I've always loved ERFs, even as a kid i was fascinated by them and hoped i would get to drive them one day. So when i passed my test at the tender age of 21 (minimum at the time) and got my first job with a chilled distribution firm that had a brand new fleet of ECs ( T regs), i was over the moon. Yes they were plain, basic and had no frills but they were a damn good wagon. They had plenty power too, pulled like a train when fully laden and there weren't many that could compete in that department. I would love the chance to drive one again. Great memories of a great wagon. 👍
I wonder how many people were lucky enough to watch this and see a vehicle they have fond memories of.. personally I was sat with fingers crossed hoping to see A467WFW. It was a trim steer and could get stuck on a crisp bag ..To the best of my knowledge it came from Lincoln works and that became my regular truck while on general haulage for K&M hauliers @ watnall aerodrome near notts . I was in my early 20,s at the time and I’m now in my 50,s so I supposed will have to make do with the couple of photos I have.
Hand on heart my EC14 was the best truck I have ever driven/worked. My boss warned me she was going, but I hung on to her a few yrs longer than he wanted. I came in one Mon to find my gear all in a box in the office an she was gone with a Volvo sitting in her place.... I resigned on the spot. That was 10yrs ago now & I drive a new FH now but still long for that old wagon. They just had that summat about them ERFs.
Sadly missed. I learnt to drive hgv's in an EC10. Then 1st truck I drove after was an EC13. Nothing can beat that raw bark that ERF produced. Yes it was a tiring truck to drive, but there was no better feeling keeping the cummins singing with the window open.
We bought our last ERF from Beeches Garage in stafford 1988 and the old salesman spent most of his life at Gardner's . He reluctantly specified a Cummins for us but told us of an interesting incident when Rolls Royce requested a Gardner 180 for testing purposes . A month later , RR said that although the Gardner was producing its stated horse power , there was a piston missing !
Majority of these beasts are still fighting on in malta I was there 2 weeks ago and seen so many of them still battling around the island earning a living great British workmanship believe in ourselfs
So utterly devastating that not one person in the UK could see potential in ERF Its the same as Eddie Stobart now sold to the Germans and already sightings of the distinctive trucks are now mainly tractor units hauling other company's trailers .
The reason we have no cv building industry in UK is because UK drivers and operators thought Volvo, Scania, MB (yes, even FIAT!) etc., were cool! Do not spare a tear for the UK haulage industry. It was the author of it's own downfall.
@Nichen Fauster In a way yes!European truck makers built what you wanted,the british industies attitude was you,ll have what we build!!By the time they listened it was sadly game over!!
very sad! we've still got 2 ERF EC6s, i know theyre not really proper big trucks, but still great old motors. up until last year we had a J reg E8 6 wheeler, but replaced it with a DAF cf 75 its not a patch on the ole ERFs though!
we got lot's of them down here in Zimbabwe ,own an e10 325 rigid with an L10 myself ,they run just fine KEEP THEM COMING!!!!! we really apreciate ,no problems with emissions e.t.c. this side
i may be wrong, i may be hated for this but i fuckin hate daf and man because the stopped these brands from carrying on. most people say these trucks where one/the best trucks out there. I understand that they may have gone anyway but atleast we could have carryed them on. And not i have something for you. Daf and Man bought these brands for the selling part, they never wanted to carry these brands on all they wanted was the share in customers. im angry at daf and man but sometimes we have to move on...
parked up sandbach at the spiritual home of my ecx, found this video, so sad to see them go but nice to see a pic of the sister ec i drove, the white ec on the roundabout coming out of dover it seems, i travelled to europe in mine, & still go in my old girl, the ecx! best drives ive had are in erfs! & ive drove nearly every other make inc atkis!
