Your favourite lorry, past or present.

[ZR1cliff]

Mine would be the AEC's from the 60's due to the annual funfair using AEC 8 leggers.

[jagracer]

I can assure you It wouldn't be if you had to drive one all the time

[ZR1cliff]

jagracer said:

I can assure you It wouldn't be if you had to drive one all the time

Would love to have a drive of one.

[Getragdogleg]

jagracer said:

I can assure you It wouldn't be if you had to drive one all the time

Bloody softy.

I drove a Beford TK with no power steering for three years, I am 6foot and anyone who knows TKs will tell you that the TK is best suited to the shorter driver, if I sat straight I could only see about 8 feet in front of me due to my vision being blocked by the roof.
Coupled with the non-turbo engine and the noise and lack of effective heating I can honestly say it was excellent fun and I loved it.

We still run an older fleet, the newest lorry is a 2002 Seddon Atkinson with a Palfinger crane on it, Awesome for our neck of the woods as it can get down our lanes and has good ground clearance and still carry a 20ft container and deliver it.

I think it is my favorite right now.

Here it is picking up an old Marker Buoy.

[ZR1cliff]

My favourite present day truck is the Renault Magnum. We had two, but they went to Africa and I never got the chance to drive one.

[4key]

Old scanias do it for me, travelled all around europe with my dad during school holidays when I was very young. Managed to smash the windscreen on a 111 with my head bouncing about in the cab like zebedee apparently

Can remember a few trips in these ones, running in convoy and playing eye spy with the other drivers over the cb

[jagracer]

Getragdogleg said:

jagracer said:

I can assure you It wouldn't be if you had to drive one all the time

Bloody softy.

I drove a Beford TK with no power steering for three years, I am 6foot and anyone who knows TKs will tell you that the TK is best suited to the shorter driver, if I sat straight I could only see about 8 feet in front of me due to my vision being blocked by the roof.
Coupled with the non-turbo engine and the noise and lack of effective heating I can honestly say it was excellent fun and I loved it.

Softy indeed, I used to drive them and TK and TM Bedford amongst many other old dogs that I'd never want to get in again, try a Chinese six Scammell Routeman artic with no power steering. Give me a new Volvo, or even Scania if I had no choice, any day. why be uncomfortable when you don't need to be.

Edited by jagracer on Saturday 29th September 23:37

[Forthright MC]

Getragdogleg said:

Here it is picking up an old Marker Buoy.

Thats lovely! Did i clock seveal Atkis from this fleet in Trucking mag just recently per chance?

My classic fave has to be the venerable Scania 3 Series -



Find these so appealing on many levels and i've heard they're one of THE drivers trucks of choice too. Can't beat the sound of a 143M 450-500 V8 on open pipes either, throbtastic!

My current fave is the MAN TGX -



One of the nicest looking current models out there IMO and they suit most liveries very nicely too.

Edited by Forthright MC on Sunday 30th September 00:40

[chilistrucker]

4key said:

Old scanias do it for me, travelled all around europe with my dad during school holidays when I was very young. Managed to smash the windscreen on a 111 with my head bouncing about in the cab like zebedee apparently

Can remember a few trips in these ones, running in convoy and playing eye spy with the other drivers over the cb

i reckon these old scanias will get alot of votes, always seemed to be, even to this day, very popular.
i was the same as you, started going out when i was a kid at school, old 111's first, then 112
i used to love the summer holidays

[chilistrucker]

on the old subject, these were in the tyre fitters yard in russia where we were getting a rim sorted.

[ZR1cliff]

Is that an old Scammell, Chilstrucker?

Talking of scammells. Got to be one of the strangest looking old trucks and my least favourite.

[chilistrucker]

i'm not sure cliff, i think it was an old state built thing, wouldn't mind betting it was 6 wheel drive aswell. i bet it does better in the winter out there than our dafs would.

[BigS]

The big bugger on the right is a KrAZ, most likely a 255 so ex-Sovet/Russian army and going by the shape of the wheel arch I say the one on the left is probably a Zil 130

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KrAZ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIL-130

[chilistrucker]

i bet if i went back there in 20 years time, they'd still be working.
they had loads of wierd and wonderful stuff dotted around.

[ClaphamGT3]

4key said:

Old scanias do it for me, travelled all around europe with my dad during school holidays when I was very young. Managed to smash the windscreen on a 111 with my head bouncing about in the cab like zebedee apparently

Can remember a few trips in these ones, running in convoy and playing eye spy with the other drivers over the cb

I now have The JCB Song going around my head

[BigS]

chilistrucker said:

i bet if i went back there in 20 years time, they'd still be working.
they had loads of wierd and wonderful stuff dotted around.

I wouldn't be surprised either, I don't think you need much more than a hammer to be able to fix them

[martin mrt]

Favourite present truck is without question a Scania R Series, I drive one of the first 54 plate ones, and had two newer ones where I worked previously, and have been offered a newer SSC105 as a "step up" from the Scania, not a chance, I'll stick with this one until the end, or I get another Scania.

Favourite truck of the past is the 2/3 series Scanias, I remember seeing them and the first if the streamline 3 series, and thinking how smart they were.

[Chipchap]

During my time with Scania Nov 1989 until July 1997 I flogged about 650 new and used Scania's of all types. My favourite truck of all time is unsurprisinglt an R143 Topline Streamline in 450 or 470 guise. Such a delight to drive.

Some above made reference to old British twin steers. Attached are some images of trucks that my dad operated in the 70's [library images on some]

My Dad & My youngest Brother in 1973 in front of an AEC Mandator TG6Re twin steer. AV760 engine. PDC 827H where are you now ?



We also had a Scammell Trunker 2 with a Leyland 680 Power Plus engine and 6spd Scammell gearbox. Looked just like this one.



A nice side on shot of a 6x2 AEC just like ours was.

[GC8]

Getragdogleg said:

Eaton Twin Split and a constant battle with door corrosion?

[Getragdogleg]

GC8 said:

Eaton Twin Split and a constant battle with door corrosion?

Not this one, this has the 4 over 4 with the air knock over. Also, I waxed the hell out of the doors (well, whole cab) on this one and its still perfect 10 years on. I have some experience of how good at rusting these Iveco cabs are now and I have a spare cab waiting for when I need it. Yes, I am a hoarder.