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Sometimes things need to be a bit longer. At least according to your Mom. Well she’ll be pleased today, because Arian Janssens’ already impressively-sized creation can grow even more lengthy.

That’s because Arian’s DAF FTS XFc 530 truck is pulling an enormous extending three-axle trailer, the length of which can be adjusted depending upon its load, with the front and rear parts separating via a central girder that’s concealed when the sections are joined. A crane can slide fore and aft along the trailer’s span when the front and rear are connected, whilst steered axles assist with its manoeuvring, all recreated brilliantly in brick form.

It’s an outstanding member of Arian’s extensive DAF truck garage, and there’s more to see of this spectacularly sizeable model at his ‘DAF FTS XFc 530’ album on Flickr, including images of the trailer at its full gargantuan reach.

Panic-Buy Fuel!

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There is currently a fuel supply crisis in TLCB’s home nation, caused by COVID or Brexit or something.

Whatever the reason, a portion of the population (probably the same portion who stock-piled toilet rolls during the COVID lock-downs) have gone mad, and are trying to refuel every five minutes, in doing so turning a really rather minor problem into a rather larger one. Because they’re idiots.

Typifying this idiocy are a select group of morons who have followed tanker trucks in the hope they’re delivering fuel, and not olive oil, or liquid nitrogen, or – in one particularly amusing case – mortar.

Cue Arian Janssens‘ DAF FTS XF95 ‘Mestwagen’, which we think means manure tanker, but frankly without actually knowing what’s inside it we’re just guessing, much like a worrying number of the UK population have been doing over the past week or two.

You can follow Arian’s DAF ‘Mestwagen’ to wherever it is it’s going in the hope of procuring some petrol via the link above, whilst we start stockpiling tinned food and toilet paper.