If it only for trailer braking, why did my KM 16 tonner have one?
Was handy though for pulling it on a touch for the first twenty minutes of driving to warm the drums up, saved cleaning the windscreen with my nose if I had to even look at the footbrake…
Wheel Nut:
If anyone wants to donate anything you should send it to this causeShe is one of my favourite fundraisers!
thats a proper arse is that , my ex works for GM ambulance service and i can assure you her ■■■ dont look like that , if it did she wouldnt be my ex … 
Rikki-UK:
If it only for trailer braking, why did my KM 16 tonner have one?Was handy though for pulling it on a touch for the first twenty minutes of driving to warm the drums up, saved cleaning the windscreen with my nose if I had to even look at the footbrake…
im quite sure i drove a transcon that the dead man worked the front brakes aswell , got to be honest i never saw the point of them myself…
mick sorry to hear that bet you miss your dad im the same age
ok we all got it but what was the term for it
p**** lever same again £10 to fav charity
Hi bogieman
yes i still miss him even after 19 years of him being gone. have good memories of going with him on journeys on weekends and school holidays.
regards
mick
bowser:
Rikki-UK:
If it only for trailer braking, why did my KM 16 tonner have one?Was handy though for pulling it on a touch for the first twenty minutes of driving to warm the drums up, saved cleaning the windscreen with my nose if I had to even look at the footbrake…
im quite sure i drove a transcon that the dead man worked the front brakes aswell , got to be honest i never saw the point of them myself…
I drove a Freightliner that had something similar, I’m not sure what brakes it operated, but I was under the impression that you used it at traffic lights, junctions etc, instead of pullling the organ stops that operated the brakes.
I could be very wrong of course, the closest I ever got to being shown how to drive it was an American telling not to use the clutch to change gear, but to “float” the changes.
panic lever!
regards
mick
good man mick …keep the memories alive
lol mick where did that one come from never heard that for ages
i didnt know that …
Rikki-UK:
If it only for trailer braking, why did my KM 16 tonner have one?Was handy though for pulling it on a touch for the first twenty minutes of driving to warm the drums up, saved cleaning the windscreen with my nose if I had to even look at the footbrake…
I think your KM would have been the Clayton Dewandre type
bogieman:
ok we all got it but what was the term for itp**** lever same again £10 to fav charity
Go on I’ll give it a go
Panic Lever.
Please give the £10 to the Gay and Lesbian pigmy truck drivers immigration fund. Helping Gay and Lesbian Pigmys get the VISA’s they need to realise thier dream of driving trucks in Europe.
They are discriminated against in Africa as the lower steps of trucks are removed to improve ground clearance on the rough roads, so many are unable to work.
no … was on the column in the same place the MK had them… 
i was a hgv mechanic for twenty years and have heard drivers call different parts on trucks many names. i can remember one driver phoning in saying his wagon was “yucking” worked it out eventually to it having teeth missing off a half shaft. another one pulled his wagon onto pavement right up to phone box tipped the cab and put the phone next to the engine and asked me what the noise was coming from the engine lol
mick
its the spike…
well they call it that over here mmmm trailor brake /
Where is my tenner? I said Jake brake aka trailer brake, I would like it to go to the SDF
(sammys drinking fund) it’s a charity set up by me to help fund respite in the pub for over worked and under appreciated lorry drivers. All donations greatly appreciated in form of cash or cider.
sammy:
Where is my tenner? I said Jake brake aka trailer brake, I would like it to go to the SDF
(sammys drinking fund) it’s a charity set up by me to help fund respite in the pub for over worked and under appreciated lorry drivers. All donations greatly appreciated in form of cash or cider.
You don’t win a tenner. A Jake brake is an engine / exhaust brake. Nothing to do with trailer brakes at all.
Rikki-UK:
no … was on the column in the same place the MK had them…
Yes. I meant the same kind of Clayton Dewandre valve, well that is what I had on my KM and on a Dodge K series
Could well be a trailer brake (no surprise that it just applies the trailer brakes) that used to be fitted to Scania 110’s.
I can remember using this to good effect flying up to the roundabouts pulling Chris Hudson trailers to Felixstowe & while it was doing its job i would be changing down ready to knock it off just prior to entry and away you go. (no need to touch the service brakes)
You could really get the trailer tire’s smoking while doing this mind 