Life As A Truck Driver In Japan - The Best And Worst Of It

[@afluffypinecone3577]

Your mispronunciation of archipelago is top tier.

[@TruckTropia]

Guess it depends where you come from 😅?

[@michaelwalker1145]

@@TruckTropia on earth we pronounce it correctly 🙄🙄🙄

[@thenrfor1]

@@michaelwalker1145 he's on mars

[@AP-ob9pm]

Arxipelágou

[@matpk]

@@TruckTropiaDO LIFE AS A TRUCK DRIVER IN TAIWAN🎉

[@regsmith7604]

Those decorated trucks remind me of the trucks in Colombia 🇨🇴 with hundreds of LED lights, and ultra bright brake lights that temporarily blind you on dark backroads

[@lundsweden]

Here in Australia the American brands dominate the big trucking market, you know brands like Kenworth, MAC and ok a few Volvos. But small to mid sized are dominated by the Japanese brands, Fuso, UD, Mitsubishi, Hino.

[@rolandsuch]

Kenworth is part of Paccar as is Daf and Mack is part of the Volvo Truck Group.

[@Thewheelguy5]

In South Africa our long distance trucks are all the standard Euro Spec Cab over trucks like Scania, Volvo, Mercedes, MAN, DAF etc... But our trucks inside the cities to move stuff around the city are these ones especially the Hino and UD which are very common

[@ZakModz88]

I'm from Indonesia and here small detail about trucking in my country. In here truck drivers are called truck drivers or truckers. For semi trucks in my country use the same type as semi trucks in Europe and Japan. So there are many brands here, but the most commonly seen are Japanese brands like Fuso, Hino, UD, although there are also some like Volvo, Scania, MAN, Mercedes Benz and Renault Trucks. On average for the Scania and Mercedes Benz brand there are more buses than trucks. for the truck itself we call it a truck, because the designation of a tractor is a vehicle used by farmers to cultivate fields.

[@ZakModz88]

most of the semi trucks here have a bunk place in them but it's rare for the driver to stay in the truck, usually they just take a short nap or rest. Semi trucks in my country are used to transport loading containers. Most are trailers of the flat bed type or the low type for transporting special goods such as machinery or factory components. Because in my country there are many bends and roads up and down mountainous hills, it is rare to have a semi truck that uses the 8x4 arrangement most of them are 4x2 and 6x2.

[@TruckTropia]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@lusungumkandawire3998]

Let do a video for Indonesia and Thailand as well

[@matpk]

@@TruckTropiak LIFE AS A TRUCK DRIVER IN TAIWAN🎉

[@ridhobaihaqi144]

Indo logistic budget is WORST in the world. Bad road, bad traffic, bribe money, corruption, collution, nepotism, bribe the DMV and cops to get driving license. 👎👎👎👎

[@audoinxr6372]

New Zealand needs a look. They have perfected the twin steer and big trailer types

[@finalownageclan]

Second this

[@Tangaroa775]

Three this

[@jimlondon1]

When he said archipelago whe way he did, I spat out a mouthful of tea! 🤣🤣🤣

[@petarelez595]

Next video "in depth about japan most popular truck brands (mitsubishi fuso, ud trucks, hino and isuzu)?

[@rolandsuch]

You mentioned that Hino is part of Toyota Motor, but failed to mention that Fuso is now part of Mercedes Benz Trucks and UD and Isuzu are part of the Volvo Truck group.

[@smoothmarkymark7100]

Well you incorrectly mentioned that Isuzu is part of Volvo truck group which it is not. Isuzu is just the owner of UD and was once with General Motors. From what I see Volvo is on its own entity and likely owns a small percentage but can't see anything to back up your claim that they're part of Isuzu.

[@marklongley5738]

@@rolandsuch Hi there, In the late 90’s, Hino merged with Shania as you can see now, that both Scania and Hino look a like in body design.

[@moritzpichler4328]

Tōkyō has literally 35 million people.

[@JohannZ100]

Please do a video on trucks of Japan Hino, Isuzu, And Mitsubishi Fuso.

