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Tachoblog Visits Hampton Court Palace Thanks To The Ford Transit

Tachoblog — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:37:54 +0000

From something very American – what do you mean you haven’t read ‘President Obama On Tachoblog Thanks To Smith Electric Vehicles‘? – Tachoblog brings you something quintessentially English with the news that the gardeners of the 750-acre royal estate of Hampton Court Palace have taken delivery of three new Ford Transit vans.

The gardeners are certainly a busy bunch and have a small fleet of Ford Transits to keep staff on top of the job.

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Hampton Court has taken delivery of three new Transits, which have been liveried in the distinctive colours of the Palace, by the Thames in south-west London.

The Transits were supplied by Ford dealer Dinnages, bringing to four the number of Ford vans provided to Hampton Court by the Sussex-based dealer, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.

“We have had four vehicles in all from Dinnages,” Graham Dillamore, gardens and estates operations manager for Historic Royal Palaces told Tachoblog. “Three are being used by members of the 44 full-time gardening staff for general gardens and estate operations, including landscaping work and maintenance, and the other is used to provide stock to our retail outlets at the Tower of London, Hampton Court and Kensington Palace.

“We chose the Transit because of its ready availability, ease of maintenance and staff familiarity. Dinnages is our preferred Ford dealer – we have found the staff there nice to deal with and we have struck up a good relationship with them.”

That’s a tribute which Dinnages commercial manager Mike Boden is delighted to receive. Speaking to Tachoblog he said, “It’s always nice to attract orders from outside your local area, and also to receive compliments from a client as prestigious as Hampton Court Palace. The Transits look superb in their Hampton Court livery.

“Dinnages is this year celebrating its 75th anniversary, and the Transit its 45th anniversary, so the timing is very appropriate.”

The first private Royal gardens were laid out at Hampton Court for King Henry VIII in the 1530s. There are now 60 acres of formal gardens in the 750 acres of Royal parkland which provide the setting for Hampton Court Palace. Among its many attractions are the annual RHS flower show and the world-famous maze, in which a third of a million people try not to lose themselves every year.

Tachoblog’s View From The Cab – 9.7.10

Tachoblog — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:34:25 +0000

Friday again so it’s time for you to join Tachoblog on the whistle stop tour of the world that we call View From The Cab.

The idea’s simple, the Tachoblog Tribe send in a picture (and sometimes more than one) of what they can see through their windscreen, Tachoblog edits them together and the end result is this – View From The Cab. As always, Tachoblog is very grateful to all of the Tachoblog Tribe that sent in their Views. If you’d like to join in – and we have a new member of the Tribe this week – then all the details you need are at the end of the post.

That’s enough of Tachoblog, let’s get started with this View of morning in Tennessee from Darkstaff.

In New Zealand Vic H ‘had a trip down to Hastings and back yesterday, about 850km return, and there was heavy rain for a lot of the way as you can see in this photo taken as I was climbing out of the Waipunga Gorge to the top of the Tarawera Hill on the Napier-Taupo Road…

Click below for more Views from Vic and the rest of this week’s View From The Cab…

…’It rained all the time I was loading the wine in Hastings and the road in and out of the vineyard was a bit muddy’…

…’However the rain stopped as I got back closer to Auckland and the clouds started to clear; it was a bit hard driving straight into the setting sun’…

…’but the sky looked quite spectacular’…

…’Then when I got onto the Auckland motorway the roads were dry and the stars were out which was a relief as I didn’t really fancy a 50km motorbike ride from work to home in the rain.’

Back in America we find Amishtrucker taking ‘a nice early morning stroll over Lake Texana on Texas 111 near Edna Texas. During our drought last summer this lake was really low but now it has filled up nice again. Have a good week everyone!’

In Germany, Rainerri1967 was at German Pellets in Wismar.

Returning to the USA, we say hello to One Girl Trucking, the newest member of the Tachoblog Tribe. She sent us this beautiful View of Rosie (her truck) and the sky somewhere in Nebraska or Kansas – if you like this View as much as Tachoblog does, you’ll be glad to know that it’s available, full size on our Wallpaper Page…

…And this one from Highway 54 in New Mexico.

