Delivering A Top-Secret Tank From Spain To England Has Its Challenges | Supertruckers

A driver struggles to get his delivery of a top-secret tank to port in time for the ferry to Portsmouth from Spain.
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[@marcstockton7114]

Top secret tank that is posted on you tube

[@Unknown_Ooh]

It was "top secret" when this was being filmed in transport. If you watched the video it was officially unveiled at a military expo.

[@christophersamuels7736]

Civilian driving 😂

[@HibernatingPlank]

@@christophersamuels7736 you mean Sergeant Major

[@christophersamuels7736]

@@HibernatingPlank yes sergeant major sir !!!

[@gauravthakur7699]

Righto

[@RealTylerBell]

top secret tank guarded by security guards, three people with ak47s and it would be yours

[@radioman9900]

And then what? Drive a stolen truck with a tank on it over the chanel? Take a piss inside it?

[@RealTylerBell]

@@radioman9900 ...., that the point of getting the tank, you already an buyer lined up and take it to them, sell it take money an island or go to another country, then british see the big mistake and realize the top secret tank got stolen that easy

[@radioman9900]

@@RealTylerBell You're delusional lol

[@RealTylerBell]

@@radioman9900 or im crazy and see the epic flaws, and easy money if i was that crazy and stupid?

[@radioman9900]

@@RealTylerBell you actually think you can steal a tank and sell it in the middle of a French street :| Lorries have trackers in them

[@ArthurTugwell]

Let’s be real, a secret tank wouldn’t be being transported by a public transport company.

[@vondahe]

Well, it certainly wouldn't be the main star of a documentary.

[@antr7493]

Does the security guards actual have bullets in their belt? like the wild west

[@jackhobson9180]

I’m just waiting for the fast and furious lot to come and steal it

[@Tomo-hb2tq]

It’s the new warrior that’s all it is

[@manu_astur9720]

Bienvenido a España

[@briansaenz4392]

Super cool

[@RoperGaming]

Top secret. 🤣🤣 Really. Any title for the extra clicks. Here's another secret, the government have wasted 4.5b on these vehicles because like the warrior the can't shoot on the move so they've been binned. Well at least the cannon versions.

[@quadrifern]

not so top-secret now is it lmao

[@imvumk4trey362]

Nice videos

[@Hamstaden]

What kind of truck got rpm redline at 6600 rpm??😂

[@theftgamingroblox4085]

Pog

[@paulhill570]

these guys give truck driver a bad name ffs

[@naheekibrahim1916]

Not very secret anymore

[@Colin-Fenix]

Except it isn’t a tank! 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼

[@ThunderStorm_Dreams]

who uses KM...

[@Jambale_97]

About 95% of the world?

[@alfrredd]

@@Jambale_97 I'd say it's closer to 99%

[@jonasb.3018]

@@alfrredd yep haha

[@mii3039]

Lol!

[@richard123467893]

so he stopped with 15 min drive time left? that is atleast 10km driving if not 20

[@ingmarvanolffen]

He asked permission to drive more

[@littlejackalo5326]

Either way, it wouldn't have been enough timbre to get to the destination. When you're cutting it that close, you stop where you know you can park. He could have driven 15 more min, not made it to the destination, and not had anywhere to stop.

[@therickman1990]

This "Top Secret" tank is the General Dynamics Ajax. Also, why is the driver wearing a motorcycle helmet? lol

[@eduardov7687]

It's for safety, never know what could happen.

[@Kevin-fj5oe]

I guess it's their SOP

[@PYTHONdan9]

Need a helmet cos your head is poking through a metal hole. Sharp brake and you'd bump your head. Guessing they didn't have an army hat around so it does the job.

[@SCOHunter]

When they said armed security was expecting police with rifles or the military or something, not some security guards with revolvers lol

[@TerreusGaming]

I swear everyone in Supertruckers sounds like they're straight out of Hot Fuzz

[@nosha6599]

Are we gonna talk bout the fleet managers voice

[@JUST2y]

sexy innit

[@szpecunio]

Timestamp?

