Doctor Blade
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150 in that thing? Geez, you'd pulverize anyone you hit.
Nice truck, too.
Nice truck, too.
How fast are these trucks? I very much like the idea of scaring people off the left lane of the Autobahn at 120 mph.
Yup. Therefore...150 in that thing? Geez, you'd pulverize anyone you hit.
... that has already been taken care of. First of all since the smallest "Super Duty" today has a gross weight of 3992kg, you'll need a C-license to drive it. Secondly, it falls under directive 2004/11/EEC which state that any heavy goods vehicle exceeding 3500kg must have an electronic speed limiter installed.How fast are these trucks? I very much like the idea of scaring people off the left lane of the Autobahn at 120 mph.
... that has already been taken care of. First of all since the smallest "Super Duty" today has a gross weight of 3992kg, you'll need a C-license to drive it. Secondly, it falls under directive 2004/11/EEC which state that any heavy goods vehicle exceeding 3500kg must have an electronic speed limiter installed.
Yup. Therefore...
... that has already been taken care of. First of all since the smallest "Super Duty" today has a gross weight of 3992kg, you'll need a C-license to drive it. Secondly, it falls under directive 2004/11/EEC which state that any heavy goods vehicle exceeding 3500kg must have an electronic speed limiter installed.
It might not fall under HGV designation, I'm curious to see what the qualifications are.
... that has already been taken care of. First of all since the smallest "Super Duty" today has a gross weight of 3992kg, you'll need a C-license to drive it. Secondly, it falls under directive 2004/11/EEC which state that any heavy goods vehicle exceeding 3500kg must have an electronic speed limiter installed.
How fast are these trucks? I very much like the idea of scaring people off the left lane of the Autobahn at 120 mph.
Get a chip with a topspeed delimiter and some nice new boost settings and you'll be hitting atleast 130mph, my old boss had a 08 350 chipped and it was absolutely ridiculous, we hit 130 with no problems and as far as gearing goes that was only at like 2900-3000 rpm so you got another 1000 or more revs there. This new bigger engine with the same sort of chip setup I bet gets to 150 no problem.
America, fuck yeah. Chipped dually with a giant brush guard flying down the street and plowing through everything in its path.
At least here in Germany vehicles over 3,5t can be registered as a car (PKW) that doesn't have a general speed limit (otherwise a Hummer wouldn't be allowed to go over 80 kph). You would have to pay car taxes for the truck though, and they would be immense (about 1400? a year).
Nevertheless, full-size trucks in Europe are cool. Among our subcompacts, they look like dinosaurs.
Yup. Therefore...
... that has already been taken care of. First of all since the smallest "Super Duty" today has a gross weight of 3992kg, you'll need a C-license to drive it. Secondly, it falls under directive 2004/11/EEC which state that any heavy goods vehicle exceeding 3500kg must have an electronic speed limiter installed.
Depends on how stringent your local registration authorities are. Up here, there's a firm called Rindab that imports various things like Hummer H2's and guts them a bit so they will be able to fit below 3500 kg. But importing one yourself and fiddling about with the paperwork, the transport administration won't fall for that easy trick.Unless offcourse you do what everyone else does and simply give up a lower gross weight at the initial registration/technical inspection procedure you go through when you import it
Never came across any heavy/superduty yanktruck (barred from a towtruck conversion) in europe that was registered as a c-licence or had a limiter.....sorry to burst your bubble there.
on topic : I like it.....its fucking ugly, yet that front end its so over the top it becomes awesome.
as for the speedthing? I have had mine up to 180 kph (dashspeed not actual) and I do my normal motorwaycruising at 140-150 witch puts it at 3000rpm?......these heavy duty's realy geared that much lower? never knew that .
Depends on how stringent your local registration authorities are. Up here, there's a firm called Rindab that imports various things like Hummer H2's and guts them a bit so they will be able to fit below 3500 kg. But importing one yourself and fiddling about with the paperwork, the transport administration won't fall for that easy trick.
There is an archaic method of registering such vehicles (up here at least) as "Heavy Cars", which exceed 3500kg but are legal to drive for a person with a B-license who took the license <1996 and has not had it recalled since. But it's either that, or a C-license, or stripping out the vehicle to loose weight so it fits under 3500. You are also correct that almost no US import has a limiter, simply because almost all of them are used as poser-mobiles. But if one uses such a vehicle for commercial purposes, then it shall have a limiter to be legal. And one of our beloved tachographs!
Of course vehicle registration is not fully harmonized across the union, so it differs a bit from place to place.