Truck Shite

[bigstraight6]

AEC Mercury I saw it in a museum yesterday. North  West Electricity  power generator set I'd say.

 

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Lovely looking lorries these, quite surprised it was based in the North West as it’s Devon registered. There’s one quite local to me that I see on the rally circuit, it sounds as good as it looks. AEC’s were such well engineered products...

[Vantman]

 

I remember delivering spares to this company when I worked for the local Foden agent.

[petermchugh79]

Big bertha

 

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[petermchugh79]

Some from my travels with work

 

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[Asimo]

A tractor unit is a serious bit of kit so why style it like a toy?

[CreepingJesus]

There's a certain perverse challenge in the maintenance of a show truck in every day use. Consider the acres of stainless, alloy wheels, and pearl paint. Then consider that the driver has to keep it 100% at all times, or they're letting themselves down. And the company if they're not an owner-driver.

Everybody does it for flash, and hopefully to pick up a few trophies on the show circuit.

Companies incidentally, almost always only do it when it's a 'one driver, one truck' kind of fleet. Or for a flagship for the golden child of the yard. Sometimes to attract drivers cos the pay's shite.

 

Personally I'd be happy with a few spotlights and a couple of BFO air horns. At least they have a practical use.

[martc]

Saw this very lorry, a GINAF, on the back of a low loader in a lay by on the A15 last week. Quote from their website

 

'On sites where a risk of encountering deep buried unexploded bombs (UXBs) has been assessed, and where piled foundations are planned, 1st Line Defence can provide an Intrusive UXO Magnetometer Survey to provide clearance ahead of individual pile locations/clusters and boreholes.'

 

 

And here's another, Dutch,one in action -

 

[Guest Hooli]

Now that's cool, it's a trank!

[meshking]

I'd love to flip that into a camper. great find!

 

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[CreepingJesus]

GINAF are to DAF as Terberg are to Volvo, as far as I'm aware. Same with OAF/MAN and Astra/Iveco, although I think Iveco bought Astra outright to build military trucks, and those weird 50t six axle rigids they're allowed in some bits of Italy.

Basically, they're the low volume, highly specialised independents who get the regular bits from mainstream makers.

There's also the qualification that Terberg do tugs, crawlers and plant too, but it's still using bought-in Volvo components.

 

I think I'm right in saying too, that the mainstream makers have historically 'asked a favour or two' from their specialist friends to build Paris-Dakar specials. I'm fairly sure Jan de Rooy's DAFs were basically GINAFs iirc.

[mrcitroen]

Just because!

 

[Cavcraft]

There's a certain perverse challenge in the maintenance of a show truck in every day use. Consider the acres of stainless, alloy wheels, and pearl paint. Then consider that the driver has to keep it 100% at all times, or they're letting themselves down. And the company if they're not an owner-driver.

Everybody does it for flash, and hopefully to pick up a few trophies on the show circuit.

Companies incidentally, almost always only do it when it's a 'one driver, one truck' kind of fleet. Or for a flagship for the golden child of the yard. Sometimes to attract drivers cos the pay's shite.

 

Personally I'd be happy with a few spotlights and a couple of BFO air horns. At least they have a practical use.

 

There is, or was, a Tarmac quarry near Shrewsbury and seemingly everyone had an absolutely mint truck running out of there. They must have spent more time polishing them than actually working.

[CreepingJesus]

Owner-drivers mostly...there's a logic to it. Clean shiny motors are less likely to get pulled by the cops or the ministry as a random stop. The quarries are duty bound to prevent muck being dragged out onto the road, so washing facilities are usually available, apart from the customary wheel bath. The ODs spec theirs with alloys for lightness, stacks so the exhaust doesn't get ripped off, lights and horns cos half the quarries are up tiny lanes. But they're the ones who'll pay extra to ceramic coat the shiny bits, so a decent steam genny will get it clean in jig time. Paint's usually thick lacquered for the same reason.

 

Anyhow...here's one I did earlier, when I was sitting about waiting on sprouts. Pity I hadn't thought to pack felt tips, but at least the livery's simple and to the point.

[scruff]

Managed a few freebies - got a Volvo softshell jacket when the last outfit I worked for bought £750k's worth of Volvo B11R - but my favourite is still an Isuzu wooly hat, purely for the obscurity value.

 

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I got a Christmas card.

 

[scruff]

Saw this very lorry, a GINAF, on the back of a low loader in a lay by on the A15 last week. Quote from their website

 

'On sites where a risk of encountering deep buried unexploded bombs (UXBs) has been assessed, and where piled foundations are planned, 1st Line Defence can provide an Intrusive UXO Magnetometer Survey to provide clearance ahead of individual pile locations/clusters and boreholes.'

 

 

And here's another, Dutch,one in action -

 

 

In a previous life we used to use a firm called Lankelma who did cone penetration testing of soils, they ran a fleet of these.