[@TheMrNicke]

@@szpecunio 0:48

[@wolfyys]

Take a shot every time you hear Sergeant Major

[@jittboui9944]

Top secret and they had a commercial vehicle tow it instead of a military transport

[@rogerward9492]

The engine management light, it’s called the fools light by mechanics.

[@pipeqez911]

And they showed a light from a car, the rpms went up to 8 or 9k, in that volvo truck the rev counter wouldnt go higher than 4

[@bmad1386]

​@@pipeqez911 I don't think the engine would even rev over 2500rpm😂

[@pipeqez911]

@B MAD i meant the counter gauge, yeah the engine probably is limited yo 2750 or something

[@MUSTBUYRIGHT]

If anybody wanted that piece of crap they would have just taken it when you were going down the highway. Maybe you should do a miniseries about The Life and Times of a broken down truck

[@therealkidhasgame9922]

Imma just assume you know nothing about the tank but alr

[@nightSkyacc]

If this was top secret the military would be transporting it not a civilian

[@Kauppamopo]

all military equipment are made by civilian companies

[@BritishEngineer]

@@KauppamopoWhat is Bae systems or Lockheed Martin?

[@bigbob3197]

0:33 What? That´s not even from the truck...

[@philgreen736]

Yeah I was thinking exactly that, it’s an FH Classic, so redline is maximum 2500-3000rpm. Car the guy is driving behind is probably the faulty one

[@PillSharks]

Lol, I noticed that. I’ve covered hundreds of thousands of miles looking at the dash of the old Volvo FH and I can assure...that ain’t from a FH.. And I’ve never been in any wagon which revs to 8,000 😂😂

[@bigbob3197]

@@PillSharks Well... it´s from some petrol powered car :D looks almost like my mitsubishi haha my company once had a strange truck without any mark on it... it could rev to 4500... but never found out what brand it was...

[@bhavyanathg4632]

Yeah, its form 2006 Chevy Silverado

[@Bid999xbox]

The police give him permission to carry but his tacho card will log the infringment and next time vosa check his hours oh dear

[@Kauppamopo]

i like how to used that engine light shot from some random mazda

[@imortaliz]

one hell of a truck you have there, 7k redline XD @0:34

[@bhavyanathg4632]

That dashboard is not of 2008 volvo fh16 truck. The normal rpm range for these kind of long haul semi trucks is 1.3k to 1.5k rpm and max 3k rpm redline Edit: dashboard is of 2006 Chevy Silverado

[@imortaliz]

@@bhavyanathg4632 i know, im talking about the fake engine warning they had to do on the show. when you go to 34 sec you see a 7k redline tacho XD

[@dillon17]

Me as a Brit fluent in spanish, makes my head hurt the way he says VallaDolid.

[@ronaldharris6569]

When did a Bradley become a tank?

[@sentien13]

its a CV90, not a Bradley

[@Xerdoz]

@@sentien13 It's a General Dynamix Ajax. Not a CV90.

[@sentien13]

@@Xerdoz Which is based on what? Ohhhh the CV90... >.>

[@pleg6]

@@sentien13 no it's not based on the Swedish cv90, 2 different designer and manufacturer. they are similar in design but they are 2 completely different vehicle

[@falkeholz1459]

@@Xerdoz In 2010, General Dynamics UK was selected as the winner of the Future Rapid Effect System contract with the ASCOD Common Base Platform, beating BAE Systems' CV90 proposal.

[@_JohnDoe]

Interesting how it has a "CONVOI EXCEPTIONEL" sign at the front and back, which is in neither Spanish nor English, but in French.

[@Roguesquadroon]

Spanish trucks work just fine in the heat.

