Following on from some comments on the BBC Cars, Cops… thread about giving toerags ideas - this week’s CM has a good article on a Harding Bros subby but, it tells in great detail what they carry
now i’m not bright, but without being told I would have presumed it was all fig rolls, mr kipling cakes and heinz’s beans for the cruising fraternity - not, as the article was at great pains to point out, expensive shoes, handbags and perfume for the on-board duty free shops
anyone else not help thinking they’ve not done themselves any favours advertising what they carry in liveried trailers?
years ago i used to deliver wine and spirits to off licences/pubs/clubs around the north of ireland and had lorries with livery and without livery. only point i can make is that we were easier to find in a liveried lorry when we got hijacked than a plain white one as people could remember seeing a lorry with a drink name all over it .
It is a point JJ, and while we dont remove posts without good reason on here, we have been asked and complied on quite a few occassions when we have been contacted by companies, worried that information posted by drivers who havent hought the implications through, may lead to problems.
While we are all interested on here on what the members are up to, and the diaries are some of the best reads, members here themselves have got to remember that it is open to all to read, if you want to met up with people you know from here then Prvate message is your mate, even the admins dont have access to them
why not replace it with a blown fuse ■■? that way i would of thought you got more chance of getting away with it, wouldnt know as i have never taken fuse out, more that my jobs worth lol…
zorg2006:
why not replace it with a blown fuse ■■? that way i would of thought you got more chance of getting away with it, wouldnt know as i have never taken fuse out, more that my jobs worth lol…
I think there is some sort of security seal on it to show that it has been pulled
In today’s society I don’t think that was a very smart move, I’ve had a trailer in Holsten Pils colours (coincidentally that’s what I was carrying too) & it was a pain in the arse, had to be very careful where you parked at night, in fact the only time it was any use was when we went to the Caffreys Brewery on the Falls Rd in Belfast, usually a British reg would invite big trouble from the locals, prior to having the liveried trailers we had rocks, paint cans (full) shopping trollies & allsorts (not liquorice) thrown at us, as soon as the Holsten trailers arrived that all stopped
There was also an HSE issue, the trailer curtains were bright yellow & every wasp from miles around would come to have a sniff around, the little black & yellow ■■■■■ would sting me at least once a week
newmercman:
when we went to the Caffreys Brewery on the Falls Rd in Belfast, usually a British reg would invite big trouble from the locals, prior to having the liveried trailers we had rocks, paint cans (full) shopping trollies & allsorts (not liquorice) thrown at us,
Yes, I had this in Belfast, I’ve been all over Russia and the eastern Bloc, and down to Asia, but I have never been as frightened for my personal safety as I was in Belfast.
This is NOT a generalisation about Irish people, who are the same as everyone else I have ever met, there are good and bad ones, but there is a significant minority, of both faiths, who seem to harbour more hatred than is good for one, and it is terrifying to be on the receiving end of it simply because you were born in Bexleyheath.
glenman:
been mixing with the wrong sorts then harry by the way it could also have happened if you went in the wrong area with a southern irish reg .
I’m quite sure. I’m not saying it is any worse than anywhere else, here on the mainland you can get beaten up for being black, or gay, or Asian, it’s just that was my only experience of what it is like to be hated in that way. I have a very naive and hippyish disposition, and I just remember thinking “Why are they doing this to me, I haven’t done anything to them?”
I can’t understand it, obviously it would have been Catholics who had a problem with me but Protestants are no better, I would not have a clue if my next-door neighbour was Protestant or Catholic, but if I ever saw a priest coming out of his house I wouldn’t decide to start hating him or throwing bricks at him, or spit in his face (this has happened to me).
I’m a truck driver FFS, what can I do about some massacre that happened in 1641 that they just cannot leave behind?
its not the english thing harry,it was the fact that you are a naive hippy,everyone hates them