BIG AW:
Years ago I was told that Norman Lewis Tankers used to go to Pakistan with chemicals
Just type ‘Pakistan’ in the SEARCH box at the top of this page and you’ll find dozens of threads with posts showing the many drivers who did Afghanistan and Pakistan. Robert
BIG AW:
Years ago I was told that Norman Lewis Tankers used to go to Pakistan with chemicals
That raises an interesting question. How far did anyone get or has anyone gotten with a tanker? Tilts and box trailers were the order of the day back then and curtain siders / Euroliners are used now, but did anyone ever take a tanker down to the M/E or across Russia? Thinking about it, I have never seen a pic of one being dragged that far. Sounds like one for Uncle Robert I think! 
bullitt:
BIG AW:
Years ago I was told that Norman Lewis Tankers used to go to Pakistan with chemicalsThat raises an interesting question. How far did anyone get or has anyone gotten with a tanker? Tilts and box trailers were the order of the day back then and curtain siders / Euroliners are used now, but did anyone ever take a tanker down to the M/E or across Russia? Thinking about it, I have never seen a pic of one being dragged that far. Sounds like one for Uncle Robert I think!
Hi Bullitt, the first name that springs to mind was Tanker Bill from London. 
I remember seeing them lots of times in Turkey, usually at The Mocamp and I have a feeling that they went a lot further than that.
I.I.R.C. the name on the headboards and the door was T.I.R. Tanker International Reutiers or something like that but I am sure that somebody will remember them.
Regards Steve.
Wasnt a dutch company called Rotterdam tank transport RTT doing alot of russia? If my memory is right they were a great website whit lots of pics. Cant find it now thou…
Danne
newmercman:
Jelliot:
newmercman:
So kids, you can pay a fortune for a license to drive a lorry, once you have that license you’ll have to go on an agency for a couple of years in order to gain experience.Once you have that experience you can then drive a lorry for a company on long distance intercontinental journeys, you won’t earn any more, possibly even less than on the agency and you will be away for a few weeks, maybe longer. You will have to deal with harsh law enforcement on the continent and learn and abide by many different laws or you will be fined am extortionate amount, which will come out of your pocket.
As well as that you will have to put up with a complete lack of facilities, no Starbucks, no McDs, no WiFi, no Kiss FM, no Sky TV, no social life at all really. Getting a wash will be difficult at times and you will have to share a toilet seat with many people, some of whom have a complete disregard for cleanliness and a very bad aim.
Or, you can get a 9-5 gig, earn more money, meet a nice girl, settle down, have kids, watch them grow up, have a bath/shower and private toilet a few feet away and have a social life.
Can’t see why there’s a driver shortage can you…
Been having a bad day NNM ■■? I’d like to get into this but I’m of to work in 6 hours… and I’ve already done 78 hours this week and it’s only Friday… But I’ll be back !!!
Jeff…
Oh you’ve gone part time have you!
I just getting old Mark … can’t hack it with the kids any more!!!
Found it!
bullitt:
BIG AW:
Years ago I was told that Norman Lewis Tankers used to go to Pakistan with chemicalsThat raises an interesting question. How far did anyone get or has anyone gotten with a tanker? Tilts and box trailers were the order of the day back then and curtain siders / Euroliners are used now, but did anyone ever take a tanker down to the M/E or across Russia? Thinking about it, I have never seen a pic of one being dragged that far. Sounds like one for Uncle Robert I think!
I remember my Dads company taking quite a few tankers into Saudi during the early 80’s for a company based in Ossett nr Wakefield. Have to admit the tankers were not loaded and left there whilst the tractors bob tailed home. The tank was the load.
bullitt:
BIG AW:
Years ago I was told that Norman Lewis Tankers used to go to Pakistan with chemicalsThat raises an interesting question. How far did anyone get or has anyone gotten with a tanker? Tilts and box trailers were the order of the day back then and curtain siders / Euroliners are used now, but did anyone ever take a tanker down to the M/E or across Russia? Thinking about it, I have never seen a pic of one being dragged that far. Sounds like one for Uncle Robert I think!
I’m afraid Uncle Robert can’t come up with the goodies on tankers! I can’t remember seeing any Euro tankers beyond Euro land - that’s not to say that there weren’t any. Someone mentioned RTT (Rotterdam) and I’ll bet they pushed the boundaries if anyone did. There are some really good photo web-sites for RTT somewhere - just needs Googlin’! Robert
There are two very interesting photos here, the first one was on The Bubbleman Collection and I think that the second one might of been on the Old Stoke Companies thread.
I think that Ibis may of become Morgan Freight but I can’t remember if it was run by Barry or Terry Morgan. 
Some interesting stuff there chaps, MM, Uncle Bob and Danne. I looked on RTT website and they have a few gallery pictures of runs to Russia and, going by MM`s pic, it looks like at least one British company may have taken one to M/E.! Maybe they were just very few and far between!
RTT took over Rombouts who were one of the ‘‘pioneers’’ in Holland for running to ‘‘far off and strange’’ places.