Much, much closer to Tachoblog, LorryDay was passing the Duxford War Museum which is in Cambridgeshire, England.

Finally we go back to the Southern Hemisphere and we find TwoCrowsDown somewhere in Australia…

…A View OF his Cab…

…And this one he simply entitles ‘Bloody mud!’ – we can see why.

That’s all from View From The Cab for this week, all that remains is for Tachoblog to thank the Tachoblog Tribe for sending in their Views. If you’d like to join in, all you have to do is email your Views to vftc@tachoblog.com or send a tweet starting #vftc to @tachoblog

Tachoblog’s View From The Cab – 2.7.10

Tachoblog — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:36:41 +0000

And here we are in July with half the year gone already. But never mind thinking about that says Tachoblog, let’s have a look at the Views that the Tachoblog Tribe have kindly sent in this week.

Over here in the UK it’s been a nice sunny week – as you’ll see from LorryDay’s Views in a moment – but that’s not always the case as we head off around the world.

Anyway, let’s start with LorryDay who starts with this View of Asda vans in all being loaded and checked before going out…

…Then it’s ‘dinner time in Kent. Better than a burger’…

Click below for more from LorryDay and the rest of this week’s Views…

…For his next View he says, ‘This dragstar was parked up complete with rear parachute in the northeast near Sunderland’…

…’The caption says it all! Coming out of Lakeside shopping centre’ in Essex…

…And finally, a ‘better version’. As you can tell from where his Views are taken, LorryDay gets round quite a lot of the UK.

How we head to Springville, New York from where Heydriver’s sent this of ‘a gilded Goldie’ on US Route 219. He says ‘the Sun’s rays cast a golden light through the fog. A beautiful day for a drive. A relaxed ride to Buffalo, New York.’

New Zealand now where it’s certainly not summer weather. Vic H sent in these Views and says that we ‘seemed a bit surprised the other week to see snow in June, so here’s some snow in July!’…

…’These photos were taken while going down Viaduct Hill, part of the National Park road which goes down the western side of Mt Ruapehu, the mountain you can see in the background’…

…’We normally use the Desert Rd which goes down the eastern side of the mountain but when that is closed by snow and ice we use this road if it is open as an alternative route.’

Finally, and in a slightly smaller than usual VFTC (the Tachoblog Tribe must be on their holidays), we welcome Wrightdriver1 who’s View of the beach in Pensecola, Florida shows some of the oil that’s been washed up and still pouring from the oil spill in the Gulf.

That’s all for this week, so all that’s left for Tachoblog to do is thank the Tachoblog Tribe for sending in their Views. Don’t forget that if you’d like to join in, all you have to do is email your Views to vftc@tachoblog.com or send a tweet starting #vftc to @tachoblog

Tachoblog’s View From The Cab – 7.5.10

Tachoblog — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:31:15 +0000

One week into May already, so hopefully this means none of the Tachoblog Tribe have seen any snow this week – unlike Darkstaff last week – (and no ‘saving the post disasters’ for Tachoblog!) but the only way we’ll find out is by having a look at the Views they’ve sent in.

We start this week in America with Amishtrucker who’s asked that Tachoblog tells ‘everyone that I really enjoy their views every week and to keep them coming. There is enough bad news in the world every day, let’s celebrate by looking at the interesting and good every chance we get!’. Tachoblog should add our thanks to the Tachoblog Tribe for sending in their Views, it’s thanks to you that View From The Cab is as good as it is!

Amishtrucker’s first View is ‘northbound on US288 looking at the Houston skyline. This is just past the Loop 610 interchange’…

…Now her takes us to ‘US 59 near downtown where 59 is sunk down (to eliminate noise in the neighborhoods, I would imagine). Those arch overpasses are unique to this highway, at least in Houston. Haven’t seen a lot of car haulers since the recession but here is one. But it doesn’t look like he has a full load’…

Click below for one more from Amishtrucker and the rest of this week’s Views…

Amishtrucker’s final View is from near Houston, heading north on US288, he says ‘I saw this guy pulling this little, well it looks like a cook shack with the pit on the porch there. He probably goes to cookouts which are very popular in Texas, especially this time of the year. If I had one I could pull it out in the woods near the creek somewhere and just cookout and live there for a while!’