[@adanthedriver1982]

I'd love a new zealand video. They are placed pretty remote in Pacific but they have every single truck brand from around the world. NZ is a paradise for cars/trucks enthusiasts

[@mog7501]

As an American, I'm very jealous of the NZ (and Australian) car market. You guys get literally everything from every manufacturer. As a JDM fan of course you guys get or can easily import pretty much any Japanese car you want. Ford and GM Australia with the Falcon, Holden Commodore Maloo, etc. are super cool. Additionally, manufacturers which only sell very specific models to the American market sell you guys both US market cars and other-market cars as well so the variety of cars from every manufacturer is endless. And additionally manufacturers that don't have a market in the US such as Peugeot, Renault, Daihatsu all sell you guys cars. The variety and choice is endless. American safety standards are very strict and additionally, the US market is very picky about what it wants so car manufacturers give us very specific and limited models. And anytime they try to sell us something unique and different, we prove that idea right by not buying them (see wagons and hatchbacks) so they stop making it for us. Very jealous of your guys market.

[@Froggability]

Most of our trucks come from Japan

[@vsetfortysevenproductions]

Australia is also a paradise for cars/trucks

[@Shane-zx4ps]

@@vsetfortysevenproductionsIreland is also jdm paradise, I’ve had more Jdm cars motorbikes that Japan has to offer.

[@Dreamsmasher410]

Yea man as a truck driver in New Zealand we a drowning in choose

[@NoobGames-depro]

i live in shikoku and i see trucks every 5 seconds

[@redliner_01]

Can u make the video of Turkish trucking next time?

[@sibbou02]

Finlands long trucks next?

[@TruckTropia]

Will come :)

[@marklongley5738]

I’m an ex truckie from New Zealand, living in Japan. I have my Japanese drivers license for car, truck/trailer. I would like to drive trucks in Japan but my Japanese level isn’t good enough. One job I applied for was to deliver from a big distribution to drug stores are the prefecture at night and the truck company was worried that I may have problem with communication

[@misterspeed118]

2 things. 1st: hope you found a good job. 2nd: how hard was it to get a Japanese truck and trailer license.

[@スーパーアサルトコマンダー-l3v]

@@misterspeed118 In the case of Japan, an ordinary car license must be at least 21 years old and have been held for at least 3 years. In my case, I went to a driving school and got my license in 7 months.

[@marklongley5738]

The Japanese government has a deal with certain country’s where we can just change our licenses over to Japanese ones without doing the driving school, long waiting times. In my case, all i had to do was book an appointment, go to the license office, do and eyesight test, hearing test watch a video and pay a fee. But, with the eye test, for commercial drivers, we have to look into a box, there are three vertical lines, the middle line moves back and forth, what you have to do is press a button on the side of the box when the middle line matches the Sam level and the side lines, but its not as easy as it sounds.

[@classifiedinformation960]

I’m a 22 year old journeyman heavy duty mechanic from Canada and I was thinking of doing it in Japan but these trucks r all soo small and different compared to the American trucks in Canada and I would probabaly have to go to school in Japan to get a ticket and learn Japanese

[@tatsumasa6332]

As of sep 2023, you can get a driving job if you have a license and your will in this country no matter what. Guaranteed.

[@roxii7190]

Hey! It’s Truck-Kun!

[@wainber1]

When I think of dekotora I also think of many trucks in India and Pakistan but when it comes to alcohol limits specific to truckers I think of the US Government-mandated BAC of under 0.04 (but with penalties for drivers with any detectable amount of BAC under 0.04 if breath-tested by police).

[@roachymart2318]

US CDL holders are limited to a BAC of .04 even in their personal vehicles as well. On top of that a CDL can be lost if you're caught going more than 15MPH over the limit. There are a bunch of other little things that they can nail you on with a CDL that they don't bother with a regular license such as infractions staying on a database for life, which started recently, and basically in any accident, even when it's obviously not your fault, they blame you first although you are considered a "professional driver" because they think everyone is clairvoyant and can predict that some dipshit staring at their phone was going to decide to use your vehicle for brakes instead while you're sitting in traffic or a red light. (Edit: forgot to state that it's US CDLs)

[@wainber1]

