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TOPRUN Old School Truckin' Life Style

TOPRUN Old School Truckin' Life Style

4 жыл бұрын

Back in 1978, Robert drive his Ford Transcontinental from GB to Trieste in Italy. Taking the ferry in Dover, crossing all France then entering Italy via the Mont Blanc Aosta.

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@patrickmccann3577
@patrickmccann3577 4 жыл бұрын
BETTER TIMES FOR DRIVERS . BETTER MONEY. LESS PRESSURE. NO VOSA. NO DIGI CARD . NO SPEED LIMITER. AND THEY STILL GOT THE JOB DONE. ALL ROADS LEAD 2 ROME IS ANOTHER GOOD TRUCK FILM FROM THIS TIME TOO.
@JD-rf1xc
@JD-rf1xc 4 жыл бұрын
i can recommend Dubai Road Express Film here on youtube aswell really great film about trucking from Norway to the Middleeast.
@Butlerbob
@Butlerbob 3 жыл бұрын
You are shouting as it is called when you have pressed your caps lock, please unlearn this and turn it off, thanks !!
@jeremybaker4721
@jeremybaker4721 4 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this when it first came out, I was about 12. Guess what I do for a living? I drive a truck. Brilliant to see it again after all these years.
@stevegreen9460
@stevegreen9460 4 жыл бұрын
aw love this, standing on a forklift bars wedging stuff back in the trailer, bribeing customs with smokes and smoking indoors, fake permits openly talked about, people wareing noraml cloths, noone covered from head to toe in high viz suits, police men throwing things at camra men just for not asking to film. love it all, when we used to be able to live life in the moment with a sence of freedom.
@baz9438
@baz9438 4 жыл бұрын
I share your appreciation, absolutely fantastic.
@Jademyheart
@Jademyheart 3 жыл бұрын
@@baz9438 I totally agree, it's like a totally different world now.....😓 Bureaucracy shockingly gone mad!! 💯😡
@jondrizzle4554
@jondrizzle4554 3 жыл бұрын
Well said.. it really is crap now.... regardless how easy the trucks are to drive nowadays i just think technology has ruined everything Including our once great profession
@andypreston1524
@andypreston1524 3 жыл бұрын
@@jondrizzle4554 VERY well said....... 👍👍👍👍
@andypreston1524
@andypreston1524 3 жыл бұрын
@@Jademyheart Well said sir...... 👍👍
@DaveGreeneramblingcarpenter
@DaveGreeneramblingcarpenter 4 жыл бұрын
Loved this video, reminds me of a much different times, great to see the ford transcontinental, which at that time was the bees knees, never once heard him mention the tachograph, drive til your tired, get there when you can, different days indeed,,
@johnbritton668
@johnbritton668 4 жыл бұрын
I had a transcon back in the day T reg drove to Italy many times before the motorway was built 290 Cummings & Fuller gearbox happy days brought Back many memories, I was 24 at the time just a boy starting out happy days thought I was king off the road
@paulsweeney5477
@paulsweeney5477 2 жыл бұрын
You were king of the road at the time. God Bless
@JD-rf1xc
@JD-rf1xc 4 жыл бұрын
man i wish i was a truckdriver back then, when Europe had yet to loose its culture and go up in flammes. i am a truckdriver today, but i would have loved to be born 30 years before i was.. Funny that he has called his truck Lady Diana not because of the soon to be royal one but his wife, great stuff.
@julienfreddy8285
@julienfreddy8285 4 жыл бұрын
Le Transcontinental... Un magnifique camion à l'époque.... Merci pour la vidéo.
@hanspeterro6343
@hanspeterro6343 3 жыл бұрын
In the 80tis and early 90tis I repair the Transconti , all Pieces are verry heavy. The Stearing , the Starter, , the dobble Disc Clutch, the Brakes from Stoppmaster. The Valves and Injector adjusting , with a Micrometer .oh my God ,long Time ago. But I never , never Miss this Time. Ford Transontinental , Cummins Big Cam , Eaton Roadrange Gearbox.and Rearaxle. Push the Button and let's go. Keep in trucking.
@andypreston1524
@andypreston1524 3 жыл бұрын
Proper truck with proper feel......
