Dont know about your neck of the woods,but down here in cider country,most are a disgrace,the windscreens are full with about a foot of junk,from 2 year old newspapers,coke cans,sweet wrappers,one old work boot with holes in it and no laces.
If the truck was to turn upside down,the old bill would have to call out the enviromental health bods to clean up the mess.If were to obtain business from the telephone number on the cab door,which one would you pick,the untidy ■■■■ mobile.,they must be a flashing light to vosa,like the ice cream van,that says,stop me and buy one.Saw one with two months of tachos in the windscreen,bodge it and scarper and sons.ltd,plc,scaffolders.
yep pretty much the same in devon , cornwall 
but then they do seem to be a totaly different breed ! most trucks are hanging just a tool to them to get to site 
Most scaff wagons are downrated to 7.5ton yet the operators don’t reduce the number of scaffold bars and planks hence Thames Valley Police pick on them around here. you’re right, they are scruffy inside, usually footprints on the windscreen too. I suppose it’s 'cos they’re only used to get from yard to site and are parked the rest of the day. Mind you in this heat, my lorry’s not exactly con-fest material either 
my dads van is beyond minging old fruit on dash newspapers invoices inch thick of sawdust everywhere im too afraid to breath when driving it lol i took it to my local tesco for the polish car cleaners to clean and even they refused to clean it
scaffold is made from tubes (hollow)
bars are solid metal
Worst job in trucking, hiab the scaffolding no thanks. Well paid though, tenner an hr in glasgow. Risking the licence with the rusty wagons.
toby1234abc:
Dont know about your neck of the woods,but down here in cider country,most are a disgrace,the windscreens are full with about a foot of junk,from 2 year old newspapers,coke cans,sweet wrappers,one old work boot with holes in it and no laces.
I can confirm here in west Dorset they are exactly the same, there’s a job going on in the centre of town (refurbishing the Town Hall). The scaffolders truck is an absolute disgrace, I’m not exagerating when I say the cab has at least 12 inches of costa coffee cups, newspapers and assorted rubbish on the dash. The vehicle is filthy dirty, a rusty cab and generally in a beat up condition. To cap it all it’s the focal point in the centre of town on a junction, its been there every day for the past few weeks. The company have several vehicles and all are the same
Tiger.
I used to run a scaffold yard & I’ll tell you 2 important things.
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They’re S C A F F O L D E R S not lorry drivers. Scaffolders belong to a sub species called ‘Builders’, whereas lorry drivers belong to a sub species called ‘whingers’.
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They are for all intents & purposes, professional body builders. All they do all day long is lift weights, the ones who are good at it can expect to earn a genuine £15ph & £600-£800 take home per week is not uncommon when it’s busy.
I learn’t very early in my career not to ■■■■ them off, especially after a long hot one. Be carefull if you ever find yourself arguing the toss with one, they can undo your wheel nuts by hand.
Chas:
I used to run a scaffold yard & I’ll tell you 2 important things.
They’re S C A F F O L D E R S not lorry drivers. Scaffolders belong to a sub species called ‘Builders’, whereas lorry drivers belong to a sub species called ‘whingers’.
They are for all intents & purposes, professional body builders. All they do all day long is lift weights, the ones who are good at it can expect to earn a genuine £15ph & £600-£800 take home per week is not uncommon when it’s busy.
I learn’t very early in my career not to ■■■■ them off, especially after a long hot one. Be carefull if you ever find yourself arguing the toss with one, they can undo your wheel nuts by hand.
Can relate to that.
In my(ahem) younger years ,used to be a tyre fitter and would think nothing of stripping down an 1100 : 20 with my teeth
Chas:
I used to run a scaffold yard & I’ll tell you 2 important things.
They’re S C A F F O L D E R S not lorry drivers. Scaffolders belong to a sub species called ‘Builders’, whereas lorry drivers belong to a sub species called ‘whingers’.
They are for all intents & purposes, professional body builders. All they do all day long is lift weights, the ones who are good at it can expect to earn a genuine £15ph & £600-£800 take home per week is not uncommon when it’s busy.
I learn’t very early in my career not to ■■■■ them off, especially after a long hot one. Be carefull if you ever find yourself arguing the toss with one, they can undo your wheel nuts by hand.
Living across the road from a new shopping development. I have watched this thing grow from the waste ground up, and watching these lads work in all weathers, if they told me to lick their boots clean I would, they are bloody hardy men, they also had lots of admiration from the ladies as they tossed their poles around 
In Essex we have a few companies using 26t Hiabs and they are fairly tidy. I think the defining point is whether the bloke who delivers the gear actually uses it, the guys who drop off and move on seem to have a better class of vehicle.
There’s a company called Tone Scaffolding from somewhere in the London area they run Black Scania artics and 8 wheelers. Always look very smart.
I think it depends on the job the vehicle is doing; a dirty cab in a vehicle used for moving food isn’t the best advert (see some of the ancient 7.5t reefers that our kebab dealing friends use for collecting elephant meat from Witney abbatoir), or say my lorry that has no air con and in dusty quarries 