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Best combination rig I ever drove
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YOU RECENTLY ran an interesting article about drums vs discs ( CM 25 August). Perhaps you would be interested in my experience.
I have been driving artics for over 50 years, starting with a 1949 Bedford Scammell eight-tonner. I have now driven somewhere between four-and-a-half and five million miles.
My present vehicle is a 40tonne ERF EC14 (1997) on drums with a Jake brake, which I bought secondhand four years ago. In June this year I bought, off -the-shelf,a new Montracon curtain-sided trailer, fitted with Arvin Mentor axles and disc brakes. So, the combination is a nearly nine-year-old tractor and ABS, and a four-month-old trailer and EBS.
This is proving to be the smoothest and best balanced system I have ever experienced under all conditions, loaded and empty.What the long-term resulk will be I do not. know, and I will probably not work long enough to find out. But at the moment. I have the hest combination ever.
I would further add that on phoning Arvin Mentor and speaking to a Mr Pete O'Connor, I received free of charge complete workshop manuals and two maintenance videos.They were most helpful.
Edward Slade Caine, Wiltshire