Now we head to Wisconsin to join TruckerDesiree and Karma the wonderdog who sent in this View.

To New Zealand now where Vic H was ‘in the South Island again’…

…’Here are a few photos taken along the Kaikoura coast’…

…’Where State Highway 1′…

…’Together with the railway line, runs very close to the coastline. On windy days spray blows continuously across the road so vehicles get covered with salt and it is difficult to keep the windscreen clean enough to see through so big containers of washer liquid are required!’…

…’Kaikoura means means crayfish meal (kai = food; koura = crayfish) and stalls selling cooked crayfish are common along this coast. In NZ, what we call crayfish, or koura, are also known as NZ rock lobster and they are nothing like the small freshwater crustaceans known as crayfish in many other countries; there is a good meal of absolutely delicious meat in one crayfish.’

We catch up with TheNose100 ‘stopped at the WB rest area on I-90 in Ohio’ he adds that this is an energy efficient designed building…

…Now we find him at Maple Heights in Ohio where he’s on a nice day out and ‘backed in. In spite of the problem dumpster’…

…This is a ‘view from the top’. TheNose100 says it ‘looks funky to back into, but not that hard’…

…All loaded and he (well his trailer of course) is ‘full. Looking for the bottom of the tank’…

…And ‘these are some test / samples of the juice they make here’. TheNose100 signs off by saying ‘ya’ll have a good week!’.

In Germany, Rainerri1967 wasn’t driving today as there was work being done on his truck so he had to ‘stay in the garage at Kehl.’

Did Darkstaff find any snow this week, well there’s none in his first view of early morning Montana. He says that he’d ‘already been driving 4 hours when I took this pic’…

…Here’s a view OF the cab as he takes ‘a break, again in Montana, watching the clouds, a very relaxing way to pass the time’…

…Finally, and from the North Dakota Badlands, he says that they ‘might be hard to see, but the two brown lumps by the horizon are wild bison.’

In England LorryDay saw Cadbury World which is ‘in a Birmingham district called Bourneville.’

Heydriver and Goldie were having a ‘fantastic day’ when they took this first View, ‘Bright sun and a great view of lower Manhattan. Riding along on the BQE (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway). The height markings on the BQE are a bit misleading. Posted as 12′ 4″, the warning signs may cause a newbie driver to freak out. But, New York measures height from the curb and not the road deck. And, also the measurement is from the lowest point above the curbing. So, never fear my fellow travelers. In the State of NY you can hammer right under that 12′ 8″ over pass with nary a thought. Ahem! Unless the warning sign says “ACTUAL” Then slam the binders and wait for the 4 wheelers to start honking their horns’…

Their second View is of ‘the east tower of the Verazzano Narrows Bridge between Staten Island and Brooklyn on I-278 W heading back towards Staten Island.’ Heydriver says that you’re ‘not supposed to take pics on the bridge. But, sometimes I’s can’t help it.’

Lastly for this week we catch up with SurfingTrucker who was ‘In Waltham, Massachusetts heading home for weekend when I spotted DOT hard at work.’

And, all too quickly, that’s all from View From The Cab, don’t forget that if you’d like to join in all you have to do is email your Views to vftc@tachoblog.com, or (for those of you that Twitter) send a tweet starting #vftc to @tachoblog

Tachoblog’s View From The Cab – 30.4.10

Tachoblog — Tue, 04 May 2010 09:17:25 +0000

This View From The Cab was meant to be the last post of last week and last month but, as Tachoblog knows you’ve realised, it wasn’t. Now we all, especially Tachoblog(!), should know how important it is to ‘save’ your work as you go along, but how often do you do that? We don’t, well didn’t (we will from now on), and met with the consequences when, having finished this post, clicked the save button and Tachoblog’s computer said no!

But, with lesson learnt, we bring you this / last week’s View From The Cab – looking on the bright side, Tachoblog thinks there can’t be a better way to start the week.

