Its funny how you can drive some units for years and view as just a tool but then in turn you can drive another unit for years and treat it like an old friend. Ive been driving my new unit for a year now, its clocked 125,000kms between me and the night man. It is a perfectly good drive, hasn’t let me down in regards to reliability. But it just doesn’t pull on my heart strings like my old unit did. My old unit did let me down plenty, wasn’t a great drive and the seat broke more times than i care to remember. But i treated it like a friend rather than a tool.
Am i going crazy Trucknet, ive noticed ive started talking to myself on occasion too.
Falling for inanimate object, don’t worry you are not alone.
when he was just 12 years old. It was then that he fell head over heels “into an emotionally and physically very complex and deep relationship, which lasted for years.” His partner back then was a Hammond organ – he has now been in a steady relationship with a steam locomotive for several years. Since he is particularly aroused by the inner workings of technical objects, repair jobs have often led to infidelity in the past. “A love affair could very well begin with a broken radiator,” the now monogamous lover says, remembering how his earlier affairs began.
Its funny how you can drive some units for years and view as just a tool but then in turn you can drive another unit for years and treat it like an old friend. Ive been driving my new unit for a year now, its clocked 125,000kms between me and the night man. It is a perfectly good drive, hasn’t let me down in regards to reliability. But it just doesn’t pull on my heart strings like my old unit did. My old unit did let me down plenty, wasn’t a great drive and the seat broke more times than i care to remember. But i treated it like a friend rather than a tool.
Am i going crazy Trucknet, ive noticed ive started talking to myself on occasion too.
i’ve had my share of trucks some good some bad but when they start pulling on my heart strings it’ll be time to hang up the keys, maybe you should seek therapy or maybe try and get laid more!either way take care and keep her between the hedges!
Sadly I have to hold hands up. It was a C reg 11 year old 600,000km Leyland Roadtrain with just 290 BHP plated for 38 tonnes with a crash box and it’d dump oil out the engine like it had gone out of fashion if you went above 55MPH but not use any below that. It had some real peculiar quirks such as soaking your hand every so often when you used the range change but the damned thing refused to die. Drove it for a “mate” who was an O/D and had enough work for 2 wagons.
Sadly I don’t think I’ll ever get this feeling. I wish I could be self employed driving my own DAF XF1050 or MAN TGMassive something or other that I could personalise with my own bedding, tv, wifi and this that and the other, driving it across Europe and earning a decent wage…but isn’t that everyones dream? Sadly…I’ll be stuck driving trolley wagons.
Sure…people keep mentioning that they’re brand new every 5 years or whatever…but the truth is they’re so basic that they’re unlikeable and you drive a different one every day so you can’t even get used to a particular unit.
Rose Tinted Spectacles. I don’t think so, but the DAF 3300 had plenty of faults, but the best bits overcame them. The air leaks came as standard, the huge steering wheel was a pain, you could open the doors with a flat screwdriver and number 14 fuse kept jumping out
But I loved, the bunks, the wide step. the storage, the gearbox, the power and the whole package. Nothing has ever come close since 1985 when I got a new ATi
I’ve never had a ‘fleet’ motor, everything I’ve ever driven has been a one driver lorry, so I’ve been able to get my gear set out just the way i like it, so all my lorries have had that home away from home feel, even the old crap I had in my early years, I’ve only ever given one lorry a name though and that was my little flat top 143, the last 3 letters on the plate were HUX, so she became Huxlee, I have to say that was my favourite lorry of all time, even better than my current Peterbilt, if the 143 was available over here (and had a bigger cab) I would swap my Pete for one in a heartbeat
newmercman:
I’ve never had a ‘fleet’ motor, everything I’ve ever driven has been a one driver lorry, so I’ve been able to get my gear set out just the way i like it, so all my lorries have had that home away from home feel, even the old crap I had in my early years, I’ve only ever given one lorry a name though and that was my little flat top 143, the last 3 letters on the plate were HUX, so she became Huxlee, I have to say that was my favourite lorry of all time, even better than my current Peterbilt, if the 143 was available over here (and had a bigger cab) I would swap my Pete for one in a heartbeat
Demolition man, Sandra Bullock? I fancied her too.
Wheel Nut:
Rose Tinted Spectacles. I don’t think so, but the DAF 3300 had plenty of faults, but the best bits overcame them. The air leaks came as standard, the huge steering wheel was a pain, you could open the doors with a flat screwdriver and number 14 fuse kept jumping out
But I loved, the bunks, the wide step. the storage, the gearbox, the power and the whole package. Nothing has ever come close since 1985 when I got a new ATi
Im with you on this one mate.I had a 3300 space cab for nearly 5yrs home and abroad,everything as you state.Only had minor probs with her and she was on an e plate,fantastic motor.
regards dave.
The truck I miss the most is a White E reg roadtrain interstater with 320 ■■■■■■■■ and eaton twin splitter and eminox stack up the back. Gaffa got rid as it was too thirsty. The truck I miss the least is the low cab foden he replaced it with.
Yeah first new vehicle i ever had d reg volvo fl6 removal wagon loved it (night heater yeah i know)power steering that worked i had a d series before and what seemed at the time to be a massive bed.Had it for 5 years till i left never missed a beat all over the uk and europe
Its funny how you can drive some units for years and view as just a tool but then in turn you can drive another unit for years and treat it like an old friend. Ive been driving my new unit for a year now, its clocked 125,000kms between me and the night man. It is a perfectly good drive, hasn’t let me down in regards to reliability. But it just doesn’t pull on my heart strings like my old unit did. My old unit did let me down plenty, wasn’t a great drive and the seat broke more times than i care to remember. But i treated it like a friend rather than a tool.
Am i going crazy Trucknet, ive noticed ive started talking to myself on occasion too.
Never had a truck to call my own, but my last week at Norberts I seemed to have the same unit every night, and at Switch Logistics I seemed to get the same shed of a rigid every day - an 02 plate MAN - but if I was “lucky” Id get a Scania…
Yep…I love my big ol’ Peterbilt. I have done nearly half a million kms in it in the last two years and it has never missed a beat despite both extreme cold weather and extreme heat.
More importantly as i have said before, unlike any Euro truck i have driven it has soul.
lol yes,it was a lhd magirus /drawbar the first truck i drove on distance ,one man one truck. The starter was unreliable,the electric splitter blew fuses but it never left me stranded .you got used to its strange ways and i treated it like it was my own lol…was gutted when i was put onto foden artic …job was never the same … jimmy.
I had an old LHD 144 530 Top Line. I went all over in in that motor and was gutted when my boss sold it. I even took her up to EM Rogers, who bought her, and sadly handed over the keys. It was a sad day, my Mrs laughed and called me a sad git . I have to agree with her
Wheel Nut:
Rose Tinted Spectacles. I don’t think so, but the DAF 3300 had plenty of faults, but the best bits overcame them. The air leaks came as standard, the huge steering wheel was a pain, you could open the doors with a flat screwdriver and number 14 fuse kept jumping out
But I loved, the bunks, the wide step. the storage, the gearbox, the power and the whole package. Nothing has ever come close since 1985 when I got a new ATi
I couldnt agree with you more mate I had a 3300 and loved it nice and warm plenty of room on a night out and yes number 14 was my lucky number
I am quite attached to my lhd fh16,should replace it but cant find owt as good,she is a 51 plate in good condition done over a million and is servin me well around the roads of uk and europe.
and what seemed at the time to be a massive bed.Had it for 5 years till i left never missed a beat all over the uk and europe 
. I have to agree with her