver mercedes truck even I'm in love with that mercedes truck, and the Scania 770 xt very nice truck and also MAN trucks very nice aswell 👍👍👍. Not sure about the Chinese trucks at the moment but they look ok though if they arrive in the UK England. But there was alot of the electric components for any type of trucks though Scotty matey 👍👍 and like you said Scott the time will come to go fully electric from scooters right through to trucks one day soon but you still can't beat the diesel engines specially the V8'S. But Scott matey I'm glad you enjoyed your self over in Hanover Germany and making your TH-cam video for all of us who have subscribed to your TH-cam channel and watching your TH-cam videos driving your lovely green Scania V8 truck at work and also MAN and being over in Hanover Germany great work on that over in Hanover Germany great TH-cam video and i really enjoyed watching it keep up the great work Scott matey 👍👍 and i hope to hear from you soon Scott matey 👍👍 thanks from mark from the Wirral Merseyside 👍👍👍
Great truck show and glad you enjoyed it,lots to see and do but what stood out for me was how awful the 2 ford units looked and the inside was like a newer version of a ford focus🤣not great,cheers scott🤙👌👍
Hydrogen i can get on board with but EV are not the way forward for now the hot seating trucks that happens as the truck only stop moving to change drivers no time for charging unless you could change the battery for a per charge one and what the load and range stats of some of them
From WC in USA, well Scott mostly a good video,it was easy to tell that Mercedes was paying you to do this video! I thought it was interesting the way you subtly trashed the Ford F-Max! And as we say in the USA, I don’t have a dog in this race as we don’t have a lot of these trucks in the USA!
Nicely done Mr Andrews. Few more cab interiors would have been nice but a bang on job. Just watch yourself though you might get poached by Top Gear with presenting like that... 👍😛
Electric distribution trucks will be the future for metropolitan distribution work. So for example rigids from outer London RDCs and for trailer swaps from ICE trucks just outside of the M25 once they are banned from London and other big cities across Europe. I think outer London RDCs running electric fleets will do very well out of it.
"Tewa giving Iveco vibes" It literally is an Iveco in disguise! Can't really confuse that cab layout with anything else lol tight, flimsy not designed for driver comfort... I wonder if the suspension squeaks as badly as the '71 plate eurocargo does that I drive (swear it sounds like the bed from a 2* motel that a couple hooking up in secret would be tolerating just so their partners wouldn't find out!)
Possibly one of your best blogs information wise and you did a great job, but electric trucks, not yet guys still in the early stages but no doubt in the future this will be the way to go
Great to see around the truck show, it's amazing how they're already getting ahead of the game with electric lorries. Yes the pantograph is unlikely because of the overall outlay to costs of charging. I can see more electric points at stopovers to encourage you to take your 30 minutes with them.
@@ScottAndrews There is that, yes, but consider this: you have no engine hump in the middle, no need for a gearbox (I'm looking at you, Scania), no need for a ladder chassis (just make the battery case a structural element); consequences are at least twofold: * you can drop all the mechanism used to lift/lower cabs and simplify the design (and cost!) a lot; * you can rake the windscreen and make the unit that much more aerodynamic; plus you can configure the driver seat to be in the middle and lower, again a reduction in cost. That's why cabover designs like that for electric trucks make no sense to me.
It doesn't seem that trucks basic design hasn't changed over the years. Greater visibility of cyclist & cars outside of the truck, namely the blind spots hasn't been improved.
Electric all very well under perfect conditions , but imagine being stuck in a long tailback at say Calais and your needing light and heat for long hours , you get the picture lines of frozen drivers and lots of flat batteried trucks that can’t be moved . Stick with the old DIESLE !
Imagine Tramping, running a microwave & night heater & wondering if the truck will start in the morning WITH an electric truck. Emissions isn’t a problem our currency & global economic model is. Get the old on busses & trains will cut emissions right down & stopping pensioners getting increases on yearly pensions To many people getting money they otherwise wouldn’t have on a Gold Standard.
It’s all good them promoting electric trucks but if there is no where to charge them out on the road at services then not shore any one will be interested The auto hook up 5th wheel did not look like it has a wide angel for turning Hiab princess
Is going to be up to companies using the trucks to mostly have their own charging facilities in house. Different drive trains have different purposes, for example someone who goes out at 6am Monday and comes home 6pm Friday wouldn’t necessarily suit EV but your nearby bakery or the local council collecting door to door bins and leaving the wagon dormant overnight could do well on battery power. Cost vs benefit will always be a factor though for local authorities and with EV trucks costing 3x their diesel brethren they’re in no rush to change over. They’ll always write the rules regarding clean air zones to suit themselves ie EURO 6 compliant.
