oakeedokee:
Any truck with no nearside rear side window. Helps no end with blindside reversing. Can’t understand why you wouldn’t want one.
So no one can see you bashing your bishop whilst on the bunk… 
ThrustMaster:
OTS:
Why dont we write too these companys and tell them the flaws, instead of telling some shiny arse fleet engineer’s who dont give a toss.Nobody listens to drivers.
Yup, no one listens. Days hate nights, Nights don’t see the light of day to hate.
Who finds these things in their cab most of all?
Winseer:
oakeedokee:
Any truck with no nearside rear side window. Helps no end with blindside reversing. Can’t understand why you wouldn’t want one.So no one can see you bashing your bishop whilst on the bunk…
And when you have to sleep next to a window in a cab, it gets bloody cold
Frieghtliner Cascadia…
Cup holders too shallow. Sun visors don’t cover all of the top of the screen. Indicators do not self cancel. Gearbox is from out of the ark. Side locker too small and only on one side so to get to all other storage I have to lift the bunk.
On the plus side … Great sleeper with a 3/4 size bed, Wardrobe and clothes closet (both heated). 3 cupboards on the other side and a TV cabinet. Three overhead lockers and so much room I have to walk from the driver sleep to the sleeper. It also has 10 x 12v outlets of various amperages. It has a DD13 that pulls like a train. For those of you over here who have ever driven across te Tappan Zee northbound and up the steep incline that drags a fully loaded truck down the box you will know what I mean when I tell you it climbs that with 52,000lbs in the tanker and doesn’t drop below 55mph 
Mercedes auto boxes… About as much use as Patrick moore’s monocle.
Doors that just cannot stay open if the truck is even on the slightest incline.
VOLVO !!! biggest mistake was getting rid of all the experianced sales staff and putting young f#@k witts in there place
that don’t know one end of a truck to the other !! 
Oh you poor poor darlings However do you he man truckers cope!!! For cryin out loud
Try workin on the bags of crap.
No rubbish bin,leaning over to reach a switch,water off the roof gimme a break FFS.
Trev_H:
CRAIG-D:
Trev_H:
The Axor !+1 i had the misfortune of driving one this week …what a pile of ****
Yes, I drove one a 61 plate for the first time last week, at first I thought ah a manual box I’ll enjoy this (haven’t driven one for years) how wrong, it was the slowest awful change, a 4 over 4 with an across the gate range change which had me beating the synchromesh quite often. I never found a comfortable seat position, on it’s lowest setting I was looking through the very top of the screen and the mirrors seemed like an afterthought. I have heard guys on here bleating on about getting backache with them, I can see why it was like going back to drive a 70’s truck, except they had better gearboxes then.
Think Mercs dropped a clanger with this one, the actros is in a totally different league.
How many numb skulls out there in this day and age could manage a box without bloody syncros.Spicer and Eaton were the best gearboxes in the world but why teach somebody to use one when you can stick some crap ZF syncroed unit in there and any monkey can “drive” it then.
To be fair to the original poster there are issues with pedals on RHD (British market) trucks that you don’t find on the LHDs.
And the new DAF does have a rubbish bin…you can see it in the bottom picture here: conveniently placed so you can vomit in it without leaving the bunk after enjoying some ‘roadside fare’.
Back to the Scania night heater pipework…can it not be moved to the n/s of the cab on ‘our’ RHD units or have it ‘split’, so hot air enters the cab either side? Sit in the motor whilst waiting to be loaded and the lower legs cooks…get in the bunk/passenger side and it’s bloody freezing! And another thing…why are the majority of the ‘important’ switches (midlift etc) situated in such a way that to see them from a normal seated position (well, what I call normal), you have to lean forward to see them as they are hidden behind/in-line with the steering wheel spoke? Talking about the steering wheel, it needs a bit more ‘girth’ to it…and be made of something not so shiny and slippery!!
