I drive a Isuzu and it is crap awful to drive get a Daf , Merc or any thing 
rob22888:
What sort of work are they going to be used for? I’ve driven a Fuso & think they are god awful contraptions, uncomfortable cramped cab with car handbrake. I suppose they are a decent enough tool for a shortish driver on local run around work with light loads, but not a lot else.Get a DAF LF or Iveco Eurocargo.
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Last place I worked, we had a 7.5t Mitsibushi Fuso.
God awful designs, japanese gear box configuration means if you swap from a car/van or lorry means you’ve got to engage brain for 5 mins to get gear order right.
Parts extremely expensive they use Merc in East Anglia, so must be same across country. Mirrors stick out miles expect to lose them on the nearside if you have to get close to the hedge because you’re pushed over and you will smash them, before they fold in! One driver where we worked (we had to go through narrow lanes to our yard) went through 7 mirrors in a week. At £45 a pop…big money for a simple mirror in essence and that weren’t heated either!!!
I never hit one and neither did just one other of our drivers but the rest had incidents like that poor driver. But I knew my personal record was more luck than judgement in all honesty.
As i’d hold my line in the lane as if I was driving the low loader, so the locals most probably thought I was a ■■■■■ But I couldn’t see the point of letting people push me in the hedge to smash mirrors when they could wait 20 seconds until you got back to the wider part of the road. If they got to the narrow part first I’d let them through to not clash before someone accuses me of bully boy driving 
That driver who lost 7 mirrors, wasn’t a risk taker or speeder. He was nervous yes, but he was an older driver who’d been away from driving for a while. However he would usually hold/defend his own position on the road 95% of the time, so I know it wasn’t because of his driving style entirely. Knowing all the kamikazee local car drivers and their attitude towards us as a company, I know he would have swerved to avoid hitting them if they forced their way through, no way it wasn’t his fault all of the time.
Have notrious engine limp home problems that are inherent defects that no-one wants to sort out at the dealerships. One of a few forums that speak of it:
arbtalk.co.uk/forum/arb-trucks/7 … olved.html
Fuel filters play up a lot and seem to say they are constantly full up with water after being changed a few weeks before.
Gearboxes can have a lot of problem with providing torque with a decent load (not overloaded) 
Brakes, you may as well deploy your trousers out the window as windsocks, they would slow you down quicker than the Fuso’s brakes ever would, even with a light low…let along your full legal payload. Definitely need to keep your wits with you driving one of these and plan miles ahead of where you will have to break and I ain’t a formula one driver.
Heaps of ■■■■ with my limited use of them. Require a lot of attention to keep on road without really being used that much as a hard plant going vehicle.
Definitely go with a DAF 1st 
or an Iveco 2nd 
!
C
I took our new Isuzu out today on a couple of local loads (saves me working tomorrow on my birthday 
) and it drove alright. Brakes were good enough, engine brake was alright, not quite as good as the old one but that was a 4litre, the new one is a 3.
Seems quiet enough for what is really a heavy van and carries 4t legally now the sideguards are off. Yes a Daf would be more comfortable but we’d get a crap payload and it was quoted as being over £10k dearer for something that will only do a few miles a day.
Seating position is nice and high, no kerb mirror which I thought was law now?
We’ve been told we can remove the rear underrun bar which aswell as bumping up the payload, means less faffing about cleaning load residue off of it.
We had slightly lower dropsides because normal 7.5t tippers are easy to overload. Getting quotes for onboard weigher now.
Best of luck with it Muckaway hope your boss has bought a rare properly put together one!
Strip the ■■■■■■ light, hopefully it’ll earn its money and pull the skin off a rice pudding then!
Glad you got your birthday off, no-one should have to work them! 
Hope you have a good one!
C
Muckaway:
I took our new Isuzu out today on a couple of local loads (saves me working tomorrow on my birthday
Seems quiet enough for what is really a heavy van and carries 4t legally now the sideguards are off. Yes a Daf would be more comfortable but we’d get a crap payload and it was quoted as being over £10k dearer for something that will only do a few miles a day.
Seating position is nice and high, no kerb mirror which I thought was law now?
We’ve been told we can remove the rear underrun bar which aswell as bumping up the payload, means less faffing about cleaning load residue off of it.
We had slightly lower dropsides because normal 7.5t tippers are easy to overload. Getting quotes for onboard weigher now.
7.5 ton NQRs don’t need mirrors like you have on other truck due to the door window height, so curb mirror N/A on them. Neither dose a blind mirror.
Cheers Welly
Cheers Welly, I shall wonder no more.
The new wagon has been a bit of a lucky charm, as small loads and narrow access jobs like private cottages, period houses (we are based in Woodstock don’t you know ) had gone really quiet. New lorry arrives and the work’s picked up again.
The old one was destined for a trip to the sun but a local sand and ballast supplier with an old Leyland Daf has bought it to “do up” as he doubts his lorry will pass another MOT. That was the reason we replaced it though.