orionadam

im likin the first truck that looks smart

Mr.T

well i think there are a few topics about that. But then again. Who cares
A few of mine. I have driven them all. For a few years or months.
Scania 114 360 From france to germany etc. Container trucking.

FH13 440 I shift. With walkingfloor. Germany mostly


At the same company i had this one. FM12 340. With a tautliner mostly germany.

Polishing wheels


This was my truck in my 2nd job. A Scania 94D 220. Only national


At the same company a 2 years later i got a brand new one.
Volvo FE 280

Together with my old car. Also a volvo but then 850 2.5 20v 170hp

after de rooy i was going to work for J van bentum. I was hired but 2weeks later he told me in friendly words to fook off. So i did. Never got around driving there. Was going on this truck. My dream. A 143 420 v8.


Now i drive at v/d Ham. Same company as Seneca ferry transport LTD.
124G 420. No living somewhere in Iran or irak

another 124G 420 wich i crashed

Volvo FH13 400 we call them lowdeck. Cos of the small wheels and high trailers

G420 DEL

that will be the double drive! is a nice wagon.

davyb

Lovely motor that, any jobs? I want a nice truck haha! Bloody hell mr t you have drove plenty! I was looking at a job a few weeks ago on walking floors but the pay wasn't great so didn't bother.

Scania 143 looks nice!

Mr.T

i have done some jobs yes Driving allmost 10 years now. So i switch from time to time

kosman

that swinsons scania is nice,and i like them fodens aswell.

orionmojo

iTrader: (1)

My dads always ran fodens. i wont post some of his back catalogue but this is what i started on



Then moved up to this



I now have a Blinding Daf CF which i love but i havent got any pictures of this yet.

you can tell by the time i'm posting and the day that i'm not exactly busy at the moment though it should get better soon!

kosman

my gaffer has just bought me a new unit,so im waitng for that,my old one in the pic is fucked,it has a water leak and abs fault,and its missing so im lumped on a 8legger for now,but at least its no nights out for now.

BillyCabrio

iTrader: (1)

Me too, well class 2 anyway.

Heres a few of our motors, the fleet is looking a little old in these tho - Got a few 57/58 and 09 plate motors now.






















10,000 gallons of turds flowing into a turd lake! PMSL



Quite a varied job you could say lol

davyb

Vacuum tanks, dun some of that with my place, we do all the waste for Thames water in Basingstoke and Crawley, not a bad little job, away for a fortnight though but money is good!

BillyCabrio

iTrader: (1)

Who do you work for then? Cos we do all the Thames work too! PMSL

We have a yard in Camberley that covers Basingstoke and Crawley.

Mr.T

this is getting intresting

davyb

I work for BP Mckeefry, they have little Volvo fm's down there or daf cf's, some wagons are white and sum are orange

orionadam

what wagon u gettin kosman

kosman

another sweaty globertrotter xl,just waiting for it to be painted and built back up.

Lee R

what I drive

BlairM

Here's a question for you truckers, whats the purprose of the wee bits at the side of the grilles on the DAF's that BillyCabrio posted? Aero? Always wondered when I see them about. Sad aye!

Back when I was 6 years old, every Monday at school you had to write a page long story about what you had done at the weekend. That weekend a lorry had crashed into one of the bridges in the village, wiping out one of the walls. I of course wrote it was a M.A.N. lorry that crashed into the bridge, (I even put in the dots) teacher put a cross and said this should read "a man's lorry". Never was outspoken enough to say it was the type of lorry I meant.

eagie

Only do drivin now and again back on the tools now had a wee stint here for a while till work slackened off

davyb

Fcuk me that's huge!!! We have all kinds of haulage on here, tanks, tippers, dry frieght, heavy haulage.

We could have seperate forum with the amount of drivers we have on here lol

jamesXXX

i am an owner driver, this is my scania, i fitted alcoa wheels, s&b tanks, its been remapped to 500 bhp, and made my own lightbar


tanks machine polished



my trailer is a 1997 crane fruehauf, alloy rims, new easy sheet going on tomorrow

orionadam

looks tidy mate

jamesXXX

a few of my old motor

Coldo

You cant be far from me if you work for JST, they were a customer of mine in my old job

davyb

Does look tidy, I'd love to own my own wagon, a mates got his own but said your better off workin for someone now

eagie

Dont work there anymore Coldo left dec 08 back to ma old job in landrovers again... Where did u work may hav been there at some point

DAB

19 years a class 1 mug ,hate it now time for a change in the near future ,for now though my office .
DAF CF 480

AJC

iTrader: (6)

I have my class 1, but its not my full time job

frankyboy

This is my baby



This will lift 6 tonnes close in or 2.2 at 14 metres which ain't to bad.

jamesXXX

Depends what work you have really, i am lucky, i have a nice contract which is about 90% of my work, and i pick up back loads where ever i can.

I dont think i would ever drive for anybody else given the choice, it's bloody hard work starting up on your own, but well worth it.

davyb

I would like to give it ago if I got a bit of money behind myself. How much would you roughly need?

G420 DEL

its a hell of a chunk of money to get started!

wagon
insurance
tax
mot
a mechanic to carry out 6 weeklys
storage (wagon parking)
fuel
tyres
on top of that getting the opperators licence
and then about 6k in the bank sat there incase you break the wagon

nickywarwick

few of ours

daf xf / daf xf / scania r124 topline / man tga


2nd man tga / foden alpha / man tga (pulling william nichol tanker) / in white merc atega 4x2 & scania 4 series owner driver kmc


our shunter erf ec11


& 1 of our old ones (got loads) aec mandator


%0

Mr.T

Whats "class 1" ?

jamesXXX

roughly about £20,000 to £30,000, you will need a cpc, or employ someone who has a cpc to be your transport manager, there is loads of red tape stuff, but if you go on trucknet, and search for owner driver guides

BlairM

Pass the JST bit every day going to work in Irvine. Noticed the build up of logs being stored there recently.

Also had some interesting journeys down the A78 trying to avoid flying bark..

nickywarwick

licence to drive articulated vehicles

nickywarwick

dont you need the driver cpc within 5 years to?

jamesXXX

yes, another waste of time and our hard earned money!!

davyb

A fair bit of money then! I've still not started my cpc yet, I think I better get cracking with it, certainly another money making scam. Well I'm off to bed, parked up on the A17 now near Boston/Spalding. Take it easy chaps.

kosman

exactly why im getting out of the job,fed up of shitty dirty tipper work,fucking nights out,frozen/sticking loads,and no way am i paying money to work,if someone doesnt pay for me ill happily throw my class1 away.