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CC Global Archive
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CC Global: 2021 Renault T 6×2 Tractor With 2007 Tracon Semi-Trailer – New Old School
Posted on October 9, 2022 | 7 CommentsA lavish exterior, combined with a high-end paint job. Prevalent on heavy Scania, Volvo and DAF tractors that are driven by owner/operators. Those are the premium truck brands; at least, […] -
CC Global: 2006 Renault Kerax 270.19 4×4 – Overland RV Underpinnings
Posted on September 26, 2022 | 12 CommentsImported from the Republic of Yemen as a chassis-cab with only 55,000 km on the clock, now temporarily fitted with the cargo bed of an old DAF military truck. The […] -
CC Global: 2007 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 518 CDI Double Cab Tractor – The Not So Big Rig
Posted on September 24, 2022 | 6 CommentsMini-semis are a common sight in the Netherlands, especially in the earth-moving business. With a market share of more than 80%, the Iveco Daily is the predominant tractor unit in […] -
CC Global: 2018 MAN TGS 41.420 8×4 – In Broad Daylight
Posted on September 4, 2022 | 12 CommentsA red truck against a green background. Complementary colors, opposites of each other on the color wheel. This MAN stood out like a fire truck on an ocean beach, it […] -
CC Global: Ford F-Max Blackline – Saddle Up And Ride Your Draft Horse
Posted on August 29, 2022 | 11 CommentsThese days, heavy-duty Fords with the biggest engines and highest towing capacity come from Turkey. The Ford Otosan company brought out a special, limited edition of their successful F-Max 4×2 […] -
CC Global: 2022 Scania S530 V8 And 2015 DAF XF 510 Potted Plant Movers – Wallflowers They Ain’t
Posted on August 19, 2022 | 14 CommentsVrachtwagen met wipkar. That’s Double Dutch for a straight truck with a close-coupled center axle trailer, a widely used combination vehicle in the Netherlands for transporting flowers and potted plants. […] -
CC Global: 2020 Volvo FH With Bay-Lynx Volumetric Concrete Mixer – A Canadian In The Mix
Posted on August 15, 2022 | 18 CommentsA mobile concrete batching plant is something I never saw before. It was also the first truck body I caught that wasn’t built somewhere in the EU. Yet this Swedish-Canadian […] -
CC Global: 2021 Scania G360 6×2*4 Truck – They Don’t Make Them Like That Any Longer
Posted on August 12, 2022 | 9 CommentsGrowing flowers and potted plants is big business in the Netherlands. Consequently, an immense armada of dedicated trucks and combination vehicles to transport the end products is roaming the roads, […] -
CC Global: The House Painter’s 2013 Peugeot Partner 1.6 HDi – Transparant Workplace
Posted on August 1, 2022 | 15 CommentsFinally I caught a panel van that provided some insight into the owner’s business. Normally, everything is hidden behind closed cargo- and sliding doors. As demonstrated here, many compact commercial […] -
CC Global: 2003 SsangYong Korando And 2007 Niewiadów Food Trailer – Burning And Heating Oil
Posted on July 18, 2022 | 24 CommentsSnackbar, friture (or frituur), cafetaria, friettent, friet-/patatkraam, frietkot. These nouns are meaning roughly the same, namely a mostly small -or even humble- facility in the Netherlands or Flanders where you […] -
CC Global: The Immortal (And Frankensteinian) Curbside Classics of Cuba
Posted on June 13, 2022 | 57 Comments(first posted 6/13/2016) As US-Cuba relations keep normalizing, many of us have got to wonder, what might happen to all those iconic classic cars so characteristic to the island? I […] -
CC Global: Visiting a Fleet Site
Posted on June 12, 2022 | 13 CommentsOn Saturday May 21, several local companies kept open house and welcomed anyone who was interested in their business. I decided to skip my 12th lesson Fret Sawing for Advanced […] -
CC Global: 2022 Truck Show Milheeze – Part Two
Posted on June 5, 2022 | 15 CommentsAbout 20 years ago, I found myself at the Iowa 80 Truckstop for my very first photoreport. No, not really. I caught these classic US long noses after a 50 […] -
Back To The USSR – Or A Long Time Ago In a Galaxy Far, Far Away…
Posted on May 30, 2022 | 167 Comments(First posted 5/30/2016. I’ve been rerunning posts from exactly six years earlier, and that’s when this one ran. When I came across the title in the archives, I had a […] -
CC Global: 2013 Scania Tractor And 2003 Burg Semi-Trailer – Impossible To Sink Any Lower
Posted on May 29, 2022 | 16 CommentsThere’s something about Mary this semi-trailer. You can tell by the way it looks and stands that the 2013 Scania R560 V8 6×2/4 tractor isn’t just towing some run-of-the-mill, tridem […]
