Inside Story

Season 4 Episode 5: A Run For Your Money

Bob McAngus regularly drives his own juggernaut lorry from Britain to Italy. This is a filmed record of one mission - a journey from Felixstowe to Trieste. His manifest shows that he is carrying 20 tons of British furniture, bound ultimately for Qatar on the Persian Gulf. It becomes clear that modern truckers are more than mere lorry-drivers. Finger-tip controls, ' sleeper' cabs, and the comparative sophistication of continental motorway facilities make McAngus an aristocrat among routiers. But to be a successful aristocrat he must also know a thing or two about the web of Common Market regulations at international frontiers, and about those international gestures of 'goodwill so essential when you arrive at the Italian Customs and everything is not quite right....

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

19

Episodes:

191

Actor:

Quality:

HD

Status:

Ended

First Air:

1974

IMDb:

4.0