bjd:
Hand cleaner dont wanna be getting back in your truck coverd in grease
yeah, a pack of the swarfega wipes, i havent found anything they wont shift.
An old hand towel for drying hands and head after being out in the rain.
Wet wipes,couple of tyre levers and a piece of string(length open to debate)oh and dont forget the trailer leg windy uppy handle.Various lumps of wood and a scaffold pole 
Harry if you take everything suggested the payload will be down to about two ton
On a 44 T gvw what you carrying feathers?
One of these for every 5 miles you drive
and one of these
Sorry couldn’t resist it, best of luck with it.
Just seen a return load for you Harry on return loads.co it’s a load of light bulbs from France to Blackpool
coca cola kid:
Harry if you take everything suggested the payload will be down to about two ton
On a 44 T gvw what you carrying feathers?
I carry all this and it fits snuggly in my Volvo side locker It’s solved a problem or 2 for me and plenty for other ill equipped Brits abroad 
Selection box of nuts and bolts too H 
coca cola kid:
Harry if you take everything suggested the payload will be down to about two ton
On a 44 T gvw what you carrying feathers?
No, rather ironically given your user name, about half of my loads will be Coca-Cola.
Even the heaviest truck toolbox will only weigh 30kg, and I think I can stand that, especially if it saves me a £350 call-out charge and a five-hour wait for something I could fix myself in five minutes, as has happened to me several times before…
The most useful tool in any fitter’s tool box is a mobile phone - because there is someone on the other end of it who knows how to do the job.
decient half inch socket & ratchet set from 8mm to 24mm
decient spanner set ranging from 6mm to 32mm you dont need all of the inbetween though
decient screw drivers set, couple of flats couple poss & saftey tourqe bits (ones with holes in middle)
a good hammer & chisel
side cutters
mole grips x2
tin of release oil
tin of electrical terminal cleaner
roll of gaffa tape
roll of electrical tape
few male & female electrical terminals
range of fuses both spade & micro
bag of cable ties (probly most important thing )
spare bulbs 24v 5w singles, 24v 21w singles, 24v 3w capless.
tappy hammer for wheel nuts & a pressure guage no need for a depth guage as min legal is 1mm tread depth so if it dont look bald its arite lol.
I dont know what you are driving, but a set of those bloody annoying stardrive keys or whatever theyre called - most trucks seem to be infested with them now - and a selection of push fit pipe connectors in various sizes, straights and T’s - worth their weight in gold.
Cable ties. Snips. Insulation tape.
8mm spanner might be useful, you know for when your 10mm is a little bit too big.
Good strong crack bar, and decent sockets
To be fair, just buy a bluepoint set. Or I prefer halfords professional advanced tools. Cheap enough, replace them anywhere in the country if / when they break.
'bout this?
halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor … yId_255215
Don’t forget cable ties
Harry Monk:
Suggestions please for my truck toolbox. Now that my company are paying for anything I want, it’s time to put a decent truck toolbox together.So far I have…
10-19mm open-ended and ring spanners.
10-21mm flared nut spanners.
Adjustable spanner, Stilson’s pipe wrench.
20 piece screwdriver set.
Filter wrench.
Claw and ball-pein hammer.
Hex key set.
Allen key set.
Tyre pressure gauges.
Multimeter.
Duck Tape, cable ties.
What have I forgotten? I want to have everything I need to do any roadside repair short of major component failure. Any suggestions?
1/2" drive, 6 sided deep impact socket set from 10mm to 32mm + 1/2" breaker bar and ratchet.
Good quality combination spanners in sizes 22,24,27,30 and 32.
Pair of large Eagle Beeks/water pump pliers.
20 ton bottle jack and jack handle (or see if your cab-jack bar fits the jack).
Couple of rolls of PTFE pipe fitting tape.
Tin of long and short Torx bits, the type that fit in a socket, not the right-angled allen key type.
A good long cold chisel and a club hammer. Claw hammer is no use for nowt on a truck.
Large and small mole grips.
Check your adjustable spanner goes bigger than 32mm (for self-seal couplings on suzies and main compressor pipe unions).
Hacksaw.
And for what they cost, a Torque multiplier and 1" sockets to suit your wheel nuts (sockets usually come with the, about £40 off flea bay). Makles it a piece of ■■■■ getting wheel nuts off, no jumping on scaffy bars.
Box full of assorted nuts and bolts on M6,8,10 and 12, and washers. (Sometimes it’s much easier tightening a rusty bolt up 'til it snaps than it is undoing it).
Or, come and have a look what’s in our service vans
All the above need to be decent quality. Cheap spanners will open up and round the nut off, Cheap sockets will split, Cheap ratchets will slip, Cheap extension bars will snap. When they do, you will get hurt and say a bad word.
Despite popular belief, they don’t need to be Snap On tools to be decent quality. Britool, Bergen, Teng, Silverline/Laser/Signet should all be up to the job.
Handful of brake chamber wind-off tools /T keys and a few of the weenie 10mm splined sockets for winding off brake calipers.
cav551:
The most useful tool in any fitter’s tool box is a mobile phone - because there is someone on the other end of it who knows how to do the job.
