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... Read More...

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... Read More...

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... Read More...

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...

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... 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...

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... Read More...

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... Read More...

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... Read More...

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... Read More...

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