The Smoke

I was out in the new Scania today with the auto box.
I say new, well its new to me.

Its actually done over a Million kilometres . I had fun filling the tacho in because the actual tacho only read 69000.

Before I wrote out the disc I had to find out where to put it. The tachodisc actually fits in the speedometer . You have to flip it out and then put the disc underneath.

I posted another plea for help on the trucknet forum regarding the gears and they came through for me once again.

It was a nice easy run down to London and through the Blackwell tunnel into Greenwich.

I was supposed to pick up as well as drop off but the bloke in charge at the building site didn't want to pay for a forklift to load me up.

He said I was meant to have a grab on the lorry. I didn't so I had to go back empty. For the sake of twenty quid they will end up sending another truck to the site to pick that load up and that's going to cost someone a lot more money.

That's the transport business for you.


The weirdest and slowest tow truck in the world made a nuisance of himself for a few miles on the way back and I was glad to finally get past.It was a Citroen CV6.


I thought I would post a picture of my camera in action so this is Friday's view taken on my phone.


I'm off to wales in a few hours for a nice break, two days in the Scania that's done more miles than Virgin air so Ill post when I park up tomorrow.