Truck Shite

[martc]

On 23/10/2025 at 11:21, Snipes said:

Lindiner do something similar with the Unitrac.

And so does everyone's favourite IFA survivor - Multicar, the M26 4x4 -

[MJK 24]

On 26/07/2025 at 10:04, mat777 said:

I'll stick this here as given the commercial use of it, I'd say it qualifies as a truck.

I have been coming to Oulton Park since the early 90s, and whilst the circuit has seen countless changes over the years, a couple of things remain pleasingly constant. One such thing is the hired help for recovery at the club meetings. I believe these still get used as normal during the week too, god knows what mileage they must be on by now! 

I might vaguely know one of the dudes involved with that red truck.  He works as a mechanic for Cheshire Police.

[MJK 24]

On 31/08/2025 at 12:12, danthecapriman said:

From what I gather Hino’s were/are excellent trucks. Reliable and robust. 
They seem popular in remote places and get used in jungle type environments a lot for earth moving and logging, which must say a lot! 
It’s a pity they were squeezed out of the UK.

It must be quite difficult for newcomers to get a good foot hold in the UK market nowadays as everything is on lease deals rather than bought. So if your not going to/arent able to fight your way into the big lease deals your probably not going to last long. 
When I was at SSE we stopped buying vehicles back around 2008/9ish and went for leases instead. Literally everything from vans right through to artics came through Rygor commercials via a lease company. The only variation were the lease times - 7 years for vans and I think 10 years for trucks. But that kind of thing seems the norm now for every company.

I don’t think Hino were squeezed out.  They didn’t have a Euro 6 engine to enable them to continue selling here.  They were doing a reasonable job selling 8 wheeled tippers at one point.

They were also doing ok in Ireland and still are I think.

[martc]

1 hour ago, MJK 24 said:

I don’t think Hino were squeezed out.  They didn’t have a Euro 6 engine to enable them to continue selling here.  They were doing a reasonable job selling 8 wheeled tippers at one point.

They were also doing ok in Ireland and still are I think.

I'm not so sure about Hino continuing in Ireland, a look at the Harris Group website (Harris built the Hino's from CKD kits) mentions Hino in the past tense, and their current brands are Maxus, Isuzu and Higer https://harrisgroup.ie/our-brands/ . Now we're all familiar with the first two, but Higer? https://higer.ie/ 

Well Higer is really one for the bus shite thread, turns out they're a Chinese coach and bus builder. But, in a twist, it turns out Harris in Ireland are also the Higer distributor for the UK (in the same way that they were the Hino supplier for us).

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Indeed Hino have mostly disappeared from Irish roads apart from a few tippers and cement trucks. 
 

Higer coaches have started to appear in bigger numbers recently on the government backed Localink services and are used by quite a few bus/coach operators on private hire and schools work. 

[Cavcraft]

On 17/10/2025 at 16:46, quicksilver said:

A different ERF turned up at the fair today. This one's in proper scruffy no-frills workhorse condition with the traditional chariot-style body it's rare to see now. The flat roof is unusual and betrays its first life as a car transporter. Needless to say I liked it a lot.

There used to be an ERF of that sort of vintage still delivering cars around Chester a year or so ago.

[MJK 24]

41 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

There used to be an ERF of that sort of vintage still delivering cars around Chester a year or so ago.

That’s still going!  Well, there’s two!  A dark blue and a baby blue coloured one.

[Cavcraft]

9 hours ago, MJK 24 said:

That’s still going!  Well, there’s two!  A dark blue and a baby blue coloured one.

Helpfully* I can't remember what colour it was (though something tells me it was maroon) but the reg was something like *500ERF.

[Asimo]

On 23/10/2025 at 10:29, warch said:

Wasn't sure whether to post this in Truckshite or Tractorshite, as like most Unimogs it's sort of a truck/systems tractor. Anyway its the baby brother of the bigger Mog models, like a 4WD Nissan Cabstar, but with the capacity to mount implements. Usual Germanic sledgehammer to crack a nut approach to an engineering solution but really really cool anyway. 

The UX100

The forward control Unimog in the background is pretty cool too.

