No Steve hasn’t converted to Scania, he has just delivered up to the Engine Plant up at Sodertalje, Sweden. Last week a quick trip upto Sweden. Still looks wintery up there looking at the ice on Lake Vatter, next to the E4. Good pictures i think.
The little MAN of www.stevemarshexpress.co.uk fame has been out in Sweden this week. Parked in a little rest stop just north of Lagan on the E4, so i though i’d look on street view to see just how beautifull the Swedish countryside is, only to find this beauty stopped for a breather.
After speaking with David Fowler of ACH fame about old vehicles and trailers. He told me his insurance broker had found an old ACH trailer on an airfield in the Midlands. If you are after an old trailer look no further than Bruntingthorpe Airfield. For £500/scrapvalue look what could be yours;
If you look on Google earth at Bruntingthorpe Airfield, just remember there aren’t quite as many trailers there now. The picture is from 2006, as i spoke to Bruntingthorpe myself and they told me there are still a lot on site but not as many as on Google Earth.
Do you love your truck pictures? are you like me and just like to flick through endless photos of wagons?? If so you wont go far wrong if you log onto www.euro-wheels.com there are 1000’s of pictures from the last 30 years. All taken by truck perv and top man Neil Jarrold. This Greek 620 is just the smallest snippet of his quality pictures, click the web address to go to the site.
Week 6 was a snowy week for most of Europe, most people i heard from where suffering with the white stuff some where in Europe. W200 HCW was sat on the Motorway down near Heilbron, Germany for most of a day enroute to Plzen, Czech. While X400 HCW was in Gothenburg, Sweden with the Army Truck Load. As you would expect in Scandinavia there was lots of snow but no problems!
Thanks to some detective work and the help of the lads at www.evanscommercials.com i have tracked down S777 RDF to South Africa. The truck is hoping for a new life in the south but is still for sale for about £20,000. Go on some one buy it and bring it back home! http://www.iatruckexports.co.za/htm/specsheet.asp?id=530
What a lovely little thing. Rumour has it these go as far as the artics of the fleet do, getting as far as Turkey. Can anyone confirm or deny this? How far away from Reading have you see one of these? email me ben@truckblog.co.uk must be a cracking little job driving one. Twin fridge motors, TIR & HAZ boards, emissions and noise stickers, what more can you want from your Tonka toy! Picture belongs to Mr Brooker from www.lorryspotting.com fame.
The roving reporter is back! Recoverd from the airfields of the Middle East with this lovely little sequence from Baghdad Airport. The Streamliner drops off the leaking diesel tanker. The Merc couples up to take the trailer away and makes the cardinal mistake of not checking if he is coupled up or not! Now more DERV leaking from the old tanker. Lovely mix that, airplane fuel, sparks, M/E temperatures and a man with a camera.
Who knows what happened to this old thing? Apparently it was sold to a dealer last year last July. Ben Evans Commercials were planning to export it to South Africa last October. Can anyone confirm if this happenend or if it was spared and is still in the country? Why is it all the old trucks with a bit of history or character get exported?? Their should be a rest yard for all well known old trucks to retire to with a nice warm shed and lots of thick oil to top up with! This truck was at one point the only non Volvo on the Davies fleet, new in 1999. Can you shed any light on S777’s where abouts? Email me at ben@truckblog.co.uk thanks to Y111RDF from www.trucknetuk.com for the pictures.
We were asked to go and collect 4 Grommet Slings from Rotterdam and take them to Hartlepool. So we weren’t sure what to expect when we were told they were made of rope! We did think they must be steel rope but we hadn’t realised how large they would be! Looks like a big old snake coiled up on the trailer. 4 loads in total.
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