Well Scott. That has to be one of the best show walk around I’ve ever seen. None of the factory bulls-t spiel. I’ve been to a lot of truck shows in my time (starting with Earls Court in the 60’s) but I must say for a non-professional presenter, that was really good.
Hi David yes i totally agree with you Scott did amazing job making the TH-cam video over in Hanover Germany for all of us 👍👍 and i thought that Scott did amazing job to be totally honest with you i really enjoyed watching it myself. And I've not long sent Scott a message saying about the TH-cam video over in Hanover Germany great work and really nice trucks aswell 👍👍👍 thanks from mark 👍👍
Great video once again Scott. Must agree with the color choice for your own company truck. You should try to get to one of the US truck shows. you need a week to get around them. Seeing all the new technology one can only wonder what things will be like when your my age (82) Keep on trucking brother.
That was absolutely brilliant Scott much better insight and more information than the truck press. Thank you.
That driver monitoring system is on national express coaches. The problem is if your watching your speed because slowing down then it goes off, if you yarn it goes off, if you look in your nearside mirror for longer than 3 sec whilst turning it goes off. It then sends an alert to national express control to say you've set it off.
I bet that drives them crazy
I drive them and I've learned to live with it. I have my phone in a holder next to the unit with my speed up so I don't get looking at the dash and set it off. As far as the unit is concerned I'm looking at it.
Looking. Smart. Scottey. 👍😊
Great video Scott
Glad you enjoyed it
great blog Scott some brill trucks there Gary from Crewe 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Liked this video. Bit like Jonny Smith from the “Late Brake Show” and formerly Fully Charged. Do more of these, if you ever get the chance!
Enjoyable look round the show, thanks Scott.
More detail on the stuff that is not seen in the UK would be great. Think you had the potential to have several more videos out of that trip.
Happy birthday Scott
Great video Scott, you looked great wearing makeup. Great to see all the new tech that all the different combines working on.
Thanks Adam!
Great video Scott 👍
Loving the tech talk Scott, brilliant video
Loved your video Scott and love the way your are carving a possible future career
VBG has a couple that is automatic. 20:07
Well done great video really interesting. Nice to watch something different stay safe .from Cornwall
Great video Scott great show
The m.a.n near the end with the front lower cow bar on is for the Australian and South African market not the British market just because it’s r/ h steer doesn’t mean it’s for us
great video Scott, wonder what the repair would be like, and how often you would have to repair the lines etc. on the truck @20:15. especially with close to jack-knifing the trailer like a lot of companies expect you to do driving in their yards. looks like the trailer connections won't go passed a 45 degree angle, good for the motorway, but not ideal for towns and yards. as for the tail-lift @24:30 don't like how quick it folds up, especially if someone was walking in the blind spot, could see quite a few false claims about being hit by a tail lift.
as for the pantograph power lines that is an extremely old concept, it has been on the cards for 20-30 years, and still extremely limited availability of it. and the concept was to have it on the motorways, as that is about the only time a truck will move straight, imagine having to remove the pantograph and having to reset it as well when turning left or right in a town. then be a nightmare to drive a truck.
A really enjoyable & interesting video well done 👍👍👍
in the future of trucking the fifth wheel coupling needs to go with something more subtle yet just as tough . . . electro magnetic trailer haul system will replace the fifth wheel coupling for good . . .
Nice video buddy keep up the good work
🤘👍🤘👍good to see a llanelli lad doing well keep them up pal catch you at the carnival if your there 👍
Yeah I'll be one of the trucks in the Carnival again
Hi Scott I work for a haulier in Cardiff so do drive an Iveco S-Way that is Biomethene CNG powered.
It’s quite a good truck that is generally reasonable to drive.The only issue is the relative lack of refuelling stations in the UK.
what do you think of the senter dfriving possition in the volta at 2:04. to me it seems it would only make it harder to drive
I agree. Think they just do it to draw attention
Great video some interesting things look forward to seeing your next video 👍
Thanks 👍
Awesome video buddy from Alan in Lowestoft ty the best video buddy 👍
Thanks Scott for the info of what's coming in the future I'm not quite sure about the electricity side of trucks I deliver lng and its hard enough getting fuel for our trucks
Nice to see some trucks are keeping the mirrors on and not all cameras.
