GUEST PHOTOS, PAGE -- 4
(From around the world)
KURT SCHMIDT of DENMARK
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Kurt's job with Tuborg Breweries is one of great importance. Keeping the local population supplied with beer (the liquid of life) is a critical full time job. Can you just imagine having to go dry? His truck is a Volvo FL618, 220 hp, 6-speed box, it takes a little more than 9 metric tonnes of beer which brings the total up to around 18,5 tonnes. |
It's a straight truck, carrying 12 metric tons of beer and is geared for delivery in the tight streets of central (medieval) Copenhagen.
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The side loader (sorry not a good photo of it) is drawn by a Scania 144, 380hp, it takes two pallets on top of each other, the roof being hydraulically lifted and afterwards lowered so the beer cases can't tilt. Its only intended for shorter hauls up to 150 kms. As you can see the Carlsberg/Tuborg breweries are distributors of Coca Cola too. |
BARRIE WOLFE of CANADA
This was in Northern Manitoba, Canada, the winter of 1970 / 71
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My
1965 B-61 MACK - Was a full tandem, powered by
a Mack Thermodyne engine E.N.D. 711-211-H.P.,
coupled to a Triplex, 5x3 Transmission. |
maybe a couple of pieces of old grizzly screen, but a proper drag consisted of heavy expanded-metal screen, surrounded by a well-reinforced channel-iron frame. It measured about 8' x 10', or an area of 80 sq. ft. and acted like a giant rasp, shaving off the high spots and filling in the holes as well as the ruts left by the lead trucks. As it was pulled, snow and ice built up on top, significantly increasing its weight and making the thing hard to pull. Pulling a snow-laden drag in loose snow was like pulling a loaded trailer on an icy surface with its brakes applied. The last truck in the convoy always pulled a drag.
| This 1965 HAYES CLIPPER with a Cummins 250 H.P. engine and 4x4 Spicer transmissions was owned by Carl Nile. (My Mack is visible behind it.) This is on the ice roads somewhere between Hole River and Sandy Lake crossroads. Instead of a road drag, the Hayes is pulling an empty bobsled. Four of these big bobsleds plus a living caboose, also on runners, made up a cat train or cat swing. Freight was hauled by truck to the end of the truck roads, then transferred to the bobsleds and hauled the rest of the way by cat trains. |
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The Hayes slid off
the road at a steep river crossing.
We pulled it out
from under the trailer and Carl attempted to bobtail the rest of the way, but
the ice roads took their toll when drivers drove too fast for conditions, and
the Hayes soon broke down. I ended up towing it from Wrong Lake all the way
back to Winnipeg on the end of a thirty foot chain.
One of the men in the picture is the owner, Carl Nile. The other fellow is a
native catching a ride to his home on the Island Lake Reserve.
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In May of 1973 this picture of the first Mack DMM in western Canada was taken in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the man in the photo is the proud owner, Pat Bruce. He installed a 22-foot pulp rack on it and hauled in northwestern Ontario, but the steep hills proved too much for it. The front wheels would lose traction and it just hopped and clawed its way up the hills, wearing out tires and various other things, including Pat. It was a costly experiment at Pat's expense; unfortunately, a true pioneer seldom reaps the reward. Pat Bruce was one of the best. |
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Dieter began his driving carrier in 1974 on an old BUSSING, and then graduated up to a Mercedes.
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Dieter has just received a new MERCEDES ACTROS tractor and has not had a chance as yet to get a photo of it. The one shown here and above left has accumulated 1.2 Million km. He hauls bitumen for the mixing of asphalt. Loading out of SHELL, TOTAL, and BP refineries, and then delivers all over Northern Germany. |
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Winter construction continues if there is not to much frost in the ground. Left and right photos show other equipment involved in the building or oiling of roads. |
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ARTHUR JONES of NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA
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Arthur has 3 tractors contracted to TRIMAC (BRUNSWICK BULK DIVISION) in Saint John. Two of them blower equipped for dry bulk. Hauling mostly soda ash to Bathurst and Belledune, out of Saint John.
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This particular VOLVO tractor is contracted to Sunbury Transport out of New Brunswick, hauling in and out of Canada and the United States. |
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Destinations? Arthur goes to where ever the hood is pointing.
TIM KRAEMER of CANADA
(Click on photo to enlarge)
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Tim Kraemer is an Ontario licensed diesel mechanic working for Jain Truck Centers. A new branch located next door to the 10 Acres Truck Stop on the 401 Highway at Belleville, Ontario, Canada. |
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This new shop has barely had time to get the floors dirty, but dealing with 3 name brand trucks, the place is filling up fast. Trucks are like people, and at times need a doctors attention. It is mechanics like Tim (above & right) that keep the wheels rolling, and at the same time, he is a very flexible mechanic, able to work on any brand of equipment.
Without mechanics like Tim and his co-workers, the trucking industry would grind to a halt.
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DAVID FISHER of IRELAND
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David lives in a town called Banbridge, its around 30 miles south of Belfast in Northern Ireland, and has been trucking for about 20 years now. He started out on ridges (straight trucks) and worked his way up to artics (tractor trailers). He is certain that there is no better way to earn a living, than in specialized trucking. |
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The rig is a DAF CF 480 it has a reduction hub on the final drive to cope with the heavier loads he occasionally pulls. This trailer is an Andover three axle, and is fitted with outriggers along with sliding ramps to accommodate wide loads. |
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The mobile crusher shown in these photographs weighs in at 45 Metric ton, and brings the rig nicely up to its gross legal weight,
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He operates out of the three quarries they own, along with the many road and muck shifting contracts that make up a lot of their business. They also sell new and used KOMATSU earthmovers, so in general David is kept very busy most of the time. |
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