The Big Rig thread!

Please keep your mini lorry reviews coming. I really enjoy reading them, since you do it on a different viewpoint than others would do it. :)
 
Please keep your mini lorry reviews coming. I really enjoy reading them, since you do it on a different viewpoint than others would do it. :)


Not sure if that's an insult or not.

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I'm taking the Actros to Dundee tomorrow, 335 miles there, with my break it could be close to 8 hours to get there.
Our night trunker used this last night, imagine my delight to find it stuck in Aeconomy mode. <_<
You can drive to 90kmh, but the cruise control has a maximum of 85kmh. I had two options, have a dead leg by the end of my journey, or arrive 6 years late. Luckily I figured out how to turn it into normal mode.

The fridge is twice the size of the Strallises. :mrgreen:
 
:lol: It isn't.
 
I'm taking the Actros to Dundee tomorrow

Beware of Unicorns! Also keep up the good work, more mini truck reviews pls. We're counting on you to do the needful!
 
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I believe I have the Actros until November, when they all go back to Italy. :(

Hooked it up to the trailer on Friday, had a nice weekend off and today? It didn't start, the lorry hadn't moved, however the keys had. So, maybe someone was going to use it, but didn't want to take the trailer off?

Merc man came to rescue me (why we don't have a jump pack in the yard is beyond me) the man said it was the 4th Actros he'd jumped off this morning.

I had left nothing switched on, apart from the fridge which had a very important fruit berry granola thing from M&S in there. Which was still cold when I ate it waiting for the man.
 
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As someone that sells truck parts, batteries is an ongoing problem. As a battery manufacturer you basically can't afford to give more than one year of warranty regardless how good your product is, because your customers will kill it with their Webasto heaters, fridges and laptop chargers. Especially if you're dealing with Scandinavian truckers.
 
Someone twatted the nearside wing mirror. It folded in, hit the window and shattered both mirrors, I'm hoping it's just the glass that needs replacing.


It may have been me. :(
 
Only just had chance to get to Mercedes. I was looking at someone else's bill when the bloke wandered off.

Replace exhaust with catalytic converter.

Labour ?245
Test on machine ?7
Cat ?3,800

?5180 all-in. :/
 
See? Don't get a Smart, I tell you. It'll be as expensive.
 
It is with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to my 2012 1845 Actros. :( The lease is up.

I have been given a 2009 Scania R420... it ain't even a 440 ffs. Three pedal auto, but because it has an extra axle it can carry more than the Actros. The Actros was delightful, because it was a 'Euro' it has bitchin side skirts. :mrgreen:

The armrest was broken due to a poor design, but it still worked. The button to move the steering column was a bit awkward and the radio screen is hilariously 1987 technology, at night when parked up, it seemed as if there was no soundproofing. But, it looks fantastic and I shall miss it.





Yesterday I had to drive a fairly new Reno, you could drive into reverse, but never reverse into drive. Or neutral into reverse. You always had to go into drive first. It was awful, the brakes sent me through the windscreen and it bongs at every fucking thing.
 
On a dual carriageway, I'm in the left lane. In the right lane is a LHD Dutch lorry... he had an iPad on the dash, a laptop next to it, he was watching a movie... oh, and he wasn't wearing any shoes, how do I know this? He had his left foot on top of the door... all of this whilst driving. :/
 
You know something, you're starting to make Cowboy sound upbeat and cheery.
 
The Big Rig thread!

I could only see that being possible out in the western USA between California and the Mississippi River.
 
You know something, you're starting to make Cowboy sound upbeat and cheery.

It's what the job does to you, you think retail makes you hate people? Try driving for a living.
 
Porn, I assume? And steering one-handed?
Wasn't there a parody song called "Fahrende Masturbanten" some years ago on that exaxt subject?
 
Yesterday was great, drove 3 hours... 210 Beer kegs weren't palletised, the company didn't have a keg grabbery thing. They would have taken the bottles of beer that was already palletised.

Rang the office, can they take half off?
"Well have to check with client"

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The customer rang their wholesaler who said "yeah thats fine" which of course they'll say, the actual supplier was in Italy.

Anyway, 2 and a half hours later. Supplier refuses and says bring back the entire load.

So I drove for 3 and a bit hours, waited for 2 and a half, stopped for a Costa and then drive home.

Today was a ballbag of a day and it hasn't finished yet.
 
Those are always fun.
 
Had a drop at 10am, so I got to work at about 720, if I leave the docks by 8 I'm fine... Of course the Scania wouldn't start... Neither would one of the Ivecos.

Get a jump and head to the docks, oh, why is the trailer parked backwards and blocked in?

I get to the drop at 1035... Heavy bridge/metal thing place, one guy getting loaded.... 2 hours later he fucks off, so I pull in. They ask me to move because another lorry turns up and needs loading first... It's 1pm, he said itll take at least 3 hours to tip me and I'm still waiting to get back into the place as the fucker who pushed in hasn't been loaded yet.

The worst part is I didn't bring my iPad. :(
 
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