Simo Hayha
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… on a delivery route to St. Petersburg.
That is one badass truck
It'd be even better if he had "WHITE DEATH" in mirror image, so cars in front can read it in their rear-view mirror
It'd be even better if he had "WHITE DEATH" in mirror image, so cars in front can read it in their rear-view mirror
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True but that's a Volvo
Look between the wipers and grille: diagonal stripe and circular logo with arrow pointing out at 1 o'clock
I think it's this one: https://www.volvotrucks.com/en-en/trucks/trucks/volvo-fh16.html
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Why is "White Death" in English? Should be "valkoinen kuolema" per google translate.
Pretty cool though.
Mike
Pretty cool though.
Mike
English is cool and an international language. It looks like the whole truck is in English. The trailer has something like All TRAN....(sport?) "TO FIN (land?)" and the top of the cab has "GLOBE TROTTER". Go to a European country and try to buy a t-shirt with that country's language on it...next to impossible...they're all in English. The Asian countries are often hilarious...it seems they just like English.
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Rooting around the Volvo trucks website I figured out that Globetrotter is one of the cab styles/sizes that Volvo offers in their euro semis
Those euro trucks are somewhat pretty but massively under powered.
Drinking way too many pints at a bar at lands end in Scotland with numerous euro truckers who were amused as hell to find an American on a motorcycle there in late October…
All they wanted to do was have giant Peterbilt‘s and non-Cabover trucks. They look at American rigs as some kind of 18 wheel Valhalla.
And holy shit can those boys drink before getting on the ferry.
Sirhr
Drinking way too many pints at a bar at lands end in Scotland with numerous euro truckers who were amused as hell to find an American on a motorcycle there in late October…
All they wanted to do was have giant Peterbilt‘s and non-Cabover trucks. They look at American rigs as some kind of 18 wheel Valhalla.
And holy shit can those boys drink before getting on the ferry.
Sirhr
Comparing US and Euro market Volvos that doesn't seem to be correct: https://www.volvotrucks.com/en-en/trucks.html
In fact the Euro FH16 has more available power (750 hp) than any US market Volvo.
The PACCAR MX-13 which is the most powerful engine that you can get in a Peterbilt is just over 550 hp in its most powerful tune
Sometimes things aren't as they seem
I highly recommend this book on Simo Hayha. Once I started reading it, I could not put it down.
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It’s been that way forever. In WWII, German soldiers looked at American infantry boots with longing. The Americans looked at the German infantry boots with similar lust. It seems the grass just always looks greener on the other side.
Given Euro’s are not given to strangling their diesels like the US DOT, this does not surprise me at all!! Rent a 1.5 L car over there and it feels like a V8 here!
I don’t think any of them drove an American Peterbilt… but damn sure they all wanted them!
Sirhr
To be fair I only saw one Volvo model with the 750 horses, all others were in the 300 to 550 range, about the same as PACCAR engines.
Many years ago, someone (American) here was recounting a story of visiting Germany. Leaving the airport, he noted that all of the taxis were BMWs or Mercedes. We’ll mostly. The cab pulled up to the stand and the taxi stand attendant looked at him and said “You’re in luck. This one is an import.”Waiting for him was some Chevrolet sedan…
I’ve likely mangled the details, but the broad strokes are there, and consistent with the general trends.
I’ve likely mangled the details, but the broad strokes are there, and consistent with the general trends.
True. When I was stationed in Germany in the early 80's, all the taxi's were either Mercedes or BMW. If you saw a German driving a Corvette or Trans Am, he was insanely rich. I bought a BMW 2500 for $1000 and drove it the whole time I was in Germany.
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