Operational lifespan of 60's and 70's trucks

ERF-NGC-European:

ramone:
I thought but could be wrong that years ago hauliers refurbished older motors and put them back out. A bit like LT did with the Routemasters but probably not to the same extent

The introduction of Euro 1 to 6 has rather distorted the picture by creating premature obsoleteness.

True , there will be lots of very good lorries going for a song which are perfectly fine , no doubt they will end up in Africa , which makes a mockery of it all . I drive a Daf approaching 12 years old which will cost our company £50 a time to go to one of our sites in Bradford from January. Suedehead makes a good point about Harrisons and Speirs who ran their lorries well past their sell by date. Chris Webb posted photos of an Evans 6 wheeler mkv unit which was originally an 8 wheeler , it doesn’t happen now probably because nothings made to last anymore