Extreme Euro trucking videos

[Gazer75]

Figured a thread like this would be nice. Share videos you find



Guess the Youtube link code is not working?

[n4gix.bill.leaming]

Good grief! I was a nervous wreck just watching that. I cannot even imagine what the driver felt like...

[Aussie Trucker]

We don't have the tunnels like that but the twisty turny roads on the side of the hills reminds me of dragging logs out of the bush. Dirt tracks, steep hills, no room for error and the only thing between you and the truck coming up the track empty is the CB radio which you monitor constantly as you negotiate the often wet and slippery roads with 40 tonne of logs on the back.

[n4gix.bill.leaming]

I was really impressed by another of this series in which the driver was hauling a load of logs...

...which had been quite carefully stacked higher on the left (downhill) side at an angle that was just barely enough to clear those overhangs and oddly shaped rock tunnels.

[Gazer75]

Part of nat. road 13 between E134 and E39 which is in Scandinavia DLC, but obviously not accurately represented
Bridge crossing is here: http://osm.org/go/0TD3ZRQ--?m=
I am not 100% sure but I think the bridge the person filming is using, is only for pedestrians these days.

[Aussie Trucker]

I am not 100% sure but I think the bridge the person filming is using, is only for pedestrians these days.

No point letting a good bridge go to waste

Dunno whether it went global or not but for a while we had a show on in Aus which I think came from American Discovery channel where they put several truck drivers on some of the worlds most dangerous roads and another where they just showed truckies doing their jobs in the local environment. One episode showed a road in Aus that we used to use for log carting and while it was pretty treacherous it was nothing on the roads in India and places like that where they count the number of fatalities in the hundreds and many of the trucks that have fallen off the road are just left at the bottom of mountains because they can't be retrieved.

[Gazer75]

I was some of the guys from Ice Road Truckers series that went to India. They aired that on Discovery here as well.

The roads in that TV show are way more extreme than anything you find around here thank God.

[MIRFI]

Good show indeed!

[KubaJAM]

I was some of the guys from Ice Road Truckers series that went to India. They aired that on Discovery here as well.

The roads in that TV show are way more extreme than anything you find around here thank God.

I know! Watched that too and got quite scared on many occasions, nothing anywhere near that bad in Britain obviously .

[Aussie Trucker]

I was some of the guys from Ice Road Truckers series that went to India. They aired that on Discovery here as well.

The roads in that TV show are way more extreme than anything you find around here thank God.

Yeah that was one of the ones we got too (along with Ice Road truckers). Unfortunately like most of those shows there was a bit too much 'for the camera' footage where they created a situation that didn't need to be created or common sense was thrown out the window but some of the roads were just amazing.

We also got a show here called The Worlds Toughest Trucker (or something similar) where they pitted several drivers from all around the world against each other on different roads in different countries and one guy got to claim he was a winner at the end. Not sure about other countries but the bit the shot in Aus (carting prefab buildings on flatbeds in red dirt country) was a load of twaddle. Everything was done under controlled circumstances, it was done with very little danger and many of the hair raising scenes where choreographed more that a Billy Elliot musical production. That show truly sucked.