Something a bit different, was just approaching a truck on M5 and thought I don’t recognise those plates. Got close enough and it said Iran, with ADR signage as well.
Rowley010:
Something a bit different, was just approaching a truck on M5 and thought I don’t recognise those plates. Got close enough and it said Iran, with ADR signage as well.
I bet that was checked over on entering the country.
used to get quite a few of them …back in the day…most had container trailers on…in a cream colour with a long nose mack up front.
I’d love to see a picture of that. I like the Iranian trucking scene. What motor was it?
.in a cream colour with a long nose mack up front…they were very good drivers, very polite…very friendly…
When they were regular on M/E runs to & from Europe they were good drivers, well educated & all the ones I met were great guys
Quite a few Brits/Swiss/Germans drove for Iranian firms too
Mainly US Cabover wagons, some bonneted Macks & in the early days BMC Rigids 
ezydriver:
What motor was it?
Somebody said at first it was a camel 
…but later found to be a Scammel. 
Ok, fair enough, yeh that was rubbish. 
whisperingsmith:
When they were regular on M/E runs to & from Europe they were good drivers, well educated & all the ones I met were great guysQuite a few Brits/Swiss/Germans drove for Iranian firms too
Mainly US Cabover wagons, some bonneted Macks & in the early days BMC Rigids
Mr albion usedto drive out there in the 70s and didn’t have anything bad to say about the iranian people.
One of our drivers used to work out there as a crane engineer, oddly Mr Albion used to drive past his house. Small world and all that.
robroy:
ezydriver:
What motor was it?Somebody said at first it was a camel
…but later found to be a Scammel.Ok, fair enough, yeh that was rubbish.
Haven’t they called your bay number out yet?
Picking up Nuclear missles to take back home 
ezydriver:
I’d love to see a picture of that. I like the Iranian trucking scene. What motor was it?
It was a Volvo. Not an old one either. 4 wheeler guessing by the shape of the front no more than 4 years old
xichrisxi:
Picking up Nuclear missles to take back home
I’d love to know what was behind those curtains especially with it being an ADR load!
albion:
whisperingsmith:
When they were regular on M/E runs to & from Europe they were good drivers, well educated & all the ones I met were great guysQuite a few Brits/Swiss/Germans drove for Iranian firms too
Mainly US Cabover wagons, some bonneted Macks & in the early days BMC Rigids
Mr albion usedto drive out there in the 70s and didn’t have anything bad to say about the iranian people.
One of our drivers used to work out there as a crane engineer, oddly Mr Albion used to drive past his house. Small world and all that.
And then politics reared its ugly head! 
Might have been the same one that was in Holyhead on Thursday night shipping out to Ireland, white Volvo with a tilt on the back looking very clean considering how far it had come
Two Iranian drivers…
Asked me for directions to an industrial area in Rome. All of us were parked at a service area at the time. I drew a few maps for them and got them pretty close to where they wanted to be.
About ten minutes later, they knocked on my door and beckoned me around the side of their motor. There was a cloth on the floor with some cushions and a spread of food which included cold lamb cuts, a fiery pickle chutney thingy, pitta bread, some dates, hot coffee and Turkish cigarettes.
■■■■ nice people and generous to a fault.
yourhavingalarf:
Two Iranian drivers…Asked me for directions to an industrial area in Rome. All of us were parked at a service area at the time. I drew a few maps for them and got them pretty close to where they wanted to be.
About ten minutes later, they knocked on my door and beckoned me around the side of their motor. There was a cloth on the floor with some cushions and a spread of food which included cold lamb cuts, a fiery pickle chutney thingy, pitta bread, some dates, hot coffee and Turkish cigarettes.
■■■■ nice people and generous to a fault.
But what if you’d been a vegetarian, wheat intolerant, non-smoking, non-caffeine drinker with a particular dislike of dates and pickle? What then? How would you explain that? Could they speak English?
ezydriver:
yourhavingalarf:
Two Iranian drivers…Asked me for directions to an industrial area in Rome. All of us were parked at a service area at the time. I drew a few maps for them and got them pretty close to where they wanted to be.
About ten minutes later, they knocked on my door and beckoned me around the side of their motor. There was a cloth on the floor with some cushions and a spread of food which included cold lamb cuts, a fiery pickle chutney thingy, pitta bread, some dates, hot coffee and Turkish cigarettes.
■■■■ nice people and generous to a fault.
But what if you’d been a vegetarian, wheat intolerant, non-smoking, non-caffeine drinker with a particular dislike of dates and pickle? What then? How would you explain that? Could they speak English?
Mr havingalarf may be a gentleman and accept the hospitality offered even if he didn’t like the food. Food should always be accepted graciously, especially from strangers.
Here endeth the sermon!
That’s a lovely Searl fridge unit, used to work on those back in the day, not sure I have mentioned this before?
albion:
ezydriver:
yourhavingalarf:
Two Iranian drivers…Asked me for directions to an industrial area in Rome. All of us were parked at a service area at the time. I drew a few maps for them and got them pretty close to where they wanted to be.
About ten minutes later, they knocked on my door and beckoned me around the side of their motor. There was a cloth on the floor with some cushions and a spread of food which included cold lamb cuts, a fiery pickle chutney thingy, pitta bread, some dates, hot coffee and Turkish cigarettes.
■■■■ nice people and generous to a fault.
But what if you’d been a vegetarian, wheat intolerant, non-smoking, non-caffeine drinker with a particular dislike of dates and pickle? What then? How would you explain that? Could they speak English?
Mr havingalarf may be a gentleman and accept the hospitality offered even if he didn’t like the food. Food should always be accepted graciously, especially from strangers.
Here endeth the sermon!
That’s all very well, but it may have been a bit of a giveaway when the Iranian drivers asked "is the food to your liking Mr. Havingalarf?", and he replies pulling a lot of faces as if sucking vinegar through a tramp’s sock, nodding, and going “mmmphh, mmm, mmmmph”. Better to just say “■■■■ off” in the first place, and get back into your bunk I say.
ezydriver:
yourhavingalarf:
Two Iranian drivers…Asked me for directions to an industrial area in Rome. All of us were parked at a service area at the time. I drew a few maps for them and got them pretty close to where they wanted to be.
About ten minutes later, they knocked on my door and beckoned me around the side of their motor. There was a cloth on the floor with some cushions and a spread of food which included cold lamb cuts, a fiery pickle chutney thingy, pitta bread, some dates, hot coffee and Turkish cigarettes.
■■■■ nice people and generous to a fault.
But what if you’d been a vegetarian, wheat intolerant, non-smoking, non-caffeine drinker with a particular dislike of dates and pickle? What then? How would you explain that? Could they speak English?
I assume yourhavingalaf isn’t a millennial snowflake, therefore doesn’t feel he needs to have loads of special requirements, and your post was very tongue in cheek, It’s amazing how easy and fun it is to communicate with people when you don’t speak the same language.
Many years back, I had a great few hours talking to a Glaswegian when we were loading a truck together, the only words I understood was Paul Gascoigne, so I assume we were talking about football, I also know nothing about football, but he seemed happy with the conversation.