On this page are Truck Photographs of H van Zwamen Venlo, Heizmann, HGV Training Top Gear, John G Smith Turrif, Mid Wales, Middlegate Europe, TDR Transport Services
Pinzgauer 4 by 4 UK Mod, Ralph Davies Lady Joanne, Ramage Transport Newcastle upon Tyne, RF Fielding Cheshire, Simpsons Malt
Sam Longston Transport Chapel en Frith, Scania Topline Post Kogeko Holland, T Alun Jones Welshpool
Trawoger Feldham, William C Hockin Barnstaple Devon, all featured on this page.
Scania, Tesco & Top Gear & Huw Thomas & Daughters & many more HGV's in the UK.
Scania is one of the most popular Heavy Goods Vehicle Tractor Units seen in the UK, but there is always competition. The front-page image this week we have Top Gear Driving School for professional drivers. This seems to be a very interesting company with dynamic staffing. The Truck is DAF Just keep your eye on the truck! The usual large image is on a photo link on this page.
Joe Sharp and Nordic King is also show here at the Commercial Motor Show 2005, quite an eye catcher!
Huw Thomas & Daughters of Rhayader in central Wales is show here heading home with straw for the winter, I am always drawn to such loads as they seem to have a warmth & friendliness about them. These loads are often carried in older trucks which seem themselves to looked loved, in this instance its a 20004 DAF and has to be the most modern truck I have seen with hay or straw. Huw & Daughters is also unique, I didn’t see the driver, it could have been a daughter!
As I have mentioned the word "Tractor" for the text of this pages publication I am drawn to thinking about Agricultural tractors. Now we all have a job to do but, we should always think about others, at times the law does require us to think about others,,, its always a shame when it takes the law to have us do, what we should do as good human beings.
It’s just passing the time for hedge cutting as this page is published, October & November 2005. We see farmers and contractors cutting roadside hedges, but do most of them care about others when they do this work, sadly not,,, they wield their cutters without deflectors, sending the sharp daggers of wood on to the road as you actually drive by,, they just don’t care and out come these daggers in quantity,,, passing vehicles run through them, tyres are easily stabbed, fatally if your unlucky, for motor bikers and pushbikes its effects can be deadly, also for cars and vans, even an HGV can get one of these wood daggers picked up by the tread and forced into the tyre and deflate it.
Now it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to appreciate that at some time in the UK, this blatant couldn’t care less action will have claimed a life and more, due to an accident as a result,,, but who gives a dam! Not the farmers who do this, not the contractors, not the police who know its being done, not the local roads authority department who also drive around in cars, not the highways authority who also drive around in cars,,,,,, so why do farmers etc do this? And then all the powers mentioned, some charged with that area of responsibility allow this to continue,,,,,,
It is against the law to cause such a hazard, especially with intent,,, and it is with intent,,, its also quite technically possible for the driver of such a tractor and his boss to end up in prison, if an individual were shown to have died as a result of this couldn’t care less attitude/action, all this considered, they self evidently still don’t give a dam!
Sooner or later a really bad accident will hit the national front pages of the press and TV,,, only then will all those who’s job it was,,, engage their thinking processes, but,, to late for somebody. What a hell of an indictment of the human race. They can see it coming, (they can or could cant they?) but no one bothers.
There is not one reader of this page who is not aware of this being done, we all know, but those who have the job of responsibility for our roads, don’t bother, they are to lazy, or to incompetent to extrapolate the effect of this couldn’t care less action all over the UK.
So who is responsible if and when someone is killed,,, is it the police who know it happens and see it happening every year? ,,, the driver of the tractor,,, the contracting boss or farmer? The highways authorities, that also know it happens. I think the truth is they are all responsible, but one-day the courts will decide and perhaps if you are one of these people you might go to prison, remember corporate responsibility can or may apply, and claiming ignorance could be NO defence.
The police officer can figure high in this matter, he could act, the farmer is not allowed to place material on the queens highway, (nor are you and I) especially material that can cause an accident, and if the police office passes by that way, he must see it,, if he fails to act,,, he has become involved,,, just in the same way as passing a hooded man at night with a sack of swag over his shoulder and a mask over his eyes,,, or hers,, and doing nothing,,, he could try claiming he didn’t see it,,, but who would believe him/her in the former case?
Society has little phrases like, “Look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves”. & “The devil is in the detail”, many people in society cannot appreciate that this applies dynamically across everything in society, and it includes this subject! Is one of these people you! Then do something about it, before the big one happens, or before another single person ends up injured or DEAD!
I am aware that there must be the person who acts responsibly regards hedge cutting, and feels sadness as I do, that the majority don’t care, this is of course not directed at them. I would and will be happy to add the name of any driver, farmer, or contractor to this page, who does this job with a correctly fitted and working deflector, protecting the public from this unnecessary hazard.
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Top Gear HGV & PSV (PCV) training I wonder who the instructer is in this photograph. Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- Tesco driver here looking smart with his clean HGV Remember that an HGV has a 40MPH top speed on single carriageway roads, and they generally dont exceed that. Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- Joe Sharp at the Commercial Motor Show 2005. Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- Huw Thomas & Daughters From Rhayader This is one of my favourite shots on this page, its the warmth & colour of the straw that does it! Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- Safeway Inverness (remember Safeways), this photo has been re-edited from the past, the photo size is smaller. Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- John G Smith of Turrif, Scotland in smart form. Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- RF Fielding Cheshire Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- Middlegate Transport Europe, Hull Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- Scania Topline Post Kogeko Holland Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- T Alun Jones Welshpool Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
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H Van Zwamen Venlo Transport Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- Heizmann Transport Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- Hungary & the Blue Danube Sorry about the tilted shot. Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- Ralph Davies & Lady Joanne Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- Ramage Transport Newcastle upon Tyne Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- Sam Longston Ltd Transport Chapel en Frith Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- Simpsons Malt Transport Possibly from Northern England Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- TDR Transport Services HGV Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- Trawoger Feldham Transport Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
- William C Hockin Barnstaple Devon Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
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- Transscan Transport from Poland Ryszard Pilipionek This is a night time photo giving that warm effect! Please close (see highlighted instructions) after viewing photograph)
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