Cabovers

So quite drinking while your driving and spilling alcohol on your steering wheel!!!

 

When I interview drivers I ask them about the trucks they claim to have driven.
Never had one as knowledgeable as 98989 but if they told me about the alcohol ,steering wheel thing I'm not sure they would get a pass.

 

i stop drinking 13months ago, it could not go with other things...

 

but with the air suspended cab, finger light steering and auto box you should be able to hold your drink in your free hand with out spilling.

 

Seriously the DAF interior does hold up well.
We have had to put new seats in Volvo's at about 800 000km but on the DAF's they go to about 1,2 million.
I must add my drivers have teeth in their butts.

 

I only drive about once a month to test trucks out of the workshop and then only a few miles.Once a year or so I may do more than 30 miles or so , so that is my experience in modern cab overs.I however did many years of time behind the wheel of a 73 model F series Mack COE . Its not even comparable but probably better I drove the older trucks as they kept me awake as they would throw you out the seat if you were not holding on.

 

there is old saying here: "mack during its life change three drivers"


as we have communism before, it was hard to get foreign money to buy import product,

so we used to buy anything whatever you could get,for certain money without reasonable explanation
we had FAP which used to build licenced trucks and partially their own , they used to assembly and produce Mercedes locally,
TAM used to build their own truck with Deutz engines
except that Avtomontaža used to "assembly" Iveco and Man trucks -assembly probably means only to put their own badge

so best east communism truck you could get was hungarian Raba ,



however sometimes some company get way to bough western truck ,

most favourite was of course MB,and Iveco but all were present here.

one company had 500 trucks, 80 mack f700 280hp twin stick, i think last 20were 320hp first 20 come in 1977 , 5 were stolen in iraq, one fall from ferry, and few fall from cliff into river
same company had brand new LB/LBS/LBT111 and have sold them and bought FAP 1620 without any reasonable explanation, it was communism politics

other companies had mack as well but not that much ,

 

I never drove it but we had a 70's F700, it was green with a 237 if my memory is right. I guess the better of cabovers that I drove was the 78 K100 aerodyne, it would have been great if it just had power steering.

 

I've seen actros mp3 mp4 in Oregon. Now dimler I'd running only mp 4 6x4

 

What I can't figure out is why with the Volvo I shift you have to press a button to tell the truck that it is heavy? The company my friend works for just took delivery of a brand new fh16 700 to pull a pocket road train fuel tanker, which is just has a short draw bar on the dolly to make it 32 meters long instead of 36.5m so they can bring them into the city on roads you can't take a full size road train and can only gross 80 tonne instead of 85.

Anyway on one of its first trips with all the Volvo reps and camera crews doing a video for the upcoming Brisbane truck show. As he is climbing the Toowoomba range which is about 10% grade for about 5km the thing wouldn't shift quick enough, bogged down and when it went for low gear missed and destroyed the clutch, all because the driver forgot to press a button. You think that with how good the I-shift is it would be able to tell if the trucks is heavy, even the ultrashift can tell how heavy it is and adjust the change to suit.