The cruise control controls are located in separate time zones, but it gets worse … no drinks holder? Criminal design flaw.
Also, the windows wont close if you are moving over 30mph
On the plus side, smooth ride and a nice little red renault plastic thing on the side of the cab.
What’s your favourite/most hated truck and why?
Riz:
The cruise control controls are located in separate time zones, but it gets worse … no drinks holder? Criminal design flaw.Also, the windows wont close if you are moving over 30mph
On the plus side, smooth ride and a nice little red renault plastic thing on the side of the cab.
What’s your favourite/most hated truck and why?
Not a massive fan of them, my employer has a few (out of about 50 trucks) I get one occasionally.
There’s +/- & off/engage under the left side of the stearing wheel. There’s a “waterbottle” holder on the bottom left of the “button console”
Retarder is the “iron bar” closest to the windscreen on the right.
90% of our Feet is Gas Powered Iveco’s, there not bad to drive but when they get older do tend to suffer from the “DAF” random error syndrome.
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Riz:
The cruise control controls are located in separate time zones, but it gets worse … no drinks holder? Criminal design flaw.Also, the windows wont close if you are moving over 30mph
On the plus side, smooth ride and a nice little red renault plastic thing on the side of the cab.
What’s your favourite/most hated truck and why?
Most hated.Renault G290 gutless, uncomfortable, evil handling and even worse braking POS.Piece of junk would be too kind for it.
In my case from memory, for whatever reason, took its last unfortunate driver fatally to his doom, with it, off a motorway bridge.
Knowing the heap from previous experience, after I’d previously told our Dewsbury based fleet engineer to shove it I ain’t driving it after the zb tried to foist it on me again as a replacement spare, while my regular unit was taken for service.Then laughed at his protests when he tried it again the next shift and failed when I told him you’ll get mine when you send something fit for purpose in exchange supported by my guvnor at the time.
Favourites Bedford TM 4400 and DAF 2800 and DAF 95.
Renault trucks indeed.
Carryfast:
Riz:
The cruise control controls are located in separate time zones, but it gets worse … no drinks holder? Criminal design flaw.Also, the windows wont close if you are moving over 30mph
On the plus side, smooth ride and a nice little red renault plastic thing on the side of the cab.
What’s your favourite/most hated truck and why?
Most hated.Renault G290 gutless, uncomfortable, evil handling and even worse braking POS.Piece of junk would be too kind for it.
In my case from memory, for whatever reason, took its last unfortunate driver fatally to his doom, with it, off a motorway bridge.
Knowing the heap from previous experience, after I’d previously told our Dewsbury based fleet engineer to shove it I ain’t driving it after the zb tried to foist it on me again as a replacement spare, while my regular unit was taken for service.Then laughed at his protests when he tried it again the next shift and failed when I told him you’ll get mine when you send something fit for purpose in exchange supported by my guvnor at the time.Favourites Bedford TM 4400 and DAF 2800 and DAF 95.
Renault trucks indeed.
Surely your opinion is moot, having not driven a truck this century. 
Star down under.:
Carryfast:
Riz:
The cruise control controls are located in separate time zones, but it gets worse … no drinks holder? Criminal design flaw.Also, the windows wont close if you are moving over 30mph
On the plus side, smooth ride and a nice little red renault plastic thing on the side of the cab.
What’s your favourite/most hated truck and why?
Most hated.Renault G290 gutless, uncomfortable, evil handling and even worse braking POS.Piece of junk would be too kind for it.
In my case from memory, for whatever reason, took its last unfortunate driver fatally to his doom, with it, off a motorway bridge.
Knowing the heap from previous experience, after I’d previously told our Dewsbury based fleet engineer to shove it I ain’t driving it after the zb tried to foist it on me again as a replacement spare, while my regular unit was taken for service.Then laughed at his protests when he tried it again the next shift and failed when I told him you’ll get mine when you send something fit for purpose in exchange supported by my guvnor at the time.Favourites Bedford TM 4400 and DAF 2800 and DAF 95.
Renault trucks indeed.Surely your opinion is moot, having not driven a truck this century.
Fair point.Before cup holders and cruise control were even there to bother about.
But maybe worth pointing out probably the lowest point in Renault trucks’ history.From memory the thing was actually built in Britain.
Rember 1st time ever got in one coudlnt get in reverse.
Was no other drivers in the yard . So asked in office some manager came out as they do mumbling under his breath calling me everyname under the sun for not being able get a truck in reverse.
He got in couldn’t work it out. So he rang another driver said have select forward 1st.
He never did apologize to me just mumbled why I didn’t know this.
edd1974:
Rember 1st time ever got in one coudlnt get in reverse.
Was no other drivers in the yard . So asked in office some manager came out as they do mumbling under his breath calling me everyname under the sun for not being able get a truck in reverse.
He got in couldn’t work it out. So he rang another driver said have select forward 1st.
He never did apologize to me just mumbled why I didn’t know this.
He’s…
got a point.
Only french car we’ve had were purgoet , they were sweet , Renolt don’t now
Carryfast:
Riz:
What’s your favourite/most hated truck and why?Most hated.Renault G290 gutless, uncomfortable, evil handling and even worse braking POS.Piece of junk would be too kind for it.
In my case from memory, for whatever reason, took its last unfortunate driver fatally to his doom, with it, off a motorway bridge.
