After collecting the Coles Cranes from Mersin and Iskenduren we all met up again somewhere east of Adana where the two roads meet. I can remember very little of this part of our trip except there were five cranes in total with a sixth one waiting for us in Cizre together with its driver. We stayed in hotels, yes there were some doss houses enroute, as our convoy made its way across southern Turkey.
In the second photo is Paul Linscott, the coloured lad. Now, those who have been following this Promotor thread will know I posted a story a little while back about Paul working on a film shoot for the company up in the arctic circle. Dave Stagg our transport manager then was going to write an article for Truck magazine or some other publication saying it was “the furthest north a British lorry driver had ever been”. If someone said they had been further north he was going to change it to “the furthest north a coloured gentleman lorry driver had ever been”. (or words to that effect).