I really enjoyed that Scott. Good to see you getting around a bit too. I don't want to sound picky, but I would have liked to see the interiors of the bigger trucks like the Scania and the Volvo 750, but overall, really good. Congratulations mate.
I plan on doing a cab tour of my Scania soon. Interior will be the same as that. If i get another chance to get inside a Volvo i'll be sure show it
@@ScottAndrews Excellent. Thank you mate.
Do you need diesel powered generators to charge the electric trucks over there, you can buy nice ones on Amazon.
Great video Scott, having it all explained in a way that a driver can understand is really helpful. Did a class 1 driving assessment this afternoon in wag and drag with a 4 over 4 MAN , I have the option to do class one in that or a Mercedes unit with artic box trailer 🤔 not sure what to go for yet as the hookloaders that can pull the trailers at Perry's recycling are automatic did the reverse park with just one shunt which I was rather pleased with 😊 have a good week
Thanks 😁 Never driven wag and drag. I think i'd choose the artic personally. Auto or manual doesn't really matter these days as everything new is Auto. You don't get the option of manual anymore. With Artics anyway. Thanks again for coming down and saying hello at Shepton 👍😁
@@ScottAndrews that's what I have been thinking today plus most of the hookloaders are autos anyway and it's one less thing to worry about on the test day. That's ok, saw Kev out on the road a while ago so nice to catch up with him too
Hi great video have driven the mirror less trucks yet have you done a video thanks
Thanks for showing us this great event.
Only mercedes claims 500 km on a full battery, only is this fully loaded, or empty.
great to see you scott as always i hope you talked welsh to the germans that would have confussed them lol , shame you didnt tell us what the headroom was in that daf cus lets face it there thousands of them in the uk ,, oh and are you buying a farm like clarkson has now your a tv star
I probably couldn't stand up in the DAF XD. I'd say they're similar to the Super Space CF's we have now. Decent space but the engine hump makes things awkward
@@ScottAndrews agreed but very light so make good tipper tractor units if just the odd night out
09:28 same steering wheel you get in a transit van
Did you ever think your little ol TH-cam channel would lead to this?
Congrats!
Great video, very interesting. Perhaps you will be on our tv’s soon with a truck version of Top Gear……. 😂
Interesting watch and be interesting to see how the technology develops with this electric and also what companies and operators make of the new tech
Still a long way to go I feel, but already better than it was 5 years ago
Cracking video Scott, lots of information and insight into the future of trucking, would be good if you could do a review of the Iveco and other trucks! Fingers crossed! Got to agree about the MAN mirror cam with the wide angle built into the main lense! Don’t know about the infrastructure for Electric vehicles yet, I just know that the town on the south coast where I live hasn’t got a single roadside charging point yet!! Not good! Keep up the good work and keep safe! 😀🚛
Favourite has to be the 770 XT recovery truck!
Excellent Video Scott and very professional....Mercedes should be very happy with your content👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌😉
Thanks Keith
like the colour of the ford but is any one producing selfcharge wagons
That was agreat videos and some good looking trucks of the future. Do you know when Merc are going to be posting your content so we can check it out also? #MoreScott #LoadsMoreScott
Scott most Euro trucks are usually 2 axle rather than 3 cos of the lower weight limits. No point in 6 axle if you’re not pulling above 40t.
Talking of new trucks Scott, did I see a red 22 plate Mercedes has joined the fleet now? I was up at the layby by Pont Abs services and could swear it was an M&M Greene I saw, but the colour made me doubt myself! Great video once again, keep them coming!
Yeah that would be the one I would have had if I didn't choose the Scania a few months ago. Pretty nice truck
@@ScottAndrews Presenting for Mercedes eh?
So where/when can we see the finished product?
When are you off to Hollywood?
Great video thanks for posting.
Little bit off from there lol
The Ford F-Max is a handsome ride.
Wish they were in the states.
I was at IAA this year. I did some interviews, the best one was probably with Scania, some real new technologies coming soon
Thank you for the highlight Scott. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to more content. Happy trucking 👍🚛
I'm not sure how I feel about the Ford F-Max I'm a bit on the fence with it but only seen a few in the UK come from turkey
Should have taken Martyn bet he would love that Edition 3. His Edition 1 is stunning mind. Your boss had the Merc yet Scott? Great video buddy
They’ve got those tower things in the uk they call them multi story car parks. You can normally find them with your nose as they stink of p*ss
Excellent video without the "sponsor" spiel throughout . I drive for the NHS on agency and we've got two 14T rigid Electric vehicles being used daily. Quiet on the road with instant torque which is great for town work . Any distance runs and once they return have to be plugged in. I can see the attraction at present for day work ( and for being quiet when you deliver to a hospital !! ) but still limited .
