Truck Shite

[meshking]

On 10/6/2020 at 5:00 PM, quicksilver said:

It's the first Tuesday of another month so I was keen to see if I'd worked out the AAFES truck's schedule correctly. Bang on time it turned up and it was a different one UKAX 192 may be new and a replacement for 175 as I think it had the same driver.

Bonus rear view of the trailer complete with US licence plate. A weird sight on a UK road.

 

Puerile I know but this amused me. As Olivia Colman once said in an episode of That Mitchell and Webb Look, it's funny because it involves poo. The warning on the back is particularly topical.

 

 

Love these - we've got a "stool bus" round here. Most likely every town has one too, but makes me smile.  

[catsinthewelder]

6 hours ago, quicksilver said:

Snap!

Went to the market today so I had a look at this. It belongs to the chap who runs the fruit and veg stall and he's had it for over 15 years. Fillmore Packaging went out of business more than a decade ago but their name is still defiantly displayed.

Fillmore packaging sounds like a made up business name from the Simpsons

[ETCHY]

14 hours ago, bigstraight6 said:

Dinky did a nice model of this...

That is brilliant, I didn't know that existed !

Ta very much for that, that's pretty much what they looked like .

[quicksilver]

18 hours ago, catsinthewelder said:

Fillmore packaging sounds like a made up business name from the Simpsons

I suppose it does but it reminded me of a former colleague. Her name was Dr Fillmore, which sounds like a character from a Carry On film.

[bigstraight6]

6 hours ago, ETCHY said:

That is brilliant, I didn't know that existed !

Ta very much for that, that's pretty much what they looked like .

Get it on your Christmas list ETCHY!

[myglaren]

Not sure where to dump this but it is a truck of sorts I presume.

Listened to with the sound off as I can't stand their facile twittering and stupid gesticulations.  The bloke looks kind of familiar.

 

 

[quicksilver]

Trying to get some spotting done in these last few days before lockdown so uploading the photos will give me something to do. A frustrating session today thanks to bitter winds, awkward low sun and traffic getting in the way, but my first spot was another of Cammack & Wilcox's old Fodens. They have 17 of these and two ERFs, and the driver said they intend to keep them going as long as possible. Long may they continue!

[quicksilver]

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).

[warch]

I spotted this rather smart looking little MAN beavertail (with slightly incongruous Ford stickers) on the north coast of Wales earlier this week. 

[quicksilver]

That does look smart for an old 'un and very clean considering it's on such a muddy site. I haven't seen much old stuff lately apart from this first-gen FH cattle wagon, a bit scruffy but still going strong.

And a 3-series Scania horsebox but that was a month ago

 

[martc]

On 11/6/2020 at 9:16 PM, quicksilver said:

 

Reminds me of those small liquid fertiliser tankers with a stainless steel barrel attached to an artic's tractor. There's hundreds of them scurrying around these parts, delivering to farms.

[Jamie]

my ex girlfriends dad had this. thought it might be of interest 

[martc]

8 hours ago, Jamie said:

my ex girlfriends dad had this. thought it might be of interest 

Looks like the stainless steel barrel has fallen off.

Did you upgrade to the daughter of the fella who owned this lot?

Countless Atkinson Borderers (actually there's probably 22 of them). https://wjriding.webs.com/atkinson-borderer

[5speedracer]

Looks like the stainless steel barrel has fallen off.
Did you upgrade to the daughter of the fella who owned this lot?

Countless Atkinson Borderers (actually there's probably 22 of them). https://wjriding.webs.com/atkinson-borderer

Are you asking if he was riding Miss Riding?

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[5speedracer]

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.

Handy for nights out!

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[High Jetter]

I've never made that much mess on a night out!

[Jamie]

8 hours ago, martc said:

Looks like the stainless steel barrel has fallen off.

Did you upgrade to the daughter of the fella who owned this lot?

Countless Atkinson Borderers (actually there's probably 22 of them). https://wjriding.webs.com/atkinson-borderer

he actually also owned this too- shiters paradise really. (DEK 2D - Wigan corporation double decker)

[SteersWithThrottle]

On 10/2/2020 at 4:20 PM, Arfur Foxache said:

 

 

If it is a DAF with ECO mode from the factory, you might as well be at the full 44 tonnes as it behaves pretty much the same as if it were loaded. 

First thing that happens when I buy a new one is a visit to a man with a laptop to change the software and turn ECO mode off. 

Back in the late 1980s I was an apprentice grease monkey at an ERF franchise.

Occasionally the apprentices got invited by the mechanics to join them in the cab for a test run after a pre-delivery inspection on a new tractor.

This was back in the day before electronic speed governers, and it was normal for them to tailgate company car hacks on the motorway at 95mph.

Fun times.

[Agila]

Telsa truck on the road USA. Short phone clip.

 

https://i.imgur.com/dBwVYb4.mp4

[quicksilver]

Good spotting session today, decent weather and plenty of trucks. I was just thinking of wandering home when this beast rolled up - LHD V8 Scania T-cab of 1988 vintage with upright pipes, looking and sounding glorious. Definitely my best ever spot!

[worldofceri]

I do like seeing a ‘done up’ truck on the road, but those ‘roo bars that are fitted a lot these days just look stupid driving round flippin’ Milton Keynes.

[quicksilver]

34 minutes ago, worldofceri said:

I do like seeing a ‘done up’ truck on the road, but those ‘roo bars that are fitted a lot these days just look stupid driving round flippin’ Milton Keynes.

There's some really nice stuff about but some of it is a tad overdone and must be impractical. This local firm is as close to perfection as it gets for me - customised but not in your face, an eye-catching livery and no roo bars because as you so rightly said they'd look stupid in Milton Keynes.

 

 

[martc]

38 minutes ago, worldofceri said:

I do like seeing a ‘done up’ truck on the road, but those ‘roo bars that are fitted a lot these days just look stupid driving round flippin’ Milton Keynes.

Could be useful...

Police have said they are unable to investigate the death of a white wallaby spotted several time in a Milton Keynes field

https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/police-confirm-they-will-not-be-taking-any-action-over-death-white-wallaby-2202958

A field near Milton Keynes, yesterday.

Those concrete cows need some shoving out of the way as well.

[Zelandeth]

On 11/6/2020 at 9:16 PM, 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).

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

 

 

[worldofceri]

1 hour ago, quicksilver said:

There's some really nice stuff about but some of it is a tad overdone and must be impractical. This local firm is as close to perfection as it gets for me - customised but not in your face, an eye-catching livery and no roo bars because as you so rightly said they'd look stupid in Milton Keynes.

 

 

Yeah, I agree. Six auxiliary spotlights is the perfect amount. Also, CJH - gr9 initials.

[ETCHY]

I like Army stuff & trucks so thought i'd post this here.

I used to love seeing these on the road, cool looking things.

 

[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.