Big Truck:
Quite a few O/D’s of big Scania’s know how to “put them to sleep” with a magnet on a certain part of the gearbox, heard you can’t use the splitter though when this is in progress?
yeah it does and if you do mess about with the splitter then all the good your magnet is,is for oing along the hard shoulder picking up parts of your gear box
mikey123:
Big Truck:
Quite a few O/D’s of big Scania’s know how to “put them to sleep” with a magnet on a certain part of the gearbox, heard you can’t use the splitter though when this is in progress?yeah it does and if you do mess about with the splitter then all the good your magnet is,is for oing along the hard shoulder picking up parts of your gear box
lol you can use the splitter as it works via plunger/piston type besides the splitter on a scania box grs900 is on top of the gearbox near the turret the range change is on the back of the box and would still work and it wouldnt damage it 
tonyb70:
What would you do if you saw that happen?
carry on about my day as normal and try not to involve myself in another mans business, what were you planning on doing?
Its his business how he operates, maybe he was doing a check on summat 
Ask the two local men near me, that have been told they are going to do time for using a device to interupt the signal from the gearbox to the tacho,watch the trucking press for news shortly 
Klunk
On the face of it, it’s none of my business.
But magnets and other similar tricks are all part of a manner of working which means Mr. FlipFlop’s company can do the work for less and/or faster, and so, take business away from straight and honest hauliers.
So maybe I would nick his magnet while he’s not looking 
if someone wants to run bent, then so [zb]in what. it dosn’t harm anyone.
they are introducing a new tachograph to combat this.
it has probably cost the EU a small fortune in development.
but it can be sorted with 1 magnet and 2 switches, instead of just a magnet.
the only way to combat tachograph fraud, is to do away with tachographs.
Some people are saying it’s none of my business what he was doing,
Would you be saying that when he’s just ploughhed into the back of your car,while he’s been driving for the last 24 hours non stop■■?
People that can’t do the job legally shouldn.t be doing the job at all,in my opinion
i would grass him to the law
manowar:
On the face of it, it’s none of my business.But magnets and other similar tricks are all part of a manner of working which means Mr. FlipFlop’s company can do the work for less and/or faster, and so, take business away from straight and honest hauliers.
Or he could have been nipping off to get something to eat. I couldn’t even begin to count the number of times the fuse for my tacho fell out in various countries round Europe while I nipped to the supermarket, Imbiss, frituur, restaurant, pub, swimming pool, beach and the like. 
tonyb70:
Some people are saying it’s none of my business what he was doing,
Would you be saying that when he’s just ploughhed into the back of your car,while he’s been driving for the last 24 hours non stop■■?People that can’t do the job legally shouldn.t be doing the job at all,in my opinion
Nobody is saying that you aint entitled to your opinion mate, but why assume he has driven “24 hours non stop” just to substantiate your point or justify maybe grassing the guy up, is your driving career 100% flawless, nothing personal but I just can,t stand these self appointed law enforcers.
if hes fitting a magnet to the gearbox its coz he`s running bent which to me justifies grassing him up
I’d just mind my own business. Which maybe people should do more often. What do you think would happen if you phoned VOSA anyway? Would their rapid response swat team arrive in 30 seconds and take him down?! No, they’d probably just say thank you for that, it’s been noted.
Chances are all he’s doing is tipping off the card, hardly the end of the world, and unlikely he’s gonna drive off and kill your family. Which I’ve always found a wonky excuse for sticking your nose in.
Let’s hope they’re better at fiddling their tacho than they are at distilling vodka.
robroy:
tonyb70:
Some people are saying it’s none of my business what he was doing,
Would you be saying that when he’s just ploughhed into the back of your car,while he’s been driving for the last 24 hours non stop■■?People that can’t do the job legally shouldn.t be doing the job at all,in my opinion
Nobody is saying that you aint entitled to your opinion mate, but why assume he has driven “24 hours non stop” just to substantiate your point or justify maybe grassing the guy up, is your driving career 100% flawless, nothing personal but I just can,t stand these self appointed law enforcers.
I didn’t say anything about grassing him up,i just said “what would you do?”,
Harry Monk:
Let’s hope they’re better at fiddling their tacho than they are at distilling vodka.
The Sarge:
Harry Monk:
Let’s hope they’re better at fiddling their tacho than they are at distilling vodka.
Well, honestly, if anybody could point to one single advantage of the eastern Europeans arriving here then I would be prepared to listen to their thesis.There just isn’t one.
cant believe people would grass, how times have changed, if you dob in one of your own (foreign or not, hes a truck driver) youre a dog in my opinion.
just because the law states we can only drive for so many hours then have to park up, doesnt mean that it matches up with each and every one of our capabilities and fatigue, just mind your own business, its not that hard, in fact its EASIER to mind your own business than it is to poke your nose in and go dobbing people in.
Coffeeholic:
manowar:
On the face of it, it’s none of my business.But magnets and other similar tricks are all part of a manner of working which means Mr. FlipFlop’s company can do the work for less and/or faster, and so, take business away from straight and honest hauliers.
Or he could have been nipping off to get something to eat. I couldn’t even begin to count the number of times the fuse for my tacho fell out in various countries round Europe while I nipped to the supermarket, Imbiss, frituur, restaurant, pub, swimming pool, beach and the like.
And as if by magic a blown fuse would almost immediately fall into the vacant slot, and I thought I was the only one who suffered such awful luck with the fuse board. And to make matters worse, on Friday afternoon’s time would jump forward by a full nine hours and I would find myself driving home Saturday morning. 
Harry Monk:
Let’s hope they’re better at fiddling their tacho than they are at distilling vodka.
The ones I work with aint .
Harry Monk:
The Sarge:
Harry Monk:
Let’s hope they’re better at fiddling their tacho than they are at distilling vodka.
Well, honestly, if anybody could point to one single advantage of the eastern Europeans arriving here then I would be prepared to listen to their thesis.There just isn’t one.
You’ll regret saying that Harry if Horace sees this. Expect a full 23 page essay.