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[sheffcortinacentre]

In the early 90's our local bus operator overhauled one built a new workshop on the back etc for towing buses in to replace "dugie the the dinosaur" dug 167c ithink the cut down decker.

Within weeks it was sold off as useless dugie was still in use until they outsourced recovery around 98

[quicksilver]

My mate took me to his favourite motorway bridge last week when such things were still allowed before this tier 4 nonsense. I saw my first Iveco S-way, which aren't available in RHD yet and I believe UK sales start early next year. The black livery does it no favours but I can't help thinking it looks like a knock-off Next Gen Scania. What do the AS collective make of it?

[High Jetter]

Wot's on the back, M9?

[catsinthewelder]

A lot of broccoli by the looks of things.

[Inspector Morose]

Just going through my photos of the past year. We never got this cab/chassis combo in the UK, did we?

[bigstraight6]

2 minutes ago, Inspector Morose said:

Just going through my photos of the past year. We never got this cab/chassis combo in the UK, did we?

No, the Renault with this cab was probably the most numerous in the U.K. 

[bigstraight6]

On 12/21/2020 at 9:40 PM, quicksilver said:

My mate took me to his favourite motorway bridge last week when such things were still allowed before this tier 4 nonsense. I saw my first Iveco S-way, which aren't available in RHD yet and I believe UK sales start early next year. The black livery does it no favours but I can't help thinking it looks like a knock-off Next Gen Scania. What do the AS collective make of it?

It’s an Iveco so it’s shite. I was a salesman at an Iveco dealer when the ‘state of the art’ Stralis was introduced, it wasn’t and this will be a flop too. 

[somewhatfoolish]

It looks like a shit mock-up for a film 'set in the future', like the 6000SUX but a lorry.

[somewhatfoolish]

Lorryists; what's the purpose of this odd axle arrangement? It looks pretty impractical, as cavcraft says changing an inner tyre would be a ballache of titanic proportions. I can't see what it offers over a standard 4 wheel axle.

[somewhatfoolish]

That's clear as mud. From this thread on trucknet it would appear to be a way of getting the most payload out of the stupid rules governing wagons back then, so from the same well as the red flag.

[catsinthewelder]

I know that with twin rear wheels you need to be careful with tyre pressures as the tyres can rub together and cause a blowout.  I suppose this arrangement would make that less likely.

[sierraman]

On 12/20/2020 at 10:23 PM, sheffcortinacentre said:

In the early 90's our local bus operator overhauled one built a new workshop on the back etc for towing buses in to replace "dugie the the dinosaur" dug 167c ithink the cut down decker.

Within weeks it was sold off as useless dugie was still in use until they outsourced recovery around 98

There were 2 or 3 recovery wagons I think in SYPTE?

[sheffcortinacentre]

At one point each depot had its own, now with only one I believe they just use a contractor.

[rml2345]

12 hours ago, catsinthewelder said:

I know that with twin rear wheels you need to be careful with tyre pressures as the tyres can rub together and cause a blowout.  I suppose this arrangement would make that less likely.

Pretty much. Because the two sets of wheels could move independently on their own suspension you also got minimal tyre scrub. I think they were outlawed in the 1968 Construction and Use regulation changes though.

[Crackers]

On 12/9/2020 at 8:26 PM, Zelandeth said:

Based on that description alone I'd guess Cummins L10 powered with not much silencing...They do sound nice!

I think the L10 was knocked on the head long before that Iveco wagon came to existance.

It's got a 5.9 lump of some form, I don't know if that's an Iveco or Cummins unit but I dislike Ivecos too much to find out.

[dozeydustman]

On 06/11/2020 at 21:16, quicksilver said:

And yet another! This is the first of their artics I've seen

Saw this weird thing today, once a LHD Stobart tractor unit but now converted to a roadsweeper. Why anyone would need a 450bhp sweeper plated at 40 tonnes with a huge sleeper cab I have no idea and it looks all kinds of wrong.

And I felt this brute coming before I saw it. Don't know what kind of exhaust it's got but it makes a glorious deep earth-shaking noise. It's a pole erector (no sniggering at the back please).

 

I think these were fitted with a 6-pot Cummins ISB-9 which makes quite a delightful noise. I do know that most "Tector" badged Iv*cos refer to the engine, a rebadged Cummins 3.9lt 4-pot B series. DAF have them badged as Paccar.

[nacho man]

Just picked this up as there worth so little really now.



Just from around the corner of the Church Greasley rover 800 garage.




