Bloody hell PDB, that was rude. 
Glad you qualified your comments the next day though. 
I too write fiction but it wasn’t right for me either, but I did skim through it to the end. Much prefer your real adventures Chris though.
To MRM, and John Mcvey if he is still reading here, I did enjoy those accounts and, although have not passed through most of the places with cargo, other than people cargo, I did recognise much of what you encountered. One thing that did puzzle me though, your mention of road trains. At first I thought you were talking about the Leyland tractors that were made in the 80s (was it?) but then realised that you meant wagon and drags, drawbars. I have never heard British lorry drivers refer to them other than that before, to me road trains are the multiple trailer set ups found mainly in Australia then and now.
One of these days I will get my own act together re London to Lahore, then on to New Delhi, but that will have to wait for the right moment for me to get my thoughts and memory in order, I have a lot on my plate these days.