What are these things on trucks/coaches?

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Knowledgeable people of OCUK Motors. All over South America I have seen these things attached to large vehicles. I'm taking about the rods connecting the wheels to the body of the truck.

I'm sure they have a good and simple purpose but my non-truckie mind cannot comprehend what.

Care to enlighten me?

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Yes, as said its a tyre inflation / deflation system.

Very rare over here - in fact, I don't recall seeing a UK or for that matter European registered truck with such a system fitted...

Maybe it's not compliant with EU regulations??

A good idea in principle, but I do wonder why the large fleets especially have apparently not taken this on.....
 
Can I ask another random truck question whilst there is a thread...

Why do truck drivers seem to park half on the pavement when parked up in laybys? :confused:

They layby is easily big enough for the truck as-is, but yet they seem intent on ruining grass verges or blocking entire pavements just to get a few more feet away from the road :confused:
 
paradigm said:
Can I ask another random truck question whilst there is a thread...

Why do truck drivers seem to park half on the pavement when parked up in laybys? :confused:

They layby is easily big enough for the truck as-is, but yet they seem intent on ruining grass verges or blocking entire pavements just to get a few more feet away from the road :confused:
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Usually to reduce the "rocking" of the parked vehicle when another large one passes, especially if the driver is trying to sleep.

Also, to reduce the chance of the O/S mirror being knocked off!
 
Doesn't really excuse the fact that they are blocking the pavement. If I were pushing a baby or something I'd be incredibly peeved, and would have no hesitation in making sure the driver was rudely awoken.
 
paradigm said:
Doesn't really excuse the fact that they are blocking the pavement. If I were pushing a baby or something I'd be incredibly peeved, and would have no hesitation in making sure the driver was rudely awoken.
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No, it doesn't excuse it, and drivers can expect a fixed penalty (£60) if a parking Nazi sees it.

I would always pull onto the verge / pavement on a dual carriageway like the A12,A1 or A14 but only in isolated locations where you would not get pedestrians never mind pushchairs, but certainly not park in that manner in a built up area for the reasons you describe.

Regardless of your reasoning though, I'd always advise against waking a sleeping trucker, it could end badly.......
 
GeX said:
They probably don't like the look of pipes sticking out wider than wheels - if they'd work from the otherside then they might be OK?
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if you have a look at that website i found above you will see there are 2 kinds. 1 sits inside the axle, and those kind in the pics are like an external version; possibly retrofit maybe.

im guessing you would need to spec the internal ones from new
 
Yeah, I saw - but if there were internal ones fitted then we wouldn't see them on vehicles on the road sticking out like that!

I was referring the to the ones that are probably (like you said) retrofitted.
 
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