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Hello, here's a photo taken in 1979 in Ontario, Canada. During a holiday we visited a sand and gravel company. This was the first ride in a B Mack I ever made. I guess from this point my love for Mack trucks started!!! |
Being a farm tractor and truck fan, it was possible that I would either be a farmer, or a truck driver when I grew up. My interest in trucks kept growing, so after finishing school in 1991 I became a truck driver.
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I started driving for the company called VIT TRUCKING SERVICE. My first truck was a DAF 2100, 210 hp straight truck. Most of the trips took me to France (Paris) and Germany. After a few years I got a truck and trailer at the same company it was a Mercedes, model 1934, 340 hp. The truck has a semi automatic gearbox called EPS (electronic power shift) Most of the trips I made with this truck took me to the Mercedes plant in Germany; I had to take parts to the plant. |
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| My love for the Mack trucks was still there so when I was offered a job to drive a Mack Ultra-liner I was very happy and started to drive for Jansen in 1995. The 350 hp truck took me mainly to France. But I also made a trip to Spain. I had to take some equipment sold on a Ritchie Bross auction to Spain. The return load was an old Schlumberger International which I loaded in the south of France. I guess this was the best trip I ever made!! |
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What more could you wish... driving a big Mack truck to places you never have been! Unfortunately this job didn't work out as we (Mr. Jansen and myself) had hoped.
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So as I searched for another job, I got lucky. Mr. Hunnekes was looking for a driver for their Superliner Mack, and I got the job. So here I was again driving a Mack! This time the truck had a V8 450 hp!! I had to take equipment to construction sites in The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Driving this big machine was really great; I could get around in small towns to because all axles on the low boy are steer axles. For loading and unloading the gooseneck could be removed. |
When all bulldozers cranes etc. was at the construction sites there was little work for me as a truck driver so this job didn't work out either, but I had lots of fun driving the Mack. So sometime later in 1995 I got back with my "old" boss.
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In the time I had been away there where some changes made, the companies name was now VIT FREIGHT SERVICE and the color of the trucks changed from white to black. This time I got an almost new Scania R 124 which had 400 hp. The trips I made took me again to Germany, Belgium and France. I also had to haul containers sometimes as you can see in the photo. |
From the end of 1995 till early 1999 I worked for this company until the company closed, going bankrupt in 1999. Before this, in 1997 my dream had come true! I was able to get a Mack B-61 from Canada, as shown in the Guest Photo pages.
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In 1999 I started to drive for a company called Coenen. The transport they do was new to me, and seeing that I had never driven a reefer truck before, I was about to gain a new experience. |
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At the moment I don't have "my own truck" at this company.
So you can see here a DAF straight truck that I drive (sometimes also with a pup trailer), and there's also a photo of a DAF truck and trailer. The tractor/trailer is the newest truck at the company it has a 430 hp engine and an automatic gearbox. (More and more companies are changing to automatics these days)
Most trips I make here are in The Netherlands and Belgium.
So this is (in short) my trucking story so far. Till later yours Jan Wijers
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