Got any more pics Harry ? especially the old swiss stuff, fantastic!
Remember being on a trip doin a similar thing dropping the load at the border and having to go back to collect the remainder, I think it was at Scaffhausen then we drove to the German border and headed back home.
I remember the German Police and Customs looking like SS Officers from world war 2, put the fear of god into yer!
I also remember going to Switzerland with my pop back in '76 in his 140, and a TIP trailer. When Townsend Thoresen / Sealink were the major shippers to the other side and you had to get clearance in Dover on the way back and when all trucks were covered in stickers from places they had been to on the side windows and Les Routiers on the bumpers!!!
How different is Dover now ?!!!
We had six blow outs on that trailer on the whole of the trip.Broke doiwn on some mountain pass in the Alps!! The diesel gauge had packed in on the truck so my dad used a jacking pole to measure the diesel left in the tank. He put it down on a grass verge while he put the cap back on, then put it back in the wagon. Stopped some hours later for another check, dipped it witht e same bar, must have been s few strands of graas stuck to the pole and came off it the tank, Didnt get very far after that with the blockage! But he fixed it and we were on r way again!!
The last one being on the the way back in the UK. By that time my dad had had enuff so dumped the trailer on the hard shoulder and went home unit only.
Leaving Switzerland back to the border in France and he was stopped. The TIR cord hadnt been placed thru all of the loops and he was told to go back to where he had just come from re-thread the cord thru , get the paperwork stamped again and come back. It was a 4 hour journey back!! Got thru eventually with a carton of ■■■■ and a couple of swiss francs!
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