Knowing the heap from previous experience, after I’d previously told our Dewsbury based fleet engineer to shove it I ain’t driving it after the zb tried to foist it on me again as a replacement spare, while my regular unit was taken for service.Then laughed at his protests when he tried it again the next shift and failed when I told him you’ll get mine when you send something fit for purpose in exchange supported by my guvnor at the time.Favourites Bedford TM 4400 and DAF 2800 and DAF 95.
Renault trucks indeed.
I owned a Renault 310 with the ‘Transcon’ cab.
Twin bunk, high cab, synchro ZF box, Eminox Stacks,.twin air horns. (Only buy cack like that for my OWN motor not somebody else’s btw 
)…
Excellent tramping motor for it’s time.
2 of my young kids in there, who are now grown up …(allegedlly )
God I feel old. 
I owned a Renault 310 with the ‘Transcon’ cab.
Twin bunk, high cab, synchro ZF box, Eminox Stacks,.twin air horns. (Only buy cack like that for my OWN motor not somebody else’s btw )…
Excellent tramping motor for it’s time.
2 of my young kids in there, who are now grown up …(allegedlly )
God I feel old.
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You forgot to mention the international tramper flags and I thought you were taller than that 
Beau Nydel:
You forgot to mention the international tramper flags and I thought you were taller than that
Those flags were compulsory in those days.
The lad ‘driving it’ my eldest lad Mike, is 6’ 2’’ today.
So pleased his fascination with big trucks wore off…(with a bit of help from me and discouragement for his own good. )
Thing of the past now thankfully but every ERF I’ve ever driven was a bag of s…… Probably didn’t help that they were mostly on their last legs at Leggets at time. Tho the ones with the MAN cab with comfort shift boxes weren’t too bad.
Any daf with those stupid 3/4 sized door windows and an inverted L shaped piece of glass in the doors the meant you couldn’t wind the passenger door window down to get a better view of the mirror as it was behind the non moving glass segment.
You lot don’t know you are born. 
The first truck I ever bought…it was even old THEN in the 80s …60s/70s technology.
AND I left a job to buy it where I drove a brand new F10 Volvo.
It was like coming off a Bentley on to a farm tractor…horrible thing to drive but it was cheap.
robroy:
You lot don’t know you are born.
The first truck I ever bought…it was even old THEN in the 80s …60s/70s technology.
0AND I left a job to buy it where I drove a brand new F10 Volvo.
It was like coming off a Bentley on to a farm tractor…horrible thing to drive but it was cheap.
Which ■■■■■■■■ Eaton box? What have you obscured on top of the grill?
Star down under.:
robroy:
You lot don’t know you are born.
The first truck I ever bought…it was even old THEN in the 80s …60s/70s technology.
0AND I left a job to buy it where I drove a brand new F10 Volvo.
It was like coming off a Bentley on to a farm tractor…horrible thing to drive but it was cheap.Which ■■■■■■■■ Eaton box? What have you obscured on top of the grill?
220/Fuller 9spd/ originally an ICI Middlesborough motor, it said ‘TRAMPER’ can’t remember why I removed it on my pic ,it was ages ago to show somebody else.
robroy:
Star down under.:
robroy:
You lot don’t know you are born.
The first truck I ever bought…it was even old THEN in the 80s …60s/70s technology.
0AND I left a job to buy it where I drove a brand new F10 Volvo.
It was like coming off a Bentley on to a farm tractor…horrible thing to drive but it was cheap.Which ■■■■■■■■ Eaton box? What have you obscured on top of the grill?
220/Fuller 9spd/ originally an ICI Middlesborough motor, it said ‘TRAMPER’ can’t remember why I removed it on my pic ,it was ages ago to show somebody else.
Cheers mate, 14 litre NH?
This vid brings back some (unhappy) memories.
youtu.be/8hKKzOHRTPY?si=yIm_sgn_3kLfguKe
I am a bit taller than the guy in the vid,.so every double de.clutch I used to bang my knee on the steering wheel stalk, and had to bend my neck to see out of top of cab.
The ■■■■ noise, the hard clutch, the stick in a bucket gear lever with 6’’ of play,.the discomfort, the temperamental air operated wipers,…and the main thing the non power steering. 
Then jumping out of the cab walking like Quasimodo for a good 3 minutes.
Star down under.:
robroy:
Star down under.:
robroy:
You lot don’t know you are born.
The first truck I ever bought…it was even old THEN in the 80s …60s/70s technology.
0AND I left a job to buy it where I drove a brand new F10 Volvo.
It was like coming off a Bentley on to a farm tractor…horrible thing to drive but it was cheap.Which ■■■■■■■■ Eaton box? What have you obscured on top of the grill?
220/Fuller 9spd/ originally an ICI Middlesborough motor, it said ‘TRAMPER’ can’t remember why I removed it on my pic ,it was ages ago to show somebody else.
Cheers mate, 14 litre NH?
No, the NH220 was 12(.2) litre 743 cu in. 5 1/8" bore. External fuel lines. Three 2 cylinder heads with 4 head bolts per cylinder.
Thanks Cav, I’d forgotten about the smaller forerunner to the 14 litre. It speaks volumes about the initial design when you consider the final iteration, N14+, was rated at 525hp. Many operators were relatively reliability getting 600 or more horses, albeit not factory approved, from N14s. They did have a propensity for the liners to chatter, at their limits.
