Arla Oakthorpe is still open I was in there twice this last week and it was tighter than normal due to the weighbridge being coned off, The Arla dairy at Hatfield Peverel closed down earlier this month, presumably the milk will now go up to Aylesbury.
the nodding donkey:
I can tell you that the Volvo FM with auto box on a 8 wheeler is about as good as it gets. No need for double drive, that only makes harder work of going around the lanes.
This. As for the rest of the thread, Christ aren’t you all a barrel of laughs. Juddian is rapidly becoming the forums most miserable member! Oy vei 
happysack:
I’ve had an auto for 2 years now. No problems whatsoever. I do a lot of off road, and not just into farm yards. All this pish about needing a manual gearbox is just ■■■■■■■■. Complete [zb] ■■■■■■■■. It just depends whether you know how to drive one properly or not.
Spot on. I find it’s normally the driver that gets the lorry stuck, not the gearbox
The Aylesbury depot uses scania rigids ( auto ) with rear steer & artics are MAN’s ( auto ) with rear steer
The difference with milk tankers to other tankers is they have no baffles for hygiene reasons, so its a live load & you end up doing a Churchill dog impression
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