robroy:
shugg:
kr79:
Not bought it in ages how many times can you read about v8 scanias and some [zb] nugget who spends hus whole life polishing the thing
+1
Also one of the reasons that I knocked it on the head.
Reading what brand of [zb] tyre blacking these guys use does nothing for me either. 
I would rather read volumes 1 to 5 of drivers hours regs. 
Whats with the number of lights on the front of these things - must have an alternator the size of a dustbin.
When I was doing my ADR course a couple of years ago there was some plum sat behind me grinding on and on about polishing his fuel tank ābest to use such and such polish and apply in a circular motionā
Socketset:
robroy:
shugg:
kr79:
Not bought it in ages how many times can you read about v8 scanias and some [zb] nugget who spends hus whole life polishing the thing
+1
Also one of the reasons that I knocked it on the head.
Reading what brand of [zb] tyre blacking these guys use does nothing for me either.
I would rather read volumes 1 to 5 of drivers hours regs.
Whats with the number of lights on the front of these things - must have an alternator the size of a dustbin.
When I was doing my ADR course a couple of years ago there was some plum sat behind me grinding on and on about polishing his fuel tank ābest to use such and such polish and apply in a circular motionā
As long as your not paying for his polish let him get on with it, just because you dont agree with it doesnt make it wrong
True about not paying for the polish, but what annoys me are those who think youāre a lesser driver if you donāt polish everything. It never bothered me how others looked after their wagon, what bothered me was some jobsworth once wrote āā ā ā ā holeā in the dust in my cab, and then cried to management about the state of my wagon. Nowt to do with him, he had his own and so did I.
Anyway regarding truck mags, Iāve just bought the latest issues of Classic Truck and Trucking.
No, youāre quite right, itās just he was a bit weird, worried a lot about the truck getting wet when it was raining, that sort of thing.
Why is the āEditorsā Choiceā always the most ott motor they could find? Not sure if that working F88 has ever been āEditors Choiceā but it should be.
On tbe subject of cleaning, boss bought me (well they were left in my cab) a tub of those Armor All dashboard wipes. What a rip off, just smears any dirt that was already there around a larger area. Oh well, this wagon wont be āEditorsā Choiceā thenā¦
Judging by the attachment from widget, the copper has a point, though that extract is misleading. In it he refers to a warning from a tacho after 4.25 hours driving, then observes that on a chart all little stops in traffic can (and IMO probably should) be considered as driving. I stand to be corrected but IME a paper tacho never warned me when I was near to needing a break nor does a digital tacho record a short stop in traffic, or whatever, as anything other than driving (it rounds up to a minute - often itās 50-50 whether it thinks you have been driving or āother workingā in stop-start traffic if itās slow enough) so, in law, whatever the digital (and indeed paper) tacho has recorded is what happened. q.v. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=133166 You can of course arrange it so that less driving is recorded in stop-start traffic if lucky and careful (on the latest digital tachos that is).