chris1953

I've been thinking of the R-series Macks that i have seen on my travels. I used to live just down the road from this French haulier; he always had an assortment of American trucks. So i checked Google street images and he still has his Mack.

Hi Les, welcome to Big Mack Trucks. Fellow Brit here; now living in Canada. Plenty of UK registered Macks on the When Mack Roamed Europe, Middle-East thread. I'm sure you will recognize a few of them.

The Trucknet UK Forum has a topic on Mack trucks with plenty of detail of the Macks on British roads. There is a road test done with a Mack for the British transport magazine "Truck." April 1978. A very favorable result and I thought it would only be a matter of time before we were all running around in Macks. Alas, that was not the case. http://www.trucknetuk.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=127603

Rynart are still in business and Rinus Rynart still takes an active interest in the company. They have the contract to supply the armed forces in Afghanistan with fresh food and run fridges overland from Westrn Europe to Kabul. Most of their drivers are from Estonia and neighboring states and ,alas, the trucks are no longer Macks. Er-San had a big mixed fleet of Macks and Fiats. Their base was on the western outskirts of Istanbul, just a few hundred yards from the Londra Camp. Their workshops were very handy for any repairs needed for any make of truck. A most friendly and helpful place b

That photo of the San Jose Mack at the Londra Camp brings back memories. That was a regular watering hole just outside Istanbul and every west European truck driver would pull in there on the way to the Middle East. I stopped there many times between 1983 to 1986 and there was always an Irani registered Mack F700 with trailer parked at the gate. The story was that the Iranian driver had stabbed an Iraqi driver to death in the restaurant while arguing about Sunni and Shia religion differences. Like all the truck stops on the Middle-East run; it had a bit of an edge to it.