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Honestly, if it's not freezing it's boiling eh? The 'Keeper of the Flame' Martin Phippard returns to BLB with photos from his recent trip to Israel and sends me this snap and comment: "Hi Brian, perhaps you would consider posting these few pictures of 'Men at Work' taken by my young friend and fellow truck nut Itsik Levy in the Negev Desert earlier this week. BR Martin.".

Still all for a good cause I'd say...especially if you a big DAF double bottom trailer rig in the picture...now click through here for more......

How's this for a beautiful panoramic view..? Complete with a Scammell logger too says Biglorryblog! Peter Geany continues with his much-beloved tales of his family's classic timber trucks from New Zealand. "Here are some of our Crusaders," he says, "We had five but I seem always to have photographed the same vehicle for some reason!  Two of the photo's where taken in our yard with highway loads of about 36 tons gross. NZ weight regs were a constantly moving target during the 60's and 70's and we went from 38 tons gross on 6 axles to 37 tons on 5 which yielded a greater payload and cheaper logging gear" Now click through here for more... 

A sun-bleached road, a double trailer truck,...Australia? Think again. Biglorryblog's very own 'Keeper of the Flame' Martin Phippard has returned from a trip to Israel and says: "Good morning Brian, The DAF road train you see here is one of several operating between the Dead Sea Works hauling phosphates to the southernmost place in Israel, the Port of Eilat...

 
"And now for something 'completely' different. This Leyland was actually built in Ashdod [as opposed to Ashford which is where Bigloryblog lives--- and I'm sure I would have noticed something like that--BLB], Israel until 1972/73. Not a lot is known about these trucks." So can anyone in the anorak army provide more information? Now click through here for more... 

Now here's a bloke that really needs a 'Bridging loan'...in fact he needs the whole flamin' bridge!  And in case you're wondering where this is Biglorryblog has Fernando Cazara of Brazil and the fabulous http://www.favoritescania.com/main.php 'The Favourite Scania' section of the www.scania.com website where you can enter your own big Swede and vote on the pictures already on the site...and you know at least they've saved on the planks so that bridge has got to be eco-friendly....

Still you've got to feel sorry for this bloke (Fabio) he's managed to park his truck on top of a giaat ants' nest....(and it probably didn't help when his mate the Volvo driver smeared it with honey...) now click through here for one more....

Pay attention! In case you think this is a truck parked alongside a trailer read on....Vic Hungerford e-mails me to say: "Hi Brian, following on from Bob Tuck's photos the other day about tipping trailers, 4-axle dog trailers are normally used here in NZ, and in Australia as Pete has said. I'm sure Bob would have seen many of them when he was here as they have been around for years. These photos are taken from Jackson RoadHaul's website showing a small part of their fleet....but the first photo shows how the tipping is done; the trailer is still connected to the truck. The driver backs the trailer up to the tipping point, tips the load off then pulls forward and jack-knifes the trailer to this position and tips the truckload off. Easy after a bit of practice!" Now click through here for more...

Why is it that the Aussies are so much better at getting the message over as to how important road ransport is? And whatever happened to rhetoric questions...? Anyroadup Andrew Blacklock has sent this to me and says: Hi Brian, my mate Scott Fayth sent these photos of last Sunday's Road Transport Awareness Day at Newcastle NSW Australia. You can read more on the RTAD web link here www.transportawarenessday.org.au And here's a shot of the convoy/parade in progress. Meanwhile, click through here for shots from the recent the Hunter Valley Classic Commercial Vehicle Club puts on a display of vintage trucks at the RTAD.

It's clearly 'Russian Friday', GR sent me these twig trucks...."HI Brian, thought you might enjoy this collection of loggers from various locations from around the world...a few creative ways of hauling sticks !!!"

And not just Russia.....

Stuck in the Scottish Highlands? Think again! Here's a post that should keep all my Kiwi readers happy. Especially those with a penchant for old wagons and I've Alistair Wilkins to thank. he sent me these shots and says: "Hello, I was browsing through the internet when I came across your BLB site .......some interesting stories on it: some new, some old.  Got me thinking about a bit of family history."

