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[martc]

UAZ T-469 street cleaner, Moscow, 1964.

[Dyslexic Viking]

1 hour ago, martc said:

UAZ T-469 street cleaner, Moscow, 1964.

The front blade looks more like a snow plow?

[sutty2006]

28 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

The front blade looks more like a snow plow?

I’m guessing it can be used for trash too 🤣

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Check these fuckers out! 🤩🤩🤩

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/the-gigantic-180-meter-long-us-army-land-trains-of-the-1950s.html

[Dyslexic Viking]

1 hour ago, sutty2006 said:

I’m guessing it can be used for trash too 🤣

Yes this is possibly good to remove sitdown protesters and it is ulez compliant so perfect vehicle for today's London?

[Dyslexic Viking]

Came across this special Hanomag in old Norwegian pictures according to what I can see from the advertisement on the trailer this was furniture transport.

[worldofceri]

Does the front of the trailer have windows?

[Dyslexic Viking]

1 minute ago, worldofceri said:

Does the front of the trailer have windows?

 

Yes it looks like that why I do not know. Maybe it made work inside the trailer easier?

[willswitchengage]

On 11/15/2021 at 4:59 PM, Slappy said:

That cab design has certainly earned a well-deserved rest!

Looks like the CF is now being passed the longevity baton at 30 years. Definitely showing its age though.

 

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, worldofceri said:

Does the front of the trailer have windows?

Maybe a bunk for long distance work?

[Dyslexic Viking]

8 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Maybe a bunk for long distance work?

 

Possible but there are no doors on the sides so doubt it.

[goosey]

Just got to the customer and this was in a yard next door 

but pissed I couldn’t get a better pic as I think it might be an Octopus 

[CreepingJesus]

Did find one of the show Stralises the other day...

 

[sutty2006]

Fridays are all about the easy start. Driver brimmed his tank with adblue (about 30/40L) and conveniently broke down. Drained and cleared the fuel system. She lives again! 

[cobblers]

Did he run it? Adblue in the fuel system genuinely does end up shafting injectors etc etc. It's fuckin horrible stuff. If he ran the truck at all I'd be taking it to the auctions and running far far away

[sutty2006]

Just now, cobblers said:

Did he run it? Adblue in the fuel system genuinely does end up shafting injectors etc etc. It's fuckin horrible stuff

Ran it till it stopped. These injectors took some clearing but it runs perfect now. 👌.  Adblue usually does the most damage when it sits in the system for a long time. Like the brand new X class we had in with a tank full of adblue in it. Spent 12 months in our yard arguing to his insurance company who wouldn’t pay out. Ended up having a full engine. 

[5speedracer]

On 11/13/2021 at 10:26 PM, CreepingJesus said:

Spotted doing showman's duties recently: a pair of Iveco Stralises! I've got a soft spot for the bloody things for a few reasons, but I'm not blind to their shortcomings. Presumably the short journeys and long lay-ups work in their favour: less opportunities for them to go bang, more time to fix them when they do. And they do. I once inherited a Trakker (the tipper version) that went like snaw aff a dyke until it shat its' head gasket on the M876 one afternoon.  According to the fitter, that was the second replacement. It was under three years old and had 90 thousand k's on the clock...

On the other hand...imagine my delight to hear this roaring up the road...Newtyle Commercials' 'Dragon Wagon' which I've been after for ages. Think the plate on the grille says 'EC12' (but don't quote me on that) which means the Perkins (ex-Rolls) Eagle, unless it's a Cat or a Detroit DD60, which were options. It's not a Cummins anyway, but what a racket! Glorious...

As I went to leave Balbeggie one evening after delivering a car to Pypers I put a foot on the clutch and bang, the release bearing went. Newtyle came out to tow me back to our yard just outside Fraserburgh. Heard him coming from about a mile away, bonneted Kenworth with I think a Cummins and straight pipes, put a smile on my face. This was back in the early 2000's but a search reveals not only it but that Newtyle don't seem to do an average wrecker.

[busmansholiday]

A few more from the York Trailers collections. We've had a few of these trucks before, but different views.

Scanias on a Scania,

more Scania goodness,

Some Jock stuff now,

plenty of chod,

Ford,

Guy,

 

 

 

[CreepingJesus]

@5speedracer Very much so, i don't think they do normal or quiet, and I appreciate that! 

They even turned out to help me when I'd pulled up and 'called it' because the dog eared Daf CF I was driving had too many electrical issues to risk it any more, in a straight piped Sprinter with more lights than a Wembley rock gig spread round it. Fitter didn't look old enough to be driving, but give him his due, he patched it up enough to finish the run.  I put the old heap in the workshop after, and I'm pretty sure it 'vanished' thereafter. It was an absolute hound.

