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For the truck fans. A proper road trip...
By: mr.scruff Date: December 24, 2012, 8:08 am
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HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTn70VLaNaE&playnext=1&list=PL9DF50A3DF7984D47
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ04eXwiE0k
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Re: For the truck fans. A proper road trip...
By: nickjaxe Date: January 3, 2014, 3:06 pm
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I remember watching this in the 70s on TV...fantastic stuff.
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Re: For the truck fans. A proper road trip...
By: dazcapri Date: January 4, 2014, 2:46 pm
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It's worth getting this DVD even if you're not interested in the
Trucks it's such a good watch.The book The Long Haul Pioneers by
Ashley Coghill is a good read and has more info about the trip
they're both available from www.oldpond.com as well as the usual
places
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Re: For the truck fans. A proper road trip...
By: onfire Date: January 4, 2014, 5:19 pm
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As owners of Series Land Rovers we probably take a bit of this
for granted ... but it is refreshing to see the guys stripping
the hub at 8mins into the first clip ... with todays litigation
fears I am not allowed to change the wheel for a spare in the
event of a breakdown with the college minibus - let alone
investigate why the brakes are dragging!
Thanks for sharing the clips!
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Re: For the truck fans. A proper road trip...
By: NoelC Date: January 5, 2014, 3:49 am
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^^^ I was pleasantly surprised to see a Polish artic driver
changing a wheel himself in a layby the other day. For the
reasons you say I doubt many Brits would, perhaps that explains
why the eastern Europeans do so well here, they seem to just
knuckle down and get on with it.
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Re: For the truck fans. A proper road trip...
By: clemo902 Date: January 6, 2014, 11:12 am
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Great stuff!
I seem to remember reading on a truck drivers forum a few years
ago that Leyland gave them a suitably equipped Marathon to use
for the TV series so there would be an English truck in amongst
their all Scania fleet.
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Re: For the truck fans. A proper road trip...
By: mr.scruff Date: January 6, 2014, 11:19 am
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They (BL) sure did, along with two Range Rovers for filming...
plus a third, full of spares for the chronically unreliable
Marathon. The driver Dick Rivers was a BL demonstration driver I
think, BL were paying him a pittance for the job so Astrans saw
him right for a few quid. There's a great book, "The Long Haul
Pioneers" all about Astran and the Middle East runs, highly
recommended but be warned, you WILL want a classic Scania after
reading it!
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Re: For the truck fans. A proper road trip...
By: clemo902 Date: January 6, 2014, 1:57 pm
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I will have to get hold of a copy of that book and try to resist
the temptation to buy a Scania then!
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Re: For the truck fans. A proper road trip...
By: Boris Date: January 12, 2014, 2:10 am
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Hmmm , why can't I see anything in mr scruffs original post
:haha:could it be my iPad :lousyputer:
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Re: For the truck fans. A proper road trip...
By: dazcapri Date: September 18, 2014, 3:32 pm
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Bringing this back to the top because I was at the Retro Truck
show at Gaydon last weekend and Ashley Coghill who wrote The
Long Haul Pioneers book did a fantastic presentation about
Middle East Trucking in the 60's,70's an 80's.I'm not sure if
he'll do another one but if you see it advertised I would jump
at the chance to go it was a fantastic day with some of the
original drivers talking about a way of life we'll never see
again
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