I’d sooner drive something like a Hino, real gearbox and old school durable simplicity, do me fine.
Bed not of interest, just a place to chuck me coat and other stuff.
Either live with whatever the company provides or: write the firm a cheque for about £80-90k and then they’ll be able to buy you whatever lorry you like - with however many bells, whistles and go-faster stripes you like.
Saaamon:
Muckaway:
I’m hoping to get a job on a firm who run them. I like them from what I’ve seen, no frills and basic, a bunk as standard, high driving position, good off-road etc.
Who would drive them and who’d rather do something else?Thought you had a new job?
I have, but forgetting Xmas, been at home with no work, the week before shutdown unpaid. It’s a great little job, but that alone wont pay the mortgage and buy clothes for a growing 21month old.
bigr250:
Seagoon:
bigr250:
Drive one by all means but NEVER considder taking one on as an O/Driver as they break regularly and are very expensive to repair & I know of one that’s had three clutches in just over 12 months. (with a decent driver)Ross.
I had one for 2 years as an O/D. All it cost me on top of normal maintenance was £57 for an air over electric valve for the horn(a common fault).I even lived in it for 3 weeks but you need an extra mattress on the bunk 'cos it’s just an upholstered plank. There’s nothing wrong with the gearbox(it’s a ZF I believe)but the cables connecting it to the lever need setting up properly or the change is appalling.No worse than any other cable change though.Don’t remember even adjusting the clutch.
I would happily drive one full time again.Was it a 700 series?
Ross.
Can’t remember the numbers TBH. It was a 57 plate built just before the face lift.AFAIK that meant I got a cassette player rather than a CD 
I love all the hard boys on here that will “drive anything” “a truck is a truck”
At the end of the day it DOES make a difference what you drive but obviously the money still has to be right.
I jacked in a job where I was driving a scania R480 to go and do 10 hour shifts in an Iveco day cab because it was better money and now left that to max my hours and earnings on a scania R500. I felt more knackered and fatigued being rattled about in that Iveco day cab for 10 hours a day than I do doing a 15 hour shift in my V8 with leather seats and climate control 
It does make a difference.
Not if i had any choice i wouldnt.
I agree that for us taller than average blokes the hino is a nightmare and dont start me on the wrong way round indicators/wipers.
As others have posted cramped driving position (built for litte Japs not 20stone tipper drivers )wrong way round indicators&wipers some Jap cars are like this also, gear change like a stick in a bucket of ■■■,poor steering lock, I can put my Volvo eight wheeler in places in one shunt takes 2 or 3 in Hino eight wheeler have owned the Hino 5years & never broken down only routine service stuff apart from broken rear springs & worn radius rod bushs which seems to be common, parts can be expensive,factors carry very little stock for them, main dealer back up can be poor in some areas, from a drivers point of view I don’t mind them, my driver was offered the choice Hino or Volvo he took the Hino left me with the I-shift Volvo 
FarnboroughBoy11:
I love all the hard boys on here that will “drive anything” “a truck is a truck”At the end of the day it DOES make a difference what you drive but obviously the money still has to be right.
I jacked in a job where I was driving a scania R480 to go and do 10 hour shifts in an Iveco day cab because it was better money and now left that to max my hours and earnings on a scania R500. I felt more knackered and fatigued being rattled about in that Iveco day cab for 10 hours a day than I do doing a 15 hour shift in my V8 with leather seats and climate control
It does make a difference.
+1
Saaamon:
FarnboroughBoy11:
I love all the hard boys on here that will “drive anything” “a truck is a truck”At the end of the day it DOES make a difference what you drive but obviously the money still has to be right.
I jacked in a job where I was driving a scania R480 to go and do 10 hour shifts in an Iveco day cab because it was better money and now left that to max my hours and earnings on a scania R500. I felt more knackered and fatigued being rattled about in that Iveco day cab for 10 hours a day than I do doing a 15 hour shift in my V8 with leather seats and climate control
It does make a difference.+1
Whoops error,was gonna say for tipper or mixer running local work they’re O.K.would’nt want to do distance/tramping etc in one!!
splitshift:
Whoops error,was gonna say for tipper or mixer running local work they’re O.K.would’nt want to do distance/tramping etc in one!!
That’s the thing; For local tipper work, cab getting dirty inside, shaken about off road etc, then a Hino is a lower cost truck from new. Granted, if it was longer distance aggregate work, then a Daf or Scania would be a better buy. I’d rule out MAN and Volvo FMX purely on high tare weight.
For a basic tipper, surely it’s between Hino and an Axor?
If I had no self respect, and the money was bloody good, then perhaps.
Good god no, I refuse to drive anything under 500 without a big cab and is more than a year old. Oh and it has to be Swedish
dew:
If I had no self respect, and the money was bloody good, then perhaps.
Oh dear, glad my driver is’nt on TNUK
You have to wonder if some of the blokes here wear clothes (or trainers when schoolboys) with someone else’s name stamped on them.
Victims of fashion, wrong badge? …ooh dahling that simply won’t do… 
switchlogic:
Good god no, I refuse to drive anything under 500 without a big cab and is more than a year old. Oh and it has to be Swedish
How about a Saab “Viggen” is 28,110lbf thrust on afterburn enough power?mind you the cab is a bit small for nights out!and they’re bit more than a year old
Juddian:
You have to wonder if some of the blokes here wear clothes (or trainers when schoolboys) with someone else’s name stamped on them.Victims of fashion, wrong badge? …ooh dahling that simply won’t do…
Eat yer heart out Gok Wan i’ve got a Hino
I have driven Hinos and I’d drive another, especially this one…
switchlogic:
Good god no, I refuse to drive anything under 500 without a big cab and is more than a year old. Oh and it has to be Swedish
That’s good, I believe the Hino 8w is the 700 series.
Juddian:
You have to wonder if some of the blokes here wear clothes (or trainers when schoolboys) with someone else’s name stamped on them.Victims of fashion, wrong badge? …ooh dahling that simply won’t do…
juddian,i remember you posting on a thread about hino’s before,saying you would like to try one-have you had a go in one yet?
i would guess you havent yet or you would understand how ■■■■ they are…as for “a proper gearbox”?
well in this country they dont come with proper (fuller ) gearboxes,they come with a 16 speed zf (which i like when installed properly in a daf,lovely box) but with slap across range change and all made much worse by it being a poxy ■■■■■■■ cable linkage that is just utterly dreadfull,and a clutch so heavy its hard to believe in 2012.
i have always said i’ll drive anything if the money is right and the money is right in this job,and i only have a half mile each way commute,instead of the 25 miles each way i used to do,so i put up with this poorly designed monstrosity.
however,i really do hate driving this awful lorry,and cant wait until the bloke that drives the daf cf leaves and i can have that!!
believe me i have driven some shockingly bad motors,but head and shoulders above all of these are hino’s(i have had the misfortune to drive three different ones at different times,they are all ■■■■.
hope this helps