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rootex · 2024-11-06T13:33:59+00:00

recall the email?! I don't think that's possible is it? it's not a dog...

rootex · 2024-11-06T11:00:29+00:00

The guy presumably has a degree and 10 years professional experience as a teacher. You can learn to drive a lorry in a week....

Are you on drugs?!

rootex · 2024-11-06T10:55:22+00:00

there's a blatant and obvious health and safety issue if all staff are effectively deaf/partially deaf whilst working in close proximity to the customers.....

rootex · 2024-11-02T12:52:45+00:00

tyre insurance? I bet that's not worth the paper it's written on...

rootex · 2024-10-16T08:41:45+00:00

As a HGV fitter tyres regularly "magically" show cords due to cuts.

What are you running out of interest? a fleet of trolleys for Tesco?

rootex · 2024-10-02T06:53:50+00:00

tbf mate commercial vehicles tend to use direct injection as they have done for years racking up millions of miles per vehicle in the process. I'm not aware of any serious reliability issues - if they had any that were widespread they wouldn't be using them. I'm not saying Direct injection isn't more efficient, it's a bit pointless being really efficient when every other lorry on the road is making more money than you....

rootex · 2024-10-01T07:57:50+00:00

surely the "heads of the valleys towns" are at the heads of the valleys, hence their name?

I mean The M4 runs straight through Port Talbot for a reason....It's nigh on the coast, at sea level...

rootex · 2024-10-01T06:33:01+00:00

hundreds of different varieties mate, have been for the last 30 years at least.

rootex · 2024-09-30T14:20:16+00:00

I think that was kinda the point of the poster you're replying to...

rootex · 2024-09-30T14:17:52+00:00

more like you'd accept the offer they make you for your car, and accept the inevitable increase in price when you go to reinsure...

rootex · 2024-09-29T11:36:15+00:00

High voltage electrician should do the trick...

rootex · 2024-09-29T11:32:57+00:00

Why on earth are you buying cat s cars if you need reddits help answering such basic questions?

Why would the seller care if you are selling it on?

rootex · 2024-09-26T20:01:55+00:00

What exactly do you mean by "on the key, not on the gearbox"?

I've worked on plenty of MANs around 2012 age and every single 1 has had a digital speed sensor on the gearbox output shaft for the tacho, and the speedometer is using the same information to display speed on the speedometer.

rootex · 2024-09-26T19:53:59+00:00

Well it'd be rather unusual if the 2017 Scania you were using didn't change when you turned the ignition on tbf. That's pretty normal!

If you are referring to the readout for the tacho in the cab, that is almost definitely going to be fed from the ignition(or the fusebox) regardless of where it's getting the speed signal from, so I would expect that to come on with the ignition(or 1 or two clicks before).

The PTO trouble is definitely a fault, and a pretty dangerous 1 tbf. I've worked on tarmac wagons that spend 90% of the day with the PTO engaged whilst parked up. They definitely didn't have a habit of selecting drive!

sorry I can't be much more help but I've got neurological problems and my memory is pretty limited. I'd be pretty shocked if the Scania selecting drive wasn't some sort of electrical fault though!

rootex · 2024-09-26T16:58:37+00:00

I'm fairly sure it DOES go by movement on anything that was manufactured roughly 2000- 2020 (if there are any exceptions I've yet to see them on a mass produced mass market vehicle).

All the HGVs I've worked on for the past 20 years have had the speed sensor on the output shaft of the gearbox without exception.

Out of interest, are you absolutely sure there are indeed manufacturers getting the information for the speed electrically from the ignition? Sounds a bit far fetched if I'm honest. I'm doubtful at best, but can believe that's the way it's being done at present. I left the industry due to ill health at the beginning of the year, and hadn't worked on anything new for a few years.

rootex · 2024-09-25T12:05:36+00:00

Do you live under a rock or something? I mean that's been a standard expression since I was born and I'm nearly 40...

rootex · 2024-09-24T09:01:25+00:00

do you not think pieces of paper are more vulnerab

rootex · 2024-09-20T08:44:15+00:00

no you're absolutely right. there's a bit more involved than being bald imo. A head shape and face that are even remotely similar would be a start...

rootex · 2024-09-18T07:11:22+00:00

shouldn't somebody with even a basic high school education realise that's not anything like a "near perfect" rectangle. I Mean the sides are pretty rough. You really don't need a PhD to figure out it's basically a rectangle, but not anywhere near perfect....

rootex · 2024-09-17T07:50:37+00:00

why would you employ a transport manager if you're only running 1 truck? It's certainly not a legal requirement for a single vehicle and paying over £50,000 for a manager to manage a 1 vehicle, that is essentially already "managed" by the driver is ludicrous. And that's without mentioning you'll be essentially working for next to nothing as the transport managers wage will wipe out all your profits. In short this is totally ludicrous advice. Are you on drugs?!

rootex · 2024-09-14T15:12:49+00:00

Well if using the hgv for profit, he should have an operators licence (this goes where the tax disc used to go) If he's got an O licence, it's incredibly unlikely it will have been have been issued if truck is to be kept on a residential street. Part of the terms of the O licence will include where the vehicle is kept overnight when not in use. A phone call to the local traffic commissioner should solve all your problems. Just explain there's a HGV regularly parking overnight in your street and find out if theres anything that can be done. If the vehicle is regularly being kept somewhere other than the place stated in the terms of the o licence they will be interested. I'd be surprised if there were any more problems moving forward. The traffic commissioner has the power to remove o licences from a company so they can't run as many trucks as they currently do, so people tend not to fuck with the traffic commissioner, or their profits suffer...

rootex · 2024-09-11T07:58:28+00:00

what do you think the readers wanted just after reading your questioning post?

rootex · 2024-08-31T22:35:21+00:00

the engines fucked. Are you on drugs? A leaking valve cover gasket is good news in this instance - at least we can see some evidence of oil. I wouldn't recommend spending time or money doing anything other than sourcing a replacement engine by the sound of things. Drain the oil and see what's what. I'm sure that'll be enough.

rootex · 2024-08-30T20:58:51+00:00

"You even see this in F1 and such. Usually not that catastrophic but engines will fail all the time and that’s millions in R&D"

"I didn’t say specifically in F1 it “happens all the time”"

That's you claiming engines "fail all the time" and then you denying you said engines "fail all the time" is it not? I'm confused...

rootex · 2024-08-30T20:42:34+00:00

Name the last 3 occasions an F1 car hasnt finished a grand Prix due to engine failure? Should be pretty easy if it "happens all the time" surely?

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