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[warch]

Over 600,000miles, so that's slightly above 75,000 miles a year then? Is that a par mileage for a truck, and how much life has it got left in it, or can they shrug that off. I had noticed old trucks/tractor units are usually quite cheap and assumed they were completely fucked or needed serious wedge to give them a fresh lease of life.    

[nacho man]

We have another one same age and roughly same mileage, had it three years now and no major problems. Never broke down just needed serviceable items plus a few other bits here and there. Nothing terrible. Know the firm and there looked after so hopefully got a couple of years left.

[dean36014]

Low mileage for the year. My 19 plate MAN is just shy of 300k now.

[Crackers]

3 hours ago, Danterzza said:

Just picked this up as there worth so little really now.



Just from around the corner of the Church Greasley rover 800 garage.




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Does that qualify for the Low Cost, Big Liability thread? 😎

[willswitchengage]

4 hours ago, warch said:

Over 600,000miles, so that's slightly above 75,000 miles a year then? Is that a par mileage for a truck, and how much life has it got left in it, or can they shrug that off. I had noticed old trucks/tractor units are usually quite cheap and assumed they were completely fucked or needed serious wedge to give them a fresh lease of life.    

Traveling in Central Asia a few years ago XF95s were probably the most popular tractor and were still going very strong it appeared.

Fun photo of the day - this is what an Iranian registered truck looks like (it has additional Latin plates for use abroad, this was in Turkey).

[Shep Shepherd]

The truck I've been driving for the past three months, a 2017 M-B Antos, pictured earlier this week near Oxford:

A giant leap from the 2015 DAF CF I drove before I took voluntary redundancy from my previous job last summer, and probably the best truck I've ever driven. Probably the best job I've ever had, too 

[High Jetter]

16 minutes ago, Shep Shepherd said:

The truck I've been driving for the past three months,

Fuck me, you need a rest-stop!

[sutty2006]

9 hours ago, Shep Shepherd said:

The truck I've been driving for the past three months, a 2017 M-B Antos, pictured earlier this week near Oxford:

A giant leap from the 2015 DAF CF I drove before I took voluntary redundancy from my previous job last summer, and probably the best truck I've ever driven. Probably the best job I've ever had, too 

Do you find it sluggish up any kind of incline? I feel they’re very under powered for what they are. Shame really. We have one of the biggest Antos rigids in at work sometimes and it’s so slow I sometimes refuse to road test it due to the embarrassment! 
 

mileage is nowt on trucks. We see a lot of fed ex tractor units in and they’ve usually got 100k by the first 9 weekly inspection. Most I’ve seen on one of theirs was 1.5million on a 5 year old truck. One driver gets out, another gets in. Rinse and repeat.,

[Shep Shepherd]

2 hours ago, sutty2006 said:

Do you find it sluggish up any kind of incline? I feel they’re very under powered for what they are. Shame really. We have one of the biggest Antos rigids in at work sometimes and it’s so slow I sometimes refuse to road test it due to the embarrassment! 

It's not the greatest on inclines, especially when fully laden, but it's a nice truck nonetheless.

Here's a rare shot of me actually driving the thing, taken last month by a Cambridgeshire-based friend of mine whom I visited while on a driving break:

Check out the overhang! It's not actually noticeable when I'm driving, though.

[catsinthewelder]

That must get exciting in town centres.

[Shep Shepherd]

To be honest, I've never had any major problems in towns and cities, even in truck-hostile places like central London (people there forget that almost everything around them was brought to the city in a truck), even though other road users, pedestrians and the general layout of roads and junctions don't make things easy a lot of the time. I much prefer the open road.

[Arfur Foxache]

On 1/27/2021 at 1:51 PM, Danterzza said:

Just picked this up as there worth so little really now.



Just from around the corner of the Church Greasley rover 800 garage.




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I bought a 63 reg in Nov 2018 with 980k on and have had 2 good years out of it although our work isn't very high mileage and no double-shifts. 

Its just passed another test and is now a spare - some weeks works every day and others might not move at all but it owes me nothing so not worth getting rid of. 

Currently on around 1,150,000 kms. 

Replaced with a very tidy 2016 on 500km's that should last a few years on our work. Would usually buy newer but with everything going on, I'd rather not commit to big money finance packages.

I've just got to get it changed from White to look like the others. 

[quicksilver]

I got three ERFs for the price of one this morning! The two on the back may look fit for scrap but the new owner says he intends to restore them.

And in other classic British truck news, this late-model Foden is becoming a regular on East-West Rail work. I bet it can show the newer stuff a thing or two.