Have a good trip & wind the windows down before you stop.
I did my best H but the pilot kicked up merry hell!
David
I love these pictures. Its nice to see that they’re actually taken by the person posting them.
I couldn’t help laughing out loud at the DIY funeral. Ha ha ha.
The picture of the volvo coming through the sand was brilliant. It was the picture where you’re describing the best light to see soft sand etc…
Keep them coming.
Thanks for the great pictures and stories,always had a yearning for M/E,but toolate now .regards derek
Any of them two any better for ya?
harry:
vernonbish777 There were a few Brian`s on Sammie’s. There was a Smith,a Smart ,& a Lamb… Brian Smart emigrated to Canada & became a tugboat captain on one of the lakes. He was ex-commando. Not a man to cross.
Was the Smith Whispering Smith who went on to LOBO
“The dumped Daf that derek Greenaway drove home complete with Wilhire trailer. At Girisun in Northern Turkey.”
Great pics.
But what’s the story behind this DAF 2600?
Excellent pics D M, was GKO 190W an F88 or an F89 can see its a left ■■■■■■ but cant make out the badge on the grille. My dad had a P reg F89 which he ran for a couple of years it was also the first truck I drove on a public road [before I got my HGV ] my trusting father [FOOL ] let me drive coming home from Italy along the old Haz route between Borg en Bress and Beaune and along the autoroutes at night, his bum must have been chewing the seat every time we approached a peage in case the gendarms were waiting. I’m sure it would not happen now but it was great experience and stood me well when I started my own driving career having already had some real life driving with a full size loaded truck. I love the old Volvos and the new ones too but they always lacked one thing A V8 ! 
Leyland_marathon2 Yhe 2600 was a sub-contractor who had, for some reason, dumped the truck in Doha and the friend that I had taken out there for the trip got talked into driving it home.
R143-500. No GKO190N was a 6 x 2 lift-axle F89. All of the Oryx fleet, except a few Scanias that were left over from J&T International, were 89’s, either 6x2 or 6x4 double drives. The man who owned the company, Mohammed Bahar, was the Volvo and Caterpillar importer for Kuwait and Qatar and so all our outbound work was spares and vehicles for his dealerships.
There was an easy way to spot an 89 from an 88 as, originally, only the 89 had the wide black grill (the 88 one was much narrower) but later they used the wide grill on the 88 290 horse power but that was only made for the UK market and all were right handers.
I wonder why Volvo never did make a V8?
I found these on the Toprun site. The old wagon & drag was the one I drove for Freddy + Edith Schiebler in Swiss. But not on M/E. The other ones you might recognise ,David…? PS .Broke down everywhere with that old girl. Germany ,Sweden in the middle of winter,UK…in one the tunnel coming from Blackwall. It wasn`t fast but it was unreliable.
nice photos harry and that site has all ways been very good
with its libary of storys and pictures,
I am surprised by how many of the trucks & drivers I recognise from that Swiss site ,Pete… The driver before me on that old rig was the one that did the ME work. His handle was Cowboy . He died of cancer then I came along…When I left I had to take the new driver on a tour from Swiss to UK to get him used to the run. We left the yard & he asked to be let out at the first truck stop. He escaped & was never seen again. He was horrified by Freddy & the clapped out truck.
( They got an English lad from Manchester who later abandoned it fully freighted in UK ) His job was taken over by young Micky Dempsey who then got the whole Manchester mafia working for Schiebler…Felt sorry for them…Schiebler run the cahoonies off `em