Wow, remember seeing this on TV back in the day and was driving that Transconti for him!! Certainly a truck ahead of it's time and really wanted one. Sat through this again, twice, and brought back some very happy memories reminiscing about the past. More happy times than what we are currently living through now!! Thanks for putting this on, had thought about this many times over the years thinking i would never get the chance to see it again!
BETTER TIMES FOR DRIVERS . BETTER MONEY. LESS PRESSURE. NO VOSA. NO DIGI CARD . NO SPEED LIMITER. AND THEY STILL GOT THE JOB DONE. ALL ROADS LEAD 2 ROME IS ANOTHER GOOD TRUCK FILM FROM THIS TIME TOO.
I had a transcon back in the day T reg drove to Italy many times before the motorway was built 290 Cummings & Fuller gearbox happy days brought Back many memories, I was 24 at the time just a boy starting out happy days thought I was king off the road
I remember seeing this when it first came out, I was about 12. Guess what I do for a living? I drive a truck. Brilliant to see it again after all these years.
Loved this video, reminds me of a much different times, great to see the ford transcontinental, which at that time was the bees knees, never once heard him mention the tachograph, drive til your tired, get there when you can, different days indeed,,
In the 80tis and early 90tis I repair the Transconti , all Pieces are verry heavy. The Stearing , the Starter, , the dobble Disc Clutch, the Brakes from Stoppmaster. The Valves and Injector adjusting , with a Micrometer .oh my God ,long Time ago. But I never , never Miss this Time. Ford Transontinental , Cummins Big Cam , Eaton Roadrange Gearbox.and Rearaxle. Push the Button and let's go. Keep in trucking.
aw love this, standing on a forklift bars wedging stuff back in the trailer, bribeing customs with smokes and smoking indoors, fake permits openly talked about, people wareing noraml cloths, noone covered from head to toe in high viz suits, police men throwing things at camra men just for not asking to film. love it all, when we used to be able to live life in the moment with a sence of freedom.
Well said.. it really is crap now.... regardless how easy the trucks are to drive nowadays i just think technology has ruined everything Including our once great profession
Superbe vidéo, merci ! Quel bonheur de revoir un Transcontinental et de retrouver l'ambiance de cette époque sur la route et le parc auto et camions des '70 !
Yes i remember this on the telly, i seem to think there was a film of Astran wagons going to somewhere like Doha on about the same time. It was fantastic seeing this again. Thank you from an old lorry driver.
@@dicktate964 Thanks for that i'll look out for it. I can remember us watching it with my Dad at the time and we were just amazed by it,loading up and taking weeks to deliver it.
Yep I have run with this guy when I was trucking for W T Laceys out of Barking we were also running Transcons alongside Scania & Volvo`s and the Leyland marathon crap.. Those were the days.
Well before my time driving trucks....sadly by the time I did my Artic test in late 2006, there was loads of feel-less automated crap on the scene. I would happily jump in an old Transconti (or a Leyland Marathon, Volvo F88/9, F10/12, V8 Scania 140/1/2/3 etc etc and feel them all the way..... 👍👍👍
Always wanted to drive trucks just like my father. So i passed my HGV test and wish i had not. No freedom? CCTV watching you in the cab, vehicle tracked and unachievable time slots. Achievable if you drive like a nutter. Typical transport managers not allowing time for delays like traffic etc etc!!!
Ford continental / Renault at the time it came out was in competition with the iveco turbostar the Volvo FL10, scania 141 and the daf 3500. Those trucks were the best thing since slice bread. I worked on these beasts 40 years ago and we also had a Leyland leopard and an old AEC wooden cabs for recovery trucks. They bellowed out smoke on startup every morning London lez would love em.
Only 8700 of these trucks were produced and sold over a period of 9 years, so it was no competition to all the other european truck manufacturers. And besides the badge there's nothing ford about the the whole truck, because the cab was made by berliet and the engine was a cummins.
Great film My truck called Lady Diana because my wife’s called Diana how bloody nice but a few moments befor that’s the blonde I was talking about lol This guy must be in his 70’s /80’s now
That Transcontinental didn't look like it was having to work hard at all for most of that journey. Interesting catching a glimpse of a Scammell Crusader doing continental runs too.
s125ish transcontinental or Crusader? I’d guess mid 1980s or slightly later hauling goods. A number would have been converted into recovery vehicles, I saw 6x4 Crusaders operating as recovery trucks in Wales in 2008.