haha totally agree you will see my EC14 in this vid ( arnold jones one ) she is ALOT tidier now tho im lit up and chromed up .. an still sailing past the all flash no cash boys haha love it ! 17 yr old mototr pissing all over ya new V8
i know its very sad :( and yes i went to sandbach to find any history on them, the factory at sandbach has been knocked down and now there is a sainsburys supermarket in its place and the middlewhich one is also gone :(
Great Video, Excellent Song, as for the Truck, Hated the Bloody things, could never get the hang of the Gearbox, (Twin Splitter) and just when i thought i had it would come and Bite me on my Arse, Damn things Leaked like a Sive, Noisy as Hell, wasn"t there Cab made of Fibreglass or something, the Bed was Comfy on nights out though but you needed a good nights sleep to be fresh for the next days battle with the thing. Sorry, give me something Swedish anyday.
I will not trade my B series for nothing! I have driven all sorts of trucks and some are bad some are good. ERF had a certain something about them plus i was brought up with them. They were in their prime days "the bees knees" Well most drivers thought anyways. Long live the ERF name!
I liked my EC10,twin split was great if you had the gumption to learn how to use it properly,light as a feather and great for the tanker work I did. sure F16's etc were there,but cheap cheerful British ERF's made me over the years an awful lot of money.
@@eyeballpaul3276 fuck all to do with the EU!! It was OUR government that forced them out of business during the two self inflicted recessions of the 80`s. If you remember we had Atkinson, Foden, Leyland, Albion etc etc. All forced into closure by that bitch Thatcher!!
@@tonycalow708 to right mate Maggie boom and bust any thing and everything she sold off if she could have got hold of the crown jewels she'd have flogged them as well then they call it the concervative party she didn't concern fck all only for her own ilk
I worked for Charlie Butt for a number of years and it was ERF or nothing the Eaton twin splitter scared the wide boys off ! gaffers truck they used to be called.
Sadly eric vick had to sell up end off april as he could not compete with today’s rates and work ,jacksons I delivered ad blue to them last year they got a pm Rees of Barry erf in the yard all his trucks are erfs
Very shortsighted to have sold ERF to MAN same story as Leyand cars hived off to BMW and Volkswagon . One day (today) these brands would be earning money for the nation, now that we are out of Europe .
as iv always said if i every get rich enough i will buy erf off man, and restart the ec series but better, same engine, same gearbox just a bit better in some areas
@transitcoffin says a bloke whos never driven an ERF but listened to the truckstop lawyers in the bar at pop2000.. I would,nt piss on a Scania if it was on fire, damn horrid truck.. why guys get a hard on about them i,ll never know. My FH is just about the nearest thing I driven that even comes close. My ol EC used to piss all over the all flash no cash cowboys on the run to Brum every nite. Used to make me chuckle every lit up , chromed up swede I sailed by .
Great truck e sereis with perkins eagle & eaton twin splitter driving with john mitchell notmanydrivers would have a clue now bring back the old days with real drivers
I agree . The eaton twin splitter gearbox was brilliant wasn't it .When i first started driving HGVs i cut my teeth in a B series ERF with a spicer gearbox i remember crashing and crunching that box for a little while till i got used to it. Great memories.
@transitcoffin Well shows you how good of driver you are then a SHIT ONE! my mate mr price jones (M648 MVP) has a 16 year old erf ec14 that goes to work every day and shes been round the clock 3 times shes still going very strong! id like to see a daf do that tbh people who say there shit ONLY SAY IT BECAUSE THEY CANT DRIVE THEM! a very true fact!
@transitcoffin Nope you drove a fleet spec shopping trolley not a real ERF. I piloted a tescos 310hp P cab scanny for a while.. now that thing could,nt pull your foreskin back. Same can be said for the Topline V8,s today. Even our worn out MANs piss past them. As I,ve said before the older spec FH is as near as damn it the nearest thing I driven that could give my ol EC14 Olympic a run for its money. DAF is nothin but an accountants motor , built to a cost, an it shows.