@anthony1636
@anthony1636 4 жыл бұрын
Yep I have run with this guy when I was trucking for W T Laceys out of Barking we were also running Transcons alongside Scania & Volvo`s and the Leyland marathon crap.. Those were the days.
@-DC-
@-DC- 4 жыл бұрын
Transcontinental was always a cracking looking truck, how things have gone downhill since this was filmed it's like a different continent.
@pehess2495
@pehess2495 4 жыл бұрын
Superbe vidéo, merci ! Quel bonheur de revoir un Transcontinental et de retrouver l'ambiance de cette époque sur la route et le parc auto et camions des '70 !
@cloudmaker
@cloudmaker 4 жыл бұрын
Yes i remember this on the telly, i seem to think there was a film of Astran wagons going to somewhere like Doha on about the same time. It was fantastic seeing this again. Thank you from an old lorry driver.
@dicktate964
@dicktate964 4 жыл бұрын
that was called destination doha my friend . you can still get it on dvd .
@cloudmaker
@cloudmaker 4 жыл бұрын
@@dicktate964 Thanks for that i'll look out for it. I can remember us watching it with my Dad at the time and we were just amazed by it,loading up and taking weeks to deliver it.
@65Lynchy
@65Lynchy 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah destination Doha it's on u tube as well think it's three episodes
@jameswhitbread7173
@jameswhitbread7173 4 жыл бұрын
Great film My truck called Lady Diana because my wife’s called Diana how bloody nice but a few moments befor that’s the blonde I was talking about lol This guy must be in his 70’s /80’s now
@Rogue-cg1rm
@Rogue-cg1rm 4 жыл бұрын
£80 a week .. awesome, different times , better times .. is this guy still with us ? .... toprun .. top man .
@twotoneandy73
@twotoneandy73 3 жыл бұрын
One truck I would love to drive . They were just before my time driving trucks
@andypreston1524
@andypreston1524 3 жыл бұрын
Well before my time driving trucks....sadly by the time I did my Artic test in late 2006, there was loads of feel-less automated crap on the scene. I would happily jump in an old Transconti (or a Leyland Marathon, Volvo F88/9, F10/12, V8 Scania 140/1/2/3 etc etc and feel them all the way..... 👍👍👍
@ianinnes8063
@ianinnes8063 4 жыл бұрын
I bet that young lad in the film at the table in the bake house became a driver . I used to go abroad from when i was about 14 with a family friend in his scania . 142 it deffo influenced me into becoming a driver . . What i hate about the job is the backstabbjng and bitching that goes on . They worse than fishwives some of them . Honestly . .. and some have egos bigger than the loads they are movin . U get some great guys too . Its great seeing a transconti my fave truck of all time . 14 litre cummins power . And this guy has a brand new fruehauf trailer by the looks of things . Pal mall cigarettes lol gd bribery material . That and jazz mags . Lol . Depending where u were . Haha . Changed days indeed . Sranding on the forklift classic . Something ive done many times . And thought nothing of it . Lol great vid ferdy . Thanks for posting .
@TRexGaming360
@TRexGaming360 3 жыл бұрын
Was born and started driving about 30 years too late 😵😵
@CycolacFan
@CycolacFan 4 жыл бұрын
That Transcontinental didn't look like it was having to work hard at all for most of that journey. Interesting catching a glimpse of a Scammell Crusader doing continental runs too.
@s125ish
@s125ish 4 жыл бұрын
CycolacFan when you reckon last one was in service in uk
@CycolacFan
@CycolacFan 4 жыл бұрын
s125ish transcontinental or Crusader? I’d guess mid 1980s or slightly later hauling goods. A number would have been converted into recovery vehicles, I saw 6x4 Crusaders operating as recovery trucks in Wales in 2008.
@1chish
@1chish 14 күн бұрын
I used to run a 'Big Cam' Transcontinental. 3.5m wheelbase 4 x 2. to dodge the permit game we used the border at Aachen Bildgen and as long as all your papers were tidy in a pile they stamped the white back sheet but not the green front page. Calais was different as we had to put a 50 franc note in the permit folded in half. As they opened the permit the cash dropped out and went in his pocket. No stamped permit!
