Frode Laursen, Reception for truckdrivers 2005, Jyderup, Denmark


The 24th of may, 2005 I was called by a truck driver from Frode Laursen A/S. He had seen the article that was brought in the swedish truckingmagazine, TRAILER 5/2005 in this spring, and asked if I wanted to show my models for a reception that was arranged in the division of the company in Jyderup on Sealand.
I was very pleased, and we arranged the final details for the weekend.

Frode Laursen A/S

The company Frode Laursen A/S is a large hauling company, founded in 1948. The head office is placed in Vitten near Aarhus in Jutland, the company also have 6 other divisions around in Denmark.
The company are occupied with distribution both nationally and internationally.

The Reception

The reception was held at the division of Frode Laursen in Jyderup, which accomodate their 50.000 squaremeters large storagehotel.
At the reception it was possible to get a tour around the huge storagehotel and also: Article

It was not a LEGO exhibition, but there were a lot of other stuf, regarding trucks, transport, and other models, so I was looking forward to an interesting weekend. The article in the local newspaper, Holbæk Amts Venstreblad, from thursday the 26th of may - 2005 can be seen to the right.

My part of the exhibition

I brought all my assembled models, ie.
Volvo FH16 6x2/4 520 with 3 akslet Goldhofer step frame trailer
Volvo FH12 6x2/4 500 Globetrotter XL, Sweet Candy
Mercedes Benz 1840 Strawtransporter

All_left All_right VolvoFH16 MB1840_VolvoFH12

Other truck model clubs

At the reception there were also a lot of other models, a.o. 1:24 scale models, 1:14 - 1:16 remote controlled models. The following clubs were represented.


Danish Truck Model Club

DTMC was represented by Niels Jørn Hansen, Flemming Pedersen and Henrik Andersen. They had brought a lot of their 1:24 scale models, extremily nice models, with a lot of incredible details.
Below I have put some pictures of some of the models they brought along.

Frode_Laursen_trucks Scania_R143_1313_Viborg_with_lowloader Impressive_collection Durty_Australian_trucks

DTMC does unfortunately not have a website, but at this site, made by another scale builder, Søren D. Sørensen you will find some information about the club.
Henrik Andersen is also the owner of H.A. Models, a company who are specialiced in producing accessories for scalemodels in 1:24. There arent any website, but send an email to H.A. Models to get a catalogue, cause if you built 1:24 models, H.A. Models, sure have some accesories or conversion kits that could be interesting for you.
Henrik Anders is also an employee at LEGO, so I had some interesting conversations with him, regarding my hobby.


Modeltruck Sealand

Modeltruck Sealand were also present, and had brought a lot of scale models.
Unfortunately I havent taken that many pictures of their models, but below you can see one of the models.

Australian_Road_Train

You can read more about the club, and see more pictures at their website, here.


Copenhagen Modeltruck Club

Copenhagen Modeltruck Club, was also represented at the reception, they had brought a lot of models in scale 1:14 and 1:16 remote controlled trucks, everything from refrigerated trucks, lowloaders, tanks, and forklifts.

Various Various Forklift Special_transport

You can read more about the club, and see more pictures at their website, here.


RC Truck Team Sealand

RC Truck Team Sealand had also brought a lot of remote controlled trucks and vehicles in scale 1:14 and 1:16.
Among them, american rigs, lowloaders, tanks, a wheel loaders and many more. I was lucky to get the change to try one of those models, a Knight Hauler, all cromium plated, with 3 gears, and sound (see pictures and video below.)
It was very funny, and maybe I should think about buing one myself...

Knight_Hauler Volvo Lowloader Wheel_loaders
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Knight Hauler with sound, 6450 KB

The videos can be viewed with Quicktime, get it here.


You can read more about the club, and see more pictures at their website, here.


TSU's simulator

TransportSektorens uddannelsesfond (The transportsector educationfoundation) were also present in Jyderup with their mobile trucksimulator.
The simulator makes it possible to test dangerous situations which can arise in the traffic, but here you can try it without any risk of human lifes. You can read more about it here.

Veteran trucks

At the reception there were also two old Bedford veteran trucks, fully renovated. Normally they are used for driving graduation students around, and tasks like that.

Bedford_2 Bedford_2

Citytrailer and 25.25 meters roadtrain

At the reception it was possible to test different trucks. A.o. a tankertrailer, made as a citytrailer, i.e. with at turnable rear axle, they are specially made for small gasstations in cities, where there is no room for normal trailers. Because of the turnable axle it is possible to get into small places. The trailer was hauled by a Scania 124L 6x2/4.

It was also possible to test the brand new 'RoadTrains' of 25.25 meters!
They are not approved for driving in Denmark, yet, but hopefully they will be soon.
The roadtrains are made in two version, one with a normal tractor, trailer, and a small trailer behind. Or the other version with a normel truck, a dolly and a large trailer behind. Both combination are 25.25 meters long. The combination makes it possible to transport the load from 3 normal trucks on 2 'RoadTrains'.

Scania_with_citytrailer 25_25m_version_1 25_25m_version_1 Not_easy_to_reverse_with_this

Now I had the chance to try to drive a 25.25 meters road train, I would not miss the change...

Anders_Gaasedal

All in all, it has been a great weekend, including LEGO, modeltrucks, and driving around with citytrailers and 25.25 meters roadtrains.

There was no reason for this, just because we could...Frode Laursen A/S ready for Australia!

Road_Train Road_Train



- At least, but not last, I will use the opportunity to say thanks to everybody who participated in arranging the reception, and also thanks to all the participant. I hope to be able to join the next reception at Frode Laursen A/S.