I bet that young lad in the film at the table in the bake house became a driver . I used to go abroad from when i was about 14 with a family friend in his scania . 142 it deffo influenced me into becoming a driver . . What i hate about the job is the backstabbjng and bitching that goes on . They worse than fishwives some of them . Honestly . .. and some have egos bigger than the loads they are movin . U get some great guys too . Its great seeing a transconti my fave truck of all time . 14 litre cummins power . And this guy has a brand new fruehauf trailer by the looks of things . Pal mall cigarettes lol gd bribery material . That and jazz mags . Lol . Depending where u were . Haha . Changed days indeed . Sranding on the forklift classic . Something ive done many times . And thought nothing of it . Lol great vid ferdy . Thanks for posting .
I remember people who owned transcons, back in the 80s,beautiful truck they had a cab that swayed alot ithink they had bad brakes as well I've driven alot of different models would love to have driven one hello from southern Ireland
I used to run a 'Big Cam' Transcontinental. 3.5m wheelbase 4 x 2. to dodge the permit game we used the border at Aachen Bildgen and as long as all your papers were tidy in a pile they stamped the white back sheet but not the green front page. Calais was different as we had to put a 50 franc note in the permit folded in half. As they opened the permit the cash dropped out and went in his pocket. No stamped permit!
the veeder rout taco, when day was night and night was day, and wednesday was friday, and running saturday was monday with a day off. my first trip out with my brother 1978, i was fascinated, 3 yrs later i was driving at the age of 21, wouldn't give it the time of day now.
Thank you Ferdy out via the Blanc and back via Cenis , my time started 7 years later other than 1 trip in the 70s to Rotterdam , so not much had changed , then was no problems eith the French permits but the Italian permits was worth 10 pounds with out a stamp and using Cenis both ways 20 pounds and when Fingers got transferred from Aosta to Cenis ,,,no problem
Is there a reason you went mount blanc! back in the day? If I’m doing north east Italy I go Lux Munich through Austria straight down to trieste. No costly tunnels either.
Thanks for that Ferdy.... Any chance of a T- shirt re run Sties or Friderici would be good....I really liked your old slideshows with period music that you did at the end of some of your early dvds .... Daniel Fremond and Claude Rey did some fantastic camera work.....
Ford Transcontinental were great Trucks with their Cummins Engines, strong, combined with the Volvo F 10-12 at this time no luxury :-) I grew up having 3 Transcontinentals at home, besides Mercedes 1632, 2032 (old Cab !), DAF 2800 DKS, Volvo F 12 and several good old MAN Bussing with underfloor engines. Ford was the best tractor with DAF, wish to find a good one for hobby.
shame the quality is not the best. barry read from Bridlington is one of the drivers sat in the bakery. not an ounce of fat on lorry drivers from those days.
35:36 Amico! (My Friend) , sposta l'aggeggio! (Move that thing) and then he throws the hat to the camera man ahhahahahahah Being Italian it is even more fascinating to see this historical artifact. Unfortunately the world of those years is gone...
Bu Ford tır .aynısı 1984 almanca Ali bey komsumuzdu getirp bir türlü randıman alamamıştı. Sonra hurdaluga çöp oldu hey gidi günler hey. Kupasını bir konya li satmış tü.
This guy is so full of his own self importance, it's stomach churning. So, he reckons you need the intelligence of a cabinet minister to be a truck driver, what planet is he living on? As an ex UK and international truck driver with 45 years experience, now retired, I can safely say, truck driving is one of the easiest ways to make a living. You could train a monkey to do it. I enjoyed my years as a driver, however, there is nothing special about it.
We have better trucks now better conditions but still the money is very bad. Class 1 ur lucky if ya get £13 per hour how can a grown man feed a family on that it's terrible
Most i ever saw was £10 an hour. Left the industry for 8 months but seen a job for £15 an hour just for trunking but is probably too good to be true. Gonna apply and give the industry one last shot for a year or two if it works out. Save up some more and then run for the hills
£12 an hour here for Artic doing multi drop for a pallet network. Shit money, and tight tossers to work for, majority of my colleagues are a mix of throwbacks and brown-noses, but I'm home every night and it's 5 mins away from my gaff.......
Wow, remember seeing this on TV back in the day and was driving that Transconti for him!! Certainly a truck ahead of it's time and really wanted one. Sat through this again, twice, and brought back some very happy memories reminiscing about the past. More happy times than what we are currently living through now!! Thanks for putting this on, had thought about this many times over the years thinking i would never get the chance to see it again!