@alannorman6166
@alannorman6166 4 жыл бұрын
Brought back memories did this 1979
@andrewpaulafford1418
@andrewpaulafford1418 4 жыл бұрын
Even today wagon drivers are still treated like crap. But then the attitude has changed so much. Not as much pride in the job these days.
@ivecodaddy4817
@ivecodaddy4817 4 жыл бұрын
Always wanted to drive trucks just like my father. So i passed my HGV test and wish i had not. No freedom? CCTV watching you in the cab, vehicle tracked and unachievable time slots. Achievable if you drive like a nutter. Typical transport managers not allowing time for delays like traffic etc etc!!!
@SuperFIFTHGEAR
@SuperFIFTHGEAR 4 жыл бұрын
@@ivecodaddy4817 Aint that the truth.
@reviewmaster4x467
@reviewmaster4x467 3 жыл бұрын
Ford continental / Renault at the time it came out was in competition with the iveco turbostar the Volvo FL10, scania 141 and the daf 3500. Those trucks were the best thing since slice bread. I worked on these beasts 40 years ago and we also had a Leyland leopard and an old AEC wooden cabs for recovery trucks. They bellowed out smoke on startup every morning London lez would love em.
@3DPeter
@3DPeter 3 жыл бұрын
Only 8700 of these trucks were produced and sold over a period of 9 years, so it was no competition to all the other european truck manufacturers. And besides the badge there's nothing ford about the the whole truck, because the cab was made by berliet and the engine was a cummins.
@seamusburke9101
@seamusburke9101 Жыл бұрын
@@3DPeter yes Peter and the chassis was from the Ford Louisville.
@seamusburke9101
@seamusburke9101 Жыл бұрын
There was no Turbo star, FL10 or even 141 on the road when the Trans con first came out. They all came later.
@Levenopwielen
@Levenopwielen 4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful those dated images, I am immediately curious about more
@toothpickjohnny5244
@toothpickjohnny5244 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Ferdy out via the Blanc and back via Cenis , my time started 7 years later other than 1 trip in the 70s to Rotterdam , so not much had changed , then was no problems eith the French permits but the Italian permits was worth 10 pounds with out a stamp and using Cenis both ways 20 pounds and when Fingers got transferred from Aosta to Cenis ,,,no problem
@paulsweeney5477
@paulsweeney5477 2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic Video
@pico3591
@pico3591 4 жыл бұрын
lembranças dos anos 70,saudade,lindo
@johnjennings9693
@johnjennings9693 3 жыл бұрын
I remember people who owned transcons, back in the 80s,beautiful truck they had a cab that swayed alot ithink they had bad brakes as well I've driven alot of different models would love to have driven one hello from southern Ireland
@lesshepherd5239
@lesshepherd5239 2 жыл бұрын
Hence why they were called nodding dogs, by most people that drove them.
@johnjennings9693
@johnjennings9693 2 жыл бұрын
@@lesshepherd5239 thank you
@ROUTEPLANNERPAUL
@ROUTEPLANNERPAUL 4 жыл бұрын
Great vid
@aussietruckphotosandmodels8510
@aussietruckphotosandmodels8510 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that Ferdy.... Any chance of a T- shirt re run Sties or Friderici would be good....I really liked your old slideshows with period music that you did at the end of some of your early dvds .... Daniel Fremond and Claude Rey did some fantastic camera work.....
@jacobtaylor4258
@jacobtaylor4258 4 жыл бұрын
the veeder rout taco, when day was night and night was day, and wednesday was friday, and running saturday was monday with a day off. my first trip out with my brother 1978, i was fascinated, 3 yrs later i was driving at the age of 21, wouldn't give it the time of day now.
@jacobtaylor4258
@jacobtaylor4258 4 жыл бұрын
@Seamus Burke doesn't really matter, both fiddled just has well.
@jacobtaylor4258
@jacobtaylor4258 4 жыл бұрын
@Seamus Burke no change there then, apart from the magnet.
