Actually, having looked at it again Fred it’s not a 141, it’s a 111 and there was only one of those on the firm.
How long did you work for George the Pole Fred?
David
Here’s another 141 in Kuwait. What a very satisfyingly contextual picture! Robert 
robert1952:
Here’s another 141 in Kuwait. What a very satisfyingly contextual picture! Robert0
I can’t put my finger on it (thats not a uphamism) I hope I spelled tht right, but there is something about that 111/141 truck that cannot ever be replicated. The image of a l/h/d Scania from the 70/80’s is something of an Icon. It says to me, long distance, away from home for weeks, desert highways, Phill Collins in the air tonight, the long and winding road, On the road again, (Canned Heat). And all the other trucking tracks that were eaten by your Pioneer stereo casette player all the way there and all the way back.
Those were the days…(wasn’t that by Mary Hopkins) any other places that you can tie in to a particular trip and remember the music you were trucking along to… like to here your own recollections.
All the very best
Mick B
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PanX:
robert1952:
Here’s another 141 in Kuwait. What a very satisfyingly contextual picture! Robert0
I can’t put my finger on it (thats not a uphamism) I hope I spelled tht right, but there is something about that 111/141 truck that cannot ever be replicated. The image of a l/h/d Scania from the 70/80’s is something of an Icon. It says to me, long distance, away from home for weeks, desert highways, Phill Collins in the air tonight, the long and winding road, On the road again, (Canned Heat). And all the other trucking tracks that were eaten by your Pioneer stereo casette player all the way there and all the way back.
Those were the days…(wasn’t that by Mary Hopkins) any other places that you can tie in to a particular trip and remember the music you were trucking along to… like to here your own recollections.
All the very best
Mick BHi all.
Chris Rea, Road to Hell used to be one of my favorites which I played on the road from Osmaniye to Habur… generally around Sanli Urfa…Those really were the days.
Best regards
GS.
GS OVERLAND:
PanX:
robert1952:
Here’s another 141 in Kuwait. What a very satisfyingly contextual picture! Robert0
I can’t put my finger on it (thats not a uphamism) I hope I spelled tht right, but there is something about that 111/141 truck that cannot ever be replicated. The image of a l/h/d Scania from the 70/80’s is something of an Icon. It says to me, long distance, away from home for weeks, desert highways, Phill Collins in the air tonight, the long and winding road, On the road again, (Canned Heat). And all the other trucking tracks that were eaten by your Pioneer stereo casette player all the way there and all the way back.
Those were the days…(wasn’t that by Mary Hopkins) any other places that you can tie in to a particular trip and remember the music you were trucking along to… like to here your own recollections.
All the very best
PanX:
robert1952:
Here’s another 141 in Kuwait. What a very satisfyingly contextual picture! Robert0
I can’t put my finger on it (thats not a uphamism) I hope I spelled tht right, but there is something about that 111/141 truck that cannot ever be replicated. The image of a l/h/d Scania from the 70/80’s is something of an Icon. It says to me, long distance, away from home for weeks, desert highways, Phill Collins in the air tonight, the long and winding road, On the road again, (Canned Heat). And all the other trucking tracks that were eaten by your Pioneer stereo casette player all the way there and all the way back.
Those were the days…(wasn’t that by Mary Hopkins) any other places that you can tie in to a particular trip and remember the music you were trucking along to… like to here your own recollections.
All the very best
Mick Bh
I am sure that my truck would produce another 20 ps if I put on born to run by The Boss…
my place in time was pulling up out of Biricek at 0500 am listening to Phill Collins, In the Air to night, trying to lean across to lock the passenger door with a map book whilst not stopping… that was an earie place…
All the very best
Mick BMick B
Hi all.
Chris Rea, Road to Hell used to be one of my favorites which I played on the road from Osmaniye to Habur… generally around Sanli Urfa…Those really were the days.
Best regards
GS.h
Hey Gavin,
Road to hell, pick any one you like… how about Eagles Hotel…whatever, it
was the cool desert highway that I was always looking for…
All the very best
Mick B
When I was away my sister used to get a load of C 120 cassettes and stick them in the radio/ recorder and record Radio 1. I was waiting with another Brit driver at the Al Ain Oman/UAE border crossing listening to the Danny Baker Christmas special telling the other driver it must be a local pirate radio station. Sort of stuffed the illusion a bit later when I had to get turn the cassette.
I was sitting at 45o’s in a ditch in eastern Kaz waiting to get towed out the snow by a passing local listening to Mark Radcliff and Lard.
Jeff…
robert1952:
Here’s another 141 in Kuwait. What a very satisfyingly contextual picture! Robert0
Now isn’t she a beauty Gimme Gimme Gimme!!! Regards Chris
adr:
robert1952:
Here’s another 141 in Kuwait. What a very satisfyingly contextual picture! Robert0
Now isn’t she a beauty
I hate to say this, especially to you Robert, but I’m not at all sure that that is real. There have been so many wonderful models in realistic situations - I was completely taken in by Jimskis model of a truck that I drove for years - and I am afraid this is another one. Do you have the original of the photo Robert?