Thanks to the Tachoblog Tribe sending in their Views, you can join Tachoblog as head off from the United Kingdom to circle the world (with a few hops back to America) to end up back in the UK again. There are loads of Views this week, and this View From The Cab has to be our best yet – Tachoblog thinks so at any rate!

So, let’s start with Rizzo101 who spotted this heavy load on the M6 near Manchester.

Now we head to America to join SurfingTrucker who was getting his truck washed in Milford, Connecticut…

Click below for more from SurfingTrucker and the rest of the Tachoblog Tribe…

…He says it ‘looked good sitting in traffic on the Cross Bronx in New York City’…

…and when he ‘crossed from New York into New Jersey on the George Washington Bridge.’

Back to Europe now to catch up with Rainerri1967 who was loading in Lahr Blackforest, Germany…

…A little while later he was empty and, for him at least, it was the weekend!

Jumping back to the USA, we meet Heydriver and Goldie who were on US Route 30 in Abbotstown, Pennsylvania. Heydriver says that this is ‘a wonderful mural here in Abbotstown. I’ve been wanting to capture this and today was the day!’…

…Now it’s ‘sun and highlights – Sun behind cloud on I-70 E near Triadelphia, West Virginia, approaching the Dallas Pike exit on I-70. This is my view out of my office window and, the view is always changing. For me this beats a suit and tie any day’…

…This is US Cold Storage in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania…

…He didn’t say where this was taken, but the news is that Heydriver’s ‘retiring an old and trusted phone. My LG Voyager will now sit up on the shelf in my office until my wife destroys her phone!’…

…From Near Binghamton, New York they he sent his first pic posted with his new HTC Incredible. Heydriver says, ‘I’m all fumble fingers.Wow! What a difference a new device makes. I’m relearning everything here’.

Staying in America we join TheNose100 who was ‘getting ready to roll out of Cleveland, Ohio. Sun peaking out’…

… Here we find him in Lancaster (Buffalo), New York and ‘looking at another tanker (soy oil) with a bright Reflection while I unload corn syrup. The plant makes cake frostings. Some days you can really smell the lemon or chocolate flavorings’…

…And then a ‘View of Lake Erie from Highway 5 in Sheridan, New York’ TheNose100 is ‘headed back to Ohio’.

Halfway round the world (for Tachoblog anyway) and we’re in New Zealand with Vic H who says, ‘I have spent the last 10 days or so in the South Island without being able to get to a computer, but here are a few photos taken on one of the days of the view from the cab on part of State Highway 1 called ‘the Hundalees”…

…’This stretch of highway is steep and winding’…

…’Always an interesting drive in a truck’…

…’And an even better one on a motorbike!’…

‘The last photo shows an Iveco Stralis B-train which didn’t quite make one of the corners.’ Vic has told Tachoblog that whilst the driver was ok, he suspects that his boss won’t be!

We bounce back to the USA to see Darkstaff who can see ‘snow in Wyoming, just west of Sundance. Seriously, snow. Geez’…

…His second View is from ‘outside the cab. In Rocker, Montana. Very beautiful.’

To Uganda now and that can only mean we’re joining Jerry B (and the Uganda Crew). Jerry says that ‘from the last couple of days or driving around, there seems to have been a significant ‘Indian flavour’ to the lighter, town-based truck transport. Tata 1210SE’s for Africa, from water bowsers quietly waiting for custom’…

…’To 4×4 honey suckers, cargos etc etc’…

…’Including the unfortunately slightly out-of-focus shot of the chap unloading the small SUV using the Series 111 recovery vehicle. I didn’t capture the whole thing regrettably but just after this shot of the vehicle hung up on the tailgate of the Tata was shot, the car fell off quite violently, taking off its chin spoiler. As the strain came off the LR tow rope, it lurched forwards, the rope strained, then broke and flicked backwards breaking the rear window of the little SUV. Whether the car then ran back down the slope into the rear of the truck, I know not as I had already passed by. Not one of his finer moments though methinks, for the LR driver!’…

…’And in a suspiciously quiet shot (where was the usual nightmare traffic this mid-morning?) an Ashok Leyland grinds up the hill ready to disgorge its load of Readymix’.

