Truck Shite

[BorniteIdentity]

We've taken the same set of 'Top Trumps' with us on holiday since my eldest son was 4. I now have 4 sons.

 

It's absolute supershite.

 

Here are some of the best/worst.

 

 

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[CreepingJesus]

Hehehe...today's truck shite. I dunno what power it started with, but I reckon three quarters of them have escaped.

[martc]

Hehehe...today's truck shite. I dunno what power it started with, but I reckon three quarters of them have escaped. DSC_2926.JPG

 

Very grippy tyres though.

[mercrocker]

Reminds me of a bloke who phoned our depot one night from darkest Cumbria.  

 

"Cannae dae ma drap, chief" 

 

"Why is that, my good man" says the transport manager.  Only not like that. 

 

"Nearside mirror is browken" 

 

"Well proceed carefully and obtain some assistance in regard to delivery.   I am not sure I can procure you a replacement at this fine hour" came the reply.   Only, again, not like that. 

 

"Cannae" 

 

"WHY T.F. NOT???" 

 

"Cos lorry is laying on it..."

[gordonbennet]

I had phone call a bit like that from me day man when i was on nights driving a car transporter, he used to ring me in the afternoon with an approx time we could change over.

 

''Gordon good news we're getting a new lorry''

 

''thats nice Tony, how come cos we aint due for a new one''

 

'Well its lying on its side up the A45, its bolloxed, and the cars are scattered up the carriageway''

[Vantman]

[scruff]

Took my unit in for a tacho check last week and had a look round the used stock (MAN main dealer) as the old Daf has cost a bomb this year and really could do with changing. They are alright I suppose, quite functional and cheap compared to a Swede, even one of the fitters warned me off the 440 engine though which is by far the most common. 

 

Anyway I think the sales dude was a bit concerned for my mental health when I paid more attention to their yard shunter. 

 

[Split_Pin]

Definitely more interesting than a MAN!

[mercrocker]

A few months ago I was waiting for security to give me a pass into another part of work and a mixer driver was getting one to access a civil engineering area.   The security wallah checked his pass request for vehicle reg and make as required.   He looked  up and said "What the hell is an erf?"    

 

"E.R.F. mate, its a lorry" said mixer man, looking slightly skyward.   He pocketed the pass and went.   

  

Cue improvised history lesson and one glazing-over security guard.   Good job the old shunter has retired, he would have pulled the guard's neck off.

[worldofceri]

Talking of which (entirely coincidentally):

 

Taunton Deane; yesterday:

 

[scruff]

Cor that rigid is a bit of a tool, 14 litre must be rare in one of them? Wonder if it's a stretched unit? Very nice

Expect he had been to Isleport where there was a threshing shindig going down.

[worldofceri]

Yeah, I really hoped to see it leave, hauling that big old showman's 'van behind, but I had to press on.

[Split_Pin]

I cannot believe somebody who works in an environment where lorries regularly feature doesn't know what an ERF is.

 

What a complete philistine.

[Asimo]

I received a lecture about Edward Richard Foden and ERF trucks in the sandpit at infant school playing with my Corgi ERF. Don't remember who from, I'd have been about six!

[mercrocker]

I know....Not all hope is lost though, there are still references to "Tugmaster" and "Scammell" moves in our procedures, at least until the Compliance wallahs discover them.

[scruff]

I'm surprised just how many you do see on the road still, considering how long ago they stopped building them and especially the EC series which are still the most common. Same with car shite I guess; when a modern engine has the potential and likelihood of serious failure an older engine and vehicle makes a lot of sense to a certain type of person. The garage we use have said that some parts for ERFs are getting hard to get hold of now though.

[worldofceri]

Yeah, especially given the pressure operators are under to constantly 'upgrade' with the LEZ, Safer Lorry Scheme, FORS and all that bollocks.

[mercrocker]

Remember when this was all you needed.....?

 

 

[worldofceri]

No. I'm too young!!

[Felly Magic]

Remember when this was all you needed.....?

 

 

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I remember when Long's of Leeds rigs had them on the front, had a right mix of chod back then with Leylands, D reg DAF 95's, Mercs, and Scammell T45 chinese 6's

[Split_Pin]

<\pedant> DAF 95s started at E reg? <pedant/>

[legasoil96]

Our old freighter back in 2008 when shite was a plenty and I didn't bother with it. Its giving the Nigerians palpitations now instead

[legasoil96]

rotten sunbeam

[legasoil96]

FG550 with another scrap car 2010.

 

[mercrocker]

Amazing what a difference a handful of years make.....Nowadays that Escort would be on Ebay for ten grand and somebody would have lowered the FG and built a shed on it.

[Split_Pin]

Can't beat the sight of a wee FG!

[legasoil96]

Amazing what a difference a handful of years make.....Nowadays that Escort would be on Ebay for ten grand and somebody would have lowered the FG and built a shed on it.

We had to pay £20 for it as the prices were high. It was taken as scrap but sold to a friend.He then sold it after a while. Still untaxed.

I know of an FG with a shed built over it ! only because its rotten mind. As they do.

The blue one got sold to some feller near Lendon , wanted to put a petrol engine in it?!

[mercrocker]

Love FGs, the high street never looks the same now without either a Mother's Pride, Hales Cakes or Co Op threepenny bit gargling away on the kerb.

[Split_Pin]

Visit Traveller-Dave.co.uk for hundreds of outstanding pictures of FGs converted to living accommodation back in the late 1980s and early 1990s when they were just old bangers. I love that website.

[Asimo]

Wouldn't this make a lovely camper?