Good and bad points please and be serious about it lol
Its a very under rated truck. I’ll admit it is one of the best trucks I have driven. Takes a couple of weeks to appreciate just how good they actually are. They pull well when loaded too. Bad points is its build quality and material quality. Its what lets it down badly and is what gives it its bad reputation amongst drivers. And they don’t like being abused. It will fall apart easily if hammered. Its best if it is only one or 2 regular drivers on it. Not a good fleet truck.
Nice trucks to drive, almost like a car or light van, big cab, good beds, very comfortable. Gear shifting is a bit sluggish on pull away at roundabouts and also not the greatest to control smoothly in reverse. Build quality pish although great trucks if up to three or four years old, after that expect them to be coming apart a bit at the seams trim-wise. Reputation and image is crap but the trucks are basically very good, in my experience.
Some people have trouble with the Astronic box - but that’s by no means Stralis specific. As is the fact that some Iveco dealers are woeful where heavies are concerned.
Cab interiors won’t withstand a revolving door of heavy-handed drivers but aren’t an issue for anyone that looks after a truck they’re given. Stuff comes loose but retighten once with threadlocker and it never does again. Another minor niggle is having to tilt the cab to get to the oil cap and dipstick and I find the wheel arch tops often get scuffed by trailers.
The other problem is traction even with midlift (not all have it), ASR, Diff-lock and other traction aids they do struggle very easily anywhere off flat hard-standing.
The big pluses are the cab-size and how much stuff you get as standard - fridge/freezer, electric blind, pretty much electric everything, foldout table etc and the big one is that it’s a very comfortable un-lorry like drive.
I do weekends for a supermarket,they have a few stralli on hire.They are on 11 plates,active3 cabs.They are falling to bits-drivers door leaks(and the water pools in the electric window switch!).But the best by far was the one i drove on which the entire n/s steps fell off-I ■■■■ you not,it was only the door which held them on.
They are ok to drive,gearbox is reasonable going forward but terrible backwards-Its all or nothing.
Skippy70:
I do weekends for a supermarket,they have a few stralli on hire.They are on 11 plates,active3 cabs.They are falling to bits-drivers door leaks(and the water pools in the electric window switch!).But the best by far was the one i drove on which the entire n/s steps fell off-I [zb] you not,it was only the door which held them on.
They are ok to drive,gearbox is reasonable going forward but terrible backwards-Its all or nothing.
Exactly my point about them not being good as a fleet trucks. They just fall apart with too many different heavy handed drivers on them. If you hold the reverse button for 2 seconds, it puts it into crawler/manoeuvring mode. Makes it very easy to reverse with full controll.
If I was Iveco I would get rid of the higher reverse gear altogether no real use unless you wanted to reverse a quarter of a mile solo, which you wouldn’t really ever.
Oh and don’t hook up to trailer with more than 3 indicator lamps on it, it’ll just shut down the indicators completely. you have to take a 1 or more bulbs out on the trailer to get it to work. Lots of other elecrics problems.
The horn.
But apart from that, they are huge. Takes a while to figure out where the passengers seat is, but more than enough room and plenty gadgets.
They can have bits fall off and the rear seats don’t stay folded up (You will ■■■■ yourself the first time you leave them up) but other than that,
Its my favorite truck
Plus points: There are none.
That’s all really.
Ken.
I used to love mine when double manning - an 06 Active Space3.
Loads of room, great fridge, fold out table which became a comfortable space for 2 eating, good stereo, good horn when switched to air-horns, pretty quick too considering mine was only a 430 running quite heavy, used to use my gearbox in semi as it was the old jet pack style one on the left of drivers arm.
New ones don’t seem as quick, not drove any Active Space3 new ones, only Active Space ones, doesn’t seem as much room, had a proper passenger seat?? Stereo was crap, and bits were just falling off everywhere including the D button to select drive, if you didn’t press / depress it slowly it popped off and ended up behind you 
If I was in a job where I was away for weeks and got it brand new, I don’t think I’d complain about an Active Space 3, but if it was 6mths old, things would already be broken and it’d just wind you up.
Thanks for all your replies to clarify situation its a dedicated 1 driver motor not a fleet type, so should be good - thanks
Had mine new end of October, it’s got 107k on it and has been trouble free and still drives great, you can feed the clutch in gently with practice when reversing or pulling away. As already said everything is cheap and nasty and won’t last 5 minutes on a fleet.
Had an 08 plate hill hire one a while back and on start up the whole cab rattled like a mo fo, queitened down after a while but not what you need 1st thing in the morning. It’s the only truck I wouldn’t consider buying if it was my money doing the buying, they’re just minging. That’s after having a new one on lease for three years. Under 2 years old they aren’t too bad to be fair but after they get some clicks on them they’re like trying to shag Dot Cotton. They just send a shiver down my spine.
In contrast, not a massive fan of Mercs but had a 58 plate actros recently as well and it is just miles ahead of the Stralis in noise/ride quality.
You want cheap, buy a renualt premium or a MAN tgx, both of which I like.
The new model may go some way toward rectifying things but don’t hold your breath.
rorymotorbiker:
Oh and don’t hook up to trailer with more than 3 indicator lamps on it, it’ll just shut down the indicators completely. you have to take a 1 or more bulbs out on the trailer to get it to work. Lots of other elecrics problems.
I had to put up with fast flashing indicators for years because I had 7 triple rear light trailers. 
They’re basically a Fiat truck.
Say no more… a new name for them that told you all you need to know would be…
The Iveco Shed-That’s-Falling-Apart… 
They’re awful they even make Skodas look good… 
Mine was alright (narrow cab, rigid), their nothing special but do the job well, it use to get the arse end kicked out of it daily and kept going without any major problems.
Thanks for all the replies, have to say over past couple of weeks I have really enjoyed driving the Stralis, haven’t got a bad word to say about her so far
Had mine almost 5 yrs now.absolutly no problems. fuel econonmy good, ok so build quality not wonderful, but fix it! Had fellow hauiler tell me he sold 08 scania griffin pack for £25 grand, pretty ■■■■ for a 100k plus truck. Paid nearly half of that for my stralis and been offered 13k. mmm wonder who got best deal! Any truck is only as good as the driver behind the wheel. same agruement merc v bmw v audi, all down to personal choice.
Theres only two things to say about the Stralis- Its underated, mainly by those who have never spent any time in one.- Its not the King of the hill… doesnt claim to be and doesnt have that price premium to match.