In America again and McNabbTransport was ‘two-lane truckin, headed out to Charlottesville, Virginia.’

Moving south we arrive in Texas with Amishtrucker who sent this View ‘from the Bay Bridge looking over the south shore just before heading out across the bay on the causeway and away from Corpus Christi, looking towards the bay and Portland’…

…’That’s a nice clean gravel bucket being pulled by a really good looking Pete on US 71 near Smithville. The clouds in the picture, well weather started out cloudy and windy but turned sunny and nice later’.

Finally we arrive back in England and find LorryDay’looking for a human to talk to in this print shop in country life in Wakefield, Yorkshire’…

…He ‘found this in Stan Robinson’s yard in Stafford , they have a collection of older tucks they’ve ran in the past’…

…This is ‘a very crowded very hot , Camden Lock in London’…

…And lastly for this week,’A very colourful trailor always brings a smile to my face. This was on the M5 going north I think.’

That’s all from View From The Cab, don’t forget that if you’d like to join in with View From The Cab, all you have to do is email your Views to vftc@tachoblog.com or send a tweet starting #vftc to @tachoblog We’ll have another View From The Cab next Friday.

Tachoblog’s View From The Cab – 9.4.10

Tachoblog — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:01:39 +0000

What a lucky lot you are! Only two days since the last View From The Cab and here’s Tachoblog with another one for you.

Ok, we’re overstating things aren’t we as you didn’t get a post last Friday thanks to Easter, but we’re back on track now. Once again the Tachoblog Tribe have been sending in their pictures of what they can see out of their windscreens and Tachoblog’s very grateful that they have. But enough of Tachoblog, let’s get on with the Views…

We start our globetrotting in America this week and catch up with TheNose100 who ‘was done with my first stop in Dunkirk, New York. Its of their water reclamation plant in the foreground, and power plant, in the back, with the pile of coal’…

…Now we find him ‘parked next to this old smokestack. Wassit say? Heinz? Yup. As in ketchup. Smells like it too. Did you know that the American pioneers thought that tomatoes were poisonous? And that ketchup was another term back in the day for ‘sauce’? Yup. Tis true. Do a Wiki on it. This stack is located in Fremont, Ohio.’ Tachoblog likes the ketchup coincidence with our earlier post today ‘Ketchup From Volkswagen – This Is No April Fool Says Tachoblog‘

Click below to continue your journey round the world with Tachoblog…

Rainerri1967 was in Marckolsheim, France.

Back to America from where Amishtrucker sent ‘another view of the I35-Loop 20 interchange in Laredo, Texas. I came though here a couple of days ago. Note the truck on the top there’…

…’Then yesterday I was coming down TX 36 and this is the view of the countryside just past Brazoria. Flat flat flat’

To Australia now and TwoCrowsDown was ‘on the causeway across Lake Lefroy, Kambalda heading to the St Ives gold mine.’

Bouncing back to the States we find Heydriver and Goldie looking at a New Jersey farm on Route 57 Near Washington New Jersey. Heydriver says, ‘New Jersey, the garbage state? Not on the “Jersey” roads I travel on’…

…They’ve called this View ‘The greening of the Trail’ and sent it from US 29 in Virginia. ‘This is my most favorite road to drive on in Virginia. The Good ole Seminole Trail. Spring has arrived on the trail and everything is turning green’…

…Finally there’s this View entitled ‘Pull’ from I-81 N near Lexington, Virginia, after the Buffalo Creek. According to Heydriver, ‘this little hill makes for a hard pull. Fully loaded I can only get Goldie to top the hill at 55mph in 9 gear. I’ve seen many truckers pull out to pass a slower truck and get hung out as gravitational forces beat horsepower into submission.’

Much closer to Tachoblog Towers we find Rizzo101 on the M6 at Lancaster, England.

Back to the USA again and SurfingTrucker’s having ‘a rainy, foggy morning on I-290 in Northboro, Massachusetts’…

…’After a quick turnaround, back through Northboro going the other direction.’

