125mph in a petrol tanker !
Road deaths in Algeria 7x greater than in the UK (per capita)
Probably Friday and he wants to get home 
Bluey Circles:
125mph in a petrol tanker !
Road deaths in Algeria 7x greater than in the UK (per capita)
Can well understand why, have been picked up a couple of time at Algiers and Oran airport to go to a job and every time guaranteed I’ve had the crap frightened out of me !! bloody nutters 
Used to happen in England years ago too. I can remember as a kid when one of yiddle davis’ was done for 120mph.
Irish, on his way to Dover.
what sort of box or rear diff would allow those speeds? I’m thinking regular motor 1600rpm on limiter so 125mph would need 3600 revs ■■? I’m sure on a regular truck the engine would blow or some governor would kick in. and if it is a high ratio rear diff would the truck be workable fully loaded on steep ground.
Bluey Circles:
what sort of box or rear diff would allow those speeds? I’m thinking regular motor 1600rpm on limiter so 125mph would need 3600 revs ■■? I’m sure on a regular truck the engine would blow or some governor would kick in. and if it is a high ratio rear diff would the truck be workable fully loaded on steep ground.
Km speedo, not MPH, so about 80. I rode shotgun in a Guy Big J four-wheeler in about 1970 that was showing 84 on the A1M.
Bernard
albion1938:
Bluey Circles:
what sort of box or rear diff would allow those speeds? I’m thinking regular motor 1600rpm on limiter so 125mph would need 3600 revs ■■? I’m sure on a regular truck the engine would blow or some governor would kick in. and if it is a high ratio rear diff would the truck be workable fully loaded on steep ground.Km speedo, not MPH, so about 80. I rode shotgun in a Guy Big J four-wheeler in about 1970 that was showing 84 on the A1M.
Bernard
the video is titled 200kph and the speedo on the car following is showing 180kmh and the truck is getting away, so that is where I am getting the 125mph from.
what revs would something like a scania 730 be turning in top gear when sat at 56mph ?
Coach rear diff 
Algiers 
No, it was quite friendly really 
i had an old 85 daf off the clock I reckon about 85 top speed and its wouldn’t have got much more out of it.
I’ve got a Vovlo 600hp 18sp Eaton Fuller that’s limited to 125kph at 1500rpm, a sticker on the dash says don’t rev above 2400rpm.
neilg14:
I’ve got a Vovlo 600hp 18sp Eaton Fuller that’s limited to 125kph at 1500rpm, a sticker on the dash says don’t rev above 2400rpm.
That is exactly 200 kph on 2400rpm : ) But, how the tires can survive 200 ?
the video shows at the beginning the car is doing 140 kph (around 88 mph).
my old Transcontinental would eat that for breakfast ! the needle used to go off the tacho head and the trace would flat line on the outer ring and it would still be pulling.
during the 70’s there were lots of fast rucks around, 80/85mph was commonplace. early Scania 110’s were quite rapid as was of course the famous Volvo '89.
On lower weights i.e. 16 tons, Dodge K series with the Perkins 6 cylinder turbo and Eaton 2 speed axle could move quite quickly. Similar Bedfords KM’s with the 2 speed axle were sometimes quick, depending on the pump.
Daft as it sounds the fastest accelerating truck I have ever had was a little 3 wheel Scammel Townsman (3 ton class 4 artic) which would pull away in top gear and go straight up to 45 with no changes (45 was top speed!)
I never had a fast AEC, Leyland or Albion though.
In the 80’s I drove an Iveco turbo star demo for a few months, being a demo it was pretty “hot” and went really well. One Saturday morning at stupid ‘o’ clock I set off north from Devon, when I pulled in for a break about 4 hours later I popped the card to have a look; there was a line going straight up to the edge, nothing for 4 hours, then a line coming down! Young, dumb and full of ■■■ as me Dad used to say. 
And now you’re not young! 
Evil8Beezle:
And now you’re not young!
Cheeky whippersnapper! I’ll have you know that in my head I’m still 25, the problem is everytime I look in a mirror I see my Father looking back at me!
Meh. Done more than that down Windy Hill. 
Nearly as fast as the ‘Duel’ Peterbilt
m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-vgfolxW3s
I believe the fastest trucker was either Strawberry wine out of California or the southern shaker out o south Carolina both ran coast to coast under 30hrs in the 70s. shaker even has a song /video wrote about him.the story went he was gunned at 110mph plus ,stuck him in jail and sent his unit out of Arizona on a railcar.the song /pictures are on you tube …the legendary southern shaker… they say they based smokey and the bandit on this guy.
the northern states had Monfort transportation out of Colorado,so fast they named the overtaking lane the Monfort lane