drove one today,waste of money,save it and get a 480,or better still a v8 scania,fh16 badges all over the place dont justify 100k+,dont even get full leather 
Was that the one that bell end off the tv show used to drive??
In what job would you need 700hp these days?
The heavy haulage lads (Geoff Johnston, Collett, Cadzow) seem to manage just fine with a 600hp Titan conversion.
Why you lads need 700 to pull a fridge ■■ 
cieranc:
In what job would you need 700hp these days?The heavy haulage lads (Geoff Johnston, Collett, Cadzow) seem to manage just fine with a 600hp Titan conversion.
Why you lads need 700 to pull a fridge ■■
tiny ■■■■■ syndrome
it may have the badges etc but are you sure its got 700hp under the bonnet ? I know of a 700 hp Volvo and a 730 Scania that have been sent back to be turned down - way down in the hp department- due to the fact they were using 2-3 times the fuel of an “ordinary” truck.
Geoff Johnson was telling me that their Actros Titan (8x6) pulling the full set of Nicholas bogies, did 3mpg empty, and 1mpg loaded (200ton).
cieranc:
Geoff Johnson was telling me that their Actros Titan (8x6) pulling the full set of Nicholas bogies, did 3mpg empty, and 1mpg loaded (200ton).
I used to have a driver that could get very similar mpg figures to those 
gogzy:
cieranc:
In what job would you need 700hp these days?The heavy haulage lads (Geoff Johnston, Collett, Cadzow) seem to manage just fine with a 600hp Titan conversion.
Why you lads need 700 to pull a fridge ■■
tiny ■■■■■ syndrome
Fools and their money soon are parted 
And Bod who drives an 8x4 unit for Metcalf Farms reckons his long term average is 4.22 mpg.
But he don’t pull owt as heavy as GCS Johnsons.
cieranc:
Geoff Johnson was telling me that their Actros Titan (8x6) pulling the full set of Nicholas bogies, did 3mpg empty, and 1mpg loaded (200ton).
My last stead did 2.695 gallons to the mile but we did push along 2134 ton so quite good considering.
And was that a boat by any chance?
cieranc:
And was that a boat by any chance?
err, Yes, how did you guess?
And this one is my next ‘drivin’ job for a month or two. And just like most UK roads not rolled very flat !
Credit for the picture to Danny of ‘‘solwayshipping’’
The same comments through the years. Who needs 400bhp in the uk only for heavey haulage blah blah, who needs 500bhp in the uk only for heavey haulage blah blah, who needs 600bhp etc etc. Its evolution get over it, in 20years when halfords are using 600bhp motors to deliver tins of back to black folk will be saying who needs 1000bhp in the uk blah blah.
raymundo:
And this one is my next ‘drivin’ job for a month or two. And just like most UK roads not rolled very flat !
Credit for the picture to Danny of ‘‘solwayshipping’’
For a moment I thought Richard Long Transport had gone to sea (his colours )
cieranc:
Why you lads need 700 to pull a fridge ■■
It’s simple mathematics.If you’ve got something that can put out more horsepower at 1,000 rpm than something else can put out at 1,500 rpm it’s the more powerful one that will be more economical.The problem comes when someone decides to run the more powerful one up to peak power instead of just being happy with using the same amount of power as the less powerful one has. 
Carryfast:
cieranc:
Why you lads need 700 to pull a fridge ■■It’s simple mathematics.If you’ve got something that can put out more horsepower at 1,000 rpm than something else can put out at 1,500 rpm it’s the more powerful one that will be more economical.The problem comes when someone decides to run the more powerful one up to peak power instead of just being happy with using the same amount of power as the less powerful one has.
Not true.
Stevie
Hmmm… well can’t be arsed with maths.
Had a 3.5 V8 landy once, tuned perfectly, in good health, even when I only crept along barely tickling the throttle, it would only ever return about 14-16 mpg at best.
Also had a 2.25 petrol landy, which was absolutely gutless, had to rev the nackers off it just to make it go. Was a tired old bus. Still did 19-20 mpg though, even though it got flogged everywhere it went.
gogzy:
cieranc:
In what job would you need 700hp these days?The heavy haulage lads (Geoff Johnston, Collett, Cadzow) seem to manage just fine with a 600hp Titan conversion.
Why you lads need 700 to pull a fridge ■■
tiny ■■■■■ syndrome
That’s what I put it down too.
An R620 (With it written on any large panel flat enough), 18 spot lamps (all yellow of course), enough LEDs to put blackpool to shame, poor things alternator must be travelling at about 400mph just to power it all, and then a stock fridge on the back. Usually Scottish or northern Irish too…
Big Joe:
cieranc:
Geoff Johnson was telling me that their Actros Titan (8x6) pulling the full set of Nicholas bogies, did 3mpg empty, and 1mpg loaded (200ton).I used to have a driver that could get very similar mpg figures to those
How is that justifiable??
As im in the rail industry, i know for a fact that the V16 MTU thats 2500 HP and is fitted in the “125 HST” fleet still returns 1 mile to the gallon! There is 2 of them on one train mind you.