The last few weeks in pictures.............

A nice sunny morning,heading from Beaune across to Autun

Vineyards as far as you can see


And nice quiet villages,very picturesque.


With some very narrow streets


With some very tight corners,this was a 90 degree left,followed by a right and another left.Luckily the traffic had stopped just around the corner.


Heading out of Autun to the delivery point.


The long straight roads of France,here coming from Roanne to deliver orange juice to St.Alban Les Eaux


Just along this road I spied this sitting in a field.It’s a Berliet Jim,but not as we know it!



This is a huge memorial to the Battle of the Somme which is alongside the D977 near Sommepy-Tahure


Saw this very smart looking DAF in Wellen,though straight thru’ exhausts should really only be on V8’s


Loaded metal boxes here in Haiger,Germany,it’s a real pig of a place to get to,and once here,it’s a pig to turn around.


The metal boxes are for storing parts,this lot was for the Faymonville factory in Bullingen,Belgium


As well as making modular trailers for heavy haulage operations,they also make a lot of glass trailers


This pair of MAN’s are waiting to be fitted out and mated to trailers


Whilst waiting for customs paperwork in Le Creusot,this dutch registered DAF came around the corner with part of a wind-turbine tower


Then another one turned up…


…and another


Following another of our trucks into the tunnels under Liege


This tractor was pulling a full size tri-axle bulker loaded with top soil,that’s some weight!!!

Some super pics there.

Don’t the locals get a bit fed up with trucks in the narrow villages,as in pic 4,or don’t they mind?

Here in the UK,there would be an outcry.

Ken.

Quinny:
Some super pics there.

Don’t the locals get a bit fed up with trucks in the narrow villages,as in pic 4,or don’t they mind?

Here in the UK,there would be an outcry.

Ken.

I suspect that they do probably get fed up with it,but,the attitude is totally different in mainland europe to what it is in the UK.
There are a lot of places in France,and most other countries,where there are weight limits and night restrictions,but if there 'aint a way round,then you gotta go through!

great pictures keith cheers

Nice diary,thats some monument ! Beaune is a lovely town very old with
cobbled streets and great old buildings.

nice to see you have a bit of snow. something we dont get in this country anymore. :imp:

Nice pics Kieth, those arches in pic 5, did you have to tuck your mirrors in to get thru?

kindle530:
Nice pics Kieth, those arches in pic 5, did you have to tuck your mirrors in to get thru?

No mate,it’s wider than it looks.

Just!