Truck Shite

[willswitchengage]

^^^    thats a perfect tractor for my job, small mid lift for low tare weight  and a decent sized engine cc wise and a gearbox of use, i'd give me eye teeth to have summat like that instead of electronic/arsetronic shit now stuck with.

 

note the sensible light arrangement (OE not the 10 bloody superfluous spotlights), indicators completely apart from side and headlights so they stand out when in use, large orange lenses too for the unfashion, superb.

 

Shame I think they stopped selling them after Euro ?IV? They all had Roadranger 16sp manuals over here I think - in Asia they had a Hino own brand 7 speed. Would have thought they'd be loved by the guys on this thread although the cabs are tiny and 'hose down' for emerging markets.

 

You are dead on about the lights. Scania got it spot on with their buses too, separate indicator units so they can actually, er, be distinguishable from the main beams. It may have been a Japanese legislative requirement as my 91 Corolla and 90 Justy both have segregated headlamp units - so you can actually see the indicators.

 

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Possibly a daft question but how come i see a lot of Hino 8 wheel tippers but never any tractor units? Are they mega bucks or is there some kind of legistration they don't meet.

Edit: will kinda answered that then.

Apropo of nothing my old fella drove long distance for H&R Ainscough in Burscough from '73 til '97 when Allied Mills shut the place down.

When i was really young the wagons were all ERF b+c series in white over red. By the early-mid 90s the colour scheme was cream over blue . By then most of the trucks were E10s (a couple of b/c's did get painted in the new colours). They were nearly all tractors pulling either curtain siders or tankers, the exceptions as i remember them were a couple of A-reg seddon atki four wheelers and a lwb smiley transit.

Upto my parents divorce in '91 i'd frequently go out with him at weekends, even doing over nighters, they're probaly the happiest memories of childhood.

P.S one of the old b series survived as a shunter for a local haulier till a couple of years ago.

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Its a thread filled with pics of old trucks out of the capital, harvested from Faecboop.

 

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Awesome!  I couldnt find the truck thread!  Thanks to which ever mod that found it and merged.

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Awesome!  I couldnt find the truck thread!  Thanks to which ever mod that found it and merged.

 

No worries, just makes it easier that way.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-38066824

 

 

 

A tipper truck which killed four people when its brakes failed had clocked up almost 450,000 miles

 

Is that high for a construction lorry? It looked like a Scania artic. Obviously they get worked like dogs and live harsh lives, but I still don't know if that's excessive.

 

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450k?  Not really.  Still needs to be maintained appropriately, though...