@@ralphralefeta1179 Paccer owned Foden for sometime before they took over DAF. DAF owned Leyland truck plant who was a modern plant so Paccer moved the manufacturing of Foden to Leyland. The numbers of Fodens been built was by this time small and a limited range Paccar stopped making the Fodens......A sad day
Not very well put together in my experiences of driving them interior was shocking the doors used to fall off But they had character sounded mint and miss driving them now These new automated piles of crap we have to drive now are knowhere near
@cmscania1971 Whats everyones hard on with Scania ? I,ve had 4 over the years & never rated one of em. Yeah I cut my teeth on ERF back when we had real drivers & not just steering wheel attendants we got now. I gotta FH & that knocks the spots of any scania I,ve ever driven. One thing wrong with it tho is the badge on the front. If it said ERF I,d be happy. I agree this Country needs to sort its shit out & start beliving in itself , WHY THE FUCK cant we make a truck anymore??
@transitcoffin My sisters car says Mercedes on the bonnet.. but its a shitty A class not an AMG SLK. Sainsburys at Charlton are using MAN and DAF right now.. MAN being the Company which bought out ERF. There are a fair few TGA cabbed ERF knocking about. The point I,m makin is.. WHY THE FUCK dont we make fuck all no more ?? As soon as summat has made in UK on it.. the nay sayers swing into action slaggin it off.. then sit an ruffle thier Daily Mail whinging about the state of the Country.
Really is no wonder ERF dont exist anymore. Abysmal build quality using bits of Gardner, Rolls, Cummins, Rockwell, Eaton and the god awful twin splitter. These were always the Aldi or Lidl end of the market and through my years of driving all over Europe i never encounterd ANYONE inspiring to own/drive one! My old F16 470 was the dogs danglies at the time and could still hold its own in the hills of Spain even amongst the current competition, something that could never be said of Brit rubbish..
Cant call yourself a Truck Driver unless you have experianced Constant mesh & an Eaton box. All this i shift etc bollocks just makes you a steering wheel atendant.. Honest.. look at what you have to do nowadays to get your wagon from A to B. Steer the fuckin thing & thats it.
There was a company in the Scottish Borders ran a fleet of Black ones for 2 generations. Swore by them.. Then one day the owner drove a Scania..... about 2 years later the only ERF's left were an A and B series that he kept for nostalgic reasons.. Personally I thought they were out dated, the build quality was bad, and suffered from poor quality and under funded R and D.
@oscarfish38 MAN are shit as well all plastic like iveco fall to bits anyway your happy with erf/man good luck to you but if you was to cut me in half it will say SCANIA and allways will do i love SCANIA a far more strong truck on the road o and by the way i oissed all ove ran erf this afternoon just wish you was in my cab to see it and i thought of you at the time :)
Plastic cabs with poor fitting doors and panelwork, a mish mash of engines and gearboxes , none of them specifically mated to each other and a myriad of various other components inc poor interiors sealed ERF's fate. The likes of Volvo and Scania were always a world apart. Given the choice of a Swedish truck and a brit ERF no driver would want the plastic one. They only have themselves to blame as there was so little research and developement..
Draxindustries1 thats your opinion.Erf could match Volvo.When i worked in Africa the Erfs always made it home .Volvo most of the time we had to fly out mechanics
I know where you’re coming from ‘ I drove my first Artic in 1975 it was an ERF with a 180 Gardner ‘ it was cold in winter 🥶 and bloody hot 🥵 in summer ‘ but it never broke down ‘ after a year I was given an A series with a 240 Gardner, went like a train 🚂 and so reliable ‘ great sound as well ‘ then I had a B series with the same Engine 240 Gardner. But as you say ‘ they couldn’t compete with the foreign trucks coming on to the market ‘ nice seats , heaters, radios you could hear 👂 etc But I’m still sad to see the demise of British trucks “ the designers never kept up with other firms ‘ but apart from that “ some nice memories. Thanks 🙏
@CUMMINSM11 i have driven erf seddon atkinson and am sorry your very much wrong i can drive all hgv this is my opinion i hated them very much sorry if you dont like modern trucke i do today i drive fh12 volvo very nice truck indeed as for erf best thing that happend they have gone so get your facts right dont judge me on what i can drive i driven crash boxes as well so live with other peoples opinion's end of
I've always loved ERFs, even as a kid i was fascinated by them and hoped i would get to drive them one day. So when i passed my test at the tender age of 21 (minimum at the time) and got my first job with a chilled distribution firm that had a brand new fleet of ECs ( T regs), i was over the moon. Yes they were plain, basic and had no frills but they were a damn good wagon. They had plenty power too, pulled like a train when fully laden and there weren't many that could compete in that department. I would love the chance to drive one again. Great memories of a great wagon. 👍
They may of stopped production but they are still on they roads and still will be for many years to come.
