I’m curious to know what trucks people have seen on UK roads from very far flung places?
Obviously theres thousands of Turkish trucks and I’ve seen Russian trucks occasionally and I once saw a Moroccan registered truck in the customs yard in Dover. The furthest west I have seen an Iranian was the total garage in Zeebrugge although I have heared of them going to the UK and in Germany I once saw a truck from Kazakhstan, or it was registered there at least.
Dunno about trucks but I saw a car on Queenland reg plated the other day.
In Suffolk and Cambridgeshire regularly see U.S. registered Scania.Comes from lakenheath though not really that far then
Im regularly in the UK from Gibraltar.
robinhood_1984:
I’m curious to know what trucks people have seen on UK roads from very far flung places?
Obviously theres thousands of Turkish trucks and I’ve seen Russian trucks occasionally and I once saw a Moroccan registered truck in the customs yard in Dover. The furthest west I have seen an Iranian was the total garage in Zeebrugge although I have heared of them going to the UK and in Germany I once saw a truck from Kazakhstan, or it was registered there at least.
Was parked on Birch services on M62 once and got talking to a pair of Iranian drivers double manning a Scania 113 with low roof! They said they would be away from home for about 3 months. We were starting off on the Trans Pennine Road Run and they took great interest in seeing all the old trucks. Their’s was nearly old enough to qualify for entry!
I spotted a Volvo VN on American ( Virginia) plates In Gent Belgium once, pulling a standard Euro spec. tautliner ( also with Virginia trailer plate). It was nothing to do with the US Army. I think It was more to do with the fact that Volvo has a Truck manufacturing plant In Gent. May have been doing trials here.
When I was younger I can remember once being in Tundermans yard in Europoort with my dad topping up with groupage for England and there being two trucks sitting there from Saudi Arabia, I think they sat there for over a week getting loaded. Has any one else ever seen a Saudi truck or any other middle eastern veheicle in western Europe besides Turks and the occasional Iranian? Its possible they weren’t Saudi of course but we were told they were and they did have Arabic script on them both.
killsville:
robinhood_1984:
I’m curious to know what trucks people have seen on UK roads from very far flung places?
Obviously theres thousands of Turkish trucks and I’ve seen Russian trucks occasionally and I once saw a Moroccan registered truck in the customs yard in Dover. The furthest west I have seen an Iranian was the total garage in Zeebrugge although I have heared of them going to the UK and in Germany I once saw a truck from Kazakhstan, or it was registered there at least.Was parked on Birch services on M62 once and got talking to a pair of Iranian drivers double manning a Scania 113 with low roof! They said they would be away from home for about 3 months. We were starting off on the Trans Pennine Road Run and they took great interest in seeing all the old trucks. Their’s was nearly old enough to qualify for entry!
The last Iranian truck I saw was the one I mentioned above in Zeebrugge and that had some ancient looking American cabover pulling it, with an equally old looking tandem axle tilt. That must have been around 97/98 sort of time.
I have seen numbers of Iranian trucks in Dover Customs also occasionally Moroccan and Russian trucks
Also I saw twice same truck came from Tunisia - old merc actros with rusty old megabox trailer!
In Germany and Poland I have seen some Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan trucks
On Last March I was at Litchenbusch - Belgium / Germany Borders - saw a Kazakhstan lorry - that’s a proper flithy dirty long distance lorry. Truck was an ex - Austrian Lkw Augustin MAN truck, Driver, he is real character like his truck! 
He drove from KZ to Leige - Belgium for six days via KZ, RUS, UA, PL and Germany. I ask him - did you drove more than 10 hrs driving per day, he replied No, No! 
he show me piles of tacho charts papers and told me he always drive 9 hours x 4 days and 10 hours x 2 days, I was surprised to see he was doing legal job!
Other one - Last Summer I was at Suben - Austria / Germany Borders, Saw a Kyrgzstan lorry - it was very clean megaspace actros lorry park at Suben Zollamt and spoke to driver, he seem nice chap and he told me he drove through KGZ, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary and Austria took him 7 days to driving - not bad! 
In Summer 2006 I took this picture - A wonderful cracking old Iranian truck came out from boat in Dover and I will never forget that one!
Iranian Mercedes Actros with frigo trailer - interesting to see Farsi Persian langauge on the trailer in Dover few years ago, A driver told me he drove to Dover from Tehran about 10 days via Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Belgium and France - lots of waiting time on borders
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I knew you’d offer the goods Ben! Nice pics mate, enjoyed them. I’ve seen a Kazakh in Germany but never a Krygyz so you’ve got the record so far. The pic of the old Iranian is very similar to the one I saw in Zeebrugge years ago but the one I saw was much dirtier and clapped out looking. I’ve never seen a Tunisian truck but I know that trucks from western Europe have been there before doing garment work similar to Morocco. I’m suprised there arent more Moroccans on the road as surely they can do it far more cheaply than we can? I’ve just seen one in Dover and thats it.
Davies Turner in Dartford used to load Iranian trucks fairly regularly,
Ive seen the odd Russian truck and also Maltese and Cypriot occasionally
Also seen a US registered Volvo VN with a race trailer on going like stink on the M1, It was heading for Rockingham Raceway IIRC they hold an Indy car race there apparantly.
Ive pulled US registered exhibition trailers out of Liverpool and Le Havre in the past for Euro tours for Cessna, Learjet, and Gulfstream.
Also seen a Dubai registered 4x4 in Crewe in the past and chatted to a guy on a campsite near Venice that had driven his South African registered Toyota Hilux overland from Jo’burg
slightly off topic but ive nothing more to offer then irainian trucks regulary parked at heston
sooooo i was interested to read the article of the alleys low loader in virginia, ok didnt drive but none the less a different trip.
wiggy:
In Suffolk and Cambridgeshire regularly see U.S. registered Scania.Comes from lakenheath though not really that far then
It looks odd with a US trailer, when they run the cabover Mack? it looked really weird
8wheels:
wiggy:
In Suffolk and Cambridgeshire regularly see U.S. registered Scania.Comes from lakenheath though not really that far thenIt looks odd with a US trailer, when they run the cabover Mack? it looked really weird
A Euro / American mix is always an odd sight. Theres someone in Canada thats converted a 143/123 (i dont know FA about scania’s!) rigid in to a tractor unit and pulls the standard 53’ trailers around with it, the small cab and gap between the cab and trailer looks pretty silly though. Also me and a couple of other lads here have seen Volvo FM’s on the back of low loaders coming out of Halifax and going to Ontario, presumaly for some kind of exhibition but they did look to be double drives?! Never seen one on the road though.
Mainly BG around here, although there is a VW Gold R32 on Some kind of Arab plates, that’s been around here for a good year or two.
Not really that far, but unusual, I saw a Nigerian car transporter with a full load of uk registered cars, all about 10 years old, parked up just off the M25 the other day. It was a low cab FM like most car transporters!
We had an American imported Kenworth recovery truck in work the other day of that counts lol.
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