oiltreader:
All credit to Rab Lawrence for the photos.
Oily
LASO are big over here in Portugal Oily,if out and about in the car bound to see 1 or 2.
David
5thwheel:
oiltreader:
All credit to Rab Lawrence for the photos.
OilyLASO are big over here in Portugal Oily,if out and about in the car bound to see 1 or 2.
David
Portuguese reg, Portuguese firm? I know the ‘Overcoming Obstacles’ aim in English means nothing, the Portuguese seem to love to have something in English on all their trucks, David. 
Spardo:
5thwheel:
oiltreader:
All credit to Rab Lawrence for the photos.
OilyLASO are big over here in Portugal Oily,if out and about in the car bound to see 1 or 2.
David
Portuguese reg, Portuguese firm? I know the ‘Overcoming Obstacles’ aim in English means nothing, the Portuguese seem to love to have something in English on all their trucks, David.
That’s one of those slogans that baffles me, I always wonder who it is exactly that comes up with that sort of malarkey 
Some years ago, I loaded a piece of machinery that was going to the North East of Portugal where they were building a dam (just looked it up on my map, it was at Alijó, Sante Mamede de Ribatua, near the Douro river) the other bit was loaded by a Laso wagon, got talking to the driver and he said it was quite a big firm, up to a 1000 units apparently. You do see them everywhere you go indeed, a bit like Capelle, but European wide.
A big shout out to everyone for keeping this thread “rolling” 
Spardo:
5thwheel:
oiltreader:
All credit to Rab Lawrence for the photos.
OilyLASO are big over here in Portugal Oily,if out and about in the car bound to see 1 or 2.
David
Portuguese reg, Portuguese firm? I know the ‘Overcoming Obstacles’ aim in English means nothing, the Portuguese seem to love to have something in English on all their trucks, David.
Not just on their trucks either David,there are many aspects of Portuguese life where there is also an English phrase or associated relevant word alongside the Portuguese text,and apart from local expats,the indigenous population doesn’t speak a word of English,not so in the Algarve though!
David
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pv83:
Some pic’s from what I’ve been up to the past few weeks…No doubt about it your versatile Patrick but tell me are the float suspensions hydraulically controlled as I fear over here we have a few cattle grids that you would ground out on. Not that I expect its a hazard you have to contend with.
Dig
Nearly missed your question there mate 
It depends which trailer it is, the low loader I usually got clipped on the 5th wheel has got air suspension, as that’s a demand by Rolls Royce to transport the enines. The trailer in the last pic is a equipped with hydraulic suspension, as in terms of being able to fiddle about, I’ve always preferred hydraulics over air, although the air suspension is much smoother when running empty.
pv83:
Nearly missed your question there mate
Reading that Patrick, I just had a thought, how badly have you been affected by the current situation in the aircraft industry?
Much, or little? Perhaps these things take a while to work through the system, and will be felt later. 
Spardo:
pv83:
Nearly missed your question there mateReading that Patrick, I just had a thought, how badly have you been affected by the current situation in the aircraft industry?
Much, or little? Perhaps these things take a while to work through the system, and will be felt later.
Well luckily for me, we cover all sorts of things, and I have been working all this time, so from my point of view I can’t say I’ve noticed any difference. Although we did some jobs that we normally don’t do, just to keep us busy. There’s a firm in eastern Germany that specialises in overhauling RR engines and they’ve been closed for some time, they’ve recently started to work for three days a week… Things seem to be a bit more quiet in Derby, and a lot of engines were going to a warehouse for storage, awaiting servicing or overhauling. But it seems that flying is allowed now, so I can only guess that it’ll be business as usual in a couple of weeks from now…?
Some more from the shoe box collection, this time from v.d. Meijden, one of their specialities is transporting large concrete beams, which they used to do with a fleet of FTF’s, but before that they had quite a interesting fleet consisting of DAF, Kromhout, Verheul and I think even a Hogra? The unit shown in the 2nd and 3th pic could be a Leyland with home built cab?
Staying on the concrete beam subject a bit longer, does anyone recognise the unit shown?
pv83:
One for Spardo, who needs a door and mirrors anyway eh