Living Two Lives | Legends of Long Haulage | Chapter Two

Meet Jan Dabrowski as he begins the ultimate long-distance truck route: 9,000 km between Norway and Dubai.
In 1976, Scania commissioned a film to document the maiden trucking journey between Norway and Dubai on a route called the Dubai Road Express. More than four decades later, this film has become a piece of history.
The year prior, Norwegian trucking company Johan Evensen & Sønner had completed its last of 106 journeys to Bandar Abbas on the southern coast of Iran, and was looking for new opportunities.
It was the next year, when the tanker Serpens Constellation had an unexpected breakdown in the middle of the Atlantic, that Jan was given the mission of a lifetime. A necessary spare part, made in Norway, needed to be delivered to Dubai, where the ship could pick it up while en route into the Persian Gulf.
For the drivers of such routes, leaving home meant being away from their families for weeks at a time, often without knowing exactly when they would be back or what challenges they would encounter along the way.
“We were living two lives,” says Mick Dunstan, who completed numerous trips between Europe and the Middle East, driving as far as Pakistan at one point, during the 1970s and 80s.
While this will be Jan’s first trip to Dubai, it’s not his first long-haulage trip to the Middle East. He has previously driven the Bandar Abbas Express route four years earlier.

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The Best film about SCANIA Truck driver!!! Thank you,SCANIA! 80 years ago and now-you are Leader of the trucks! Ukraine on air!

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I'm from Turkey and seeing them drinking Efes Beer made me dumb-proud lmao

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awesome again...thanks guys....few days to wait no problem...guess nowadays impossible

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Respect! 👌👍

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SCANIA👏🌍❤

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greetings from Turkey :D

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Fascinating stuff what the guys did back then, Turkish drivers still wait forever at the Iranian border.

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Nice!

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At that time there was freedom, not like now: rules + rules + rules!

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Tony Zsoldos best book ever

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Maxence SCANIA

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Is okey .

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S C A N I A V A P O R W A V E

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from east bengal