The Moss was the cafe / roadhouse its now the first filling station after you hit the M6 south after you come off the A75 . Its now posh and sofisticated (frothy coffee and sausage rolls lol) In years gone past you sometimes had to cook your own tea . You stopped for the craic - not the food .
You also got a heat up in front of the open coal fire, that fire must have been lit around the 1930’s and never went out until the place shut down and they put the motorway over it!
dieseldog999:
an interpreter may be required for those not overly familier with tang dialect though…
Aye you’d be right DD although right few Scots boys on the CB on 75 too! ![emoji6]
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well the west coast scots and the tangs seem to use the autotranslate button quite easily as being ulster scots or ■■■■ relatons the closer you get to Donegal means there all kindred spirits,its the foriegners south of Carlisle that wont have a clue…
example 1 as follows…interprete this
( this is for the 75 that runs east/west)…yin there southboun yer clean to the moss,the big cars just jooked in ahint the bing roon fae the teapot,an the ither wans hedin fir the pen sae eftir that yir fine .
Where is “The Moss”■■
Southwaite services or just a certain part of the M6!!!
tsk tsk tsk…when your southbound and you come off the 75 and you go over the Solway river,then the coffee house type travel lodge place on your left used to be … the moss…i think its address was todhills …a truckstop on a parallel manky minging universe to the hollies where the carpark was like the dark side of the moon,they had the same plates that bomber crews ate off of during world was 2 with the same cracks since they were made…basically a stereotype greasy spoon choke and puke poxhole that was symbolic with truckie cafes.toilet with a cast iron cistern and lead pipe still with the big chain and handle,tiles on the side from the 1950s which I think was the last time it saw a coat of paint…big open roaring fire in the café,minging food that you spent 40 out of your 45 waiting on which gave you time to peruse their entire magazine selection before buying headlight which was the only magazine available…they had old Nissan hut ex army barracks round the back where the brave few could have a kip…the only time I savoured the delights of that was one winter circa 1978 when shap was shut,and they wouldn’t let you go past Carlisle,i had a day cab at that time so the moss was a no option for the 1 night…i was in good company all night as when I woke up on my cot in the middle of the night,there was a rat munching happily away on the table in front of me…we decided to ignore each other…the moss is not to be confused with the red moss,which is further north at Crawford.( always handy to know when you were doing a change over wondering where the other dude was then realising one of you was 40 miles away)…
Pat Hasler:
Still use mine but only if I am running with a mate, I leave the squelch turned right up so only drivers near to me can be heard. I listen to BBC Radio 2, radio 4 or Heart FM Northamptonshire using the Tune in app, the CB takes second place.
I have one fitted. Very rare to hear much beside “council house FM” nowadays though.
I do sometimes hear fellas claiming to be radio hams speaking all the radio ham lingo and claiming to be based in Malaga/Germany/Poland etc. Is that posssible?
the maoster:
I have one fitted. Very rare to hear much beside “council house FM” nowadays though.
I do sometimes hear fellas claiming to be radio hams speaking all the radio ham lingo and claiming to be based in Malaga/Germany/Poland etc. Is that posssible?
It’s quite possible , back in the day travelling over the brecon beacons it was not unusual to hear the american west coast truckers quite clearly if the skip was right .
dieseldog999:
an interpreter may be required for those not overly familier with tang dialect though…
Aye you’d be right DD although right few Scots boys on the CB on 75 too! ![emoji6]
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well the west coast scots and the tangs seem to use the autotranslate button quite easily as being ulster scots or ■■■■ relatons the closer you get to Donegal means there all kindred spirits,its the foriegners south of Carlisle that wont have a clue…
example 1 as follows…interprete this
( this is for the 75 that runs east/west)…yin there southboun yer clean to the moss,the big cars just jooked in ahint the bing roon fae the teapot,an the ither wans hedin fir the pen sae eftir that yir fine .
Translation- I say,that chap heading towards Carlisle, you have a clear road all the way to Todhills (young uns won’t know anything about the moss ),the traffic police have stopped near the Teapot Cafe at Skyreburn,and some of their colleagues have headed back to the station, so apart from that everything’s tickety-boo (or something like that!)
The Moss Café was owned by the Lawsons that had the one at Londonderry on the old A1 Which in later years became The Londonderry Lodge, Lawsons used to advertise in The Headlight Drivers Magazine Cafes come & cafes go but you can allways rely on Lawsons, Of course there both long gone, Regards Larry.
the maoster:
I have one fitted. Very rare to hear much beside “council house FM” nowadays though.
I do sometimes hear fellas claiming to be radio hams speaking all the radio ham lingo and claiming to be based in Malaga/Germany/Poland etc. Is that posssible?
It’s quite possible , back in the day travelling over the brecon beacons it was not unusual to hear the american west coast truckers quite clearly if the skip was right .[/quote
Skip. The late 80’s are coming back to me. Skip,SWR metres,dummy-loads,Sigma 4’s,Q-codes. Oh yes. Good times poncing about with coat hangers and stuff. Keep this thread going,i’m 17 again
‘Council house Fm’ and mobile fones killed it. I’m surprised it’s not used more on building sites. Life would be a lot easier when you arrive at the gate. Most foreign trucks and vans seem to still have one. They must still be popular on mainland Europe
Lawrence Dunbar:
The Moss Café was owned by the Lawsons that had the one at Londonderry on the old A1 Which in later years became The Londonderry Lodge, Lawsons used to advertise in The Headlight Drivers Magazine Cafes come & cafes go but you can allways rely on Lawsons, Of course there both long gone, Regards Larry.
Depends on a few things, like the amount of power they are pushing out ( I had a 1000w linear amplifier coupled to a Superstar 360 and have spoken to the Shetland Isles on legal FM channels while in Yorkshire and regular convos to Queensland in Australia and South America. ) The 11 year sun spot cycle has a big influence as well as it increases the Ionosphere and allow the ‘bounce’ of the transmitted signal to be more pronounced allowing for greater distances to be achieved. Areas of a higher barometric pressure also increases the range and low pressure will decrease it.
I have fitted all of the units I’ve ever drove (pretty much) with my CB radio. Never saw the point in forking out the money I spent on it for it to just sit in a box and talk to itself. Havent turned it on for about 3 weeks maybe a month but was coming down M40 at Warwick Services and decided to turn it on out of the off chance and picked up an irish fella talking to some others about VOSA checkpoint in Cherwell Valley Services (oxford) so decided to divert off the motorway and head into Oxfordshire from the “country way”. It was 1:30 in the morning and couldn’t be asked with that crap at that time of night.
),the traffic police have stopped near the Teapot Cafe at Skyreburn,and some of their colleagues have headed back to the station, so apart from that everything’s tickety-boo (or something like that!) 
