General Shortage of Models?

[GerryW]

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Nice rig - looks like you have some 'fun' places to go!
I never did the boxes, just done the rigids (18 tonne mainly) and 'local' deliveries (private houses, building sites, shops plus some companies).

[boatman]

HI Lee i love the prime mover an as for containes i spent 15 yrs or so making up the steel frames for the containers for FRUEHAUF an the big frigde vans makin up the leg gear an bump bars an the treble axle sub frames but that a story an a half so leave it there
chris

[GerryW]

HI Lee i love the prime mover an as for containes i spent 15 yrs or so making up the steel frames for the containers for FRUEHAUF an the big frigde vans makin up the leg gear an bump bars an the treble axle sub frames but that a story an a half so leave it there
chris

Had a mate who worked there (CF) - left to work for the AA

[PaulTRose]

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[stillp]

I used to sell proximity switches to a company that made the dockside cranes for those containers. Terrible customer, always late paying.
Pete

[Lee W]

Look who was at the helm, :tongue-out3::tears-of-joy:


Lee

[Peej]

Should we start to panic buy kits or wait a little longer.

[Dave Ward]

Naah, no need to panic! ( says he smugly, with a huge stash! ). If you buy models direct from Asian shops, then most of them dispatch by airmail, so that shouldn't be affected - just the lottery of if HMRC decide to take an interest in your purchase!
Dave

[GerryW]

I'm ok for about a year! Got 3 on the way from Poland, plus two dios to do.

[boatman]

Had a mate who worked there (CF) - left to work for the AA

HI Gerry which CRANE FRUEHAUF dereham or the one i was at the big one north walsham plant ?
chris

[GerryW]

HI Gerry which CRANE FRUEHAUF dereham or the one i was at the big one north walsham plant ?
chris

Not sure - he was on the electrics side, wiring the trailers (got me a 'end of reel' bit of wire so I could re-wire a motorbike - plenty left over )

[Lee Drennen]

Chris. I’ve pulled many of Fruehauf chassis’s and Piggy Back van trailers nothing pulls like a Fruehauf.

[Lee Drennen]

Here’s some more pics

[outrunner]

Nice Mack Lee.

Andy.

[Ian M]

In my varied jobs, I used to work for a P&I club. The first thought I had when I saw the Suez news was that's going to cost. 400million a week it turns out!
The amount of boxes being held up IS going to effect us all. Lets face it 90% of the things in your home if you look on the bottom or the back says made in china! Might be a good thing for European manufactures though...
As an aside I have also had "a go" at driving one of those Container trucks/loaders. Apart from being great fun it was a bit nerve racking. Also tried one for pipe laying moving. We're talking 1m dia 15m long steel pipe. Much the same as the container movers, you just have to be careful where you put them down. (If they roll toward you not to bad, if they roll away.... not so good.)