Harry Monk:
To be fair, it doesn’t look like the best-maintained truck in the land.
I’d have said it looks pretty well looked after for its age, apart from needing a wash, the body looks straight, easy sheet working and tidy with no holes and good bit off rubber on its feet.
Harry Monk:
To be fair, it doesn’t look like the best-maintained truck in the land.
And you came to this conclusion how exactly ? Cos there is a bit of dirt on it!!
well least he can’t blame the satnav for it, as the truck got confused this time 
Brocks haulage have a very good maintained fleet of lorries, As for the lack of washing that’s not bad considering
they are running flat out at the moment on work they are doing around here.
Muckaway:
andrew.s:
Harry Monk:
To be fair, it doesn’t look like the best-maintained truck in the land.i cant see much to make me think it “doesn’t look like the best-maintained truck in the land” apart from the steering obviously
It is partly because it is so dirty, I know what type of work it will be doing, and I know that the weather has been bad lately but it obviously hasn’t been washed down for weeks and so I doubt that anyone has any great pride or interest in it.
And yes, I know that sudden mechanical failure does happen, and I know that a photo on the internet isn’t enough evidence to hang a man, but it is possible, maybe more likely even, that a steering component failed due to wear which should have been picked up on a six-weekly inspection.
In any event, I would say that it’s a given that the operator will be receiving a surprise visit from a minibus-full of the VOStApo in the next few weeks.
Harry Monk:
In any event, I would say that it’s a given that the operator will be receiving a surprise visit from a minibus-full of the VOStApo in the next few weeks.
And why would that be ? they don’t even know nothing about it.
The front looks like it got confused and wanted to become a rear steer rigid instead! 
Or like it wants to be a “crabbing” JCB telehandler on site!
As for “maintenance” its a tipper…they get dirty especially on muck shift in the winter, doesn’t necessarily mean its unsafe? Just unclean and a possible “sudden” mechanical failure on a component whilst starting to move off■■? P.S The cab looked quite clean on the exterior to me.
Does this mean now if you have a mechanical failure on your vehicle inbetween inspections you are not maintaining your fleet at all and deserve a visit from VOSA?
If that’s the case then we all better be looking over our shoulders a lot more, because if I remember rightly mechanical things do have a tendency to break whenever they choose that goes from a bicycle to a space rocket!
Bit like me saying some of the general haulage/supermarkets trailers look terribly unclean on the road at the moment, perhaps they are mechanically unsound or their food storage practices leave a lot to be desired. (Hang on the later might have some truth in the late 90’s…not sure now) 
God forbid if anyone saw my van recently and based its mechanical condition purely on exterior cleanliness, as that doesn’t have to have six week inspections either!
C
Harry, there are wheelwashes about that will turn a Truckfest-standard tipper to that appearance in a short time.
So if something breaks unexpectedly…VOSA Appear? Oh ■■■■■■■■!
bigvern1:
So if something breaks unexpectedly…VOSA Appear? Oh ■■■■■■■■!
No because they read the ■■■■■■■■ on here,so Harry has a point!!
bobbya:
bigvern1:
So if something breaks unexpectedly…VOSA Appear? Oh ■■■■■■■■!No because they read the ■■■■■■■■ on here,so Harry has a point!!
I’m surprised nobody else worked that out. 
Harry you should get a job with vosa you could save them a fortune, you could have the gv9’d by a glance of an eye.
Harry Monk:
To be fair, it doesn’t look like the best-maintained truck in the land.
You must be a mechanical genius to know that. It’s a tipper in winter what do you expect truckfest podium looks.
I know a few people who have worked at brocks and although the trucks are no show stoppers they are looked after.
Yes, maybe was reading a bit too much into that aspect of it, but the fact is that mechanical failure of this type simply should not happen.
Remember the first Leyland Roadtrains that were GV9’d in their first few months on the road?
Harry Monk:
Yes, maybe was reading a bit too much into that aspect of it, but the fact is that mechanical failure of this type simply should not happen.
One day Harry you’ll break down and maybe it will knock you of your high horse. You’ve been having a crack at it for less than a year and you act as your gods gift.
Give it a break because were all getting tired of it.
Well, like I said, maybe I read a bit more into it than should have been the case but I think we can agree that this should not happen on a truck?
And although I’ve commented on it, I personally would not have posted a pic such as that on here because it does just invite trouble.
One day the Magnum will have a catastrophe…Happens to everyone, you cannot say it won’t because it might. Do you not agree,or are you unique?
If that happened to my truck then I would want to know why, and the first place I’d be asking questions would be the place where my maintenance is carried out. It’s not just a breakdown, it’s a major failure of a safety-critical component and had it happened at anything other than low speed it could easily have been fatal. This more often happens in countries where vehicles are not subject to such strict mechanical inspections and is usually cause by failure of a track rod end, this simply should not happen.
Problems with second axles on 8wheelers’ steering, have in my experience, been at low or no speed where the vehicle is shunting around in mud. The resistance puts a lot of strain on components, plus the general abuse that tippers receive, and not just from drivers but clowns onsite who drop stuff on from height and site agents who think tippers can go where a tracked vehicle can.