A Brand New Week & LinkedIn

Hello all, I hope this Monday finds you well and the new week finds you off to a great start. Like many my grasp of time escapes me lately, October/November etc only feels like yesterday. But on the plus side we do seem to be finally getting it right and Covid deaths are reducing so it’s nice to think I may be about to get out and on a train to visit friends sooner rather than later (famous last words)

Diolch / thank you so much for your children’s pictures and stories, I shall be updating the page with them tomorrow so will let you know. And if you haven’t sent any it’s a permanent feature so feel free to send whenever you wish either in email or comments on various pages - lorrydriverluke@live.com

Also am a fairly new LinkedIn user so all connections welcome. Link in my LinkTree hither-

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Noswaith dda, Have great evening

In case anyone ever wondered Whites F16 ended up here, in Belgium

View From My Lovely Bedroom, Spring Is Coming

Dublin I Think This One

On My Favourite Road. Never really used the A55 if I could help it. The A5 through Snowdonia is much better. And faster if you know road!

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Top Trucks No. 3

This is number 3 in my top truck countdown, as if anyone is interested in my waffle. So back in 2014 Volvo Trucks launched their new innovation, the Dual Clutch, basically it means seemless power transmission as it can pre engage the next gear meaning the revs don’t need to drop. As you’ll know I’m a huge fan of autos so this seemed rather exciting to me. I mentioned online about how much I wanted to drive one but that it may be a while as it was a cost extra. At this point Martin Tomlinson at Volvo Trucks UK messaged me to ask if I’d like their demonstrator for a week. You can guess my excitement! I got even more excited when Whites Transport Services Ltd who I was going to be using it for gave me a run to Italy, the Alps being the ultimate test for any vehicle. So, off we went max weight with a fridge full of lambs. Being a demonstrator from HQ meant this had every conceivable extra fitted and it was fantastic! The dual clutch turned out even better than expected. Not having to drop ...

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#MyTopThree; Vehicles. Number 1

I was young once! (To be fair I was at least 35 here!) So……my all time favourite truck was never really in doubt was it?! My FH16 750 I drove for Virginia is the single best vehicle I’ve ever driven but as a whole the Volvo FH is in my opinion one of the best vehicles ever made, and the final version with this cab, the V3, the ultimate version. The only sensible downside anyone can ever come up with is inside space with the sharply raked screen. It was a struggle at first moving from a Topline but when everything else was just better about the Volvo, not least an extra 310 horses under my right foot!. When Virginia gave me the 750 I thought I’d better make the most of it, of having the most powerful truck on the road as Scania had only lost the title a year or two previously so as everyone said (including me) they’d soon bring out a 750 killer. Well, that took a while. Only now have they released the 770S, 9 years after this truck hit the road and 6 years after I stopped driving i...

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