I wonder how many people were lucky enough to watch this and see a vehicle they have fond memories of.. personally I was sat with fingers crossed hoping to see A467WFW. It was a trim steer and could get stuck on a crisp bag ..To the best of my knowledge it came from Lincoln works and that became my regular truck while on general haulage for K&M hauliers @ watnall aerodrome near notts . I was in my early 20,s at the time and I’m now in my 50,s so I supposed will have to make do with the couple of photos I have.
Hand on heart my EC14 was the best truck I have ever driven/worked. My boss warned me she was going, but I hung on to her a few yrs longer than he wanted. I came in one Mon to find my gear all in a box in the office an she was gone with a Volvo sitting in her place.... I resigned on the spot. That was 10yrs ago now & I drive a new FH now but still long for that old wagon. They just had that summat about them ERFs.
Used to drive one of the rare EC15 s with the Olympic cab. 14.9 litre cat engine coupled to the 16 speed Eaton box.1997 best truck I have driven
Sadly missed. I learnt to drive hgv's in an EC10. Then 1st truck I drove after was an EC13. Nothing can beat that raw bark that ERF produced. Yes it was a tiring truck to drive, but there was no better feeling keeping the cummins singing with the window open.
We bought our last ERF from Beeches Garage in stafford 1988 and the old salesman spent most of his life at Gardner's . He reluctantly specified a Cummins for us but told us of an interesting incident when Rolls Royce requested a Gardner 180 for testing purposes . A month later , RR said that although the Gardner was producing its stated horse power , there was a piston missing !
first erf was a c series...fond memories....the king is dead... long live the king!!!!!
ERF for ever. Especially the E series. Built to last.
ERF.
THE best truck ever built!!
Majority of these beasts are still fighting on in malta I was there 2 weeks ago and seen so many of them still battling around the island earning a living great British workmanship believe in ourselfs
Sounds like a similar problem over here in Australia it's very disappointing when a good company like that goes out of business
So utterly devastating that not one person in the UK could see potential in ERF Its the same as Eddie Stobart now sold to the Germans and already sightings of the distinctive trucks are now mainly tractor units hauling other company's trailers .
The UK problem - doesn't value what it has, until it's sold off to a foreign company.
The reason we have no cv building industry in UK is because UK drivers and operators thought Volvo, Scania, MB (yes, even FIAT!) etc., were cool! Do not spare a tear for the UK haulage industry. It was the author of it's own downfall.
@Nichen Fauster spot on mate!
@Nichen Fauster In a way yes!European truck makers built what you wanted,the british industies attitude was you,ll have what we build!!By the time they listened it was sadly game over!!
very sad! we've still got 2 ERF EC6s, i know theyre not really proper big trucks, but still great old motors. up until last year we had a J reg E8 6 wheeler, but replaced it with a DAF cf 75 its not a patch on the ole ERFs though!
we got lot's of them down here in Zimbabwe ,own an e10 325 rigid with an L10 myself ,they run just fine KEEP THEM COMING!!!!! we really apreciate ,no problems with emissions e.t.c. this side
Are you looking for any more of these trucks?
clifford marshall for the right price yes...
