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Sunday 25th

Apologies, no photograph

Snydale Road
Normanton

Just seen a Scania ‘S’ 6x2 (tag-lift)
Red cab, but… painted gold around door windows & windscreen surround
A’la ’IronMan’

It approached the crossroads from the south-east
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/363089
 

DRM

Guru
Location
West Yorks
Tuesday 19th

New edition

Tesco
Bradford Road
Batley

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I forgot
Someone at work, she’s a real ‘Karen’, was on about trucks last week, spouting the usual rubbish about them being 'dirty/smelly/using lots of fuel/etc...':rolleyes:
"Why can't they just deliver everything in vans instead?!?"
I had a bit of a dig back, as the person stating these 'facts' is well-known for being very opinionated

I pointed out about the emissions of a modern Euro 6C engine being (probably) far better than most cars of a comparable age
Ie; imagine the emissions of a pre Euro truck being represented as a sheet of A4 paper, Euro 6C is the size of the small UK 1st class stamp
In some urban areas, they emit better air-quality than what enters the engine
(Euro 4, was the earliest standards for a large truck)

She muttered/mumbled...
"Well, they're still uneconomical, what MPG do they do?"
I suggested that 10 - 11MPG would be great, for an artic"That's ridiculous!!, my car does 30MPG" (think she has a Quoshqi, or whatever it's called??)

Okay, I suggested, let's do some maths.............. I am thinking logically here, aren't I
For simplicity, I told her to imagine that (10MPG) truck running at 40 tons
Your 30MPG car weighs (hypothetically) 2 tons

At those levels of efficiency, all things being equal, if the truck weighed the same as your car it'd be sipping diesel at 200MPG
I put it to her that are they really that dirty/thirsty?

Then the final point made to her was that phrase to remember
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I was reading the new 'Truck & Driver' at work earlier, during the meal-break
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In it was an article about a Londinium based demolition/site-clearance company that had a sizeable 'heritage' fleet, comprising of trucks that they'd operated
One such truck was a Magirus-Deutz 8x4 tipper, with the air-cooled V8
(photograph of the magazine page)
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The text about this surprised me, apparently there's only 2 left that are road-worthy in the entire country:eek:
They, & their stablemate, the bonneted 6x4 tipper were ubiquitous in the late 70s/early 80s, they were everywhere!!
 
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Sorry, only just seen this story
It's a national disgrace, not just a problem of one county

One driver speaks the truth, saying that; people wouldn't work in an office, if it didn't have toilets, welfare facilities & a kitchen
Yet drivers are expected to stop in laybys/roadside in industrial estates, with only the facilities they have in the cab
I'm not sure about any of you, but I've passed/seen drivers in a layby, on consecutive days, making drinks/cooking on a gas stove

Some drivers, quoted elsewhere, state that they'd sooner stay dirty than use the showers/etc.... in motorway services
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-65406847

EDIT @ 19:10
A bit of a rant, but with good reason!
https://www.truckanddriver.co.uk/la...hould-there-be-official-guidance-for-drivers/
 
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I was listening earlier, to the latest podcast from; https://www.truckanddriver.co.uk/

One of their regular (printed edition) contributors had been in Chile recently
He talked about a Mercedes truck that's not available in the UK
Heck!, it looks good!
(a Scania T-Cab rival?)
The Atron
It seems that the 4x2 tractor unit reigns supreme, with very few tag-axles, or mid-lifts

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Sorry, only just seen this story
It's a national disgrace, not just a problem of one county

One driver speaks the truth, saying that; people wouldn't work in an office, if it didn't have toilets, welfare facilities & a kitchen
Yet drivers are expected to stop in laybys/roadside in industrial estates, with only the facilities they have in the cab
I'm not sure about any of you, but I've passed/seen drivers in a layby, on consecutive days, making drinks/cooking on a gas stove

Some drivers, quoted elsewhere, state that they'd sooner stay dirty than use the showers/etc.... in motorway services
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-65406847

EDIT @ 19:10
A bit of a rant, but with good reason!
https://www.truckanddriver.co.uk/la...hould-there-be-official-guidance-for-drivers/

It is disgraceful, especially when you consider that not only are there less truck stops and transport cafes than there used to be, but also that many councils have removed/closed public conveniences.


Reading the article, I did have a chuckle at a thought that passed about having in-cab loos like the Thetford Porta-Potti that caravanners use. Just imagine what would happen if someone forgot to check before they tilted the cab 🤢🤮
 
@Scottish Scrutineer
There is one company, that is involved in temporary roadways (the metal panels that clip together to provide a 'solid' access), that have 'welfare pods' on their trucks
That is, they have what look like an American style sleeper box, that has a shower, & caravan style toilet!!
I'll find the relevent issue of 'Truck & Driver' magazine, & photograph the page(s)
 
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