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American Volvo 670 truck

Hi! Today I say hello from Montreal

It's my third attempt to record this video

I have already recorded a great beginning but I forgot to turn on my camera

So hello from Monreal, I'm on a pause now

In todays video I'm gonna show you my Volvo

but more from the technical side

And I'm gonna tell you about the differences between the European and the American version

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Ok, so we're gonna start...

...from the beginnig

So first thing I will tell you is...

This truck was made in 2014

with a Volvo engine

Some drivers often argue that it's not Volvo but Cummins engine

But as you can see, it's written here

Engine model D13

425 horsepower

What is very interesting in this truck is that it is super light

It weighs 8tons and 36kg or 56kg (I can't remember now) accodring to the registration document

But it's really light, especially with the huge cabin

And it has two axles

and weighs only 8tons

So when I saw it, I asked Rafał if I really read it well

That maybe it meant something else

But it really is so light

So now we're gonna raise the hood

I wanted to show you how to raise the hood but I forgot to open it

So first you need to lay the pipes

Then you have something like that

You just need to pull it like that

I have already told you what kind of engine it is

Maybe you want to take a look

I don't know what else I could tell you because to be honest I'm not a mechanician at all

but maybe some of you are interested in how it looks

So I'll show it to you

For me, the most interesting thing here is

is the suspension, take a look

Can you see any cushions here?

Can anyone see the cushions?

That's right, there are no cushions

It's really interesting thing for me

It surprised me at the beginning

I don't know if you will hear me because of the wind

At the beginnig I was surprised

when I saw that this Volvo had no cushions

But as I see, most of the trucks here have no cushions in the front

In European trucks it sure depends on the vershion that the company's owner orders

But still, most of trucks in Europe has cusions both in the front and in the back

here there's not the case and it was surprising for me

because the driving is very tough, especially in a city like Montreal where the roads are full of holes

In the short, city trucks it's quite comfortable

On route it's not bad unless there are no holes in the road

Maybe that's because the trucks here are much faster

Or maybe...

My truck is locked at 104kmph

65mph

Here in Canada the speed limit for trucks is 100kmph

In many states in the USA it's 65mph

So I think that's why the trucks are locked like that

So mine can drive up to 104kmph

the other side...

back to the subject

maybe that's the question of trucks that are much faster

so they need a harder suspension

or maybe they just like their own solutions

I don't know, why, I just show you how it looks like

Maybe some of you, American drivers can explain it to me

En Europe sometimes you can see trucks without cushions in the front

But still, most of themp have it

and it's softer

So this is how it looks like

If I have already opened the hood

I will refill the windshield washer fluid, this is where you refill

What I like here

Is that you can pour 7 liters of the windshield washer fluid in here

So, when it's sold in a container of 3,75l

You can pour almost two of them

So it's nice because I don't have to refill it often, especially in the winter

So when I poured the fluid for the last time

I just entered one container of 3,75l and this is what left in the second one

I have to go to the warehouse to take another one

I just have some remnants

Ok, we move further

Another thing that I'm sure you'll be interested in

Are the batteries

I have to close the door

Ok, it's open

There are some rubbers like in Scania

And look what we have here: we have the batteries

There are air tanks too of course

here are the batteries

and there are four of them

In Europe we have two big batteries which are connected in series

because the instalation in European trucks

are the 24-volt ones

and here there's 12-volt installation

so here as you can see

we have the batteries

so, four batteries

with smaller capacity

and connected in parallel

so this is a curiosity

here is an AdBlue tank

Here it's called DEF - Diesel Exhaust Fluid

I guess many of you know the Thygerrr's 'regeneration' story

The European Volvo trucks also need regeneration

But it's always done while driving

And the American ones need to stop to do it

Ok, we move further

Here we have fuel tanks

Mines are about 200 gallons

200 gallons is almost 800 liters

Here we also have some padlocks, there's nothing special in it

when you look at it

I'll put the camera here so the wind doesn't blow so much

It may seem that they're not special at all

but you can notice that first

the air one, for brakes

it's the same as in Poland

but now, they're 'dead' as I would say

So you can just install it easily with one hand

How could I say it... There's no air in it

I turn the air on in the tractor

In European version there are some springs

and you install it on the padlock from the trailer

the air is blowed automatically

and it's harder to install

You just have to get used to it

When you do, there's no problem

but at the beginning, you may not to know how to do it

So here, it is defenitely easier to install

because, as I said, 'there's no air in it'