BETTER TIMES FOR DRIVERS . BETTER MONEY. LESS PRESSURE. NO VOSA. NO DIGI CARD . NO SPEED LIMITER. AND THEY STILL GOT THE JOB DONE. ALL ROADS LEAD 2 ROME IS ANOTHER GOOD TRUCK FILM FROM THIS TIME TOO.
i can recommend Dubai Road Express Film here on youtube aswell really great film about trucking from Norway to the Middleeast.
You are shouting as it is called when you have pressed your caps lock, please unlearn this and turn it off, thanks !!
My Father was full of praise for this vehicle when testing it for Tate and Lyle Sugar, Canning Town .
I had a transcon back in the day T reg drove to Italy many times before the motorway was built 290 Cummings & Fuller gearbox happy days brought Back many memories, I was 24 at the time just a boy starting out happy days thought I was king off the road
You were king of the road at the time.
God Bless
I remember seeing this when it first came out, I was about 12. Guess what I do for a living? I drive a truck. Brilliant to see it again after all these years.
Loved this video, reminds me of a much different times, great to see the ford transcontinental, which at that time was the bees knees, never once heard him mention the tachograph, drive til your tired, get there when you can, different days indeed,,
In the 80tis and early 90tis
I repair the Transconti , all Pieces are verry heavy. The Stearing , the Starter, , the dobble Disc Clutch, the Brakes from Stoppmaster. The Valves and Injector adjusting , with a Micrometer .oh my God ,long Time ago. But I never , never Miss this Time. Ford Transontinental , Cummins Big Cam , Eaton Roadrange Gearbox.and Rearaxle. Push the Button and let's go. Keep in trucking.
Proper truck with proper feel......
aw love this, standing on a forklift bars wedging stuff back in the trailer, bribeing customs with smokes and smoking indoors, fake permits openly talked about, people wareing noraml cloths, noone covered from head to toe in high viz suits, police men throwing things at camra men just for not asking to film. love it all, when we used to be able to live life in the moment with a sence of freedom.
I share your appreciation, absolutely fantastic.
@@baz9438 I totally agree, it's like a totally different world now.....😓 Bureaucracy shockingly gone mad!! 💯😡
Well said.. it really is crap now.... regardless how easy the trucks are to drive nowadays i just think technology has ruined everything
Including our once great profession
@@jondrizzle4554 VERY well said....... 👍👍👍👍
@@Jademyheart Well said sir...... 👍👍
Le Transcontinental... Un magnifique camion à l'époque.... Merci pour la vidéo.
Superbe vidéo, merci ! Quel bonheur de revoir un Transcontinental et de retrouver l'ambiance de cette époque sur la route et le parc auto et camions des '70 !
Transcontinental was always a cracking looking truck, how things have gone downhill since this was filmed it's like a different continent.
Yes i remember this on the telly, i seem to think there was a film of Astran wagons going to somewhere like Doha on about the same time. It was fantastic seeing this again. Thank you from an old lorry driver.
that was called destination doha my friend . you can still get it on dvd .
@@dicktate964 Thanks for that i'll look out for it. I can remember us watching it with my Dad at the time and we were just amazed by it,loading up and taking weeks to deliver it.
Yeah destination Doha it's on u tube as well think it's three episodes
Yep I have run with this guy when I was trucking for W T Laceys out of Barking we were also running Transcons alongside Scania & Volvo`s and the Leyland marathon crap.. Those were the days.
One truck I would love to drive . They were just before my time driving trucks
Well before my time driving trucks....sadly by the time I did my Artic test in late 2006, there was loads of feel-less automated crap on the scene.
I would happily jump in an old Transconti (or a Leyland Marathon, Volvo F88/9, F10/12, V8 Scania 140/1/2/3 etc etc and feel them all the way..... 👍👍👍
£80 a week .. awesome, different times , better times .. is this guy still with us ? .... toprun .. top man .
Even today wagon drivers are still treated like crap. But then the attitude has changed so much. Not as much pride in the job these days.
Always wanted to drive trucks just like my father. So i passed my HGV test and wish i had not. No freedom? CCTV watching you in the cab, vehicle tracked and unachievable time slots. Achievable if you drive like a nutter. Typical transport managers not allowing time for delays like traffic etc etc!!!
