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An unimportant question about lorries

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clever_username
clever_username Posts: 609 Forumite
in Motoring
Just out of curiosity, I see all these massive lorries and coaches driving around and I often find myself wondering what size engines are in the things! :)

For example what size engines power these massive articulated HGVs? Five or six litre or something?

Just wondering... :D
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  • harveybobbles
    harveybobbles Posts: 8,973 Forumite
    It's the lack of indicators that I'm more interested in. And the way they assume they own the roads...
  • gilbert_and_sullivan
    gilbert_and_sullivan Posts: 3,238 Forumite
    Full weight artics from 11 to around 16 litre, most common 12 to 13 litre.
  • alastairq
    alastairq Posts: 5,030 Forumite
    more like double the cubic capacity!

    I regularly drive a wagon with 12.2 litres, 6 cylinders...so each piston is the size of a small dinner plate...but then, it is old....
    No, I don't think all other drivers are idiots......but some are determined to change my mind.......
  • Flying-High_2
    Flying-High_2 Posts: 761 Forumite
    Have a 12 litre Vovo wrecker we use for our own recovery jobs in work....FH12 520bhp

    My old Man used to run Scanias... He had 5 143's 14litre V8's when he called it a day a few years back power of 450/470.
  • marksandsparx
    marksandsparx Posts: 150 Forumite
    more modern ones are down to 7 litres now :D
  • Hammyman
    Hammyman Posts: 9,913 Forumite
    clever_username wrote: »
    For example what size engines power these massive articulated HGVs? Five or six litre or something?

    Just wondering... :D

    Typically 11 to 14 litres.
  • Hammyman
    Hammyman Posts: 9,913 Forumite
    harveybobbles wrote: »
    It's the lack of indicators that I'm more interested in. And the way they assume they own the roads...

    BWAHAHA. Best you can do?
  • Kilty_2
    Kilty_2 Posts: 5,818 Forumite
    Am I right in thinking the tractor units can shift when there's no trailer attached? :D
  • taffy056
    taffy056 Posts: 4,895 Forumite
    harveybobbles wrote: »
    It's the lack of indicators that I'm more interested in. And the way they assume they own the roads...

    They don't own the road, but without them the whole country would grind to a halt! Isn't 80% of frieght gets transported down the HGV route?
    Excel Parking, MET Parking, Combined Parking Solutions, VP Parking Solutions, ANPR PC Ltd, & Roxburghe Debt Collectors. What do they all have in common?
    They are all or have been suspended from accessing the DVLA database for gross misconduct!
    Do you really need to ask what kind of people run parking companies?
  • marksandsparx
    marksandsparx Posts: 150 Forumite
    Kilty wrote: »
    Am I right in thinking the tractor units can shift when there's no trailer attached? :D

    Yeah they can! to be honest some of the 420 hp ones can shift with a trailer!!
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