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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: TDi90 on May 22, 2007, 21:54:35

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: TDi90 on May 22, 2007, 21:54:35

wohoooooooo

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007230552,00.html

Rob

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: Lord Shagg-Pyle on May 22, 2007, 22:05:40

He has a point. I wonder if he paid the London congestion charge, :lol:

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: thermidorthelobster on May 22, 2007, 22:13:42

Good man.

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: Keri on May 22, 2007, 22:28:06

ill have his truck mmmmm yeah

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: TDi90 on May 23, 2007, 11:48:54

i know.... nice truck  8)

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: Evilgoat on May 23, 2007, 13:15:19

Seen it aroung loads of times when I lived in Hove. Most often outside the Indian on GoldStone Villas. Took a while to twig who it belonged to.

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: Bush Tucker Man on May 23, 2007, 13:33:19

Those Peterbilts are very nice & it's such a successful shape that it's been around for literally years with very little modernisation.


Mindst you, I reckon those 2 Bobbies were more than relieved that he didn't resist arrest!
(he may have been out of the ring for a few years now, but ......)

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: TDi90 on May 23, 2007, 15:35:30

yeh i know!  8)
can just imagine him "taking out" those two cops!

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: madmatt on May 23, 2007, 19:47:25

Not the greatest photo but here is a pic of the newest vehicle on the local firms heavy recovery fleet

http://www.arthurjonesmotors.co.uk/

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: Bush Tucker Man on May 23, 2007, 20:33:41

Oh that K-Dub's tasty

One recovery agent at the other side of Wakefield has 2 old Peterbilts.
My father-in-law used to have dealings with them, as he was in charge of the local Arriva bus depot workshops



This is their working one
(http://thumb12.webshots.net/s/thumb2/8/8/65/184380865cytKGc_th.jpg) (http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1184380865047309372cytKGc)

And two others
(http://thumb12.webshots.net/t/34/35/3/58/32/298435832RbebMM_th.jpg) (http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1298435832047309372RbebMM)


This dates from about 14months ago.
Embarrassingly I've only just added it, having forgotten about it :oops:
(it shows the extended chassis very well)
(http://thumb12.webshots.net/t/59/459/2/81/41/2408281410047309372AsBXIR_th.jpg) (http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2408281410047309372AsBXIR)

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: TDi90 on May 23, 2007, 21:32:59

DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOL :D :8

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: chris.hunt22 on May 24, 2007, 07:57:35

I recognise those 2!!  They drag buses to our place for repair from the Yorkshire depots, I have also seen them at Arriva wakefield on more than one occasion, I was talking to the driver of one of them once and said how good he must feel driving somthing like that with everyone looking at him, he explained that they are a pig to drive as they have the turning circle of the QE2 and are totally inappropiate for the job they do in this country, our yard isn't too tight to get into but he cant get in with that,no enough lock and too darn long, he drops them on the road and we tow them in with our 1983 ERF tractor unit - still going strong if not a bit smokey!!

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: Bush Tucker Man on May 24, 2007, 13:46:54

Quote from: "chris.hunt22"

I was talking to the driver of one of them once and said how good he must feel driving somthing like that with everyone looking at him, he explained that they are a pig to drive as they have the turning circle of the QE2 and are totally inappropiate for the job they do in this country,

I was watching it as it turned round on the last photo, it has indeed got 'supertanker steering'
I jumped back in the Landie (I'd left it running & shot the photo over the bonnet), it doesn't half accelerate when it's running solo!!!

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: Lord Shagg-Pyle on May 26, 2007, 22:07:51

I saw this beasty today. All I know is that its Russain and it is probably nuclear powered. When it started it sounded very big and seemed to suck all the local wildlife into the engine bay!

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: blueboar on May 27, 2007, 07:26:22

It is a Ural, I think

http://www.russiantruck.co.uk/for-sale.html

Title: for all you truckers out there!!
Post by: Boggert on May 27, 2007, 09:09:46

Quote from: "blueboar"

It is a Ural, I think

http://www.russiantruck.co.uk/for-sale.html

Yep it is, I've seen them at truck trials in Czech... The go anywhere!