I’ve still not found the owner of this little gem. Can anyone work out what the name is on the side??
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Looking for my Perfect MAN!
So I did an image search for MAN TGL 12.250 and ending up stumbling across this. Probably the best looking TGL I have seen. It’s proper perfection.
MAN TGL LX 12.250 – check
Alcoa 17 inch wheels – check
Frigo body – check
Side door – check
Tail lift – check
Cab air deflector – check
Long range light weight fuel tank – check
Left hand drive – check
English owner driver – …….Bugger!!
Right next step is trying to find out who’s the owner. I can’t read what’s written on the cab and I don’t recognise the colours. It is Spanish. If any of you know what the company is then please tell me ASAP.
I have no idea who’s photo it is either, but to who ever did take it, thank you.
New MAN Heavy Weight
Search Impex have released another cracking model in their Haulage Heavyweights range. This time in the guise of an MAN 8 wheel tractor unit in the colours of JB Rawcliffe & Sons from Skelmersdale. Read on for the blurb from Search Impex………
The model has been produced exclusively for
Search Impex by WSI Collectibles as a certificated Limited Edition (155 pieces).
Established over forty five years ago, J.B. Rawcliffe & Sons Ltd., provides a complete service covering all aspects of transport, including general cargo and the movement of indivisible and abnormal loads, heavy lifting, installations &
removals, jacking, skidding and rigging. Route studies, site inspections and comprehensive site surveys by experienced personnel prior to movements of abnormal loads form part of the comprehensive service package, as do police notifications, liaison with highway authorities and structure owners and the provision of escort vehicles.
The company has a large array of specialist equipment with almost endless configuration possibilities. In terms of prime movers, J B Rawcliffe & Sons Ltd., currently has 20 units in the fleet, ranging from 38 tons up to the impressive 250 ton capacity MAN tractor units.</strong>
Models, available from Search Impex, are priced at £103 each (including UK delivery & VAT). For details of availability of this and other models, collectors can visit the Search Impex website at http://www.search-impex.co.uk or call on 01332 873555.
Best Truck (Photo) of 2013
Please post your photos on the Facebook page, Twitter or email them to me at; ben@truckblog.co.uk and I will put them on the blog. Where can I start with what is my best truck of the year or my favourite photo. I’ve seen so many this years and have managed to visit a number of shows, which really makes it difficult to choose just one truck. Seeing as I write the blog I hope you will allow me to choose 3!
My first choice has to be the gorgeous Scania T500 from Dutch company Van Triest. I’m a sucker for a Tcab as it is, but this stunning truck just kept drawing me back each time I walked within 500 yards of the pit area at the Truckstar Festival, Assen back in July (if you’ve not been to this show, put it in your diary for 2014).
My only problem with the truck could be that its green, but as my Show partner, Mr James “Mick” Cartwright will confirm, me and green trucks had some sort of a weird bond going on at Assen this year. I think the Silver and green paintwork just looks awesome, just enough lights and bling for me too, and topped off with a cool mixed brown interior from Special Interior, NL. You have to agree it look just as good at night and I’m glad that I managed to make a half decent effort of a night shot. Amaze-balls.
In this case just 1 photo of the amazing War Machine built by Swedish trucknuts, Svetsab AB, is just not enough to do it justice. You might or might not like the mat black paint work. You might or might not like the artwork on the side. You might or might not like all the shiny stainless steel down both sides of the big Swede. But put the whole lot together and it becomes one of the most impressive trucks I think I’ve ever seen. Its got American big rig about it with all the stainless steel and chicken lights all over, but the clever Svetsab lads have put it all together so in no way does it look over done, in fact in my opinion it’s almost somehow got an air of “understated” about it, yea you know what I mean! Just because its NYE and I love this truck, I’ll spoil you with a video of said beast too;
Now if that doesn’t flick your butterfly valve then you shouldn’t be reading the blog, it’s just, its just…..i’m getting all misty eyed!! One more photo (ok 2) and onto the next truck.
Next up and to finish off, nothing quite so glam, but more to my own taste, which is why I want you to show me yours as I’ve shown you mine (oo-er!). This little Italian MAN TGL LX is my idea of perfection. I love the Tonka toys as it is, but this garment carrying, cool white TGL is just stunning. I have to add that this was not taken by me but the one and only Neil Jarrold from www.euro-wheels.com or if you’re a Facebook fan, go to his Wheels in Motion page, you wont find any better photos. If I win the Lotto tonight a little MAN like this would be first on my list of purchases. Note I did say purchases, next would be the War machine and 3rd would be THIS.
