A Dutch MAN F90 is collecting wood chips. The 6 x 4 truck is hooked to a 3 axled traditional trailer. The bodywork is purpose built offering a maximum volume. The rear mounted crane is something special, it’s equipped with an operator cab. Only on logging trucks you can see this feature also. The MAN F90 is rapidly disappearing from our roads. It’s a success story for the Munich truck builder. The range paved the way for the introduction of the TGA/TGX, the biggest success until now for MAN.

A Cummins V-eight powered Krupp tipper chassis hooked to a low loader trailer. Krupp did built it’s own engines for a long time. The 2-stroke engines couldn’t keep up with the competition. The Krupp organization needed to do something and decided to go for the Cummins 4 stroke power plants. Though the concept of the Krupp trucks wasn’t bad and Cummins itself was and still is a capable engine builder the marriage didn’t worked out. Krupp had to close it’s doors just as many other German truck builders. This truck was spotted on a Kippertreff (old timer tipper meeting) in 2009 Germany. 

A beautiful restored Danish Scania LB76 tag axled tractor. The Scania is equipped with a hydraulic mounted behind the cab. The LB76 was introduced in 1963 and available in day and sleeper cab version. The cab was a non tilt model and came a little to early. Volvo was already busy with it’s tilt cab. Scania was very responsive, in 1968 it’s replacement was born in the form of the beautiful LB 110/140 ranges. Besides not having a tilt cab the LB76 had another disadvantage. A huge issue was cooling. A lot of operators simply took out the entire front grill during summer month’s to solve it. 

Somewhere in the beginning of the eighties of the previous century, a DAF FT3300 is entering Holland at the Denekamp border crossing with Germany. The DAF is owned by Dutch operator Nijdam. The company still exists and its livery is hardly changed. DAF was then purveyor of the company and nothing has been changed since then. The semi is a traditional curtainsider, opening it did mean tough job. The cab is a standard sleeper cab, the Space Cab was not introduced yet!

Africa has a very specific need for second hand trucks. The trucks need to be as uncomplicated as can be. Certainly no electronics, it needs to be serviced with a set of spanners, a hammer and a screw driver. Traders focusing on this market are heaving a tough job. Trucks with this features are almost gone. Interesting to see how they still find oldies. This picture is showing a Berliet and a Mercedes LP truck. Both are dating back to the sixties of the past century and therefor already more then 50 years old! Believe it or not this trucks are hitting the road again after a small preparation.

Another Krupp on this page, now a bonneted version. Normal control cabs were more or less standard until changing legislation’s in the sixties. Combination length is the measure for trucks since then. America did go the opposite way. It limited the loading length which resulted in a diminishing of tilt cabbed COE models over there. It seems it will stay this way in the foreseeable future. All European manufacturers stopped building bonneted trucks. Luckily enthusiast are keeping the bonneted trucks alive an show them like this example on exhibitions and show’s

Hauling manure is already done for a long time. Holland is known for its extensive livestock companies. Large quantities of manure are the result. Already 30 years ago the usage of it was limited. Surplus stock of it was transported to area’s with less of it. This picture is showing a 375 horse Scania LBS 141 SX hooked to a 3 axled manure tanker. The combination is running empty, it’s tag axle and the first semi trailer axle is lifted. The sleeper cab Scania is running at the allowed 50 gross weight limit. The picture is made in Leeuwarden in the north of Holland.

Another Dutch Scania , a real old one. This Scania L51 entered service in 1955! The truck is powered by a 4-inline diesel engine rated at 99 hp. The Scania is plated at 5 ton vehicle weight. The owner can be proud on his job, The Scania is in perfect condition and restored to its original state. The bodywork is new of course but just as the rest exactly copied to the standards of the past. The cab is a local coach builder product, Scania simply didn’t offer a cab on it’s chassis. Now it’s something special but when it was purchased in 1955 most likely even more. Buying a new truck just after WWII was simply unique.

The Volvo F series is one of the highlights in the rich Volvo truck history. This early example was owned by Dutch operator Van Opijnen. A picture of it was made in 1980 on their premisses in Gorssel along the N348. Van Opijnen still exists, it left Gorssel a long time ago. It’s current headquarters is located in Deventer along the A1. The company still runs Volvo’s but Scania and DAF are the current preferred suppliers of trucks. The company livery was modernized, the original colors stayed however.

A Thames Trader loaded with milk cans. Trucks like this were common for decades on Dutch roads. Nowadays the milk cans are gone, all diary transport is done with dedicated roadtanker. The Thames Trader MkII was introduced in 1962. It was built in the UK and plated for 5 - 7 ton vehicle weight. This example dates back to 1964. It’s powered by a 6-inline rated at 97 hp. Thames Trader was a part of the Ford Motor Company. The Thames Traders were built between 1957 and 1965. A limited number entered service in Holland.