@@ivecodaddy4817 Aint that the truth.
Was born and started driving about 30 years too late 😵😵
Ford continental / Renault at the time it came out was in competition with the iveco turbostar the Volvo FL10, scania 141 and the daf 3500. Those trucks were the best thing since slice bread. I worked on these beasts 40 years ago and we also had a Leyland leopard and an old AEC wooden cabs for recovery trucks. They bellowed out smoke on startup every morning London lez would love em.
Only 8700 of these trucks were produced and sold over a period of 9 years, so it was no competition to all the other
european truck manufacturers. And besides the badge there's nothing ford about the the whole truck, because the cab
was made by berliet and the engine was a cummins.
@@3DPeter yes Peter and the chassis was from the Ford Louisville.
There was no Turbo star, FL10 or even 141 on the road when the Trans con first came out. They all came later.
Great film
My truck called Lady Diana because my wife’s called Diana how bloody nice but a few moments befor that’s the blonde I was talking about lol
This guy must be in his 70’s /80’s now
Brought back memories did this 1979
That Transcontinental didn't look like it was having to work hard at all for most of that journey.
Interesting catching a glimpse of a Scammell Crusader doing continental runs too.
CycolacFan when you reckon last one was in service in uk
s125ish transcontinental or Crusader? I’d guess mid 1980s or slightly later hauling goods.
A number would have been converted into recovery vehicles, I saw 6x4 Crusaders operating as recovery trucks in Wales in 2008.
I bet that young lad in the film at the table in the bake house became a driver . I used to go abroad from when i was about 14 with a family friend in his scania . 142 it deffo influenced me into becoming a driver . . What i hate about the job is the backstabbjng and bitching that goes on . They worse than fishwives some of them . Honestly . .. and some have egos bigger than the loads they are movin . U get some great guys too . Its great seeing a transconti my fave truck of all time . 14 litre cummins power . And this guy has a brand new fruehauf trailer by the looks of things . Pal mall cigarettes lol gd bribery material . That and jazz mags . Lol . Depending where u were . Haha . Changed days indeed . Sranding on the forklift classic . Something ive done many times . And thought nothing of it . Lol great vid ferdy . Thanks for posting .
I remember people who owned transcons, back in the 80s,beautiful truck they had a cab that swayed alot ithink they had bad brakes as well I've driven alot of different models would love to have driven one hello from southern Ireland
Hence why they were called nodding dogs, by most people that drove them.
@@lesshepherd5239 thank you
I used to run a 'Big Cam' Transcontinental. 3.5m wheelbase 4 x 2.
to dodge the permit game we used the border at Aachen Bildgen and as long as all your papers were tidy in a pile they stamped the white back sheet but not the green front page.
Calais was different as we had to put a 50 franc note in the permit folded in half. As they opened the permit the cash dropped out and went in his pocket. No stamped permit!
Fantastic Video
Wonderful those dated images, I am immediately curious about more
the veeder rout taco, when day was night and night was day, and wednesday was friday, and running saturday was monday with a day off. my first trip out with my brother 1978, i was fascinated, 3 yrs later i was driving at the age of 21, wouldn't give it the time of day now.
@Seamus Burke doesn't really matter, both fiddled just has well.
@Seamus Burke no change there then, apart from the magnet.
Thank you Ferdy out via the Blanc and back via Cenis , my time started 7 years later other than 1 trip in the 70s to Rotterdam , so not much had changed , then was no problems eith the French permits but the Italian permits was worth 10 pounds with out a stamp and using Cenis both ways 20 pounds and when Fingers got transferred from Aosta to Cenis ,,,no problem
lembranças dos anos 70,saudade,lindo
Any chance of you putting up Destination Doha. Great video, many thanks Michael 👍👍
It's on YT now mate, different channel
@@freddymarcel-marcum6831 I can't find it mate 🧐🧐
@@MrBoom246 th-cam.com/play/PLB7CF3F3D8C9A7548.html
It's a playlist, give it a go
It's all been blocked 😩😩
My gosh, i drive a 25.25 m truck and trailer oil tanker in Sweden.
Big difference from the truck of old
Love the organ music anyone know what its called
Eugène Gigout's Toccata in B minor
Interessante este vídeo muito antigo...o estilo de vida dos estradeiros europeus...