Not a 3.30 AM on a ■■■■■■■ down Sunday morning there isn’t.
Jump leads are usefull.
Before you fill your cab and lockers with tools
can i suggest you spend an hour going over your truck and trailer and see what fittings it uses
no point buying loads of stuff that aint even on it
Dont skimp on the quality of the mole grips a good pair will undo anything, a bad pair will just take up toolbox space
A decent sized hammer is always good , surprising how easy a stubborn stud will undo after a good tap and it will make you feel better giving it a smack
cieranc:
Handful of brake chamber wind-off tools /T keys and a few of the weenie 10mm splined sockets for winding off brake calipers.
You covered pretty much everything I was going to add - 19mm ratchet ring spanner is useful for winding off chambers quickly you definitely want some wind-off tools in the cab ones on the chambers never come off.
I’ve always found you live and die by the consumables over the tools.
Harry, Ignore anyone making sarky everything but the kitchen sink comments they’ll not have had to pay a to call someone out at 2am. A tip I was going to mention is try and get a fixed price per mile and call-out off someone local to your operating centre with a wrecker to drag it back as an alternative to paying a fortune for someone to replace a part at the side of the road. Also always worth looking at local bus companies as they will often offer their recovery services to third parties at way cheaper rates than the recovery places with the blinged up wreckers.
I would mount an anderson connector on the unit and put them on one end of the jump leads as well. I also put a separate 12v one on the unit as well.
I also made a connector so I can run regular air tools and tyre inflator off the red air line - grinder is probably only must air tool. Impact wrench that doubles as a drill also useful. Need a line long enough to get all round the vehicles
As suggested a torque multiplier is your best bet for getting wheel nuts off they work very well.
I keep a Wabco tyre seal set as well for punctures. It’s a quite expensive one shot deal but works and saves time and money if you need it. Tyre valve cores and the removing tool. I also keep the stab in tyre string type puncture repair kit which can get you out of trouble as well. I don’t carry tyre levers anymore as too ■■■■■■■■■■ but you can change a tyre without a beadbreaker or a Cheetah by using the trailer landing legs to break the bead and re-seat the tyre by putting a ratchet strap around the circumference and tightening whilst inflating.
Don’t know if already mentioned but I keep an air drier cartridge since one got clobbered and wouldn’t re-seat air-tight.
Would agree Bahco are the best adjustables and would definitely have those x2 and they do go wide enough to do sealing vales in susie coupling as mentioned don’t need Snap-On for the cab and apart from adjustables and few others I wouldn’t have the top quality tools you’d have in the workshop. Some Bergen/Neilsen/Silverline/Toolzone/Kamasa etc. is OK but need to be selective. Blackspur/Marksman/AM-Tech/Rolson and many others all poundshop type junk.
Also would always have small blowtorch useful for heatshrink tube as well as loosening nuts, some abrasive paper, epoxy glue syringe mix type for plastic, uv curing self-adhesive fibre glass patches- did a running repair on a header tank that lasted 3 years with these sunlight coming through the front grill had ate through the plastic. Also roll of pallet wrap in the cab, don’t store upright.
Couple of G-clamps are very useful to hold up rolller shutter rear doors if the cables snap by tightening them in the tracks.
With careful thought you can get the tool-kit down a lot though. A good Leatherman lets you dump a load of tools and 4-in-1 type wrenches can as well. It’s always the push-fit connectors and bits of nylon tube that really save your bacon really.
Everything I have now is down to one very chunky tool roll in the cab and one side-locker with bottle jack, torque multiplier and air tools.
cieranc:
All the above need to be decent quality. Cheap spanners will open up and round the nut off, Cheap sockets will split, Cheap ratchets will slip, Cheap extension bars will snap. When they do, you will get hurt and say a bad word.
Despite popular belief, they don’t need to be Snap On tools to be decent quality. Britool, Bergen, Teng, Silverline/Laser/Signet should all be up to the job.
Very True. I got a lovely set of Teng Tools from a local wholesaler and just added to them as needed, ebay is your friend for good “named” tools, unfortunately you do not know how some were obtained!
Someone said about halfords professional,pretty good I find and dunno if it’s been said but they have a lifetime guarantee. They have a sale sometimes,50% off a good 1/2 set.
Set of lines,daft to be stuck for something so easy to fix (blue optional )
I carry something called kraken tape(self fusing silicone tape)temp range of -65 to +260 and pressure up to 700 psi. Not used it yet so can’t comment on it but it’s bloody expensive in places so best to shop around methinks.
How about some inline push on,self sealing airline connections,not the suzies but for the pipes running the air around the wagon…of course you’ll need a little hacksaw of some shape.
Three often overlooked things are, one, the key to wind off a brake chamber, you may need to do that on a trailer at some point to get out of trouble and second and third, a set of waterproofs and some rubber mats to lay on, lorries almost never break down when it’s dry and sunny, getting ■■■■■■ wet through is never fun