Monthly Archives: August 2010

East Coast Truckers Convoy 2010

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This year the East Coast Truckers Convoy had its 25th Anniversary. Every year a group of truckers and there vehicles gather and transport special needs children from Norwich to Pleasure Wood Hills Theme Park, then onto Gt Yarmouth sea front all in the name of charity. This year the convoy totalled an amazing 101 trucks. If you can help out with next year or just want to take part please contact the East Coast Truckers on there website, they always need Marshall’s to help out when they get to Gt Yarmouth. Keep up the charity work, at least some people are keen to promote the goodness of our industry!!
Watch the Video here if video doesn’t appear when yuo click “Read More”

For Sale……. Volvo F89’s!!

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These 3 beautie’s are for sale some where deep on the internet. They are currently in Valencia and for sale on a German website, thats all i can tell you. I can’t even tell you how many of them are for sale. Just imagine buying all 3 from the dodgy pictures they look like they are in pretty good nick, i think if my numbers come in this evening i might just snap them up myself.

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SCOOP!! Mercedes Actros Giga-Space

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This is a good one people, a very reliable source who works as an employee for Mercedes Benz some where in Europe slipped me the secret info. He is so worried he will get into trouble for leaking the new name, he didn’t even want me to say which country he is from! There is lots of chit chat about the new Mercedes truck range, but i have been told the new big cab will be called the “Giga-Space” instead of the current “Mega-Space”. The idea is that the new cab will have more space inside than DAF’s Super Space Cab. I wouldn’t surprised if the new Giga Space is inspired or even has some of the ideas from the SPACE MAX Concept truck you can see here, after all you can’t get much bigger than this!
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Bedford to Qatar

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Here is another old classic heading off for a new life in the Middle East. Wilsons collected this little thing and took it to Felixstowe for shipping out to Qatar. It seems there are a lot of old commercials heading out that way, so i quizzed the driver if he knew why it was going out to the M/E. This is the story; “Apparently some Sheik or another has a large picture on his wall of an oil well his family have owned for donkey’s years. He now wants to recreate a living version of the picture, so is buying up all the vehicles in the picture and shipping then out to the oil well.” So now you know! A great story and sounds perfectly plausable, but then again any thing seems plausable to when Oil Barons are involved. Great little truck though and its been around a bit. According to the paperwork it was fully rebuilt and restored in 1996 in Melbourne, Australia.

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I’m a Morrocan in France

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………. Didn’t Sting write a song about that.
Sent in by regular contributer Steve “Marshy Truck Perv” Marsh, this Morrocan is his only other company in the services he is weekended at between Lyon and Grenoble this weekend. For those with keen eyes you can just see the little MAN beyond the front of the Magnum. Looks like a terrible weekend for being stuck in France!!
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Activ Artic Atego’s

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After the pictures Kindle 530 from www.trucknetuk.com sent me of the little Atego artic at Killingholme, click here, i thought i’d email Activ Cars to see if they wanted to send me any more pictures.
My new best mate at Activ, Malte Horneburg, sent me 3 pictures of what was in his yard on Friday morning, which you can see below. It turns out the trailer Kindle530 spotted was only an 11m trailer but the majority of Activ’s trailer’s are 13.6m long but still with a single axle. I can’t say i fancy one on a windy day though, how ever smart they are! Of course I’d happily drive one given the oppotunity.

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In the above picture note how long the weelbase of the furthest Atego is., or is it just a trick of the camera that it looks longer than the other truck??

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I’m hoping to get a little more information about these to see what they actually carry, apart from airbus parts obviously!

RoMANia Not as Bad as it was???

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A recent trip to Brasov, Romania for Steve Marsh proved that some things in Haulage do get better or so it seems. Of all the countries in Europe Romania is the only one that Steve said he didn’t want to go back too after a trip there 5 years ago, so as you may expect he wasn’t looking forward to going back. After the delivery he sent me these pictures and said “Not as bad as i expected, there were fewer horse and carts on the road!”
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He came across this little place that was full of dead or cut up English trucks, i think the little MAN was keen to get on its way!
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Also the standard photo of Romanian horse and said cart.
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MAN of Many Talents

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After having a scout through the old photo archive yesterday i came across this little gem. Back in the good old days when i was tramping the Country keeping our citizens going by delivering many a varied load of stuff i took this some where in the Leeds area. First drop was the BAR Cargolifts, to some where just off the M62 in the Leeds area (i’m ashamed i can’t remember where though!). Next drop was the rear pallet of boxes containing a sunbed from Cyrano Leisure in Braintree and delivered to Warrington. Then 3rd Drop late in the afternoon was the front pallet with yet another Urgent sun bed for Larkhall up in sunny Scotland. Great Days. It always amazed me that of all the cargoes we all carry that one of the most urgent ones is Sunbeds! They couldn’t wait, it was same day delivery if possible at worst next day. On the other hand if only i could share with you some of the people i met in the Tanning Salons of the UK or some of the staff…………..Crikey! Snap out of it i won’t get to sleep thinking about them…. those….

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