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Scania is renowned as a driver's aurite, and as West puts it: "It's a lovely fe." The engine is flexible—"there's no spots in it"—and the gearshift is OK too. prefers the switch-operated range-change L slap-across type, but adds: "You can still t it."
Vest specified the Scania carefully, checkthat the rear-axle ratio would be low >ugh for the stop-start crawling that is !cled for kerbing work. But as he says: "It's ng to take its toll eventually."
Ve saw an example of the Scania's excelt traction as West jockeyed it on a steep nk worryingly close to a trench and then ay again without having to engage the difftcs. The axle articulation was good, and re was no sign of wheel slip. As for inoeuvring on site: "There's no real differce between this one and any other. It hasn't got the same lock as an Iveco, but that doesn't really come into it."
The interior is typically high-quality, though it is snug. As West puts it "The centre console's a bit of a bind." The velour seats look as if they might suffer in site conditions, but in fact they are fine and West has had no problem with them.
When we tested a tipper on a similar chassis in 1998 we got 9.1mpg out of it, but West reports: "I'm doing six to a gallon, which isn't brilliant." But his overall feeling for the machine is positive: "I'm well pleased. If I did have to get another one it would be one of these."