I took these photo’s at Toddington services (hence the overhead
power lines) some time about the mid 80s. I promised to send the
driver some copies but, you’ve guessed it. I lost his address. Still,
better late than never so they say.
You can just see the front of the F7 I was driving at the time, beyond the White. Volvo F7, BRRRR one of the worst motors
I’ve ever driven!
I had a White . It was straight from the Geneva Truck Show. On a smooth road they were great. But down in Spain & Portugal on the bumpy roads & would have preferred your F7. I jacked the job in because of the grim ride down South. If you remember the old roads from Vilar Formosa to Porto ? When the front wheels got on the edge of the track the whole lot would go…I met the driver of that old rig from Kent. It looked poverty stricken next to mine… 
& mine had a longer chassis. Will go to my cousins garage & rake those pics out !
Can never resist mucking about with snaps…That grill was plastic ,covered with chrome paint & when it got worn the paint peeled off leaving just a cheap white plastic molding. The headlamps were secured by self tapping screws into plastic So when you replaced the screws a little to tightly you could destroy the thread on the bodywork because they bored into to plastic again! These cabs were designed by guys from the USA aircraft industry which went belly up a few years ago. All they were interested in was the look of the thing & how much it weighed. The whole cab was held together with pop rivets. From the outside it looked good but inside none of the right angled furniture fitted the rounded lines of the cab.
Nice job with the picture H, but you’ve changed the colour, and you could have got rid of those bl00dy power lines overhead! I reckon it’s another job for Aimee 
Found this of my old rig. Its on the beach at Sete. In those days it was a truck park. The only restriction was Radioactive loads. That was before the Auto Route. Swiss to Spain. As you can see it has a longer chassis & longer cab than the UK version…& bigger tank. I will get to that garage & rescue the other stuff as soon as I can. This one had water damage from a flood at my other house.
harry:
. This one had water damage from a flood at my other house.
Turned out quite artistic as it happens Harry
looks a nice rig harry i like the road commanders and yours had the factory finish stripes around the cab
thanks to you both for the very nice pictures HARRY did you carry a spare clutch cable as well, all the time,
Rattlesnake Dave:
I reckon it’s another job for Aimee
Now how could I resist an invitation like that? I’ve only been on the forum a couple of days and already I’m getting a reputation LOL
aimee Nice job .But the real colour is more like that shot of the left side…Sort of an olive green…
Is that any better? 
(You’ll probably need to hit refresh to made it load the new version).
Hells Bells Aimee, it’s almost like it’s magic! I’ve already saved it into my photo album. Certainly looks like I’m gonna have to get me a Dummies Guide To Photoshop. Trouble is the time, it really is like you said, addictive and it’s just taken me about 3 months to find my way around Adobe Premiere Elements so that I can become a first class video director 
Thanks for doing that for us Aimee.
As for your White Harry, was it registered in Swiss and if so, how did they get round the width restriction? Or was it after they relaxed it. And how come you got all the best jobs, parked up on the beach indeed, must have thought you were on holiday.
Were those ol’ Whites a bit heavy on clutch cables then Pete?
Rattlesnake Dave The width restriction only applied to certain mountain passes. And as for clutch cables ,once you got that truck rolling you could change gear without using the clutch if you got the revs right. Thats down as well as up. And running South for the Swiss was a holiday with pay. I was on a good salary plus guaranteed nights out ,plus taxi allowance for Barna. The Swiss guys would fly home from Barna at weekends all on expenses. Because it was illegal to drive a truck at certain times in Swiss the trucking companies used to leave a company car permanently for the drivers on the border for the drivers to get home.They always stopped on a beach or the best routiers.“Loadsa money !” ( With the Dutch they drove to the last minute of their 10 hours then parked up ,irrespective if they passed a good truckstop 15 minutes earlier.Morons )
PS. Did you see the snaps I posted on Rattler thread. I shall be adding to that when I can get time to go to my Cousins place. Just found out that he isn`t my Nephew; He is my 2nd cousin.( My 90 year old mother told me that yesterday on a flying visit from Cornwall. )
Pete. No trouble with the clutch if you read the manual. To get a low gear from the stationary position. You have to have the engine running & hold the clutch in for 30 seconds! Thats a long time but it will slip in silently.Once you are in gear never stop in neutral ,always be in a gear to take off. For reverse choose a low forward gear then whack it back into reverse. No prob. But with the older Whites the gear stick would come away in your hand. Usually in the center of Barna at rush hour as you were stuck across one of the avenues.
Carl That one came straight out of the Geneva Truck Show. All the engine was chromed up. Good beds in those trucks…Wide.
No Harry I hadn’t seen the pic’s on the Rattler thread but I have now. Very nice too. I wished I’d taken more pictures back then. Not just of the trucks but some of the great people I met. I thought all trucks in in Switzerland had to be less than about 2.1 metres or something like that. I have seen narrower versions of Volvo and I thought the Saurer’s were very narrow too. Could that have been before your time over there or have I got it all wrong?
Rattlesnake Dave The narrow trucks were used for certain mountain passes in Swiss where the width limit is in force. I had a narrow F12 with the F7 cab but I never used those narrow passes because there was also a weight restriction. I once brought a full load of designer beer from Bedford to Zürich. The boss of the company told me he gets more money for trucking one pallet of beer to the ski resorts than my firm got for the whole load from the UK. The beer had a Trinidad label. The ski set thought it came direct from Trinidad.
I need help. Still messing around with this junk. Can you spot the diff…?
No 
It’s still a White Road Commander 