harry_gill:
Hiya,
Er’ Dennis do you think I can pass on the offer of those Scania 80 thingy’s
I did for a few days drive a KM and I got sick of blowing them off, Pete
didn’t we (proper drivers I mean) have to drive stuff with ill fitting bits
and bobs and missing bits and bobs (gaiters round the gearstick and the
pedals and when standing still in traffic you taste the damned stuff as
the Gardner fog found it’s way through the aforementioned appendages.
No Harry, I worked for a company where the vehicles were maintained pretty much regardless of cost so never experienced driving anything with ‘bits’ missing from them? No ‘make do and mend’ on Tilcon’s squadron, owner drivers used to raid our scrap box for parts for their trucks and if we had a problem it was soon sorted. I remember one driver complaining of wheel shimmy (some early eigjt wheeler Foden S80’s suffered from it until they modified the steering set up) and balancing the wheels didn’t satisfy him even though nobody else complained about it! Anyway four new front wheels with new tyres and four new brake drums were fitted and he was happy then as he could see something had been done! I’m guessing that Dennis ran his fleet in a similar style?
Pete.