bullitt:
mushroomman:
… and the Falcongate driver is getting a plus.
A “plus”■■?..whats all that about then, a “PLUS”!!..plus what exactly!!!
Must be a Middle East drivers terminology!!!
Love these photos lads, keep em coming… at this rate truckerash will have to start another book!!
You didn’t have to go that far Bullitt, in fact they weren’t available outside countries which took DKV/UTA/EuroShell etc
mushroomman:
O.K. Ian, I shall go for Holland near the Danekamp border.
Hi Steve
Right country but I do not know where DaneKamp border is 
Regards
Ian
Hi Guys, I haven’t been on here since joining around a year ago I think… I had almost forgotten about the place but my Grandad (Dave Anderson) is very ill and I was hoping to find some pictures for him to see before he eventually leaves us. (I know is sounds morbid but its the truth, I would love to show him some old pictures to bring back memories and make him smile.) If anyone remembers him or has pictures that they know have him in them then I’d love to hear from you. Is there anyway of showing up just the images that have been posted in a thread? 37 pages will take some going through so any help would be appreciated, I will however read every single page so that I don’t miss anything.
Next time I visit my Grandparents I will ask him for his pictures of his M/E driving days and ask his permission to post them here for you all to see. I know he has a few but in the meantime I’d love to see any that he doesn’t have…
Kind regards,
Jimmy.
O.K. Ian, Holland, near the Heerlan border and the Falcongate driver is getting some Grolsch PLUS 
some Samson Shag ( or a blow up doll ) .
I.I.R.C. Danekamp was a quite little border in the north of Holland next to West Germany and it was handy if you were coming from Poland on your way to Europort. On a couple of occasions the West Germans didn’t ask to see or stamp the German permit and I think that the road went through a place called Soesterburg or something like that .
Regards Steve.
Reddesertfox:
GS….When you say Mike, may I assume you mean Michael John Walker, if so, then I am amazed you were driving slow enough to even notice there was a hairpin. ha ha
The only way that I knew about the hairpin was on the way down when I was going slow enough to see it. !!
"Knock Knock, come on were leaving…! and off we went for another 22hrs driving. We will stop here and have a couple of hrs sleep…Knock knock, come on were leaving…! Brrmmm of we go again. etc etc etc. until Abu Samra.
I never ran with you but im sure it was similar to running with Mike Walker.
GS
Mmmm, I guess when the Red Coats and Dogs are out it is wise to keep on the move…
Hammerman, have a look on here, it may save you some time.
zarafshan.netne.net/1_29_Photo-Gallery.html
Dave.
Hello All.
Did any of you or do you know anyone that subbied for Whitlle International Bamber Bridge moving what as said to be a gas pipe line out to the middle east?
Peter
davemackie:
Hammerman, have a look on here, it may save you some time.zarafshan.netne.net/1_29_Photo-Gallery.html
Dave.
thanks very much Dave, I will take a look!
Peter Wells:
Hello All.Did any of you or do you know anyone that subbied for Whitlle International Bamber Bridge moving what as said to be a gas pipe line out to the middle east?
Peter, I was on that job for a while, most of the pipes loaded out from Halesowen. West Midlands to Ankara, Turkey.
When Whittle closed the job was taken over by Dornack who were based in Coppull.This is a photo of some of us taken in Ankara Customs.
You may remember an old beat up M.A.N. that used to park in Ditchfield’s yard, well that was me.
Dave.
Well hello Dave long time no see.
When I was at Ditchfeilds you did not have an old beet up Man well that was you. You had that thing you called a good truck lol an old beeten Iveco I hated them things but you said it was the best thing that the chassis stud up to the beeting you give them lol.
So what you up to now and what happen to that thing you said was a good truck?
Regards
Peter
Hi All
Mushroomman right Country but I think another clue may be in order
The Truck stop had a large brick chimney with Texaco on it, also could be seen from the Border
Regards
Ian
Peter, memory must be playing tricks on me, the Man, was before the Iveco, which I bought NEW in '93 it just looked old when I brought it back after each trip, but after a wash & a few repairs it was ready to go again.
Nowadays, I am on Night Trunk from Carnforth to Glasgow & back( really exiting).
Hope that you are keeping well.
The Iveco, Truck Park in the Sky.
Dave.
