Mercy Trucks West Africa Project  Roy left Hexham on the 9th of January 2008. He then left Harpenden after packing the truck with equipment in the late afternoon of Thursday 10th.
This is the third part of Roy's account of his journey to Guinea-Bissau.
Last night (Sunday) as I was merrily popping down towards Paris I could smell oil. Ahh-ha. When I crawled under to check it out I found that the pipe that feeds engine oil to the turbo has cracked; this could turn serious if it went completely and I lost the engine oil.
It's now the next day (Tuesday the 15th of January). Guess what? DAF don't have the pipe for the oil feed to the turbo anywhere in France. This is ridiculous, I feel let down by DAF again. This is a very common engine that DAF fitted to tens of thousands of their trucks and they don't have a spare pipe for it. After waiting all day and trying around 5 different workshops to repair it, the final repair was unsuccessful so they have ordered a new part from Belgium. It should be here later this morning and then I hope to be on my way again. At least I have had a good rest. The pipe is only £35.00 and will only take two minutes to fit so it will not cost much money, but time delaying the West African projects. The people here are very helpful and friendly. The part arrived at the garage around lunch time, and I got a call just before 3:00pm to say that it had been fitted and everything was working fine again. So I was able to get going and get a good distance done before stopping for the night near Orléans. If you would like more information about the Guinea Bissau project and/or Mercy Trucks' other projects, please email info-uk@mercytrucks.org or phone 0870 126 9120. Please consider partnering with us in this exciting project by sponsorship. A total of £1.00 per mile is needed to cover the costs for the 4,600 mile journey. If more funds are raised, this will help towards setting up the medical logistics project in West Africa. Donations can be made in a number of ways:
>Travelogue: Part 1
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