Nuts!!…that’s what the owner of this robust ride is selling at the market. The truck is parked next to the vendor’s food trailer, just sitting there in the outer ring of the town square, waiting for the recoupling.
After combining the information according to its registration with the emblems on the truck and GMC’s website, I concluded that it’s a 2020 GMC Sierra 2500 HD AT4 Crew Cab, powered by the 6.6 liter Duramax V8 turbodiesel. And with the short bed, given its wheelbase of 158.9”. Anyway, perfectly capable of towing De Notenkraam from market to market without any fuss.
The turbodiesels are getting mucho smaller now. That is, apart from the 9.4 liter inline-six in the Volvo FM 6×2 above. The truck is 14 years old, yet still looks brand spanking new. Owner De Klein has been taken really good care of it. Well done!
De Klein’s 2020 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter is powered by a 2.1 liter CDI engine, maximum power output 163 DIN-hp. That’s the most powerful version of that engine series in the Sprinter. With the sun visor, neat alloys, sidebars and fully painted front bumper, the single cab panel van got a VIP treatment (recent review of another Sprinter by De Klein family).
Care for a grilled chicken? Prepared in a 2009 Renault Master 2.5 dCi food truck. FWD, with a freewheeling rear tandem. As the venerable Citroën HY has showed us for decades at a stretch, any type of body can be built right behind the cab of a FWD commercial vehicle. This Renault is no exception.
A striking 2006 Renault Midlum box truck, owned by a bakery. Rated at 10 metric tons GVM (22,046 lbs) and powered by a 4.1 liter inline-four engine. In its current form, this cab is used by Renault, Volvo, DAF, Kenworth and Peterbilt.
Leaving the market for now, walking by a window washer’s 2018 Ford Transit Connect 1.5 TDCi. It stands out, simply because it goes beyond the ordinary, all-white, anonymous compact van.
The last one stands out too, a Massey Ferguson 7480 Dyna-VT farm tractor, mowing the river embankment on the landside.
I found a picture of the same tractor, fully equipped. With this set-up, the clippings are getting vacuumed and blown into the wagon. Little critters, better watch out! (photo courtesy of Wim van Breda B.V.)
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The De Nottenkraam trailer looks improbably low, is it on air suspension? Made in the Netherlands for your flat landscape only? All the commercial vehicles in your posts look beautifully cared for, with great use of colour and graphics. A few truck operators where I live forget the truck is the most seen ambassador for the brand..
Have a look here for a wide variety of food trailer and semi-trailer chassis. Independent suspension, air suspension, hydraulics, etc.
https://www.kuiperwagenbouw.nl/fotopagina/chassis.html#
De Notenkraam is a full trailer, so a trailer that can stand on its own wheels without support (when decoupled). See Iveco Daily link at the bottom of the article for another one.
I don’t yet see all that many of the new GMC HD’s around here, pretty much ground zero as a market for the segment, the equivalent age RAMs and Fords are more common to date (anecdotally speaking). Interesting that the nut farmer over there has one, it must cost a pretty penny. That one has the multi-function tailgate too. The simple bumper step is one of the GM’s better ideas in some time even if the height is increasing to where soon they’ll need a step to reach the step. A flight of stairs that folds down – actually that’s what the tailgate does in fact (once the hitch is removed, otherwise a potentially expensive mistake).
It must look a little strange towing that trailer with the huge ground clearance and tires on the AT4 package and then the trailer with so little ground clearance. His nuts do look quite large on the side of the trailer though so maybe he gets no grief about it.
For a price indication, click on the link below. It’s the website of the company where the truck was bought (the name was on the GMC’s license plate frame).
https://pecars.nl/ons-aanbod/aanbod-nieuwe-usa-cars
Funny thing about importing the GMC brand ones is that the Chevies have amber rear turn signals, while the GMCs have red. The GMC brand never really has been used outside of North America, so there’d typically not be even a whiff of consideration of foreign regulations.
I agree with the comments about the cleanliness and decor of these trucks. When you post truck pictures, they’re always clean and the graphics and paint look undamaged and aren’t faded. I expect a 15 year old truck to have 15 years of work grime on it around here…
Seen two over here so far theres likely more about maybe export does better than local sales
The lack of a counterweight on the first MF pic is interesting. Around Maryland some of the ROW maintenence tractors have a foldable counterweight that lowers to maximize the counter weight effect on the boom and mower. Its also kinda cool how his tires must be at max air pressure as there is no tire squat what so ever in the loaded side. BTW I look forward to series of posts every weekend!
