M&C Jamie:
Hi Steve, less of the old as Frank is liable to come on here and give you a tongue lashing.lol.
Regards Jamie.A Scot Still lost in the Valley’s.
Hi Davie hope you are well. I have tried to get Frank on here and as you know he has a pretty direct approach sometimes so maybe better he doesnt lol 
mushroomman:
colin.f.whitetrans:
john.d.m:
Could have been taken in the same place 450
Looks like the moon!!! lol
Wow Colin, It sounds like old Frank White has been everywhere
Regards Steve.
Hi Steve
He has been to many places i would like to but then so have you and many others on this forum. As for the goat track well it would put your back to the test as well as your patience!! I will always treasure the memories of the trips i did with frank together in the same truck and then in seperate trucks to uzbekistan
brenics77:
davemackie:
John, was this taken on “The Goat Track”, I never went to Tengis, and on occasion, when I run with some of your lads, they went straight on, I turned left for Aktobe & Chimkent.
Dave.hi dave, can you give the main destinations in the “stans” im guessing there were some different destinations along the way but would have thought the loads kind of whent to a few main cities? Cheers John (ps, just so i can get the map out and have a look at were you guys traveled to)
Click on my signature, it will take you to my site, there are maps & stories on there.
Dave.
Brilliant images, it seems like there were a lot of Stans and Kents along the way 
Harry Monk keeps threatening us with a diary from long back! It hasn’t come yet! 
a bloke called mick dean from pollington used to run out there for a bit in a old f12 globetrotter or so he said
swiller:
a bloke called mick dean from pollington used to run out there for a bit in a old f12 globetrotter or so he said
If Mick told me it was raining I would wear a T shirt
Wheel Nut:
swiller:
a bloke called mick dean from pollington used to run out there for a bit in a old f12 globetrotter or so he saidIf Mick told me it was raining I would wear a T shirt
yea he id a bit like that, i know he had the f12 as it was a lhd from gilders, i drove his car back when he picked it up
Hi, would this be the same mick deans , that was trying to multi task in Oktay’s yard one evening, by helping Cyril back to his truck and serenading me at the same time, after a Cok Effes control.
Regards Jamie
A Scot Lost in the Valley’s.
M&C Jamie:
Hi, would this be the same mick deans , that was trying to multi task in Okty’s yard one evening, by helping Cyril back to his truck and serenading me at the same time, after Cok tany Effes control.
Regards Jamie
A Scot Lost in the Valley’s.
thats the one and only yes lol
Dave.
komatsu 450:
That photo says a lot for the job. You have a brit truck pulling out a truck from the eastern states in there own land and im sure the favour has been returned to many brits travelling out that way by the locals. I know i have the experience of being on the end of the tow rope with the trusty kamaz pulling me out the mud a few times
Reg colin
OK i know its money, but…why do betz go and we do not? how much a load? why did we stop doing loads? John
come on guys, so today im taking a load to the mine, how much? how long?
brenics77:
come on guys, so today im taking a load to the mine, how much? how long?
No idea but im sure it will be less than £10,000 so not worth doing for any haulier in the uk!
In 96’-97’ I was paid £11,500 per trip one way, time varied summer round trip five weeks, winter well that could take a lot longer.
Dave.
cheers dave, settting of for 5 weeks min must have been nuts!.can you or frank whites son-in-law post your tail from day one setting off for the 1st time. (dave your site is brilliant) no google maps to look at, well done. brenics
Go here.
mackie.netii.net/1_16_Dave-Mackie.html
Dave.
davemackie:
Go here.
mackie.netii.net/1_16_Dave-Mackie.htmlDave.
what agreat site dave thats another 2hrs of today gone
Just been reading a bit on the Asrans thread and reminded me of someone who was sent to Tengiz and ended up at Lake Tengiz, a few k`s difference I think. Anyone know who it was■■?
Remember my first trip to Tengiz, didnt carry much with me as I picked the truck up from Poldiejk as bloke who had done his first trip to Moscow, didntwant to go again so abandoned the truck and got a lift back to U.K. Charlie gave me a lift out to Poldeijk as he was loaded around the corner for the Chagala in Uralsk, we ran together to there and then had perfect directions from him and Dave Wakefield, we met him going the other way, ( 2 better blokes I couldnt have had directions/instructions off realy)so off I went to Tengiz and back to the Chagala met back up with Charlie and ran back to Germany together, where I spent a day in a garage getting the range change fixed, 2 airbags fixed, tank strap replaced back lights on unit repaired (1 replaced actually) and German fitters told me I HAD to have the 2 back mud gaurds replaced as German cops would take umbrance at them being somewhere along the Goat Track I then reloaded out of Fankfurt and tipped U.K then back to the yard, jumped into FH and went again.
Must say, didn`t have no trouble with the Volvo.
brenics77:
cheers dave, settting of for 5 weeks min must have been nuts!.can you or frank whites son-in-law
I think everyone remembers most of there first trip but its all the little things on other trips that you look back and laugh at. Once on the road in kazak before aral frank shouted to me on the cb to stop as he was going for the toilet. There was nothing around us for as far as the eye could see so we pulled over. I was in the front truck while frank sqeezed under the trailer with his andrex. We had only been stopped a few minutes when from knowhere came two lads on a horse asking me if KHLEB NADA , which means you need bread. I told them to speak to my collega in the other truck and told them hes at the trailer. A minute later there was an almighty roar of WILL YOU #### OFF CAN A MAN NOT GET A S…T TO HIMSELF!!! 
To see his face when he emerged from the trailer was classic
