Well, I finally found out what truck I will be driving. ONLY THE COOLEST ONE (the one above which was the only fully chromed one on the tour)!! Or at least I thought that it was the coolest until everybody else unanimously decided that it was indeed the gayest truck. Never mind. I am still pretty sure that you dad will be very jealous. You can see in these pictures as well, the sheer size of our convoy. In fact, in these two pictures you can see no more than 6 trucks at a time. The convoy was actually nine. Factor in a safe driving seperation and that makes a half a kilometer roadtrain! We did make a bit of traffic chaos!Anyway, the plan was that only the lead truck knows the way.....everybody else just knows their place in the queue and follows the guy in front. This in general seemed to work very well....until. When the guy at the front of the queue gets lost and starts pulling into petrol stations to ask directions, general chaos can result behind him. This is exactly what happened as we tried to drive through rush hour Bratislavia. Throughout the entire time though I had the windows open....the sterio up loud...and the biggest grin ever!
The rest of the drive was pretty uneventfull and we eventually reached our first destination. A Volvo dealership where we could park up the trucks for the night. The one small amusement at this first stop was I did get to watch Linus attempt to reverse park his truck. To explain to those in the know reading in Britain. Although his truck looked like a regular trailer and drag....its not. It actually has a short bogey attached the rear trailer. In short this means that it bends in two places. Go away and think about that for a moment. Uncle alec...I am talking to you here!
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were is my cool bulktruck with tandem drive axels???
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