Thats great bro..are they still running well?
i may be wrong, i may be hated for this but i fuckin hate daf and man because the stopped these brands from carrying on. most people say these trucks where one/the best trucks out there. I understand that they may have gone anyway but atleast we could have carryed them on. And not i have something for you. Daf and Man bought these brands for the selling part, they never wanted to carry these brands on all they wanted was the share in customers. im angry at daf and man but sometimes we have to move on...
ItzChaza I completely agree with you Daf ruined Foden and Man ruined ERF I just don't understand why they had to get rid of the superior names
It was a real tragedy for Britain the day ERF closed its doors for the last time! I have many fond Happy and memories of driving ERF
Long Live The Best of British Engineering!!!
Another excellent video!
parked up sandbach at the spiritual home of my ecx, found this video, so sad to see them go but nice to see a pic of the sister ec i drove, the white ec on the roundabout coming out of dover it seems, i travelled to europe in mine, & still go in my old girl, the ecx! best drives ive had are in erfs! & ive drove nearly every other make inc atkis!
One scanny fanny watched this. LoL
thank u we just bought 2 ecxs yesterday we have 4 EC and 2 ecxs ohh and a B series and used 2 have a A series its the green 1 for sale in the window
i used to drive a n reg ec 10 for sammy jones of aldridge pulling containers ,it never missed a beat and would out pull newer trucks on hills
Saw an erf ec 10 round brownhills/cannock the other day it was a rusty red colour
haha totally agree you will see my EC14 in this vid ( arnold jones one ) she is ALOT tidier now tho im lit up and chromed up .. an still sailing past the all flash no cash boys haha love it ! 17 yr old mototr pissing all over ya new V8
i know its very sad :( and yes i went to sandbach to find any history on them, the factory at sandbach has been knocked down and now there is a sainsburys supermarket in its place and the middlewhich one is also gone :(
I had a erf ec14 250 Cummings twin speed splitter lovely tool tony
Great Video, Excellent Song, as for the Truck, Hated the Bloody things, could never get the hang of the Gearbox, (Twin Splitter) and just when i thought i had it would come and Bite me on my Arse, Damn things Leaked like a Sive, Noisy as Hell, wasn"t there Cab made of Fibreglass or something, the Bed was Comfy on nights out though but you needed a good nights sleep to be fresh for the next days battle with the thing. Sorry, give me something Swedish anyday.
Por qué dejó de producirse ese gran camión???
when did ERF stop making trucks
Really pissed I wont get behind the wheel of one again. Unless you worked one you just dont understand.
Belting vid nice one mate but just so so sad........:-(
I will not trade my B series for nothing! I have driven all sorts of trucks and some are bad some are good. ERF had a certain something about them plus i was brought up with them. They were in their prime days "the bees knees" Well most drivers thought anyways. Long live the ERF name!
Beautiful truck, you can shove your Volvo and its i.shift where the Sun dont shine. ill have the ERF with the Eaton twin splitter every time.
I liked my EC10,twin split was great if you had the gumption to learn how to use it properly,light as a feather and great for the tanker work I did.
sure F16's etc were there,but cheap cheerful British ERF's made me over the years an awful lot of money.
Sad to see them die, I built a fair few ERF chassis in my time at Sandbach, worked on some here in Sydney. Good iron, good people, WTF happened?
the EU fucked everything good in this country
@@eyeballpaul3276 fuck all to do with the EU!!
It was OUR government that forced them out of business during the two self inflicted recessions of the 80`s.
If you remember we had Atkinson, Foden, Leyland, Albion etc etc.
All forced into closure by that bitch Thatcher!!
@@tonycalow708 to right mate Maggie boom and bust any thing and everything she sold off if she could have got hold of the crown jewels she'd have flogged them as well then they call it the concervative party she didn't concern fck all only for her own ilk
Yup Maggie , "we are a service economist " yes because she F d up manufacturing .
@alex9684 is he what company is it
I worked for Charlie Butt for a number of years and it was ERF or nothing the Eaton twin splitter scared the wide boys off ! gaffers truck they used to be called.
