These posts are sounding a bit familier 
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On my way home from my first trip to Scotland with a Bedford T.K. pantechnicon just before the A74 joined the M6 in 1973. Plod waves me onto the off ramp and I park behind a flat that is fully loaded and the ministry man is having a word with the driver. He comes up to me and asks do I know where the testing station is in Carlisle, when I reply no he says well follow that lorry in front. Off down the A6 just before the cattle market on the left I think it was and the man in the white coat waves me over the weighbridge. He gives me a funny look and says what have you got on driver 
. I am empty I replied. Well what are you doing here then, doing what your mate told me to I replied. He looked very annoyed and didn’t even ask to see my log book 
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They’re a gang of planks, common sense removed soon after joining.
I would imagine a lack of common sense is buying and shipping a Ford F350 junk pile when you can get a Toyota Tundra (the worlds biggest and toughest pick up truck) far easier.
Hi Pat,
The reason my friend bought an F350 is that he wanted a diesel and as you’ll know living in the States, Toyota in their strange shortsightedness have elected not to put a diesel engine in any of their pick ups (or cars come to that) , yes the Tundra is one of the best pick ups around but only Ford, Chevy and Gmc do the diesel engines and then only in 3/4 ton vehicles.
Just for info Ford started to make a smaller diesel engine for the F150about 10 years ago but then the government changed the emission regs and instead of adapting the engine to suit they abandoned the idea presumably labouring under the idea (like so many people over here) that cheap fuel will go on for ever.
What I don’t understand is why companies like Ford, Nissan Toyota etc who have worldwide sales and factories won’t adapt their diesel engines to suit american emission standards, after all european emmissions are far more highly regulated. If you see some of the old crap running around on the roads here of all descriptions it beggars belief that anyone worries about what comes out of the exhaust pipe, try driving about in the uk like it and the police and ministry would be all over you like a rash. An emissions test over here is only every two years and when I took my Audi several months ago I thought it would fail because there was a slight blowing on one of the exhaust joints but it passed no problem so what is all the fuss about. They don’t even have the equivalent of an MOT here its just left to people to keep their vehicles up together and hope they don’t get pulled over by law enforcement officers. Sorry to have deviated off topic slightly.