Older in our yard is the 62 plate rigids. We do have some shunters that use an old green Scania 3 series.
Excluding fire or accident type damage the main reason a young-ish truck might be broken for parts is engine failure where replacement is more than a secondhand truck, of the same age, with a working engine.
Other that that a surprising amount of good stuff, with years of life left, gets broken because it’s simply worth more as parts.
The scrapping age for modern lorries will get shorter and shorter ,I honestly think that before too long it will be way too expensive to operate any thing other than a new lorry for arguments sake 3-6 yrs old and get rid ,who wants to spend thousands on blocked exhausts or auto boxes ,on the other hand I don’t want to move on to discs brakes or digi tachos .
Royal Mail Daf`s are kept for 11 years. Typical 09 plate has +1.1m km on…
My regular motor is a 51 plate and it’s out and about every weekday.
Manual gearbox and paper tacho - nice. 
Punchy Dan:
The scrapping age for modern lorries will get shorter and shorter ,I honestly think that before too long it will be way too expensive to operate any thing other than a new lorry for arguments sake 3-6 yrs old and get rid ,who wants to spend thousands on blocked exhausts or auto boxes ,on the other hand I don’t want to move on to discs brakes or digi tachos .
Plus nonsense schemes likes FORS wanting all this extra junk screwed and wired on.
My XF is 02 reg, there’s a Y plate one I see regularly on a local contract.
It’s going to go soon but the bugger keeps on going… good old truck really.
i run a 12 yr old 164 with 2m km and in for test friday, wants for nothing
If 1st user is say a PLC with a 3yr lease policy and multiple agency drivers and a max uptime, min maintenance regime you’d have to suspect that’ll be a shorter life truck.
A small business buying the next truck off the line and probably over maintaining it will probably double it’s service life.
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Munchkin:
If 1st user is say a PLC with a 3yr lease policy and multiple agency drivers and a max uptime, min maintenance regime you’d have to suspect that’ll be a shorter life truck.
A small business buying the next truck off the line and probably over maintaining it will probably double it’s service life.Sent from my X17 using Tapatalk
Very much that, the ex plc multi driver truck will prob go to auction or sold on by the dealer and depending on who buys it will get another handful of years maximum before it becomes uneconomical to maintain. Whereas the one driver one professional company truck that is over maintained has the potential to last over 10 years but most will probably go for new ones within 5 years of new from what you see on the roads.
With the big companies its just pure figures nowadays, most won’t and don’t care as long as the overall business picture/purpose is served.
My old TGX went as soon as it was 5 years old. We have to send them back in a certain condition. I don’t know what the ins and outs of that entail, as other than having its wrap taken off, no cosmetic stuff was touched.
However between it being de-hired and picked up by MAN, it spent 6 or 7 days in the garage.
When I enquired as to why, got told “because it’s knackered”
Fitter went quite red in the face when I said, so all these defects I’ve put in for the last 18 months are finally getting done are they?"
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Over the years I’ve seen many older, and well maintained trucks in better condition than some newer vehicles. 
Oil is the cheapest mechanic, and regular changes are a good key to longevity. 10 years or a million Kms, or until a truck becomes costly to maintain.
There is a guy around here still running a T-reg Scania 144, which not only looks very well but also sounds it too. T was 1999, I think, so 17 years old.
There’s still plenty of 143s knocking around
A scania will out live most other trucks because they spend more time in the garage getting fixed … 
A scania will out live most other trucks because they spend more time in the garage getting fixed …
fuse:
A scania will out live most other trucks because they spend more time in the garage getting fixed …
Old 'Uns are best! Give me a late model R142 any day
Muckaway:
There is a small haulage/sand and gravel supplier near Stratford on Avon (Webbs of Armscote) that still operate Merc SK tippers. They have an L reg 6w that I believe is on its’ second cab, second engine and has recently had its’ second tipper body fitted (Grandads’ axe job). .
Sounds like Triggers broom!
Old curtainsiders never die…
They work for Heygates and Mornflake.