Whats the worst truck you have driven

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
41

Just forget my name & any particular allegiances that I may have for a minute, people moaning about an Axor FFS, what has happened to lorry drivers? Do you all wear womens knickers under your trousers nowadays?

I can’t believe they are moaning about a lorry with at least 400hp, air suspension on chassis, cab & seats, synchromesh or automated gearboxes, cruise control, cd players, night heater, air-con, disc brakes, engine brakes etc etc.

Try driving a lorry with no power steering & less than 200hp, a 6spd crash box with worn linkages, multiplate cart springs, no sleeper cab let alone night heaters, air-con or air suspended anything, brakes that had no load sensing & were terrible, no point having radios because you wouldn’t have heard them over the engine noise,

Now they were worth moaning about, but a Stralis/TGA/Axor or the like, no I’m sorry they are all a million times more advanced than you could ever imagine a lorry could be as little as 20yrs ago. They may not be V8 Scanias or FH16s but they ain’t bad lorries, no way.

42

:imp: my kin axor…tape player,not cd,air con?wind the window down!400bhp?350,co actually had em turned down due to low weight high cube!
i cant comment on wagons from 30 yr ago,all i can say is the sk was an imrovement on axor!used to tramp in one,and a d-reg powerliner,all far roomier n comfier than axor! stralis and tga far superior.any length of time in the thing leaves you wi back ache! :imp:

43

Only 350hp, your poor thing, must be hell, I bet you’re absolutely filthy dirty & exhausted by the time you’ve done a 40hr week in one of them sheds, I’m glad to see the old British stiff upper lip is alive & well!

You’re a load of big girls blouses :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

44

FLIPPER 666:
when i was in the army i took the route of class 3 class 2 then class 1 my class 2 test was in a AEC 6 wheeler. no power steering an a crash gear box. needed arms like garth to get around the cones lol

What a monster that truck was, I had the job of training some lads on these for their class two and used to stop at an RAF base for lunch, letting them go to lunch first I would let some air out of the front tyres ready for their practicing maneuvering on the Square, most of them spent all their time stood up trying to turn the wheel, poor guys :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp:
Do you remember the hand brake biting the skin between your finger and thumb when you released it…That hurt

I was going to say the AEC, but then remembered the Bedford RL, I still have a scar on my elbow from bashing it against the rifle rack when changing gear :cry:

On the other side of the coin, my favorite drive was the Stolly or a can when doing NI

45

Anything with ERF on it, or twin splitter in it.

46

Hino & Iveco. ■■■ paper between them in the cackness stakes.

47

can only agree with ‘newmercman’ there isn’t a bad truck around these days they all provide the driver with a decent environment to work in and that includes the ‘Axor’. It is obviously not a truck you would want spend a week or more in but for UK work can’t see anything wrong. Even going back just 20 years sleepers cabs and high power engines were not the norm, some of the 4 wheel rigids today are more powerful than the 32/38 ton motors we had to drive in the past.
I remember working with some in the late 90’s who felt that all trucks should have an air suspended cab might be great for comfort be he wasn’t interested in any safety enhancements for drivers just concerned that his large shaved head and the rest of his large frame wasn’t made into blancmange by the end of each double manned trunk we did :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

48

Has to be a renault premium with a side slap box, absolute c**p!

49

Edward Teller:
Anything with ERF on it, or twin splitter in it.

You got that only part right mate, ERFs total buckets of hastily cobbled together crap, the twin splitter was a brilliant box, 12 forward gears & 497,000,000 neutrals :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Seriously though, a twin splitter was an excellent box, effortless shifts & very quick, you could change up on a hill that you wouldn’t be able to with any other box, if you were good enough of course!

50

newmercman:
Just forget my name & any particular allegiances that I may have for a minute, people moaning about an Axor FFS, what has happened to lorry drivers? Do you all wear womens knickers under your trousers nowadays?

