Didn’t he leave you to start a van hire business Mr MJM ?, I think he went to Birds after that
Hi Paul, I have sent you a P.M. 
.
On another thread some time ago,someone had mentioned that he had done a bit of time on Birds.
Davemackie
What happenend to the answer to the last photo of the road with 3 trucks on it do we need to keep on trying ,we seem to have drifted away somewhere else
Roger Haywood
Hi Roger, keep trying.
Small clue it’s Romania.
Dave.
Dave
You got me Mate ,looks like most of the bottom road to Calafat or Russe all I can say cheers
Roger
the diversion round guirgu
Well done gerry, did you have assistance from a shark?.
Dave.
New Photo, this one is slightly different, I can’t remember where I took this, so help me out.
I will accept the majority vote.
Dave.
davemackie:
New Photo, this one is slightly different, I can’t remember where I took this, so help me out.
I will accept the majority vote.Dave.
Hi Dave
That looks like the Hungarian side of Nadlac (Nagylak 
) heading away from Romania. I only used this boarder when I had to as I hated it and its Queue’s and the lack of movement by the Vama
Regards
Ian
Reddesertfox:
Getting back to the ME Where is this then…
Hi Red
I never did the hilly side of Saudi so were is this photo taken
Regards
Ian
davemackie:
JAWS:
davemackie:
New week new photo, where is this.
Dave.
Well Dave it looks like this gray matter test was to hard for them
Regards Ian
Some of you are very close, but none are correct.
When the Border queue’s got really bad the Romanian’s decided to route us away when leaving the Border at Guirgiu, & this was the diversion.
For an extra lollipop, whose wagon was it.
Dave.
Ross on page 43 got the right Truck
Dave Gracey’s
Best Regards to all
Ian
JAWS:
davemackie:
New Photo, this one is slightly different, I can’t remember where I took this, so help me out.
I will accept the majority vote.Dave.
Hi Dave
That looks like the Hungarian side of Nadlac (Nagylak
Regards
Ian
Good call Ian, the Hungarian/ Romanian border at Nadlac but I seem to remember that the area around this border was flat for miles on both sides.
In the winter it looked like what I thought Siberia would of looked like with its snow filled field and those watch towers that seemed like they were positioned at one kilometre intervals. That’s the reason while I am going to have a guess that it’s the Hungarian/ Yugoslavian border at Subotica.
It’s good to see that Gerry Mac keeps popping up on here and I hope that one day he can tell me more about, well let’s just refer to this other well known driver as Mr K? . Hopefully I shall be seeing Mr K? next year and if Gerry can give me any information about Mr K?’s girl friend in Rumania then I can’t wait to hear it, I think that Dave might know who I mean.
I had an e-mail from The Plater yesterday, it’s great to know that he is still lurking on here and Pete asked me if Depression Ron does make contact then can he send him a P.M.
Over the past couple of years I have really enjoyed reading most of these threads but every now and again one of them really triggers off something that I have never thought about since it happened nearly thirty years ago. A couple of days ago The Coca Cola Kid posted this and I hope that he doesn’t mind me reposting it as I can’t get this bloody tune out of my head now. I must of heard it hundreds of times over the years and I never listened to the words and I have never seen this video before.
Re: What song takes ye back and why ?
by coca cola kid » Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:12 am
Nikita, Elton John
This one takes me back to 1984 every time
Set of for Hungary running with Ginger, usual float of £200 & not much more, we had a great run all the way till we got to the Slovakia - Hungarian border
Ginger was in front as we hit the border he went over the single axle weigh bridge & moved on down the line, as I went over the weigh bridge the guy in the office went into a rant in Hungarian & gave me a red card, My first time over this boarder & Ginger said just stick with me, so I did.
When I pulled up behind Ginger in the queue my feet hadn’t touched the ground when I was whisked of by four armed customs officers into an office with a cell, after about an hour I found out I was over loaded by 500Kg on the back axle.
Well to be honest it was the first I knew as someone else had loaded it for me, worked it out straight away his normal tank was tri-axle & mine was a tandem
So he got the dips the wrong way round, after going over the weigh bridge at least six times & getting six different gross weights I said I was paying no £260 fine
Mistake maybe! Well after several hours trying to convince them to let us trans ship it from the back pot to the front in walked NIKITA,
Our eyes met across the room it was love at first sight, she was a beauty absolutely gorgeous she too was a customs officer she went over to her colleges & after five minutes came walking straight over to me, speaking in fluent English she said you must go over the weigh bridge again, and I said it’s a waste of time! No she said I will come with you we went over the bridge together issued with a green card to proceed, from then it was plane sailing she saw to everything visa all paperwork & when they were going to search my truck for any propaganda she called him back spoke with him & as he turned to come back to me she winked & blew me a kiss, he came back to me handed me all my papers & said ok Mr Haynes you are free to go.
Now for the connection to the song & the words.
