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Torque Brutality Video: Watch A Big Rig Hauling Trailers Of Logs Lug Up A Hill And Nearly Twist Itself Into a Pretzel


Torque Brutality Video: Watch A Big Rig Hauling Trailers Of Logs Lug Up A Hill And Nearly Twist Itself Into a Pretzel

I may get bagged on for my child-like fascination with big rigs, but when videos like this surface and we get to share them it doesn’t seem all that crazy does it? If you can watch this newish looking Volvo cab over truck, laden with trailers of massive logs probably cut out of the rain forests in South America, use every ounce of torque and gearing that it has to claw up a logging road in the forest and not at least smile, you’re beyond hope.

Despite the fact that the truck is working on a dirt road, it has enough traction to pull the front end up and torque the chassis like no one’s business. This is like a more slow motion and brutal version of the awesome Canadian big rig drags where they run the loaded trucks up a hilly street in the center of a small city in Quebec. There’s about triple the weight on this truck and the grade is way less than half the Canadian course, but it is prolonged and all that dead weight certainly doesn’t want to move itself as evidenced by the truck’s nose in the air stance. At one point the driver is giving the truck some hard left rudder to keep it out of the woods and loose sand that are next to the logging road. The right front tire is barely touching the ground enough to force the cab over, but it does move just enough.

As the truck crawls by the camera man, you can totally hear the big Volvo diesel motor working as hard as it can to keep the load moving. As the road evens out, you can hear the driver grab another gear or two before the video ends. There is also a celebratory “whoop!” let out as the truck slowly passes the camera operator.

Bag on my love o’ big rigs all you want but this is totally bitchin’!

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE A VOLVO CAB OVER RIG WORK FOR EVERYTHING IT IS WORTH PULLING LOGS UP HILL!


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3 thoughts on “Torque Brutality Video: Watch A Big Rig Hauling Trailers Of Logs Lug Up A Hill And Nearly Twist Itself Into a Pretzel

  1. scooterz82

    My math may not be very good but I only count 2 trailers.Their mechanics must enjoy changing frame rails and if they used 3/8 rails like american log trucks they wouldn’t have that problem.

  2. JP

    With just 440 horsepower.
    Not bad for a Volvo, guess its a 6×4 as it has traction enough to haul it without stalling it.

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