chester1:
You may laugh but I was tipping in a paper mill yesterday and the truck next to me was struggeling to get parked after a while the driver got out came up to my truck and in pigeon English said my truck won’t pull and smells so I got into his cab and it was in low range and had only been using 5 6 7 and 8 fully loaded .when I pointed this out he said he only ever driven auto,s result clutch nackered .aint so cheap now are they
Moron I carnt see how hes drove it like that I drive a volvo 32t bulker and it wouldnt pull away in 5th fully loaded 3rd tops…
I’ve been driving our Volvo globetrotter training unit to load steel wire out of Penistone wire and just back to our yard this week and i’ll admit I’ve been towing my knackers off with the gears
Mind you it is a 3 over 3 with split shift and I couldn’t get used to it at all. It was like the time I was on agency for JDF Logistics who were based up Dodworth doing multi drop work in old ERF brewery trucks and what I was confronted with made me have nightmares! The gearbox on the ERF took some getting used to driving around the yard to get used to it before I would dare venture out onto the road
Saying that though give me a manual over an automatic any day
We only have about 4 Auto artics in our fleet of 50 odd units. Our 58 plate rigids are manual, any after that are all Autos. To be honest sometimes I wish I had an auto, other times I enjoy driving a manual.
Albeit that im an old retired codger, but never having driven any of these new fangled auto boxes ide like to think that they will be a ■■■■■ if you get stuck in snow.I think this because with a manual box and carefull manipulation of the forward, reverse, clutch, and diff lock gears you can rock y/self out of trouble were with an auto the clutch is either in or out.Please tender your answers thank you.
regards dave.
dafdave:
Albeit that im an old retired codger, but never having driven any of these new fangled auto boxes ide like to think that they will be a ■■■■■ if you get stuck in snow.I think this because with a manual box and carefull manipulation of the forward, reverse, clutch, and diff lock gears you can rock y/self out of trouble were with an auto the clutch is either in or out.Please tender your answers thank you.
regards dave.
They can be useless in snow, I was towed up a slope by a Y-reg 4-wheel drive because a month old Daf with an empty trailer couldn’t make it.
My two penn’orth, love the Volvo I-shift gearbox, have driven a few automatic Dafs and thought the auto box was terrible, the clutch was either in or out with nothing in between.
dafdave:
Albeit that im an old retired codger, but never having driven any of these new fangled auto boxes ide like to think that they will be a ■■■■■ if you get stuck in snow.I think this because with a manual box and carefull manipulation of the forward, reverse, clutch, and diff lock gears you can rock y/self out of trouble were with an auto the clutch is either in or out.Please tender your answers thank you.
regards dave.
They can be useless in snow, I was towed up a slope by a Y-reg 4-wheel drive because a month old Daf with an empty trailer couldn’t make it.
Cheers waddy I thought that might be one of the probs
regards dave.
dafdave:
Albeit that im an old retired codger, but never having driven any of these new fangled auto boxes ide like to think that they will be a ■■■■■ if you get stuck in snow.I think this because with a manual box and carefull manipulation of the forward, reverse, clutch, and diff lock gears you can rock y/self out of trouble were with an auto the clutch is either in or out.Please tender your answers thank you.
regards dave.
They’re a pain in the arse in the Mercs and DAFS when approaching roundabouts and you don’t come to a stop but put the accelerator down to down gear. It sometimes goes out of gears and try’s to find them again or it goes into too high a gear and you crawl off With cars coming around giving you horn, lights and the coffee bean shake
dafdave:
Albeit that im an old retired codger, but never having driven any of these new fangled auto boxes ide like to think that they will be a ■■■■■ if you get stuck in snow.I think this because with a manual box and carefull manipulation of the forward, reverse, clutch, and diff lock gears you can rock y/self out of trouble were with an auto the clutch is either in or out.Please tender your answers thank you.
regards dave.
They’re a pain in the arse in the Mercs and DAFS when approaching roundabouts and you don’t come to a stop but put the accelerator down to down gear. It sometimes goes out of gears and try’s to find them again or it goes into too high a gear and you crawl off With cars coming around giving you horn, lights and the coffee bean shake
What do you expect when you name a truck after a woman, can’t make up her mind which gear she wants to be in.
Don’t remind me about the bloody things in the snow, so glad its not arrived yet this year, drive axle Goodyear Slippery As Buggery’s not quite ready for recut.
Got stuck in half an inch of the white stuff in a MAN white elephant auto, on a flat road too, trying to rock it back and forwards for about 10 mins overheated the box and had to shut down till it cooled, junk.
Week later i’m out in me trusty manual Axor of the time in 6" of snow, Axor laughed at it, blokes at the store couldn’t believe it when it reversed UP off the road into their uncleared rear yard to the back door without a single slip.
DAF was the worse clutch operation with the AS Chronic, its an on/off switch, nothing nothing then bang off you go, Iveco must hold the record for the worse programming though, useless.
i jumped into a lorry once and then went straight back into transport and told them i could not drive it,when they asked why i replied that it had funny winding things on the door and where was the electric window switch,their reply was not nice,basically telling me where to go [while laughing of course]i mean imagine that,having to wind my window up and down,i was quite stressed at the end of the day
truckman20:
i jumped into a lorry once and then went straight back into transport and told them i could not drive it,when they asked why i replied that it had funny winding things on the door and where was the electric window switch,their reply was not nice,basically telling me where to go [while laughing of course]i mean imagine that,having to wind my window up and down,i was quite stressed at the end of the day
They’re the worse units with manual sunroofs, I mean have you ever tried to open one when doing 56 down the M42 at rush hour?
truckman20:
i jumped into a lorry once and then went straight back into transport and told them i could not drive it,when they asked why i replied that it had funny winding things on the door and where was the electric window switch,their reply was not nice,basically telling me where to go [while laughing of course]i mean imagine that,having to wind my window up and down,i was quite stressed at the end of the day
They’re the worse units with manual sunroofs, I mean have you ever tried to open one when doing 56 down the M42 at rush hour?
Can you really go that fast in the rush hour, or at any time?
Juddian:
Don’t remind me about the bloody things in the snow, so glad its not arrived yet this year, drive axle Goodyear Slippery As Buggery’s not quite ready for recut.
From the Owner Driver’s Bible…
“You only fit a Goodyear if you are having a bad year”
truckman20:
i jumped into a lorry once and then went straight back into transport and told them i could not drive it,when they asked why i replied that it had funny winding things on the door and where was the electric window switch,their reply was not nice,basically telling me where to go [while laughing of course]i mean imagine that,having to wind my window up and down,i was quite stressed at the end of the day
They’re the worse units with manual sunroofs, I mean have you ever tried to open one when doing 56 down the M42 at rush hour?
Can you really go that fast in the rush hour, or at any time?
You can when you are going southbound after the 42/40 link
Autos don’t pull off in 1st either
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Oh yes they do! The last few shifts I’ve done on milk tankers have been in an auto, granted it was a Renault premium, and they were definatly pulling away in first when loaded. Tipping the scales at 43500kg.
truckman20:
i jumped into a lorry once and then went straight back into transport and told them i could not drive it,when they asked why i replied that it had funny winding things on the door and where was the electric window switch,their reply was not nice,basically telling me where to go [while laughing of course]i mean imagine that,having to wind my window up and down,i was quite stressed at the end of the day
I used to drive MAN’s in the 90’s and they had electric on the nearside and manual on the offside.
The gearbox on the ERF took some getting used to driving around the yard to get used to it before I would dare venture out onto the road 
