Once again few photos. Most of them are taken last summer and it looks like there are only few other makes than Scania this time.
Older Scania which looks to be near the end of its career when judged from the condition of the cargo box. This truck is probably taken off from doing trunk runs and is only used doing easy work on local deliveries and collections, like in this picture as forklift is lifting stacked pallets to trailer.
In Finland we don’t have separate police department for HGV’s, like VOSA over there if I’ve understood correctly, but ordinary traffic cops do roadside checks like in this picture. They have stopped these two Scanias most likely only for checking tacho charts as in this kind of place it’s clearly not safe to do much more than that. First Scanny is equipped with hook lift for easy loading and unloading.
Here is proof that I’ve driven an artic I’m waiting for previous truck to get load before driving to loading area. I don’t remember anymore how much I did take load but I was quite close of 42 tonnes maximum GVW allowed in Finland for five axle artic when I left this place. This truck has only 8 speed gearbox but its engine pulled really good to be only only 400hp so I didn’t miss for more gears. Note also the “new” trailer. Double tyres, air suspension but without height adjust valve, no “spring brakes” for handbrake and of course no ABS.
Here is truck I was waiting for. Driver is waiting when forklift driver had gone to get the last two 1000 kg bags for his load. Total load is probably something between 38-40 tonnes. I don’t have any clear picture of empty weight for this kind of combination but clearly aluminium trailer and truck sides are chosen to compensate dead weight from HIAB. 500 hp 12 litre turbocompound engine gives quite good ride for this kind load and rear mounted HIAB helps to get more traction to drive axle when running empty at winter.
MAN tractor units are slowly getting more popularity here but it’s quit rare to see full lenght combination pulled by MAN rigid truck. Owner of this vehicle has clearly thought little bit when installing extra lights as two are bumber mounted so that they could be used even at winter when snow is falling.
Here is Swedish registered Scania with quite same kind of box and trailer setup than MAN above. Only clear difference is in configuration of trailers rear bogie. In this trailer both axles are really close to rear end which is quite usual setup in Swedish trailers opposed to typical Finnish setup like in trailer behind green MAN.
Photographed on the back yard of small gas station which gives compensation when you fuel enough diesel to your tanks. For example when you put 200 litres of diesel to you tanks they offer free coffee and doughnut. This leads this place to be quite popular place to fuel up. White Scania is my ride and I have partial load of bagged cement and stone wool and “big” 400 hp V8 engine barely have to do any work to get my truck moving. New R-Scanny beside my truck has loaded bulk cement from the same factory than me and inferior
inline engine with only 420 hp is strugling much more because it lacks few cylinders