Evening Gentlemen,
What superb posts you have made! Thank you all, it makes great reading.
jshepugius, thank you and welcome. Patrick, superb “today” job images. Your trailer is interesting, does that middle axle lift, or steer, or both? It looks awkward, bet its a bugger to reverse on a high camber road? Does it extend as well, and what payload, 40/50 tonne, with a nett of 25/26 tonne?Froggy, those old French lorries are superb, and you are right, so many “contemporary” lorries have gone off to Africa for a new life. That Scania is not ex Giraud Groupe, nor Robert is she Westermann, (was the late Tom Annabel in charge when you drove for them? A real tragerdy his death, what came after was a shadow of what he created, and a lot of great potential was lost).
Fergie, you may have been away with family commitments, but when you come back, wow, what a selection! My friends in Nice the Martin family, one of their original “Interflora” Berliets with their “flanc blancs” whitewalls…ended up as a major Volvo user, ran so many of those , (Orrible), Eurotrotter F10s, as 33 pallet combinations…but also quite a few of our J serie Saviems…ideal for deliveries around Monaco! I should write about them more…
The Tractomas and dog…there is a great story to that shot…
Pacifics…oh boy, where should I start? and those time expired lorries…bit like me I suppose…my Eastern European, (beautiful), Doctor tells me that 2 cuts of sileage, laying a new concrete yard, and re-roofing my steel barn, (wherin lives my Star and assorted other bits of vehicle related rubbish)…was not a great idea, particularly when you factor in a harvest of Barley…hence my post tonight from the seclusion of my bedroom…
So when the DVLA forms to renew my HGV licence were received on Saturday…well I thought, enough is enough…£100 for the quack…£50 for Specsavers…plus the nervous anticipation…Simply, simply not worth the effort…
Then last night my pal in Nice telephoned me to say he had found a really tidy F89 4x2 down in the Var , very little rust…oh dear…
So tommorrow its calls to the Doctor…Specsavers…and Easy Jet…and try and think up some plausable excuse for my good lady…“would you like a few days in the South of France…you know that my” , (oh gorgeous)," Doctor says I need relaxation, and rest"…
Well its worth a try is it not…
Has there ever been a more enjoyable lorry to drive than M Volvo`s F89?..
Fair bucked me up has that thought!
Cheerio for now
but, hey ho…let’s start with some heavies and Pacifics…
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