How Semitrucks Are Crash Tested | Carsplainers | Insider Cars

Just like consumer cars have to undergo crash testing, so do commercial semitrucks. While some of these tests are the same that production cars undergo, others are designed specifically for trucks. Thanks to trucking companies like Volvo and Scania as well as the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, safety standards for these trucks are only improving.

Correction: In the video, we said that the trucks weighed 120 tons. The trucks are 8 to 12 tons and crashed at speeds of 30 to 50 miles per hour. We regret the error. Thank you.

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[Wouter-van-der-Molen]

Very bizarre that underride protection isn't required in the US, but having a backup camera is required in cars no matter the

[casebogue]

As a diesel mechanic I can tell you just stand clear of any semi trucks and trailers, you’d be amazed what goes unfixed or unnoticed.

[OisinHiggins]

Interesting video, though a 120 ton truck is oversized. The maximum Gross Combination Weight for most standard European trucks is 44-46 tons.

[casualfan]

Volvo and scania, two Swedish automotive companies obsessed with passenger safety. If only more companies were like them!

[RuizR.]

3:00 if your doing that for us Americans. The crash test dummies definitely need to have more of a belly.

[linonardin]

2:50 a semi truck averages 38T, not 120T. That's the weight of a diesel locomotive. I was a truck driver for 3 years in the US, and I can say from experience that the DOT needs to improve greatly

[sibtainraza]

Thanks to Europeans to even think about crash test of Trucks rest of the world don't even care

[mfmfusagi]

Awesome video! That 120-ton truck is a beast! I'm seriously considering making a career change. I've been using CDL Prep to prepare for the CDL test and it's been a lifesaver.

[eeerrraaannn]

Quality infomercial there, thoroughly enjoyed.

[cesaravila]

Talk about an underappreciated and overlooked profession. God bless these people.

[Tek.]

I hope these kind of tests are implemented around the world. For example, in Cambodia everyone can drive their junk on the road without any safety countermeasures.

[karagregory]

Great Video when can't fall Asleep, must bookmark it so it can help me doze off when I need some sleep.

[bergmanemanueleric]

4:47 Woah ok ok man you don't have to split on me like that lol

[Bassotronics]

4:47 The crash video crashed itself in honor of the vehicles that crashed.

[spuypim]

I dream of being a crash test engineer, I get to watch cars crash! but I'm sure that there is some technical work that goes along with it.

[TheEricsheng]

Thank you Volvo and Scania for making the safe truck.

[JamesK]

On April 15, 2014 my dads 60 year old cousin died in a commercial truck crash. He was hauling fertilizer in Salem, South Dakota when the front tire blew out. My dads cousin lost control of the truck and went over the center line into the ditch and the rolled over several times until he hit a bunch of trees. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

[Lololjustakid]

How do you control the semi’s and the car’s

[amiel]

Trucks in 3020: Using the old swedish test to ensure the driver survives falling from outer space

[WisconsinCentralProductions]

as a hardcore scania fan it was kinda hard to watch scania trucks getting slowly destroyed