Tipper Tom:
trubster:
No…It’s all about the money…
It’s all about the dum dum da de dum dum
That’s what I was going to put but couldn’t remember how it went… Got it in my head now.
I spend most nights in the lorry so yes I do care what one im in, its usually a basic spec r420 lowline but I had a volvo fh for a couple of days and it was a pleasure to live in and also to drive. I had a daf cf for one day and I was glad to get back into the scania.
I care ,if I have to take a lorry out I will only take one of the ERF s ,or DAF if I have too.
Do I care?
To an extent as most have said, I want the truck to be legal and clean and tidy, not overly worried about the badge, but do like Volvo’s.
We have three truck at work and I drive all of them at one point or another, and not got a problem with any of them, but when I get the choice I’d drive the 520 FH, partly because it’s comfortable and a relaxed drive and partly because it’s got my brew kit and other bits’s in it.
To a degree yes I do care.
I want to drive something that it is suitable for the job in hand, and not going to be bloody horrific to live with. My last truck was an old nail with a short Scania day cab and rock hard suspension. It was a thoroughly miserable few months I had it and although the money was good it was a depressing place to be. It was going to be replaced with a new vehicle and I was involved in the speccing of it, it wouldn’t have been flashy but would have been more suitable and comfortable for the task. As it happens we found a much better spec used vehicle.
I look after it to a degree, but it’s a vehicle built to work hard and that’s how it gets treated.
Tipper Tom:
OllieNotts:
Depends on the job it’s for, if I was day trunking then no never cared. If I was tramping then I may have a preference for a more ‘livable space’. I once spent a month tramping in a rigid and it was a nightmare, I also spent a month tramping in an iveco super space cab that had a fold down table and so much space it made life much easier. Always enjoyed tramping in a man 07 plate old model lots of space and storage etc.
As long as I’ve got room to stand up and make me tea at night when spending all week away I could make any cab work, any cab is cleanable. On day work I wouldn’t care a toss as I’d be going home at the end of the shift and it’ll be someone else’s crap for the night shiftI’m confused how a rigid makes any difference to how you night out in it. If you had a FM Gobstopper rigid or artic would the cab not be the same
The rigid had no space at all to live in, the bed was just plastic with a thin sheet of cloth acting as a mattress, but the night heater did work 
there was no room under the bed and hardly any locker space I had bags all over the place that kept needing to be moved every time I stopped, it was a scania, hated em ever since.
OllieNotts:
Tipper Tom:
OllieNotts:
Depends on the job it’s for, if I was day trunking then no never cared. If I was tramping then I may have a preference for a more ‘livable space’. I once spent a month tramping in a rigid and it was a nightmare, I also spent a month tramping in an iveco super space cab that had a fold down table and so much space it made life much easier. Always enjoyed tramping in a man 07 plate old model lots of space and storage etc.
As long as I’ve got room to stand up and make me tea at night when spending all week away I could make any cab work, any cab is cleanable. On day work I wouldn’t care a toss as I’d be going home at the end of the shift and it’ll be someone else’s crap for the night shiftI’m confused how a rigid makes any difference to how you night out in it. If you had a FM Gobstopper rigid or artic would the cab not be the same
The rigid had no space at all to live in, the bed was just plastic with a thin sheet of cloth acting as a mattress, but the night heater did work
Ahh light dawns on marble head. Wasn’t cos it’s a rigid. Was cos it had a day cab and was a Scabia
OVLOV JAY:
Yes, I like my trucks like I like my ■■■■, Swedish
+1… I’m also bothered about the money & things like that:lol:
Tipper Tom:
OllieNotts:
Tipper Tom:
OllieNotts:
Depends on the job it’s for, if I was day trunking then no never cared. If I was tramping then I may have a preference for a more ‘livable space’. I once spent a month tramping in a rigid and it was a nightmare, I also spent a month tramping in an iveco super space cab that had a fold down table and so much space it made life much easier. Always enjoyed tramping in a man 07 plate old model lots of space and storage etc.
As long as I’ve got room to stand up and make me tea at night when spending all week away I could make any cab work, any cab is cleanable. On day work I wouldn’t care a toss as I’d be going home at the end of the shift and it’ll be someone else’s crap for the night shiftI’m confused how a rigid makes any difference to how you night out in it. If you had a FM Gobstopper rigid or artic would the cab not be the same
The rigid had no space at all to live in, the bed was just plastic with a thin sheet of cloth acting as a mattress, but the night heater did work
Ahh light dawns on marble head. Wasn’t cos it’s a rigid. Was cos it had a day cab and was a Scabia
Cocktail fan?
Couldn’t care less what I drive, as long as it has at least 700hp
It doesn’t really bother me what I’m in, I’m in a 57 reg Daf XF space cab, I like it.
It’s probably not the best but it does me.
If I had a choice then sure I’d like something bigger, or newer, or both!
And if that ever happens then another Daf would do nicely thank you 
Don’t care as long as I am not paying for the fuel and the up keep of it. All I do is look after it, wash it and drive it, but I do wish for a bigger cab (Merc Axor Rigid)
Yes I do,scania every day for me,drivers truck
I was going to say, like others on here, that so long as it’s legal and mostly works ok, I’m not bothered. Then I started thinking about how much I despise auto 'boxes (the Daf XF I drive at the moment has one, but I use it exclusively in manual mode so I can just about live with it), and how much I despise Ivecos and Mercs, and how much I dislike modern trucks compared to some of the stuff I used to drive. So yes, I suppose I do care what I drive. I like Dafs, Scanias and Volvos, and if I went tramping I’d have a Magnum like the one I drove for CFT, but apart from that, and wanting to drive an ERF E series with a twin split gearbox just one more time, I’m not too bothered.
switchlogic:
Couldn’t care less what I drive, as long as it has at least 700hp
You jammy sod!!
Up until a week ago I couldn’t care less. However, I do occasional work for a company that hires out lorries with drivers, and they have a regular contract with a company where they collect from various locations and then deliver to their warehouse. I have done two different collections for them, one involved a mountainous route with a Renault and the other a flat route with a Scania. A week ago I did a 1 off day for them, and was surprised to find myself doing the mountainous route with the Scania. It was awful. They have asked me to do another 3 weeks on this route, but I only agreed when they said the Renault was back.
I think there is a line between drivers who do days and trampers as a tramper is looking at atool to do thd job and a home.
As has been said many times; as long as the money is good then no I have no preference.
Except an Axor obviously.
kr79:
I think there is a line between drivers who do days and trampers as a tramper is looking at atool to do thd job and a home.
Right I agree but surely the badge makes not a ■■■■ of odds. If Iveco made the best combination of tool and home then Iveco it is
Tipper Tom:
kr79:
I think there is a line between drivers who do days and trampers as a tramper is looking at atool to do thd job and a home.Right I agree but surely the badge makes not a [zb] of odds. If Iveco made the best combination of tool and home then Iveco it is
Not all Iveco drivers are tools. 
Renault Magnum, for me. I loved tramping in “mine”, and there was probably slightly more space in there than in the flat I actually lived in.