Truck & Driver UK – August 2019

RETRO TRUCK

Truck & Driver Summer 2019^99

This remarkable, unrestored

Scania 92M leads a relaxed

retirement at Catley Chilled

Foods, having reliably served

company founder Ralph

Catley for more than 20 years

Words: Dougie Rankine

Images: Nigel Spreadbury

A

s this is the Summer

issue, you won’t find

one of our Scania V8

calendar trucks, so we

decided to move in the

opposite direction and check out

one of the smaller offerings

instead. Ever since the V8 was

launched, the trucks have been

sought after but the reality is, far

more of us will have driven more

modestly-powered trucks. Scania’s

lightweight fleet workhorses, the

8/9/11 ranges, were everywhere,

but comparatively few have been

saved. It seems the smaller the

truck, the lower the survival rate.

When Aaron Catley sent us a

message about his family firm’s

92-series tractor unit, it

immediately piqued our interest;

112s and 142s are a lot rarer

than their successors, but a 92?

To be honest, we can’t remember

the last time we saw one that

wasn’t shunter-spec.

Aaron Catley is the company’s transport manager