Dirty Dan:
Whent to Finland/Suomi for the first load of the year. Me and my friend were of to Tempere. We shipped from kapelskär to Nantali. Then about 160km to load a metso 130 cruiser. It comes in two part witch then they dock together. My part was the bottom part. 21.5 meters and 59000kg. And Roberts abit shorter but 73000kg.
Danne
Nice start to begin the year with eh
Cracking shots mate!
Hi! Yeah it was a great trip and it was a couple of years since ive been to Finland so it was really nice evan thou the weather was crap. Just when we left the metsofactory it started to snow and do to our hight we had a 50km detour but no really worries. The worst part was the pilotcar driver,he spoke no swedish or no english and our cb didnt work toghter. When we do Finland they had always talk english or swedish and had small cb witch we could use. But we made it to port. Then in Sweden we drove 6hour insted of maby 2h because of some bridges in Stockholm. Kapellskär to Nynäshamn is ca150 km but we had to go via Kallhäll-Västerås-Eskilstuna-Södertälje-Nynäshamn and thats 350km.And the last part is narrow and some bad hills but its al part of the game eh…
Danne
That’s always a bugger if you can’t understand the pilot eh, happened to me on several occasions, but always got the job done… I reckoned that there wasn’t such a difference between the Swedish and Finnish language…? Was that detour just because of the height? Or for the overall GTW as well?
Haven’t encountered much snow over here, not looking forward to it either
On another note, I’ve stumbled upon some Swedish Leyland’s, do you know more about them?
Dirty Dan:
Whent to Finland/Suomi for the first load of the year. Me and my friend were of to Tempere. We shipped from kapelskär to Nantali. Then about 160km to load a metso 130 cruiser. It comes in two part witch then they dock together. My part was the bottom part. 21.5 meters and 59000kg. And Roberts abit shorter but 73000kg.
Danne
Nice start to begin the year with eh
Cracking shots mate!
Hi! Yeah it was a great trip and it was a couple of years since ive been to Finland so it was really nice evan thou the weather was crap. Just when we left the metsofactory it started to snow and do to our hight we had a 50km detour but no really worries. The worst part was the pilotcar driver,he spoke no swedish or no english and our cb didnt work toghter. When we do Finland they had always talk english or swedish and had small cb witch we could use. But we made it to port. Then in Sweden we drove 6hour insted of maby 2h because of some bridges in Stockholm. Kapellskär to Nynäshamn is ca150 km but we had to go via Kallhäll-Västerås-Eskilstuna-Södertälje-Nynäshamn and thats 350km.And the last part is narrow and some bad hills but its al part of the game eh…
Danne
That’s always a bugger if you can’t understand the pilot eh, happened to me on several occasions, but always got the job done… I reckoned that there wasn’t such a difference between the Swedish and Finnish language…? Was that detour just because of the height? Or for the overall GTW as well?
Haven’t encountered much snow over here, not looking forward to it either
On another note, I’ve stumbled upon some Swedish Leyland’s, do you know more about them?
Cheers, Patrick
Hi! We cant understand a word of finnsh in Sweden if your not really up north. But alot of them finns can talk and understand swedish.
In Finland the detour was for the height and in Sweden it was for the weight.
I have seen them leylands in a swedish vintage truck mag,see if i can find it and see what it stod about them!
Yeah! Werry nice indead! But would you trust it? Mm well im like Patric there. But it would be nice to see if somebody acctually use one and how they rated it!
Dirty Dan:
Wow! That must be some kind of sliding kingpin? Read that we had some here but they were then forbidden.
Danne
No idea how that works mate, can’t imagine it just turns like that…
The 5th wheel slid back as the truck turned.
Similar principle to close coupled drags.
The Dutch where at the forefront in putting the driver into a little box and pushing load space to the absolute limit.
Heddle heavy haulage and contractors Orkney. Les.
One of 2 Caterpillar engined ERFs that my long time friend,
