A handful from flickr:
What’s an FBW when it’s at home?
No Skoda jokes please:
Taken in Holyhead, believe it or not
Some say it’s a Bison, some that it’s an Octopus. All we know is
… she’s a wee bit heavy.
Quick response is that looks like one of the narrow trucks used in Switzerland. Off the bigger routes the EU /UK standard 2.5m(ish) standard is illegal. Volvo used to supply F7 etc cabs with the front mudguards missing.
The bed looks a bit distorted doesn’t it?
Rather light on the steer though…I wonder how much hanging off the ass end?
Looks like a choppy sea to me. As to the rsend, “Mate, there’s a red flag hanging off the back so we’re fine”
Nah, the sky’s a long way off and all the wheels are on the ground. They must’ve run out of logs. 
Reminds me of an aerobatic pilot’s comment:
“No one measures how much sky you have above you”
I did a fair bit of Czech in the early 90’s. Liaz 2WD and Tatra AWD were everywhere, and the Liaz looks like the same cab as that Skoda. Same cab on local rigid trucks and long distance artics. I moved a couple in a yard and the interior was surprisingly spacious. Double bunk and sort-of walk through.
I really don’t know why he doesn’t give it up, nobody takes him seriously, or believes anything he says. He’s wasted too much time with his head in Boys’ Own comics.
All this CF business is not going to end well, we should remember that. IMHO nobody can take him seriously, as I see it he’s not breaking any forum rules so maybe just glance over his ramblings and leave him in his own happy world.
Some might say he’s doing a bit of trolling, if he is he’s doing a damn good job. He’s getting reactions and that’s a good indicator of an internet troll.
I don’t think he’s smart enough to be a troll.
That’s the thing with the interweb isn’t it? In virtual world you can pretend to be whoever you want to be. Personally I’d pretend to be a stunt c4ck in the p0rn industry, an astronaut or maybe a hush hush assassin that various governments call upon for delicate operations. What I wouldn’t pretend to be is a lorry driver!
I do find it strange that after years of crowing about “outstanding driver” awards or whatever and giving a detailed employment history suddenly we have general haulage using tilts thrown into the equation! I smell something, and it surely ain’t roses.
The motors now seem to be normal width, was there last week and nothing looked particularly specialist any more width wise, but there were lots of multi axle rigids, and still lots of turntable drawbars.
The fire eurostar was spotted in Zurich and roared off at speed when the driver put his foot down..
The CH230, meaning Switzerland 2.3m wide. It had an F7 cab, modified mudguards, narrow track axles front and rear and a TD120 engine, i don’t know which version.
… reminds me of some frankly amazing cars, the 603 for instance. AFAIK they got the air-cooled rear-engine car sorted long before Ferdinand Porsche adopted it.
As Oily @oiltreader pointed out, if you don’t mention them, you won’t hear from them. Simples.
I went back and had a further shufti on flickr and some FBW cabs look a bit Steyr to me.
The majority of trucks were EU standard in the 90’s for sure. But when delivering to depots in Swiss I would see more of the narrow cabbed ones. Builders trucks for instance need to travel the restricted roads with loads too heavy/long for a van. Being smaller production volumes I would think they are more expensive than the mass produced trucks, so companies would only buy what was strictly necessary and work them on locals.
I once had a full load of empty pallets on a flatbed trailer and had every stack roped and crossed front and rear. I pulled into a transport cafe on the A1 and stopped a bit too quickly and all the pallets above the headboard (about 5 high) moved forward 2 or 3 feet. I undid the ropes and moved all the pallets back and fortunately a mate came in and helped me.
Anyway I was told by another driver I should have unrolled my sheet front to back on top of them but leave it folded then rope them. I didn’t haul another load of pallets so didn’t get a chance to try this out.
Sheets don’t secure/retain a load though. They are to keep it dry
I’d argue that point in a lot of cases mate.
So would I, but back to @remy’s story, was it a very long sheet, a short wagon, or did you use 2, overlapping from the front of course?
Never had the need to prove, or otherwise, the point myself either. 