@@roachymart2318 Penalties are strict for holders of CDLs issued by any US state or DC. I dunno if a CDL issued by the DMV of Guam, Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), American Samoa, Puerto Rico or the USVI can be exchanged for a CDL issued by DC or an American state, with a Quora question on that subject ("Hey I really need help with finding out if a Puerto Rico CDL (class 8 Heavy) is recognized by the DOT on the mainland?") having featured differing answers. A British Government website, however, DOES mention, for exchanging of bus and heavy truck (HGV) licences, that those those from the British Isles, Gibraltar, Switzerland and other European Union member states are accepted. Anyone looking to exchange a CDL issued by another jurisdiction, even if another British overseas dependency such as the Virgin Islands or Montserrat, will @ best get licences to drive vehicles with gross weight ratings of @ most 3500 kg (7700 lbs). I rented via Zipcar a Honda CR-V SUV. Whether it was a 3rd- or 4th-generation model, the highest GVWR I could find on the Four Wheel Trends website was 4453 lbs (2020 kg). I can't think of a vehicle with a higher GVWR rating than 2020 kg I've ever driven, and I dunno how soon I will drive a vehicle with anywhere near a GVWR of 2000 kg.

[@starlxrd868]

i'm from trinidad we have alot of fuso,ud trucks,volvo,mack,isuzu,hino

[@hinoworld]

My video made it yay :))

[@mixeddrinks8100]

50mph damn that is slow...

[@fredschriks8554]

There are also alot of Scania's in Japan.

[@codelessunlimited7701]

True. The EVs market is not economical in the long run.

[@Dreamsmasher410]

Some of the dual steering axle Isuzu turn on a dime, pain in the ass as they always 18speeds road ranger

[@PremKumar-pd4vl]

India.. Need to see the E2E Truck life cycle / Regulation and you can new innovation like Gati Shakti..

[@paspespospaez]

5:12 my man joined the wrong server lmao

[@TruckerMike089]

I'd like to see trucking in Russia next. Awesome video

[@TruckTropia]

Will come 👍

[@vanquishable7844]

@@TruckTropia I hope

[@montesa35]

Russia is the capital of truck melting pots particularly the Eastern area

[@xAsceticx]

In soviet Russia, truck drives you.

[@文々丸]

I am very happy to see my country in this video.

[@lovepcgaming2335]

As a driver I would not get out of bed for 30 grand a year. Double that at a minimum. That's for home every night tractor trailer.

[@savedemperor8024]

And also Japan is a much more expensive country to live so probably truck drivers have a pretty hard time there

[@Tonyx.yt.]

@@savedemperor8024 no, its not... if you dont want a big house and a fancy lifestyle, living is quite cheaper than NY or LA or London even in Tokyo (city not suburbs) a very small but complete apparment (without roomates) cost like 600$ per month.

[@SpotterScenes]

I am a filipino truck enthusiast and i total love japanese truck within thier styling and spec. They are looks better. And philippines one of the top importer of japanese for domestic market truck

[@kiriroman3203]

Hope you do a series on East African trucking soon.

[@JarkyNet]

I’m glad you to edit my country.

[@Akarom927]

The area of Japanese territory is totally wrong and it is 377000km2 which is much bigger than Minnesota.

[@roachymart2318]

From what I understand, the length of Japan is almost as long as the entire eastern coast of the US from Maine to somewhere in Florida.

[@savedemperor8024]

The salary seems very low for such a pretty expensive country as Japan is, probably its quite challenging to live on the average living standard for truck drivers

[@I_Died_2_Weeks_Ago]

Japan printing currency since the 90's and having the highest debt to GDP, thus indebting their nation, is the real reason why anyone working there has a hard time. Research Karoshi to learn more.

[@classifiedinformation960]

Yea that’s fr so low would be hard to make a living off that, Canadian truck drivers make like 3x more in some instances

[@HoogieWoogie]

How much can you make a month hauling containers from ports?

[@Lutti-d9v]

Its lower then informed in This vídeo

[@JordanShackelford]

I'm American, can I get work visa to do this in Japan?

[@trentkeyser]

I'm also looking into this

[@JordanShackelford]

@@trentkeyser If you're under 30 a lot of countries have working holiday visa that's pretty easy to get. I applied to australia and haven't got it after 3 months so I applied to New Zealand and got it in 5 days. I read that Japan has a population decline problem and normally they would require japanese speaking skills but now are more welcoming to english speaking immigrants. Maybe Japan has a working holiday visa.

