Truckers Corner V2.0

[Bluetech]

My brother inlaw is having some fun over in aus at the moment

[Logger]

Mmm B triple. Pity about the Tractor unit

[SLOTEG]

my uncle drives those in oz at the moment, split shifts with another guy. truck never stops except for diesel
soe of the fuckin stories, ill share a bit later, mrs is hitting me wanting to go to the drags

[VTEC22]

Originally Posted by Logger

You get to drive around a bloody field all day, where's the fun in that

haha

at the moment i spend half of the time on the road between jobs


we have 7 or so trucks at work most with big silage bins on them running wicked looking trelleborgs that wine like crazy
they look damn cool the single trelle is wider then the road duals

they tend to piss of the big road guys with there arggh? hmm rapid driving style?

[Logger]

I guess you've never seen a truck overtake a car then? Poor car driver doesn't know what the hell just happend.

[americ_ian]

i sit behind trucks and save gas on motorways

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When your driving, dont lean your hand on the gear stick!! It causes wear on the selector fork, or where the selector fork contacts on the dog clutch. How many roadrangers have i pulled apart with the complaint "it keeps jumping out of xx gear" to find badly worn selector fork for that gear? Heeeeeeaps!

I mainly work on big dumpers, (yellow trucks), moxy's in fact, from norway. They are fitted with scania engines, as mentioned before they are pretty good engines. I like the centrifuge oil filter design, all you need to change is a peice of gasket paper! They are fitting with 5 cylinder turbo engines and come in a few different models. Mt26, MT31, MT36, and MT41. The MT36 and MT41 have wheels allot taller than me!
They're bringing out a mt51 next year over here. Dont know how many we will sell, they are too big for most place's haul roads, as are the mt41's. They use the MT41's at orewa on northern gateway. Man i hate getting sent up there to fix them on friday arvos

These things are surprisingly easy to pop out sideways in wet/muddy conditions if you dont have the front diff locked in.







The mt26 and mt31's you can drive on the road but any of the larger models are too wide and heavy!

[Logger]

Originally Posted by fade to black

When your driving, dont lean your hand on the gear stick!! It causes wear on the selector fork, or where the selector fork contacts on the dog clutch. How many roadrangers have i pulled apart with the complaint "it keeps jumping out of xx gear" to find badly worn selector fork for that gear? Heeeeeeaps!

Oooh thats one of my bad habits in any truck. Would that also cause advanced wear in the Shifter rod bushes? Our Isuzus are so bloody sloppy. Moved a nice new Hino around the yard once and was surprised at how tight everything was compared to ours.

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Definitly. Most of the time i just get given the gearbox on a pallet. If i was told to diagnose the probeblem of a gearbox jumping out of gear, that would be the first thing i would check. The gearshift linkage bushes etc. See how much you can move the gearstick with out the gear shit lever at the trans moving! Lol i get about 1 out of 4 transmission's with absolutly nothing wrong with them. It's the shifter/or controll device sometimes. By the time you strip the trans down, and price up bearings etc, ( and clutch disks in an auto) it turns out to be quite a costly procedure! Well compared to a new gear shifter anyway.

[Logger]

Ours are shocking, going into reverse the lever is almost beating the crap out of the centre console. Thankfully in top gear it's not too close to the seat.

[SLOTEG]

i wanna drive one of those dumpers!!!!
they had them on american chopper the other day, paul senior was having a fang and doing big drifts
6wd drifts ftw!

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Yeah? they seem to be popular over there. You would think they would all have CAT's. We import alot of second hand ones in from north carolina i think the place is called?
The lame thing is, you have to stick the same sized tyres on the back wheels on one side. Like they can be different side to side, but if they are on the same side they have to be the same size. Same amount of tread. The link between the 2 wheels is direct drive with gears, so if you put different sized tyres on, one trys to turn faster than the other and loads the gears up resulting in broken teeths!

[92Coupe]

Damn where have i been you guys prob saw pics of my toys on the last thread but heres some more
my two daily drives



and another when i can get the boss out of it

[92Coupe]

taken today on my trip to lillybank station
my back load

this is the only way to get a truck in across the river 8O , was half way up the headlights of the mitsi 8O

[SLOTEG]

8O
i so gotta pull finger and come drive in the south island for a bit

[92Coupe]

road transport forum did a survey and found there was a shortage of over 1,000 truck drivers in the north island, so get your class 5 and pick a job

[Logger]

Originally Posted by SLOTEG

8O
i so gotta pull finger and come drive in the south island for a bit

Well I told ya to get a hold of Hiltons, they're screaming out for drivers for the Pea season.

[SLOTEG]

Originally Posted by Logger

Well I told ya to get a hold of Hiltons, they're screaming out for drivers for the Pea season.

emailed yesterday 8)
i dont wanna work in the north island really, havent done the south yet and id like to give that a go :thumbsup:
im so gonna see if my civic fits in the hino on monday :twisted:

[SLOTEG]

well i was at the truck wash getting the van cleaned and look what was sitting there, asking me to come have a look...





for sale, 7km on the clock 8)

so i was climbing all over it getting my mack on when the salesman comes over and we started chatting. 15 min, couple handshakes and a whole lot of bullshit later he gives me the fuckin keys 8O
so up i climb and sit down in the couch they call "the command chair" and survey the dash
instant hardon
"start it" he says, so i do
maaaaaan, the thing just cranks over and fires up, needles all flick around and the seat air fills and i adjust everything
"how bout a spin around the block"
*jizzz jizzz squirt moan aaahhhggaggahghjdeokerkle*
so i click the i-drive or whatever man call it into drive and just coast away from the drive like im floating on a cloud. such a fuckin machine to drive too.
so around the block we go, me driving like grandma on her way to sunday bowls cause like fuck i have the 250k or so this thing costs if i stack it, and he says
"open her up mate, push it"
foot down, see you later! thing pulls hard and i mean hard
20min later back to the yard and i park it up and try to hide the massive erection im now sporting

when my lil truck grows up it wants to be one of these fuckin beasts!

and there is the summary of the best day ive had being a truck driver so far
i WANT one!

[Logger]

Ahhh the TGA, bloody good competition for the Daf XF95 :thumbsup:

[SLOTEG]

there was a western star penis on wheels next to it
thats next on my list to drive 8)

[NAspirated]

fuckin ugly piece of shit to fix when they break.... just like Dafs, and Scanias.

Euros own the industry in comfort and technology, maintenance and repair....sell it before you have to..



as soon as i upload some pics off my phone, ill show you guys what happens to a Steelbro Swing-lift when a container is overloaded..for now ill say when we moved the modules, the gap closed up 8O

[VTEC22]

Originally Posted by 92Coupe

taken today on my trip to lillybank station
my back load

this is the only way to get a truck in across the river 8O , was half way up the headlights of the mitsi 8O

Hahaha

Go the 5###

[Logger]

Had a quick drive in our Logger today, found the roadranger to be quite sloppy but for an old girl like the Isuzu who has just clicked over 1 million km she's doing great

[92Coupe]

good to see this thread back, i get to hand over the keys to the mitsi this week and swap them for the keys to the DAF i think i should be able to stop smiling in about a months time,