Love em’ or hate em’ you’ve got to admire they are genius when comes to their truck bodies. All designed and built in house I believe.
Cheers
Neilf
See more running on polish plates than dutch plates now, they did have some Uk registered trucks aswell.
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There you go, there a photo of one of there UK plated Daf’s.
JG
They had a couple of drawbar outfits in the early nineties that had only one body mounted across both the truck and the trailer, a. Strange set up designed in house. As the truck turned the body slid back from the cab somehow. It needed a lot of room to manoeuvre and didn’t take off, but it did allow the same loading area as a standard outfit with a top sleeper but it had a full cab. I think they were made for the Sony contract.
seem to remember they got their fingers burnt by VOSA…
steptoe:
They had a couple of drawbar outfits in the early nineties that had only one body mounted across both the truck and the trailer, a. Strange set up designed in house. As the truck turned the body slid back from the cab somehow. It needed a lot of room to manoeuvre and didn’t take off, but it did allow the same loading area as a standard outfit with a top sleeper but it had a full cab. I think they were made for the Sony contract.
I remember seeing one if these in France in the late 90s. A big single box body that somehow sat on a drawbar chassis thereby gaining extra cube. I only saw it on the move so never really got a god look at how it worked.
Like I said in my original post, these guys are experts in designing maximum loading space within the regulations.
Cheers
Eilf
I saw one of those in Patras in 2002, very clever, but very strange!
Designed by estepe i think
S.Killingholme.
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Immingham.
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Grimsby.
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Others.
S.Killingholme.
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steptoe:
They had a couple of drawbar outfits in the early nineties that had only one body mounted across both the truck and the trailer, a. Strange set up designed in house. As the truck turned the body slid back from the cab somehow. It needed a lot of room to manoeuvre and didn’t take off, but it did allow the same loading area as a standard outfit with a top sleeper but it had a full cab. I think they were made for the Sony contract.
I’m a bit late but I do believe this is what you are referring to. Taken in 1992 at the Philips warehouse in Zona Franca, Barcelona.
It was banned in the UK. I think it got pulled as it was coming out of Dover and the cop just said “You are joking aren’t you?”
I ran with this driver to Greece once. The guys that point you left or right when you reverse on the boat were left scratching their heads as the chassis was going one way while the body was going the other. They eventually gave up, told the driver where he should park and left him to it.
It was a very dangerous bit of kit in my opinion. On tight hairpin bends anyone coming the opposite direction would often come face to face with the front of the body which protruded outwards into their lane. The same was going on at the rear end too.
Thy also designed a transporter that was front wheel drive, i’m assuming to get the body as low as possible for the trucks on the back.
imagine that with twenty odd ton inside going round a bend at anything over 10mph ■■?
just a disaster waiting to happen.
That looks really odd 
I saw this or something very similar in Patras in Greece
Wow, that brings some memories flooding back! I was with Harry Vos back then, I remember that thing well.
Here one
Scanner:
Wow, that brings some memories flooding back! I was with Harry Vos back then, I remember that thing well.
I was also driving for Harry Vos at that time, your not David Bishop are you, cos he still owes me 25 guilders
realdeal:
steptoe:
They had a couple of drawbar outfits in the early nineties that had only one body mounted across both the truck and the trailer, a. Strange set up designed in house. As the truck turned the body slid back from the cab somehow. It needed a lot of room to manoeuvre and didn’t take off, but it did allow the same loading area as a standard outfit with a top sleeper but it had a full cab. I think they were made for the Sony contract.I’m a bit late but I do believe this is what you are referring to. Taken in 1992 at the Philips warehouse in Zona Franca, Barcelona.
It was banned in the UK. I think it got pulled as it was coming out of Dover and the cop just said “You are joking aren’t you?”
I ran with this driver to Greece once. The guys that point you left or right when you reverse on the boat were left scratching their heads as the chassis was going one way while the body was going the other. They eventually gave up, told the driver where he should park and left him to it.
It was a very dangerous bit of kit in my opinion. On tight hairpin bends anyone coming the opposite direction would often come face to face with the front of the body which protruded outwards into their lane. The same was going on at the rear end too.
Oooh yes, I want to have a play in one of those…Real Fun !
steptoe:
Scanner:
Wow, that brings some memories flooding back! I was with Harry Vos back then, I remember that thing well.I was also driving for Harry Vos at that time, your not David Bishop are you, cos he still owes me 25 guilders
I’m not, sorry mate! 
Do you have any pictures from those days? I started on an F12 then an F10 (smaller engine bigger pod) before getting a Scania. Never home but still happy days.