![‘Fourgonnette’ is French jargon for a clever, fuel-efficient, and comfy compact cargo van. Famous classic examples are the vans based on the characterful Renault 4, known as the F4 and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IMG_4482.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Outtakes: Four Renault 4 Fourgonnettes")
![(Updated 11/13/2025) Utterly clean, straightforward and well-proportioned. Even after more than four decades, the second generation of the Euro Ford Granada still doesn’t look hopelessly outdated or downright […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_8483.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Outtakes: Ford Granada Mk2 2.8 Ghia And Opel Senator A1 2.8 S – Late Seventies Euro Broughams")
![This may come as a bit of a surprise, but Scania’s largest assembly facility isn’t located somewhere in Sweden, but in the Netherlands. The high-volume factory in the city of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IMG_4424.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "2025 Scania 770S V8 Highline 6×2 Tractor – One In a Million")
![A perfect machine to feed a Kleemann impact crusher and a perfect big rig to bring it to the job. A Caterpillar 374 tracked excavator, carried by a Nooteboom Euro-PX […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4639-scaled.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "From The Files Of Transportbedrijf Schoones – The Cat 374 Episode")
![A stand-alone, flatlander’s flatbed truck was displayed at a truck show I visited in early September. To get a more complete picture of the Volvo forage hauler -its livery says […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4459.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "2022 Volvo FH 6×2*4 Flatbed Truck – Straw Boss")
![This superbly DAF (Diamonds Are Forever) is recognizable as an owner-operator tractor from a country mile. It speaks for itself that the biggest cab, most powerful engine, and air suspension […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4449.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "2023 DAF XG+ 530 FTG 6×2/4 Tractor – Fond Of Bond")
![Last month, the Schoones hauling company from the south of the Netherlands celebrated their 35th anniversary with an open house. They specialize in heavy haulage, the top level of on-road […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4641.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: From The Files Of Transportbedrijf Schoones – The Kleemann Episode")
![(Updated 10/9/2025) Many Japanese SUVs (Stout Utility Vehicles) in the Netherlands are converted into a panel van for registration as a commercial vehicle. Diesel power comes […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_8354.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "2004 Mitsubishi Pajero Sport 2.5 TD GLS – Forget Sport, It’s All About Utility")
![MAN is one of those truck manufacturers that can offer factory 4×4, 6×6, and 8×8 chassis with in-house front and rear drive axles. Often, a chassis-cab with such a drivetrain […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4345.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: 2025 MAN TGS 46.520 8×8 Wide Spread – The Traton Group’s King Off The Road")
![Welcome to Green Thumb County (aka Tree Centre Opheusden) in the Netherlands, where dozens of tree nurseries largely dominate the landscape. One of them is the Cor Huibers family business, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4819.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: Open House Cor Huibers Tree Nurseries – Into The Green Zone")
![On Saturday September 27, Cor Huibers tree nurseries from the Dutch river delta welcomed anyone who was interested in their business and operating activities. Their young trees are exported to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_4278.webp?resize=115%2C115&quality=70&ssl=1 "CC Global: Loading Young Trees – A Root-And-Branch Approach")
![In May 2023, I visited the open house days of the Falkom company in the Netherlands, a manufacturer of a wide range of recovery vehicles. The crew was building a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Gerritse.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: Scania 770S V8 10×4/6 Wrecker-Rotator – I Love It When a Plan Comes Together")
![Just sitting in a corner, unnoted and completely ignored by the crowd at the yearly held truck-mounted cranes fest. In other words, the conditions for taking photobomb-free pictures of this […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_4557.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: 2024 Iveco Daily 40-180 (40C18) Hi-Matic – Keepin’ a Lo-Profile")
![There were no straw hat wearing judges at the 2025 Renaultoloog Meeting & Market to methodically examine the surplus of patina -or whatever it was- on this 55 years old […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_4489.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Car Show Classic: 1970 Renault 12 TL – Anti-Trailer Queen")
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