Ok, so I’ve found myself a full time job. Ok, it’s mainly only in a puddle jumper, but I took the 18 tonner out yesterday afternoon.
It’s an Iveco euro cargo with an auto box. I have never been in something that is such hard work!
I found myself being afraid to pull out if busy junctions because it takes so long to go up through the gears. I found myself briefly “stranded” on roundabouts on more than one occasion. As all the vehicles are Iveco, and I’ve been out in them all this week, it just reinforces my opinion that Iveco are the worst on the planet!!
This could be a thread for all junk trucks.
I’ll nominate my MAN 8wheeler. Well at least the gearbox.
And the puddle jumping Iveco I drove for Warburtons last winter.
A Seddon Atkinson or Strato with a twin splitter box.
Did an agency job in one.Broke the gears about 20 miles from the start point.
Took it to London and it belched out thick black smoke.
I got the hand waving from car drivers objecting to the smoke.
Skips on wheels the new thread title.
How about the Pegaso Troner.The Spaniards loved them.
GBE Ltd in Bournemouth had a fleet of them.
The Iveco Turbostar.Say no more.
A decent puller was the Volvo FL 10 nick named a Wendy house.
Darby Flyer:
Ok, so I’ve found myself a full time job. Ok, it’s mainly only in a puddle jumper, but I took the 18 tonner out yesterday afternoon.
It’s an Iveco euro cargo with an auto box. I have never been in something that is such hard work!
I found myself being afraid to pull out if busy junctions because it takes so long to go up through the gears. I found myself briefly “stranded” on roundabouts on more than one occasion. As all the vehicles are Iveco, and I’ve been out in them all this week, it just reinforces my opinion that Iveco are the worst on the planet!!
Rant over, lol, at least I’m back in work
I don’t know why you let it worry you.
If you’re going onto the roundabout, it’s because it’s clear - isn’t it?? - even if a car is approaching the next entrance to your right at warp factor 1, until he crosses that line it’s your right of way.
Once you’re on the roundabout, who gives a crap what others think, sod them
the astronic zf 12 speed auto used in dafs mans and i think some ivecos can be crap the daf i drive isnt to bad but nothing like a i shift, man said they can program the gear changes to the drives preference
Bring back loyal and faithfull trucks with no daft computers un them.
My old Scania 142 was one you could limp home to a garage.
A bang of a hammer,Duck tape or wire and off she went.
No call out for a man in a van with a gizmo to say what is broken.And an invoice for £1000.
Got paid an extra 30 minutes to drive a MAN 6 wheeler the other day, case of no one wanted to do it but I oblidged thinking 6 pallets should be a doddle of a job.
Having not driven a MAN auto box in any form before and only being used to manuals and the Volvo auto I thought this can’t be too bad surely.
How wrong I was, no problems figuring it out (into ‘D’ and away we go). Well thats what I hoped what actually happened was into ‘D’ few revs, wait a moment, wait a bit longer, look down to check its in ‘D’ then as if being smacked on the arse with a wet towel the whole bloody thing took off like a rocket.
Put this down to schoolboy error at first but nope everytime from a standstill the bloody thing would wait till it was ready regardless of what I wanted to do.
Thought I could get one over on it at a roundabout and start to gently rev before it was safe to go- yep you guessed it the only time it responded instantly so i had to stop and start again this time it took even longer to react.
Ride quality was good though, when up to full steam.
Dipper_Dave:
Got paid an extra 30 minutes to drive a MAN 6 wheeler the other day, case of no one wanted to do it but I oblidged thinking 6 pallets should be a doddle of a job.
Having not driven a MAN auto box in any form before and only being used to manuals and the Volvo auto I thought this can’t be too bad surely.
How wrong I was, no problems figuring it out (into ‘D’ and away we go). Well thats what I hoped what actually happened was into ‘D’ few revs, wait a moment, wait a bit longer, look down to check its in ‘D’ then as if being smacked on the arse with a wet towel the whole bloody thing took off like a rocket.
Put this down to schoolboy error at first but nope everytime from a standstill the bloody thing would wait till it was ready regardless of what I wanted to do.
Thought I could get one over on it at a roundabout and start to gently rev before it was safe to go- yep you guessed it the only time it responded instantly so i had to stop and start again this time it took even longer to react.
Ride quality was good though, when up to full steam.
What you suffered sounds like the clutch is sticking on the splines,instead of the clutch being fed in as you raise he revs ,it was all of nothing and even vettel wouldn’t beat you off the line when it engaged…Box out clean splines ,a small bit of the appropriate grease on the splines and it should be fine
toby1234abc:
Erf with an Eaton twin splitter.I could never get the revs right and end up stopped on a roundabout with cars beeping get out of the way.
That’s the driver then, not the truck.
Drove one for years first in an E series with 16ltr Gardner and then an EC with a 405 ■■■■■■■ an absolute dream to drive as I took them all over Europe; Madrid, Milan and Berlin were all on the list of places visited. I was loathed to give up the EC when offered an Olympic as that had a ‘normal’ range change type box.
toby1234abc:
Erf with an Eaton twin splitter.I could never get the revs right and end up stopped on a roundabout with cars beeping get out of the way.
That’s the driver then, not the truck.
Drove one for years first in an E series with 16ltr Gardner and then an EC with a 405 ■■■■■■■ an absolute dream to drive as I took them all over Europe; Madrid, Milan and Berlin were all on the list of places visited. I was loathed to give up the EC when offered an Olympic as that had a ‘normal’ range change type box.
16 ltr Gardner hmmm.
Madrid Milan, jumpers for goal posts
Dipper_Dave:
Got paid an extra 30 minutes to drive a MAN 6 wheeler the other day, case of no one wanted to do it but I oblidged thinking 6 pallets should be a doddle of a job.
Having not driven a MAN auto box in any form before and only being used to manuals and the Volvo auto I thought this can’t be too bad surely.
How wrong I was, no problems figuring it out (into ‘D’ and away we go). Well thats what I hoped what actually happened was into ‘D’ few revs, wait a moment, wait a bit longer, look down to check its in ‘D’ then as if being smacked on the arse with a wet towel the whole bloody thing took off like a rocket.
Put this down to schoolboy error at first but nope everytime from a standstill the bloody thing would wait till it was ready regardless of what I wanted to do.
Thought I could get one over on it at a roundabout and start to gently rev before it was safe to go- yep you guessed it the only time it responded instantly so i had to stop and start again this time it took even longer to react.
Ride quality was good though, when up to full steam.
I used to drive a MAN 7.5t on a regular basis, you wait til it decides it doesn’t want to change up and stays in 1st, and you need to shut it down, and restart to get it to change its mind.
