Volvo Trucks - Increased safety on slippery roads with Volvo Trucks' Stretch Brake

For heavily loaded trucks, the risk of jack-knifing is high during the winter when the roads are slippery. Volvo Trucks' new innovation Stretch Brake prevents jack-knife accidents and gives the driver better control of the vehicle when driving in tough conditions. Johan Sundberg, at Sundberg's haulage company, drives heavily loaded rigs and has experienced the problem first-hand.

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[ErukanuSenpai]

This should be standart in every futurebuild Truck
Thank you Volvo :)

[xndyzyx]

A commercial that truely feels like a documentary. Not a fan of trucks, but genius marketing from Volvo.

[StefanNeumayr]

Actually there was a manual Stretchbreake wich was standart some years ago. But it was prohibitted because every driver used it downhill, especially when the trailer was rented to save breaks on his truck.

But I think, if the system is automated and can't be affected by the driver, it's going to be a good thing...

[cbond]

I truly agreed . Volvo will give more new things for the future.

[chauffeursiggi]

absolutely impressive, respect. The first one on market again. Thumbs up for great hard work.

[RavvenE]

Really good! Volvo is way ahead of their competitors.

[sergeypalkin]

Молодцы!

Мне водитель советского грузовика еще 10 лет назад рассказывал про обычный ручник (ручной тормоз). Начинает вилять, на себя - и в норме! ))

[NeroKoso]

I wish this technology was in one truck back in 2004. Bad accident in Finland, Konginkangas.

[DistantLightProd]

Volvo Trucks - continuously impressing the world with design, innovation and engineering. Well done!

[khaled.a.w]

after that commercial, there's no doubt that volvo is the besy in this business.

[ajaykumardas]

When a truck looks more luxurious than any car with high end features!😮❤❤

[eformance]

I'm confused, traditional OTR trucks have separately activatable trailer brakes, often referred to as "the spike". My understanding is that it's common for drivers in slick environments to use the trailer brakes a lot. I know that off the shelf brake controllers, for personal vehicles, have a manual brake actuation lever to help with controlling the trailer when sway gets out of control.

[maenacfc]

Would be nice, if Swedish talk had english subtitles.

[johnandrewrose]

Volvo getting it right again, a jacknife is every truckers and i mean !! EVERY !! truckers worst nightmare you can do everything right from a drivers point of view, you can keep the right distances, drive within the weather conditions, everything, then one idiot in a car full of kids pulls out in frt of you and you have to choices drive straight over them because you no you can.t stop so you slam on and physics does the rest, and if yr reall unlucky it kills the truckdriver and half the time car driver dosen, t even no what he or she has done, Without car driver education every truck safety aspect still might not be enough, but truck designers or doing everything they can to look after the truck driver and we need to say thankyou every day to those fabulous people THANK YOU GUYS & GIRLS FOR EVERYTHING YOU AND TRUCK MANUFACTURERS ARE DOING FOR US

[David_W]

I like the idea of stretch brake, which is supposed to reduce crashes.

[MikeLRGCar]

Great idea. Volvo always ahead of the rest ! Keep up good work. Cheers

[Kev_]

Really good innovation. Let's hope that it's not priced so high that it alienates fleet buyers as let's face it, most trucks on the road are fleet vehicles.

[AMvanRijsbergen]

Didn't they use to call it trailerbrake wich was removed for some vagus reason?

[gomeralonsotasamabedoya]

Me pregunto es verdad?que pasaria si en colombia dichas llantas fallaran...

[EgorKuzmin]

Всего лишь нужно понимать физику поведения авто и прицепа что бы "придумать" такую систему