€4900 with the 2.9 /5 engine, 4wd and auto, 2 tonnes capacity tipper. Could there be a better firewood collector?

https://www.autoscout24.de/angebote/unimog-ux100-409-20-kipper-diesel-3334ec7a-610b-4748-964d-e4dd5c238f1f?sort=standard&desc=0&lastSeenGuidPresent=false&cldtidx=1&position=1&search_id=198kdgax0d0&source_otp=t10&ap_tier=t10&source=listpage_search-results&order_bucket=unknown&new_taxonomy_available=false&boosting_product=none&relevance_adjustment=organic&applied_boost_level=t10&boost_level=t10

[danthecapriman]

22 minutes ago, Asimo said:

€4900 with the 2.9 /5 engine, 4wd and auto, 2 tonnes capacity tipper. Could there be a better firewood collector?

https://www.autoscout24.de/angebote/unimog-ux100-409-20-kipper-diesel-3334ec7a-610b-4748-964d-e4dd5c238f1f?sort=standard&desc=0&lastSeenGuidPresent=false&cldtidx=1&position=1&search_id=198kdgax0d0&source_otp=t10&ap_tier=t10&source=listpage_search-results&order_bucket=unknown&new_taxonomy_available=false&boosting_product=none&relevance_adjustment=organic&applied_boost_level=t10&boost_level=t10

If you had a farm or a small holding etc one of those would be absolutely perfect as a general use vehicle. 
Although I’d probably still go for a big AEC Mammoth Major 8x4 or something though!😄

[Vantman]

An unusual Guy Goliath--

[Snipes]

On 27/10/2025 at 17:26, danthecapriman said:

If you had a farm or a small holding etc one of those would be absolutely perfect as a general use vehicle. 
Although I’d probably still go for a big AEC Mammoth Major 8x4 or something though!😄

In the Farm Sim games the Unimog was something of a cheat as the flatbed and front/rear 3 points made it "o/p".

You could  expand the capacity of implements such as seeders and spreaders by carrying ton-bags on the back lol.

[martc]

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The prototype IFA F225 on it's way back to the Ludwigsfelde plant.

[martc]

One of 29 ERF EC12's with 12 litre Perkins engines supplied to BP to supplement their already extensive ERF fleet.

[martc]

Prototype Barkus vans, the design adopted for production had larger grilles to improve engine cooling.

[danthecapriman]

42 minutes ago, martc said:

Dodge K series. 
That’s a great photo, I wonder where it was?

[martc]

4 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Dodge K series. 
That’s a great photo, I wonder where it was?

The only info I have is the title 'Bristol, 1972'.

[Asimo]

I think that leaning church tower is Temple Church, Bristol.

Good luck trying to find the correct view on StreetView, the area around has been developed to death!

[Asimo]

Interesting pair of Fodens. 

Just to make it easier to ignore hitchhikers?

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

56 minutes ago, Asimo said:

Interesting pair of Fodens. 

Just to make it easier to ignore hitchhikers?

 

They're very reminiscent of ferry terminal handling/shunting  cab units - we used to sit and watch them loading trailers onto the Irish ferries for fun back in the day.
(Irish bound trailers would be dropped at Stranraer and the road going cab unit would collect one that was Scotland/England bound and trundle off. The shunters would move trailers around/load the ferries all day. Slow stuff compared to a proper RORO setup)

Here's the modern version of ye olde shunters - can't find an old picture anyplace

[Snipes]

Looks like a yard shunter to me, too. We have one of these at work 

[CreepingJesus]

They haven't changed much in decades, so a newish picture will suffice!

[danthecapriman]

Those single cab Foden’s were ‘a thing’ back then as normal road trucks. Quite a few manufacturers offered them, mainly for cranes and dumpers etc but some were used as a normal truck like those.

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Asimo said:

Interesting pair of Fodens. 

Just to make it easier to ignore hitchhikers?

 

Do either survive?

[EyesWeldedShut]

Some folks' reminiscing here - if you like old memories it's worth a read (especially the distances they were deployed over - pre driver's hours  ) 

9 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Do either survive?

I can't find anything on t'internet regarding current registrations - HowManyLeft just has a general 'Foden' listing and there's nothing coming up from museums and the like. Quite fugly in an endearing sort of way?

[EyesWeldedShut]

Broughtons - they ship a lot out of the local(ish) abbatoir
Used to be:

They then went to "Eat more chips" - yesterday saw this (apparently started in 2022 but nurse doesn't let me out much) [image nicked from Flickr]