I’m experimenting with uploading photographs, so if I get it wrong many apologies.
Anyway here’s two photos of the ICC yard in Salzburg in early 1973.
The big guy is George Fardell.
Yay I’ve done it!
Thanks to Truckerash for his good advice!
There’s lots more to come.
I like the elfin safety defiant figure on top of the container, but we could beat even that at Bulkliners in Nottingham, tightrope walking around the edges of open top containers to hook them on. 
As you had soft tops I expect you had some experience of that also. 
Nice pics of the offset R motor cab.
They’re not offset cabs spardo. They’re centrally located.
Jazzandy:
They’re not offset cabs spardo. They’re centrally located.
Must be an optical illusion then, the head on picture looks as if the side of the cab is aligned with the container and also the mudguard whereas the other picture definitely appears to be with the cab set inside the wing.
You’re right, it’s an optical illusion. When I post more photos you’ll see the difference.
It was a completely inappropriate cab for long distance work!
Hi Guys
Just out of curiosity I googled “Old Mack trucks” and this is what I came across !!
OM389 1967 R611T Mack Heavy Duty Tractor.
Mack Turbo 673T Diesel Engine.
200K Miles - all at LI, NY.
Mack 18 Speed Quad Transmission.
1100R 22 Like New Radial Tires.
Excellent Cab, Hood and Roof.
Double Frame with Helper Springs.
Custom Made Front Bumper.
An Indoor for Life Good Running Unit.
I do remember seeing them with the offset cab though, I also remember seeing the drivers sleeping on the bonnet wrapped up in those nice warm Turkish blankets !!
That’s an interesting shot because the radiator vanes are open meaning the engine must have been hot. They opened automatically as it heated up.
If you look at the ICC photo they are closed.
I’ve also done a bit of Googling and I think that the offset was developed mainly for dumper trucks rather than OTR tractors anyway but when seen is far more obvious than the optical illusion I obviously saw in your pictures Andy.
One giveaway of course is the comparative length of the mirror arms.
A mighty motor wherever you sat however. 
Sorry it’s not directly connected to the original post, but here’s a couple of photos of
a Mack with the offset cab.
These used to be regular visitors to our warehouse, collecting Perkins Engines for Spain.
Not the best of pictures, but hopefully of interest.
Another major differnece is that those lucky Spaniards had sleeper boxes!
Jazzandy:
Another major differnece is that those lucky Spaniards had sleeper boxes!
About the same room as the rabbit hutch on my Atki, but better than nothing. 
And as I said - mirror arms.
Just to whet your appetite a picture of the Mack command centre - and no tacho!!!
Here’s one of ‘my’ Mack good old 6822!
They used to call it ‘Easy Rider - Difficult Driver!’
By the way, that’s not me. That’s Hassan the ICC yard crane driver.
We always tried to make it back to Salzburg for the weekend no matter what. One Friday night I had loaded in Paris and made it up to the Strasbourg/kehl border but by the time I was cleared through customs I was too knackered to continue. The autobahns were closed to trucks at the weekend but on Saturdays you could drive on the old roads. So armed with my German road map I hit the roads and made it all the way to about 30 k’s before Munich where I came up against a 3.6m. Bridge. Schiesse! That was it for the weekend. 2200 on Sunday back on the Autobahn and cruised into Walserberg border and the ICC office at breakfast time. " Hey great to see you you son of a gun" said Gerd Behrends, the Salzburg manager, “we thought you were still in Kehl” buggers turned me straight round and I was back up at the border clearing into Germany by lunchtime! Happy days!
Here’s one of Abbas arriving at the Salzburg container terminal. He was the senior Iranian driver on the fleet and the other Iranians lived in fear of him as they were convinced he was a member of Savak the Shah’s secret police. he probably wasn’t but rumours abound on the road. He spent most of his time while I was there on Europe shunts.
dieseldave:
I remember the Prater and the Riesenrad fondly along with the impromptu football matches in Gebrüder Weiss’ yard between the Commie block and the EEC when we were weekended.Happy days!!
I’ve hung around at the Prater fairgrounds a few times, went up in that big wheel once, with us all being slightly pickled it was a rather boisterous ride Played footie in Gebruder Weiss’s yards too, the last time was at Bregenz, I had my boy with me as did a few of the other drivers and the local haulier Udo Hatzl pressganged a couple of locals into playing so we had a little mini tornament, it was a bloody good weekend and to top it off my team won, we had a BG driver on the team who was a bit tasty, everytime he got the ball he put it between the oil drums and in time honoured tradition, the losers bought the beers 
I used to see a lot of Iranians around in Austria, can’t remember where exactly, but I also recall seeing a load of Iraqi motors too, they were liveried up with The Islamic Republic of Iraq and were Scanias and, of course, Mercs. I used to mooch around between Vienna, Graz and Villach, so it would’ve been along that route somewhere
Hate to pull you up Mercman but it was Islamic
Republic of Iran. Iraq was a secular republic under Saddam which meant that although the regime was basically a bunch of thugs, they didn’t have the faux Islamic restrictions on women and booze.
As far as I can recall there was no national Iraqui transport company operating trucks outside Iraq and Jordan.
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Jazzandy:
Hate to pull you up Mercman but it was Islamic
Republic of Iran. Iraq was a secular republic under Saddam which meant that although the regime was basically a bunch of thugs, they didn’t have the faux Islamic restrictions on women and booze.As far as I can recall there was no national Iraqui transport company operating trucks outside Iraq and Jordan.
Oh, well it was a long time ago 
That means that we’re all talking about the same thing then
Iran had a nationalised transport company called IRIT (Islamic Republic of Iran Transport) that had a depot in Austria somewhere near Graz. This was after the fall of the Shah and after my time with ICC.
Like all nationalised companies it was very badly run and at one time a large section of overland exports to Iran had to go via them so European exporters would deliver their goods to the Austrian warehouse for transshipment onto Iranian trucks. It was chaos apparently and cargoes were taking months to get through to Iran as a result. Needless to say it collapsed and the private carriers came back into the market.