---
title: "Four-Year-Old Drives Dump Truck; Utter Chaos Ensues"
description: "From the people who brought you Van Damme’s split, epic preschool hooning in heavy machinery."
date: "2015-12-04"
modified: "2015-12-04"
authors:
  - name: "David Traver Adolphus"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/david-traver-adolphus.md"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/1142/four-year-old-drives-dump-truck-utter-chaos-ensues"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "Racing"
---

# Four-Year-Old Drives Dump Truck; Utter Chaos Ensues

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“Left and right, back and forwards.” Four-year-old Sophie has the fundamental goals of vehicle control down. But, generally, you’d allow a few years of practice between comprehension and, well, actually controlling an enormous piece of construction machinery. Because, if you gave this child a 12-wheel, 8x6 Volvo FMX dump truck on the road, the results would be horrifying. The thing’s got 540 horsepower and 1,918 pounds-feet of torque. So there’d be the wrecked truck. Also: a mess of civilian casualties. Nobody was harmed during the filming of Volvo’s new Live Test, the third in a viral series that [started with Jean Claude Van Damme’s split](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10>). Instead, the Swedes gave Sophie a remote control and a closed course to navigate.

All-wheel drive, adaptive front and hydraulic rear steering may or may not have helped her, as she demolishes—and I mean utterly *demolishes*—the course. Volvo assures us this was a single take, including the roll. (Yes, of course there’s a roll). It’s like a multi-ton [rock buggy](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ItbDo5K7nk>) capable of a 20-ton payload.

Van Damme may have blown us all away, but this is rock and roll. The Teddybears “[Cobrastyle](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5SA6L722kI>)”—which samples [Kid Rock](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/787/kid-rocks-chevy-silverado-concept-is-more-american-than-heart-disease.md>)’s “Bawitdaba”—is background music. My five-year-old, truck-loving son cried at the end. The two may or may not be related.

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