Buzzer:
Memories are made like this, leaving Albini and Pitigliani’s warehouse in Prato stuffed with roll’s of cloth at 10 pm with a fistful of T2’s then onward bound for home coming up Cenis and just slowing at the border in the early hour’s and signal T2 with your fingers to the guard on duty and chucking a couple of packets of ■■■■ out the window and him being mindful not to slip up on diesel that had escaped from the bulging top tank which one had just filled to the brim on the cheap Italian fuel then on up to the top and get your head down, lovely cool air with no mozzies short break as we did in those days steak and egg’s for breakfast then gel on for the night boat, most will remember those day’s, sadly gone in one way but it’s not like that anymore today how did we do it ? Buzzer.
John ,well said as you say most of us olduns have done it ,enjoyed it ,and most of us would do it all again given the same amount of freedom to do the job.
I don’t think I would want to do it with all the legislation and communications that goes with the job these days . I think we used to do the job just as quick in those days with less horses per ton ,less autoroutes , there was less traffic also .
I think we were a more happy bunch of guys once we knew what we had to do it was a case of crack on and do it but more to suit yourself , but the job was still done and with a great deal of satisfaction .I speak of course as a company driver as opposed to an owner driver .
Also the herd is looking well on the Davies international thread . Regards Dennis