FAMILY-TRUCKS

Sometimes when you are on the road you think you see a Transcontinental, but when it is coming closer you see it is not. There are still a few Renault R series or Major on the road. Berliet en later Renault put the cab lower on the chassis then Ford did. In early Berliets the engine tunnel is huge, in the later Renault TR310 en Majors the engine tunnel is lower but still bigger as in a Transcontinental. Also a Frensh heavy haulage constructer used the Berliet cab, and it is even higher then the Transcontinental. I also putted here some pictures of other trucks which have a relation with the Transcontinental. F.i. the DAF 95.500, although the Cummins engine is the only connection (the DAF had the Cummins N14 engine the successor of the NTE engine), this truck was also build in the Netherlands and just like the Transcontinental it never became a sales succes and only a few hundred were made. And offcourse there is the Renault Magnum. Nowaydays some people call the Transcontinental "Fred Flinstones Renault Magnum", I consider this as a compliment. Click on the thumbs to enlarge these pictures.