Properly recognized to all the normal weblog readers, right here she is on her final delivery to mainland Europe. Soon after 9 years service and 987,000KM beneath her belt, GB05 STE is noticed above delivering to a new French Connection shop in Grenoble, France. I do not consider Steve Marsh could even commence to perform out the amount of instances he has driven GB05 more than French soil but this the final trip was a good little run to finish a fairly glamour profession. This final trip began from Marshy’s Warrington base, with a run down to Leicester for 2 pickups, on to Purfleet for a 3rd collection just before heading to Dover and then onward to Grenoble and the delivery point. As soon as empty it was time for a best up from the local Carre4 (see below),back up to Amiens to reload for Ellesmere Port, just a stones throw away from Warrington and residence. A steady 2800KM later and the curtain was down on GB05′s European days. To say Steve and small MAN TGL have been some areas is virtually an understatement, possessing covered hundreds of thousands of miles together……..
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Rep, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Isle of Man, Italy, Luxembourg, Majorca, Malta, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Tenerife…….oh and the lsola del Giglio off the Italian Coast, you know the one exactly where the captain parked his cruise ship on the rocks!
The days of Europe now over, there was nevertheless 1 far more trip involving a ferry left to total. Start off, Warrington, load Worcester for same day delivery to Belfast and Newtownards in Northern Ireland. A standard job for Steve and GB05 STE completed with no fuss, fairly properly the exact same considering that she was registered back in November 2005.
Finally Steve produced the selection to update the ageing TGL for a newer Euro 6 version. It is taken a year to place GB14 STE on the road (that’s an additional story!) but now she will be Steve’s new workhorse and GB05 is up for sale and offered to go to a new home. If you have any genuine interest in buying Steve’s old steed then please e-mail Steve marshy@stevemarshexpress.co.uk or you can leave a comment below with your phone number and I can pass it on. Not a lot much more to say other than I’m positive Steve will agree that GB05 has been a excellent truck in common and I’m certain Steve will be pleased if GB14 is as trus2rthy. I’d like to say a thank you to GB05 as it’s the truck that got me and Marshy in touch and it is also the truck that have provided MAN trucks a lot of social media coverage as each the truck and Steve have created very a fan base right here on the blog. IA blog on GB14 STE will comply with soon.
Journey MAN reaches Journeys End
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