If honest first time I went was god no but after while got use to it and didnāt bother me going around there used go every week to any of the building sites worsley plumb centres basically anyware. Canāt say I miss it now.
But didnāt mind it to be honest. Once get use to all the idiots traffic and work out where you can cross the Thames I didnāt mind it.
Radio on have a chilled out slow drive .
Long as cigarette lighter usb sockets work I can cope fine.
If they werenāt working Iād refuse to go out in it.
Micwave TV fridge etc can live without
The cigarette lighter is definitely needed to charge up mobile phones and to use other cab gadgets.
As you said London is fine if not in a hurry, take your time and plod on to get nowhere fast, to always get the full 45 minute break before going in as once on site they want you out fast due to limited space at builders merchants , building sites and other businesses, that have a truck booked in afterwards.
When traffic is stationary or moving at one mph you can admire the architecture and the mini skirts being blown up by the wind.
Back in the day we didnāt have microwaves, we didnāt have beer fridges, we DID have a bag full of A to Z. We improvised, we got the job done ( anywhere between Lands End and John O Groats), we were skilled men . Good days and not so good daysā¦I say they were happy days.
I once took a 3.5 ton Transit to Germany ( emergency job for Cavewoods, just doing a favour), armed with just an AA Europe atlas. A problem occurred because the t its in the traffic office at Cavewoods gave me a delivery address in the wrong town.many phone calls later and a bit of āschool Germanā, the job was delivered and GOM was scooting back for the first available Channel Tunnel train.
us old lads didnāt NEED sat navs. 
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when i was 17 which admittedly was 31 years ago doing my driving lessons i had a discussion with my instructor about no right turn signs. The only ones i had ever seen being driven around by my parents was to stop muppets trying to turn right into a one way street or even bigger muppets trying to turn the wrong way along a dual carriage way.
nowadays in citys like london they are more frequent than the weeds on the pavement
Ring when empty was the phrase back then so left alone on the multi drop deliveries, no cab phone,tracker,sat nav, or Telematics to monitor fuel consumption and driver performance.
No speed limiter.
Find a cafe with a facsimile transmitter, to receive the reload addresses and information for about 12 collections in the middle of nowhere and hope the address was not an office address in a city or town or the companyās headquarters where they donāt load lorries from.
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Tonightās dinner chicken sweet in sour
2 sauce pans , preheated water for rice
Put precooked rice in one sauce pant covered with hot water
Put chicken sweet n sour in other and simmered for 10mins then took off stove and boiled rice so it was piping hot , drained rice and put chicken back on for 5 mins
All was piping hot
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Over the last year Iāve heard drivers refusing to take Lorrieās out as steps on scania are in the wrong place ( when getting off catwalk ) , no microwave in lorry , 4 steps instead of 3 , must have tall cab so can pray ( lovely office girl was sacked over this as she just said this is ridiculous, she was sacked as prayers reported her for racism ) , also refusing Lorrieās as no heat seat .
Iām not overly bothered what I drive but I wonāt swap my lorry unless the other driver has a good reason , praying is a bloody joke , as is must have a microwave on day work .
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Us poor (very) pensioners canonly dream of a meal like that. 
Dozy, nothing worse than going on holiday and all the straps in the side lockers are all gone and the senior planner refuses to tell me who has been driving it.
Muddy boot prints on the side of the bunk, stains on the mattress, biscuit crumbs everywhere, loose tea and coffee all over the place, and the radio settings that they have messed about with too.
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Makes you wonder how such peasants live at home. Common courtesy dictates the you leave someone elseās property/equipment as you found it.
I dont get the issue with all this. I am there to do a job. I couldnt give a furry rats backside whether the radio is a digital one or not or if there is a seat heater or any of the other crap. I appreciate i dont do nights out except on rare occastions so fridges and microwaves dont hit my radar, All i am interested in is do i have the correct equipment to do the job i have been asked to do.
Get in the cab do what i need to do and then at the end of the shift pick up my coffee cup and sandwhich wrappings quick sweep out job done.
Little up date
Had a call from fleet dept today ,new microwave on order and should be fitted next Thursday or Friday when Adamās Morey can fit me in 
Well microwave is fine. The only niggle I have is whether or not to defect it over its latest problem. Itās a 25 plate DAF XG with 20k km on the clock and itās stopped using ad blue! DAFS are very frugal with ad blue anyway but after two weeks with the guage reading 100% I thought that I better top it up in case itās a faulty guage, I got 1 litre in it! No warnings on the dash (unusual for a DAF) and itās not threatening to derate.
I probably should defect it, but Iām happy to have one less thing to do.
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Gawd forbid the truck radio packs up, and the driver defects it and refuses to take it out
WTF !? Donāt need a radio in a DAF the warning bings and bongs make their own music 
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Peculiar, at the least.
There was a case on here where a truck (Iveco) I think went into limp mode because it self diagnosed no adblue use. It was topped up every shift, and the adblue tank level gauge did not āsee itself go downā so it āthoughtā it was using zero adblue and threw a fault. The company then said top up only if below 3/4 on the gauge. No more faults.
ā¦IVECOā¦ no faults on that issue
MANās donāt like to be filled with ad blue every shift and will issue a dash warning if filled too often.
This is confusing me and our fitters too with the lack of warnings etc. itās into DAF ton Thursday for its 6 weekly so Iāll raise the issue with them. Iāll let you know.
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Im guessing there is a blockage at the injector. The 9 year old that wrote the software probably only coded a resistance check so the ecu knows it fired but thats it. Same thing with the secondry nox sensor it sees a reduction in emissions because a dribble got through and just adjusts the injecter pulse length. Around and around it goes until the engine load drops below the required level and it all resets with no warnings.
I had a Merc that did thatā¦used no ad blue for weeks,.and it did eventually go into limp mode.
I can not for the 'kin life of me remember what caused it or what was wrong with it, so I aint any help to you.
(But hey !.. if you want more of my helpā¦let me know.)
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