The military version of the CCC is built by AM and called General. The civilian model is called Centaur. But with so many military surplus trucks running around in plain clothes it is difficult to know which is which.
ChrisArbon:
0The military version of the CCC is built by AM and called General. The civilian model is called Centaur. But with so many military surplus trucks running around in plain clothes it is difficult to know which is which.
Well you’ve taught me something new! I didn’t know that there was a civvy version called the Centaur. I used to jostle with the American forces ‘Generals’ on the autobahns years ago. They certainly looked rugged vehicles. Robert
sammyopisite:
I was quite lucky as I did drive most of what I would have liked to drive, the only thing I can think of is Mack (or Yankee Atki ) and I never drove a V8 Scania but I was never a Scania fan anyway
cheers Johnnie
Johnnie heres a Mack you may have liked,I didn’t really want a Mack but it had the right specs so I took it for a test drive and that was the start of a 6year association
cheers Dig
You know what they say. ‘Once you go Mack, you never go back!’
DIG:
sammyopisite:
I was quite lucky as I did drive most of what I would have liked to drive, the only thing I can think of is Mack (or Yankee Atki ) and I never drove a V8 Scania but I was never a Scania fan anyway
cheers JohnnieJohnnie heres a Mack you may have liked,I didn’t really want a Mack but it had the right specs so I took it for a test drive and that was the start of a 6year association
cheers Dig
Hi Dig yep I think that would tempt me ha ha as I used to like the bonneted scammell’s even though they were noisy and not too comfortable but when you are young that did not seem to matter as they were more or less unbreakable and very reliable so they did the job and got you back
cheers Johnnie
Robert I have thought of a wagon that I would really have liked to have had a go at driving and there will not be too many people still alive who have been on it during its working life as I was only a bairn when I went with dad who was double heading with an AEC Matador for Leaping Lena the famous Scammell 100 tonner this would have been around 51/52 time but I can recall bits like the lift pump on the front bulkhead passenger side whic I had the job of operating and ended up scruffy and in trouble with Ma when got home
It was chain driven and if I recall correctly it had a four speed box but you could change the sprockets which would double the amount of gears and top speed in low was about 4mph but I would have liked to have had a pop at it, I did work with Cliff Lowther the regular driver of it when I first started at Pickford’s in 67 but that was in a Super Constructor then a Contractor
cheers Johnnie
sammyopisite:
Robert I have thought of a wagon that I would really have liked to have had a go at driving and there will not be too many people still alive who have been on it during its working life as I was only a bairn when I went with dad who was double heading with an AEC Matador for Leaping Lena the famous Scammell 100 tonner this would have been around 51/52 time but I can recall bits like the lift pump on the front bulkhead passenger side whic I had the job of operating and ended up scruffy and in trouble with Ma when got home
It was chain driven and if I recall correctly it had a four speed box but you could change the sprockets which would double the amount of gears and top speed in low was about 4mphbut I would have liked to have had a pop at it, I did work with Cliff Lowther the regular driver of it when I first started at Pickford’s in 67 but that was in a Super Constructor then a Contractor
cheers Johnnie
Interesting choice,but oh, think of the responsibility that went with it! Robert
Robert,i like the 2 pedal beaver!!maybe a boyhood dream.
Windrush i am with you ,you drove what you were given, and get on with it if you do not like it ,shut the gate on the way out.i have never been mesmerized by a nice truck as they kept you working day and night.could you imagine some of the trucks today going in to the old lincoln farm you would get lost in the holes…
robert1952:
sammyopisite:
Robert I have thought of a wagon that I would really have liked to have had a go at driving and there will not be too many people still alive who have been on it during its working life as I was only a bairn when I went with dad who was double heading with an AEC Matador for Leaping Lena the famous Scammell 100 tonner this would have been around 51/52 time but I can recall bits like the lift pump on the front bulkhead passenger side whic I had the job of operating and ended up scruffy and in trouble with Ma when got home
It was chain driven and if I recall correctly it had a four speed box but you could change the sprockets which would double the amount of gears and top speed in low was about 4mphbut I would have liked to have had a pop at it, I did work with Cliff Lowther the regular driver of it when I first started at Pickford’s in 67 but that was in a Super Constructor then a Contractor
cheers JohnnieInteresting choice,but oh, think of the responsibility that went with it!
Robert
Robert I would imagine that you need a brain and a certain amount of intelligence to be able to think
cheers Johnnie
Jazzandy:
You know what they say. ‘Once you go Mack, you never go back!’
This truck may have suited your nocturnal activities on the Tehran job, it has a ladies entrance on the bunk.lol
Cheers Dig
sammyopisite:
DIG:
sammyopisite:
I was quite lucky as I did drive most of what I would have liked to drive, the only thing I can think of is Mack (or Yankee Atki ) and I never drove a V8 Scania but I was never a Scania fan anyway
cheers JohnnieJohnnie heres a Mack you may have liked,I didn’t really want a Mack but it had the right specs so I took it for a test drive and that was the start of a 6year association
cheers DigHi Dig yep I think that would tempt me ha ha as I used to like the bonneted scammell’s even though they were noisy and not too comfortable but when you are young that did not seem to matter as they were more or less unbreakable and very reliable so they did the job and got you back
cheers Johnnie
Good day Johnnie I had a bit to do with Pickford Scammells so know what your saying about noise etc when I was with BRS before heading this way but you would find this Mack Titan as comfortable as most European trucks ,the Volvo influence on the brand started about the time this truck was on the drawing board.
It was a delight to drive comfortable quite good vision and not at all noisy.
