Hi Dan
Yes all is well here in the sun. Hope you are fine. Drink an ole for me on midsummer and enjoy some fish.
I couldn’t hear the narrator on the video very well because my volume was really low. I thought that I heard some Swedish but thought no more of it ! My mistake.
Best regards
Gavin
james martin transport
Hello,
I’m not truck driver but enthousiast. I was 15 years old in the mid 70’s and discover by TV report and magazin mid east roads, in french (because I’m) " La Ligne" - The Line" and their drivers " les Lignards" . My first draw about the subjet was this one in my school copy book 
…Sorry other pics later, some troubles appears with links… 
Long line of trucks waiting at the border
Friderici inspiration 
One of my latest design
Philippe:
Hello,
I’m not truck driver but enthousiast. I was 15 years old in the mid 70’s and discover by TV report and magazin mid east roads, in french (because I’m) " La Ligne" - The Line" and their drivers " les Lignards" . My first draw about the subjet was this one in my school copy book
…Sorry other pics later, some troubles appears with links…
Hi Philippe,
I used to do exactly the same on my school books , made the lessons a lot more interesting, the miles I used to do during a science lesson was amazing, “drove” my teachers mad 
. Nice pics, especially the last one with the roll-over, definately improving as the years go by.
Regards Chris
Hi Chris,
so we can create " the school million miles club " ! When I was not drawing,discretely I’ imagined driving a truck, an imaginative steering wheels in my hands posed on my legs ( tissue of my trausers were worn with all thes miles turning the steering wheels !) ! ), changing gears , looking at the mirror,… I think my school neighbor should find me something strange with thess hands movement !
I see there’s a new bridge been opened between Bulgy and Romania.
It’s between Vidim and Calafat,sure beats the ferry boat.
And this is how many of us remember it:
I always remember the Calafat ferry as being a bit bigger than the one in the photo may be it’s just the angle it’s taken from.
How much are the charging for the Bridge■■? it must be a lot faster.
Jeff
That was as big as the ferry was when I used it,four trucks and that was it.
The new bridge has only been opened this week,I’ve no idea what it’s going to cost.
About half the cost of the ferry if I’ve read this correctly :
bestbooties:
I see there’s a new bridge been opened between Bulgy and Romania.
It’s between Vidim and Calafat,sure beats the ferry boat.
Did it not give everyone an excuse to stop, have a brew up and a chat etc. That’s better than rat-racing all the way, surely? If there was no alternative route, it was the same for everyone, so no lorry was losing business while it was stopped.
Ian, Jeff, that was the size in the seventies, by the eighties, they were much bigger, they even stapled two barges together, now that was a white knuckle ride on winters night, deck covered with packed snow & ice, drivers trapped in cabs, parked that close, & not able to leave cab, frightened the life out of me.
I wonder who will be the first to go through the side of this new bridge come winter time.
Dave.
It must have been the bigger one that used as there were at least 7 trucks on it. I mainly went Ruse when traveling that direction.
Jeff…
I can only remember The Calafat Ferry taking four trucks and that was in 1981, the only other crossing of The Danube from Rumania into Bulgaria was across this bridge at Georgio/Russe.
If you remember there were signs about every 50 metres which said “No Photography” and scruffy looking soldiers every 100 metres asking for cigareten.
Regards Steve.
There were usually a few ladies doing a bit of trade as well.
Jeff…
Hi Jeff, I can never remember seeing any civilians on foot crossing the bridge. 
Regards Steve.
I think we all used the old bridge more than the ferry as the ferry was not the easiest place to get to or from and was only worthwhile if one was tipping/loading in that area.
Most times I was entering Rumo empty to pick up a backload and I found it quite a quick procedure getting out of Bulgy,over the bridge and into Rumo.
Yep, the bridge was very handy if you were reloading in Bucharest, especially if you were loading at The Honey Factory which was flattened to build Nicolae Ceausescu’s palace. I remember doing two loads from the Honey Factory but can’t think where about in the U.K. I delivered them too. 