I did some work for a Flintshire based OD not long after i passed my Class 1, he had an ex Hudson Scania, a sort of light/lime green if I remember correctly. He started out as a driver for \Hudson on Containers then went the subbie/OD route… May have been around 82/83 so poss the writing was on the wall then?
Mate was then on with McCarthys of Wrexham when I did some work for him