[@aidanwilliams1621]

Can you do life as a truck driver in the UK?

[@rafaelcastro6743]

Yes but. In proverty

[@totompa81]

Please look at Sweden next 🇸🇪 /an up-and-coming Swedish truck driver.

[@TruckTropia]

Is on the Way 👍

[@totompa81]

@@TruckTropia Cool 😎👍🏼🤘🏻

[@chucky6680]

sri lankan bus drivers would be great one

[@captainjohnh9405]

What the heck is an "Arch-a-pelago?

[@ajm_star]

I think every country producing trucks should be next

[@michaeldalessandro3020]

Fantastic video thank you

[@TruckTropia]

👍

[@niroshanshashiprabath5549]

Isn’t isuzu the largest manufacturer in japan?

[@mirzamuhammad6097]

I can drive a prime mover truck and have experience of it so can i just go to japan and start working there?😊

[@StephenBraudis]

The way you pronounced archipelago was so confusing lmao.

[@JovanLemon]

@trucktropia21 scam bot ignore it

[@Pro_MasterFC]

Tokyo have 38 milioane people, not 9 million

[@s208richard8]

Frequently driving over the speed limit, pulling out of traffic without indicating, tail-gating cars in front of them, hogging the two outside lanes on highways, ignoring traffic lights, etc.. You've not see much of truck driving in Japan!

[@salmanskippy]

I won't be interested working as a truck driver in Japan because the pay scale is very low. Only $33,000 USD a year. I earn $80,000 USD as a truck driver here in Canada 🇨🇦.

[@Ejscars]

You have to factor in cost of living, but I do agree that it seems very low.

[@Dai_40]

a question apperently, truck drivers are banned from using gps to navigate thmselves is it true?

[@TheCatabolicTrex]

I've never heard of that, in fact I've seen Japanese truck drivers using GPS is a lot

[@may_laytrucker3127]

I thought I was in Pakistan truck show ,when I saw those decorated trucks 😁

[@ylmztechnics6950]

Turkey and there truck up next 👍

[@mingming9604]

vietnam trucks and their chaotic traffic ;)

[@россия-ж4м]

Jamaica you should check out

[@WasephWastar]

only 33 000? I thought Japan's wages were about the same as Canada

[@MirzaAhmed89]

Archipelago is pronounced "ar-ki-pe-la-go".

[@LuciferMorningstarOfficial]

I am a German trailer truck driver with 6 years experience. My Japanese is low, but I'd take private lessons if there was a way to get a chance there...Does anyone know if there's a visa program in Japan for truckers? I'd like to start a new adventure in the Tokyo area 🙇🏻‍♂️

[@WANDERER0070]

Contact Japanese embasy !

[@metalic1990]

Polish truck driver here with a little more experience with trailers. I was thinking the same thing and due to my contacts in Japan I could at least ask if they would hire me. At first possiblity to find a company brave enough to hire Gaijin is pretty low even with N3 certificate and back then 5 years of experience. It's not impossible but very hard to find a job. I was even asking for distribution on small trucks. I was ready to move there, make my driving license but the answers were no. I don't say it's impossible but the chances are very low. Ok maybe for a German it will be easier due to how they see Germans but remember you are gaijin and not fluent in Japanese. Of course I wish you good luck and hope you can get what I am aiming for too. Remember to say if you'll get lucky and find a job as a truck driver in Japan.

[@SOMTRUCK480]

❤❤ I love it Japan country and I will visiting Someday

[@bmad1386]

Wait up, you say here that Japan's land area is 88000 sq miles, but it says on multiple sources that it's around 145000 sq miles, maybe you mean land area that can be traveled by road?🤔

[@petermagers1945]

it's an island how hard can it be

[@verdemugurel4mai]

Hy. Nice video...i live in Europe in România and I think you should do a video about trucking here, and the tipes of trucks we use here. Thank you kindly🙏

[@dankamoonz3901]

Cool video

[@TruckTropia]

Thanks glad you like it 👍

[@dwtvadventure5264]

I always like your videos

[@TruckTropia]

Thank you, glad to hear 😃👍

[@anto687]

"Japan is one of the worlds most densely populated and urbanised countries in the world" - that along with "Arch-ih-pallago" gives you away as a Martian :D

[@2008tourer]

1:38 wtf does this sentence even mean? Is Tokyo the only city in whole Japan?

