Multiple straight trucks and semis were on display at the yearly held show in the southeast of the Netherlands, organized by a local truck drivers club. Walking along a grand collection of unconnected tractor units is fine, but seeing the vehicles ‘in full’ is simply more satisfactory, mainly because of the more complete picture(s) you get.
The Van Eijk Brothers showcased their 2024 Scania R420 tractor with a 2023 Van Hool City Trailer. At last year’s show, the same Van Hool trailer was coupled to a DAF XD.
2024 Volvo FH16 6×2*4 truck with a Berdex livestock body and a hidden trailer coupling. The Volvo is powered by the 16.1 liter D16 engine, which used to be the truck maker’s turbodiesel boss. Not any longer, now it’s the 17.3 liter D17, available all the way up to 780 DIN-hp.
2020 DAF XF 450 FT Space Cab tractor.
A 2015 Scania R730 V8 8×4/4 heavy-haulage tractor, towing an extendable, 2023 Broshuis semi low-loader with six pendular axles.
2021 Volvo FH tractor.
2010 DAF XF 105.510 FAD Super Space Cab 8×4 hooklift truck. An old-school ‘hard-liner’ with heavy-duty leaf spring suspension and planetary drive axles. I’ve never seen the combination of such a DAF truck chassis with an XF Super Space Cab before.
2004 Scania R580 V8 6×2 tractor.
1954 Scania-Vabis L51 Drabant tractor.
2013 Renault Midlum box truck, owned by a driving school. A light truck for getting a C1 license (GVWR between 3,500 and 7,500 kg).
2021 DAF CF 410 FT Space Cab tractor.
1971 Scania L50 4×2 flatbed truck with dropsides. Scania’s last model with a four-cylinder engine.
2025 Volvo FH 6×2*4 flatbed truck, already loaded for Monday morning.
A new DAF XG 480 FT tractor, owned by the Loven dealership. Since the end of last year, this shade of red is the color for all DAF press and demo vehicles.
An electric Terberg terminal tractor (yard truck) with a 2006 Groenewegen curtainsider.
Dennis with his House of Power, a 2024 Scania S660 V8 tractor.
2024 DAF CF 340 FA vacuum sweeper truck. The body and equipment were built by the Bucher company from Switzerland.
2023 Volvo FM 8×2/*6 (aka 8×2 tridem) truck with a LAG tanker body. The Volvo is rated at a legal maximum gross weight of 37 tonnes (81,570 lbs), which is exactly the same as the rating of the orange DAF 8×4 hooklift truck.
Today’s last commercial vehicle, here’s the eco-friendly future of city delivery. The Brothers -last name unknown- bring you ice (the food type), coffee, and/or tea. The trike’s retro styling is very well done!
Very common truck brands here, some of the axle configurations are different that 8×4 DAF is how any make is delivered here 8 legger is now a standard rigid or prime mover but steel suspension is very unusual in a truck that new from Europe, the heavy haul rig with trombone trailer is odd too the prime mover has an oddball axle arrangement with the single steer axle, axle loadings are heavier than we are allowed, triple screw or tandem drive and a lazy isnt unusual but it would have tandem steer if delivered new here,
Suction truck is similar to something I operated, a Donaldson sweeper was modified to waterblast tar bleeds from the highways, all fabricated locally in Auckland, you cannot buy these rigs somebody in Sweden builds them also one at a time as required,
The crowd I worked for built 3, the Isuzu based rig could must 44,000 psi at the cutting heads the sweeper system was repowered with a 280hp Isuzu engine driving the vacuum pump and a 400hp detroit V8 powered the waterblaster, the truck had a hydrostatic drive when working and you walk behind it and steer with a remote control, a clever piece of kit mounted on a Chinese export spec Isuzu 6 wheeler the Chinese rejected so they got sold here dirt cheap, not a real 6 wheeler because air over hydraulic brakes not full air they werent trailer capable 8 speed slap box plastic mirrors Just garbage I can see why they were rejected, the Chinese build better trucks themselves. One on a LWB Kenworth was so un-maneuverable it was funny zero steering lock and too long it was hard to stay in one lane on turns as a truck steering in from 10ft behind it and absolute skill I never mastered, a later Mercedes based was right. but lacked hp.
The Scania heavy-haulage tractor has an 8×4/4 drivetrain, which means it has a steering (and liftable) pusher axle.
Do an image search for ‘scania 8×4/4’ and you get similar, dedicated heavy-haulage tractors. Even the ones offered by Tamiya…
As I was reading this, the street sweeper came down my street… and then I came to your sweeper photo here. This is one of the few classes in North America that’s still dominated by cabovers – our County uses Peterbilt medium-duty cabovers, which seems to be a common choice. But I’ve never seen a street sweeper here in any color other than white.
I’m intrigued by the livestock truck. First is that it’s mostly closed; the livestock trailers that I’m familiar with are mostly open. And also that it’s wearing such a well-designed livery. Occasionally we’ll see something like a fancy horse trailer that’s well-designed, but never a livestock trailer, and especially not for pigs. Those seem to be the nastiest trailers of them all. This one is very impressive.
That multi-deck livestock body is temperature controlled, per deck, and comes with cross-ventilation (we’re talking animal welfare). It also has an elevator-type of tailgate, an integrated weighing system is optional. Example below from the Berdex website.
A white Peterbilt sweeper truck, you say? The one below comes straight from Peterbilt’s company website…
Fun fact, its cab is a Renault design, have a close look at that 2013 Renault Midlum box truck.
Yes – that’s exactly what we have cleaning our streets. Except that instead of an Elgin sweeper, the ones I see now are made by Schwarze Industries (which, despite its Germanic name, is headquartered in Alabama).
I didn’t know that these medium-duty Peterbilts use a Renault design. But that makes sense – that cab doesn’t look entirely American. Thanks!
There’s more. That very same tlit cab is also used by Kenworth, DAF, Volvo, and -how about that- Renault.
We don’t get to see upper-crust equipment like this in the States. Unfortunately, with my experience, if you say Volvo I conjure up the less than steller Cat powered FE6s of the local fuel dealer. And if you say Scania, all I can think of is the little 6 cylinder diesels that powered MB Macks in the late ’60s. These are beautiful, well equipped, top of the line trucks!
Regarding Scania, Van Eijk’s fairly new Scania tractor is powered by a 12.7 liter inline-six. That same engine is also used by International (and MAN, by the way).
And Macks are essentially powered by Volvo turbodiesels these days.