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TRUCKMAKER NEWS * Sweden: VOLVO's film with a truck on two wheels
* Ireland - "Reality Road" is a daring two wheel stunt with a Volvo FH
(VOLVO TRUCK STUNT - Jun 11, 2015: Volvo Trucks continues with original marketing, this time through reality TV with the artist Mapei. During a nine-day road-trip through Europe, she will record a new music video with director Liza Minou Morberg. To help them, they have a Volvo truck filled with props and one of the world’s best drivers. The ‘Reality Road’series comprises a total of eight episodes. The first three are published on Volvo Trucks’ YouTube channel on June 11.)
-- In ‘Reality Road’, Volvo Trucks’ TV series, a Volvo FH is subjected to a true test of its strength when it is driven on two wheels. “A stunt of this sort demands a lot from both the driver and the vehicle,” says stunt co-ordinator Peter Pedrero... In the third episode of Volvo Trucks' TV series ‘Reality Road', a truck is driven on two wheels at a test track outside Berlin. The stunt was performed when filming a scene for the music video with the artist Mapei, recorded during the series... The preparations were rigorous: the ramp was 12.5 metres long, 140 cm high and inclined at precisely 30 degrees to put the truck at the required angle of 45 degrees. Behind the wheel was stunt driver Walter Melis, one of the world's foremost experts at driving on two wheels... "Driving on two wheels in a truck is one of the most difficult things you can do. I have to be totally concentrated when driving since I'm actually balancing the truck with my own weight - I drive literally by the seat of my pants," says Walter Melis... The two-wheel stunt was not just part of Mapei's upcoming music video; it is also part of Volvo Trucks' campaign for Volvo Trucks Services...
Kells, Co. Meath, Ireland - Irish Trucker - 11 June 2015
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