Cheers Dig
Being a tipper without a class 1…
Scammell Routeman
Leyland Constructor
Leyland Bison
Bedford TM
Bedford KM
Foden Haul/Fleetmaster
Atkinson Defender
DIG:
Jazzandy:
You know what they say. ‘Once you go Mack, you never go back!’This truck may have suited your nocturnal activities on the Tehran job, it has a ladies entrance on the bunk.lol
Cheers Dig
The ladies entrance, more commonly known as the ■■■■■ door
Muckaway:
Being a tipper without a class 1…
Scammell Routeman
Leyland Constructor
Leyland Bison
Bedford TM
Bedford KM
Foden Haul/Fleetmaster
Atkinson Defender
Are you tipping again, Nathan?
John West… Monday was a long day, started out early about 1.30 am and never stopped… I did a couple of runs in the Bert and Ernie truck ( that’s what we call the spare truck, every one gets a go )… They were looking at my gear box as it was jumping out of gear… About 9 they called me and told me the truck was fixed come and collect it…I got a lift to the mechanic and collected my truck, and drove it about 3 k’s when it jumped out of gear again, so I went back to be told that it was fine and take a bit of bedding in. Stuff’em… what do I know I’m just a dumb ■■■ driver… got back in it drove of…of I went again with it still jumping of gear, I loaded it up in the forest at about 900 meters altitude…
Straight of the landing there’s a steep climb, about 1 in 7… 1st gear for about 300 meters… grab another couple of gears 500 mts then it gets really steep… back into 1st… Crunch… %&**^%^%$^… bang… &*((^&^%^&%& …nothing… &%&^%%$#$$% expensive noise ^%$$#%^&. All over…
There were 4 other trucks on the landing no other way out and I was blocking the road, so I had to do something quick … I radioed back for help… Long story short… they unloaded the truck into the ditch with the loader which they tracked to the truck, they dragged it up the rest of the hill to a wider point of the road where it sat for the rest of the day… The guy that was fixing the gear box forgot to knock the lock tab over the nut on the end of the shaft… Need new gear box, we’re not paying for it
Seen here at the back of the line…
Jamo gave me a lift back to the yard to pick up the Bert and Ernie truck again…
BUT WAIT THER"S MORE…
Mean while farther down the mountain this was going on…
By the time we got all that sorted out it was after 11 at night… so I can’t really recall if I was getting up or going to bed when I made that other post…
The rest of the week was a fairly straight run after that…
Jeff…
robert1952:
John West:
Tell me Jelliot, what time is it where you are?The ‘old ■■■■■ society - retired’ in the Northern hemisphere, are getting ready for bed having consumed more alcohol than is good for us (well, those not on tablets)
Surely you should be driving?
John
Well, Jelliot, you’ve told us what you enjoyed driving, but this thread is about what you wish you’d driven! Spill the beans old bean! Robert
Well uncle Bob … the thing is I’ve probably driven most things I’ve fantasised about, add to that I’ve also been to more places that I ever new existed…so all in all I’m pretty chuffed…
I remember driving along in my F12 Globbie draw bar on my way to Tunisia and thinking how am I going to top this… not a good thought when your only 21 years old… 480 Italian spec Turbo Star that never broke down, hurtling through Turkey was pretty good… FH 520 on the Chinese border was even better… especially when I knew when I got back to Italy I was either coming straight back out… or option 2 go to Muscat… Triple road train, Adelaide to Alice Springs, and Perth… not to shabby, however I was driving a slightly under powered Ford Louisville into a head wind all the way there and back…inter state Kenworth B Doubles on the east coat… some of them looked all right… K1 Aerodyne in front of a Great Dane Fridge back and forward across America in the late 80’s was also high up there… B double log jinkers in the Tasmanian high country… apart from the crap hours it’s not to bad…home every night and get payed for playing with big toys all day…
I drove a 142 drawbar that Malcom Harrison was trying to sell me… Very disappointing… it was completely worn out…
I had a Merc 1744 had big numbers to back it up but was less than average to drive…
F16… to heavy on fuel as well as being to heavy in general… Aberdeen to Alicante only 10 minutes quicker than my F12… but 160lts more truck beer…
However I’ve also driven some complete rubbish in my time as well as going to some rather unpleasant places, and met some less than average people…
Jeff
You’re a bit of a legend really Jeff, N.Africa, Middle East, Chinese border, coast to coast USA including Alaska, down under with triple trailer road trains, not much left now apart from South America
I take my hat off to you mate, you have to be the world’s most travelled lorry driver.
Legend … defiantly not… just stumbled about… none of it was really planed… just to naïve and dumb to be any wiser…I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up…
NNM at the end of my North America trip I had organised to go to Peru to do some driving there. One of the guys I met had an uncle that ran trucks ( Volvos ) down to Chilli. I knew the pay was going to be rubbish but I wanted a go at the Andes. We arrived at Lima to be told they were having a military coup and the British consulate advised my get on the next plane going any where… So near yet so far…
I also applied for job as a Hagland driver for the Australian Antarctic Division based in Hobart and got the final 3, to be told that the job was now going to be a 1 year position instead of the advertised 3 months it had been… Bummer…
I would have loved to have done the M/E in the 70’s 80’s in an F88 or Daf but knowing my luck it would have been an A series ERF may be with a Jennings sleeper box…
Jeff…
You can’t judge your own status Jeff, I can though and I’m calling you a legend, so that’s settled, you’re a legend whether you like it or not
newmercman:
You can’t judge your own status Jeff, I can though and I’m calling you a legend, so that’s settled, you’re a legend whether you like it or not
1+ I’m whit you on this one NMM,He is a legend
Danne