On last nights caen portsmouth ferry there was an american long nose volvo pulling a Corvette racing team trailer on Michigan plates. Presume it had came from le mans.
He just passed me on the M40. Do they need permits etc to run over here and could a british truck theoretically do the same over there?
Snowgo:
On last nights caen portsmouth ferry there was an american long nose volvo pulling a Corvette racing team trailer on Michigan plates. Presume it had came from le mans.
He just passed me on the M40. Do they need permits etc to run over here and could a british truck theoretically do the same over there?
Can’t answer your question but I also spotted it on M3 earlier this morning, it did look impressive.
Quite often see that rig at seaforth docks
If it’s not got special types authorisation,which a car transporter probably wouldn’t get,then the odds are that it would get stopped,at lest here by VOSA,if it’s caught assuming it’s over the overall length limits.
Other than that it’s ok to use US spec non EU type approved vehicles here on temporary entry so long as they comply with overall dimnensions regs.IE cab over with a Euro length compliant trailer.Or possibly even a conventional so long as the trailer is short enough to comply with the overall length limits.Including for commercial haulage purposes.Which might be even easier now being that overall length limits for artics have been increased.
However that’s not the case in North America ‘if’ it’s used for commercial haulage purposes.In that case it has to be DOT type approved and tested.However in the case of temporary entry for own account non commercial operations like race transporters the same regs as here apply.IE a Euro spec truck can then be used in North America.
I saw this on the M6 yesterday! Anybody got any pics of it??
Think of the cost of filling up the bugger !
It would be great if their drivers could put a post on here about the job.
Lader:
I saw this on the M6 yesterday! Anybody got any pics of it??
I’m guessing it’s the usual ACL Ro Ro route here and back…
And none of you got a quick snap of it for us other truck nuts 
Dotty D:
And none of you got a quick snap of it for us other truck nuts
Some say that when they landed in France they shouted we’re back and we’re going to beat the Germans again which they did.But somehow they let a Ferrari powered by a hairdryer motor beat them. 
Thought it was going to be exciting, but it’s only a bloody Volvo.
the ‘American Circus’,based a few miles from Grantham,have some proper American trucks…ancient Peterbilt’s and Kenworth’s amongst 'em 
worth a look if they are set up anywhere near…
Yes the truck has just come back from Le Mans, it’s not unusual for at least one American race team to bring their trucks over for that race and they always seem to run Volvos.
A couple of years ago Krone racing bought their truck over for the whole series which meant driving it round Europe. I had a chat with the driver at Spa, he said he didn’t have to many problems except for France where its considered Convoy Exceptional, so he couldn’t always use the Autoroutes, but had to use national roads instead.
Some teams have taken their trucks from Europe to the US, I think it’s got more complicated in recent years though, Prodrive who run Aston Martin GT’s did it in 2012, they had their trucks DOT approved and linked in with a US haulage company to help with other stuff, I believe the drivers had to be drug tested.
Talking to their Truckies the biggest problem they had was getting out of truckstops, they’d want to stop for 30 minutes, but end up in them for an hour as the US truck drivers always wanted to look round a European truck, probably no different than having a US truck in the UK.
muckles:
Some teams have taken their trucks from Europe to the US, I think it’s got more complicated in recent years though, Prodrive who run Aston Martin GT’s did it in 2012, they had their trucks DOT approved
Theoretically if it’s possible,and/or you need,to get DOT approval now for a Euro spec truck doing own account race transporter type work in North America 
there also shouldn’t then be any obstacle to also using one for commercial work either.So long as it’s international freight movement not considered as cabotage.Which might even possibly include USA-Canada freight movements but certainly Europe-North America.However it would be interesting to find out how a Euro spec truck could possibly qualify for DOT compliance as usually things like braking systems amongst other issues wouldn’t allow it.Which,together with massive Transatlantic Ro Ro shipping rates,compared to containers,is one of the main obstacles stopping a transatlantic commercial haulage operation as opposed to specialist own account race type transport etc.Because it’s so far been impossible to MOT and register a DOT compliant truck here and it’s not worth running a North American reg truck on commercial haulage work outside North America because there’s not enough miles in the job.
I see this regularly around South France, and a few other Kenworths from other French companies.
Found a picture of the tractor unit on my phone.
Nice to live in yeh, but ■■■■■■ dog ugly 
, sorry don’t get physically aroused by trucks 
but whatever turns you on and each to his own and all that etc etc
robroy:
Nice to live in yeh, but [zb] dog ugly
The OP ask about the truck, I’ve downloaded the photos on my phone this morning and found that I took a picture of it whilst at Le Mans, so I thought I’d post is as it had a relevance to this thread.
I take pictures of many things these days, it’s the great thing of having a camera on a phone. It’s not everyday you see a US truck in Europe and as I was there and my phone was in my pocket I took a picture of it.