Hello I am just wondering if anybody has driven the new iveco hi way. It seems like a really good lorry and its sad that not many companies will buy them
I’ve driven one, vast improvement on the previous plastic pig and they’ve got rid of that silly origami bunk and fitted a seat that the passenger can actually last more than 10 minutes in as opposed to the previous back breaker effort. The location of some of the controls left me a little puzzled as you were reaching around the steering wheel to activate various buttons. The drive/reverse/neutral buttons are also obscured somewhat but I suppose you learn to live with that.
The diff lock is where the old light switch used to be so be careful not to activate that. The light switch is to the left side of the steering wheel this time around although the drl’s do a good job on their own so no sidelights needed.
There is a fridge and freezer both of which retract under the bottom bunk. The table has gone.
The parking brake seems a little too low down the dashboard for me but that could just be me being fussy. Heater controls are now digital but simple to operate. The stereo system is now one of those all singing all dancing devices that does everything from being a phone system to being a sat nav. Lots of fancy gimmicks in it that you generally wont use. Good sound system this time around and about time too.
Leather seats we comfortable, not sure if they are standard across the range but doubt it. Didn’t night out in it but the bunk looks a definite improvement as mentioned above. Similar room as previous models and similar storage space. Finally we have a battery isolator on the exterior of the vehicle, probably to make the computer resets easier than the previous version. Steering wheel and cruise all still same although not as plastic looking as they are now black.
Very quiet ride and didn’t hear the Stralis associated draft coming from the poor door fitting but that may have been luck more than a design improvement.
They are probably not selling like hot cakes because of the previous models reputation. Once bitten twice shy and all that.
So yet again, still a badly designed truck. How hard is it to put the catwalk light switch, main light switch and hazard light switch within easy reach from standing at the bottom of the driver’s side steps? What I see here is the main light switch on the wrong side of the steering wheel with the diff lock switch instead in place where that would normally be. The hazard light switch is on the centre console so miles away and there appear to be two catwalk light switches - one underneath the hazard light switch and the other above the fog light switches around the edge of the driver display. 
I like mine. Got a '14 plate at the beginning of March. Although there are a lot of improvements (my last two trucks being '57 plate, and ‘11 plate Stralis’), the build quality is still rather poor. Within the first two weeks I had a panel (covering the spot where you plug your towing hitch in) blow off, and the red reflector in the passenger door car fell out the first time I closed the passenger door.
Personally, I do prefer the previous position of the headlights switch, but the dash board is a massive improvement on previous models. The rest of the cab (lockers, beds, fridge/freezer, table, passenger seat, etc) is exactly the same as my previous two cabs. I think Truckbling maybe thinking of the pre All Blacks version (ended at '57 plate). The cab got much bigger, the top bunk became solid, and passenger seat was made as part of the bed rather than the silly removable back support that they used to have. . .
So they still have bad build quality but not as bad as the old one maybe they will someday make a well build interior but not now