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Ride to North Norway with Sties.

Sties is a fairly big international company specialised in refrigerated transport. It is therefore possible to encounter the blue/white trucks throughout Europe: Spain, Italy, Russia and the Netherlands, you name it and Sties will be driving there. For a country such as Norway refrigerated transport is of great importance. During the winter months the production of fresh foods is almost nothing! Products such as lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. will have to be imported during that time. One of the exported products in Norway is fish and for that they also need refrigerated transport. Sties has around sixty truck on the road, ...

Only a limited amount left: Sties book!

Only a limited amount left of the Sties termo transport a/s book. The book is written in Norwegian, because it is about a Norwegian company. The book contains the history of the company, with stories written by former drivers that tell how it was to drive for the company in that time. I've also tried to show as many different trucks as possible, that were driving during that time. You'll see, when going through all the pages full of pictures, that there were a lot! As a collector of everything Sties, I have a vast amount of pictures at my disposal ...

End of story Sties Scania 141

How great it might have been, the Scania 141 in Sties colors no longer exists. The owner of the Sties truck, Anton Timmerman, used it for his daily loads, including preloading trailer and inland freights. Several times people have asked Anton if he wanted to trade his 141 for another, younger, truck. Anton responded to these questions by saying: “Just offer me something good in exchange”, and this happened. Someone offered a newer truck for the 141, to be precise a Scania R 500 (an ex Nor-Cargo in blue/white). The dealer, who originally traded the Scania 141 with Anton, has in the ...

The trailer of Betsy continued

This article is an addition to the article: The trailer of Betsy. The last day of our holiday in Norway, we went to visit Morten Gran. When we arrived there, I made some more pictures of Betzy with trailer. The last modification to Betzy was the texts on the backdoors that were changed to blue. These texts used to be black, but later they found out that they originally were blue, so they changed it. The blue text also looks a lot better on the truck. Betzy, to this day, is still used in all kinds of truckshows and meetings for old trucks. ...

A historical discovery in Norway

Last summer I was on vacation in Norway and at a certain point I was noted on an old container. This container is now used as a shed for firewood, which isn’t very remarkable because this happens more often in Norway. Something that is remarkable, at least for me, is that this container turned out to be an old Sties container that used to be on a motorcar or trailer. When I saw the container, I first thought it was a VKB container belonging to the old model. The container was completely repainted in white, but because this was done some ...

The trailer of Betsy

In addition of this article, hereby a report on the restoration of the trailer. After a long time of searching for a suitable trailer, Morten found one just 10km away from his house. This trailer was built by Maur from Norway. The loading platform came from VBK and is made of fiberglass. When it was new, it was used in Northern Norway. It was restored by Knud Hansen in Padborg, Denmark. This company also had the Thermo King cooling engine and placed it in front of the trailer. The loading platform was removed and everything was painted. Then they put the loading platform ...

The trailer of Peter Wouters

The following story is about the trailer of the Scania R500. After some time driving around with only the colors blue and white, the trailer is now equipped with various logo's. If you have a little knowledge of Sties, you'll see that there is a difference between the logo's on the sides. On the right side is the old logo, including the old temperatur garanti logo. This logo was used often in the '70 and '80 on, for example, the following the trucks: Volvo F89, F1225, F12, Scania -141 -142. On the left side is the new logo, now without the comma ...

Peter Wouters his STIES Scania R500

Peter Wouters, of the same name transport company PWT Thermo, called me a while back with the question if I still was in contact with Øystein Stie. I told him that every now and then I’m calling him. Peter had a plan to buy a truck and paint it in the Sties colors, but didn’t know if it was alright to use Stie his name. I told Peter I would ask Øystein Stie if it was alright. Øystein Stie was surprised, but already used to people asking him about his former transport company. Peter got permission and could go making ...

Scale model of Arve’s FH12

The Volvo FH12 of Arve (Araber’n) Almerud. Built by and for Wim Varenkamp. This scale model is a completely renovated Tekno. Actually this scale model doesn’t belong on a Sties website, but Sties became Nor-Cargo and because of that it became a Nor-Cargo scale model. But since this scale model is so perfectly built, or rebuilt, it is still a big value, especially as it concerns a model of my dear friend Arve Almerud. This was certainly not the easiest truck to make a scale model of, but we will try to make a description of how it was built. There was a corner ...

Arve’s F12 made by Wim Varenkamp

Scale model of the Volvo F12 from Arve (Araber’n) Almerud. It is a Tekno model, created by and for Wim Varenkamp (scale 1:50). As a base for the model, the chassis of a Volvo FH was used. The cabin and front fenders are the one’s of a F12. To make the perfect model, Wim thought it would be important that the data was correct. That’s why he contacted the VBK factory to get the correct measurements for the containers. Unfortunately they had just cleaned up the archive at VBK, so there wasn’t any data left that he needed. Wim did get the name ...

Arve Almerud

My Own Experience with Arve

I would like to write a piece about how I’ve experienced Arve myself, although I haven’t met him that often, the times we talked were always impressive. Especially since he could not only tell much about Sties,... Read More..

His Final Years

In his final years Arve drove with a permanent second driver in the truck. This driver was Trond Erik Sperre. Both names decorated the Volvo FH 12. Just as his previous truck, Arve put with big letters “Volvo”... Read More..

Just Forget Falken

In memory of Arve (Arabern) Almerud. By Geir Sundets (Translated from Norwegian to Dutch by Wim Varenkamp) In the second night of 1999 Arve “the Arab” Almerud died. The confirmation that our friend and deeply... Read More..

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Scale models

Scale model of Arve’s FH12

Arve’s F12 made by Wim Varenkamp

The Nor-cargo scale model of Kees de Heus

Scale model of Arve’s FH12. Made by Kees de Heus. The following description is about the scale model of Arve’s FH12 (scale 1:50) It is a Tekno model of the FH12. The loading platforms are made by himself, where... Read More..

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The History of Betsy

The trailer of Betsy continued

The trailer of Betsy

With Betsy to Spain

1963. Sties first carriage with fish to Spain. We were loading the fish by Frionor in Trondheim to deliver in Madrid. It was a long way to drive. The distance from Trondheim to Madrid was about 3600 kilometers. Spain was under the dicta tor ship of General Franco. The border controls were very strict and it was... Read More of this Article..

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Sties Stories

A historical discovery in Norway

The trailer of Peter Wouters

The following story is about the trailer of the Scania R500. After some time driving around with only the colors blue and white, the trailer is now equipped with various logo’s. If you have a little knowledge of Sties, you’ll see that there is a difference between the logo’s on the sides. On... Read More of this Article..