Truck drivers

[Slyer]

While on a trip to palmy I noticed that truck drivers sometimes do a quick right-indicate at each other, is this some sort of wave?

[trustme]

While on a trip to palmy I noticed that truck drivers sometimes do a quick right-indicate at each other, is this some sort of wave?

Yup, used mainly at night, some of them are lit up like a xmas tree with non stop winkin & blinkin at every other truck.

[Quasievil]

Not driving anymore but sometimes you just got to use them, example south bound into Orewa, I was usually loaded big ie 40 + MT (thats a fuck load of weight) I would come into that last hill in the low box but the steepness would just over rev the engine, the brakes where an option but not for the whole hill, I would use full Jakes (thinking sorry folks) but fuck, better that than a 40 MT + Kenworth in someones front lawn eh.

[xwhatsit]

Magnetic brakes, and water flow brakes seem to be thin on the ground in NZ.

Was there ever a diesel-electric truck built? Like the locomotives? Diesel engine spinning a generator, fed to electric motors on the wheels. Electric motors give lots of torque as we know, no need for a squillion-gear gearbox. Also, the relevant bit, is they have a regenerative brake (in addition to normal brakes), used like an exhaust brake. Turn that on, uses the electric motors as generators, charges a big battery at the same time to supplement the diesel generator.

Be nice and quiet. Surely somebody's tried this on a truck?

[trustme]

not driving anymore but sometimes you just got to use them, example south bound into orewa, i was usually loaded big ie 40 + mt (thats a fuck load of weight) i would come into that last hill in the low box but the steepness would just over rev the engine, the brakes where an option but not for the whole hill, i would use full jakes (thinking sorry folks) but fuck, better that than a 40 mt + kenworth in someones front lawn eh.

exactly.!!!

[Timber020]

I use my exhaust brakes all the time around town, when I have to get my wheel brakes done it often costs over 2k, so I use the exhaust as much as I can. But mine arent loud like some. I drove an old ERF that used to make a racket when they were set to full.

[Slyer]

Yup, used mainly at night, some of them are lit up like a xmas tree with non stop winkin & blinkin at every other truck.

We started doing it to trucks in our station wagon and got a few responses! Stoked

[tri boy]

Was there ever a diesel-electric truck built? Like the locomotives? Diesel engine spinning a generator, fed to electric motors on the wheels. Electric motors give lots of torque as we know, no need for a squillion-gear gearbox. Also, the relevant bit, is they have a regenerative brake (in addition to normal brakes), used like an exhaust brake. Turn that on, uses the electric motors as generators, charges a big battery at the same time to supplement the diesel generator.

Be nice and quiet. Surely somebody's tried this on a truck?

Very common on Haulpaks, (Komatsu mining dump trucks).
Great way to control 200tonnes+ on a steep decent, but a very expensive arrangement, that also needs alot of space for contol boxes, and large motors on wheel assy's. Google Komatsu dump trucks.
Awsome to turn a tiny dial on a dash that controls such force.

[trustme]

Some years ago in a misguided attempt to train up a driver I took Bro long haul truckin.
Heading north from Wgtn, at the top of that long down hill run to Waitahanui just south of Taupo , I suggest to Bro that he might want to change down a gear or 2 & use the Jake Brake. Bro ever anxious to please hits the Jake , misses the gear & stalls the motor. As we gather speed down the hill there is a panicky voice over the whistle of the wind
" What's happened, I got no steering "
" You've stalled, start the motor quick before you kill us both, you fucking moron "
It was an interesting trip , my nerves have never been the same.
Bro was never going to drive large trucks as long as his arse pointed down, he went shortly after

[Quasievil]

Some years ago in a misguided attempt to train up a driver I took Bro long haul truckin.
Heading north from Wgtn, at the top of that long down hill run to Waitahanui just south of Taupo , I suggest to Bro that he might want to change down a gear or 2 & use the Jake Brake. Bro ever anxious to please hits the Jake , misses the gear & stalls the motor. As we gather speed down the hill there is a panicky voice over the whistle of the wind
" What's happened, I got no steering "
" You've stalled, start the motor quick before you kill us both, you fucking moron "
It was an interesting trip , my nerves have never been the same.
Bro was never going to drive large trucks as long as his arse pointed down, he went shortly after

Fuck that shit.
Its a interesting thing as to how people percive trucks, most unfortunetly dont have a clue about what the dynamics involved are.

[sinfull]

Was a period there where there was a shortage of drivers and every man jack was let behind the wheel, trucks were tipping over all over the place but the cowboys seem to have thinned out again !
Have to say i miss driving, ok ok not !!!! (wow that was a short reminiss)