My doubts are as follows; I was running to Kuwait and Doha non-stop during that period (for Oryx) and I never saw that vehicle or it’s highly memorable name despite the fact that I had some very close Danish friends and often ran with them. The trailer is German, a Kassbohrer, and in no way equipped for Middle East - no proper tool boxes or belly tank and a very old Petter fridge, the tractor had full rear mudguards which nobody in their right mind had but most of all it is the scenery. Loose vegetation just does not grow in Kuwait and the building bears the logo ‘Welcome to the State of Kuwait’ which is correct but you never saw that name without the state seal (a dhow on a blue background) and why would it be written on a building. It certainly is not the Kuwait Customs for example and they never welcomed you to anything.
I’m no doubt wrong but it just does not hang together for me.
David
This picture gives the answer:
toprun.ch/truck/2014-02/Scan … large.html
The scania belongs to a mate from southern germany and the picture was taken in danmark last year.
Only photoshop, but a very good one!
Regards!
Jörg
Thank you very much Jörg. That answers that question.
It is amazing what a skilled operator can do with photoshop 
David
David Miller:
Thank you very much Jörg. That answers that question.It is amazing what a skilled operator can do with photoshop
David
Well spotted David ! But I would have fooled me and many others too !! 
See you Sept13th David.
Regards Jimski
Jimski:
David Miller:
Thank you very much Jörg. That answers that question.It is amazing what a skilled operator can do with photoshop
David
Well spotted David ! But I would have fooled me and many others too !!
See you Sept13th David.Regards Jimski
Certainly fooled me (Still want it tho’ ). regards Chris
David Miller:
adr:
robert1952:
Here’s another 141 in Kuwait. What a very satisfyingly contextual picture! Robert0
Now isn’t she a beauty
I hate to say this, especially to you Robert, but I’m not at all sure that that is real. There have been so many wonderful models in realistic situations - I was completely taken in by Jimskis model of a truck that I drove for years - and I am afraid this is another one. Do you have the original of the photo Robert?
My doubts are as follows; I was running to Kuwait and Doha non-stop during that period (for Oryx) and I never saw that vehicle or it’s highly memorable name despite the fact that I had some very close Danish friends and often ran with them. The trailer is German, a Kassbohrer, and in no way equipped for Middle East - no proper tool boxes or belly tank and a very old Petter fridge, the tractor had full rear mudguards which nobody in their right mind had but most of all it is the scenery. Loose vegetation just does not grow in Kuwait and the building bears the logo ‘Welcome to the State of Kuwait’ which is correct but you never saw that name without the state seal (a dhow on a blue background) and why would it be written on a building. It certainly is not the Kuwait Customs for example and they never welcomed you to anything.I’m no doubt wrong but it just does not hang together for me.
David
I had a good laugh over this! Excellent detective work on your part David - funnily enough, I too was foxed by that Kuwait sign being on a warehouse and not on an Islamic archway at the border. Never mind, I was taken in by the picture which is on Flikr, BTW.
It’s not the first time I’ve been fooled: I was actually taken in by one of Jelliot’s models the first time I saw his Astran manifestations - all the funnier for my actually having climbed about on the real Transcon’s cat-walk when I was helping Chris Hooper one evening when we were both clearing in Dover Western Docks. 
Robert
robert1952:
Here’s another 141 in Kuwait. What a very satisfyingly contextual picture! Robert0
I take it a great complement that I sucked you in with the Chris Hooper Transconti Robert!!!
Once you’ve got past the initial quick glance, you can notice the weeds in the fore ground are wrong, as is the junk in the back ground, I can’t remember seeing pebble dashed concrete buildings either.
On the more technical side the light intensity is wrong.
