mushroomman:
Thanks for that Robert,I thought that was very interesting and it sounded like the convoy from hell but I wondered if there was another side to the story.
I wouldn’t of criticised anybody who carried snow chains in Southern Yugoslavia in the winter and even if you didn’t need them then surely that was a bonus.
Prague, in my opinion was one of the worst cities in Eastern Europe to transit with all it’s low bridges, low tram wires, cobbled roads and it’s many road works which must of been a nightmare with a convoy of 20 trucks so I wonder if John took them along the old road around Prague so they didn’t get split up and lost which to me would of made a lot of sense.
I wonder what other drivers think of the article.Regards Steve.
I was always of the opinion that if more than two lorries ran together it was a recipe for disaster. How twenty got to Albania was nothing short of a miracle. Whilst we are talking about Albania it was a well known fact that outsiders weren’t allowed into the country. Promotor did on a number of occasions deliver to one of the border crossings where they had to unload. I think Nottsnortherner delivered a consignment to the border on the Adriatic down south of Dubrovnik.
And was I the only one who had a small short wave radio to listen to the BBC World Service in the evenings whilst parked up in some god forsaken hole in the back of beyond in Yugo. At 2000 hrs most nights you could tune in to Radio Tirana and listen to the voice, of what we imagined was a beautiful young Albanian lady, repeating the days utterances of their wonderful leader Enver Hoxha. This Albanian Communist leader led his country from 1944 till his death in 85. After 85 our nightly entertainment came to an end. It only left Pivo and the local girls. The end of an era!!!