It’s an all-Swedish 13-litre, 500 bhp, big-cab conundrum: Scania’s S500 skyscraper versus Volvo’s formidable FH! We head to Erewash Commercials to find out which is best for its operation
We’d probably have got really angry about that, if it wasn’t for the fact those clever Swedes really know how to screw a truck together. Back in the late ’60s, a Scania or a Volvo was as alluring and exotic as Britt Ekland (another famous Swedish export).
Powering up
Erewash Commercials’ roots can be traced back to 1969, when Erewash Garage was established. Haulage operations followed in 1974, with plenty of work available at the time for tipper fleets across the region, hauling coal from the collieries to power stations. Erewash remained faithful to British truck brands right until the end, with its last ERF being an 07-plate ECT eight-wheeler (which wasn’t really British at all, and not a patch on its EC models). It then moved onto DAFs, which are of course built in Britain.
Company boss Andrew Smith remembers the old days fondly. “We had trucks running 24-7 a lot of the time, stockpiling coal. It was fantastic work until 1984, the year of the miner’s strike and the decline of the coal industry. We brought in a couple of artics after having made enquiries about hauling bricks, and went from there.” The company continued to haul coal, but as time went on, the work became less and less.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة June 2018 من Trucking.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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