[scruff]

Merry Christmas dudes.

 

Have an Arena documentary from the mid 80s. "Night Moves"

 

[Vin]

I saw this when it was broadcast. I've always remembered a programme about trucks, with a line in the title music 'somewhere across the pennine way a truck is moving on' and a bloke having a picnic on the hard shoulder. But that was all and any attempt to find it has turned up nowt...

 

Cheers Scruff

 

Amazing too, that the music is by Ian Dury as I had no recollection of that. But, I do own all his albums though coz I LUV HIM.

 

Edit. BBC2, 19th December 1986 apparently...

 

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctwo/england/1986-12-19

[CreepingJesus]

Yeah, cracking sound track that. Ian Dury and a 14L Cummins...

 

Surprised but not really, how little has really changed in 30 years! I just need a reason to be passing the Horseshoe Cafe at lunchtime now...

[jon.k]

First post, lurker alert! I’ve come across this picture of my grandad,I’m hopeful someone here can identify the lorry for me. Part II to follow!

[Cavcraft]

Welcome along, great first picture!

[CreepingJesus]

I want to say Guy Vixen, but there isn't the big cast GUY plaque at the top of the radiator.

Welcome to the haulage corner!

[quicksilver]

Welcome along! Going by the cab I reckon that is a Fordson 7V. Could be wrong though as the headlights don't look like normal 7V type.

[jon.k]

Thanks! I’ll go and have a look at those. Buses (well, coaches) more my thing! What about this one?

[bigstraight6]

Yeah, cracking sound track that. Ian Dury and a 14L Cummins...

Surprised but not really, how little has really changed in 30 years! I just need a reason to be passing the Horseshoe Cafe at lunchtime now...

A reason too be cheerful part 3....

[bigstraight6]

Merry Christmas dudes.

Have an Arena documentary from the mid 80s. "Night Moves"

https://youtu.be/xwtAD5iduuE

That is hellfire! This has made my Christmas...things have changed a bit for us in the last 30 years chaps!

[warren t claim]

 

Out of all the trucks I had to drive this is the only one that still seems to exist.

[Zelandeth]

The cement mixer that was dropping crap all the way from Buckingham to the A5 when I finally got by him certainly hadn't done anything to clean his wagon of crap before leaving.  I was following miles back for the most part, but of course approached at one point when a safe overtaking opportunity arose - cue a chunk of stone the size of my fist departing the cement chute, bouncing twice and smacking into my windscreen right "between my eyes.". Great...huge stinking crater in the screen.  Now need to find a new screen for a Lada Riva.  Insurers glass repair line have already made it clear that they don't have one.  Oh what fun.

 

In more positive news, had a trucking spot today when I was out walking the dog.  Heard it before I saw it.

 

Old 80s Ford Cargo with what looked like a skip lifting frame on the back (I was trying to see over the top of a hedge for anything past the first foot or so of cab!).  Had forgotten what a gorgeous noise the six cylinder engine in them made.  Not all exhaust noise either (not that there's anything wrong with that, especially if it's a Scania V8 - Or Cummins L10), just proper mechanical noise.

 

Not a bit of smoke either.

[Pillock]

Guessing you don't have a dashcam, but I reckon "shit falling from trucks" is probably a better reason to have one than "posting videos of angry cyclists to Youtube". I'm sure someone can tell me exactly what offence has been committed but showing a haulier footage of them damaging your car with an unsafe load should surely lead to your windscreen being fixed at zero cost to you.

[Zelandeth]

Sadly not, as I have a pathological hate of wires and "stuff" on the dash or windscreen and I've not yet figured out a discreet enough way to fit it to the Lada.  Plus finishing the injection conversion so cable ties are not a critical part of the throttle linkage any more were higher up the list!

 

We do have noted date, time, location and photo and details of the wagon - and video of it later continuing to drop crap all over the road from my passenger's phone - as the bang scared both of us half to death and nearly resulted in the Audi that was inevitably tailgating us parking in my rear seats when I reflexively braked - she was rather hacked off about the situation.

 

We did contact the company when it happened, but the response we got was "come back with the court papers and we'll talk.". My approach was very polite, non-confrontational and from the angle of "I'm a classic car enthusiast who knows that mistakes happen, and would much rather sort this out face to face than faff about with insurers and paperwork that will cause both of us."

 

Not getting my own insurance involved as they've already made it clear that their windscreen repair/replacement service can't get a screen, and hinted that if we were to process it as a normal claim that in addition to the excess and losing 10+ years NCB, that there's every chance that they'd deem it beyond economic repair and write the car off!

 

...do wonder why I don't just have TPFT insurance these days.  At least it does what it says on the tin.

[Vin]

Thanks! I’ll go and have a look at those. Buses (well, coaches) more my thing! What about this one?

 

The one above I would agree is a Fordson 7V.

 

This one I reckon is a Morris Commercial LC3...