Welly Bobby:
robert1952:
Jelliot, you mentioned a Eurotech that did regular Kazakhstan trips a couple of times earlier on this thread. Is this the one? Robert
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Hi,
Dave parked when home in Ditchfield Transport Bamber Bridge for a few year while I worked in Ditchys Garage. You should of seen the state of the unit and trailer when he returned, it had ratchet straps holding both the truck and trailer together. Someone had a good job sorting that out.
Dave did say he tried all units i.e. Scania chassis used the snap and the other were no better, he said the Iveco was the one to stand the pain the trip give, he would say he sometime took a short cut across ice for 1200ks to shorten the trip to Kazakhstan.
What a guy he is and so good to talk to.
Cheers Welly
Thanks for that detail! Robert 
robert1952:
Welly Bobby:
robert1952:
Jelliot, you mentioned a Eurotech that did regular Kazakhstan trips a couple of times earlier on this thread. Is this the one? Robert
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Hi,
Dave parked when home in Ditchfield Transport Bamber Bridge for a few year while I worked in Ditchys Garage. You should of seen the state of the unit and trailer when he returned, it had ratchet straps holding both the truck and trailer together. Someone had a good job sorting that out.
Dave did say he tried all units i.e. Scania chassis used the snap and the other were no better, he said the Iveco was the one to stand the pain the trip give, he would say he sometime took a short cut across ice for 1200ks to shorten the trip to Kazakhstan.
What a guy he is and so good to talk to.
Cheers Welly
Thanks for that detail! Robert
Hi Again,
Most of his mud wings off the unit and trailer were in the back of the trailer on his return, he once said new batteries were fitted every time he got back cos of the cold weather. chassis fuels filters were hanging on there pipes, cab screen gone every time he go home. The truck was what we say hanging and how it got from Dover to Lancashire we sometimes did wonder Lol let along going were he did.
Cheers Welly
Just to cross-reference this thread with the World Truck thread; I wouldn’t mind betting that the EuroTrakker morphs into one of those ubiquitous North African trucks that go on and on. The chassis is certainly strong enough to qualify and so are the low-tech engine versions, but whether the cabs will stand the test of time is doubtful! 
Robert
Well, to answer my own question (above): this appears to be the case. Large numbers of EuroTrakkers perform long-haul duties in Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti. Here are some EuroTrakkers I photographed plying the arduous route from Djibouti port to Addis Ababa (in Ethiopia). Robert
And here are two I found on the internet, plying the same route.
I knew I should have gone to bed when I signed out instead of looking at your latest post!
I do think the British manufacturers tried far too hard in the seventies.
Look at Jelliot’s Kenworths now. They look the same as they did back then.
Oh BL, why didn’t you just stick a turbocharger on the 680, raise the ergo cab so it had a flat floor and add a sleeper cab at the back?
John.
Here’s one working in Florence
Tony
Stick a decent ERF cab on it, plug the holes, and away you go. Simples! Jim.
rastone:
Here’s one working in Florence
Tony
Nice setting! Here’s a picture of what the Belgian army use to cart their containers about with: another affirmation of their robustness. Robert