Alistair continues: "Queenstown is now a well-known, well-developed  winter and summer resort in the Southern Lakes area of New Zealand.  No problem these days getting to Queenstown from Invercargill via Kingston and around the side of Lake Wakatipu. However, there were gravel roads from Garston onward in the early 1950's as I recall, including 30 miles of gravel around the side of Lake Wakatipu between Kingston and Frankton. A lot of the lake road was single lane, some of it with little of no safety barriers and in places it was slip prone to boot!" And to see what the roads were like back then and to read more about how they were conquered by Alistair's Dad click through here to a superb trip UP memory lane...

Hellooooo....what's coming this way on Biglorryblog. Why, I do believe it's a truck that Mr Lynch might recognise! And the snapper has captioned it: "Tons of fun!" And why not? Meanwhile I am much in debt to Eric Roche who has sent me this and other photos and says: "These are a few photos of our '81 ATKINSON chassis number K00006. Here are its' specs: 8V92TTA  14-sp DOD Spicer running through 4.11 Rockwell diffs on 6rod.We use the old girl on the farm in the s/w of WA. Me and my brothers get a real buzz out of driving her around,we are looking for a owners/parts manual or any info on where we might start looking, as we trying to keep the truck in original condition." Well know I am sure a few of BLB's Aussie readers would be only to pleased to help out. And Eric's e-mail address is eric.roche@bigpond.com so get helping! Now click through here for a whole sheldload of super shots from down-under...

Aaron Hunt in New Zealand kindly says: "You have a top site going mate! Thought you might be interested in this logger that went on the road here in NZ a couple of months back." Well how could I resist a Western Star called 'Renegade'? Biglorryblog wonders whether Rodders or 'The Old Vic' have spotted this beauty? 

Biglorryblog's wandering reporter Nick Garlick has returned from a holiday in Iran and says: "Here are some more pix---MACKS, Internationals, Whites and a whole host of older European trucks ply their trade under the blazing sun in this interesting country.
Nick."

And for a pie what's this? Now click through here for more....

Biglorryblog's wandering reporter Nick Garlick has (I'm delighted to say) returned back to Blighty after his trip to far flung locations and he says: "Hi Brian, back safe and sound from Iran. What a great country the only downside was I couldn't get enough truck photos!! Not easy trying to get a coach to stop with 18 people who don't like trucks...!"

Nick adds: " I would definitely go back there again if I get the chance. Nearly finished the piece for T&D about my short time there. Here are a few pics for the blog. More to follow...regards, Nick." And click through here for ore from Nick including a most unusual 'Volvo'....

Hello...what's this doing neatly parked away in a quiet suburb,,,? For a quick pie can you recognise what it is. (AtkiPete is excused this one as he's bound to get it....) Mike Davies sent it in to me and says: "Brian, RayJay's doing a good job with the Atki. So I thought I'd send you a couple of pics taken on a trip to Sydney, this pristine old girl's parked in a side street just below the harbour bridge. Mike." Now click through here for a better 'view'.....

Ray Jay's Aussie Atki can now be seen on YouTube thanks to the boys at Aussie Bigbanger http://www.youtube.com/user/aussiebigbangers#p/u

How about this for an eight-legger? An Actros high-cab 500hp V8! Now you're cooking....anyroadup James Higgins has sent Biglorryblog these shots and says: "Hi, over in Olensvag Norway with my work, the oil rig is getting some work done to it at Westcon Shipyard. I've managed to get the camera out and here is a few snaps for the site,James." Now click through here for more Norse warriors....

Last one for tonight....Graeme Neilson has sent me this roadtrain triple and says: "Hello, Airroad is an express freight company in Australia, we run 3 of these combinations from Sydney to Perth weekly 8,000km round trip. The trailers are our own design using a 10 pallet A trailer 16 pallet link trailer and a 22 pallet B trailer all at 4.6mtr high. With 2 drivers it's an average of 47hrs one way, only stopping for fuel along the way and driver changes. We also have a fleet of these B Doubles trailers servicing Melbourne and Brisbane daily as well Regards Graeme."