Saw a polish “fleet” spec one in Clackett’s yesterday.
I’ll be honest, even with the black plastic bumpers (well, you know, the terrible Merc Greyish black!) it looked good.
Driver saw me looking, gave me a thumbs up and said “Good truck!, I like”
He had a McDonalds large size cup in the cup holder so it must be a pretty good size.
Alex
Scarab:
Saw a polish “fleet” spec one in Clackett’s yesterday.
I’ll be honest, even with the black plastic bumpers (well, you know, the terrible Merc Greyish black!) it looked good.Driver saw me looking, gave me a thumbs up and said “Good truck!, I like”
He had a McDonalds large size cup in the cup holder so it must be a pretty good size.
Alex
This one was completely painted so no fleet plastic, looked really smart.
not keen on look of new merc,but saw strallis today and thought it looked well smart,always had a soft spot for them,one i had for 2 years flew,wouldnt swap our scanias for a merc,but i wouldnt have a problem with a strallis
ady1:
not keen on look of new merc,but saw strallis today and thought it looked well smart,always had a soft spot for them,one i had for 2 years flew,wouldnt swap our scanias for a merc,but i wouldnt have a problem with a strallis
I think the new merc looks the part, but I’m with you on the Stralis. Great truck, just needs a couple of weeks to get used to then your’e converted. Must be a Stralis thing, cos any I’ve driven in the past, especially the one I had for 18 months seemed to go like stink. Nothing got past me on the motorway with it. 
saw a 6 wheeler thursday evening in stobarts wrap, looked very smart, but these 4 wheeler low rides are for me the best looking truck ive seen in a long time…
damoq:
ady1:
not keen on look of new merc,but saw strallis today and thought it looked well smart,always had a soft spot for them,one i had for 2 years flew,wouldnt swap our scanias for a merc,but i wouldnt have a problem with a strallisI think the new merc looks the part, but I’m with you on the Stralis. Great truck, just needs a couple of weeks to get used to then your’e converted. Must be a Stralis thing, cos any I’ve driven in the past, especially the one I had for 18 months seemed to go like stink. Nothing got past me on the motorway with it.
agreed, first truck i had was a stralis, 54 plate so it had the gear stick instead of the buttons on the dash, and i fell in love with it. Also interestingly i found hardly anything used to pass it, and our fleet of stralis’s were all the same, like s**t of a stick…
passed a polish 6x2 wag n drag with full body coloured bumpers. looked mint really want one now
“About that new motor boss”
billybigrig:
“About that new motor boss”
Ouch!!! I bet it will still drive better than a Scania, even after that little mishap.
There’s plenty of them in the compound in purfleet deep wharf,nice one in their with a full set of alloys on also plenty of those “eyesores” as well in there.
We got demo nxt week if ok boss getting 5 at 500 horses and low ride are for Europe pulling mega trailers for nafi and other European contracts
The 6x2’s look much much better.
damoq:
Also seen a 12 plate Stralis all wrapped in Stobart colours yesterday. It looked pretty smart too IMO.
I saw one the other night parked southbound side of the A1 below Red House Ferrybridge area, looked ok, prolly the same one, did wonder if that was one of those franchise chaps, also saw an MAN TGX wrapped up couple of weeks before, just waiting to come across an old Stratocruiser now for a good laugh 
I think the new Merc looks awesome in the dark grey silver, and black, not sure how bog std white nd plastic would look tho ■■?
I drove the 450bhp gigaspace 6x2 we’ve had on demo, and the following day one of our 12 reg current model megaspace and gotta say I preferred the current one. It felt far more comfortable and better laid out. This could of course be because I’m more used to the current one!
