Another sad day as we learnt at the weekend that Paul Bessant aka “Paul Who” had passed, it was him that started this thread back in 2008. My first encounters with Paul was in the early 90’s when he drove for Keith Barrett from Newcastle, one of four drivers for that company he used to call into our home that was also our office for supplies, we were Barrett’s southern base or at least it felt like that back in the day, anyways Paul subsequently came to work for us and it is allegedly he got the name Paul Who from using the CB and on one of his first trips abroad he met another Davies truck on its journey home, the conversation went who’s that in the Davies truck to which he replied Paul and the answer came back Paul Who and that name stuck with him thereafter, this was quite common for drivers to be given nicknames in our company and they seem to stick long after leaving us.
Paul was a quiet but full of humour and a pleasure to work with but lost his fight with the big C which is so sad and a life taken far to soon.
his name will live on as the founder of this very popular thread RIP friend from the Davies family and all who knew and worked alongside you at Davies International, Buzzer.
