I know, but I notice that some of the infants and Americans have not yet mastered the new TN2 yet 
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What I used to find a bit odd, was that whenever I went into Austria with two Massey Fergusson agricultural tractors on a stripped down tilt, the customs men would often put a seal on the door handle of each cab.
When I crossed the border into Hungary, they would also put a customs seal on the same door handle, even though the cabs were never locked.
Some drivers had it easy.
SINOP, TURKEY.
That Romanian ‘TIR’ trailer seems to have an interesting axle configuration. Perhaps Carryfast could enlighten us on the possible advantages of such.
Re above post: When I used to drive lorries through Damascus I never really got a chance to explore, so some years later I went back and explored. Wonderful place! Isn’t now, of course. That railway station had by then become a sort of museum piece and one of those steam locos stood proudly outside. It was, as I’m sure you will know, the old Hejaz railway that ran down the coast to Jeddah - the one Lawrence of Arabia used to blow up from time to time. Shame that part of the world is a closed shop now.
Looking at these two pictures, it is possible that the Avon Line C-series ERF is the same one as that on the loading bay. The Avon Line ERF did Middle-East and the line of lorries are clearly Middle-Easters (Astran, Jan de Lely [Dutch] and the bonnetted Merc which is probably Jordanian). The livery is the same and even the little marker lights above the windscreen match up. Anyone know? Reg is ODM 41Y.
Swiatrans: was that a Swiss company? Doesn’t look very trim with the pin perched on an elevated turntable. I suspect the Merc was either a local or an ‘internals’ unit on docks traction out of somewhere like Jeddah. Someone will know!
