Wheres the fun in National transport? No borders to cross, no idealog officials, different languages, different food and booze! We had it good in Europe!
What would be the point of that SCANIA?
Eight cylinder Gardner ??
Looks kin hideous to me.
That Scania looks like those bull nose motors that used to pull tankers built by the French operator think they were called Lelac or summit like that, someone will know old now memories are weak.
Thanks Oily I was not far out with the name 
I thought you meant those old style bonneted Scanias …from early 70s?
A French outfit.
I used to see them in 80s, lhd sleeper cabs pulling tankers, were they marroon ?
Girauds but not to be confused with Girauds who pulled Euroliners more recently…were they attatched to some Jock outfit?
Giraud with the food tanks… Mon époque chez Giraud avec Fredo77 – FIER D'ETRE ROUTIER
Giraud bought Barbour European.
Yeah that was them…same colours anyhoo.
Seems that they are or were all the same co after all, and yeah the Scottish outfit was Barbours you are right…I had fogot their name.
Barbour’s had some real characters working for them. I think over 50% of their drivers were called Andy.
And I think that Giraud ended up bigger than Dentressangle? I am sure that @froggy55 will know a lot more than me of course
Ive got a “Snub nose V8”! 
“Bully for you mate”!
My ‘best man’ Tom Scott who is no longer with us did European for them as far as I remember… around 96 ish?..or it may have been for one of their subbies.
Maybe your mate knew Tom
I don’t know who @froggy55 worked for, but he will have the background on Giraud.
In ‘96 I knew some of Barbour’s men, mostly those who ran Spain and Portugal, and so shipped Pompey to Le Havre. Met them en-rte and at various collection points too.
Fair few owner-drivers etc on there as well as employees. When one of their drivers (wee Kevin) started, trucks were craned on and off the boats….not Ro-Ro.
”Rockin’Ronnie” was a pure 1950’s rock’n’roller. Stan had a good line in sleight of hand card tricks, and was previously a debt collector, in Glasgow.
After the first couple of kirs I needed a translator to understand the broader and broader Scots accents.
After a few vin rouge I gave up trying.
Yeah well unfortunately I can’t ask my mate Tom if he knew those guys.
He packed the Euro job in and went trunking nights for DPD.
Sat in a queue at the hub adjacent to M5 in a queue, the driver behind him noticed he had 't moved forward, got out of his cab to see him asleep..only he wasn’t, Tom had died…53 yrs old.
I always associated a Fleetwood Mac track ‘‘I wanna be with you everyday’’ with Tom played it on a loop one night around at his house.
Now I aint superstitious but I have passed that hub at least 3 or 4 times and that track has been on the radio at same time…but there ya go, obviously coincidence, but it’s made me think.
To add to it it came on in the car one night passing his house.
Just thought I’d share that one.
Just looking awful!