Wakey Wakey... Rise and shine... It's your early monring pie quiz on Biglorryblog (or late evening if you're down under...) "Gents," writes Peter Hutchinson, "Thought you might like a couple of pictures for your Biglorryblog of the 'mixed fleet' used by Mammoet Logistics and their sub-contractors to service the Sepon Copper Mine in Laos. "Mixed Fleet" is a combination of Lao, Thai & Vietnamese registrated trucks with the 2 left hand and the extreme right hand vehicles carrying Vietnamese registration, the 2 Leyland Contractors (yes they are badged as Leyland) carry Lao registration with the remaining 2 being Thai. Generally the Thai trucks seen at site are a mixture of relatively new UD, Hino, Volvo, Mitsubishi/Fuso and Scania whereas the Lao and Vietnamese units tend to be of "old" North American designs." So forn that pie--give me the make/models in this line-up in the cirrect order.
When Mammoet were first awarded the contract 4 or 5 years ago the fleet was comprised almost entirely of Leyland Contractors - and even complete with a couple of tank transportation trailers - but over the last couple of years the fleet has been 'odernised'as shown in the 'Lime Truck' pcitured above..." Now click through here for more...
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Thanks. Just the sort of contribution that makes BLB compulsive viewing! As I have said before, we learn something new EVERY day.
The Contractors are most likely ex-IDF and were badged as Leylands due to political reasons (the split wheels are also a giveaway). Quite a few ex Israeli Leylands reached Laos / Burma - apparently 40 year old Israeli built Royal Tigers are still running in Rangoon, see here (scroll down for pics):
Perhaps the old beef wasn't that bad after all...
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