Jordan Adam
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Maybe in the days when the the ALX400 was new i’d have seen that, in this case ive never driven one thats been newer than say 12 years old, stagecoach, dunfermline had two 55 plate versions with the ISC 8.3 engine which felt breathless with no torque uphill or even on the flat, id probably put that down to poor engineering on stage’s part.
Voith gearboxes in decker or older single has never been my bug bear, but it certainly is when there fitted to streetlites or 200 mmcs, incredibly jerky and gear hunting like mad, the latest ZF ecolifes have became the far superior modern trans
VU06s up here are proper monsters. Can easily overtake most things uphill on the A90 leaving Aberdeen. They sit at 60MPH at ease (They can actually go past 60... But anyway), very little rattles and at speed they sit on the road well with no swaying about or anything.
I had 18446 at the start of the month on a special shuttle route that involved going along the Aberdeen back road. Which is a narrow rural road, it handled it with no issue at all.