Like a lot of British stuff at the time they became an assembly of other peoples parts and personally I don't think that works so well.
Drove erf r reg brand new great trucks
Sadly eric vick had to sell up end off april as he could not compete with today’s rates and work ,jacksons I delivered ad blue to them last year they got a pm Rees of Barry erf in the yard all his trucks are erfs
Very shortsighted to have sold ERF to MAN same story as Leyand cars hived off to BMW and Volkswagon . One day (today) these brands would be earning money for the nation, now that we are out of Europe .
as iv always said if i every get rich enough i will buy erf off man, and restart the ec series but better, same engine, same gearbox just a bit better in some areas
good good
Defanatly
@transitcoffin says a bloke whos never driven an ERF but listened to the truckstop lawyers in the bar at pop2000.. I would,nt piss on a Scania if it was on fire, damn horrid truck.. why guys get a hard on about them i,ll never know. My FH is just about the nearest thing I driven that even comes close. My ol EC used to piss all over the all flash no cash cowboys on the run to Brum every nite. Used to make me chuckle every lit up , chromed up swede I sailed by .
Great truck e sereis with perkins eagle & eaton twin splitter driving with john mitchell notmanydrivers would have a clue now bring back the old days with real drivers
I agree . The eaton twin splitter gearbox was brilliant wasn't it .When i first started driving HGVs i cut my teeth in a B series ERF with a spicer gearbox i remember crashing and crunching that box for a little while till i got used to it. Great memories.
What happened to Foden?
James Campbell Daf bought them and stopped producing them
@@helenfox2092 No Pacer in the USA took over Foden and then DAF some years later.
I just searched erf...
7yrs later, me too. Was apprentice mechanic on ERFs and loved them.
@transitcoffin Well shows you how good of driver you are then a SHIT ONE! my mate mr price jones (M648 MVP) has a 16 year old erf ec14 that goes to work every day and shes been round the clock 3 times shes still going very strong! id like to see a daf do that tbh people who say there shit ONLY SAY IT BECAUSE THEY CANT DRIVE THEM! a very true fact!
It should never have happened our industrial ability in the world is a standing joke if man and Volvo can still make quality machines y cant we????
wy is it the end of the erf
@transitcoffin
Omfg 🤬 I thought the world 🌎 was ending by your title for the video
@transitcoffin Nope you drove a fleet spec shopping trolley not a real ERF. I piloted a tescos 310hp P cab scanny for a while.. now that thing could,nt pull your foreskin back. Same can be said for the Topline V8,s today. Even our worn out MANs piss past them. As I,ve said before the older spec FH is as near as damn it the nearest thing I driven that could give my ol EC14 Olympic a run for its money. DAF is nothin but an accountants motor , built to a cost, an it shows.
no,ERF is MAN just like Rover is MG
Man were never going to keep ERF going ,they just wanted the dealer network.
@@markwade1789 thank you sir for your answer but what also happened to Alpha Foden?
@@ralphralefeta1179 Paccer owned Foden for sometime before they took over DAF. DAF owned Leyland truck plant who was a modern plant so Paccer moved the manufacturing of Foden to Leyland. The numbers of Fodens been built was by this time small and a limited range Paccar stopped making the Fodens......A sad day
@@markwade1789 wow but I loved the Foden they were strong,there is a tanker trucking company in Essex they still used ERF trucks in 2010
Not very well put together in my experiences of driving them interior was shocking the doors used to fall off
But they had character sounded mint and miss driving them now
These new automated piles of crap we have to drive now are knowhere near
@stustafford ok enjoy
@cmscania1971 Whats everyones hard on with Scania ? I,ve had 4 over the years & never rated one of em. Yeah I cut my teeth on ERF back when we had real drivers & not just steering wheel attendants we got now. I gotta FH & that knocks the spots of any scania I,ve ever driven. One thing wrong with it tho is the badge on the front. If it said ERF I,d be happy. I agree this Country needs to sort its shit out & start beliving in itself , WHY THE FUCK cant we make a truck anymore??
