Truck Shite

[Pillock]

Seems to me that trucks have a lot less suspension travel, bigger tyres, more contact and if you've got something like a low tanker or a empty open trailer you've got a decent centre of gravity to help. And seeing over hedges too, that's got to help on the twisties.

[CreepingJesus]

Top suspects are Irish and Dutch registered motors: been overtaken at 56mph by both like I was standing still. Eastern Europeans seem not to bother so much these days, they're more likely to be pootling along at 50 saving fuel.

Anyway, I digress...there's electronic interrupters/data benders available, if you know where to ask. They're fitted under the dashboard with one hidden switch to activate, and if you've got a good 'un, your tacho will never show or record anything it's not supposed to. Never.

Throw in acquiring a new digi card when your old one gets damaged/goes missing (all firmly asterisked) and quite a few Brits driving for Irish/Dutch (sometimes Belgian) companies and acquiring 'secondary' passports...that's how. Margins have been squeezed to the point where risks like that don't just pay, they're how some people get paid full stop. Better enforcement would sort some of it out, but UK PLC recognising that rate slashing has consequences would be good.

Like the Dead Kennedys sang in Holiday In Cambodia "it's tough kid, but it's life..."

[Jim Bell]

Just a few more pinched from Facebook

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[CreepingJesus]

 

Remember Humphrey's shocking pink Scanny 141 being in the magazines years ago. He kept those motors well over 2m kms each!

Here's one I spotted up Stobart's shitehole truckstop in Carlisle the other day: still working for a living, with a shiny new Nooteboom four axle low loader on its' back. It and the newish Scanny R500 beside it were Swiss registered, from the same company.

[willswitchengage]

This is why they close bridges to high side vehicles...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/38940832

[CreepingJesus]

See also Forth Rope Bridge, and what happens when you're a fucking clown who thinks they know better...

 

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38583964

[CreepingJesus]

It may be me reaching an advanced stage of Manual Gearbox Withdrawal, but I've started seeking out obscure gearbox videos on YaTubeYe. Y'know just in case the opportunity to drive a 70s Kenworth comes up.

I had no idea about this one, until I realised it was a (slightly) modernised version of the ancient Spicer 4x4 non-synch box.

 

 

More mad Aussie, in case one wasn't enough...

 

 

And a temperamental Italian.

 

 

Wonder how much I could get one of those for? They're RHD and Italy isn't that far...

[worldofceri]

Loving those gear change videos, Jesus.  Thanks for posting those up!

 

In other news, a mate at JCB sent me this:

 

 

A load of old (and new) shite going for auction including the DAF pictured and half a dozen late nineties ERF EC11s.

 

 

[Split_Pin]

I was in the Pound Shop today looking for a Matchbox Volvo but came across this instead. It's the South American/Turkish Ford Cargo. It's based loosely on the 1981 original and seemed an odd subject so I had to have it of course!

[CreepingJesus]

Nice find! I thought those Ford Cargos were the same as the VW Constellation which they sell in S America (made in Brazil iirc), but I don't think they are. Random pound shop stock is brilliant, isn't it?

 

I reckon one of JCBs ERFs and a display trailer would make a great motorhome. Why are they selling stuff off though? I thought they kept stuff forever...!

[Felly Magic]

I don't think things are doing too well for old JC Bamford atm, esp as the bloke running the show is a bit mental

[Vin]

I read an article in C&VC all about the JCB fleet. They go to great lengths sourcing older ERFs and putting them through full refurbishments in their own workshops, keeping a mass of spares too, as you would expect. The older fleet is mainly used for demonstrator deliveries and local work...

 

Seems odd they are disposing considering the effort they put in...

[scruff]

Maybe they are just surplus to requirements? They only do internal work or between premises do they not, and the demo situation isn't as busy as it once was either in plant or on the agri side. Having said that I was tipping at one of our dealers last week for an open day and a JCB ERF growled in with two of the new silver jubilee Fastracs on the back.

 

I'd love to give one a home

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[Richard]

SPD! That brings back memories. They used to deliver to my local grocer's shop.

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[mercrocker]

SPD! That brings back memories. They used to deliver to my local grocer's shop.

 

Speedy Prompt Deliveries!  

 

Yep, really, that is what it stood for.   They were part of the Unilever group (hence the grocery runs).   I worked at their local depot down here for a while.   Brings back memories seeing railway sleepers to barrier off roadworks, too!    Brilliant.

[worldofceri]

What's that last 'Lep' wagon?  Can't make out the badge.

[Inspector Morose]

Seddon-Atkinson.

 

Or just Seddon? If it is, it's a late one.

[tooSavvy]

WW... Those tippers = 'Hell Drivers' film??

 

 

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[Guest Hooli]

WW... Those tippers = 'Hell Drivers' film??

 

 

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First thing I thought too.

[Vin]

Parrot nose Dodge.

[mercrocker]

Seddon-Atkinson.

 

Or just Seddon? If it is, it's a late one.

 Although the buy-out of Atki occurred in 1970 both lines continued unchanged until after the IH take-over in 1974.   As you say, its a late one!