[@cbrown17982010]

Lol so “top secret” that they used a contractor with a camera crew to haul it instead of strapping it down and flying it over on a C-17. . . Click bait culture 🤮

[@delijenick7587]

Fast and furious 6 storyline😂

[@AroundEU]

Hahahah not a truck engine warning! What a drama hahaha...

[@furyfalcon1933]

Excel London part of Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Company can't believe the owner of this company is from UAE 9:32

[@MartesWigglesworth]

I call complete BS on this episode's manufactured drama of a truck that "can't handle the heat in Spain......" SPAIN???????????? Are you for real????? And a truck that can't handle 104 degree (F) weather???? So how do trucks servive in Australia running the land trains???? And why did this guy need to even call the dispatch to figure out that his engine would not explode????? (And he has been driving the truck for five years, but doesn't know it won't explode at 104 degree weather?????)

[@dyent]

The engine is why trucks in Australia can handle higher temps. They're designed for long journeys along flat ground in high heat. They can go thousands of miles just on tickover, not even touching the pedals. They're high torque, (relatively) low horsepower motors. This truck is designed for much lighter loads, going in cities where theres emissions regulations, and to go up and down hills, in average northern European temperatures, and tuned more towards power than just outright torque due to the need to travel at the speed of regular traffic. 104 is much warmer than its average running conditions, making the cooling less effective. It's also pulling close to its maximum capacity while going uphill.

[@MartesWigglesworth]

@@dyent I appreciate your reply and the time you took to reply. I was more being sarcastic because every single time I see what people in Europe use to pull heavy weight loads I cringe. (Basically they are always using obnoxiously underpowered tractors and then you have to listen to all this amazement when they break down under load. Have you seen what gets by as a simple automobile recovery vehicle over there??? They literally use Ford Transit sized van cutaways without even dually axles.). I guess I forgot about this and it urked the heck out of me once I started watching this nonsense. However, thank you for taking the time to attempt to educate me on these topics.

[@dyent]

@@MartesWigglesworth Fair enough - The sarcasm really didn't come through the text lol. We use different recovery vehicles depending on the purpose. the transit rollbacks and flatbeds would generally only be used for stuff below 2.5ton - but we do use transits for a lot. I used to drive a transit dually with a tipper back doing rubble removals (It also had the rear leafsprings upgraded from a stack of 3 to a stack of 9) and that was an absolute bastard down hills. Literally had the front left brake disc shatter once, that wasn't a fun day. Even on flat it'd struggle to get above 60mph and there were more than a few times we had to change route because we couldn't get up a hill in 1st gear (I live in one of the hilliest cities in England) The reason we generally use the smallest truck possible is actually rather simple - once you get into towns, a lot of our streets have been around a lot longer than motorised vehicles. It's the same reason we tend to have smaller cars too, a big land yacht like a cadillac would struggle to fit on most roads. Transit vans are actually some of the widest vehicles we have.

[@littlejackalo5326]

Derp

[@markfryer9880]

@@dyent Wait one minute, the Australian Outback is anything but flat, there are hills and mountain ranges and nobody drives with the engine just ticking over. You get your size 10 workboot and stomp on the pedal and go because you have hours of driving and hundreds of kilometres to travel. And yes all of that emissions crap has to stay working even in the bush. Mark from Melbourne Australia

[@Teeviee]

7:37 "top secret tank"

[@robertwillis4061]

By sending it on a single unmarked truck, makes it look like just an old vehicle being sent to scrap.

[@Skyetender]

Ha Ha Top secret tank on you tube, did you sign the official secrets act.

[@LiquidBlackWolf]

"top secret" offloading filmed and posted online.. got it

[@bullseye3556]

Biggest chopper I came across in the army.

[@susancollado5290]

💕Wow💕Getting in a tank is on my bucket list💕Top of bucket list is to go up in a helicopter💕

[@susancollado5290]

@Stem Artin 💕They don’t take on disabled people💕Although I wouldn’t mind doing an army assault course for charity💕

[@chrisrowland1514]

its a piece of junk, take it back and ask for a refund

[@bradhaughton6698]

I would go over my limit knowing this is a military load military time is very critical for them.

