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).