mushroomman:
Hi guys, I am trying to place this Tony’s at Gieselwind . Would it be by any chance what was called The Lomo in the early eighties. I.I.R.C. you came off the autobahn where they built a Macdonalds on the right in the mid eighties.
One Christmas we were all given drivers washing bags as a crimbo present. They were green with large white letters which read LOMO and I used mine for many years. Does anybody else remember them or have you still got one .
Hi Steve
This may be wrong but I think that the truckstops were
RudenHausen LOMO tankstelle & Private restaurant Autohof
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Geiselwind Shell station & Tony’s (preferred stop open all weekend good food & showers)
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Attelsdorf ARAL station with a very small parking & restaurant Autohof
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Tennenlohe TEXACO station & restaurant Autohof Later taken over by the Turkish drivers
mushroomman:
Hi guys, I am trying to place this Tony’s at Gieselwind . Would it be by any chance what was called The Lomo in the early eighties. I.I.R.C. you came off the autobahn where they built a Macdonalds on the right in the mid eighties.
One Christmas we were all given drivers washing bags as a crimbo present. They were green with large white letters which read LOMO and I used mine for many years. Does anybody else remember them or have you still got one .
The LOMO was the exit before Gieselwind when you were heading towards Nurenburg.
Used to stop at the LOMO purely to fill up with diesel as the firm I worked for at the time in the early 90’s (Van Maanen Koeltransport) preferred us to use the LOMO card.
I too had one of the big green washbags as a xmas prezzie one year,but that was from the LOMO at Reischenhart near the Austrian border.In fact,because we had LOMO tankcards,we always got a prezzie at xmas.
You can still get the washbags,I’m using one that I bought at Eisenach a last year.
davemackie:
Hi Steve, in all the years I went there it was always a Shell station.
Southbound there was another Truckstop the juction before Geiselwind it may have been this one you are thinking of.
Dave.
Thats spot on Dave,and also it was a shell station !..and they made you very welcome at Tonys
too !
I remember one weekend in particular, loads of us,having a drink round the table ,John Willie was there and a few others,Im sure Barry Barnes was there,and another couple of lads that stand out,but cant think of there names only that one hadnt been doing middle east long and that he was ex REME,he drove a transcon red,with home made stacks on it,Im certain he was pulling for Denholm,does this ring any bells to anyone ?They were real nice lads,I also ran in to them 2 again one weekend in greece on the border at the BP station,waiting to transit Turkey ,waiting for monday,there rotten buggers them 2 ,they got me p…d again !
R the BP garage maria’s wot a lovely family but the old man never looked happy but he was alright really & the rest of them couldn’t make you feel more welcome i had some great time there
WHEELNUTZ:
roders,very true,good grub,good beer,good people,I do miss them days
i think we all do thats why we all hang around on here lol i missed the best days of the m/e i didn’t do it til late 90’s but stil had the best time ive ever had in a driving job i only done 4 year on it but 4 great years they were.
I now read that in 1977 they opened up the so called “military road” that skirted Tahir to international traffic too. I didn’t know that was the case.
No more Mardin by late 75. No more Tahir by 77…bloomin’ heck, the job was just getting too easy!!
Anyway, here’s a few more of Mike Sargent’s pics (before 77!) queueing at the border at Gurbulak/Bazargan for several days. Looks like he’s in good company though. Astran truck driven by Jeff Frost aka woodentop (not John Frost- fancy that, two Frosts on for Astran) and behind Mike’s wagon & drag is a Brit European truck driven by John Galsworthy (Goldy)
davemackie:
Hi WHEELNUTZ, hope this will help to refresh your memory, Strato & Transcon at The Russian Terminal, Hungary.
Dave.
Hey Dave ,thanks for the more than welcome surprise,when I seen Alan & Bobs truck I got goose bumps down my back,I never did think I would see them again,you have made my day ,thanks
Do you know where Jeff Frost is now,while I was at Astrans he decided to become the super owner driver and bought George Halls Red Volvo ,I know he started with loads of money and ended up with nothing but thats normal ,I lost touch with Jeff never seemed to cross paths on a trip, maybe Alison might know.I put your name on the plaque at Pat Seals funeral ,checkout the pics on my photobucket go back a couple of pages and you will find the link cheers
Hi, Ron if my memory stretches back that far but I am pretty sure we were still going over Tahir in 77, it wasn’t that bad I always used to stop in the village on top for a kebab and cay villagers were a bit suspicious when I first stopped but I had a fairly good grasp of Turkish and they were more curious rather than stone throwers. Usually any road deemed military was forbidden for commercial vehicles. If George Ginn is on here he might tell you the story of a Turkish Army Officer who requistioned his truck [m/t at the border] to take him and his horse to a new command towards Ankara and took George all the way down the military road Regards Biffo
Do you know where Jeff Frost is now,while I was at Astrans he decided to become the super owner driver and bought George Halls Red Volvo ,I know he started with loads of money and ended up with nothing but thats normal ,I lost touch with Jeff never seemed to cross paths on a trip, maybe Alison might know.I put your name on the plaque at Pat Seals funeral ,checkout the pics on my photobucket go back a couple of pages and you will find the link cheers
Roger
Firstly, thanks a lot Roger for including my name on the plaque at Pat’s funeral.
Mike Sargent seems to recall that Jeff Frost’s last job was for Geoff Gilbert and after that he retired and was rumoured to be last seen travelling around Europe in a camper. Maybe Alison or Ash can confirm or deny this.
And for biffo, apparently he is correct that there was still traffic going over Tahir after 77. The Turks had widened the road and bypassed the village later. It seems that you could use the military road if you wished but after they widened the road over the mountain, it was good even in the winter and was mostly two lanes wide all the way from Horosan to Eleskirt. Sounds like sheer luxury…I wouldn’t know as I’d finished on the middle east runs by the end of 76.
Hi Ron,
Jeff Frost definately gave up driving to tour europe/wherever as steve mutton and i had a farewell meal with him at a pub in holbeach some time in 2004 when he was working for GG havent heard from him since.
cheers
Bill
Only ran into Jeff Frost once,at one of the Hungarian borders, and clicked right away as we had both been Guardsmen.Never seen or heard of him since till now.
Sorry all - I cant remember much about Geoff Frost after Astran sold their trucks - but he did do a bit of subcontracting as you say. Nice chap though.
Thank,s Gerry i will shoot down sometime this week it must be over 25 yr,s since i stopped a few effes going off with DC,and we are only 20 odd mile,s apart.Thank,s again .Do you know Bob Hannon? He lived just off shaw rd near that pub that turned into a indian .
Hiya Bazza, Bob Hannon, what a great lad he was , he probably came from the same mould as Frankie Brandon .
Bob spent a couple of months at Dow Freight and just before Christmas one year we had to double man a load of Rothmans cigaretts to Pireus, what a brilliant trip that was . Bob did tell me that his brother lived in America and thats where he was hoping to end up, that was in the mid eighties so I have no idea if anybody has seen him since.
Any news on Frank yet ?.
. Would it be by any chance what was called The Lomo in the early eighties. I.I.R.C. you came off the autobahn where they built a Macdonalds on the right in the mid eighties.
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Sounds like sheer luxury…I wouldn’t know as I’d finished on the middle east runs by the end of 76. 