I would like to start a new thread based of the truck model we hated the most.
My nomination is the BMC FG model. This must go down as the most uncomfortable cab on any truck and the weirdest door design that ever was. Heavy stearing, poor brakes and excess noise made this my prize hate of all time.
Countless others must have banged their heads, shoulders and knees getting into this damned thing!
This is best place for them.
Now I liked the FG range, I did a lot of work on them as a fitter at a BMC dealer, and thought it a good design that has never really been bettered for door to door deliveries. I am 6’4" but had no trouble getting in and out of them, (though sometimes the seat cushion followed me out of the door!) and they were also very easy to work on. Some drivers complained of heavy steering (power assistance was an option on the largest model) but I didn’t find them that bad.
I didn’t really hate any truck to be honest, all the ones that I drove for a living (four Fodens and a Sed Ak 400) I would drive again given the chance! Trucks that I worked on as a fitter is a different matter though!!!
Pete.
Greetings,All. My nomination would be the LAD cabbed Comet.At 6’3" it was most uncomfortable with the everlasting neck ache trying to look with the wiper just in the line of vision.Not a brilliant seat adjustment either.Merry Xmas, 900x20. 
Greetings,All. My nomination would be the LAD cabbed Comet.At 6’3" it was most uncomfortable with the everlasting neck ache trying to look with the wiper just in the line of vision.Not a brilliant seat adjustment either.Merry Xmas, 900x20.
Without doubt, LPS 1418 Mercedes.I drove MTN 835R from 1976 until 1984. I only got rid of it by leaving the job. The whole world was uphill with this bloody tonka toy. My left arm was overdeveloped with the constant gearchanging, and my lower orifice was similarly overworked because you couldn’t stop the efin thing!!! 
Unfortunately it was also bombproof. 
Regards Kev.
kevmac47:
Without doubt, LPS 1418 Mercedes.I drove MTN 835R from 1976 until 1984. I only got rid of it by leaving the job. The whole world was uphill with this bloody tonka toy. My left arm was overdeveloped with the constant gearchanging, and my lower orifice was similarly overworked because you couldn’t stop the efin thing!!!
I worked for Ben Wyatt Plant Hire in the late 60’s and early 70’s . I did Scotland and elsewhere many times in his FG. I found that it was impossible to get a “drivers suntan” on the right arm because the door was behind you. But because I was young and stupid, I was King Of The Road.
50MPH flat out and boy, you should have seen my roping and dollies - Dennis would have cringed! I loaded a Terex V8 for a TS 24 at Blackwood Hodge in Northampton and took it to our site at Kinross (the Kinross and Milnathorpe bypass). I could have cycled there faster. But OH GOD! I was on the road and stopped at most of the Cafes just to swagger in. To me there was no bad lorry - I soon learned better. Jim.
I drove two FG’s for builders, the second one I drove full time for about a year doing a lot on miles and hours. No power from the four cylinder engine and very little heat with the dog windows. Not the best lorry by a long way, but reliable and capable of 70mph + ,which is why the builder who was also a haulier offered me various other vehicles to drive when I left, if I ever wanted to come back. Only downside to that was he only paid £12 for 40 hours before overtime,so it was move on for more money.
i drove an FG for a plumbers merchant in the late '70’s 
there’s one ‘abandoned’ on the new Thetford by-pass…advertising something or other.
SCANIA …
They all have their good and bad points, admittedly some have more of the latter and less of the former, and at the time when you are sat behind the wheel it’s the best job in the world (even if the heater is not working and it’s -10C), and with modern cab luxuries the worst of the modern bunch are (probably) better than the best ones of forty years ago.
My most hated truck was UUJ554S an ERF with a Gardner 180 and a David Brown 6 speed box no power not enough gears did not like hills
A Guy Big J with 240LXB engine.
definetly bmc fg, horrible truck,very agricultural,heavy steering, crash gearbox,absolute slug on the road ,NOT FOR ME.
Bewick:
A Guy Big J with 240LXB engine.
You’re lucky- from what I have read, they never made any.
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anorak:Bewick:
A Guy Big J with 240LXB engine.You’re lucky- from what I have read, they never made any.
Anything with a 3-pointed star on the front and that crappy EPS gearshift in it!
PS I didn’t mind those little ‘Three-penny-bit’ lorries! Robert
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anorak:Bewick:
A Guy Big J with 240LXB engine.You’re lucky- from what I have read, they never made any.
Anything with an LAD cab on it ! built for midgets 
Anything with a steel cab .