Haulpak and Lectra Haul: The World’s Greatest Off-Highway Earthmoving Trucks

Heavy Truck puts the historical perspective into the use of heavyweight trucks on the roads of Great Britain and Europe. Essentially concerned with what vehicles were used where and when, and why, the story is told of how freight went quickly from the railway and canal networks onto the roads. How steam power came and went, metal road wheels to solid rubber to pneumatic; the birth of the articulated truck; the Juggernaut; the container system and TIR; even how sleeper cabs came into being. All the great names of the European industry are here: Volvo, Foden, Scania, ERF, Mercedes-Benz, Leyland, Daf, Man, Bedford. But only the heavy truck is of concern for this book. If your favourite make is not here, then look inside. Designed for the enthusiast not the acadmic, Heavy Truck is an attempt not to glorify the vehicle out of hand but to show it for what it really is-a hard working, useful but often endearing 'workhorse of the world'. A must for the growing bands of truck enthusiasts throughout the land. The first competent explanation of the industry.