Top video/pics mate. Thanks a lot! So many beautiful giants, so many memories... It's so sad that the vast majority of these trucks have been scrapped, when they helped to develop economies and provided bread and butter for their owners and operators. Yet, ferraris, porsches and others are kept safe and sound through the ages. Lord, where's the good men gone? :(
as an English driver that always worked for Irish firms I drove for many of these outfits ,who else remembers the old A75 Stranraer road ,I cut my teeth on there in the black of night with 70 mph trucks whizzin past yr mirror with only inches between you both ,and screamin thru every village , Amazin times ,retired now with bad ticker , but what a mad ride it was in those days ,
No camera vans and hardly any radar traps! Cops are cuffing drivers now and taking them to the local station for speed that was considered normal back then!
Drove 141 when I was fifteen. Birmingham to liverpool. God bless him he let at the wheel. Still at it now at 57 .not sure I'm grateful but may he rest in peace .could have been 14 now I think about it . Good old days.
I know a fella who passed a rigid test about 25 years ago in Ireland and they gave him an artic licence by mistake. So off he went happy out driving artics.
Good to see three Lagan Transport lorries parked up ..Wonder who the drivers were? Jerry maybe .Phylum or even Séamus ,,, Great days hanging out with these guys x
I remember the old DAF2600 at 4.30 if you had any kind of accident your chance of survival was very limited crap brakes and crap paper thin cab,great vid I ran with most of these firms down to Italy because the police thought that the irish were mental so they would leave them alone, good lads to have on your side
I can only suppose those Whites @1:19, 1:22 must have been pretty damn reliable; I mean, it can't have been too easy to come in the way of parts for a lorry - _truck,_ rather, that while well regarded were uncommon even in North America, well behind your Macks, Peterbilts, Kenworths etc..!
I really enjoyed that video. From a very early age I was truck mad and am still. I drive a shunter so manage to do normal hours and sleep in my own bed every night. I am looking for a pic or two of a CIE Volvo rear double axle circa 1977. Thanks again. JD.
Run the fish with all these boys - the crack was great - ullapool, mallaig, spain france poland... etc etc .....hard work but a great time.......... Charlie - Nippress.
I remember Roffs transport from Lincs pulling Norfolk Line trailers 38tons gross with Daf 2300's, poor drivers must have really struggled and would imagine never ever got into top gear!
We used have to pull a full load of beams from Irish Steel in Cork to Dublin with Blue Dragon Transport before the M8 was built with those DAF2800s. People on bicycles used pass us on the hills!
@@michaeloflynn8987 The DAF 2300's though were even lower powered. I used to run a Volvo F7 all over Europe years ago at 40t+. 16 speed Range change & splitter box, 224hp was all I had! If did well though even though the little 6.7litre engine was flat out nearly 100% of the time. Soon moved onto an F10 then F12 400, and ultimately F16 470..
@@michaeloflynn8987 They were. I think the late 80's/ early 90's were Volvo & Scania's best era. I always wanted a 142 V8 but settled for a F12 400 circa 1992. Although lower powered than the 16 it was my favourite. I used that to pull very overweight tilts out of Malaga to Calais return. It never once broke down..
them pics remind me of wen driving a lorry was no 1 a pleasure (no vosa) an no 2 worth doing not like these fools driving day an nite for a few pound 1974 a run to london paid £120 wit mc anaerneys in arma these young clowns are not even geting that now the real lorry drivers are all 6 ft under R.I.P.MY OWL SCAGOSHAS...
No VOSA (or RSA as they are known in Ireland). But Jesus Christ some of the gear on the Irish roads up until as recently as the late 90s were death traps! Bad brakes/ leaking airlines/ corrosion, rust etc etc
