Disclaimer: I am not taking the ■■■■ out of the following styling mods, I am just curious about it.
There are a fair few blinged up Scanias knocking about over here with the fancy paint jobs, lights and loud exhausts. Some of them though also have the dashboard and cabin padded out in a 70’s style carpeting, and have a three spoke white or cream retro steering wheel. I just wondered why and when it became a thing with this particular cab styling? Why carpet the dash and why swap the factory steering wheel for the (American style?) retro wheel? Is it a Dutch thing or do the UK and Irish trucks do this? And why Scania in particular? I don’t see other makes with the retro steering wheel.
Perhaps someone could enlighten me to the thinking behind these mods. Again, just curious.
The latest craze among home-grown and foreign evident along the M20, seems to be to obliterate half the windscreen with a massive painted eyebrow sunvisor and an equally large painted panel covering up the wipers and significant part of the bottom of the screen as well. The result is that the driver appears to be peering out of a letterbox. With its slab front the poxy thing looks like there is a pillbox coming towards you with just the machine guns missing, it is no wonder that the term Juggernaut is returning. So far I have yet to see one with 'roo bars or a fireguard added to the front as well, but that seems to be on its way. It is no wonder that the industry is now saddled with Direct Vision.
Hopefully the DVSA will wake up and start pulling them in for a prohibition assessment regarding ‘view to the front’ and a quick dekko at the tape measure if these fireguards become more fashionable.
cav551:
The latest craze among home-grown and foreign evident along the M20, seems to be to obliterate half the windscreen with a massive painted eyebrow sunvisor and an equally large painted panel covering up the wipers and significant part of the bottom of the screen as well. The result is that the driver appears to be peering out of a letterbox. With its slab front the poxy thing looks like there is a pillbox coming towards you with just the machine guns missing, it is no wonder that the term Juggernaut is returning. So far I have yet to see one with 'roo bars or a fireguard added to the front as well, but that seems to be on its way. It is no wonder that the industry is now saddled with Direct Vision.
Hopefully the DVSA will wake up and start pulling them in for a prohibition assessment regarding ‘view to the front’ and a quick dekko at the tape measure if these fireguards become more fashionable.
That is a good road safety flag!
Its a measure of IQ isnt it? The smaller the gap the silly ■■■ is peering through, the smaller his brain. So, when we see one of these we know to keep away.
Applies equally to those who drop the driver seat as low as possible.
cav551:
The latest craze among home-grown and foreign evident along the M20, seems to be to obliterate half the windscreen with a massive painted eyebrow sunvisor and an equally large painted panel covering up the wipers and significant part of the bottom of the screen as well. The result is that the driver appears to be peering out of a letterbox. With its slab front the poxy thing looks like there is a pillbox coming towards you with just the machine guns missing, it is no wonder that the term Juggernaut is returning. So far I have yet to see one with 'roo bars or a fireguard added to the front as well, but that seems to be on its way. It is no wonder that the industry is now saddled with Direct Vision.
Hopefully the DVSA will wake up and start pulling them in for a prohibition assessment regarding ‘view to the front’ and a quick dekko at the tape measure if these fireguards become more fashionable.
That is a good road safety flag!
Its a measure of IQ isnt it? The smaller the gap the silly ■■■ is peering through, the smaller his brain. So, when we see one of these we know to keep away.
Applies equally to those who drop the driver seat as low as possible.
I’m sure most remember what happened to that tipper operater who let the driver have a dash table fitted. Driver put in jail for killing a woman and the operater lost there operater license and got a £100000+ fine.
Why put yourself at risk putting them daft things on. Now I’m started another moan…curtains covering half the side windows so you got lean forward to look out them. Great until you pull out in front of a motorbike. Well you could them have them fitted in your cell where you be spending 5 years +
I do like looking at blinged up trucks but you got to use some common sense.
The driver involved in the fatal accident and the lady Doctor removed the all the stuff obscuring his vision only for the day of the MOT so it could pass.
After the MOT he put back his cuddly toys, sat nav , and all the rest of the tat and was days later captured on ANPR and cctv with it blocking his view, S&J were fined £112,500 and £3000 costs and the driver received 21 months custodial sentence.