[@djabwlr9960]

£300 fine for the first offence up to £1500 for multiple tacho violations. (for one offense you basically drove that entire day for under minimum wage) Its possible if he was pulled over by VOSA back in England even with the permission of the Spanish authorities he would still be fined.... and up to a month after the offence was committed. Drivers must pay the fine before they are allowed to drive off if they are pulled in for a check. A vehicle is immobilised with chains when failing a roadside check until the fault is rectified.

[@littlejackalo5326]

@@djabwlr9960 the rules don't apply when you're doing work for the government. The security of the truck is FAR more important than the driver going 10 min over on his 10 hours.

[@lindsaydonovan6241]

10 hours driving time? In Australia we have 12.

[@runarandersen878]

It is 10 in most of Europe I think. And it is enough.

[@victorbeauvois]

AJAX IS COMPLETE LY. USELESS CRAP💩💩

[@lindenbeck]

Where is the top secretness if you see the tank?

[@08sausages]

Top secret but tell you the vehicle type 🤣😂😂😂

[@BehelitUser]

build 1 then

[@08sausages]

@@BehelitUser get back on the short yellow bus you !

[@Unknown_Ooh]

@@08sausages Cleary you belong on the same bus. It was top secret when this was in transport and being filmed. It was officially unveiled at the expo making it no longer secret.

[@08sausages]

@@Unknown_Ooh ha ha you think that was its first expo , wish I drank up everything these shows said , 😅

[@Huxley555]

And this tank is special because?

[@legominimovieproductions]

Top secret tank filmed and photografed on television and youtube, TOP SECRET

[@hassanikhwan7378]

Did you see Dominic Toretto

[@erichvonmolder9310]

So Spain has a "top secret tank"? LOL! That's funny right there!

[@lunalie6938]

the top is secret

[@pachuelgrandius]

Arrives to the place in spain and two random english dudes that are currently in spain get mad at him

[@ferozkaamil1]

Too sure if you guys understand too secret meaning. Lol

[@barrysleafer8347]

Is this the top secret tank I've seen about ten times on the discovery channel

[@cameroncumming8959]

Seen more security and police for windmills!

[@Le_Blnk____]

Hello Brigadier General Sergeant Major

[@alexanderkruse5715]

Top secret, what a nice tarp

[@araquatics3722]

not very top secret anymore

[@remyrson9542]

Goodnight ted

[@rock3tcatU233]

"TOP SECRET"

[@nikolashanks7058]

It's not a tank

[@unknowncaves2099]

annoying

[@chewiesof]

Imagine if it got ambushed by Russians

[@ruce9269]

As someone stated this could be easily watched through satellite and if someone tried to steal it teams could be assembled in a couple of minutes, even fighter jets if necessary

[@gaetanogatanuso5736]

First comment

[@imvumk4trey362]

Yooooo

[@youngandbroke5861]

the way he said cerveza 🤣🤣🤣

[@_JohnDoe]

Seversa.

[@lvl666outlaw]

U guys actually take your hour limit seriously in Europe?????? Everyone in the USA cheats on their logs

[@philiplee6940]

i don't know about American logs but in Europe, it's all digital, we can't cheat and if we went over time and police checks us, it's a huge fine to the driver which gets bigger for each minute over time

[@littlejackalo5326]

@@philiplee6940 yeah, Pablo doesn't know what he's talking about. He may have driven trucks 20 years ago. Truckers rarely cheat their logs, especially since most fleet trucks have electronic logs now.

[@comradebismarck]

The fine is only £300.

[@alquemir]

How come you are still allowed to do business in EU after the Brexit?

[@yirennn]

the uk still trades with EU, doesn't matter whether its a member or not, same for many countries. it just has more tax on it.