SCANIA 770HP V8 Truck Review: By American Trucker!

Bruce is quickly becoming an international Scania brand ambassador. And doing a darn good job at it!

It's fascinating to see an American is so fascinating about an European Cab over 😊 Greetings from Germany 🚛

Mate I can't believe the USA don't have these awesome trucks I'm in Australia and we have heaps of them there is nothing better than the sound of the Scania V8 with a full load.36 years ago one of the first semi trailer trucks I went in was a long nose v8 Scania and I have loved them ever since thanks to uncle wallywally for the memory RIP

It's funny like we in our childhood in Europe were so fascinated by Mack's, Freightliners, and Kenworths, and now we see the guy from the US enjoying European LORRY😃

A colleague used my truck for a week. Now each time he parks along side my truck, his phone connects to my truck! 🤣

As a 23 year employee in Scania Södertälje bulding your tranmissison and so much more before i left the company for new adventures . I have to say you have seen the light American has it’s load and proud but the economy and ease of use .. i think u get it . I admit the are way more complicated then your style . But you get it . 💯👍

PLEASE KEEP THESE VIDEOS COMING, GREAT WATCHING IN THIS BONKERS WORLD.

Hi Bruce. I am a Norwegian who lived in Wisconsin for many years. Love your Scania videos!! Did you know that Scania has your shoe rack in the steps going up into the truck? Most truckers have a no shoes allowed inside the cab policy. :) Ask the Scania people to share that with you. Take care. Vidar. :)

Americans are as impressed by our trucks as we are theirs

Thanks for showing how good are on an US channel and not doing what other Americans do to us

You're smitten Bruce, you love these trucks, and we can all see why. Keep them coming 👍

Congratulations for what you do. It is beautiful to see an American recognize and admire Scania trucks, a brand that has many admirers around the world. Scania is known as the Rolls Royce of trucks, for its luxury and build quality. I hope Scania can return to the American market, it has all the potential to do so. Thank you Bruce for what you do. hug from Uruguay.

Most review videos I've ever watched about scania is always talking the features performance, but you tilt up the cab and talking or comparing about the engine, that's what makes me love your videos bruce 😂👏

You do not necessarily need to pick the liftable axle completly up. There is a function, button next to the differential locker, that unloads some of that axles weight, transfering it to driving axle. I confirm that helps in the snow. Between that and the lockers, I have not yet needed the chains on the road.

Scania makes some amazing trucks. We went to check them out last month and we are so impressed

Wow look at that! At 13:15 you can see one of the covers to the subwoofer that is behind the back wall. That makes me so happy and proud! I was one of the electromechanical engineers in charge of the infotainment radio unit and loudspeakers. I fought hard for the survival of the subwoofer as it were the least prioritized item on the entire New Cab Generation project. I can probably write a whole book about the development of the Scania subwoofer during this time. The short version is that the subwoofer was first placed behind the driver, but as the least prioritized item, the volume required for good performance had to decrease several times when other components needed more space. The subwoofer eventually had worse performance than the door speakers and it was pointless to continue, so I "killed it" and tried to find 20 liter of empty space in a different location. Not very easy in a hyper modular truck with thousands of configurations, basically every inch is occupied and everything was also frozen because this was at the end of the release for serial production. I spent months looking at the master CAD-model and real prototype cabs to find any suitable space, but couldn't. Then one day I overheard one of the mechanics that said "-its strange that it is empty space up there" and what I didn't notice was that the sound isolation on the roof/back panel was modeled too thick in CAD compared to the real world. This also made it quite challenging to design the subwoofer because i couldn't use the CAD-environment. I had to hand carve the shape of the subwoofer from a rigid foam block to fit the empty space, compression of the isolation and the assembly motion of the top/back panel. When I finally had a new shape and a location of the subwoofer, the fixation and mounting was the next mountain to climb. Due to very strict ergonomic requirements of the factory workers, they must not lift more than 5kg and not above their shoulders. The subwoofer with dual drivers and amplifier is now ~8kg and is mounted in the roof/back corner, I am a normally tall male and in the cab I can stand and barely reach the roof with my fingers. The factory workers could be short females and they have to be able to mount the subwoofer as well. No lifting equipment could be used since it is a moving assembly line where the top/back panel is mounted and the subwoofer must be behind it. This together with no available fixation points in the cab structure, since its now in full serial production, I could only use 4 existing holes that was only used for the welding robots for alignment. But they are 1 meter apart on each side of the cab which is more than 2m wide. I only had 2 more kg to figure out brackets to reach those holes so two workers are allowed to lift it and strong enough to handle the crash loads (A box of tissues can kill you with the g-forces in a crash, so you really don't want a 10kg subwoofer in your head..). Finally, many iterations later, the 1 meter long brackets could now also be used as lifting handles for the workers to reach. I never saw the subwoofer in production, while it waited for approval I had to quit my consultant assignment because I almost burnt out. The radio unit I also was partly responsible of was THE most prioritized item of the truck and you just can't release a new generation, 15 years of development, of trucks with no radio in it and a gaping hole in the dashboard. The radio was a mess and involved hundreds of engineers. Emergency meetings took the focus of a normal working day, I could only work on my other items after people went home. At the evening you could see me running around the parking with a pink rigid foam subwoofer model, as tall as my self and trying to find suitable empty cabs to test-fit in. And now I finally see it in a real cab, for two seconds! How hard could it be to fit a jerrycan sized subwoofer in a giant truck? 🙂

What a nice unit😮 and it's pretty simple on the mecanic side

Bruce Wilson, South east American sales representative of Scania trucking division.

Imagine this hitting US market, it would be game over for the American brands.

Didn't this channel get like 250k subscribers when he started his Scania endeavor?