I can’t believe they are moaning about a lorry with at least 400hp, air suspension on chassis, cab & seats, synchromesh or automated gearboxes, cruise control, cd players, night heater, air-con, disc brakes, engine brakes etc etc.

Try driving a lorry with no power steering & less than 200hp, a 6spd crash box with worn linkages, multiplate cart springs, no sleeper cab let alone night heaters, air-con or air suspended anything, brakes that had no load sensing & were terrible, no point having radios because you wouldn’t have heard them over the engine noise,

Now they were worth moaning about, but a Stralis/TGA/Axor or the like, no I’m sorry they are all a million times more advanced than you could ever imagine a lorry could be as little as 20yrs ago. They may not be V8 Scanias or FH16s but they ain’t bad lorries, no way.

my sentiments exactly.
trucks today are better then the cars we drive unless we go for upmarket cars.

51

as a matter of fact.i am going to change my car soon.
i want cruise control and an automatic gearshift in my next one.
i am finished with manual gears.
i dont want to have a 4 speed manual box…i mean 5 any more
never had this before in any car i ever had before.
i have been spoiled by some of the new trucks i have driven lately
just sit back and no clutch and when you go in the motorway…push the cruise control button.
heaven on earth.
i have driven so many mls/kms in my life…that i should hate driving.
why do i get so much in to it all of a sudden.

52

Anything with ERF,Foden,on the front :wink
And you lot don’t know your born.
moaning about modern trucks, i’m with you Newmercman :unamused: :unamused:

53

hiya,
bristol i think the brs had them made specially been retired years and still got a bad back thanks harry.

54

newmercman:
Just forget my name & any particular allegiances that I may have for a minute, people moaning about an Axor FFS, what has happened to lorry drivers? Do you all wear womens knickers under your trousers nowadays?

As a fact, yes, I do. But being a woman, I can get away with it :smiling_imp:

I can’t believe they are moaning about a lorry with at least 400hp, air suspension on chassis, cab & seats, synchromesh or automated gearboxes, cruise control, cd players, night heater, air-con, disc brakes, engine brakes etc etc.

30 years ago, I was 6, and not really in a wagon driving state of… ummm… anything… but if I ended up driving a wagon of that age, I’d expect no more than a seat, and engine and a a few controls. But on a modern wagon?

Try driving a lorry with no power steering & less than 200hp, a 6spd crash box with worn linkages, multiplate cart springs, no sleeper cab let alone night heaters, air-con or air suspended anything, brakes that had no load sensing & were terrible, no point having radios because you wouldn’t have heard them over the engine noise,

Been there, done that… nights out in a day cabbed 7.5, steel spring suspensions, no load sensing on the brakes, and crash boxes ( I prefer 15 and 18 speed eaton fullers myself).

Now they were worth moaning about, but a Stralis/TGA/Axor or the like, no I’m sorry they are all a million times more advanced than you could ever imagine a lorry could be as little as 20yrs ago. They may not be V8 Scanias or FH16s but they ain’t bad lorries, no way.

Axors are rubbish, they are poorly designed junk heaps made for skinflint bosses not for drivers. In this day and age, we expect far more. The stralis is a far nicer cab, but Italian build quality… Never spent much time to comment in a TGA…
How can companies get away with making such horrible trucks in this modern age, and still selling them?

55

Sugar Ray:
Axor. nuff said.

thats mine as well… although maybe when i first passed my test i had an l reg p-cab 112 scania. after that i went onto a h reg fl10 which i thought was heaven. :laughing:

56

jessicas dad:

Sugar Ray:
Axor. nuff said.

thats mine as well… although maybe when i first passed my test i had an l reg p-cab 112 scania. after that i went onto a h reg fl10 which i thought was heaven. :laughing:

I had an H reg FL10. My one and only Volvo, I don’t know why, because it was a great little truck. 14 speed box allies air kit, the lot. Fantastic on fuel too.