The HZJ might be common over there, but quite rare here.
eBay UK, currently has 7,900 Toyota for sale adverts, of which 4 are for 70 Series.
AutoTrader UK has 18,700 Toy ads with 1 70 pick up.
Your picture of the Commer 15cwt van reminded me of two things. Firstly that I remember driving the minibus version of it. And secondly of a conversation I overheard in our local, between a bloke who was a bit of an intellectual âpseudâ and a retired Telecom worker. The Telecom worker was defending his use of English language by mentioning that heâd done a bit of paperwork editing in his time. âOh,â said the pseud, âSo what do you think of the Oxford comma?â
âWell,â explained the Telecom man, âThey were OK if you remembered to shut the sliding door before pulling up at the next set of traffic lights, or the door was likely to slam on your arm if you were holding the handle by the mirror.â
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A nice literary joke. 
Decades ago, I was transported by one of these infernal devices from my school in Liskeard to Newquay or St. Austell or Wadebridge or wherever, and it was one of the slowest, wheeziest, roly-poly experiences of my life. I thought going to school on a wheezy Bedford SB3 (Duple Vega) was bad enough.
Aboods, Northmead?
Rolly-poly just about sums up the ride! The tracking was narrow so the body was wider than the wheels. And youâre right again about the Bedford SB3, wheezy as it was, it did roll less!
It wasnât just that the body was wider than the (very narrow) track, itâs that much of the load of the minibus was outside the chassis. We all know what that leads to.
Just seen a couple of posts elsewhere having a go at at Yogi from Outback Truckers is he not a popular bloke?
Yogiâs ok, theyâre all drama queens, or more accurately play the contrived role for entertainment purposes.
The only real arsewipe was Turbo, from the first series. He was universally hated by everyone in the industry, no one had any sympathy for him when he ended up in jail.
Precisely. Same as Ice Road Truckers and so on.
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I have never seen Outback Truckers, probably because I had seen Ice Road Truckers, and declined the experience. 
This sounds a bit like that bloke who spilled the beans about all the illegal frontier crossing stuff in Europe when the world was young. Bob somebody I think.
He was invited to a film premier in Leicester Square with his unit and announced his arrival by colliding with the overhead canopy of the cinema.
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Leyland Buffalo and Scammell Contractor (atkipete on flickr)
Doing my daily guesting catchup look in, nothing flash about Steve Graham on Outback Truckers. A link to previous input.
Oily
No one was more surprised to hear of his passing than the legend himself, Steve Grahame!
Fear not, Steve is alive and well and will be back stirring up the bull dust for Season 7.
This was posted on Outback truckers official page earlier this year.
This debunks a few myths. I donât know why, otherwise sensible, people would think road trains are hard to stop. The axle loads, ergo number of brakes, are the same regardless of how many trailers.
One thing they got, sort of right and sort of wrong, is the speed limit. Right in so far as the speed limit is 90, but the reality is no one is going to get done for up to 100. Get caught at 101, youâll get pinged for 11 over.
Interesting, but I wish they wouldnât flash back and forth between different shots, and also speeding up the film doesnât help the point being made.
BTW, still waiting for my training schedule to arrive. 
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