As its New Years Eve and all and sundry will be having a drink, like me I’m sure you’ll be checking your phones, so please get posting / emailing / Tweeting your fave photos/trucks of the year. Either join in or it makes me look like the sad old truck perv I think I am!!
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HAPPY NEW YEAR BLOGGERS!!
Wheels in Motion
Some of you know me too well I’m thinking. A certain Neil Jarrold clearly knows what my favourite truck is as I was the only person he tagged in one of his latest photos on Facebook. Yes I love the little MAN TGL LX and none more so than this, almost brand new Italian version. What more could I want from a little Tonka toy like this? I mean its got colour coded bumpers and mirrors, ally wheels, long-range ally fuel tank, tidy little hanging garment box, plain, understated and just dam smart!! I love it. As for the photo, that was taken by the man who spends many an hour standing on a bridge at Junction 9 on the M20 in Kent, yes the one and only Mr Neil Jarrold. Neil is a truck perv of the highest order (no matter what he says!), his career as a Volvo truck salesman means he knows a thing or two about most fleets in the country and was also responsible for the Volvo FH XL70 special edition. These days he runs a small used truck business, as well as continuing to take many a top class photo for us all to enjoy, such as the little MAN above.
Neil’s photos are getting better and better, I mean you can’t get a better “on the move” photo of Paul Cecil’s delightful DAF than that. Really you can’t. The one problem with being a top class photographer is that there is always a few who want to abuse your talents. By this I mean those of you who right-click and save photos from the internet then either claim them as your own or put them ebay to sell for your own ill-gotten gains. If you want to use one of Neils or anyone else photos, then why not just give them a credit, after all, Neil takes his photos for us all to enjoy so why not repay the compliment by just adding to your use of the photo “Neil Jarrolds Photo” or “taken from www.euro-wheels.com” that way we all know where its come from, the photographer gets a mention for his great photo and you can’t be called a nob by all and sundry for nicking some one elses photograph. You all got it?? Good, now put the soap box away as I don’t need it. Although I will add that I actually saw one of my own photos on eBay for sale recently that I took at Assen this year. How do I know its mine?? because the muppet who was selling didn’t realise the 2 spots of the photo are scratches on my lens!
Any way please give credit to Neil Jarrold (and all other photographers for that matter) for his photos as one of these days he will stop making them public and the social media sites that we all enjoy looking at will soon become very dull places to be. If you want to see more of Neil’s handy cam work then go to either of the following;
Website: www.euro-wheels.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/wheelsinmotion
Thanks for the great photo of the MAN Neil and please keep taking photos, so the majority of us can just sit back and enjoy them. If you go to the Euro-wheels website you can trawl through loads of Albums of trucks back to the 1980’s and beyond.
All three of these photos are copyright of Neil Jarrold 2013.
MAN in The Med
Back in the summer, when the weather was fine, your friend and mine, Steve Marsh, went on another island hopping trip out to Sardinia. May be it was best back in the summer with the nice weather rather than the terrible weather that Sardinia suffered a few weeks back. Marshy certainly got a cracking day when he was there and he also ended up finding a quiet street where the old MAN could have a relax while Marshy got the bike out, you can’t beat blue sea/sky as a back drop.
A normal Monday in the North West and Steve gets a call asking of he can load 5 tons of machinery, nothing to different about that, apart from it has to be delivered to Porto Torres, Sardinia. by the end of the week. Now as we all know when there is an express job worth doing, there is only one MAN for the job, that MAN is GB05 STE and its jockey Steve Marsh. So over to Huddesfield on Tuesday load up and then start heading South in the afternoon. Reaching Dover Tuesday late afternoon onto a ferry and onward to Genoa, Italy. Genoa was reached on Thursday afternoon ready to catch an evening sailing to Porto Torres. As always with these Mediterean ferry’s there is hardly room to swing the proverbial cat!!
Friday morning its off the boat at Porto Torres and delivery was to the same town, so all done and tipped at the refinery by lunch time. Really I’m sure it was a harder job than it sounds but then Marshy is such an old hand at the job it probably comes that easy these days. So as a reward in the life of the international lorry driver, Marshy gets to spend the rest of the day lounging about in Sardinia, this is when all good drivers get there push bike out and go exploring.
Back on the boat to Genoa on Friday night and get a few hours up the road in Italy before the weekend driving ban came into force in Italy. So from Genoa its up to Trento to park up for the rest of the weekend ready for a reload on Monday morning. Reloaded Monday and that’s it, run back to Blighty, funnily enough on this trip it was back to the start as the reload was bound for Huddersfield.
