Re: Something a little different 'bloggy' & not quite classic!
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:51 pm
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Back in the year 2000, I was fortunate to gain a contract delivering pharmaceuticals to the Lloyds Chemist Group. The previous carrier had gone tits up. The receiver offered me a pair of Iveco vans, all in the correct livery, and the asking price was absolute peanuts.rich. wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:30 ami used to run an iveco 3810 daily tipper, it was a real shed but started every time & did everything i needed.. i ran it for 4 years on english plates & only sold it when i was told off by the mot/ct guy. i patched the bed with tape once to stop the sand falling out
Paul240480 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 20, 2018 3:36 pm^^^^EEK! ^
Mind you it has been sort of on fire a little bit .........
Here's a suggestion. Buy yourself and A4 ring binder file. Get about a 100 plastic inserts. (You'll probably need 200) Write about your trips out in your Iveco camper. Chances are that if you are determined enough to persevere with the Iveco, you will have written enough about your catastrophes and mishaps, and the fortune that you have shelled out, to be able to write a book in such a comical way, that it will sell so well that you will recover your costs.Paul240480 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 25, 2018 2:57 pmThis we did, then set off for the final run home...... Literally 5 mins later, Elaine said, "I can smell burning". Me checking the dash..... "No temps fine" Then, "Paul stop the van its on fire".
Sure enough there was smoke coming in through the heater vent.....;
So engine off and everyone out...... Phone call to break down. It didn't go fully on fire, thank goodness. But it certainly made a certain part of me wink a tad!
So the end result of this first outing was being taken to the Iveco garage in St Nazaire & daughter coming down to collect us - luckily it was her day off! Not the most successful of trips to say the least