Tachoblog

Welcome to the weekly look through the Tachoblog Tribe’s windscreens that is View From The Cab.  This week we see some of America and Canada.

Hard to belive it but here we are with the last View From The Cab for January.  Doesn’t seem like 5 minutes since we welcomed in the new year does it.

No matter, let’s get started.

We begin this week’s View From The Cabby welcoming idriverchrismc to the Tachoblog Tribe.  He’s sent in some great Views including this one of ‘clouds above Sacramento 49er truckstop’…

Now click below for more from idriverchrismc and the rest of View From The Cab…

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UK Road Minister Mike Penning yesterday announced plans for a Road User Charge for foreign hauliers using the UK’s roads.

Most EU states charge lorries for using their roads which means that British vehicles have to pay to drive in Europe, while foreign lorries can drive for free in the UK.

Speaking to Tachoblog, Mike Penning said, “We want to ensure that UK hauliers get a fairer deal and help maintain the competitiveness of our logistics industry.

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Isuzu Truck have given Lucky Red some Chinese New Year good luck with the arrival of the first pair of Isuzu Forward 7.5t refrigerated trucks into the company’s UK distribution fleet.

Lucky Red is yet another new customer for Isuzu Truck UK in the food distribution sector and is part of the Yearsley Group, since it was acquired as part of the takeover of Ice Pak Seafood Specialists earlier this year.

Lucky Red chose Isuzu because of the combination of the product’s strong reputation for reliability and impressive payload carrying capacity.

Now click below for more on Lucky Red and their Isuzu Truck…

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It’s high time we had a Unimog 5000 on Tachoblog and here’s one high up on Mt Etna in Italy.

At more than 2500 metres above sea level this Mercedes-Benz Unimog 5000 carries tourists to the lava field of the Torre del Filosofo

The Unimog 5000 meets even the most challenging objectives.  Used between May and October each year to carry the streams of tourists from the Etna cable car station at 2500 metres up to the Torre del Filosofo.

Here, at 2935 metres above sea level, is where the hiking trail begins for those tourists who want to be as close as possible to the lava fields.

Now click below for more on Mt Etna’s Unimog 5000…

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Grain merchant Openfield has sown the seeds (groan says Tachoblog) of future success by commissioning a new fleet of 11 premium specification Mercedes-Benz Actros tractor units.

The move follows an outstanding performance from Openfield’s first six Mercedes Benz Actros, which had been on the road since 2006 and proved both reliable and fuel-efficient.

Now click below for more on Openfield’s new Mercedes Benz Actros…

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Now this IS clever technology says Tachoblog…Safe Road Trains for the Environment (also known as the SARTRE project) has successfully completed the first test demonstrations of a multiple vehicle platoon.

The test fleet included a lead truck followed by three cars driven entirely autonomously at speeds of up to 90 km/h – with no more than 6 metres gap between the vehicles.

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Time for View From The Cab, our weekly look through the windscreens of the Tachoblog Tribe.

This week we’re in New Zealand and America and we’ll see Jesus along the way too – honest.

So without further delay let’s get started.

We begin this week’s post where we left last week’s View From The Cab ie in New Zealand with Vic H and his, err, Volvo.

Vic says, ‘I was still driving the rental Volvo this week, hence the stone guard across the bottom of the photos rather than the bonnet of the International.  I had a 4-day return trip to Timaru and the first photo was taken on the way back in the Cheviot Hills, north of Christchurch’…

Now click below for more from Vic H and the rest of this week’s View From The Cab…

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Organisers of Transaid’s 500km fundraising cycle ride in Madagascar hope to sign up even more volunteers this month, as people vow to get fit for the New Year.

With only 10 places are left for the nine-day ride along the country’s north-east coast you need to get involved asap to help  raise £150,000 for the charity’s projects.

Transaid is working in Madagascar to reduce child and maternal mortality rates through providing transport solutions in remote parts of the island.  Some communities can be completely cut off for up to 10 months of the year with little or no access to transport.

Now click below for more on Transaid’s Cycle Madagascar and how you can join in…

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Iveco has won the 2012 Dakar Rally.  With a first, second and sixth place in the overall truck ranking, the company dominated the 2012 Dakar.

The Petronas De Rooy Iveco team won the rally with the Dutchman Gerard De Rooy, driving an Iveco Powerstar, a vehicle produced and sold by Iveco in Australia.

The Iveco Powerstar was equipped with an FPT Industrial C13 engine, with more than 900 horsepower, and Magneti Marelli parts.

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Welcome To My Cab – no, not View From The Cab – is a series of videos that Volvo Trucks has created.  They show off some of the more unusual Volvo Trucks that travel the world’s roads.

In this fourth Welcome To My Cab we visit Polish truck driver Lucian Igras and his ‘Black Pearl’.

If you’ve missed the first three videos we’ll give you the links in a minute.  But first let’s find out more about the Black Pearl.

While watching ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, Lucian was inspired to decorate his Volvo FH12-460 with images and themes from the film. Now when he drives, he feels like a captain of his own personal ship.

Now click below for this Welcome To My Cab video and links to the other three…

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