![CC Global: 2021 Renault T 6×2 Tractor With 2007 Tracon Semi-Trailer – New Old School A lavish exterior, combined with a high-end paint job. Prevalent on heavy Scania, Volvo and DAF tractors that are driven by owner/operators. Those are the premium truck brands; at least, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IMG_0628.jpg)
![CC Global: 2006 Renault Kerax 270.19 4×4 – Overland RV Underpinnings Imported from the Republic of Yemen as a chassis-cab with only 55,000 km on the clock, now temporarily fitted with the cargo bed of an old DAF military truck. The […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_0588.jpg)
![CC Global: 2007 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 518 CDI Double Cab Tractor – The Not So Big Rig Mini-semis are a common sight in the Netherlands, especially in the earth-moving business. With a market share of more than 80%, the Iveco Daily is the predominant tractor unit in […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_0600.jpg)
![CC Global: 2018 MAN TGS 41.420 8×4 – In Broad Daylight A red truck against a green background. Complementary colors, opposites of each other on the color wheel. This MAN stood out like a fire truck on an ocean beach, it […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_0382.jpg)
![CC Global: Ford F-Max Blackline – Saddle Up And Ride Your Draft Horse These days, heavy-duty Fords with the biggest engines and highest towing capacity come from Turkey. The Ford Otosan company brought out a special, limited edition of their successful F-Max 4×2 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_0342.jpg)
![CC Global: 2022 Scania S530 V8 And 2015 DAF XF 510 Potted Plant Movers – Wallflowers They Ain’t Vrachtwagen met wipkar. That’s Double Dutch for a straight truck with a close-coupled center axle trailer, a widely used combination vehicle in the Netherlands for transporting flowers and potted plants. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_0345.jpg)
![CC Global: 2020 Volvo FH With Bay-Lynx Volumetric Concrete Mixer – A Canadian In The Mix A mobile concrete batching plant is something I never saw before. It was also the first truck body I caught that wasn’t built somewhere in the EU. Yet this Swedish-Canadian […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_0321.jpg)
![CC Global: 2021 Scania G360 6×2*4 Truck – They Don’t Make Them Like That Any Longer Growing flowers and potted plants is big business in the Netherlands. Consequently, an immense armada of dedicated trucks and combination vehicles to transport the end products is roaming the roads, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/IMG_0316.jpg)
![CC Global: The House Painter’s 2013 Peugeot Partner 1.6 HDi – Transparant Workplace Finally I caught a panel van that provided some insight into the owner’s business. Normally, everything is hidden behind closed cargo- and sliding doors. As demonstrated here, many compact commercial […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMG_0299.jpg)
![CC Global: 2003 SsangYong Korando And 2007 Niewiadów Food Trailer – Burning And Heating Oil Snackbar, friture (or frituur), cafetaria, friettent, friet-/patatkraam, frietkot. These nouns are meaning roughly the same, namely a mostly small -or even humble- facility in the Netherlands or Flanders where you […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMG_0297.jpg)
![CC Global: The Immortal (And Frankensteinian) Curbside Classics of Cuba (first posted 6/13/2016) As US-Cuba relations keep normalizing, many of us have got to wonder, what might happen to all those iconic classic cars so characteristic to the island? I […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ssdcg.jpg)
![CC Global: Visiting a Fleet Site On Saturday May 21, several local companies kept open house and welcomed anyone who was interested in their business. I decided to skip my 12th lesson Fret Sawing for Advanced […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_0286.jpg)
![CC Global: 2022 Truck Show Milheeze – Part Two About 20 years ago, I found myself at the Iowa 80 Truckstop for my very first photoreport. No, not really. I caught these classic US long noses after a 50 […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_0069.jpg)
![Back To The USSR – Or A Long Time Ago In a Galaxy Far, Far Away… (First posted 5/30/2016. I’ve been rerunning posts from exactly six years earlier, and that’s when this one ran. When I came across the title in the archives, I had a […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cccp.jpg)
![CC Global: 2013 Scania Tractor And 2003 Burg Semi-Trailer – Impossible To Sink Any Lower There’s something about Mary this semi-trailer. You can tell by the way it looks and stands that the 2013 Scania R560 V8 6×2/4 tractor isn’t just towing some run-of-the-mill, tridem […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_0086.jpg)