I think you're the first person I know with real life experience with them so far
@@ScottAndrews They are DAF LF cabs with BETT on the side in green otherwise you can't tell . They've had to be recovered twice in the summer when the range suddenly dropped en route without warning . It's a specialist recovery also as the motors need isolating and disconnecting before towing . Tramping is a long way off though !
Thanks, top man
No problem 👍
Interesting video Scott. Loving the new Mercedes. I wonder when they will launch these news machines in the uk? Any ideas? Not sure if you covered that but if you did, I must of missed it lol…. Keep up the good work Scott 👍
I buddy hope you are well.i am glad you enjoyed your self.some nice trucks there.philip still likes the daf with no mirrors they look awesome in that colour as well.suppose at the end of the day you can not beat your man truck what you drive. I think it is a matter of getting used to the electric trucks like yours. Take care buddy and good luck for the future phil.
hold up why are there ford semi trucks over in eroupe and not in the U.S
Hi Scott matey 👍 it's mark from the Wirral Merseyside..👍 great TH-cam video of you over in Hanover in Germany doing your walk around the whole event it was totally brilliant watching it. But i definitely agree with you about the very nice metallic blue and silver mercedes truck even I'm in love with that mercedes truck, and the Scania 770 xt very nice truck and also MAN trucks very nice aswell 👍👍👍. Not sure about the Chinese trucks at the moment but they look ok though if they arrive in the UK England. But there was alot of the electric components for any type of trucks though Scotty matey 👍👍 and like you said Scott the time will come to go fully electric from scooters right through to trucks one day soon but you still can't beat the diesel engines specially the V8'S. But Scott matey I'm glad you enjoyed your self over in Hanover Germany and making your TH-cam video for all of us who have subscribed to your TH-cam channel and watching your TH-cam videos driving your lovely green Scania V8 truck at work and also MAN and being over in Hanover Germany great work on that over in Hanover Germany great TH-cam video and i really enjoyed watching it keep up the great work Scott matey 👍👍 and i hope to hear from you soon Scott matey 👍👍 thanks from mark from the Wirral Merseyside 👍👍👍
Great truck show and glad you enjoyed it,lots to see and do but what stood out for me was how awful the 2 ford units looked and the inside was like a newer version of a ford focus🤣not great,cheers scott🤙👌👍
Mate class video
Cheers Brian
Happy Birthday
Hydrogen i can get on board with but EV are not the way forward for now the hot seating trucks that happens as the truck only stop moving to change drivers no time for charging unless you could change the battery for a per charge one and what the load and range stats of some of them
From WC in USA, well Scott mostly a good video,it was easy to tell that Mercedes was paying you to do this video! I thought it was interesting the way you subtly trashed the Ford F-Max! And as we say in the USA, I don’t have a dog in this race as we don’t have a lot of these trucks in the USA!
Thanks for watching 😁
Nicely done Mr Andrews. Few more cab interiors would have been nice but a bang on job. Just watch yourself though you might get poached by Top Gear with presenting like that... 👍😛
Electric distribution trucks will be the future for metropolitan distribution work. So for example rigids from outer London RDCs and for trailer swaps from ICE trucks just outside of the M25 once they are banned from London and other big cities across Europe.
I think outer London RDCs running electric fleets will do very well out of it.
Funny enough that I saw a ford at dublin port about 1 month ago. I never knew
Were there any Japanese brands like Hino or Isuzu at the show? I didn't notice any in the video.
Not them specially. Fuso were there with Mercedes
Enjoyed this video Scott some amazing trucks worth visiting seeing some impressive stuff but some iffy stuff sorry
Next thing we know you will have a TV show Scott
One can dream lol
Great video……you look better without the hat Scott….🥴👍
Great video, would love to see the Ford truck on uk roads
There are a few about that come over from Poland and Turkey ect. Not sold in the UK yet though
@@ScottAndrews Think I've seen a few parked in Newport
"Tewa giving Iveco vibes"
It literally is an Iveco in disguise! Can't really confuse that cab layout with anything else lol tight, flimsy not designed for driver comfort...
I wonder if the suspension squeaks as badly as the '71 plate eurocargo does that I drive (swear it sounds like the bed from a 2* motel that a couple hooking up in secret would be tolerating just so their partners wouldn't find out!)
