Just about 70% of all freight shipped in the United States is moved by a semi truck. That creates a big burden on a trucking company’s fleet manager, who has to make sure that their trucks are up and running at 100%. If a truck is down, money is lost, and not every trucking company is a huge firm with a hired-on staff of mechanics. Even if they are, if the truck breaks down in Idaho and the outfit is out of Missouri, it’s not like the company can wait until their mechanic can get out to the dead truck. That’s where Ryder Fleet Maintenance shines, offering up a system for companies who would rather farm out the maintenance and repair of their trucks. If you are in Ryder’s shoes, how do you prove to your potential customers that you are the company they should be doing business with? Prove your mettle. In this case, Ryder took this unsuspecting Volvo tractor and put it through hell, killing it. They drug the carcass to one of their fleet repair centers and after showing the maintenance techs the graphic footage, told them they had 24 hours to fix it. The truck got hit with flak cannons and a two-ton wrecking ball…that should put the truck in the scrap yard!
The “destruction” in that video is a lot of BS unfortunately. The “Flak Cannons” barely scratch the thing, the shots just before the wheel spikes show all the glass intact and barely a visible dent on the body. All the wheel spikes do is ruin the front tires & rims, something any roadside service truck could swap out. The dropped driveshaft looks to be rigged, there is no way spiking the wheels would cause it to pop off, I suspect one of the u-bolts was removed. The fire on the hood is clearly pyrotechnics behind the metal “bug shield” as there is nothing in that area of the hood to catch fire like that.
The only real damage is the wrecking ball, and even with that you can see just before it hits clear damage to the hood from a prior hit that only cracked the fiberglass.
I’m not dissing on the mechanics, they still had a fair amount of work to do(though I’m not sure why the engine & trans needed to come out), but the destruction is nowhere near as bad as the ad makes it out to be.
This reminds me of one of those Chevy VS Ford VS Mopar comparison videos from the 50´s…
I would not call that overheating, i have seen engines with no paint left due to heat, but i get the idea of showing of the mechanics thoug, i´m sure they are capable of fixing things like this, but the video is somewhat ridicolus.
WOW,, just plain old deseptive advertising to promote motor vehicles,,,, come on Ryder, people are more intelligent than you think
Yea a lot of BS. You can clearly see the U joint straps are unbolted, and the front tire thing as well. A diesel engine can run hot for more than 30 seconds without bursting into flames, which looked CGI to me anyhow. Jump that truck and rebuild it, that would impress me.
Just the thing that we CDL drivers need the general uninformed public to see and push for more regulations. ‘Truck bursts into flames after having a flat tire!!!’