Three brand spanking new, ‘stand alone’ end dump semi-trailers, close together in the same lot. Not the agricultural type of trailer, but the ones that are mainly used by earthmoving […]
The other day, a group of truckers from the Dutch river delta held their annual party and camping weekend in a local industrial area. ‘Enjoying nature’ was rather low on […]
(first posted 6/15/2019) Quite the contrast with the DAF commercial vehicles I usually post, this little DAF 33 van with an air-cooled 746 cc flat-twin engine. In 1967, […]
John Deere 4WD farm tractors are a common sight in the Netherlands, both on- and off-road. Outside the city areas, you simply can’t miss them. That is, if you […]
(first posted 4/28/2018) The other day I caught this Volkswagen T3 double cab pickup truck in a temporary parking lot. It represents the last rear engined, rear wheel […]
Since May 2024, F-Trucks Nederland BV is the official Dutch importer and distributor of the heavy-duty Ford trucks and tractors developed and built by Ford Otosan from Turkey. Their very-well-organized […]
It’s not that easy to take a clear side view picture of an entire ‘ecocombi’, a combination vehicle with a maximum overall length of 25.25 m (82’10”). Someone or something […]
An abundant Volvo meal was served on September 28 and 29, 2024, at the Autotron event center in the Netherlands. Most of the ingredients will speak for themselves. Smaklig måltid!
(First posted 6/17/2019) Kombi, German and short for Kombinationskraftwagen. That’s a combination of a motor car and a (small) truck, perfectly capable of transporting both people and goods. And […]
(first posted 3/5/2018) Maximum driving thrills at an affordable price, that’s the Peugeot 106 Rallye in a nutshell. Go-kart handling at its finest. As a matter of fact, […]
In the late sixties, the German Rheinstahl conglomerate merged the commercial vehicle divisions of their Hanomag and Henschel subsidiaries into Hanomag-Henschel-Fahrzeugwerke GmbH, with Daimler-Benz as a 51% shareholder. Shortly after, […]
(first posted 6/2/2018) Finding a Toyota Century is one thing, but a Century parked next to a left hand drive Nissan President is like finding yourself in a state […]
Usually, it’s a Scania, Volvo, or DAF tractor that gets an aftermarket exterior and interior makeover. So seeing Manders’ late-model MAN TGX, the truck maker’s top model, was a refreshing […]
Load-wise, this semi is on a strict vegan diet. It only has an appetite for grain, sugar beets, silage, biomass, and other vegetable materials. As an aside, I very much […]
In the early seventies, truck makers DAF, Magirus-Deutz, Saviem, and Volvo joined forces to develop a new tilt cab for their light and medium-duty vehicles. The all-steel ‘Club of Four’ […]