Interesting vlog scotty Bach,like your b.b.c.voice as well.😂👌🏴
you say the pantograph will never work you had better check with scania they are running trials in sweden
Awsome video🤩 A new DAF XDC would be nice if I work with trucks.
you have to wonder how much they have borrowed from Iveco
I did not see any Volvo trucks ? it was an impressive show though
Possibly one of your best blogs information wise and you did a great job, but electric trucks, not yet guys still in the early stages but no doubt in the future this will be the way to go
Thanks Chris, Glad you liked it. I don't think there is avoiding them down the line
Wow, to call Bosch a new boy...
bosch? so we got dishwashers on wheels now!? blimey.
Brilliant Scott
That man is for Australian marketing
Cab size limitations make it crap to stay in
That makeup at the end makes you look like Bevis and Butthead
Great to see around the truck show, it's amazing how they're already getting ahead of the game with electric lorries. Yes the pantograph is unlikely because of the overall outlay to costs of charging. I can see more electric points at stopovers to encourage you to take your 30 minutes with them.
Gonna take a lot of money invested into infrastructure one way or another
@@ScottAndrews Sorry yes, i meant to add bit like HS2 is costing, but forgot.
Volkswagen has a big stand because MAN and SCANIA are actually Volkwagen too.
Imagine a tower of trucks, all electric and one ones on the bottom levels with fuel and chemical tankers catch fire hmm...
No need for the night heater then
True. But one of the upsides would be load security?
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I think that RHD MAN tgs 6x4 with the bull bars is for NZ or Australia. Chassis would be a bit long for UK use.
Great video buddy
Yes it’s a NZ/AU spec wagon. We do have long chassis but most operators would choose the shorter chassis for a slightly longer trailer
The main question I have here is why the f... stick to cabover designs when you have an electric powertrain? That makes no sense at all...
To comply with length regulations
@@ScottAndrews There is that, yes, but consider this: you have no engine hump in the middle, no need for a gearbox (I'm looking at you, Scania), no need for a ladder chassis (just make the battery case a structural element); consequences are at least twofold:
* you can drop all the mechanism used to lift/lower cabs and simplify the design (and cost!) a lot;
* you can rake the windscreen and make the unit that much more aerodynamic; plus you can configure the driver seat to be in the middle and lower, again a reduction in cost.
That's why cabover designs like that for electric trucks make no sense to me.
It doesn't seem that trucks basic design hasn't changed over the years. Greater visibility of cyclist & cars outside of the truck, namely the blind spots hasn't been improved.
Scott .... I'm happy to retire BEFORE I'm pushed into a EV truck ....
For you .... good luck
Hiab princess
Electric all very well under perfect conditions , but imagine being stuck in a long tailback at say Calais and your needing light and heat for long hours , you get the picture lines of frozen drivers and lots of flat batteried trucks that can’t be moved . Stick with the old DIESLE !
Slow transition, perhaps?
Umm... Rods
MAN trucks are the worst. We got brand new 470 artics.
They drop speed uphill with empty trailers😳😳.
Avoid if you can.
A lot of what a truck does is in how the company want the software programmed these days
Electric trucks will never take off for long haul or heavy haulage,
They will come up with some sort of bio fuel
Imagine Tramping, running a microwave & night heater & wondering if the truck will start in the morning WITH an electric truck.
Emissions isn’t a problem our currency & global economic model is. Get the old on busses & trains will cut emissions right down & stopping pensioners getting increases on yearly pensions
To many people getting money they otherwise wouldn’t have on a Gold Standard.
It’s all good them promoting electric trucks but if there is no where to charge them out on the road at services then not shore any one will be interested
The auto hook up 5th wheel did not look like it has a wide angel for turning
Hiab princess
I'm sure there will be investment for Chargers in the future. I wonder what it would look like though
Is going to be up to companies using the trucks to mostly have their own charging facilities in house. Different drive trains have different purposes, for example someone who goes out at 6am Monday and comes home 6pm Friday wouldn’t necessarily suit EV but your nearby bakery or the local council collecting door to door bins and leaving the wagon dormant overnight could do well on battery power. Cost vs benefit will always be a factor though for local authorities and with EV trucks costing 3x their diesel brethren they’re in no rush to change over. They’ll always write the rules regarding clean air zones to suit themselves ie EURO 6 compliant.
@@regularguy3665 yes that is another good point the price of EVs is still so expensive compared to diesel engined