Santa Fe Express of Cheltenham Spa UK.. We ran 4...When I was allocated one I was like a Dog with 2 Zizzys.. I bought a Sun Visor and modest bling.. Loved her!!!! Douglas Vick Extremely. Old School LORRY Driver...

strong american good truck since 1973 on the road

Ahead of it's time when introduced in the mid seventies.Pure nostalgia😎👍!

J'ai eu un 4432 et un 4435. Ah les souvenirs. Le Portugal, la Grèce, le proche Orient... En T2 ça allait, mais en TIR fallait de la patience aux frontières. Par contre le bahut, tant que les injecteurs pompes du Cummins tenaient, c'étaient des kilomètres sans lever la cabine.

Belle photos qui font rejaillir des souvenirs sonore et visuelle

Another very underestimated truck. But in my honest opinion it was well a head of it's time. Chris Hooper. R. I. P

I passed my test in one of these in 85, my dad ran 1628 Merc’s as well as 2 Transcontinental’s. Good trucks the biggest thing on the road at the time, but damn those things were heavy. By the way J.R. Courtney was my dads mate. Home town Portsmouth.

@shripneycarsales

3 жыл бұрын

Courtneys had a Scammell Crusader at one point in the early 80s.....they were in Catherington / Horndean from memory..

@SharonD369

3 жыл бұрын

@@shripneycarsales Didn’t he park some at Robert Bailies yard in Horndean, over the roundabout at the Brewery the turn left up that hill. We grew up in Clanfield so used to see Courtney’s, Bailies, Harris and The Mouth of The South’s Merc about all the time. 🤘🤘

@shripneycarsales

3 жыл бұрын

@@SharonD369 yes that's right....little lane between the chinese take away and the bike shop :-)

@SharonD369

3 жыл бұрын

@@shripneycarsales Yes that’s it 👌 good memory 🤘

Best Truck for Ever ❤️❤️😍

Well ahead of it's time .some tool amazing engineering and running gear. Brakes could be updated. Love it chris hooper ran these to Saudi. Like I say some tool. R.i.P. chris hooper. LEGEND

1984, I have happy memories of driving Ford Transcontinentals. both 4x2 and 6x4 tractor units, also the left hook Berliet 4x2 version. Some cynical wags christened them "Lifeboats" due to their scary handling! A rare beast now on the UK,s roads.

Had two of these years ago.... wish i had one now..... set up right & fook all could get near them!

People said at the time they were 20 years ahead of there time, that proved to be so true in fact with some brakes and an interior update they would still hold there own with todays offerings , but then again todays drivers wouldn't know what that stick at the side of the seat was for

@markellwood5997

4 жыл бұрын

Guy Atkinson I still use mine weekly on the continent, did eight Spain’s in as many weeks last summer, we also own a four year old fh and I can honestly say you don’t earn any more money running a newer vehicle, I average between 8 and 9 mpg in my Transcon and get 9.5 to 10 from the fh but you don’t buy adblue you can fix and maintain the tc yourself. The fh needs plugging in every now and again for updates that’s £160 a go,ive broken down in it three times now, adblue pump in Avignon 1300 euros, throttle pedal needed re programming forgot how much that was,don’t get me wrong the fh is faster,quieter, smoother ride but I know what I’ll be going out in again this year. I know I’m odd but I think the new vehicles are dangerous as in you pull out the peage and hit resume and you don’t have to touch anything for another four and a half hours, I have trouble staying awake, I see a lot of accidents where drivers have rear ended another truck and I think the drivers are half asleep, I like going up a hill and thinking to myself do I need half a gear here or is it going to make it,I think it keeps me more alert. When I leave the yard I can do the restaurant at Villefranche in 9hrs 50 via the train and the fh does it in 9 hrs 40 so i reckon I loose about an hour on the Spanish run, but I don’t mind that. Mark Ellwood

@neilmoon4766

3 жыл бұрын

How true I would often like to see them play with a David brown or fuller road ranger how about ratchet handbrake and dead man I drive a Merc auto unit only have to steer

@windleshamwanderer3728

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, there are still some of us old gits still around. I never had the pleasure of driving a transcontinental, but with an ERF, Leyland, Bedford or one of the old British trucks, you really had to concentrate on your driving, if your mind lapsed you would end up playing a tune on the gearbox and with drum brakes, downhill fully laden, it could be quite nerve racking if you hadn't got into the correct gear. Before speed limiters, I never felt drowsy. As you do now when you press a button and point it in the right direction. It's wonderful to read these comments and the memories, not all good, come flooding back. Life seemed so less complicated then, or am I just old now??😋

Could never understand why the transconti wasn't an absolute smash hit!! Particularly in the UK which was supposed to be its main market!! Where British built trucks at the time where still relatively primative you'd think that the operators would have snapped it up but they didn't it only sold in dribs n drabs it was to sophisticated for the cowboys that proliferated the business in those days!!

My grandad had two of these in he's fleet back in the day mainly hauling coal

The one at 1:32 is mine!!! I still use it now regularly for continental trips

@jondrizzle4554

3 жыл бұрын

Fair play to you mate that's a stunning truck I'd drive one of these for a living over any of the automated modern crap we get nowadays I've got a top spec merc to drive at work and I hate the fkin thing and it sounds shit 😄😄

Had my one and only Transcon in 1989 , 8 years old then, I was tramping with it . Bloody rot box , cold and wet , night heater no t up to standard, however found an affinity with it .

Awesome truck to drive. Give me that over most of these modern things. ANY 299T if my distant memory serves me correct...

great pics

wauuu miticoooooo

Bu araç gümrük permi zamanda almisti1984 yılında komşu vardı Motoru parça bulamadi Man motoru yaptırmıştı 1999 hurdaya verdi Hey gunler

Had the chance to drive 1 in 1988 not a bad truck bloody high though

Haven't seen one of these for years! UK's tax and leasing laws and costs make it easy to get new trucks every few years.

NEVER FORGOTTEN. PETE TRUCK

Call4 Woodbridge Suffolk or Felixstowe had two in 1976 I was driving one and a guy called Rosie with driving the other one

Cabine BERLIET !!!!!!!!! J B

@bagheeratz

6 жыл бұрын

oui kb2400

so why did they not survive not a truck that we saw in New Zealand

Un bijoux 13 vitesses moteur cumines boites de vitesses fuleur je revient 30 ans en arriere

The original cabin design was French Berliet I bet this fords are still in service in poor USA used import from rich Europe

@JC-zg4xe

5 жыл бұрын

Svetlozar Shenkov Aren’t they just just an american ford louisville with a french cab though... I also doubt there is a single one in the us.

Why is there no.photos cel from Woodbridge Suffolk

They were a game changer in heavy trucks...certainly way ahead of their time...UniSpeed were running them in early 1980's..

Wouldn't pull a mouse off of a glass counter, and when you used to go round a corner it would lean over that much you had put your hand on something stop you sliding oo-er,I drove one for BRS it may well have been fucked ?

what the interest of a slideshow as to get pictures of this truck any search in Google will provide tons of and in better format or quality.

Twas ( Ivor The Driver)

Powertran diesel

Douglas Vick.. Not Vic.... Eric Vick ran one on trial regularly to The Middle East... I or The Driver(I or Neal Rip) left Eric Vick when The Transcon went back to Taylors (Then Ford Agents Gloucester)

@johnjennings9693

2 жыл бұрын

I remember reading about Eric Vick, in truck magazine's greetings from Ireland

Et oui c et tait la cabine du bélier

Pete myles