@hjrretailgroup68
@hjrretailgroup68 4 жыл бұрын
Ford Transcontinental were great Trucks with their Cummins Engines, strong, combined with the Volvo F 10-12 at this time no luxury :-) I grew up having 3 Transcontinentals at home, besides Mercedes 1632, 2032 (old Cab !), DAF 2800 DKS, Volvo F 12 and several good old MAN Bussing with underfloor engines. Ford was the best tractor with DAF, wish to find a good one for hobby.
@hjrretailgroup68
@hjrretailgroup68 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot. I am checking !
@andrewrcmadwilkinson6999
@andrewrcmadwilkinson6999 3 жыл бұрын
INTELLIGENCE OF CABINET MINISTERS COME ON TRUCK DRIVERS AREN'T THICK!
@tp8150
@tp8150 Жыл бұрын
35:36 Amico! (My Friend) , sposta l'aggeggio! (Move that thing) and then he throws the hat to the camera man ahhahahahahah Being Italian it is even more fascinating to see this historical artifact. Unfortunately the world of those years is gone...
@ROUTEPLANNERPAUL
@ROUTEPLANNERPAUL 4 жыл бұрын
Just looking at the width of thoes trousers it's amazing how they never got caught up in something
@blobby273
@blobby273 4 жыл бұрын
Skinny jeans today are more like to trap you vitals ,
@freddymarcel-marcum6831
@freddymarcel-marcum6831 3 жыл бұрын
I started high school in 1991, our jeans were like wearing a floor length dress. Comfortable though 🙂
@ravenmaster6364
@ravenmaster6364 2 жыл бұрын
bobby shafters (wafters)
@juanpabloarena2724
@juanpabloarena2724 3 жыл бұрын
1978?? Diseño futurísta!
@ianinnes8063
@ianinnes8063 3 жыл бұрын
Snow flakes need not apply . Lol .
@TobyKoehn
@TobyKoehn 4 жыл бұрын
transconti
@grinfos
@grinfos 2 жыл бұрын
правда нихрена не понятно, о чем говорят, но смотреть интересно. классный контент👍
@briansearle4138
@briansearle4138 2 жыл бұрын
French totty , Get in there son . 😁👍🇬🇧
@blobby273
@blobby273 4 жыл бұрын
and old school drivers say all drivers do today is moan and complain , lol. WHATS CHANGED ,
@s125ish
@s125ish 4 жыл бұрын
frustratednomad nothing
@donestelle8877
@donestelle8877 4 жыл бұрын
Great
@michaelstark9485
@michaelstark9485 4 жыл бұрын
Any chance of you putting up Destination Doha. Great video, many thanks Michael 👍👍
@freddymarcel-marcum6831
@freddymarcel-marcum6831 3 жыл бұрын
It's on YT now mate, different channel
@michaelstark9485
@michaelstark9485 3 жыл бұрын
@@freddymarcel-marcum6831 I can't find it mate 🧐🧐
@freddymarcel-marcum6831
@freddymarcel-marcum6831 3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelstark9485 kzfaq.info/sun/PLB7CF3F3D8C9A7548
@freddymarcel-marcum6831
@freddymarcel-marcum6831 3 жыл бұрын
It's a playlist, give it a go
@michaelstark9485
@michaelstark9485 3 жыл бұрын
It's all been blocked 😩😩
@daeshbagcentral5298
@daeshbagcentral5298 4 жыл бұрын
Truck driving is pretty fucked now that we have www,mobile phones,Twat Navs and Digital Tachos,oh and Vosa.
@MrAlistar99
@MrAlistar99 2 жыл бұрын
shame the quality is not the best. barry read from Bridlington is one of the drivers sat in the bakery. not an ounce of fat on lorry drivers from those days.
@amarovaladares2039
@amarovaladares2039 11 ай бұрын
Interessante este vídeo muito antigo...o estilo de vida dos estradeiros europeus...
@neilkeepingitreal
@neilkeepingitreal 3 жыл бұрын
My wife is called Diana and I like to think she's a lady ......you may want to check that mate🤣
@orhanayaydn9138
@orhanayaydn9138 4 жыл бұрын
Bu Ford tır .aynısı 1984 almanca Ali bey komsumuzdu getirp bir türlü randıman alamamıştı. Sonra hurdaluga çöp oldu hey gidi günler hey. Kupasını bir konya li satmış tü.