so you put it on easily

with one hand, without a problem

and then you turn the air on in the tractor

I'll show it to you when we're in the cabin

And notice that there is only one electric wire

look how many pins does it have

As I counted before, there are 7 pins

One, two, thre, four, five, six, seven... yeah, seven pins

And in European trucks we have two electric wires

and each has 7 or 8 pins

and separately, the ABS wire

So...

This is also because the trucks here have only the red light in the back

And have only one light for the registration plate

So the turn signals

stop lights and position lights and that's all

so one wire is enough

The ABS also is the basic one, there's no EBS or other systems

So it's all very simple and fits in just one plug

What I like very much here in Canada

in our company, trailers have a thing like that

I have seen it in one of Rafał's videos, he called it 'cat eyes', I don't know how it's called actually

But it's a device that will show me when the tire pressue will lower

No matter in which one, because as you can see, it is also connected with the other tire

So if the pressure in one of the tires starts to lower

The yellow thing will open

It is very useful because sometimes you get up in the morning

and you see 'I guess I have a flat tire'

but sometimes it's just an illusion

because the temperature changes etc.

So it helps a lot

It's a great thing

This also is an intersting thing that surprised me at the beginning

Look, these are the only lights in the tractor

So you can actually see nothing on the sides

There are no lights on the sides

It was weird for me

So these are the position lights, turn signals and one reversing light and that's all

Turn signals are just red

Is there anything more?

I have some working lights added

I think the saddles are the same

You can move it here, I have never done it

even though there is a button for it in the inside

but I have never needed it

But apparently sometimes there is a need to do it

That's all, we'll go inside

It's cold

It's really cold

Now I have to record quickly

because it's cold in here too

because there's no webasto in this truck

It is not equipped with a parking heater

And most of the trucks here don't have it

And it's really weird for me

But I have already got used to it, an to sleep with the engine on

Don't ask me why

Because I don't know why

Maybe it's profitable for them

Maybe it's profitable to keep the engines on

all night long in the winter

I try explain it to myself, maybe the frosts here are so high

that when it's for example -20°C or -30°C, you wouldn't turn the engine off anyway

And you keep it turned on so the fuel doesn't get thick

if it's not a good quality fuel

But there are still transitional periods

When it's 0°C, 5°C or even 10°C

when webasto would be useful

But well, this is how it looks here

Of course you can order a truck with webasto, the new ones coming here have it already

But I don't have it

I can take it off I guess

or maybe I'll leave it

So here are the...

How could I say it...

Normally I would say the handbrake

Actually, it is even called the parking brake

But for me it's more like some kind of valve

and this is because

You have to push it strongly to release it

and when you apply it, you have to pull it strongly as well

it's applied at the moment

it's the tractor's parking brake

so when I want to release it and move, I just need to push it

and I can go

when I don't have a trailer

I can go

I'll take it off, it looks stupid

I feel weird

So, when I only have the tractor, I push it and I can go

And when I have a trailer, I push it too

and release the tractor's brake

And I push this button here

this one

Now I can't push it, it would just blow the air

this is for the trailer and I have to push it

and this is when the air goes to the trailer

and this is when I can move

So when I want to move with a trailer, I have to push both buttons

Now I don't want to push because I don't have a trailer

So I push this one

And when I stop, I pull this one and the second one applies automatically

So it is completely different than in European trucks

And some trucks also have a thing like that

Here is the trailer's brake

I don't have a trailer

but here all drivers use it

when you connect the trailer, you check if the saddle is locked well

you check it on the saddle of course

If it's closed

but it is good to check it here as well

what else...

