mushroomman:
Hi Brian, it’s brilliant what you can find out by doing a Google search.I was never sure which year I heard about that attack on the Iraqi Nuclear Power Station but I have just found it fascinating reading about it. It’s interesting to find out that the youngest Israeli air force pilot who took part in that raid, llan Ramon was actually killed on the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster some twenty two years later
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera
Brian, if you look at the “Old A One Drivers” thread which by now is on page two or three of this forum then I think that you might find a couple of stories from some of their lads.
A One drivers did quite a bit of work to Yugo and Hungary in the early eighties, you might remember seeing their bright red motors as they often parked up at The Zagreb Hotel and The Hotel Wien in Budapest.
There was a short story by a Truck net member called ‘Dry Ginger’ on a trip that he did to Mostar on Page 9 of the thread which I think that you might find interesting.
As I mentioned Skopia in a post a couple of weeks ago it started me thinking which British companies (if any) actually delivered to Albania in the 70’s / 80’s. As far as I know Dow Freight never went there but I did wonder that if anybody ever went there then it might have been Promotors or O.H.S.
I think that it was Wheel Nut who mentioned many years ago that John Williams took a convoy of aid through to Albania after the fall of The Iron Curtain in the nineties. Somebody mentioned that there was a Long Distance Diary covering the trip but I don’t think that it was ever shown on Trucknet. If Dean or anybody else who has got that magazine can repost that story then I for one would be very interested in seeing it.
Skopia customs yard had a few large warehouses where western trucks would unload and if the cargo was for Albania then it would have to be loaded onto an Albanian registered truck.
I remember asking a Dutch driver if he had ever been to Albania and he told me that he had only ever heard of one guy who had driven there. A Belgium driver who had loaded American cigarettes from Antwerp docks and delivered the load to a place in Tirana.Regards Steve.
Hello Mushroomman! As soon as I saw your post I remembered the article you referred to: it was in Trucking Internatational. I’ve scanned it for you (see below) Robert
