boden:
The first A plate I ever saw was one of Gilbraiths Roadtrains at Eccles and in 81 on a Saturday morning I gave one of their lads a lift from the A6 at Bamber Bridge down to Charnock .He had been stuck on that 281 miles rule if you had no Tacho, on the Friday .He’d got a lift back down fronm Cleveleys with a British Beef driver who;d forgotten his notes .I’d just loaded from there and wondered why he’'d come in the yard in such a rush.
When the A-plate first came out, I had a driver tipping in Liverpool - you know how some of the locals there prefix sentences with “eh…”
Anyway, the driver was asked for his reg - “A648 PFV” he replied, whereupon the security man wrote down “648 PFV” …