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.... Read More...

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... Read More...

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 difficult to get permission to drive trucks into Spain. There were soldiers and police everywhere... Read More...

With Betsy to Italy

Stie’s first transport of fish to the European continent was going to Italy in 1962. I was driver with the truck “Betzy” loaded up to the ceiling with whole frozen Porbeagle fish. We had to load the fish in Aalesund, 550 km north of Oslo. But there was a problem. The truck “Betzy” had tree axels. Because of bad roads, it was not allowed to drive with tree axels trucks on the road around Aalesund. There... Read More...

History of Betsy

The Story of Betzy In the sixties and seventies, it was quite common to baptize your truck with a nice name. So did Jan Sunlay, one of the first drivers for STIES. Jan’s father designed and created two wonderful name plates for both sides of his Scania-Vabis LS-75. For many years, the name plates served as a mascot on Jan’s travels. After years of preservation, the name plates have found a new... Read More...