I dont want to steal the thunder of others with these photos as there are many more much further travelled and older chaps on here with far more stamps and passports than this, but thought a few snaps taken in the comfort of my own sink may be of interest to someone.
4 passports later and not a stamp in the latest one 
It was quite embarrasing to walk up the steps in Waidhaus with a shiny maroon passport when surrounded by dog eared Brits with dog eared black books 
Today I have been clearing some junk out and was convinced i had a full set of permits somewhere. I will keep looking but maybe someone else has some left over.
No mickeys please 
Wheel Nut:
Today I have been clearing some junk out and was convinced i had a full set of permits somewhere. I will keep looking but maybe someone else has some left over.No mickeys please
Didnāt see many real ones.Saw plenty of photocopies!
For a while I thought they were called Mickey permits because they were printed in Belfast and not Newcastle. 
Seriously though I was at the Yugoslave border at Subotica one night with another British driver and we compared our two Yugo permits.
The Yugo coat of arms I.I.R.C had like a flower or flames with either six or seven petals each representing one of the old states of the former Yugosalavia.
That was the problem my permit had seven petals and his permit only had six. 
hi steve just read your post on dave longdon very sorry to hear he past away he was a nice bloke may he RIP did u ever hear the story of roy the boy and and a couple dow drivers in convoy going over the bosphuras a car came up the drivers side of me the driver was shaking fist at me the next thing a police car was on my off side being on the on the right hand side of the road in turkey the copper was hanging out of the window shooting the car driver hit my truck has tried to get inbetween me and roy roy thought they was making a film the trafik stopped for about an hour the we got going again we could see van up side down the driver was out of the car the policeman had shot him we found out the next morning the car driver was terroist
Yes, I do remember that Terry, wasnāt it about 1984 ? I called into Taciās office about two weeks later and The Colonel still had the newspaper, it was on the front page. I think it was something to do with the Kurdish terrorists wanting a seperate state in Turkey or something. I remember at the time there seemed to be two armed Turkish military policemen with their white helmuts on every street corner.
Hi Bestbooties, Do you remember Peter Millington an owner driver with a Scania 110 day cab reg CDM 257J in 1975/6 working for Chapman & Ball on the MS run? If so do you have any pictures? After that he did europe with his two sons (P M Millington and Sons) with Scania 140/141ās painted red with a white stripe and a big white diamond on the grill running two flats and one tilt.
Cheers Robert Millington
GS OVERLAND:
I thought the nostalgia forum would have generated a bit more interest than it has.!
I know that there are plenty of old hands still out there, maybe they aint sure about computers,or mobile phones.
I think that the forum is a great idea, and as I am sitting here in sunny Barbados, loads of old memories are coming back to me, places and names etc. even particular trips. I am going to try and post some of my old pics tomorrow, now that I have joined photobucket. Maybe some of you will recognise some.
GS OVERLAND.
PS Wheres Hoopermanā ā ?
Hi Gavin
I feel it may be the breed that we are, Not one driver has put pen to paper only an Author who has gone down on several trips!!!
Every driver inculding my self could do it. After a couple of chapters it may become boring to the reader that is why the auther could open a story or tale up,then we all think that would"nt happen.
I think what we need is a group of drivers to write down and they would form some kind of chapters starting from the early days to present.
All chapters would overlap each other on dates it would be an intresting read .
all particpents would pay for a pecentage of the book.
Regards T M
The Heavy Mob:
Hi Bestbooties, Do you remember Peter Millington an owner driver with a Scania 110 day cab reg CDM 257J in 1975/6 working for Chapman & Ball on the MS run? If so do you have any pictures? After that he did europe with his two sons (P M Millington and Sons) with Scania 140/141ās painted red with a white stripe and a big white diamond on the grill running two flats and one tilt.
Cheers Robert Millington
Hi Robert,
Sorry but donāt recall all the subbies that C & B used. I started on there in 1977.
The only one I really remember is Robert Dodds-Brown with his 141 with the āMagic Carpetā mural on the cab side.
He came to visit me a couple of years ago along with Nick Garlick to chew the fat about C & B while researching material for Nickās book.(Book,What book?)
As this is about Nostalgia and I was only in Transport for the first ten years of my working life perhaps this is the place to put some of my memories, i.e. 1958 to 1968, I started work at Inter City Transport of ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā at their London Depot in 1958 which was situated opposite Holloway Womens Prison and occasionaly a released prisoner would come to look fror a lift home up north were some funny tales were heard including female prisoners who had been behind bars for at least 2 years were all of a sudden pregnant, this was a bit of an eye opener for a youyng 15 year old as I had been taught that āladiesā were pregnant for 9 months, also we had a sub contractor on local work who used to have some Bedfords on rag work that used to visit both Pentonville and Holloway Prisons and they told us of a young plumbing apprentice working in Holloway who had been raped by some of the Women inmates, well I thought Iām in the wrong job, whereās the Stillsons, but in truth the young 16 year old boy was in quite a bad way after his ordeal.
