Monday 20th August 2012

Time For Tea? Truck-to-truck tightrope

Volvo promo film involves speeding trucks, a slackline champion and a tunnel...

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Volvo's marketing department clearly has some imaginative people working in it. To show off the new FH truck, they arranged two of them either side of a closed motorway in Croatia and persuaded world champion slackliner (a bit like tightrope walking, but on a flatter, wobblier line) Faith Dickey to walk a line from the top of one trailer to the other whilst they barrel down the road.

To add a little pressure, the trucks head towards a tunnel divided by a very immovable-looking wall, making it bad news for Faith if she doesn't make it across in time.

The 'Ballerina stunt' was coordinated by experienced stunt director Peter Pedrero with Oscar-nominated director Henry Alex Rubin behind the cameras.

According to the message at the end of the video, the stunt demonstrates the precision and control of the new FH series truck, although it seems an even greater endorsement of Ms Dickey's skills and the drivers' nerves of steel.

Time for tea then, and maybe a lie down in a darkened room afterwards.

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[andyps]

Madness!

[mike88]

fk

that.

[ProjectBayern]

Credit to the girl that was awesome!!!!!!

Anyone got a spare truck and some rope????

[YankeeDoodle]

So errr what was the point of that? To show asylum seekers that it's more comfortable jumping between 2 Volvo's rather than an Iveco?

Deep.

[surveyor]

MODS - surely this should be in Commercial Break

[McSam]

Jeeeeeesus..

mike88 said:

fk

that.

What he said!

[zcacogp]

Foxy. Nice legs. I like.


Oli.

[Bodo]

The truckers. They look so genuine.

[Salgar]

I LOVE

her trainers. Onitsuka Tiger ftw.

[vrooom]

mad but brave girl...

[Dave Hedgehog]

McSam said:

Jeeeeeesus..

mike88 said:

fk

that.

What he said!

/\ This

[scubadude]

Love to see H&S/Insurance allow that stunt in the UK, anyone else notice a trend in movies, stunts etc being filmed in Eastern Europe for budget reasons :-)

That girl has got some niffy balancing going on though- top marks for that!

[Shaw Tarse]

McSam said:

Jeeeeeesus..

mike88 said:

fk

that.

What he said!

I would too!

[Jasper Gilder]

Great work ( and some good editing too) Not sure this will do much to convert hard bitten fleet operators - but the trucks look good and if they perform as well....

[Alfanatic]

Bodo said:

The truckers. They look so genuine.

Including the "precision driver" called Alan Jones.... the Alan Jones? I have no sound so couldn't hear an accent, but he looks old enough, and wide enough too.

[Glosphil]

At the end of the vidoe it states, "this stunt was set up". It certainly was a set-up. She really only made it across that close to the tunnel entrance? As some-one else said - great editing. The resulting viseo looked good though.

Edited by Glosphil on Monday 20th August 19:18

[Nickyboy]

Sod the girl, new Volvo FH series

[bob1179]

Cracking video.

Cute bird too.

[Porkster]

Cool video, my new FH comes next month, shame it won't be this new,New version. Will have to wait another 5 years for that. Should be good though and I look forward to seeing these in the metal.

[ducnick]

Bodo said:

The truckers. They look so genuine.

Not wanting to quote Clarkson or fall foul of sterotypes, but that may explain her haste to get off the first truck so badly.

Joking aside, massivly impressive stunt. From an advertising perspective it shows that Volvo trucks are quite nice inside and the cruise control works which are both important when choosing a truck you will be spending most of your working day in doing 55mph.