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[Trucker]

Had the misfortune of breaking down today  short day turned very long..


Trucker

[ChrisF]

What part of the brakes is that?

[RST]

I was trying to work that out also. When I was out of work a few years ago I was studying for my class 2. I know there's 2 extra brakes on a truck, could only remember the "jake brake" since.  I'm sure one of them just limits the intake valves?


...bad day at the office I guess. Hope you get it sorted.

[Trucker]

LOL, sorry, i should have typed "breakdown"   the broken part is actually the fan belt tensioner , i had a 3.5 hour wait for a repair so wasn't too bad in the end.

[Taranis]

For the breakdown service    The wait must have been tension free at least 

[Taranis]

I blame the French 

[Mark T]

Nothing worse than breaking down at work especially when you forget that your laptop is on the bunk and then it flies forwards and cracks the windscreen when the cab is tipped..........not me but happened to one of our lads 

[NickelBelter]

Nothing worse than breaking down at work especially when you forget that your laptop is on the bunk and then it flies forwards and cracks the windscreen when the cab is tipped..........not me but happened to one of our lads 

Cab-over-engine designs have gone out of favour over here (for big rigs at least) but I'm told that every so often a novice driver delivering woodchips to the mill at Thunder Bay forgets just how far the device goes up and leaves their coffee cup in the holder...

[Trucker]

nice. are they chained down 

[NickelBelter]

I believe there are hydraulic wheel chocks that help hold it in place.  The back of the trailer opens up and it doesn't take much for all the chips to slide out.

[Peter Fitness]

Cab-over-engine designs have gone out of favour over here (for big rigs at least)

Much the same here in Australia too. Most of the big outback road trains are hauled by conventional prime movers, although the cab over is still the most common style of highway rig for semis and B-doubles.


Peter.

[warspite]

I use to read commercial news when I was at Seddons in Oldham, it mentions the Japanese having 21 litre engines, made my eyes water as the trucks there were using 10 lt Perkins (I think there was a bigger engine  12 lt but I cannot remember, will need to consult the brochure - it was 1994).

[KitS]

When I worked at Pressed Steel Cowley in the 60s we did some tests on the Austin FJ truck cab which had a hefty torsion bar to help lift the cab just like the heading pic. The problem was that the lifting arm was on the LH side of the cab, and the cab floor wasn't really strong enough, with the result that sometimes the torsion bar shot up through the floor demolishing everything above it.


Just a bit scary with a RH drive truck, but on a LH drive one.......................