Our last Views for this week come from Jerry B (and the Uganda Crew) which means that we must be in Uganda. Jerry says, ‘following on from last week, after a recent road trip around the west of the country, a locally-fabricated and now slightly weather-beaten sign on the outskirts of a game park warns errant matatus (minibus taxis) about the dangers of picking a fight with elephants on the road. And it does happen’…

…’Last week one of the pix showed how domestic and wild animals are being forced together due to human pressures, this one illustrates how technology also now affects and invades every aspect of our lives and the world at large. Personally, I go to unspoiled game parks to get AWAY from that infernal interwebnet nonsence!’…

…’A bit further up the road and an ancient Fiat wagon and drag gently ticks itself cool, as the driver disappears off for purposes unknown’…

…’To finish off with, a couple of shots of two small boys standing on the equator sign’…

…’And the Congo road junction, near Kasese town in the west of the country, with the cotton wool-like clouds behind shrouding the peaks of fabled Rwenzori Mountains (otherwise known as the Mountains of the Moon), which demarcate the border between Uganda and the Congo.’

And that’s all for this week. Don’t forget that if you’d like to join in with View From The Cab, all you have to do is email your Views to vftc@tachoblog.com or send a tweet starting #vftc to @tachoblog

Incredible Wednesday Video From Tachoblog

Tachoblog — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:44:20 +0000

It’s Wednesday so it must be time Tachoblog brought you another video.

This clip is apparently genuine – although if anyone knows different then please let Tachoblog know – and shows a Renault Clio being pushed (sideways!) along the A1 in Wetherby, England by an articulated lorry.

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Tachoblog’s View From The Cab – 12.3.10

Tachoblog — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:31:26 +0000

It’s nearly the weekend so it must be time for this week’s View From The Cab.

Join us as we travel from Massachusetts to Massachusetts via Germany, New Zealand, Texas and other parts of the USA too.

First off we have SurfingTrucker who sent this View of his ‘normal morning delivery spot – Polar Beverage in Worcester, Massachusetts, home of the big Polar Bear!’

DriverGeoff was at the Petro stopping center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Click below for the rest of this ‘s Views…

Heydriver and Goldie saw the ‘sunrise and a left hand turn…With overpass’ in Binghamton, New York…

…They then wished us a ‘Good morning. Or afternoon if you like’ from the I-95/I-64 Junction in Richmond, Virginia…

And also sent this View of ‘Stratification on I-81 S. near Nanticoke, Pennsylvania.’

From New Zealand, Vic H tells us that ‘the wine vintage is really starting here now, so to make room for the new season’s grape juice the wineries are busy sending the 2009 wine to the bottling plants. I was in Hawke’s Bay this week, the home of NZ’s finest Bordeaux-style red wines, and came up behind this 1904 McLaren traction engine which belongs to Chris Pask of C J Pask wines’…

…’On the way to one of the bottling plant at one of the wineries in Auckland I drove along the shore of the Manukau Harbour just before sunset’…

…’Where, after unloading, I drove out through the vineyard where the grapes have ripened enough to attract the birds, hence the bird nets over the vines.’

TruckerDesiree and Karma the Wonderdog were in Texas having a trailer inspection so she sent us this View.

We stay in Texas with Amishtrucker who’s showing us ‘spring flowers blooming along US 83 north of Laredo. This picture does not do the view justice. It is just beautiful’…

…And also US 77 NB north of Schulenburg, Texas looking towards Swiss Alp. Grass is very green here and flowers on the way’…

…He also sent this View of the ‘US 288 bridge over rail line looking at the Stephen F. Austin Statue in the background.’

Unlike his name, TexasTrucker was actually near Joliet in Illinois.

We nip back into Texas to join Darkstaff who was ‘heading west on I-20 in Texas. One word. Monotonous’…

..Then we join him ‘Sitting at a rest area in Arizona about 85 miles east of California border’…

…He says ‘The western Arizona desert is very green today.’

Much nearer to home (for Tachoblog anyway) LorryDay was ‘mixing with the enemy at the traffic cone factory in Manchester’…

…Where he was ‘exporting misery to Finland.’

