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Thursday 24th

I just missed being held up for a white
(not that l’d have minded)

This Scania was just delivering old Lock-Gates (for patterns/measurements?)
to the ‘Stanley Ferry’ workshops where they’re made (about 200yards behind me)

Dash-cam still
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This bridge; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3511345

I was heading north-east
 
If I'd known about this, I'd have gone when I finished work
(the 'Redbeck' isn't too far away)



View: https://youtu.be/9Di1skLFbaM?si=h82Z5_0ULM2MK0kc
 

oldwheels

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Location
Isle of Mull
All these trucks reminds me that when I lived in Bowling we got convoys of fuel tankers passing from the nearby Esso terminal.
We also had lots of chassis with only a drivers seat and no cab or bodywork out for a road test from the Albion works before final fitting out. They came west on the low road and returned by the higher dual carriageway commonly known as the Boulevard.
 

tyred

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Location
Ireland
All these trucks reminds me that when I lived in Bowling we got convoys of fuel tankers passing from the nearby Esso terminal.
We also had lots of chassis with only a drivers seat and no cab or bodywork out for a road test from the Albion works before final fitting out. They came west on the low road and returned by the higher dual carriageway commonly known as the Boulevard.

Somewhere, I have the badge that I rescued from an Albion Reiver that I rescued from a Reiver that was scrapped in our yard when I was young. I used to play in it before the scrap man took it. I love the rising sun badge.

I went to school on a yellow Albion bus

I thought about looking for the Albion factory when I passed through Scotstoun on the Sustrans cycle route a few years ago but have no idea if it actually still exists.
 

oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
Somewhere, I have the badge that I rescued from an Albion Reiver that I rescued from a Reiver that was scrapped in our yard when I was young. I used to play in it before the scrap man took it. I love the rising sun badge.

I went to school on a yellow Albion bus

I thought about looking for the Albion factory when I passed through Scotstoun on the Sustrans cycle route a few years ago but have no idea if it actually still exists.

Albion has gone I think.
 
At what cost to the road transport industry?
As a 'pound to a penny', very few customers/local councils will want to contribute towards the costs!!
(plus the planning aspects)

https://www.logisticsbusiness.com/t...ck-park-of-the-future-will-transform-haulage/
 

gbb

Squire
Location
Peterborough
At what cost to the road transport industry?
As a 'pound to a penny', very few customers/local councils will want to contribute towards the costs!!
(plus the planning aspects)

https://www.logisticsbusiness.com/t...ck-park-of-the-future-will-transform-haulage/

Truck EVs are a future you (i) just cannot envisage in anything like current battery tech. The scale of the industry , the mileages involved , the size of the batteries needed, the need to often have trucks on the road for two shifts every day, the recharge times etc etc make the whole picture look highly improbable to achieve.

I must check with him, my brother drives bin lorries. They brought a ev powered truck last year I think. It didn't last the full round, no one wanted to drive it...and the cost was extraordinary. Wayy over the cost of an ICE powered equivalent.
 
@gbb
EV trucks (on present technology) may work, & do in some cases, for a fixed run, eg; ('own account') depot to depot, with charging available whilst loading/unloading
Cost; yes... twice/thrice the price

That said, in the last issue of 'Truck & Driver' magazine, they did test a Volvo EV artic (on an official route/factory outing) over the continent
Granted, & Volvo themselves saw the irony of it, they were charged using a Penta marine engine running a generator that was trailer-mounted
They also tested the FH780, & got 12+MPG from it!!
 
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Jameshow

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Truck EVs are a future you (i) just cannot envisage in anything like current battery tech. The scale of the industry , the mileages involved , the size of the batteries needed, the need to often have trucks on the road for two shifts every day, the recharge times etc etc make the whole picture look highly improbable to achieve.

I must check with him, my brother drives bin lorries. They brought a ev powered truck last year I think. It didn't last the full round, no one wanted to drive it...and the cost was extraordinary. Wayy over the cost of an ICE powered equivalent.

I think they need electric pick up, on duals and motorways. It will only need a gantry over the first lane.

No doubt we will have another decade of 50mph roadworks to install them!
 
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