beattun:
ellies dad:
why not try for a merc with a bedif i had proper choice id be driving a 143 or an R series, but my options are limited!
Have just been talking to one of the planners on facebook and he reckons the volvo is going back to brisbane anyway, so i think ill have to keep the merc!
you havent driven a scania have your? most people that have had the misfortune of driving one would prefer something else 
I prefer the idea of dealing with planner on facebook 
I could poke or ignore at will 
scanny77:
beattun:
ellies dad:
why not try for a merc with a bedif i had proper choice id be driving a 143 or an R series, but my options are limited!
Have just been talking to one of the planners on facebook and he reckons the volvo is going back to brisbane anyway, so i think ill have to keep the merc!
you havent driven a scania have your? most people that have had the misfortune of driving one would prefer something else
i have grown up around scanias, learned how to drive in a scania when i was about 12, but the only scania ive had for work was an 05 rigid, 230, i loved it!
Wheel Nut:
I prefer the idea of dealing with planner on facebookI could poke or ignore at will
hehe, hes the only good one in my place, hence him being on my facebook
but i generally ignore them all anyway
beattun:
scanny77:
beattun:
ellies dad:
why not try for a merc with a bedif i had proper choice id be driving a 143 or an R series, but my options are limited!
Have just been talking to one of the planners on facebook and he reckons the volvo is going back to brisbane anyway, so i think ill have to keep the merc!
you havent driven a scania have your? most people that have had the misfortune of driving one would prefer something else
i have grown up around scanias, learned how to drive in a scania when i was about 12, but the only scania ive had for work was an 05 rigid, 230, i loved it!
thats the problem with polls like this. trucks are down to individual taste and preferences. each driver likes and dislikes different things from the next driver hence we all have different favourites. your best bet is to see for yourself which one you like and make a judgement based on that rather than asking drivers. if you asked 5 drivers what they like to drive there is a good chance you will get 5 different trucks in reply
This is a bit of a ‘close to the heart’ kind of subject to me at the moment, because I’ve just had to swap from one marque to the other. Although an FH is involved in my case.
In answer to the question…Actros.
Without a second thought, moment of hesitation or whatever.
The FM doesn’t come close.
I have just been dragged (almost literally) out of my 55 plate Actros 2546 LS and put into a brand new 08 plate FH440. 
The Merc, despite having approaching 600,000 km on it, never missed a beat, whereas my Volvo broke down twice (loose earth ■■■■■■■■ the chassis) before it was ten days old - both incidents requiring a call-out from Volvo Action Service. The strut brace that is fitted ahead of the 5th wheel was also not fitted correctly. The securing bolts had no thread inside them and as a result just slipped off when you pulled them. 
The Volvo drops power to the 12V socket when you turn the key off which means the food in your coolbox goes off if you have a night at home. The Merc has a switch on the dash that you can leave on to power the socket.
The Volvo has no armrests on the driver’s seat as standard, whereas the Actros did.
The Volvo has no top bunk to sleep on as standard so I can stow my coolbox on the bottom one behind the passenger seat leaving the passenger seat and footwell free to use. This was not a problem in the Actros as it came with two bunks.
The speakers in any basic Volvo are crap, whereas the ones in my Merc were fine.
I miss the standard interior night lights in my Actros. They used to give a gentle green glow around the inside of the cab - just enough to allow me to find my bottle of water / CD collection. In the standard Volvo you don’t get this.
I also have to say that either bunk in my Actros was far more comfortable than the rubbish one you get in a Volvo.
And, I have to say, I the Volvo feels about 50 bhp worse off than the Merc. It just doesn’t pull like the Merc used to. And how I miss the growl from the old V6.
In short, for my job, I would have a basic Actros LS over a standard FH Globetrotter. As for an FM Globetrotter - I’d rather walk, thanks.
Thanks Fenman, you seen the XXL Globetrotter?
I always find it interested to see peoples loyalties and/or ■■■■ fine reasoning for one brand over another, ask any of the blokes in my place what theyd rather drive and most would say a big noisy kenworth with a 620 ■■■■■■■ signature, where im happy to have something nice a smooth to cruise around in, but still pull us up the hills.
It would be the Merc for me as well I used to love Volvo’s but our last one A fh12 420 globetrotter was a right crock of crap, seat was so uncomfortable you would of been better of sitting on a milk crate, it cannot pull the skin off a rice pudding, & the fuel consumption was lousy too.
We have just replaced it with a 460 mega space & it is twice the truck the volvo is.
never drove small actross but have driven the megacab and beats volvo fm any day. but prefer volvo fh over megacab
