![Last Saturday afternoon, I spotted an Alfa Romeo 147 on my approx. 10 km walk. Then I thought, I might as well take a picture of the whole parking lot […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_2210.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Recent Snapshots: Images From The Netherlands – March 16, 2024")
![Short, low, yet with plenty of power on tap. The English call them skip loaders, dedicated straight trucks for transporting open top containers, especially used for the disposal of construction […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_1879.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: Skip (Container) Loaders – The Shortest Heavy-Duty Trucks By Far")
![The 2023 edition of the Truckstar Mack & Speciaal Transportdag in the Netherlands was held on October 8. After a whole series of show reports, it’s time for the finale. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_2079.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: 2023 Mack And Special Transport Day – Heavy Atmosphere")
![(first posted 2/18/2018) From the mid-seventies onwards, the LT -renamed Crafter in 2006- has been Volkswagen’s largest commercial vehicle in Europe. Bigger VAG Group trucks are available […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG_5328.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: 1995 Volkswagen Transporter 1.9 D And 2003 Volkswagen LT 2.5 TDI – VeeDub’s Handy Tools")
![The big and long kahuna of Nooteboom’s range of semi-low loaders (all wheels underneath the bed) is the extendable Manoovr MPL 3+7. The numbers refer to the tridem on the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_1961.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: Nooteboom Manoovr MPL Semi-Low Loader – Clever Maneuver")
![The Bolk Transport company from the East Netherlands has a large fleet of heavy, special vehicles. One of them is this 2020 Volvo FH flatbed truck, clearly not configured to […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_1824.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: Bolk’s Swedes – Two Workforce Members And One Retiree")
![Not what Janis Joplin had in mind, back in 1970, but today’s collection of Benzes certainly does belong to a Sonderklasse/Special Class. The segment of dedicated, factory heavy haul tractors. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_1996.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: Some Stout Mercedes-Benz Tractors – Wörth Highlighting")
![A delightful presentation, rolled into a former military hangar in the east of the Netherlands. Scania’s legendary, first V8 turbodiesel engine and Mack’s first military 6×6 truck. An artillery tractor, […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_1888.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Truck Show Outtakes: Mack NM8, Scania V8, And Another One – You Will Hear From Us")
![Trailer manufacturer Nooteboom offers a whole range of extendable flatbed semi-trailers, called OVB Teletrailers. The Van de Lagemaat hauling company showcased their 2020 Scania R500 6×2/4 tractor with a 2009 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_1983.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: The Triple Extendable Long Hauler")
![Last year, this narrow gauge locomotive with three side dump cars was put on display in the center of our municipality. From the early sixties to the early nineties it […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_2197.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Trackside Classic: I’m a Train, I’m a Train, I’m a Chucka Train – Yeah")
![Since early December, a whole army of professionals has been working on, in, and outside the new neighbors’ ole house (as in dating back to the mid 19th century). The […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_2188.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: The Veranda Man Is One Of The Home Improvement Van Men")
![Never before had I seen such a colossal creation mounted on the frame of a standard size truck. At first glance, the Volvo simply seems to be too small and […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_1726.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: Volvo FM Based Megastructure")
![In transit, a piling rig at rest and a tall cabover tractor don’t go well together, for obvious reasons. That’s quite a front overhang, by the way. A much lower […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_1933.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: Piling Rig On Tour – 21st Century Medieval Battering Ram")
![The Jan van Dam (John Vandam) company is specialized in transporting all kinds of heavy machines, covering the Netherlands and pretty much all other European countries. That includes removing said […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_2049.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Global: Machines Moving Machinery")
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