A Scania HGV "review" - 10 years after the last one!

Jez · 26 Dec 2018 at 15:31

Scania said:
Think this is the reason but to be fair tachographs have shown KM since their introduction decades back, where the stipulation for KM comes from I couldn’t say tbh.

Ah, found it.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLEG:1985R3821:20111001:EN:PDF

I am surprised that you've never been curious enough to read the legislation given its your employment! But yeah, EEC rules since 1985.

Outcast · 26 Dec 2018 at 15:37

We have so many rules that we only bother taking notice of the ones that cost us if we flout them !

I can't remember if I've posted this before but we used to have a dedicated HGV drivers Licence.
You can see when I passed my Class One HGV.. Oh.. So it was 1986 not 85.. Hey Ho.

K.C. Leblanc · 27 Dec 2018 at 01:04

Outcast said:
I had a choice wagon t'other night.

You should try driving for Co-op, most of ours are 62 or 11 plate! I think it's probably the only substantial fleet left where automatics are in the minority.

Outcast · 27 Dec 2018 at 01:12

K.C. Leblanc said:
You should try driving for Co-op, most of ours are 62 or 11 plate! I think it's probably the only substantial fleet left where automatics are in the minority.

I "Did" Agency at the Co-Op about 16 years ago. Yeah they were underpowered Dogs back then!

Took one of our "Dogs" out to Redditch tonight. It's probably the first time this has been out of the yard since friday so it looks like I'm sailing a Destroyer laying down a smoke screen (64 plate 430 Merc).

It quickly warms up though !

Delta3D · 27 Feb 2019 at 21:15

Keep spotting your guys up at a client I'm providing temporary on-site IT Support for - trucks always look well looked after and clean

Scania · 28 Feb 2019 at 08:07

Delta3D said:
trucks always well looked after and clean

Not quite all of them.....

Delta3D · 28 Feb 2019 at 14:51

Scania said:
Not quite all of them.....

Maybe not then! Haha

Just witnessed another one pull in today

Scania · 28 Feb 2019 at 15:13

Delta3D said:
Maybe not then! Haha

Just witnessed another one pull in today

Going by your location, and trying to think of regular drops we go to, your not at Taylormade Timber are you?

Delta3D · 28 Feb 2019 at 18:09

Scania said:
Going by your location, and trying to think of regular drops we go to, your not at Taylormade Timber are you?

Bingo

Have you been?

Scania · 28 Feb 2019 at 21:35

Delta3D said:
Bingo

Have you been?

A fair few times, a regular “back load” for us.

Small world eh?

Delta3D · 28 Feb 2019 at 22:16

Scania said:
A fair few times, a regular “back load” for us.

Small world eh?

Small world indeed! Might see you there sometime. I'm in and out of there quite often, tomorrows my last day until the 18th March but will be back for two weeks then.

Will keep an eye out, I've been plonked in the weighbridge the past couple days.