CORK
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- Location
- East Cork, Ireland
Can we...?
How long should a machine last
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Frankzy
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- Location
- Jamtland, Sweden
Sure training is done on autos (because nearly all new trucks are autos) but I can promise that there is a very heavy emphasis on teaching the correct usage of engine braking, retarder, etc etc.
Sharny dubs
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Definitely not. TV is rubbish and I want to know how long everyone thinks a fendt should last. Sorry it's not about fendts is it......
CORK
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- Location
- East Cork, Ireland
Completely agree, I just wanted to use an opportunity for wit.
I’m a bit sick of hanging around the house.
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
Maybe in Sweden as I should think you have more hills. Round here (Fens) where there’s no hills there’s nothing like that. The local training centre, autos can’t be driven in manual (so you can’t changendown for engine braking) and they aren’t fitted with retarders.
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Delete this post please. Thread just got interesting.
Very few new trucks don't have a manual mode on the gearbox, and a retarder. Very few indeed.
Even fen based trucks leave Norfolk occasionally!
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
Yes, but an awful lot have the manual mode disabled and locked to eco for fuel economy. Just going on the local training school here but they certainly don’t teach any engine braking etc.
puntabrava
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- Location
- Wiltshire
I was once told by a bloke that he had never left the Fens as he feared falling into oblivion at the end of the A1
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
There's an argument there that says brakes are there to be used and are easy to replace during a PM should they need to be. Not used to the point of overheating you still need to be sensible but these drivers that jump on retarders, jakes and exhaust brakes all the time with the engine screaming and claim they never use the brake pedal may be in for a shock if they have to brake hard one day. That's why the automatic systems on the newer trucks use a combination of retarder and brake to slow down.
I don't know if UK fleets lock out manual mode but if they do you need to know how to drive them so it would make sense if the driving schools did the same.
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Foxcover
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That’s @puntabrava’s secret stirrer!!
- Location
- South wales
@Clive knows how expensive that stuff is when used on a fendt so he won’t want to waste it on this thread
CORK
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- Location
- East Cork, Ireland
I didn’t realise there was a link between Fendt ownership and thread lock.....@Clive knows how expensive that stuff is when used on a fendt so he won’t want to waste it on this thread
I say that as a Fendt owner.....! Only 1k hours up here. Should I be looking out for a deal on a pallet quantity if it comes along....?
all thoughts (threads) are connected....
- Location
- Huntingdon, UK
As said, I can only speak for our local training school, but not once did anyone mention engine braking, retarder, exhaust brake etc. I asked how I could drop it down manually once and was told you can't. The only control you had over the box was footbrake, accelerator, and direction.
Our Scania man said 90% of new trucks are locked like this now.
Wellytrack
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It’s such a pity it’s Boxing Day.
Between yesterday’s big nosh up, and today’s leftover’s I’m full up and have no room for a big bowl of schadenfreude, even though I must say the presentation is *chefs kiss* perfect
Between yesterday’s big nosh up, and today’s leftover’s I’m full up and have no room for a big bowl of schadenfreude, even though I must say the presentation is *chefs kiss* perfect
- Location
- South wales
Just hope it never has to go into a dealer for work
