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masklinnyesterday at 12:08 PM1 replyview on HN

Europe has length limits on the entire thing, so US trucks would require shorter trailers, which nobody really wants. Euro trucks also have significantly smaller turning radii, which makes navigating european cities and country roads… feasible.

Furthermore Europe has relatively strict speed limits on trucks, which makes aero something of a lesser factor since drag grows to the square of speed: european trucks at european speeds have a pretty significantly higher efficiency than US trucks at US speeds.


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pjc50yesterday at 2:48 PM

I could be wrong, but I thought the US had a mostly-national speed limit of 55mph, while the UK truck speed limit is 60mph, and the French truck speed limit appears to be 90kmh (56mph)

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