End of the road for the Axor

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FarnboroughBoy11:
awful trucks, cant understand why they would make a unit that is thinner than the width of a trailer. Cant see anything out the mirrors, just a cheap and nasty piece of crap. I dont like them.

Ive had a 12 plate for the last few months, mine isnt smaller than the width of the trailer, i have excellent vision in all 6 mirrors that it has, love the double arm rests on the drivers seat, the air con will freeze your blood if you have it on too long, it has a proper matress so the bunk is super comfy (maybe a little to narrow if your a big guy) love the aux port for my phone on the standard stereo, love the cup holder on top of the dash, nice looking trim inside, 2x electric ports so can have phone charging and sat nav working without the need for an adapter, its got a swinging arm for your suzies so its impossiple to snap them …

it has all that but the gearbox ■■■■■ which ruins the truck, my company have telematics installed so they monitor green band driving, how long you use cruise control ect ect … its an automatic but i have to drive it as a manual if i want to stay in the green band, it constanly screams its bollox off when pulling off, drops down gears when it shouldnt which takes it out of the green band, driving it within the rev range they want me to is a real chore … and quite dangerous because i find myself constantly looking where the revs are and not looking forward, thats not really the trucks fault more ceva logistics fault.

If they would let me just floor it and scream that engine it would me fine :slight_smile:

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The 9 speed box is crap, the gears are too close together. Well, when you’ve driven the 12 speed Eaton it certainly is!
Ithought the very first Axors used the same dashboard components as the great SK?

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Driven several. Purely from the drivers point of view, they are probably the most spartan piece of kit you could wish for. The manufacturer clearly had the owners margins in mind at all times rather than the drivers daily duties. Good riddance to them, a horrible working environment.

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I like them lol

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slow2run:
Driven several. Purely from the drivers point of view, they are probably the most spartan piece of kit you could wish for. The manufacturer clearly had the owners margins in mind at all times rather than the drivers daily duties. Good riddance to them, a horrible working environment.

Aint that the truth!

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Just been looking at this months T&D. Seen the new Merc Antos, aimed purely for the urban/short haul sector. Will only be available with a day cab or extended rest cab. But I also notice you can get a 510bhp version, so I reckon some companies or supermarkets will see this as a cheaper option and replace their old Axors with these, rather than the probably dearer Actros Streamspace. Maybe the outgoing Axor won’t seem that bad if you get landed with one of those Antos things.

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merc0447:
I like them lol

I bet you love the stralis too…lol

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I feel your pain Gembo.

I worked for a company that took away my new FH13 and gave me an Axor instead.

I no longer work for the company.

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slow2run:
I feel your pain Gembo.

I worked for a company that took away my new FH13 and gave me an Axor instead.

I no longer work for the company.

i would’ve done the same drive, good on yer.

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Yet again i find meself bewildered, does anyone here have any priorities in their search for good work, such as good pay, fair hours, mutual rspect and of course terms and conditions.

Drivers prepared to dump what was presumably a decent job because they took away the Audi and gave them a Honda?

No wonder the jobs getting worse.

Up until about 10 years ago when it finally got redecorated there was a poignant message written on the wall of the outside bog of the been there for ever transport cafe at Maple Cross, threads like this often bring it back, i can still recall the words so writ.

''this new breed of driver are effin useless, take ‘em off the motorway they’re effin lost, give ‘em a big motor and £2.50 (shows how long it was there) an hour and they’re like a puppy with two tails, signed ex driver thank f…’’

Not my words but sometimes i know where the author was coming from, anyone here own up to writing it all those years ago?

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Juddian:
Yet again i find meself bewildered, does anyone here have any priorities in their search for good work, such as good pay, fair hours, mutual rspect and of course terms and conditions.

I’ve just walked away from a scania R480 topline with microwave, fridge freezer, coffee maker etc for an iveco stralis day cab doing 2 boring trunk runs a day to Witney.
It’s better money and only 8 hours a day or less, will I be happier? Time will tell, I’ll probably fall out of the piece crap on the A40 anyway when it shakes me out of my seat.

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FarnboroughBoy11:

Juddian:

I’ve just walked away from a scania R480 topline with microwave, fridge freezer, coffee maker etc for an iveco stralis day cab doing 2 boring trunk runs a day to Witney.
It’s better money and only 8 hours a day or less, will I be happier? Time will tell, I’ll probably fall out of the piece crap on the A40 anyway when it shakes me out of my seat.

Well bloody done FB, when you total up the hours you spend at home instead of in just another tin can with a different badge your flabber will be gasted.

