Have you or any one you know driven or been involved in the legendary Middle-East Run?
Do you have any info about Drivers, Companies or the vehicles used?
If you have any info about any thing middle-east please email me at ben@truckblog.co.uk , thanks.
For any one who is interested i have 4 roofracks for 1 series Scania’s. They are perfect copies and are just bear metal ready for priming and painting. They are for sale for at £450 each a little expensive you may think, but there are a lot of hours put into each one with what seemed like endless welding!!! If you are interested then please email me at; ben@truckblog.co.uk
I must get into this more often and keep you lot up to date.
Eddie Stobart has been sold to Westbury the Guernsey based property group, i cant remember the exact figure but for something like £128m, give or take a bit, what does it matter! Eddie Stobart has also bought into the new dock area near Widnes. The site has deep sea shipping, canal and rail connections, giving the Stobart brand a huge opportunity to have, what i call a complete service site. They will have incoming stuff from the sea, that can be stored on site at the Dock, then distributed by road or rail, amazing. You have to hand it to William Stobart and Andrew Tinkler, they have done a complete u-turn with the company since the troubles a few years ago, when Eddie left.
I have visions of Ships sailing our waters in the famous Eddie Stobart livery, along with trains and trucks sitting in the port, that prompts another vision of a great play mat to sell the kids in the Eddie Stobart shop!!!!
Go to www.eddiestobart.co.uk for all you want to know about the most famous haulage company in the UK.
WOW! Are you a serious truck fan? Do you like you customised trucks? Paintjobs, lights and amazing interiours? Then, once again courtesy of the brilliant Toprun website, click on this link, http://www.toprun.ch/truck/2007-08/NH07/_index.html , then click on slideshow and prepare to be amazed, even if all that customising isn’t your thing you have to admit that all the trucks are pretty amazing.
The Lopik show is a very small affair with only 150 trucks on show. All the trucks though are top top quality. I’m quite sure this is only the 5th year this show has been held. The idea is to make it a very exclusive show like the Nordic Trophy held in Sweden (the top honour being won by a certain Gary Coles only a couple of years ago with the Boys Toys bonnetted number he has in his stable).
Lopik is a small town about 5-7km South-West of Utrecht, about 15-20km East North-East of Rotterdam. The site is by the river and makes for a very scenic show. It is held at the end of July each year. I think next year i must try and gain a cheeky entry ticket with my 141!!!!!!!
Hello one and all, it is me Mr Ben Sheldrake. I’m 28 years old and i’m currently driving a heap of an old 8 wheeled Iveco Eurotrekker, yea its rubbish! but how did i get to where i am now, well let me tell you.
Well i’ve grown up in a transport family, parcels and courier type stuff really but none the less a very good grounding for what is involved in the transport world. Always wanting my own business running trucks, i set off for college on a business course which i completed in 1997, with a business plan for running a 7.5 tonner. I went to work with DFDS, then still in Coggeshall, Essex, on south-east distribution work. This again was a good grounding and was almost in at the deep end, it was flat out from day one, i loved it! I cant remember how long that lasted , a year or two before DFDS moved to Purfleet and we parted company, although i continued to do odd jobs and days. I took the plunge to work with my own customers, using a contact from my father, moving computers around the country i was off, lots of cold calling around Braintree, Chelmsford and Great Dunmow soon gave me enough work to be busy every day for the next 6ish years until 2004. During that time i found myself every where moving everything, just what i always wanted, UK general haulage with back-loads now and again, although i did always struggle as at that time there wasn’t much internet help and most back-loads were all for artics. I was moving everything,
I could go on and on i’m sure and probably will at some time in the future. I took on an employee for a year and bought a lovely airbrushed customised Merc Atego, which will appear again, i even took my brother on for 3 months, but to no avail as in those 3 months the customer went bust and i lost £15k! I struggled on til 2004 when i couldn’t go any further with rates plummiting with the increase of pallet companies and diesel prices on the up, i left the 7.5’s and bought an 1846 (Chips with everything 1855!) Merc Actros Megaspace 4×2 with big tanks and i was off into the world of docks, trailer and Belgian shipping companies. I loved every second of that 2 years every part of the mainland UK, Belgium, Northern France, Holland, Western Germany and Luxembourg. Honestly the best 2 years of my life, until once again i was done for nearly £15k and couldn’t recover this time. Enough was enough and in August 2006 the big German was hired out to Harwich Express for a year while i got into the 8 wheelers. That Brings us up to date and how i got to where i am now. Apart from the Scania 141 i have bought and am restoring.
Busily looking for a new job or career in trucks and/or transport i decided to set up a blog for one and all to read. Hopefully some of it will be informative, fun, interesting and just trucks, trucks, trucks.
Please email me, ben@truckblog.co.uk
Well hello 1 and all, this hopefully is my very first blog post. Expertly set up by the one and only Ewan Mcleod of www.interactiveenergy.com a big thank you to him, you can all blame him for me boring the rest of the world senseless about trucks, trucks and more trucks!!!!!
Great V8 sound as a 4 Series Scania pulls an overload trailer on this video I found today:
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