@V8Operator
@V8Operator 3 жыл бұрын
Big mighty Transconti.... you see at 12.23....
@-DC-
@-DC- 2 жыл бұрын
Anyone know where that WW2 cemetery is can't find anything about it online.
@devally2432
@devally2432 9 ай бұрын
This guy is so full of his own self importance, it's stomach churning. So, he reckons you need the intelligence of a cabinet minister to be a truck driver, what planet is he living on? As an ex UK and international truck driver with 45 years experience, now retired, I can safely say, truck driving is one of the easiest ways to make a living. You could train a monkey to do it. I enjoyed my years as a driver, however, there is nothing special about it.
@daeshbagcentral5298
@daeshbagcentral5298 8 ай бұрын
Crispy
@toothpickjohnny5244
@toothpickjohnny5244 3 жыл бұрын
Looks like Mont Cenis
@jeffstewart1931
@jeffstewart1931 Жыл бұрын
Is there a reason you went mount blanc! back in the day? If I’m doing north east Italy I go Lux Munich through Austria straight down to trieste. No costly tunnels either.
@stephenrandall3551
@stephenrandall3551 Ай бұрын
Need a permit to go that way which he doesn’t have.
@richardcorner9262
@richardcorner9262 Жыл бұрын
Love the organ music anyone know what its called
@richardcorner9262
@richardcorner9262 6 ай бұрын
Eugène Gigout's Toccata in B minor
@SeverinRohner
@SeverinRohner 3 жыл бұрын
Der undeutliche Ton passt zum unscharfen Bild. Interessantes Thema, aber so ist es mühsam.
@thegoose4715
@thegoose4715 4 жыл бұрын
Anyone know if Robert is still alive?
@s125ish
@s125ish 4 жыл бұрын
TheGoose47 how old you reckon , he posted in a forum in 2014
@Butlerbob
@Butlerbob 3 жыл бұрын
The driver has long since retired I think, ha ha ha
@gxgaccordprestige354
@gxgaccordprestige354 2 жыл бұрын
1:47 trucks speed 120 kmh
@andrewpaulafford1418
@andrewpaulafford1418 4 жыл бұрын
Wonder what the haulage rates were like back then .
@vtecpreludevtec
@vtecpreludevtec 4 жыл бұрын
Better
@nealdraper7737
@nealdraper7737 4 жыл бұрын
Same as today
@anthony1636
@anthony1636 4 жыл бұрын
Rates were crap but you could run longer days and do 3 runs to Italy where today you would struggle to get in 2 in the same time frame.
@LandersWorkshop
@LandersWorkshop 2 жыл бұрын
Better as the cost of living was fck all.
@merledoughty5787
@merledoughty5787 3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting about the paper work so when UK jointed the EU the paper work was still the same so that makes a mockery of BREXIT now am I correct
@ROUTEPLANNERPAUL
@ROUTEPLANNERPAUL 4 жыл бұрын
We have better trucks now better conditions but still the money is very bad. Class 1 ur lucky if ya get £13 per hour how can a grown man feed a family on that it's terrible
@thechongwolla
@thechongwolla 3 жыл бұрын
Most i ever saw was £10 an hour. Left the industry for 8 months but seen a job for £15 an hour just for trunking but is probably too good to be true. Gonna apply and give the industry one last shot for a year or two if it works out. Save up some more and then run for the hills
@andypreston1524
@andypreston1524 3 жыл бұрын
£12 an hour here for Artic doing multi drop for a pallet network. Shit money, and tight tossers to work for, majority of my colleagues are a mix of throwbacks and brown-noses, but I'm home every night and it's 5 mins away from my gaff.......
@LandersWorkshop
@LandersWorkshop 2 жыл бұрын
@@thechongwolla 15 quid an hour is agency work surely? I've seen 20 quid+ an hour as agency but that usually entails handball front store delivery.
@worndisk320
@worndisk320 4 жыл бұрын
These old BBC propaganda film's are interesting to watch...
@paulsweeney5477
@paulsweeney5477 2 жыл бұрын
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