There is some interesting reading on the DVSA Government website and conclusion for O license revocation by Nick Denton TC .
cav551:
The latest craze among home-grown and foreign evident along the M20, seems to be to obliterate half the windscreen with a massive painted eyebrow sunvisor and an equally large painted panel covering up the wipers and significant part of the bottom of the screen as well. The result is that the driver appears to be peering out of a letterbox. With its slab front the poxy thing looks like there is a pillbox coming towards you with just the machine guns missing, it is no wonder that the term Juggernaut is returning. So far I have yet to see one with 'roo bars or a fireguard added to the front as well, but that seems to be on its way. It is no wonder that the industry is now saddled with Direct Vision.
Hopefully the DVSA will wake up and start pulling them in for a prohibition assessment regarding ‘view to the front’ and a quick dekko at the tape measure if these fireguards become more fashionable.
Never seen them called fireguards before. That’s brilliant! The place I drive has a DAF SSC fitted with the sun visor type you mention. I hate driving it as you can’t see what any of the matrix boards say unless you duck down. I can only assume the regular driver does a lot of reversing too, as he’s fitted mud flaps in front of the tyres. I’ve not figured out what the random bits of chains hanging down from the bumper do yet.
cav551:
The latest craze among home-grown and foreign evident along the M20, seems to be to obliterate half the windscreen with a massive painted eyebrow sunvisor and an equally large painted panel covering up the wipers and significant part of the bottom of the screen as well. The result is that the driver appears to be peering out of a letterbox. With its slab front the poxy thing looks like there is a pillbox coming towards you with just the machine guns missing, it is no wonder that the term Juggernaut is returning. So far I have yet to see one with 'roo bars or a fireguard added to the front as well, but that seems to be on its way. It is no wonder that the industry is now saddled with Direct Vision.
Hopefully the DVSA will wake up and start pulling them in for a prohibition assessment regarding ‘view to the front’ and a quick dekko at the tape measure if these fireguards become more fashionable.
That is a good road safety flag!
Its a measure of IQ isnt it? The smaller the gap the silly ■■■ is peering through, the smaller his brain. So, when we see one of these we know to keep away.
Applies equally to those who drop the driver seat as low as possible.
Oi. Donkies can’t help they have short legs…
I am not a hightist. Some of my best friend*s are puny little short-arses!
Tarmaceater:
The driver involved in the fatal accident and the lady Doctor removed the all the stuff obscuring his vision only for the day of the MOT so it could pass.
After the MOT he put back his cuddly toys, sat nav , and all the rest of the tat and was days later captured on ANPR and cctv with it blocking his view, S&J were fined £112,500 and £3000 costs and the driver received 21 months custodial sentence.
There is some interesting reading on the DVSA Government website and conclusion for O license revocation by Nick Denton TC .
I forgot about another hated feature seen in the blinged-up Trotter. Out of - a very rare for me deference to perhaps offending others - I’ll call it a Scope Handle rather than the alternative name, bolted to the steering wheel will result in me refusing to drive the vehicle until it is removed. Which brings us on to steering wheels the size of those in a kiddies’ pedal car and the penchant to find that the wheel and seat have been set up for a prone Formula one driver. Now I am aware that double deck buses have a periscope but that is for looking at what is going on upstairs not to see where you are going.
Lemme guess. Wind deflectors fitted to side windows, and they`re painted white too?
TBH didn’t look was to busy shaking my head in disbelief at the front of it, that was in Rungis a couple of years back not the best of places for limited vivsibility
Lemme guess. Wind deflectors fitted to side windows, and they`re painted white too?
TBH didn’t look was to busy shaking my head in disbelief at the front of it, that was in Rungis a couple of years back not the best of places for limited vivsibility
That is as extreme as any, I reckon.
Rungis: Home of fridge night trunkers with heavily tinted windows and no speed limiters.
Lemme guess. Wind deflectors fitted to side windows, and they`re painted white too?
TBH didn’t look was to busy shaking my head in disbelief at the front of it, that was in Rungis a couple of years back not the best of places for limited vivsibility
That is as extreme as any, I reckon.
Rungis: Home of fridge night trunkers with heavily tinted windows and no speed limiters.
…so I`ve been told
LOL and zero patience definatly not a place for the faint hearted at night a place where manners are a sign of weakness
Never seen them called fireguards before. That’s brilliant! 
I’ve not figured out what the random bits of chains hanging down from the bumper do yet. 