andrew.s:
HINO…
i so so agree with this … flipping hino’s
That Leyland DAF 4 tonner the forces had a while back.
Switchgear and gearstick from a metro / sherpa.
Pile of junk take an MK / TM over it anytime.
My 1st 7.5t was a cargo 0809 with no power steering, spring clutch, 4 gears, sleeper pod which was a pod with a shelf over the drivers head. Oh and i used to do 20 drops a day… I would have killed for a Volvo FLC.
AWD 
BradCarTransporter:
Is there a truck worse to drive, than a Volvo FL6 180 ■■?
Moxy or Bell dumptrucks.
I so wanted to say my DAF 1900 was worse than the FL6 but having driven bo for the same company way back in 1999 the DAF was the better truck! Except for the sore knuckles achieved by not being careful when selecting 1st 3rd and 5th, (the same in any old DAF)
How about the Leyland which if you weren’t careful releasing the handbrake you knipped the skin on your palms just below your fingers!
Canters - like riding on a board and a cab that you rapidly lose the will to live in.
Socketset:
Canters - like riding on a board and a cab that you rapidly lose the will to live in.
And if you’re more than 5’ tall you smack your head off the door frame every time you get in and out.
Try anything built by IVECO when on farm work. If your not chasing behind yourself picking up all the cheap plastic stuff its made from that keeps vibrating off, your falling asleep watching all the fancy yellow lights keep flashing on the dash board like watching sheep jumping fences (although I now know when service time is due, as I will have 5 warning lights on permanent as a minimum) . And if you so much as park with a drive axle on a cabbage leaf your stuck there until someone drags you off.
Not a truck, but the LDV Convoy has to get near the top of the list of horrid drives. Rock hard seats, steering that had more play than a football season, windows that wouldn’t stay up, and on ours the welds that held the seat broke so if you turned right the seat toppled over with you in it, even with a seatbelt on! It’s only good bit, was the Transit turbo engine in the front.
Wasn’t unhappy when the boss blew it up!
erfguy:
Oh dear dont know what the original poster would have thought of a 50s Foden 8 wheeler no Power steering,
no adjustment on the seat,I could go on but!!!. Kid you dont know your born. Eddie.
Had a couple of Foden 8 leggers on Yardley, no power steer, one had a twelve speed and the other a four. Ya don’t steer 'em, you aim it at a a corner.
Axor, any model, simple.
Snarley:
Axor, any model, simple.
We run an all Mercedes fleet. Although the axor gives me lower back pain after any more than 3 hours at the wheel, I’d still choose one any day over the FL6.
dew:
Not a truck, but the LDV Convoy has to get near the top of the list of horrid drives. Rock hard seats, steering that had more play than a football season, windows that wouldn’t stay up, and on ours the welds that held the seat broke so if you turned right the seat toppled over with you in it, even with a seatbelt on! It’s only good bit, was the Transit turbo engine in the front.Wasn’t unhappy when the boss blew it up!
You’ve never had the misfortune to drive a LDV Maxus then?
And those Mitsi/Isuzu’s, have you ever been a passenger in one? The gap between the seat back and the base must be about 6 ins, backache city…
Isuzu forward. I would sooner have had one of our old FL6 220 than the brand new forward.
SuffolkLad:
dew:
Not a truck, but the LDV Convoy has to get near the top of the list of horrid drives. Rock hard seats, steering that had more play than a football season, windows that wouldn’t stay up, and on ours the welds that held the seat broke so if you turned right the seat toppled over with you in it, even with a seatbelt on! It’s only good bit, was the Transit turbo engine in the front.Wasn’t unhappy when the boss blew it up!
You’ve never had the misfortune to drive a LDV Maxus then?
And those Mitsi/Isuzu’s, have you ever been a passenger in one? The gap between the seat back and the base must be about 6 ins, backache city…
They can’t have been worse than the Convoy they replaced, simply as making a worse vehicle was physically impossible!!!
Yeah, I didn’t think the Maxus was too bad. If you could look past the instrument binnacle in the middle of the dashboard and the body panels made of tin foil I thought it was a reasonably comfortable drive with a decent bit of poke. Convoy was utter crap as someone else has said WTF was that play on the steering wheel about.
Off topic but my top pick 3.5T van is still the Renault Master prior to the current new model.
Own Account Driver:
Yeah, I didn’t think the Maxus was too bad. If you could look past the instrument binnacle in the middle of the dashboard and the body panels made of tin foil I thought it was a reasonably comfortable drive with a decent bit of poke. Convoy was utter crap as someone else has said WTF was that play on the steering wheel about.Off topic but my top pick 3.5T van is still the Renault Master prior to the current new model.
Seriously? Renault. IMO the Transit rules the 3.5 Tonne van segment, I haven’t driven anything else that’s actually put thought to the driver and handled as well as a dual wheeled Transit does, I can throw them around at pretty much the speed I can a car!
The convoy had a good 15-20 degrees of steering wheel movment without a response from the front end of the van, I don’t know if was just the hell hole R-reg we had, or a general thing for the Convoy, but it was terrible after getting out of a Mk5 Transit, which was basic but was a very nice drive once you’d got used to it.
BradCarTransporter:
Is there a truck worse to drive, than a Volvo FL6 180 ■■?
FORD Cargo (Not the Iveco model).