Frisian hauling company Siep Amsterdam Transport -so not from Amsterdam- specializes in business trips to Norway and Sweden. A curtainside semi-low loader, coupled to their newest Volvo tractor, was on display at a September 2025 truck show.
The 2025 Volvo FH tractor, with a traditional 6×2 drivetrain, comes with the truck maker’s Aero Globetrotter XXL tilt cab. The sloping and rounded front is the Aero part of the package and the XXL cab is 25 cm (9.8”) longer than the standard FH sleeper cab, the Globetrotter and Globetrotter XL included.
IJntema Carrosseriebouw built the complete curtainside body on the 2018 Floor ‘Solid as a Rock’ underpinnings. It must be solid, given the semi-trailer’s registered payload capacity of 35,440 kg (78,132 lbs).
Siep Amsterdam has two of these highly flexible Floor-IJntema semi-trailers. Clearly, they were not designed and built to carry ordinary, palletized goods (courtesy of IJntema Carrosseriebouw).
See, here are just some examples of freight you usually wouldn’t expect to find behind the curtain (courtesy of Siep Amsterdam Transport).
What is the point of that folded-up washing line thingy on the nose? It’s so close to the bodywork it would be of zero use as a bullbar – a large mozzie would whack that back into the panelwork. (Well, the ones round here would, anyway, but I’m digressing).
In the Netherlands, these things -mostly made by Trux from Sweden- are just for ‘decoration’, but at least the Amsterdam guys drive to real wildlife regions way up north. On a related note, I’ve read that in the US ‘bullbars’ are mounted solely to protect the current electronic gizmos at the front/in the nose.