Just had a late nght call from the police contact dealing with this thread …
They are still interested also, in the make and model of the trucks as well
I think that the first (Red truck) maybe either an Iveco Stralis, or MAN Roadhaus The first couple of Photos look a bit MAN RoadHaus, but I am sure that photo 1c shows a sloping side window. and the rear side panel that is similar to the Eurostar/Tech but that might just be the angle of the photo
So if its boxy from the front like an MAN, but, IF it has a side similar to the Eurostar/Tech I can only think of the Stralis… any other ideas??
The next one is almost definatly a Volvo FH, although it is not clear from the photo 2aif it is a Globetrotter or not.
Next I think again Volvo but an FM, and NOT a Globetrotter cab photo 3a
The last is I am almost sure a DAF XF spacecab (Not superspace) photo 4c
They all look european spec unit and trailers,
I would say 1a is definately a MAN Roadhaus. There is a large shadow on the grill that would correspond to the MAN lettering with a smaller shadow underneath the position of the MAN logo. Also the dark shadow in the upper rear side section of the cab looks like the smoked window fitted to this type of cab.
2a looks like a day cab low rider FH12.
Truck 3 is a FM and bears the livery of GRUSBOR
4 looks DAF XF with no deflector kit.
A fellow truck driver was killed in this incident so please take a look.
Truck 1. This looks all wrong for a Stralis.
The grill is the wrong shape.
The Stralis has no grill badge.
The stralis has a sun roof. not evident in any of the pictures
The stralis does not have anything which would exsplain the black shadow in the area of the air kit.
Lostpup:
The trailer on the 2nd images looks like a “Geest” livery??
It’s not dissimilar to the Geest logo, but AFAIK they only run fridges. The trailer looks too tall for a fridge and there appears to be a step in the frame of the trailer which matches the fleet on the Fly by Nite website.
And the 4th looks a bit like thos Visbeen(sp?) Dutch wagons.
It’s the letter following the V that makes me not think Visbeen, and again I don’t see it as a Fridge.
No1 looks like a MAN Roadhouse to me. The trailer is a TIP rental.
No2 Looks a bit like GIST livery. They used to be BOCs food distribution, I can’t think of the old name at the mo, (BOC Trans■■? it’ll come back once I start dropping off to sleep). The livery is a purple sphere with a large reflected white spot in the top left quarter of the sphere, and the word GIST in fairly tall thin letters. That small step in the frame dosn’t mean it can’t be a fridge trailer. Lots of fridges have a small step like that, it seems to be where a slim neck (for interior height) is stepped down to a deeper/lighter main chassis. The unit looks like a Volvo FM.
No3. I agree with the suggestion of it looking like Grabor livery. The unit looks like a flat roof Volvo FM with a big air-kit on the roof.
No4. Looks like a DAF XF space cab to me as well. If it was an SSC, there would be the dark strip of the top window. It looks like a low-ride unit and trailer to me, and the height of the trailer over the top of the cab would support that. In fact it looks like a flat roofed cab except in shots 4 & 4b you can see the high cab above the side windows. I am not that sure about the Visbeen livery, it does look a bit like it but not quite right to me.
My daughters had friends round last night, I was on here & asked thier father, an HGV driver, if he thought 3 was a possible match with Grabor.
He it seems use to work for the Volvo dealer in Norwich & tells me Derek Cooper use to run a wag & drag in Grabor colours, he remembers it well as the set up was bought at the same time as some high spec tractor units & the driver was less than happy at being given a FL as a result. He also rembers collecting it for service one monday, it seems the driver had not been told it was going in & he thinks he was sent home, “nothing for you today driver”.
No, right enough I saw one today and realised I was wrong.
Also spelt Gist wrong on my other post.
Am now a little unsure about the Gist livery too. Saw one of theirs today as well. Although the unit was a Volvo as photo, the sphere on the livery was further back on the trailer than pictured.
Looking again the the Fly by Nite site, this picture
shows the markings on the rear of their vehicle which strongly resembles the rear markings shown in Picture 2b.
Whilst in Picture 2a it is not possible to see any ‘crescent’ markings along the side of the trailer, this demonstrates
that all of their vehicles may not be liveried to the same standard. Also looking at Picture 2c, there appears to be a ‘bulge’ in the logo at about 2 O’clock. The logo on the 7.5 tonner shows a similar bulge.
In this picture of two vehicles side by side,
I cannot see any ‘crescent’ markings along the side of the artic, but that may be just the angle of the camera.
Their site does say that they have over 40 vehicles so it is entirely possible that they are not all liveried to the same standard, with only the ‘flagship’ units and trailers displaying the full livery.
Agreed, the white Volvo is most definately a Flybynite truck, I have worked in this industry very close to these trucks and could not be more convinced !
shows the markings on the rear of their vehicle which strongly resembles the rear markings shown in Picture 2b.
I cannot see any ‘crescent’ markings along the side of the artic, but that may be just the angle of the camera.