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Trucking general chat - was Forum/Sub-forum proposal
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Cork Truck Driver wrote: »
and a leftie aswell..... wont be much us to him when he cant get onto the continent coz of brexit
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Never drove a leftie, wouldn't mind a go.and a leftie aswell..... wont be much us to him when he cant get onto the continent coz of brexitWont he be able to get the new ferry to spain! Get a nice rest on that crossing biscay in winter.
How long will it take though, what was Cork to France? 24 hours?0 -
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finnharpsboy wrote: »Only a recent member to the C licence club.
Some day I will join the artic club but for now, its little rigids for me
Brand new 181 little 12 tonne MAN arrived for us yesterday in work
Send on the photos
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Cork Truck Driver wrote: »Send on the photos
It gets worse from here though..... prepare yourself for the colour of the body :eek:
HIAB going on early next week.
The other little rigid we drive about in is this one.
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finnharpsboy wrote: »
It gets worse from here though..... prepare yourself for the colour of the body :eek:
HIAB going on early next week.
The other little rigid we drive about in is this one.
Good god the colour :eek:
Give me the MAN over the DAF any day.
Are you trained up on the hiab?0 -
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How heavy is the HIAB. Do ye carry much weight at a time.
The weight of the HIAB on the daf is somewhere between 2 and 3 tonne.
Depending on what jobs are on, but the average might be 7 to 8 tonne.
The colour is different, a bit loud when ya first see it but I suppose ya get used to it the more you see it. Driving it down the road this morning it was getting some funny looks 0 -
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finnharpsboy wrote: »The weight of the HIAB on the daf is somewhere between 2 and 3 tonne.
Depending on what jobs are on, but the average might be 7 to 8 tonne.
The colour is different, a bit loud when ya first see it but I suppose ya get used to it the more you see it. Driving it down the road this morning it was getting some funny looks
Ye would be pushing the limit with 5 ton on her never mind 7 or 8:D:P0 -
Hey, Rubber Duck, do we have a convoy? Is the truckers forum approved?0 -
Ye would be pushing the limit with 5 ton on her never mind 7 or 8:D:P
Can take 9.9 tonne fully loaded but don’t ask me to drive up one side of a speed bump with that loaded on it
I’d be afraid it wouldn’t make it !!!!
The little MAN will be able to take 5 tonne, once a HIAB goes on I’ll know for certain then.0 -
finnharpsboy wrote: »Can take 9.9 tonne fully loaded but don’t ask me to drive up one side of a speed bump with that loaded on it
I’d be afraid it wouldn’t make it !!!!
The little MAN will be able to take 5 tonne, once a HIAB goes on I’ll know for certain then.
Id imagine she's about 3.5 maybe 4t as it is and plus the HIAB.
I drove a Mercedes 12t for a week from limericks to Dublin something similar to your MAN and id never do it again. Lovely little truck in around the city but up and down I was broken up from it. Couldn't wait to get back into my TGX. Is the TGL comfortable.0 -
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Id imagine she's about 3.5 maybe 4t as it is and plus the HIAB.
I drove a Mercedes 12t for a week from limericks to Dublin something similar to your MAN and id never do it again. Lovely little truck in around the city but up and down I was broken up from it. Couldn't wait to get back into my TGX. Is the TGL comfortable.
From the previous scrap we've driven its luxury to us, but yeah its comfortable enough.
Hasn't been put to use just yet, once the hiab goes on it we will see
I expect there was one or two unhappy campers this morning after being woken to move their cars
hard to squeeze through that
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finnharpsboy wrote: »From the previous scrap we've driven its luxury to us, but yeah its comfortable enough.
Hasn't been put to use just yet, once the hiab goes on it we will see
I expect there was one or two unhappy campers this morning after being woken to move their cars hard to squeeze through that
I love it
Nothing better than dragging some pour soul out of bed early on a Saturday morning to move their car, they might think differently next time :pac:0 -
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Cork Truck Driver wrote: »I love it
Nothing better than dragging some pour soul out of bed early on a Saturday morning to move their car, they might think differently next time :pac:
Can you explain your thinking here, cars legally parked outside owners homes in residential street and looks like enough room left to allow other cars to pass through and you think they should think differently and expect to have a truck down their quiet street on a Saturday morning. Surely it’s the transport manager for the builders suppliers who should have a knowledge of his local area who needs to think differently, and perhaps plan to use a vehicle more suitable for residential area or bread down delivery into smaller units.
The expectation of truck driver to think he is justified in getting people out of bed on Saturday morning to allow his truck through is the type of thing that would just add ammunition to the anti-truck lobby0 -
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What if it was an ambulance? Or the fire brigade?
The ambulance or fire brigade dispatcher should have a knowledge of the area and send smaller vehicles instead.
Also the resident of the house the delivery was for couldnt get his van and trailer passed, perhaps he should have purchased in an area with wider roads.
Could have done multi drops i suppose on our "in case of emergency" vehicle, but it could only carry 5 blocks at a time instead of the 300 the customer got.
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Cork Truck Driver wrote: »The anti truck brigade have enough to be dealing with.
As Kev said, fire engines,ambulances etc may have to get through there.
In the face of it,I wouldn’t stand a chance of getting my rig through there.
And I have had to knock on the doors of homes to kindly request them to move their vehicles to accommodate my safe passage through their estate.
The last thing I want to be doing is filling in accident report forms unnecessarily.
I’d take verbal grief at having to get someone out of bed over that any day.
Anyone who thinks us truckers have it easy have never driven them in the modern era.
Upon waking the drivers of two vehicles in order for safe passage, they were most apologetic for delaying the delivery and causing an obstruction.
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finnharpsboy wrote: »Upon waking the drivers of two vehicles in order for safe passage, they were most apologetic for delaying the delivery and causing an obstruction.
No grief from them at all
I'm glad to hear that they were accommodating.
It's a tad bit different here though, i've had grief, not always, but on one or two occasions.
One guy said he couldn't move the car as he was only in the door 2 hours previously after drinking all night.
Nonetheless, the stories are positive in the majority.
Again, the approach and attitude of the driver has a lot to do with it most of the time.
If the driver is narky or cranky that will backfire.
Polite manners never cost a person anything and you seem like a nice polite person judging by the reception you received. 0 -
Cork Truck Driver wrote: »I'm glad to hear that they were accommodating.
It's a tad bit different here though, i've had grief, not always, but on one or two occasions.
One guy said he couldn't move the car as he was only in the door 2 hours previously after drinking all night.
Nonetheless, the stories are positive in the majority.
Again, the approach and attitude of the driver has a lot to do with it most of the time.
If the driver is narky or cranky that will backfire.
Polite manners never cost a person anything and you seem like a nice polite person judging by the reception you received.
I apologised more to them for disturbing them than they apologised for the obstruction.
As you say the right approach has a big bearing on the outcome.
Believe it or not, just had a look at the delivery board for Monday and one of the residents who was awoken from their Saturday morning slumber has placed an order for delivery on Monday, unaware that we actually delivered so far from our location to theirs.
According to the sales guy just now, he said she appreciated the good mannered approach this morning and found herself getting a good deal on her decking too 0 -
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