Inter City ran mostly Leyland 8 wheelers with load of Albions of various sorts including some 8 wheelers that had been built for the aborted Ground Nut Scheme in Kenya, Some AEC 8 wheelers, my favorites, and some old Atkinsons including one or two having the accelerator in the centre between the clutch and footbrake,
I moved from Inter City to Sutton & Son (St Helens) London Depot which was situated funnilly enough behind Pentonville Prison, where I worked as a trailer mate until I was 21 in 1964 when I took my Driving Test on one of Suttons old Atkinson 8 wheelers which was a good 7 years older than I was and when I arrived at the Wood Green Test Centre the examiner said that he had never taken a test in such a big Lorry before, I told nor had I, but it turned out ok, that was the only time I had ever had "L"plates on. I should point out that Alfie Suttons old Atkis may have been old but they were in fine Mechanical condition as all his vehicles normally were and also most of the oild Atkis which had come off BRS where a bit like Triggers Broom in that they had been heavy 6 wheelers but Sutton had new light weight chassis fitted and turned into 8 wheelers with single drive and new cabs but would not need new LW Gardners. Shunting for Suttons included all sorts of work including flats of allsorts, occasional Tankers including a rubber tank that could also be a flat, not entirely a success.
I left Suttons to go on to the BRS at their Cressy Road, Hampstead Depot which was the London Depot for the North West and our Depot code was CJ, I trunked and/shunted mainly Bristols but this did include a right load of rubbish from some of the North Western Depots like Greenhays, Manchester and Preston to name just two. I was very surprised at the condition of BRS motors in comparison with Suttons motors and this includes the new Guy Big Jās with the ā ā ā ā ā ā ā 220, crap motor, good engine, and AEC Ergonomic Mandaters which were the first crap AECās I had come across and I had driven Mk3ās and Mk5ās which were good motors.
I really donāt know anything about M&E work, in fact the nearest I got to Continental work was picking up a tank trailor of the ferry at Tilbury, but I have driven some real old beasts including Scammels etc, most of which were older than I was, and an old ERF with the accelerater in the middle and after reading some of the comments about the old British Lorry I think there is a lot of missunderstandings and ill informed oppinion.
I got married in 1968 and decided being jack the on the lorries would have to change and I left Transport and ended up in Television (behind the camera) and worked for Thames Television for over 23 years and also as a freelance, I am now retired and live at least half of my life on the Costa Blanca, Spain.
Tony
Does anybody know the whereabouts of Frank Brandon from Rochdale, I used to run with him years ago, then I lost touch about 15 years ago. Frank was a good lad when you could catch him sober. he put me up when me and the ex split up
Heres abit of nostalgia for Terry smith,Terry, Dave Cooper and my self were on our way to yugo. to load returning from turkey.this was after the incident with the terrortst shooting.Dave Cooper was in front I was in the middle and Terry Smith was at the back. we were comeing through bulgy when we all got pulled by the police Me and Coops were arguing about the amount of the fine they wanted when Terry came up the side of the trailer with an empty wallet he had bought in Istanbul, holding his head and groaning.With sign language and pigeon german and english he managed to convince the bulgy copper that he had been mugged in turkey by bandits and had all his money stolen, showing the empty wallet.
The copper then started flagging down all the passing motors, on about the third or fourth car the woman passenger rooted in her handbag and brought out some headache pills. the copper gave them to Terry and sent him on his way saying that all turks were bandits,but me and Coops had to pay a fine.
HERES A BIT MORE NOSTALGIA CONCERNING TERRY SMITH AND MYSELF.TERRY WAS VERY GOOD AT THROWING HIS VOICE, ONE TIME WE WERE COMING OUT OF RUMO INTO HUNGARY WITH A FULL LOAD OF HANGING GARMENTS PACKED TIGHTER THAN SARDINES,THEY WOULD SEND A LOW RANKING CUSTOMS OFFICIAL INTO THE TRAILER TO CHECK FOR ESCAPEES. HE HAD TO KNOCK ON THE SIDE OF THE TRALER EVERY SO OFTEN TO SHOW HE WAS GOING ALL THE WAY ROUND.WHEN HE GOT OUT AND GAVE THE THUMBS UP A VOICE WAS HEARD COMING OUT OF THE TRAILER. THE SENIOR OFFICER SENT THE POOR YOUNG FELLER BACK IN.HE CAME BACK OUT SWEATING AND BLACK AS NIGHT SAYING HE WAS SURE IT WAS CLEAR OF PEOPLE AND THAT THE OFFICER MUST BE MISTAKEN. HE WAS ABOUT TO GIVE HIM THE BENEFIT WHEN THE VOICE WAS HEARD AGAIN. THE OFFICER THEN SAID O,K, EMPTY THE TRAILER,THIS WOULD HAVE CAUSED HAVOC AS THEY HAD TO BE LOADED IN A SPECIAL WAY SO TERRY HAD TO OWN UP THAT IT WAS HIM CHUCKING HIS VOICE. FORTUNATLY THE OFFICER SAW THE FUNNY SIDE BUT HE STILL HAD TO PAY BAKSHEESH.AND SO DID I COS I WAS WITH HIM.
