Driving the SCANIA 770S, Most POWERFUL Semi Truck in the WORLD!

Bruce will single-handedly reintroduce Scania to US market lmao

It was a pleasure guiding you at Scania chassis assembly, and I'm glad you enjoyed the tour! Nice discussions and good luck with your own Scania Truck!

I’m an American truck driver, and own a small trucking company in Alaska, we do a lot of oilfield work running the famous James, Daulton Highway, AKA “the haul road” so I’m really familiar with driving in the snow. I am also a commercial aviator, I fly business class jets part time, and I’ve been all over about every other continent there is, I’ve even been to Antarctica a handful of occasions. I have a driver that is from Sweden, and even got to go over to Sweden with him for a visit, and his old boss met me and let us run a load in one of their trucks, was also a Scania truck. I am here to say that from what I have seen in all my world travels, the United States is very far behind on their technological advancements in the transportation industry. The system we have works for what we do, but for the road that they have to travel, the system we have would never work there. It is pretty neat that you got to go do something like this, it is very rare for an American truck, driver to experience the transportation industry in Europe. If more Americans got to see how they do it there, it will open their eyes too better ways of doing things for sure.

I work as a design engineer at R&D at Scania in Södertälje. The guy instructing you at the test track used to be my manager's manager and head of the axle development at Scania. He has lots of experience and knowledge. Now he's retired so I was surprised but pleased to see him in this video.

Makes me proud to be Swedish,even though i work for the "opposite team" Volvo Trucks in Gothenburg 😄 Scania is great trucks!

It’s incredible how welcoming they were to a US YouTuber. I can’t imagine they have a lot to gain by being featured on an American channel. I know people watch channels from all over the world, but still I’m impressed with the hospitality.

The big difference between American trucks and those from Europe, apart from the legal requirements for dimensions and weight, seems to be that the trucks from Europe try more to take the strain off the driver and make his already hard job as pleasant as possible. And Scania is certainly at the forefront of this. It was nice to see that the American visitors were so well received and that they were able to see and try out everything that interested them. That's how it should be.

A fun detail is that Scania lets employees drive around this track for a day with different trucks/buses when you get any kind of promotion. Driven around it twice so far and it's amazing how smooth they are to drive! I'm glad you got to try it!

This just shows how far behind we are on technology. With this horsepower and torque and effortless driving

well done scania for letting the American boy have some fun in a proper truck

As a Swede I'm really impressed about the Scania factory and your humbleness for the Scania trucks, thanks Bruce!

And I thought the peterbilt factory in Denton was awesome. Scania is definitely over the top, much more sophisticated. Beautiful trucks. Thanks for the rad content brother

There are a lot of tunnels in Sweden and Finland especially. For ex, there is a second city under Helsinki that can house 600k people, there are hundreds of miles of tunnels. The bed rock is some of the oldest on the planet, 2-4 billion year old and the formations are called cratons. They are geologically stable, solid granite and gneiss, no earthquakes, no volcanoes to worry about and the tunnels don't need any support material. Just dig a hole and it will be there until the sun devours the Earth...

I was obviously hesitant being an older truck driver from America, but I gotta tell you, I’m sold! I am very impressed! Even the little detail of having a built in phone holder on the dash. Well done Scania!!

This is only my opinion, but to me the fundamental difference between euro and US trucks, especially the Swedish ones, is that euro ones are engineered from the bottom up. Volvo and Scania design, engineer and make all their own components. Plus, the competition between Scania and Volvo is intense. They push each other on. This is evident in the video by the new 560 super Scania which is a direct competitor to the FH D13 turbo compound from Volvo. Not to mention of course the FH16 750 to the 770S. Really, what's the difference between Kenworth, western star, peterbilt. They all seem to offer 3rd party engines, transmissions, axles etc. They're basically all the bloody same, lumps of steel with 3rd party components just bolted on. Fantastic video though Bruce. I believe you've become a big Scania fan. But just for balance you should do the same thing with the Volvo truck line up.

One of the things that you haven’t mentioned is just how good these Scania trucks are on fuel. I run Scania’s in the UK and the economy on these trucks is fantastic. Great video lads 👍

What a cool experience. Shout out to Matt for helping Bruce out..

I was a field test driver for Scania before, it's fun to see some of the things I tried years ago finally being in the trucks :D

In New Zealand we, as a small country, have a huge range of different trucks with Scania being our greatest selling heavy duty truck. We used to have a lot of what you call long nose tracks but now mostly have cabover trucks.

Driving around Europe from Norway many years in my early day's. I am just amazed, how old school the American trucks are. Not even have air lift options to rise or lower the trucks in US, is just mind Blowing. And the gear shift systems in us trucks, are so old school 😂😂