coomsey:
CFY when you look at the work we did then,70s, the 88 didn’t matter. Coal from Leics down to London scrap back to Sheffield or Brum. You couldn’t imagine Emmerson buying something that was less mpg so the driver got home earlier. We only did around a10hr day , not bad n around£110 top line for a 55 hr week in 76/77 weren’t bad money. The only thing that really really wazed me off with the Gardner’s was the joy of mostly freezing to death!!! Cheers Coomsey
i well remember the Gardner ‘heaters’ 
on a freezing night in 1981 or '82,i took a ‘B’ series ERF 180 up to our Dewsbury depot,with another driver,Rich Ward,who was to bring back yet another B series back to our yard in North Kilworth.ffs even as a tough young lad i was half froze to death! so as soon as we parked up in Dews,i jumped out and said you take this heap back Rich,i’ll take the ‘new’ one back to Kilworth 
of course,the other one was just as bad!