In that line of work (mowing road sides, ditches and embankments) the tractor itself is often only rolling on pavement, no off-roading whatsoever. Max air pressure it is, especially on the right side, where all the action takes place (the far reaching arm with the mower).
They use those side arm mowers here on roadsides quite a common sight the brand of tractor varies from place to place but the mower setup seems the same
Didn’t expect to see a GMC like that show up in one of your posts. The nut Vendor must be doing pretty well.
Me neither, as GMC HD pickups are very rare, I can’t even remember when I saw the last one. If it were a Ram 1500 5.7 (with an LPG system), I wouldn’t be surprised at all. That’s actually the best selling pickup here, outselling the Toyota HiLux, VW Amarok and all others.
I’m surprised the Ram 1500 is the best selling pickup. I would have expected a smaller diesel equipped pickup to be the best seller. Though I guess some of that is due to the preference of vans and van based cab and chassis vehicles for commercial use. In the US that window washer would be much more likely to be driving a pickup, (often less than full size) with or without a canopy.
The pickup market is a niche anyway. Think around 400 or so Rams per year. If you’re shopping in that segment, it might as well be something special. When image, sound, sheer power, size, luxury and such play an important role. All of them are driven by the self-employed, all of them with a registration as a commercial vehicle.
The panel van is king for commercial use. From the small Ford Transit Courier to the full-size HD Iveco Daily. Then come the chassis-cabs from the same manufacturers.
Much more interesting-looking vehicles than at my own local farmers’ market, which is usually full of anonymous white vans and box trucks.
The tractor with the clippings vacuum fascinates me — I’ve never seen such a thing. Here in Virginia, the state does a dismal job of mowing rights-of-way… the Department of Transportation mows about 2 or 3 times per year (not just on big highways, but along local roads as well). Just mowing more often would be an improvement here… let alone vacuuming the clippings, which seems incredible.
Some mowing and vacuuming action here:
I’m thinking we need to outsource our roadside maintenance to the Netherlands, Johannes!
In my part of Australia it always seems to be a reverse tug of war between the local council and the state’s road maintenance body about whose responsibility it is. Most summers the bushfire season starts, the grass is still long and dry, so local farmers (who face the most danger) curse all government bodies and go and slash their own roadsides for safety’s sake. But I’ve never seen the cuttings vacuumed up.
One major aspect of all that mowing (like in the video) and dredging is to keep the country’s waterways, in the widest sense of the word, in a tip-top condition. Farmers and other land owners must, as in legally required, mow/dredge all ditches alongside their fields near the end of every year. Therefore, autumn is always peak mow-and-dredge season.
Logically, the cuttings are vacuumed to keep the waterways clean and fully free-flowing. Note that ditches are also used to bring water to the fields when necessary.
I like that dual rear axle Master. That would see to make a good RV chassis. Reminds me a bit of the GMC motorhome.
I really enjoy seeing your postings from The Netherlands. I have many great memories spending weekends in Groeningen. Best Saturday markets ever. Greatest bike city ever. I attended university in Germany and the lot of us used to escape whenever we could to cross the border into West Friesland.
The Saturday Markets in Groeningen stretched for blocks to the Martini Tower and anything you needed to eat was there in all its glorious freshness. Being a poor university student on a non-working visa, I couldn’t afford everything I wanted to eat. I used to spend the entire day watching it all go up, and then collapse again into those wagons. I don’t recall ever seeing a US pick up truck doing any hauling however. Lots of Volvo trucks. And Fords.
My wife and I went there for a few days on our honeymoon and she loved it as much as I did. Great markets – bookstores – tea rooms. Great place. Thank you for sharing these photos!
These trucks are much cleaner and shinier that what I see at the local farmer’s markets, but then again they just park out of sight and sell from a small booth.
As an alternative to the tractors I’ve seen some boom mounted mowers on Mercedes Unimogs which makes sense since the Unimog is better suited to road travel and can often reach job sites on its own.