Still a good looking truck in a good location…
Jeff
, maybe a very great diorama of a model? However, nice picture! cheers Franz
robert1952:
On a roll here: one of the lorries that got stuck up little Shipka with me in the snow back in Dec '95 was ‘Barny Rubble’ off Brooks of Braintree. He had an MAN 281 (or near offer) with an Astran tilt. I met him again in Istanbul and again in Dover on the way home - bit of a character to say the least. In Londra-camp he told me his real name, which of course I can’t remember, but I do remember that the office had written ‘Barney Rubble’ on his TIR carnet and he commented that one day this would be his undoing!Another character who seems to have gone off all the radars is ‘Crackers’. I last saw him at Containers TIR-parking at Debes in Hungary in Aug '97. He was one of the Middle-East run’s classic mis-fits: highly intelligent but totally ungovernable (that’s not an insult, I hope it describes the best of those who did ‘the run’). He used to drive a Foden pulling RJ’s last remaining 12m tilt (RJ125). Observant bloggers might notice that this was the tilt I took down to Turkey for Harrier in '95. So what became of Crackers? Robert
I pulled RJ125 in 1993 for a few rumo bulgi and turkey runs I drove a black gobstopper called THE ANIMAL met some great guys and gained invaluable experience oh and met some lovely layby girls those who have been know what I mean lol had some good nights in kuty near senica waiting for the “vendynox” team to mod the truck oh we’ll happy memories although some stress at the time I was only 21 and it was the first driving job I did I got sent to Dover Dock customs shed and asked if any one was going to instanbul wherever that was ha ha oh and if you read this big roger I still remember that night with Kim and you smashing the phone in that flat lol
Boxhill chunk:
robert1952:
On a roll here: one of the lorries that got stuck up little Shipka with me in the snow back in Dec '95 was ‘Barny Rubble’ off Brooks of Braintree. He had an MAN 281 (or near offer) with an Astran tilt. I met him again in Istanbul and again in Dover on the way home - bit of a character to say the least. In Londra-camp he told me his real name, which of course I can’t remember, but I do remember that the office had written ‘Barney Rubble’ on his TIR carnet and he commented that one day this would be his undoing!Another character who seems to have gone off all the radars is ‘Crackers’. I last saw him at Containers TIR-parking at Debes in Hungary in Aug '97. He was one of the Middle-East run’s classic mis-fits: highly intelligent but totally ungovernable (that’s not an insult, I hope it describes the best of those who did ‘the run’). He used to drive a Foden pulling RJ’s last remaining 12m tilt (RJ125). Observant bloggers might notice that this was the tilt I took down to Turkey for Harrier in '95. So what became of Crackers? Robert
I pulled RJ125 in 1993 for a few rumo bulgi and turkey runs I drove a black gobstopper called THE ANIMAL met some great guys and gained invaluable experience oh and met some lovely layby girls those who have been know what I mean lol had some good nights in kuty near senica waiting for the “vendynox” team to mod the truck oh we’ll happy memories although some stress at the time I was only 21 and it was the first driving job I did I got sent to Dover Dock customs shed and asked if any one was going to instanbul wherever that was ha ha oh and if you read this big roger I still remember that night with Kim and you smashing the phone in that flat lol
Welcome to the forum, mate! Yes, I reckon RJ 125 had a hard life! Robert
hi frolks
not long found this site, spent the last few days, sheding tears with laughter, were I seen real truck drivers names and faces off the past, who are still here, some have moved on. gone to further flung places, were we will meet up with a bottles of beer in our hands I would hope.
laughs on the road to many to mention, at border crossings,hotels, park platz, even in plases were there were wars going on, looking at faces on some of the photos, trying to put names on them, bring memories flooding back,
places were I meet caracters of the long and winding roads, places were I first meet these drivers.
peter wall = peter the plater with tony maddens in hungary giving me advice as there was no doctor at tompa, load of skins on for turkey
pat seal meet him at chriss brealey yard at hipperholme aye a layed back man I have ever meet, olso mick eckelsey, alan jones = mr magoo,
erible twins hugh and George mcleland, =total ■■■■■■■■■■■■■ with Hughie down to cheb hotel water feed a few beers, woke up Hughie truck deadtrics, which I fixed. then Sammy thorn with ■■? Robertson on 1 carnet two trucks with trailer problems I fixed that so a cancelation happened
pivo control, well it ended up a complete farse, bit o fighting with some ddr mob in a mini bus, resulting Sammy was going to put his mack right over the bus, I manage to stop this happening, when a gas gun appeared of a greek driver, there was Sammy firing gun in the air shouting come on you ■■■■■■■■■ now all hell let lose, its pitch dark for ten minutes all I remember was myself ratling a guy across the shins we my scania bar, finding Sammy on the deck then off to hospital with him,
well those of you who no Sammy thorne, he had a twich which the the doctors were worried about, asking him questions his name and his wife name etc, Sammy turns to me says why they asking me all these questions, Sammy shut up your dying me the doctor Sammy were all laughing at this the two nurse did not no what was going on, so Sammy in hospital am back to hotel cheb,
loads off police looking for the gas gun am questioned over incident,
morning comes around were having breakfast, in comes bob headley, I think his opening statement was something like a right bunch of arsewipe renagades here so what happened. no sooner he sat down when smmy walk in, took his shirt off, said them boys had some toys bruises,chain marks all over his body, time to go made log cabin nr prague, left him there with another scotch lad, with dave camberlin another blokes name I can not remember, pivo control time, well I took off, enough for me for that day,
so to drivers who past on, pat seal, jim ellis, rick ellis who I have mist out, drivers who we lost in accidents on the road, thanks for the memories,the good times roll.
still remember meeting loads of other drivers, seen a few but it been a few years since, hope all well with you all
pete matthew
dave Mackie see your on here,
remember being in unatsuns in istanbull in ziefer office one wee red headed Scotsman, one large Scotsman redish hair, zeifer siting there I ask him if his dad was scotish, one of few furks he was with red hair and freckles,
dave hope we can meet up some time hope all well with you.
pete