Great stuff!
Regards,
Mark.
Thanks fellas, here’s one more i found, for the Scania lovers out there
Great pics! love to se some more 
reg danne
Richardjw1:
Thanks fellas, here’s one more i found, for the Scania lovers out there
Dirty Dan:
Great pics! love to se some more
reg danne
will see what I can do
Here’s a couple of pics from this week.
I was on an apple farm in northern Azerbaijan (Quba/Xazar regions) and these guys were delivering empty apple crates
euromat:
Richardjw1:
here’s a few more…
what a beauty!! keep them coming please richard!!
Every picture tells a story! So what’s the story here? At first glance an F88 240? Or is it an FL10 with an F88 cab? Windkit FL10, air intake FL10, all Volvo badges FL10, front anti-roll bar FL10, Scania sunvisor, or is it an F88 with all the mod cons? Including F10 indicators and side lights.
Please let me know what you think?
F88 anorak L.B.
Lance Biscomb:
what a beauty!! keep them coming please richard!!
Every picture tells a story! So what’s the story here? At first glance an F88 240? Or is it an FL10 with an F88 cab? Windkit FL10, air intake FL10, all Volvo badges FL10, front anti-roll bar FL10, Scania sunvisor, or is it an F88 with all the mod cons? Including F10 indicators and side lights.
Please let me know what you think?
F88 anorak L.B.
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No idea on that Lance…I just saw it parked up in a stop.
Echo everyone comment keep them coming mate
Didnt/does Ralph Davies use to run quite far out Pass Tashkent ?
Legend_Scania:
Didnt/does Ralph Davies use to run quite far out Pass Tashkent ?
There was a bit in one of the mags years ago when they delivered some stuff to the Central Bank in Tashkent…
Richardjw1:
Legend_Scania:
Didnt/does Ralph Davies use to run quite far out Pass Tashkent ?There was a bit in one of the mags years ago when they delivered some stuff to the Central Bank in Tashkent…
Does anyone know if they still travel that far out ?
toowise:
Great photos Richard,That Howo truck is using the old FL10 cab, allbeit slightly redesigned, isnt it?
Its also strange that Iran keeps insisting that it hates everything American yet all the trucks are ex US cabovers
Keep the photos coming
Thanks very very much for sharing photos young fella brave of you to take em, i enjoyed them keep em coming regards Ray 
Fantastic photos there Richard, a lot of old memroies there for me, I used to do a regular run to Corgos on the China Border near Almaty in the late 90’s so I remember a lot of those guy’s. The Iranai drivers were gold and never went past any one at the side of the road. I don’t know what they thought of us in our new Scanias and Volvos, as we got round them in their old Internationals and Mack hybreads.
You were/ are brave man getting round some of those places with a camera. It would be to easy to get called in for a chat with the guy with the big hat and long coat!!!
Jeff
Jelliot:
Fantastic photos there Richard, a lot of old memroies there for me, I used to do a regular run to Corgos on the China Border near Almaty in the late 90’s so I remember a lot of those guy’s. The Iranai drivers were gold and never went past any one at the side of the road. I don’t know what they thought of us in our new Scanias and Volvos, as we got round them in their old Internationals and Mack hybreads.
You were/ are brave man getting round some of those places with a camera. It would be to easy to get called in for a chat with the guy with the big hat and long coat!!!Jeff
Hi Jeff,
thanks for the good words. I followed with interest your posts on the other thread.
I spent the neck end of 12 years of adventures living in these parts, although I was not in any way connected with road haulage industry (just a closet wanna-be trucker at heart ), it was always fascinating to see them trucks tearing up and down the road, wondering where they would end up, been to, go next. As you very well know and I have experienced from driving out there the road conditions and local bureaucracy are something else 
I’m living in Moscow now so life is totally different, at the moment travel involves the metro, bus or planes 
such is life
anyway keep the wheels turning
Richard
Ray Leggy:
toowise:
Great photos Richard,That Howo truck is using the old FL10 cab, allbeit slightly redesigned, isnt it?
Its also strange that Iran keeps insisting that it hates everything American yet all the trucks are ex US cabovers
Keep the photos coming
Thanks very very much for sharing photos young fella brave of you to take em, i enjoyed them keep em coming regards Ray
Ray,
You’re most welcome, however i have moved to Moscow now so not really much chance to get any decent truck shots…this is all i have at the moment…and its not strictly Central Asia now…
a MAZ wrecker…
Wincatons a long way from home…heading in to Moscow on Leningradski Highway
i found a few more on the hard-drive from Central Asia
Hi Richard! Good to see you here some really good pics there!
Reg Danne
Good to have you back Richard, some great shots you have there, is that a Kraz with the load loader and excavator on it.
If you look at Utube you would think that everyone in Moscow has a video recorder mounted on their dash.
I’ve never driven in Moscow and always managed to miss it by a long way; however one of our Scanias died on it’s ■■■ near Omsk and 2 of us had to fly to Moscow, find the Danzas yard and collect the required part, then get back and fit it. The guy I was with had was fair at speaking Russian, but it was still a bit of task to get from the airport to the Danzas yard using public transport.
Jeff…
Jelliot:
Good to have you back Richard, some great shots you have there, is that a Kraz with the load loader and excavator on it.
If you look at Utube you would think that everyone in Moscow has a video recorder mounted on their dash.I’ve never driven in Moscow and always managed to miss it by a long way; however one of our Scanias died on it’s ■■■ near Omsk and 2 of us had to fly to Moscow, find the Danzas yard and collect the required part, then get back and fit it. The guy I was with had was fair at speaking Russian, but it was still a bit of task to get from the airport to the Danzas yard using public transport.
Jeff…
Jeff,
Omsk is a fair old jaunt across the garden, thats for sure…and winter-time would be plenty cold enough 
Back in 2000 I spent 4 months in Tyumen region (on the Watford-Gap Services side of Omsk) on a grain harvester support project…the mozzies were like helicopters, the only time i ever slept under a net in 18 yrs on the patch.
The thing with the dash-cams here is that, as i am sure you know very well, there is such a huge grey bit between the black and white of the law that quite often depends on the size and colour of the $ to dictate just how dark the light bit is. Plus the fact that if there’s a prang then they cannot move the vehicles until Plod has been no matter how big or small, this is a right royal pain, i would say that almost every other day going to work on the bus (approx 10 mile journey) we see a nudge/shunt/smash which is holding up the traffic.
Also latterly when i was in Turkmen I had one in the pick-up, purely because i was driving on yellow plates (foreign co. vehicle) which might as well been a piece of paper with bejamin franklin on the front, if there’d been a road accident it would have meant a spell in the slammer until they decided on a figure…thankfully it never happened…there but for the grace…and all that
…yes, i think it is a Kraz…i remember there were no chains holding the machine on
some more i have found…