TheNose100 sent a few shots from along near Barcelona, New York. The ‘first one is of the lighthouse from today’…

…’The second one is from earlier this week…

…’And the last one is just a simple one of going down the road.’

Finally for this week we head to Germany to catch up with Rainerri1967 who is on the A7 near Heidenheim.

Finally we get back to America and full circle for us as we return to Massachusetts with LittleTrucker who was on the Mohawk Trail.

Thanks to all the Tachoblog Tribe for sending in their Views. If you’d like to join in with View From The Cab, simply email your Views to vftc@tachoblog.com or send a tweet starting #vftc to @tachoblog

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UK Truck Stops Now On iPhone App

Tachoblog — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:36:40 +0000

Truck stops are vital rest areas for truck drivers and help ensure safety for all road users. Drivers need to take regular rests knowing that they are safe and their vehicle and loads are secure.

Over in America, Drivers have been able to find Truck Stops – and loads of other useful information – thanks to the excellent Trucker iPhone application by Allen from AskTheTrucker for a while, but until now UK drivers have had nothing remotely close.

However, that has now changed thanks to Websetters Limited launching Truck Stop England, the first mobile guide of English truck stops for Apple’s popular iPhone.

Click below to find out more…

Using the mapping and GPS features of the iPhone, Truck Stop England helps freight transport operators and drivers plan their journeys, rest and park safe.

All the truck stops included provide facilities specifically for truck drivers and are recognised by local authorities as rest areas for heavy goods vehicles. More will be included as their details become available.

Open up Truck Stop England and the driver is able to display on the integrated map all the authorised truck stops in England, detailing opening times, parking costs and one touch dialling to call the chosen location to make advanced bookings or just to check availability of space or services. Details on the availability of services such as accommodation, lorry wash facilities, cctv and security fences and more are also available to allow the driver to determine that the services required are available before they arrive, saving time and fuel.

Truck Stop England is part of the Traffic Media UK series of solutions and contains details on nearly 100 officially recognised truck stops with over 7,600 parking spaces.

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Tachoblog’s View From The Cab – 26.2.10

Tachoblog — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:46:18 +0000

Time for Tachoblog’s favourite post of the week – and we hope it’s your’s too – as we see where and what the Tachoblog Tribe have been up to this week in View From The Cab.

We start this week’s selection from (relatively) close to where Tachoblog is with this View fromRizzo101 of the Newcastle Upon Tyne fruit and veg market when it’s empty.

Click below for the rest of this week’s Views…

Heydriver and Goldie were ‘on ice’ at Behr Paint in Allentown, Pennsylvania…

…All this cold weather must be getting to them becuase they also sent this View saying ‘and now, for something completely different. I remember a day in May.’

TruckerDesiree and Karma the Wonderdog were waiting to get the go ahead for a new fuel filter – but Tachoblog doesn’t know where they were.

Over in New Zealand, Vic H was in ‘the Bay of Plenty and came home through the Karangahake Gorge’…

…’with its steep cliffs’…

…’and narrow winding roads beside the Ohinemuri River’…

…’This Gorge opens out into the town of Paeroa; last Sunday this main street had motorcycles tearing along it at close to 300 km/h as on the 3rd Sunday of February every year Paeroa becomes the home of the Paeroa Street Races, a very spectacular event as the spectators on the footpaths are only a couple of feet away from the bikes.’

SurfingTrucker was enjoying a ‘beautiful morning in Boston, Massachusetts’ as he crossed the Zakhim Bridge…

…However 65 miles west on I-90 in Worcester is ‘NOTHING like Boston’.

TheNose100 was also on I-90 but in Pennsylvania where ‘someone was having a bad day on the slick roads’…

…’They had two wreckers pulling him out, didn’t make it into the photo.’

Amishtrucker was in Luling, Texas which, he tells us, ‘is known for the watermelons that are raised in the area. They have an annual festival called “Watermelon Thump” and painted one of their water towers for the good tasting things’…

…This cotton field he spotted somewhere near Kendleton, Texas and wondered why ‘it wasn’t harvested yet. But there it is.’

Billy J White was in Tonawanda, New York. He ‘got lucky and missed the big snow!’

And that’s it for this week.

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