What one thing that makes life a bit easier would you miss the most if you were given an otherwise identical truck, I’m thinking electric windows for me (wind up windows did my brain in).
And if you could add one thing to make life a bit easier what would it be, I think a reversing camera would make my life a little easier but I’ve sod all chance of getting one.
Miss the most would the the tail lift, trying to load the van without it would take 4/5 times longer.
Would like, Cruise control for the motorway.
Probably the Auto Drive box that Homer Simpson had in his truck.
It would be a toss-up between radio or night heater. Anything else I can live without.
Reversing cameras, in my experience, are a waste of time. Good for seeing people you are about to reverse over, but apart from that stuff miles away look real close, and stuff you are about to hit look miles away.
8wheels:
What one thing that makes life a bit easier would you miss the most if you were given an otherwise identical truck, I’m thinking electric windows for me (wind up windows did my brain in).
This is a wind up surely, sorry, couldn’t resist 
How hard is it to wind a little handle around in a circle a couple of times 
Electric windows would come way down my list, in fact apart from a radio with an ipod connection I can’t think of anything (my radio doesn’t have one BTW and it is a PITA) 
I think i would miss my autobox, as I spend most days in central London.
I would most like a rear steer axle to help getting in and out of tight building sites.
Owen
I love my reversing camera 
generallee:
It would be a toss-up between radio or night heater. Anything else I can live without.Reversing cameras, in my experience, are a waste of time. Good for seeing people you are about to reverse over, but apart from that stuff miles away look real close, and stuff you are about to hit look miles away.
Ah yes no radio would be crap but I’ve never driven a vehicle that didn’t have a radio fitted at some point.
Whilst I’ll admit a camera on the back is not the best thing since sliced bread it is handy when trying to shunt a large rigid back and fowards to turn it around some of the places I end up require about a 20 point turn, getting that bit closer would save a couple of shunts. Also bollards that can’t be seen from your mirrors or idiots who park their car right behind you when you weren’t looking in the mirror. I’ve had those incidents and they could have been avoided with a camera.
As above I was thinking about stuff that wasn’t there in trucks 20 odd years ago. Never driven a truck with no radio fitted at some point of it’s life.
Having had a stint with a manual windowed motor after years of electric it drove me nuts. Not being able to clear condensation off the window , or moisture on the outside when I needed to really see the mirror clearly. I had a driver alongside in traffic wanting directions one day, I had to open the drivers door so that I could get out of the seat of a horrid p series 4 day cab and scramble across. Not being able to hear people when reversing. Electric windows are deffo a must for me.
I’d miss my onboard weigher.
I’d like automatic greasing.
i’d really miss electric mirrors all round. comes in very handy at the start of a shift for getting the truck set up just right, without clambering over the cab, and also for those tricky blindside reverses.
also, isn’t it about time some sort of cooling sytem was fitted in with the night heater for those of us that do nights on the road in hot countries. i know there are pods, but surely there is a way to sort a decent in cab cooling system for sleeping in the daytime■■?
Would love a tail lift trailer all the time, cant stand waiting around! Would love to get rid of the tacho, that thing ■■■■’s me right off.
had a hino 700 8x4 hookloader,apart from the air con was a bag of ■■■■■ ,would have been nice to have cruise control,now i have cf 85 410 16 speed box,the dogs bollox compared with the hino ,but no air con,which should be standard in hgvs where your sitting on top of a big engine in a small greenhouse,the camera is angled at auto hitch for easy hitching,this would be good if you could alter the angle for general reversing in the cab,has ipod connection on the radio though, and cruise control 
No cruise control would be a pain as for additions, an assistant to do the driving would be nice 
Radio would be main thing for me as I have had the pleasure to drive a truck without 1 (also a seatbelt) and it was boring as f.uck lol can only mumble so much to yourself haha and I think the idea of a cooling pod thingy would be handy
Going back 20yrs to 1992 there isn’t much difference really, at that time most lorries would’ve had night heaters, a reasonable degree of comfort etc, but go back 30yrs to 1982 and things were very different, people were still having night’s out across the seats in day cabs, night heaters were few and far between, radios were still optional extras, no electric anything. Things were much worse for rigid drivers too, at least in 1982 there were some half decent tractor units, 2800 Dafs, F10/12s and the 2 series Scania were out then, the British lorries had got much better by then too. Go back another 10yrs and unless you had an F88 or a 110 Scania you had an old dog, no matter how rose tinted your spectacles may be
Radios, Air conditioners, night heaters, electric windows ! Christ, I wouldn’t have minded a heater, or some decent rubbers round the pedals.
My first job was driving an 18 t rigid with no power steering and that was hard so couldn’t go without that, and I’d like all trucks to have small fridges so when we’re doing these long hours we can keep all our food n drink cool.
My electric mirrors are a must!!!
Indicators,cos when driving round leeds when i signalled right some ■■■■ nicked my watch.
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The right address for where I’m getting sent to would be nice