Another thing which was made differently than in the European Volvo

or generally in European trucks

is the suspension

In European trucks we usually have just one level of driving

Volvo has three driving levels

the normal one

the low one and the high one

you just press an up or down button

and stay at the chosen level

And then, the truck doesn't give you signals that it's not well leveled

In addition, you have a remore so you can conrol it

You can cantrol the back of the tractor

or, if you have cushions in the front, you can control the front too

So you can balance the tractor as you want

It's useful when you have a sloping ramp for example

Or when you drive upwards wit a mega trailer

On the low wheels ina tractor, it's very useful

It can help you to avoid breaking your bumper for example

When you don't have it and you have a low tractor

and you have the high mega trailer

You can sometimes damage the plates

or the plastic parts in the front

Here I don't have any options, there's just the 'normal' one

and I can let off the air

So I can't go up or dow, there only are two options

The driving level and letting the air off the back cushions

So now when I stand a little bit at a slant

I let the air off

So I don't fall

It's done the same way in the trailer

You leave the air in or let it off completely

you can't adjust it

to lift the trailer more or less

but you choose between all or nothing

Ok, and now I'm gonna show you

I'm gonna prove you

that the whole installation

is the 12-volt one

we'll open it

I don't have a screwdriver

I know you're gonna laugh

Even I feel weird about it

I feel weird that I don't have a hammer or a screwdriver here

no pliers etc.

I have nothing

You know, after years of driving with oversize loads

when I always had my own toolbox from my company

because there were always something to do

the basic service things

There is always something to do in the open trailers

especially in winter

something can damage and need a little repair

and here I have nothing

I think I can already take it off

So we'll remove it

Ok, it's done

Look at it

Can you see it? On the transmitters? I'll show it wit my finger but if you look closer

You'll see 12V

There's not much of the fuses

comparing to European trucks

So this is how it looks like

Now I have to replace it

I have to put it here...

I can't close it

I don't have an access to it

It will stay like that

I was recorging in the cabin so much that I have recorded nothing

So I will draw it one more time

So in European trucks it's like that

One battery

the second one

and they're connected like that

Here's 12V

and all that makes 24V

because in serial connection the voltage sums up

Here in the American trucks it looks like that

12V

or not

It's to small

second one

third one

fourth one

and they are connected in parallel

all the 'minus' together

they're connected here

and all the 'plus' here

Thanks to that we still have 12V installation

because when you connect the batteries in parallel

the voltage remains unchanged

So this is the difference. These batteries are smaller so they also have lower capacity

the European ones are bigger

So this is how it looks like, in brief

And at the end of this video I would like to tell you one thing that I forgot to mention in the previous one

I mean the light

I miss the light in this Volvo

there's just one light

By the roof

It lightens only this part of the cabin

It doesn't reach here at all

So if I need to reach something from here for example

It's too dark

Here are some additional lights

this one doesn't even work,

So I miss a little bit of light in the 'working' part of the cabin

because it's too dark

These lights aren't enough

It should be some more light, not for the sleeper part

but somewhere here

Otherwise, it's nice to drive

The difference that surprised me the most is the suspension

the electric installation

People often don't believe me

That there is the 12V electric installation here

that's why I opened it

and showed you the fuses so noone can say I'm wrong

I will show you one more thing

As you can see, 12,4V

It shows me a warning that there's no air

Ok, time for me to warm up

It's very cold in here

So I hope you like this video

and that you have learned something new

about this truck

and abour American Trucks in general

If you know answers for some questions I have asked

About the webasto, the suspension

Or 12V power

Let me know,

because I'm a new driver here and I don't understand everything

So I'm waiting for your comments

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from my Volvo

that I will share soon

So thank you for watching

See you next time, bye!