Trucking Diaries - TRL Map

[paokkerkir]

This is an awesome thread!

If you think these roads in Athens are bad, I really hope that you will never need to make a delivery in a Greek island.

Really, you cannot imagine.

[Arayas]

I'll keep that in mind next time
But after all is an experience, thats how we learn

[paokkerkir]

Offtopic, but really?? This happened? And not only once?

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/struct ... ania-1987/

[Arayas]

Episode 2

Truck: Renault T 440 (6 years old)
Countries: Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Cehia, Germany, Belgium, Holland, UK.
Mileage: over 6000 km

An Europe tour including a non-european island named UK with people driving on the wrong side of the road
Sadly, all of my videos recorded were out of focus in big parts so i decided not to use them.

Route:



Some events:
1.Getting ready



2.Leaving Romania with a malfunctioning truck, fixed that day in Timisoara (few broken sensors and few hours of waiting)

https://youtube.com/shorts/Lkoj97dW-fQ

3.Facing european traffic (and roadworks)





4. Getting from France to Dover and back from Harwich to Holland, ferry simulator





5. Spending hours in the cabin and parking lots




6.Best anti-cabin-invasion ever



16 days later back at home

Note about truck: overall reliable, due the Volvo engine, but very bad design of the Renault people leading to a bad dashboard and refrigerator design, an awful bed, + many small problems created by a bad project not by age.

French people should not produce vehicles in general, my opinion

[Tapir]

Hope there is a chance for a better truck soon.

Too bad : an awful bed

[punk]

Amazing! When I grow up I will be real truck drivers as well:)

[Tapir]

@punk:
I will go and warm up a bottle of milk for you. (need all babies )

[punk]

@tapir

Thanks mate! I knew I get support here:)

[Tapir]

[DieselPirate]

Just curious, what Romanians view on temperature driving ban in Romania? I hear alot of guys from other countries hate it. I mean i get saving road surface from damages but other point is brutality of putting drivers in trucks for whole day on a big frying pan. And even with aircondition it wont help to much. Parking AC on Actros i drove drained batteries to barely starting condition in just 4 hours. And if u keep standing on running engine then whole floor is getting warm and its also not fun.