It was nowhere near Luso. It was on a straight & narrer on the plains before the border, the load shifted.
chazzer:
Hi Adr, would that Routiers be on the old road between Narbonne and Perpignan?
Hi Chazzer,
Its on the N21 between Perigeux & Bergerac, heading towards Limoges, closest village is Campsegret.
Regards Chris
Early homemade Space-Cab on this Spanish DAF!
mappo:
In the pic of Dover, the red and blue Fiat / Iveco with red tilt was one of
Transport Services of Southampton ( formerly Jim Squibb & son )
I drove for them at the time of pic…could well have been me.
Been racking my brain, would the Squibb name have been used, and were they anything to do with Garland Laidley please?
Might be getting confused as we used to do Portuguese traffic for Bristol Myers Squibb, the pharmaceutical firm 
jj72…Absolutely no connection whatsoever to the best of my knowledge.
Jim Squibb as well as being in transport used to be a well known Speedway rider in his day.
Cheers Tony, obviously getting confused - bloody quick reply too! 
Your welcome Andy, anytime.
By the way did you ever get round to building an STS tilt to go with the Scania model you made way back…■■?
Funny you should say that jj72 because on the Tangenziale Ovest around Milano was a warehouse with Squibb on it, I always thought it was an odd Italian name, must have been a production facillity. Do you remember that Tony on the “Milano TV Grand prix”?
Yeh i do Gazzer and there was also a company by the name of Squibb
just north of Madrid on the right if going southbound past the Sommersiera.
Remember that ■■?
Bit tarty for a Czech back then, it must have cost him a weeks wages just to buy the Michelin man! 
adr:
Italian with his right-■■■■■■!
IIRC the Italians used a lot of right hand drive trucks. Can any one shed any light on to why they did. 
bloxotrix:
adr:
Italian with his right-■■■■■■!IIRC the Italians used a lot of right hand drive trucks. Can any one shed any light on to why they did.
Easy one bloxotrix…So they could see the near-side when up in the mountains, no safety barriers in those days !!
And big white steering wheels…!! At one point, late '60’s - '70’s they all drove Fiats, apparently, when applying for an operators licence, if you didn’t buy a Fiat, you didn’t get a licence…allegedly !!
If you wanted to register a a truck in Italy there were only Italian makes on the application form. I drove one of those multi wheel FIAT wagon & drags with IT plates. After a few hiccups approaching the Blanc etc; I realised that the air brakes had a lethal fault - when the air lost pressure a little red metal lever would rise to the upward position on the dash & a loud buzzer would start up as a warning. The downside was there were no spring brakes & the handbrake was a transmission handbrake so when you were outa air the thing just freewheeled. Got into a bit of bother on a wet down slope near the Blanc & to stop the thing going over the top I had to jab the foot brake several times until the thing slowed down & all the time the buzzer was sounding off. Got back to base & jacked in.Knees were still shaking!
harry:
If you wanted to register a a truck in Italy there were only Italian makes on the application form. I drove one of those multi wheel FIAT wagon & drags with IT plates. After a few hiccups approaching the Blanc etc; I realised that the air brakes had a lethal fault - when the air lost pressure a little red metal lever would rise to the upward position on the dash & a loud buzzer would start up as a warning. The downside was there were no spring brakes & the handbrake was a transmission handbrake so when you were outa air the thing just freewheeled. Got into a bit of bother on a wet down slope near the Blanc & to stop the thing going over the top I had to jab the foot brake several times until the thing slowed down & all the time the buzzer was sounding off. Got back to base & jacked in.Knees were still shaking!
Lot of axles to keep the air pressure up to keep them all supplied, too much for the compressor to cope with? The Oil Companies had a lot of them didn’t they, I’ve passed them just plodding along & the driver has been reading a book layed on the steering wheel!
adr:
Well travelled F88!
Nice pic of one of Mr Butler’s old motors. Fridge looks too modern to be his though!