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Juddian:

FarnboroughBoy11:

Juddian:

I’ve just walked away from a scania R480 topline with microwave, fridge freezer, coffee maker etc for an iveco stralis day cab doing 2 boring trunk runs a day to Witney.
It’s better money and only 8 hours a day or less, will I be happier? Time will tell, I’ll probably fall out of the piece crap on the A40 anyway when it shakes me out of my seat.

Well bloody done FB, when you total up the hours you spend at home instead of in just another tin can with a different badge your flabber will be gasted.

Cheers mate, it will certainly give me more time to do things like go to the gym etc and hopefully now I won’t be too knackered to do anything when I get in from work.

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I left my trunking job in my Axor to return to farm collection work on the milk, when people start making presumptions they mostly start talking ■■■■■ :slight_smile:

@ Juddian
I see where you may of got the idea that I drive trucks because I like them. Sorry not the case in this instance.

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Pimpdaddy:
News has it that the axor is about to come to and end, replaced by smaller versions of the new actros for those that want a “gaffers motor”, any thoughts or opinions on this…?

By ‘Axor’ do you mean one of those little Merc Noddy Lorries ?

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By ‘Axor’ do you mean one of those little Merc Noddy Lorries ?

i personally wouldn’t call it a lorry, a heap of ■■■■ more like…
Anybody would be lying if they said they’d know what the job is like from the outset, one would have to be in the thick of it for at least a few months, the kit we get is a small but significant part to the whole thing is it not…!?

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Pat Hasler:

Pimpdaddy:

By ‘Axor’ do you mean one of those little Merc Noddy Lorries ?

Wouldn’t call it a noddy lorry, last one i drove regularly i miss, a lot, not least through having been stuck in half an inch of snow in a bloody useless MAN auto the previous week, which overheated the box… :confused: ., the Axor simply laughed at 6" of the white stuff the following week, going anywhere i wanted, including reversing round the corner and up a decent incline to a shop back door, surprising and impressing me with its no electronic nonsense simplicity and driver controllability,

I had 6 x 2 mid lift (fully under the control of the driver) 430 with, thank goodness, the manual box.

Simple, tough, durable, very little to go wrong and it didn’t, its an old school motor the engine of which will pull quite happily from 800rpm and you can hear the turbo coming on song at that low rate.
The very tractability of that straight 6 means it will cope with anything you ask of it, long haul, local, heavy traffic or as a shunter able to, on tickover, push any trailer anywhere and at any angle, something modern automated manual carp struggles to do dismally.

What it doesn’t have is any bling, and its not ■■■■ enough for the modern licence holder, but its a bloody capable lorry that will do everything you ask for donkeys years without a problem.

The only downside of it that i found was that the ride could be quite hard, though old fashioned hard, not the umpteen different suspension systems, chassis, cab, seat, working against each other so ably demostrated by some popular and bling makes, resulting in backache in some and the entire contents of the cab ending up airborn in one heap over undulations.

The 4x2 Axor is the worse ride IMO, 6x2 far better.

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Juddian:

Pat Hasler:

Pimpdaddy:

By ‘Axor’ do you mean one of those little Merc Noddy Lorries ?

Wouldn’t call it a noddy lorry, last one i drove regularly i miss, a lot, not least through having been stuck in half an inch of snow in a bloody useless MAN auto the previous week, which overheated the box… :confused: ., the Axor simply laughed at 6" of the white stuff the following week, going anywhere i wanted, including reversing round the corner and up a decent incline to a shop back door, surprising and impressing me with its no electronic nonsense simplicity and driver controllability,

I had 6 x 2 mid lift (fully under the control of the driver) 430 with, thank goodness, the manual box.

Simple, tough, durable, very little to go wrong and it didn’t, its an old school motor the engine of which will pull quite happily from 800rpm and you can hear the turbo coming on song at that low rate.
The very tractability of that straight 6 means it will cope with anything you ask of it, long haul, local, heavy traffic or as a shunter able to, on tickover, push any trailer anywhere and at any angle, something modern automated manual carp struggles to do dismally.

What it doesn’t have is any bling, and its not ■■■■ enough for the modern licence holder, but its a bloody capable lorry that will do everything you ask for donkeys years without a problem.

The only downside of it that i found was that the ride could be quite hard, though old fashioned hard, not the umpteen different suspension systems, chassis, cab, seat, working against each other so ably demostrated by some popular and bling makes, resulting in backache in some and the entire contents of the cab ending up airborn in one heap over undulations.

The 4x2 Axor is the worse ride IMO, 6x2 far better.

Well said that man , could not agree more with everything you say , it nice to know that there are some sensible drivers out there .

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Juddian, glue some little “Mercedes” leds to the cab wall, bolt some spotlights on, spray on a pointless viking bird onto the cabsides, block up the drivers’ window with frilly curtains and they’ll be taking wage cuts to drive it.
:wink:

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The Axor is a updated Leyland Roadtrain .

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