This is Grahame from Haarlem, the Netherlands. These remind me of when I used to drive a 1628 on T.I.R. contract to Davies Turner. Did most of Western Europe, but the one run I remember most of all was Manchester UK overland to Athens in Greece. No ferry from Italy to Greece. It was: England - Belgium -Holland - Germany - Austria - (The then) Yugoslavia - Greece. This was back in the 1980's when truck driving was "Not so much a job, but more a way of life".
At the start of my general haulage journey in approximately 1970,s late, we had 2 Mercs, I can't remember the size, 32 tons gross, where they 1525, they were small, and wouldn't pull you out of bed, better than a Atki 180 just, and the Mercs had a bed. Thanks for the memories.
Mercs we're a nightmare they went electric gear box before they should have. Open for debate guys? I will always prefer to live in a merc Just camera mirrors etc. Not For me Old school Nothing to fancy. When u can't figure out where the shagging light switch is. Yeah you went to far Keep it simple eh
I remember starting at 22-00 hrs and thinking where's my ERF going in the office and a note left with the keys for a new Merc you have this on demo for the next week. It had the new EPS box with the little stubby gear lever must admit after 2 days was quite in pressed with it.
This is Grahame from Haarlem, the Netherlands. These remind me of when I used to drive a 1628 on T.I.R. contract to Davies Turner. Did most of Western Europe, but the one run I remember most of all was Manchester UK overland to Athens in Greece. No ferry from Italy to Greece. It was: England - Belgium -Holland - Germany - Austria - (The then) Yugoslavia - Greece. This was back in the 1980's when truck driving was "Not so much a job, but more a way of life".
Grahame welcome 🙏 🤗 to the channel.thank for sharing your memories, my friend.enjoy the channel 😀
Driven most of the models shown, good trucks as long as the EPS G/box wasnt misbehaving (if fitted)
The secret was to nod the EPs gearshift,not push it,or you'd end up with no gears.
At the start of my general haulage journey in approximately 1970,s late, we had 2 Mercs, I can't remember the size, 32 tons gross, where they 1525, they were small, and wouldn't pull you out of bed, better than a Atki 180 just, and the Mercs had a bed. Thanks for the memories.
Thank you Trevor for sharing your memories ❤️ 😊 🙏
Mercs we're a nightmare they went electric gear box before they should have.
Open for debate guys?
I will always prefer to live in a merc
Just camera mirrors etc.
Not
For me
Old school
Nothing to fancy.
When u can't figure out where the shagging light switch is.
Yeah you went to far
Keep it simple eh
I always liked the sk range powerliner.
They were OK until they went out of gear when you wanted to move off again
never driven a merc artic only rigids
Nice to see a few pictures of Chambers and Cook trucks 😊
Yes Tim they looked well back than
Absolutely love these mercedes powerliner love the one tarped up
Yes, the powerliners where class lorrie in there day
Anything on the Leyland marathon or road train
Hi Mark there are a few videos on Leyland lorries and I will see what I can do
Thanks a lot 👍
@marktonge4225 your welcome Mark 🙏 🤗
I used to a power liner doing Europe conrad[uk]Ltd
hi, we had some of these Merc tractor units when i worked for London Transport, lovely lorries, better than todays ones,
Very true 👍 👌 Peter
I remember starting at 22-00 hrs and thinking where's my ERF going in the office and a note left with the keys for a new Merc you have this on demo for the next week. It had the new EPS box with the little stubby gear lever must admit after 2 days was quite in pressed with it.
I agree 💯
Thank you for sharing your memories ❤️ 😊
Electronic power shift
Great memories 👏👏👏👌
Thank you 😊 🙏 Paul glad you enjoyed it.
Very nice
Thank you steven.