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Truck Show Outtakes: Three Fuel Tanker Semis – LAG Behind The Volvo Tractors
Posted on July 14, 2024 | 20 CommentsRunning on diesel fuel and transporting diesel fuel, given the numbers on the orange front and rear signs. A trio of identical Volvo FM 4×2 tractors, each towing a tridem […] -
Truck Stop Classics: Mercedes-Benz Commercial Vehicles – Three-Pointed Star Trucking
Posted on July 11, 2024 | 21 CommentsThroughout its post-World War II history, Mercedes-Benz has been offering an almost unbelievable range of commercial vehicles. Just name it, they build it; from the mid-size Vito (Metris) panel vans […] -
Truck Show Outtake: 2021 Volvo FH16 And 2023 Kraker Moving Floor Semi-Trailer – The Dark Ride
Posted on July 7, 2024 | 16 CommentsAn all-black, truly all-black, tractor and semi-trailer combination. You don’t see that everyday. Well, never, actually. Mr. J. Deenen certainly goes against the grain with his fabulous, forage hauling brute. […] -
Truck Show Outtake: 2023 DAF XF 430 FT And 2014 Welgro Bulk Feed Semi-Trailer – Always Out-Of-Town
Posted on June 30, 2024 | 11 CommentsHere’s something you’ll never see downtown, let alone downcity. A 50 tonnes bulk feed hauler, the king of the backroads. When speaking big rigs, anyway. Traveling between the feed mill […] -
Truck Show Outtakes: Too Late To The Party – The Guys Are Already Vacuuming
Posted on June 24, 2024 | 4 CommentsAlas, when I arrived at the show nearby my place, many participants had already left. Some guys were already vacuuming up the steel road plates (used as temporary pavement) from […] -
Truck Stop Classic: 1988 MAN 19.321 And 1992 Floor Trailer – Unconventional Re-Creation And Recreation
Posted on June 21, 2024 | 6 CommentsReviving a classic long distance truck and trailer combination with a conventional MAN model that was never used in that category of on-highway trucking. The additional fun factor is its […] -
Truck Show Outtake: 2024 DAF XD 410 FT And 2023 Van Hool City Trailer – We Expect You To Deliver
Posted on June 14, 2024 | 18 CommentsFirst registration on May 2, captured on May 5. Truly brand spanking new, this DAF XD 410 FT tractor. And the truck maker’s XD-series, introduced in 2022, is also the […] -
Truck Stop Classic: 1984 MAN F8 19.321 Unterflur Truck And Kässbohrer Full Trailer – Autobahn Oil Burner
Posted on June 9, 2024 | 44 CommentsThis is exactly how I remember the classic, on-highway big rigs from Germany. One can say the country’s counterpart of the typical US semi-box trailer type. A Mercedes-Benz or MAN […] -
CC Global: Nick, Heath, Jarrod – There’s a Fire In The Barn!
Posted on June 4, 2024 | 7 CommentsLast April, I could finally take clear pictures of all the fire fighting vehicles on display at the yearly held King’s Day celebrations in a small town nearby. Especially of […] -
Car Show Classic: 1957 Brockway 260 – The Big Nor’easter
Posted on June 3, 2024 | 42 Comments(first posted 2/4/2014) Every Father’s Day, there is a very nice free car show in Noblesville, Indiana. There is a pleasant variety of things there besides the usual overabundance […] -
CC Global: MAN TGS 18.510 4×4 Tractor And Knapen KX 770 Semi-Trailer – Going Up The Country
Posted on May 27, 2024 | 15 CommentsThe dedicated ‘agri-semi’ is an unknown phenomenon in the Netherlands, so I was glad I could finally examine such a combination up close. In short, an agri-semi is a 4×4 […] -
CC Global: Delta Machinery – Transporting Compactors Compactly
Posted on May 24, 2024 | 4 CommentsThe folks at Delta Machinery are true CAT people. Just like in previous years, they put their Scania-Faymonville couple on display at the truck show in the southeast of the […] -
CC Global: Carrozzeria Pezzaioli-Bodied MAN – Livestock Gran Turismo
Posted on May 20, 2024 | 11 CommentsThe other day I visited a classic MAN and Büssing show in the East Netherlands. A rather lonely and not-so-young German big rig caught my attention, the combination was clearly […] -
Truck Stop Classic: MAN 26.281 DHK Dreiseitenkipper – Round-Faced And Steely-Spined
Posted on May 15, 2024 | 23 CommentsFrom 1956 to 1994, with an update in 1969, German truck manufacturer MAN offered a short-nosed conventional, generally referred to as the ‘MAN Ponton-Kurzhauber’. It was one of the heavy-duty […] -
Truck Show Outtake: 2006 Ginaf X 4241 S Dump Truck – Unpolished Refinement
Posted on May 10, 2024 | 11 CommentsJust perfect! An 18 years old, battle-scarred dump truck, parked between two immaculate showstoppers. Dump trucks don’t have it easy, you know. They’re always carrying very heavy loads, under less […]