Pat Hasler:
Frieghtliner Cascadia…
Cup holders too shallow. Sun visors don’t cover all of the top of the screen. Indicators do not self cancel. Gearbox is from out of the ark. Side locker too small and only on one side so to get to all other storage I have to lift the bunk.On the plus side … Great sleeper with a 3/4 size bed, Wardrobe and clothes closet (both heated). 3 cupboards on the other side and a TV cabinet. Three overhead lockers and so much room I have to walk from the driver sleep to the sleeper. It also has 10 x 12v outlets of various amperages. It has a DD13 that pulls like a train. For those of you over here who have ever driven across te Tappan Zee northbound and up the steep incline that drags a fully loaded truck down the box you will know what I mean when I tell you it climbs that with 52,000lbs in the tanker and doesn’t drop below 55mph
Hi pat
Tell me this have you got a place to wash in them big trucks over there ,I don’t mean a bath or a shower just a small sink with a heated tank to clean the grease off after you have put on the suzzies then scratch your nose and cheek and don’t realise it’s all over you self untill your 10 mile down the road .
Big mistake Renault for ever trying to build a lorry personally I would ban the french from making lorries.
Not too sure about the park brake switch thing on the new Volvo FH. I prefer a big knob to pull 
In the latest Scania nightheater feeder pipe doesn’t go to bottom of the diesel tank, hit the red and you’re in for a cold night!!! 
I’d say scania is on top going off this thread… Still holding the king of the road status nice and high!
Renault Magnums…totally ■■■■ !
firstly they are too high,try climbing in with one bag never mind all your night out gear.
The doors dont open wide enough.
They handle like a reliant robin.
crap mirrors.
seats dont move far enough back and lots more,
Who ever designed this truck never drove one.
Bking:
Trev_H:
CRAIG-D:
Trev_H:
The Axor !+1 i had the misfortune of driving one this week …what a pile of ****
Yes, I drove one a 61 plate for the first time last week, at first I thought ah a manual box I’ll enjoy this (haven’t driven one for years) how wrong, it was the slowest awful change, a 4 over 4 with an across the gate range change which had me beating the synchromesh quite often. I never found a comfortable seat position, on it’s lowest setting I was looking through the very top of the screen and the mirrors seemed like an afterthought. I have heard guys on here bleating on about getting backache with them, I can see why it was like going back to drive a 70’s truck, except they had better gearboxes then.
Think Mercs dropped a clanger with this one, the actros is in a totally different league.How many numb skulls out there in this day and age could manage a box without bloody syncros.Spicer and Eaton were the best gearboxes in the world but why teach somebody to use one when you can stick some crap ZF syncroed unit in there and any monkey can “drive” it then.
How very dare you comment, get back in that pit and fix those vehicles with your laptop
mazzer:
In the latest Scania nightheater feeder pipe doesn’t go to bottom of the diesel tank, hit the red and you’re in for a cold night!!!
Common sense actually, last thing you want is for it to run out of fuel because you’ve had the heater on all night!
Trev_H:
claretmatt:
Interesting no-one’s got a bad word to say about VolvoI only had 2 minor niggles with the FH, the seat padding was a bit thin, which might be because I’m a big guy
or it was a fleet spec truck ?
The other was that the mirrors were one hell of a blind spot, other than that it was ok.
Top marks for the exhaust brake and the I shift box.
Agree with the mirrors, I’ve had more than one near miss because of that blind spot; I find the seats good. Inside the FM flat-top cab which I generally have , the biggest annoyance was with tacho placement; the new ones (post 2002) lost the two most useful overhead lockers, never understood why they couldn’t have put the digi in the dashboard instead of wasting all that space. The cup holders have progressively gone downhill too; the original ones were excellent,although I daresay expensive to make, the later ones flimsy but useable but they did make the dash rattle; the latest design is simply bloody useless, hit the slightest bump and yer brew goes flying.
That apart, I like the FM; we’ve got a day-cab Renault as well and whilst the driveline’s great the cab is absolutely pants. Confusing switchgear, hate the lights on the indicator stalk, and for every day I drive it i get two days worth of backache. I’m praying my long-awaited new motor’s a Volvo!