[@userrandom77]

Can you do life as a truck driver in Finland

[@TruckTropia]

Already in the making 👍😃

[@JovanLemon]

@@TruckTropia hey you have a scam comment issue

[@Mike.Howard]

2:27 - That's the UK...

[@drgonzo4714]

I really appreciate you mentioned the obligatory 'women oppressed' and 'emmissions scary' talking points. They're obviously crucial to the existence of our industry.

[@lusungumkandawire3998]

Do a video for truckers in Brazil and South Africa

[@TruckTropia]

I Will 👍

[@Jadefox32]

33K a year o.O that's horrible I'm making 60K here in the states and that's just my first year. The ceiling can go into 6 figures here!

[@TheCatabolicTrex]

Yeah but youre also not paying 2k in rent over there

[@Jadefox32]

@TheCatabolicTrex I don't pay 2000 in rent now

[@JimJones-zc9mk]

The next episode should be titled Life as a truck driver on the planet Mars - Best and worst of it.

[@TruckTropia]

Nice titel 👍

[@achuthharisankar]

Japan should hire foreigners for driving their trucks, particularly from India

[@frankydaisukegiron9168]

aslong as they can drive professionally and safely, here in California they have a bad reputation sadly, not all but for *some being bad drivers like driving on the fast lane(far left lane), loaded going up hill at 45-50mph on 2nd or 3rd lane making traffic, cutting drivers off, going over double yellow lines to getting stuck doing random u turns on unleaveled roads.

[@tshlbzhx1982]

How about China truck market?

[@Omarking-9121]

Vary nice

[@TruckTropia]

Thanks 👍

[@nikolayangelov7486]

Bulgaria next

[@JACKSONLEWISOFCANADA]

Dang that pay scale sucks.

[@javaadventure857]

Nice

[@taxman3749]

Shit, I'll be a Japanese trucker. If they pay my way over. I'll even deal with the tiny apartment.

[@mio1407]

Truck-Kun loves to isekai in japan

[@ImBosmann]

do trucking in china pls

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[@hansibacker4961]

👍👍

[@TineFangaming]

Thailand transport trucks most popular on Isuzu Hino Mitsubishi Fuso and barely EU trucks such as Scania Volvo and Mercedes I didn't see Renault Thai's truck drivers have test their skills on the northern

[@WANDERER0070]

Heres a Jp Girl trucker for ya ばばしちゃねる Has breathalizer right in truck to use before engine starts.

[@michaelhedges2066]

These truck drivers should get paid at least twice that

[@moserkarl1]

Germany, you have to look at germany

[@TruckTropia]

I will 👍

[@to0_lucid]

You should do South Africa next🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[@rp1479]

if a company has a Volvo, mercedes, scania or MAN then you know they have money haha

[@cipryan96]

Ah, that pay gap bs again.

[@tamheedkhan3220]

Pakistani bedford truck next

[@toucanshomelivingid8038]

can you look at indonesian trucks

[@gabrielpop1976]

Next country...Pakistan, Nepal, India ,Brazil...Congo, Senegal

[@mehdihashemzadeh1084]

take a look at Iran.

[@tatsumasa6332]

I thought you do it for living in this country.

[@williamrodrigues8333]

Those drivers are MASSIVELY UNDERPAID

[@manurshetty2485]

Next india ❤️🇮🇳

[@CheapShotzzz]

Philippines next

[@NobleDistortion]

£27000 p/a I wouldn't even get out of bed for as a UK HGV driver.

[@anlbingul8256]

Turkey, Russia or one of the east European contries will be good.

[@EngineerDJ_Julius]

I hope that their salaries are higher than that

[@shaynelammas9413]

New Zealand would be really nice tho

[@DJmcRUSH]

Would love to see you cover Russia

[@Livetwoo]

someone employs me there in japan