On the very weekend of my return from that trip I was watching Swap Shop the program Noel Edmonds did on Saturdays, it showed a video of Nikita in which Elton John drove up to an eastern block border in a red Rolls Royce to try and rescue Nikita
All though I never new her name she was my Nikita, I had a red Rolls Royce at the time & did quite often think about going back. I have never seen that video since if anybody has seen it you’ll understand
Sweet memories, Mel Will post a picture later
Oh Nikita You will never know anything about my home I’ll never know how good it feels to hold you Nikita I need you so Oh Nikita is the other side of any given line in time Counting ten tin soldiers in a row Oh no, Nikita you’ll never know
And if there comes a time Guns and gates no longer hold you in And if you’re free to make a choice Just look towards the west and find a friend
Watch the video youtube.com/watch?v=Vb1dAVrRSHo
PS Ginger if you read this, THANKS for standing by me on that day Cheers Me
That to me Cola Kid is one of those great little memories and thanks for posting it.
What was it about those Commie Block border girls in the winter 
, was it their furry hats with their furry flaps, or was it their greatcoats or their leather knee length boots.
I felt like I always wanted to snuggle up inside with them, well not all of them as you will remember that a couple of them looked like the robbers dogs.
When I was leaving Rumania one day just before crossing the bridge into Bulgaria at Giurgiu, a young fluently English speaking customs girl wanted to give me a cabin control. A young Rumanian squaddy was stood next to the open door of the cab and she told him to go away and closed the door. I had a feeling that she was a bit nervous as she rummaged around in the cab and I thought that the control was taking a bit longer that usual. Then looking at me embarrassingly she said “ have you got any rubber baby stoppers ”. I knew exactly what she meant but on this occasion I had to say no and the poor girl with the bright red face leapt out of the cab saying “ cabin control finished ” and I never remember seeing her again.
Regards Steve.
B.T.W. I have just realised that poor Elton has been refused entry at that border, typical British driver in the eighties running on mickey paperwork. Well it’s obvious really, you can’t have a passport photo taken while you are wearing a hat 
.
And Coca Cola Kid, you had a Rolls Royce 
I wish I had known the Hungarian garage that you were getting your black market diesel from.
mushroomman:
I wish I had known the Hungarian garage that you were getting your black market diesel from.
A Roller that runs on diesel?.Now there’s something different!
bestbooties:
mushroomman:
I wish I had known the Hungarian garage that you were getting your black market diesel from.A Roller that runs on diesel?.Now there’s something different!
It was the furry flaps that caught my attention 
bestbooties:
mushroomman:
I wish I had known the Hungarian garage that you were getting your black market diesel from.A Roller that runs on diesel?.Now there’s something different!
Check this out Ian, it’s not one of yours is it 
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Diamond T recovery truck with a Rolls Royce engine…naturally you’ll find it on Biglorryblog!
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Now here’s one for the ‘They don’t make them like that anymore’ department of Biglorryblog and I have ‘The Boy Swallow’ to thank for it too. Strange really considering how in the past he’s harrumphed about blogs and new media etc, etc… Still we all come round in the end and he says: "I was visiting B Taylor & Sons in Mansfield and saw this in the corner - a Diamond T Model 980, built in 1948 with a Rolls Royce engine.
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mushroomman:
B.T.W. I have just realised that poor Elton has been refused entry at that border, typical British driver in the eighties running on mickey paperwork. Well it’s obvious really, you can’t have a passport photo taken while you are wearing a hat
And Coca Cola Kid, you had a Rolls Royce
roadtransport.com/blogs/big- … -with.html
Watch the video
youtube.com/watch?v=Vb1dAVrRSHo
Steve asked me to have a look at his links, just a small error steve.
Great pic though
mushroomman:
bestbooties:
mushroomman:
I wish I had known the Hungarian garage that you were getting your black market diesel from.A Roller that runs on diesel?.Now there’s something different!
Check this out Ian, it’s not one of yours is it
Diamond T recovery truck with a Rolls Royce engine…naturally you’ll find it on Biglorryblog!
By BigLorryBlog on May 12, 2009 10:19 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
- a Diamond T Model 980, built in 1948 with a Rolls Royce engine.
I had the pleasure/experience of driving a couple of Diamond Tee’s when I left the army in 1968.
The first one was for Blue Star Garages as it was then on Keele MSA.This one had a ■■■■■■■ engine,but you had to be careful how you put the power on or it would twist the propshafts off!.
A couple of years later,when I was working for the FIAT agent that supplied Chapman & Ball with their m/e FIAT’s,we bought a Diamond Tee wrecker off a bloke who was based near to Leek who used it mainly for towing trucks up Froghall bank when they didn’t realise how steep it was and ran out of cogs!
This one had the original Hercules engine in.
Wish I’d taken some pics back then!
Wheel Nut:
It was the furry flaps that caught my attention
I thought that might get somebodys attention Malc but are you not thinking about a Yugoslav customs girl by any chance .
Thanks for sorting out the links Mate.
This one is for old Truckyboy.
Come on Bob, who is the big fellow on the right who used to say, my mate, my mucker, my mate, he was an old workmate of yours and I am sure that another old workmate of his Eric Etchells will remember him.
Regards Steve.
