Tachoblog

Wednesday, so Tachoblog thinks it’s about time we brought you some more off road action.

Pretty much wherever in the world you are, Tachoblog’s pretty confident that you’ll have heard of the UK’s premier motoring program ‘Top Gear’ co-presented by the opinionated, brilliant Jeremy Clarkson. But have you heard of ‘Fifth Gear’?

Over on the excellent Biglorryblog there’s a post about the 1955 Trans Antarctic Expedition led by the ‘late great Sir Edmund Hillary’. The reason this topic is on a truck blog is simply because the expedition used the Tucker Sno-Cat. BLB’s found a cracking video of original colour footage and we recommend heading over there to see it for yourself

But that’s not what this post is about…

Something reminded Tachoblog that it was about time we wandered over to the great One Girl Trucking site again and, as you’ll soon see for yourself, we’re very glad we did.

Back in May, around 150 truck journalists from 30 European countries got to test drive Volvo’s new construction truck – the Volvo FMX.

Tachoblog doesn’t know how they do it, but yet again etruck has found another great video that we have to share with you.

Thanks to etruck and Alwaysoffroad, Tachoblog can bring you this great clip of heavy haluage in the Australian Outback.

Regular followers of Tachoblog will know that we often post a video or two midweek and as we’d decided to do that today, Tachoblog thought we’d check to see if One Girl Trucking had posted anything new to her blog that we could use. Our luck was in and we found a great new one showing driving in Houston, Texas by night and day. And here it is…

Like Scanias? Like off road trucks? If you answered yes to either or both of those questions then you’ll love Tachoblog’s next video.

When you’ve bought a brand new 2010 Freightliner Coronado and want to make it (more than) a little bit different then where do you take it? To the Chrome Shop Mafia of course. And here, in under five minutes, you can see what they can do.