Don’t know about the Turks, but when I first started driving abroad I had a non sleeper Leyland Buffalo that would make what they have now like a palace… 
When UK operators ran to and through Turkey in the 1970s and 80s, they did it in worse trucks on worse roads,
and the Brit drivers used to live in Turkey the way the Turks do here, now.
And we look back on those days as the ‘good old days.’
From personal experience, I can tell you that putting an old truck in say Astran colours on the front of a magazine will boost sales…but I don’t think many of today’s drivers would want to live and work that way.
Turkey is an emerging economic powerhouse…all Ford Transits for Europe and the middle east are built there, Merc builds truck there, Ford will soon build a Euro 6 heavy truck there, Turkey has the second-largest land army in Nato.
They need a large land army considering who’s next door
Oh yes!
It’s a huge country, with long land borders and neigbours, literally, from hell!
well lets hope they soon go back there …
I used to regularly run to Rome or Naples at full weight in a low roof 330 DAF 85. Never had a problem. Used to run with a guy when we were subbing for Eurotrans who had a wendyhouse.
If the rate was right I’d ride a bike.
raymundo:
well lets hope they soon go back there …
I think it’s being arranged…courtesy of the Royal Jordanian Air Force!
Happy truckers doing what they want to do and using what they have and getting on with the job.
What a pity most of you lads here cant learn from them.
eddiec:
Happy truckers doing what they want to do and using what they have and getting on with the job.
What a pity most of you lads here cant learn from them.
Well said that man , I posted something very similar earlier , the quicker we smell the coffee in this country the better or we`ll all be back to square one .
I had a driver tell me he wouldn’t drive my volvo FM flat roof as it’s too small.
I don’t do more than 10 hours a day or have nights out go figure
I did 8 months tramping Benelux and France in an 08 plate scania highline without any problems…Then changed jobs and did a month away in a 13 plate Axor…went as far as Foggia in it as well …horrible truck but I managed…even if the gearbox did almost give up on me at the A1 Piacenza split :-//
The Axor in the restaurant on the hill above Ancona
I saw an orange cab De Rooy transporter,the cab ended behind the two seats, so like a day cab, and a sleeper pod on the roof,all over Europe in that, you will end up like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, instead of cabin fever, it is cab fever.
Volvo FL 10,s would go all over Europe.
