- Amethyst
- 6 July, 2026
Hello everyone, welcome to my trucking diary.
Today’s transport will see us take 18 tonnes of nuts from Stuttgart in Germany to Aarhus in Denmark. That many nuts can’t be good for you.
A Mercedes-Benz New Actros StreamSpace truck with 476 horsepower is our vehicle to get us safely to our destination.
We leave our employer of the day Stokes, and we are on route from southern Germany all the way up north. One of the major cities I’ll be passing by later on, is Hamburg.
The Autobahn is long and I’m careful on the throttle. I don’t want to risk any speeding tickets, which is hard for me to avoid, since I’m always pedal to the metal.
I pass by Mannheim first, and proceed to go north all the way. Kilometres and kilometres of concrete go by. Many cloverleaves with very short entrances and exits onto the Autobahn. My focus level in Germany has to be really high because of that. Accident avoidance is one of the key things here.
I take my first stop at the gas station on the Autobahn near Frankfurt am Rhein. It’s time for me to eat my sandwiches. I’m not the one for savoury spreads or cheese. In this case, I’ve put on some chocolate spread. It’s always nice to get your day going with some sugar.
After a quick break of around 20 minutes, I merge back into traffic. It’s quite busy here at 11 AM. Which is to be expected because the German Autobahn is always under construction. There’s always lovely areas of around roadworks there. Going from 130 back to 80, back to 60, back to 40 and back to 130 again. All in the span of a couple of 100 metres. Whoever thought trucks had the acceleration of a Porsche would do better to stay on bike lanes.
It’s lovely weather out there, but that also means using the air conditioning. Not as good for your nostrils, but it certainly helps you to prevent sweating profusely.
With 25°C under to monitor it means also using my cruise control for easy driving.
Our next stop will be at Kassel. Time for a quick toilet break. My tip is always to stop at a manned gas station. Because these parking stops that are just toilets, they are nasty as can be. Plus, you would not definitely want to stop there at night.
As I step back out of the restaurant/toilet building, a young boy greets me. He asks if the purple truck is mine. Apparently he’s been asking everybody that. I’ll tell him that it’s mine. He asks if he can go sit in it. His mother comes from around the corner, running, looking for her child. She’s quick to find out that I’m the one from the purple truck.
After a quick chat of a couple of minutes, I let the boy sit in my truck on the driver’s seat. You can tell that the boy is ecstatic to sit there. He tells me he wants to be a truck driver after he’s grown up. I tell him of all the wonderful adventures I’ve already driven and how much is still out there unexplored.
I let him take some pictures of the truck on the inside and out. I take the mom’s number. She sent the pictures the boy took over to me so I can include them in my trucking adventures diary.
If trucking doesn’t work out, he can be a good photographer as well.
It’s time to be back on my way. Because I’ve already stopped wise, I am contemplating whether I need another one. Traffic hasn’t been that bad, the road works have not stalled me too long. So I will resume my way and head to the German-Danish border.
When I arrive at the border, there’s a little bit of a traffic jam. I wonder what it could be? After around 15 minutes stuck in traffic I find out. It’s a customs check. I thought we were in the EU, so why is that necessary? Though I do understand they want to prevent illegal goods or illegal immigrants coming into their country.
One customs officer is going to check my paperwork, the other stands in line, and the other one is doing nothing. I quite like the idea of having pictures, so I asked him to make some for me. Because my language skills abroad, I asked him a bit in Danish, a bit in English, and in German. The customs officer smiles and takes the pictures. It’s like he gets asked this many times before.
What is it with the people today that are all capable of taking pictures? I kind of like that! Makes my trucking adventures more entertaining!
In the final 50 kilometres, I engage a driving obstacle. It’s called a car with a caravan. I wanted to pause it but then find that that police are stopped on the emergency lane. Apparently two cars have collided with each other.
I’ll leave the overtake until the hazard is clear, and then resume my way to pass the caravan.
A reasonably steady and quick drive through Germany. No one could have foreseen that.
Then I arrive in the thriving city called Aarhus.
The city was founded in the early age of the Vikings. It has around 300,000 citizens and is one of the oldest cities of the country. It’s even been cultural capital of Europe in 2017.
It’s changed itself from a trade port to a city which now focuses on services. The old port buildings have been changed to apartment complexes for example.
For those interested, the Aarhus GF is the football team of the city. It’s been a multiple time champion and no other team has played more seasons in the Danish Superliga.
I always like to give my readers a bit of background around the cities that I visit.
It’s also why I am always on the verge of being late for my deliveries. I like to drive a little bit around the towns that I visit just before I deliver. Might be easier with just the truck and not the trailer. But that’s not how I roll.
It’s time to make my delivery at North Crown. Time to get these nuts away from my truck.
That concludes my travel from Germany to Denmark. I never know which rat will be next because I just take on work as soon as I see it.
Maybe I’ll go straight from here to somewhere else, like Spain. Maybe I’ll just drive back to the headquarters in the Netherlands.
With that being said, I hope you enjoyed my trucking adventures diary for today.
If I don’t see you here reading and enjoying this, I hope you will be seeing me on the road.
I wish you safe travels and until the next one.
Journey Summary
🚚 Truck: Mercedes-Benz New Actros StreamSpace (476 hp)
📦 Cargo: 18 tonnes of nuts
📍 Route: Stuttgart 🇩🇪 → Aarhus 🇩🇰
🛣 Distance driven: 1,016 km
⛽ Fuel stops: 1
🥤 Cola consumed: 2 bottles
🚽 Toilet breaks: 2
🚧 Biggest challenge: German roadworks and Danish customs delays
⭐ Favourite moment: Letting a future truck driver sit behind the wheel
