Had a great week showing off the new Scania R series. I was very happy to be given charge of this 25.25 meter long 60 ton Topline for the week...its a thing of beauty to drive. As you can see the above video of me doing a quick drive past (i guess you just have to trust its me driving)!!

Nothing to say

I leave the whole thing to your imagination!

Silly boats

Ok, its a bit out of date now, but i see i forgot to add my boating pictures to the blog. A great weekend in Stockholm it was... and the boating was great, until of course i crashed the boat. Oh well! It was not my fault honest! Anyway, i really look forward to next summer as it would be great hire a boat for a long weekend...

Bus driving

Come on Ingrid... when are we going to drag you up to drive one of these things? You do design them after all!!

I need one of these (or all of them!)

Just a normal day in the Scania carpark! Mmmmmmm, matt black.

Oh NO!

How can I ever live this down. My own father... driving a DAF"t". Is there no justice in this world. And not only that... its nothing more than a transit van. I work my ass off to design a fantastic Volvo... which is now availale in 700BHP flavours, and am currently striving to help Scania top anything Volvo can do... yet no... he drives a toy truck?

It CAN happen...even to me

Found these old pictures of my first ever (and so far only) crash. All my fault sorry to say, and i did get booked for it. Too fast in the wet, and hit a van coming in the opposite direction (you can see it on the pavement in the background). Nobody hurt...thank goodness....except pride. I remember thinking just before the impact, damn it...now i cant say ever again that i have never had an accident.

Beetle by Beasley

Some very nice pictures of my lovely car (which may have to go soon)... :(

What an idiot.

What a disaster. Only one season old, and they are horribly coroded already. Why, oh why didnt i wash and dry them before putting them into storage for the winter. Any suggestions on how to repair them are of course welcome.

I CAN parallel park a truck!

So, Magnus, this one is for you. Its not super tight...but hey, i dont drive these things every day you know!

Scania V8

Managed to borrow a Scania V8 for the weekend (range and split manual) to keep my hand in on the driving. Fully loaded, it gave me a chance to get a bit more familiar with a manual, and particularly Scania manual gearbox. Also took the time to have another practice at reversing. It was all good fun!

Cool

Borrowed a very fast car the other day. Managed to take this snap on a quiet stretch of road!

Or like this. Spot the differences!

New DesignerTechniques

It feels like time for a overhaul of DesignerTechniques. Been working on some new layout looks, with a wider, and page centred format. Think its looking good. New Logo too. Comments?

Seriously, is it me who is stupid...or facebook?

Ok, really. I run this Blog just fine, although the picture formatting can be a bit wierd, and of course I manage to write, publish and maintain DesignerTechniques.com .....all by myself. Today however I have lost an entire day trying to figure out how to use Facebooks company "Page" service to create something for DesignerTechniques. A whole day, and still I cant figure it out. Its full of links that take you down blind alleys for gods sake. You then have to re-enter from the start. I have not seen a website with such poor navigation in years!!? Certainly not one that popular. Really, its crap. In the last two days, I have even managed to arrange Google search, and Google ads onto DesignerTechniques. Peice of cake, and that involved fiddling with HTML for chr*st sake? I AM MAD. No really, i am!

This ones for you paul

I find myself missing Boris. Things are not the same without him. Even if you may end up dead at the end of the evening, it was always worth it.

Skiing for the first time

Managed to cart myself off to the slopes over the weekend thanks to Ingrid, the girls and Louise. Tried skiing for the first time and i thought it went surprisingly well. Much easier than snow boarding. Think i am going to ski all the time from now on...its the new cool. Snow boarding is soooo last year.

What the f??k

This kind of freaked me out a bit. COming out of the Mcdonalds drive through i saw my car? ? Same number plate and everything. I thought i had got into the wrong car for a second...even though i didnt even get out. Anyway, chatted to the owner for a bit and we both agreed it was very weird. I also agreed with myself that mine looked much better with the wheels. Nice one allan.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That will teach em. Ok for those who dont know, i have been having a year long battle with a parking company over a parking ticket. If you want to find out more you will find the whole story below. The end of the matter came when they gave up. Since they had already put it in the hands of the swedish courts, in effect that means they concede defeat....ie. i win. ie. they spent a lot of money for sod all and i win. Think i am going to call them up every day to remind them of that. And the fact that they are in my opinion lying stealing bullies!!

Shit

Oops. First time for that. In my defense it wasnt my fault. God made me do it. Even Shumacher crashes. It will buff out. Boloxs