The bumper on the little MAN may be showing her age a little, but she still clocks up similar mileage each week to those international drivers with bigger trucks carrying more weight. It may be a small truck but it definitely rolls like a big truck, in fact it probably goes to more places than the bigger ones due to its size. Any way I’m getting all romantic, so thanks again to Mr marsh for his photos and I hope those of you who are also fans of the Marsh MAN have enjoyed a quick trip to the Med. Hopefully their wont be such a long wait for the next trip with GB05 STE……hey steve??
www.stevemarshexpress.co.uk – email; cab@stevemarshexpress.co.uk
My Old MAN!!
…wish I’d kept it…..
Norske MAN
A little black beauty that’s what it is! I want to see some more photos if any one can help? Haga Traffikskule looks like it is a driver training school (and the name would suggest that too!). The little MAN doesn’t make much of an appearance on the website so i’m guessing that it is only used for publicity and promotional stuff. Although I would like to think that it is used for driving training itself, who knows??
When I passed my Class 2 (Rigid) test it was in a Leyland Freighter with a 30ft flat bed body. My Class 1 (Articulated) test was done in a Renault Premium wagon and drag which was full length and just over 4.5m high! Just imagine if you could do your license in that dear little thing, easy peasy!!
Any way can some one tell me a little more and can one of you send me a few more photos of the little black beauty please? You know how a little big-cabbed TGL is my idea of the perfect truck, so come on bloggers you are my eyes and ears, do your stuff then email me the results; ben@truckblog.co.uk — Thank you
Mega MAN
I was trying to think of some clever title with MAN in but it seemed a waste of what little brain power I have. Mega MAN says all you need to know. Every now and again I get an email that makes me think “Wow!”, which these days takes a bit more effort than a few years ago. If any nation can impress you in the world of trucks, our crazy Dutch cousins will always be right at the top of the list. It seems that the people at Becx TDS Racing may be 100% nuts! Click below and watch the video, that saves me writing loads of pointless words to try and impress you with…..I’ll stop.
Good eh?! What a beast and did you hear that turbo? No? then go play it again and come back in a minute………
Now for the info straight from Edwin Kuijpers from Becx-TDS Racing………Two beahrs pleassh!
It is originally a MAN TGS18.480
We changed the complete chassis and shortened it at the front so the wheels are on the corners. The cabin is put lower and backwards on the chassis. (like the Brazilian racetrucks). The engine is gone 50 cm back in the chassis to get a good weight balance (60/40%)
The engine is a special race engine from MAN motorsport in Germany a delivers 1100HP and 5500Nm of torque. If we want we can put the power up to 1600HP en almost 7000 Nm of torque.
The top speed is >215 Km/h and the acceleration is 0-100Km/h. A set of tyres is gone in about 4 minutes of intensive driving and drifting. The truck is build complete build by our own team, and took 7000 hours in about a year.
Hope I send you enough information, otherwise you can see our website: www.becxtdsracing.nl
Hopefully we will hear more from Edwin and the others at Becx-TDS Racing. I am also hoping that they will do another video soon and even better perhaps they can do a video at Truckstar Festival in a few weekends time, just like last year.
MAN Hunt
Seeing as you are all so good at this detective lark, here’s you next assignment. Many moons ago I had a delightful and bloody hardworking MAN 8.163 which you may have heard me talk about once or twice before. It was such a good truck I rely didn’t want to let her go but needs must and all that. So when we parted company I sold her to dealer, Paul Binns Commercials. From there she ended up being cut down to a flatbed and was then used by a subbie delivering wooden sheds and things for Walton Garden Products.
What I wanted to do was trace her life after her days on the sheds. I have checked the DVLA vehicle search and she hasn’t been taxed since 2008 and it says the truck has been exported. I’d love to track it down to where it was exported too, if its an island some where there’s a chance of finding it but if its Russia or something then there is no chance.
First things first, I need to speak with the Walton Garden Buildings subbie. I am told his name was Simon Wainwright and came from Nottinghamshire some where. If you know anything about the truck or Simons whereabouts please can you email me or leave a comment, I’d love to find her, even better I’d love to see her now. I have one man on the search but he is man that’s in the category of ex Walton drivers so I’m quite hopeful. If you can add something positive then please do, surely one of you knows some thing. Truck reg was V413 KPU and was fitted with a Hatcher sky cab.
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