Cor What a hoot, I found this site by accident and Iāve just spent the best reading time and what a memory jerk-er. some of the stuff here was a distant memory slotted away in the old memory draws until now that is. the mention of some of the old names ( companies ) brought back many thoughts ( some good some really bad ) but all part of my life gone by. I started driving trucks in the UK when I reached 21years 1971 ( I started in Aussie two years before as you only had to be 19 to drive a semi their ) and when I returned to the UK I got my UK licence through J. SPURLINGS who were then in silver town way. I didnāt stay there long before moving on to G L BAKER in channelsea road ( think thatās spelt write ) stratford e15. Ronny Muggleton was transport manager then I think.
and i used to drive a GUY I thought it was the bees knees then. But I had my sites set on driving on the continent so I just kept phoning around till someone would give me a chance. And that happened to be LACEYS OF BARKING. my first truck was a leyland buffalo non sleeper ( used to have a drop down bunk behind the seats ) but I didnāt care at the time ( I was young and full of glory hahaha ) I used to do a regular run to Frankfurt ( there were two of us with the old buffalos ) we must have been insane but i had such a good time I was trucking and on the wrong side of the roadā¦ Then i went into the yard one Sunday morning and lo and behold I had been given a Scania 110 ( again a non sleeper ) I felt like i had won the pools ( no lottery then ) but at least you could hear the radio and it went up hills faster than walking pace. I worked for LACEYS on and off over a period of time, and I drove my all-time favorite truck with them that being the Ford transcontinental what a cracking truck and I loved that old ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā engine bugger to start in the winter up the blanc but I loved itā¦
I donāt know if Iāve got all the times correct but thatās memory for u. I went to work for a guy called Phil Gibson ( P G INTERNATIONL ) I drove a MAN with a column gear change comfy motor but gutless engine, I used to pull FRIGOSCANDIA TRAILERS from Stratford yard, mainly to FOGGIA in Italy. again they were good times Used to stop at the BAKEHOUSE at MACON always full of Brits and had some good laughs there. I could go on and on but I think I will have a break now and give my self time to recall more of them dusty old memories, keep up the good work I just love itā¦
fonzi is that you fordy
you Drivers who are wondering the whereabouts of Cola Cowboys, look in August mag of Classic and vintage
Commercials, on page 15, a add by Ninehead Books who are doing a reprint ,price Ā£9.95. all the best REDNECKā¦
Hi fonzi, 
(Sorry itās a bit late 
)
fonzi:
before moving on to G L BAKER in channelsea road ( think thatās spelt write ) stratford e15. Ronny Muggleton was transport manager then I think.
Now thereās a name I seem to remember. (Amongst the others you mentioned.)
Just so I get this rightā¦ Did Bakerās also run Sed Atkis pulling fridges on continental work in the mid 80s ā ā
fonzi:
keep up the good work I just love itā¦
We do our best. 
Hi Dave i think you will find that was George Barkers out of Barking.
Hi Rikki
I worked for Smith & Robinson - S & R at Rothwell twice 3years (I was youngest driver at 23) and again at 32 years old for 16 years.
I became a driver trainer in 1974 and eventually Training Officer. I also worked for Harold Woods, Calor, L.P.G. TDG and trained thousands of great guys across the UK, Shell, Fina, BP, Hoyer, etc.etc.
I enjoyed every second as a driver and all the other roles, even LDOY class H -1st in Yorkshire 1970/1972 and 2nd in Yorkshire 1971/1973.
If anyone remembers me please accept my best regards and just to let you know I am still alive and kicking and in great shape at 76.
alanwalker:
Hi Rikki
I worked for Smith & Robinson - S & R at Rothwell twice 3years (I was youngest driver at 23) and again at 32 years old for 16 years.
I became a driver trainer in 1974 and eventually Training Officer. I also worked for Harold Woods, Calor, L.P.G. TDG and trained thousands of great guys across the UK, Shell, Fina, BP, Hoyer, etc.etc.
I enjoyed every second as a driver and all the other roles, even LDOY class H -1st in Yorkshire 1970/1972 and 2nd in Yorkshire 1971/1973.
If anyone remembers me please accept my best regards and just to let you know I am still alive and kicking and in great shape at 76.
Morning Alan,
Do you remember Dale Lane at Heckmondwike? I think it was Crabtree Avenue.