IVECO Road Train Pic???

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Yeah Real Aussie outback men don't drive pussy European trucks, they drive real cowboy American trucks! :D :D :D

All that aside I do think that road train operators like normal control rather than forward control. It has to do with the drivers position in relation to the steer and the fact that the length of a road train doesn't require the maximising of the loadspace as on European roads.

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Not to mention the fact that it's a lot easier to go to the toilet from a bonneted truck, like a Kenworth. It's pretty common, at least in heavy haulage, for the driver to flick the cruise control on, open the door, hang onto the wheel with one hand, and step outside onto the step for a bit of quick relief. Try doing that out of a cab-over.

Not that I've ever been caught doing such a thing. :angel::angel:

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Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Euro trucks are not popular in road train service. You do see a few Scania and Volvo and the occasional eccentric with an M.A.N. My observations of road train prime movers in recent years in order of popularity are 1-Kenworth, 2-Western Star, 3-Mack. The US power trains proved themselves in this market in the early '60's and have held it by performance and excellence.

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That pretty much sums it up - except you forgot about Freightliner. On our 15000km recently (passed through every state except QLD and NT), the prime movers we saw were about 40% kenworth, 30% western star 20% freightliner, and the remainder mack, scania, volvo, Merc and MAN in about that order.

I am aware they aren't common, but there must be one or 2 that have been used as road train prime movers.

Iveco acquired Magirus-Deutz and International Trucks Australia.

Ben, i work at the Iveco Dandenong plant (contract electrician), i am doing shut down there at the moment, i will have a look around the offices and see what i can find for you. Found a good brochure on the Massif there, 3.0l 175 bhp king cab ute looked ok, just a pity the fronts a bit ugly.:)

Bloody IVECO......:mad:

A mates Dad bought one a couple of years back, an 8 tonne ridgid with the 10 speed box.

It is great up to 5th and then you need to put it in neutral centre and in another movement move the stick neutral right and back to centre and then back to 1st.

This is great when it works, scarey when your doing 60 and it decides to select 1st and not 6th.

There are meant to be safetys built in but after 2 gear boxes and several computers they fitted a red and green LEDs on the dash to show what gate its in and it still stuffs up.

It is not all the time but I know it does it itself and it's not the driver as it has done it to me when I was driving it helping my mate move.

IVECO tell him each time it goes back that it is the only one doing it.:mad:

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Originally Posted by Vern

Ben, i work at the Iveco Dandenong plant (contract electrician), i am doing shut down there at the moment, i will have a look around the offices and see what i can find for you. Found a good brochure on the Massif there, 3.0l 175 bhp king cab ute looked ok, just a pity the fronts a bit ugly.:)

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Cheers! That would be awesome!

So how much do they actually do there? Just the final assembly on trucks shipped from OS?

Full build, from building the chassis's, cabs etc...engines , gearboxes, diffs all get shipped in or built outside.
The chassis material come in (import i think) then goes through a chassis drilling machine, from then on it goes on production line and gets assembled, they do import some bare cabs which get fitted out along the assembly line. So yes they are fully assembled here, they just import some of the cabs.
Engines come in crates, will try gets some photo's for you, they'll only be 5meg from my phone though:(

an all time favorite website, have a dig around in there and you might find much.... addictive beware warning:D

Hank's Truck Pictures Web Site

Ben,

I work for an IVECO Dealer. I'll see what I can find.

Jeez, Ben. You rattled a cage and out of the woodwork came Iveco people. (Please disregard the mixed metaphors there!)

Thinking about it Ben, I don't think I will find a photo of a eurostar as a triple roadtrain as I believe they only had a 105 tonne max rating.

But I may be able to get a double Roadtrain.

Would you be interested in a Stralis?