Carryfast:
AndieHyde:
Even in Europe, a super B could be done with the right tractor as the motorways of France, Spain and Italy are long and straight enough. Not sure how you would go over the Blanc though. I seem to remember Denby Transport set up a road train as a proof of concept for UK/European work and most likely got shot out of the water with a barrage of red tape.There seems to be broad agreement on both sides of the Pacific and the Atlantic that the rigid pulling a decent trailer is the best way of hauling the most freight with the least aggro regards available road space at least. .
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…until you find out that the whole world prefers these, when the opportunity arises:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train#C-train
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anorak:
…until you find out that the whole world prefers these, when the opportunity arises:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train#C-train
Which leaves the question as to why Australia at least ( rightly ) doesn’t seem to like the idea of a dolly that doesn’t seem to articulate at both ends.On that note it would be interesting to see how it negotiates corners and bends with only one point of articulation 
compared to a ‘proper’ one and the relative lines taken by the lead and the coupled trailer in that case.
Don’t believe everything you read on the internet, that page states 38m as the overall length of a turnpike double (A train) in Canada, not true, it’s 41m plus any wildlife protection (moose bumper) or aerodynamic device (trailer tail) it used to be 38m, which restricted their use to daycabs, fortunately they upped the limit to allow sleeper cabs, otherwise my night’s out wouldn’t be very comfortable.
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Anyone on here got any contacts of Ibis or Morgan Overland Trucking drivers and any photos please
morganoverland:
Anyone on here got any contacts of Ibis or Morgan Overland Trucking drivers and any photos please
Not sure whether you may have seen this thread yet… viewtopic.php?f=35&t=13629 …but if you have a spare couple of days it is well worth reading through. Im sure there are some pictures of Morgan Overland in there somewhere.
Anyone know what was kicking off here? A B-series Eric Vick ERF with what appears to be a stripped down tilt with fish tank stillages. What? Robert
ERF-NGC-European:
Anyone know what was kicking off here? A B-series Eric Vick ERF with what appears to be a stripped down tilt with fish tank stillages. What? Robert
It says “Bristol Channel Fisheries” on the banner on the hut at the front of the trailer. I reckon that hut contains a fridge plant, connected to the tanks by those pipes along the top. Long distance transport of live fish appears to be the activity- to where is the question.
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anorak:ERF-NGC-European:
Anyone know what was kicking off here? A B-series Eric Vick ERF with what appears to be a stripped down tilt with fish tank stillages. What? RobertIt says “Bristol Channel Fisheries” on the banner on the hut at the front of the trailer. I reckon that hut contains a fridge plant, connected to the tanks by those pipes along the top. Long distance transport of live fish appears to be the activity- to where is the question.
I’ve carted a fair bit of fish in my time fresh … frozen … and live… those are live fish tanks on the Eric Vick trailer… When we do live fish we have to carry oxygen tanks to keep the levels right in the tank for the fish or they die… The bigger the fish the more oxygen they use…
The trailers we use look like one big tank but actually have 5 separate compartments in them with front and rear mounted oxygen bottels the same size as the big ones used for oxy welding ( about 5 foot tall ) We normally have one bottle per tank and the oxy level has to be constantly measured…
The reading or density has to be between 14 and 16 or the fish will drown as it’s their only supply of oxygen… with big fish or pregnant if you like they’ll get through a bottle per tank every day and a half…
I would imagine that hut on the front of the trailer has a few spare bottels of oxygen in it. some feed and crap filters … UK to Minsk is the best part of 5 days ( not including the very efficient commie block customs )
Some of the long hauls that we do they only have 4 tanks with fish in them as the fish tend to crap a lot when in transit. so they net the fish from one tank into the cleen tank, then refill and keep doing that until all the fish are in fresh water… On these jobs we travel with a crew from the fish farm and let them get on with it… They also run the job and we do exactly what they tel us. A trailer load full of pregnant Atlantic Salmon is worth millions…
I don’t often get involved with live fish… If they load them and they’re already dead and filited, then they can’t get any more dead…
On a different note I recently saw a video on you tube about 2 guys that supposedly drove a VW Touareg from London to Sydney… There’s a bit of controversy about it as you never see the drivers, all the footage is from a dash mounted Go Pro… the route was London, France, Italy, Greece,Turkey, Back into Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Samara, cause I know the bridge. loch gate, flood control thing there well, bit more footage of the A4 across Russia… turn right at Astana, then left for Mongolia… China. Loas, Singapore… Into a shipping container to Darwin then Mount Isa and down the East coast to Sydney ( looked like Camperdown or Strathfield area )
The video has only been about for a couple of months but the trip was reported as being done in 2014 and most of the sensible comments were about wondering how the drivers managed to get permission to drive through China. Even today the only way you can drive in China is to have a Chinese drivers license, which means you must be a Chinese citizen, and the car has to be registered in China … It has been suggested that there were various drivers and various cars involved… I went straight away to trawl the internet, including Nova tours who still do assisted ( guided ) outings and looking at Bus Oz,and can’t find any way to drive through China without the aforementioned credentials…
Jeff…
Thank you Jeff and Anorak for your replies: most enlightening! Cheers, Robert 
