Classic Trucks, Wagons

[oldwheels]

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]

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]

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.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I've seen both the 'S-Cab' & the 'T-Cab' at TruckFest', they're wonderful
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/classic-trucks-wagons.253943/page-35#post-7073087
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/classic-trucks-wagons.253943/page-35#post-7073081


View: https://youtu.be/kYUqUeQ32vk?si=4O6K4qvpLD8IDlBK

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This was in the 'you might also like...' side-bar of YouTube
I'd never considered that timber-trailers have a 'slide-bed', I always thought that timber-grab had a longer reach (like a Palfinger loading crane, for example)
I like how the loader uses the grab to knock a few logs back into line!


View: https://youtu.be/wYX5AtPv5Us?feature=shared

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 15th
(on the shelves on publication date, for a change!)

New edition
Gulf petrol station
Saville Road
Castleford

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

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]

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.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@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!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

For Sale

https://www.amcommercials.com/info/1346614/used-scania-164l-v8-t580-t-cab-bullnose-6x2-tag-for-sale

 

[Jameshow]

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!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

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!

2021; https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/classic-trucks-wagons.253943/page-14#post-6610161

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Oh good grief!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d37zn0qv6o

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Decision time

Do I wait till October, & go to TruckFest at Newark-on-Trent again, or go to the event at Lincoln, in May??
https://www.truckfest.co.uk/

The distance is not that different between the 2 for me, via A1/main-roads

Newark is Sat 4th/Sun 5th, & Lincoln is Sun 4th/Mon 5th

 

[Jameshow]

Oh good grief!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d37zn0qv6o

What a waste of people's time, and a waste of fuel driving 900 miles!!