Today's been a strange sort of day. The occasion was the first running this year around CM's Welsh test route for vehicles from 5 - 26 tonnes, which starts and finishes at Chieveley Services (M4, J13) and runs in a loop via Newport, Hereford, Cheltenham and Wantage. The weather was perfect, the traffic free-flowing and the test subject, a 5-tonne Volkswagen Crafter with a 17m3 body, ran faultlessly, but I still ended the day very worried!

I’ve just come back from Hannover, where I was attending the 60th anniversary celebrations of the VW Bulli (as the Transporter is affectionately known in Germany). That’s right, the original VW pop-up toaster is 60 years old, and VW spent a fortune to mark the momentous occasion.
The event was attended by close to 5,000 Transporters of all ages, and coming from all corners of the globe. The prize for the longest distance travelled went to one from Australia – now that’s dedication for you.

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