 

@sutty2006 When I drove for Tescos, one of their own drivers (not one of us agency scumbags, much to my delight) launched a good amount of AdBlue in the fuel tank of a delivery mileage CF. This being Tesco, they argued the  toss with Daf, who fixed it under warranty and covered the breakdown costs. Every time it 'mysteriously' broke down. In the end Daf had replaced the entire injection system, one piece at a time.

Way back in this thread, there's a pic I posted of a Daf badged Scania T112 wrecker: that was one of said CF's last breakdowns, and it was off to the garage in Perth docks. As an illustration, the 'breakdown costs' included sending me up to Bankfoot (north of Perth) with a replacement unit to finish the run, and getting their driver back to Livingston. I asked around to see if anyone had grassed Tesco up to Daf (which I'd have done with a smile on my miserable fizzer...) and it turned out they had. More than once. Daf stuck their fingers in their ears and sang loudly...

[Dyslexic Viking]

3 hours ago, busmansholiday said:

 

This is actually Norwegian registered so checked and it was first registered in 1967 and most likely scrapped in 1988.

And when I think about it, have you shown pictures of this one before and I checked it out?

[bigstraight6]

7 hours ago, sutty2006 said:

Fridays are all about the easy start. Driver brimmed his tank with adblue (about 30/40L) and conveniently broke down. Drained and cleared the fuel system. She lives again! 

I remember some years ago an agency driver filling the adblue tank with diesel, he did wonder why the nozzle wouldn’t fit in the hole and it took an age to fill, it was a rental unit to the company at the time just to make matters worse!

[sutty2006]

4 hours ago, CreepingJesus said:

@5speedracer Very much so, i don't think they do normal or quiet, and I appreciate that! 

They even turned out to help me when I'd pulled up and 'called it' because the dog eared Daf CF I was driving had too many electrical issues to risk it any more, in a straight piped Sprinter with more lights than a Wembley rock gig spread round it. Fitter didn't look old enough to be driving, but give him his due, he patched it up enough to finish the run.  I put the old heap in the workshop after, and I'm pretty sure it 'vanished' thereafter. It was an absolute hound.

 

@sutty2006 When I drove for Tescos, one of their own drivers (not one of us agency scumbags, much to my delight) launched a good amount of AdBlue in the fuel tank of a delivery mileage CF. This being Tesco, they argued the  toss with Daf, who fixed it under warranty and covered the breakdown costs. Every time it 'mysteriously' broke down. In the end Daf had replaced the entire injection system, one piece at a time.

Way back in this thread, there's a pic I posted of a Daf badged Scania T112 wrecker: that was one of said CF's last breakdowns, and it was off to the garage in Perth docks. As an illustration, the 'breakdown costs' included sending me up to Bankfoot (north of Perth) with a replacement unit to finish the run, and getting their driver back to Livingston. I asked around to see if anyone had grassed Tesco up to Daf (which I'd have done with a smile on my miserable fizzer...) and it turned out they had. More than once. Daf stuck their fingers in their ears and sang loudly...

DAF will do that. Much like Mercedes do with Amazon vans. The whole fleet is battered to fuck. When they get returned off lease Mercedes will kick off and say they need to pay for the damage. Amazon will tell them to FRO they’ll have *input other make* next, then Mercedes leases them another fleet of shiney new vans ready for destruction. It’s all about keeping the customer happy, so they return to buy more. 

[CreepingJesus]

Yep, nail on the head. The stories about Daf's relationship with Tesco are legion, but they all end in 'yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir.' Not a happy marriage, but as long as one keeps mobile and the other makes a profit, it persists.

I've never mixed up AdBlue and diesel, but I have 'accidentally' mixed up white and cherry once or twice. Oops, what a shame...

[busmansholiday]

13 hours ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

And when I think about it, have you shown pictures of this one before and I checked it out?

Yes, a B&W view. 

[catsinthewelder]

Our local agricultural merchant often keeps shite for years (they had a 305 van in use till about 10 years ago).

I've not seen this before this week though.

[808 Estate]

[808 Estate]

Rare beast on ebay.

Scammell Super Constructor

 

 

 

[MKT]

Not sure if this has been posted before but found this up in Scotland.

[somewhatfoolish]

On 12/10/2021 at 7:48 PM, bigstraight6 said:

I remember some years ago an agency driver filling the adblue tank with diesel, he did wonder why the nozzle wouldn’t fit in the hole and it took an age to fill, it was a rental unit to the company at the time just to make matters worse!

How the fuck do you do that? Mixing up pez and dizzle is one thing, adblue looks nothing like either and smells different too.

[sutty2006]

1 minute ago, somewhatfoolish said:

How the fuck do you do that? Mixing up pez and dizzle is one thing, adblue looks nothing like either and smells different too.

Some drivers take the word “ad” too seriously. 
 

i heard a story of 1 driver at a hgv fuel station putting both nozzles in the diesel tank and pulling both triggers at the same time. Over impressed with himself that he’s saving time at the pump……….. I bet he didn’t get very far.