I’ve been told she’s learning to cross the road on her own 
Yeah somewhere in the mid 70s might even have been a bit earlier
It is needed, in fact it’s essential, if the aim is to minimise the road smashing effect of heavy (drive) axle weights hence the Euro wide maut systems.Especially the example of Belgium which was long used as as a road toll avoidance route combined with being a crossroads between France and Germany Netherlands etc.Its motorways are still under repair of the resulting damage.
Aquaplaning and tramlining caused by miles of truck wheel rutting is one of the downsides of using main Euro routes.
Lazy axle is Australian for a single drive axle tandem bogie.It obviously refers to the undriven axle.
Either way the idea of a lazy axle obviously compromises and defeats the object of having the tandem bogie.Because the load can’t be equally distributed across both axles without wrecking the tractive effort equation and thereby also not reducing the individual axle weights of the bogie by spreading the load equally between them, which is the purpose of the tandem.
Your knowledge of all things never ceases to amaze.
The cab is familiar to all of us but I wonder what the running gear is.
[edit: it’s a PACCAR MX /edit]
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I know, Surrey County Council probably have a special day each year dedicated to the memory of his service with them.
Us lads on here are lucky to have him. I don’t know how I managed ‘on the road’ for 50 years without his help and guidance.
We are indebted. 
Back to the late 1930s with this preserved Latil H1 fitted witha a Gardner 4 LW engine.
Some decades ago, I had photographed this wrecked similar model.
Gawd! There’s some weird shi te leaking out of your head.
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I’ve been known to cry myself to sleep at night, feeling that the knowledge and experience I have had over all these years, has been shown up to be so inadequate when pitted against such an omniscient giant of the industry.
Perhaps we could start a petition to get his name enshrined in folklore, maybe a road named after him. Or, if we could be so obliging, perhaps even a motorway service station (on the M3 naturally). Imagine the amount of tourists that would go out of their way just to be able to say “I stopped at the Carryfast Services”. T shirt sales would be through the roof, sales of skip hats would reach record levels, perhaps even an on-site tattooist for that everlasting memory.
How do I start a petition?
Dyson trailers from Liverpool started offering air suspension and disc brakes on their trailers from 1960. The air bags were a single pillow along the axle top, the disc brakes were courtesy of Dunlop, I’m told they had an issue with roll. How many were built I’ve no idea, but I do know that Miller & Gordon ran some, although I believe that due to the roll they kept them off high centre of gravity loads, using them mainly on their Calor bottled gas contract and out of John Summers steel at Shotton.
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The Guy Wulfrunian chassis, introduced in 1958, had air suspension.
Well I cannot believe you all still converse with Carryfast or is it just a form of sport to put him down, it is well known that if you ignore his posts he will get fed up and not bother you all. The crying shame is the fact we lost a very good reliable poster who definitely knew his stuff and that person was Saviem RIP, what a great loss he was to this thread and I still miss his input, a good man who had a vast knowledge on a very wide spere and a good sense of humour to boot.
Soon sort that out up the Mid Wales lanes that we used to travel on!!!
Suitable alternative for the renaming of Prince Andrew Drive , road , crescent etc…
