Favorite Routiers and other European Truckstops

Of course it wasn’t Alverca, ! It was Zona Franca, slip of the old fingers on the keyboard ! Alverca was Lisbon.

I remember one Friday, after clearing customs in Zona Franca to come home and as I pulled out of the main gate on to the road, my 111 started to lose power and ground to a halt on the incline. Not a good place to breakdown, I jacked the cab up and changed the filters in very quick time, bled it and got the engine started, jacked the cab down, got in and drove off, giving a group of Gypsy lads the middle finger… :laughing: .They had seen me stop and were heading towards me, That was quite worrying. I’ve never changed filters that quick in my life. :open_mouth: :open_mouth: