fred grove just wondering how long did that take

Michael West Best part of 5 weeks, when I tipped out in Athens I had to wait around for a reload.

Just memories now, I'm 74 , been off the road a long time now. I had 26 years of doing international, and I loved it.

@@fredgrove4220 top man Fred. I was one of the crazy Irish with the fridges myself. Be nice to be back in the 70s.

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I don’t know where you were getting your information but Sat navigation did not become available for the trucking industry until the end of the 1990s, as for cellphones they started appearing in trucks in the mid 1990s internationally…Scandinavia had a system from about 1984 but only worked in those countries…I went to Syria in 1975 and it was not something I wanted to repeat, I was lucky only one day getting into Turkey and from then onto Damascus with telecom equipment , a beautiful city now destroyed by Putler as he’s done in Ukraine…Driving to the Middle East was fine if you were prepared to endure hardship and living and sleeping in your clothes, showering was a luxury once you left Yugoslavia …

Dank je wel Gunter. En zo zijn er nog meer films op onze website mocn.nl

Yes very nice with chemicals to Tehran

@@keeshoogtevrees6526 at that time, Iran did not has own production, so buying from all over the world.

Zullen de chauffeurs van toen nog leven. Geweldig dat we nu nog van die beelden van toen kunnen genieten.

İs it İndian trucks?

@@Coni_Conson British..

Yes. I drove a 1954 Austin for a while and it had a heater with a booster fan, believe it or not...

yes, they were called extra blankets, ha ha ha .

Yes on my Volvo f 89 we even had erbespacher overnight heaters but the British trucks where sadly lacking in that respect.many a time we would share our second bunk with a Brit driver in a Brit truck if we where in convoy

@@phillipmercieca5792 Hope you weren't getting up to any funny business

Sadly the car side drained all the money, leaving very little for the Truck division.

they was, taken over by daf trucks.

@@philipboyce5774 Didn;t know that it was built in the AEC factory..thought they were all built in Leyland, Lancs. Nice bit of info that..

@@philipboyce5774 Did they build the Mandater they

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@Nazar Naas ashok Leyland.... In India.

Well, the Marathon, as shown in the video, was the top of the range. It came with a Leyland or Rolls-Royce engine and a range change 10 speed gearbox with little to no synchromesh! Insulation was poor so a noisy but spacious cab. A Volvo F12 was a better option.

@@MrWillibaldvongluck1 but the f12 couldn't live with the marathon on a hill!

I drove my first truck that year and it was a Leyland Mandater V8 not Unlike the Marathon but smaller cab size but what a yoke

@@danbreen6946 My dad had a mandater I'm nearly sure. It roared and shook like a beast. All that was over the engine was a metal covering. You had to rock it back and forth in tight corners to turn the steering. It was a tractor unit he used as a lowloader. This was the mid-1970s.

@@stevetaylor5933 come on Steve the Marathon was just a heap of shit!

In Iran they dont use burkas!!!