@transitcoffin My sisters car says Mercedes on the bonnet.. but its a shitty A class not an AMG SLK. Sainsburys at Charlton are using MAN and DAF right now.. MAN being the Company which bought out ERF. There are a fair few TGA cabbed ERF knocking about. The point I,m makin is.. WHY THE FUCK dont we make fuck all no more ?? As soon as summat has made in UK on it.. the nay sayers swing into action slaggin it off.. then sit an ruffle thier Daily Mail whinging about the state of the Country.
haha well we all have our opinions
Gaffers motors
daf.erf.man
Really is no wonder ERF dont exist anymore. Abysmal build quality using bits of Gardner, Rolls, Cummins, Rockwell, Eaton and the god awful twin splitter. These were always the Aldi or Lidl end of the market and through my years of driving all over Europe i never encounterd ANYONE inspiring to own/drive one! My old F16 470 was the dogs danglies at the time and could still hold its own in the hills of Spain even amongst the current competition, something that could never be said of Brit rubbish..
Draxindustries1 go to Africa you still see these beasts plying the Durban Kinshasa route which is tough .
Cant call yourself a Truck Driver unless you have experianced Constant mesh & an Eaton box. All this i shift etc bollocks just makes you a steering wheel atendant.. Honest.. look at what you have to do nowadays to get your wagon from A to B. Steer the fuckin thing & thats it.
There was a company in the Scottish Borders ran a fleet of Black ones for 2 generations. Swore by them.. Then one day the owner drove a Scania..... about 2 years later the only ERF's left were an A and B series that he kept for nostalgic reasons.. Personally I thought they were out dated, the build quality was bad, and suffered from poor quality and under funded R and D.
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@oscarfish38 MAN are shit as well all plastic like iveco fall to bits anyway your happy with erf/man good luck to you but if you was to cut me in half it will say SCANIA and allways will do i love SCANIA a far more strong truck on the road o and by the way i oissed all ove ran erf this afternoon just wish you was in my cab to see it and i thought of you at the time :)
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Plastic cabs with poor fitting doors and panelwork, a mish mash of engines and gearboxes , none of them specifically mated to each other and a myriad of various other components inc poor interiors sealed ERF's fate. The likes of Volvo and Scania were always a world apart. Given the choice of a Swedish truck and a brit ERF no driver would want the plastic one. They only have themselves to blame as there was so little research and developement..
u do realise ERF only went down because man brought them to buy there sellers man didn't want there truck only the shares and buyers
Draxindustries1 thats your opinion.Erf could match Volvo.When i worked in Africa the Erfs always made it home .Volvo most of the time we had to fly out mechanics
This guy must perv on erf vids it's the same copy and pasted comment what a plonka
I know where you’re coming from ‘ I drove my first Artic in 1975 it was an ERF with a 180 Gardner ‘ it was cold in winter 🥶 and bloody hot 🥵 in summer ‘ but it never broke down ‘ after a year I was given an A series with a 240 Gardner, went like a train 🚂 and so reliable ‘ great sound as well ‘ then I had a B series with the same Engine 240 Gardner.
But as you say ‘ they couldn’t compete with the foreign trucks coming on to the market ‘ nice seats , heaters, radios you could hear 👂 etc
But I’m still sad to see the demise of British trucks “ the designers never kept up with other firms ‘ but apart from that “ some nice memories.
Thanks 🙏
@CUMMINSM11 i have driven erf seddon atkinson and am sorry your very much wrong i can drive all hgv this is my opinion i hated them very much sorry if you dont like modern trucke i do today i drive fh12 volvo very nice truck indeed as for erf best thing that happend they have gone so get your facts right dont judge me on what i can drive i driven crash boxes as well so live with other peoples opinion's end of
thank god they dont make them anymore bag of shit'e cant beat scania volvo daf :)
Junk
Erf copied MAN trucks