JAWS:
Hi AllMushroomman right Country but I think another clue may be in order
The Truck stop had a large brick chimney with Texaco on it, also could be seen from the Border
Regards
Ian
Ian, since you & I seem to be the only ones that know, and that only Steve, is trying to answer, should we take him out of his misery, and give him the answer, in a PM,
The rest can of course keep trying.
Dave.
Hi Dave
I think we should give Steve 1 more day as he has been so close, before we send him a PM as I think he will get it with the last clue. 
Regards
Ian
davemackie:
Peter, memory must be playing tricks on me, the Man, was before the Iveco, which I bought NEW in '93 it just looked old when I brought it back after each trip, but after a wash & a few repairs it was ready to go again.
Nowadays, I am on Night Trunk from Carnforth to Glasgow & back( really exiting).
Hope that you are keeping well.The Iveco, Truck Park in the Sky.
Dave.
LOl,You say a few repairs? Dave your mind must still be mixed up.
There was not a mud wing or light stay left, they had all dropped off.
Your screen was gone, Batteries gone, Fuel tank fix on with straps, Fuel filter behined on the o/s drop wing under the cab filter by passed and thats if the drop wing was still there. Trailer spring bushs gone mud wing dropped off tryes well lets not go there no wonder you used to hire the trailer it was then there problem.
So in short Dave. You used to tell me where you went to, now you either drove out the yard parked up for 3 months and stip the truck your self sold the bits and smashed the screen and then sold your tyres and got trade ins or you was a real truck driver going to just about the end of the earth and back?
Peter
Peter Wells:
davemackie:
Peter, memory must be playing tricks on me, the Man, was before the Iveco, which I bought NEW in '93 it just looked old when I brought it back after each trip, but after a wash & a few repairs it was ready to go again.
Nowadays, I am on Night Trunk from Carnforth to Glasgow & back( really exiting).
Hope that you are keeping well.The Iveco, Truck Park in the Sky.
Dave.LOl,You say a few repairs? Dave your mind must still be mixed up.
There was not a mud wing or light stay left, they had all dropped off.Your screen was gone, Batteries gone, Fuel tank fix on with straps, Fuel filter behined on the o/s drop wing under the cab filter by passed and thats if the drop wing was still there. Trailer spring bushs gone mud wing dropped off tryes well lets not go there no wonder you used to hire the trailer it was then there problem.
So in short Dave. You used to tell me where you went to, now you either drove out the yard parked up for 3 months and stip the truck your self sold the bits and smashed the screen and then sold your tyres and got trade ins or you was a real truck driver going to just about the end of the earth and back?
Peter
Hi Peter
Just look at zarafshan.netne.net/ and you will understand why the truck fell to bits
Still it was only a FIAT with another Name
Fix
It
Again
Tony
Regards
Ian
What a good site that is Ian.
You lads can realy say we have been there done in it.
You young lad dont know what your talking about, nights out what 5 nights.
Young lad try 3 months nights out in an old Straro or a Marathon, come back when you have grown up young man.
Regards
Peter
Peter Wells:
What a good site that is Ian.You lads can realy say we have been there done in it.
You you lad dont know what your talking about, nights out what 5 nights.
Young lad try 3 months nights out in an old Straro or a Marathon, come back when you have grown up young man.
Regards
Peter
Hi Peter
I am going to Jump up on my orange box so I hope that you will excuse me as the phrase (come back when you have grown up young man) used get up my nose in 1971 from the old boys on Crow Carrying, Henery Smithers, BRS and other companys, so please read on. 
Every Driver must start some where & time the opportunities as what they do & where they go depends on many factors For O/D’s Job Price for the employed wages, work taken on by the employers, also their own confidence.
I was a late starter but enough years before the wall fell down so I had some very good adventures & bad ones form Russia to Qatar & mostly Eastern & some Western European destinations. I also made some great decisions & some very bad ones but the best one I ever made with the Truck that I had at the time was not to go to Zarafshan. I would have had to bring it home in a bucket so for Dave’s to make it back under it’s own power makes it a good truck.
Any way I must be stupid as I am still a steering wheel attendant just older and slower
Best Regards
Ian
The trips you lads used to do words can say to new driver of today and the truck that you used.
I have been with so many drivers when they come back on Fridays nights saying. go around this round about then lights,that hill and lots more junk.
What about trun left at the camel, far more intresting.
Just how many do middle east work this day and age? or is it not profitable now?
Regards
Peter