Just looking at the width of thoes trousers it's amazing how they never got caught up in something
Skinny jeans today are more like to trap you vitals ,
I started high school in 1991, our jeans were like wearing a floor length dress. Comfortable though 🙂
bobby shafters (wafters)
Is there a reason you went mount blanc! back in the day? If I’m doing north east Italy I go Lux Munich through Austria straight down to trieste. No costly tunnels either.
Need a permit to go that way which he doesn’t have.
Thanks for that Ferdy.... Any chance of a T- shirt re run Sties or Friderici would be good....I really liked your old slideshows with period music that you did at the end of some of your early dvds .... Daniel Fremond and Claude Rey did some fantastic camera work.....
Ford Transcontinental were great Trucks with their Cummins Engines, strong, combined with the Volvo F 10-12 at this time no luxury :-) I grew up having 3 Transcontinentals at home, besides Mercedes 1632, 2032 (old Cab !), DAF 2800 DKS, Volvo F 12 and several good old MAN Bussing with underfloor engines. Ford was the best tractor with DAF, wish to find a good one for hobby.
Thanks a lot. I am checking !
£80 quid a week is 700 a week today. 1100 is roughly 7900
shame the quality is not the best.
barry read from Bridlington is one of the drivers sat in the bakery.
not an ounce of fat on lorry drivers from those days.
INTELLIGENCE OF CABINET MINISTERS COME ON TRUCK DRIVERS AREN'T THICK!
1978?? Diseño futurísta!
Wonder what the haulage rates were like back then .
Better
Same as today
Rates were crap but you could run longer days and do 3 runs to Italy where today you would struggle to get in 2 in the same time frame.
Better as the cost of living was fck all.
35:36 Amico! (My Friend) , sposta l'aggeggio! (Move that thing) and then he throws the hat to the camera man ahhahahahahah
Being Italian it is even more fascinating to see this historical artifact. Unfortunately the world of those years is gone...
Anyone know if Robert is still alive?
TheGoose47 how old you reckon , he posted in a forum in 2014
Truck driving is pretty fucked now that we have www,mobile phones,Twat Navs and Digital Tachos,oh and Vosa.
Der undeutliche Ton passt zum unscharfen Bild. Interessantes Thema, aber so ist es mühsam.
Bu Ford tır .aynısı 1984 almanca Ali bey komsumuzdu getirp bir türlü randıman alamamıştı. Sonra hurdaluga çöp oldu hey gidi günler hey. Kupasını bir konya li satmış tü.
and old school drivers say all drivers do today is moan and complain , lol. WHATS CHANGED ,
frustratednomad nothing
1:47 trucks speed 120 kmh
Big mighty Transconti.... you see at 12.23....
French totty , Get in there son . 😁👍🇬🇧
Da hat Lkw Fahren noch Spaß gemacht, wenn es auch Zeitlich und Körperlich anstrengender war!
Looks like Mont Cenis
правда нихрена не понятно, о чем говорят, но смотреть интересно. классный контент👍
Snow flakes need not apply . Lol .
This guy is so full of his own self importance, it's stomach churning.
So, he reckons you need the intelligence of a cabinet minister to be a truck driver, what planet is he living on?
As an ex UK and international truck driver with 45 years experience, now retired, I can safely say, truck driving is one of the easiest ways to make a living. You could train a monkey to do it.
I enjoyed my years as a driver, however, there is nothing special about it.
Great
Great vid
Very interesting about the paper work so when UK jointed the EU the paper work was still the same so that makes a mockery of BREXIT now am I correct
transconti
My wife is called Diana and I like to think she's a lady ......you may want to check that mate🤣
Crispy
The driver has long since retired I think, ha ha ha
We have better trucks now better conditions but still the money is very bad. Class 1 ur lucky if ya get £13 per hour how can a grown man feed a family on that it's terrible
Most i ever saw was £10 an hour. Left the industry for 8 months but seen a job for £15 an hour just for trunking but is probably too good to be true.
Gonna apply and give the industry one last shot for a year or two if it works out. Save up some more and then run for the hills
£12 an hour here for Artic doing multi drop for a pallet network.
Shit money, and tight tossers to work for, majority of my colleagues are a mix of throwbacks and brown-noses, but I'm home every night and it's 5 mins away from my gaff.......
@@thechongwolla 15 quid an hour is agency work surely? I've seen 20 quid+ an hour as agency but that usually entails handball front store delivery.
These old BBC propaganda film's are interesting to watch...
Fantastic Video