harry_gill:
hiya,
Chris that wonderful Bedford, actually drove one like it for a day very early in my career but remember it well i could actually pull a wheelie with it, but don’t want owt to do with bricks, if you still want me on the books it’ll have to be one of the BRS tippers and permanent nights please, i see well in the dark and eat loads of carrots, and you never see rabbits and donkey’s wearing glasses.
thanks harry long retired.
Righto Harry.
Train to Sheffield,pick one of these up from Staniforth Road depot,start Sunday night,two loads of limestone from Buxton into Steel,Peach and Tozer.Watch that black ice in Derbyshire and take a shovel for the snow that you’ll get soon.Take plenty of snap and a big flask,no cafes to sneak into,and no time for canteens at either end.
Let me know how you get on. Good tool that Octopus,got the 680 in. 
hiya,
Chris never drove an octopus as posh as that but she’s got a canny power pack in her so a couple of trips for an old stager like me should be no problem, i’ll need a sub to buy a flask though, used all me coin squaring old Norms London bar biil, and you know i don’t do snow shifting, not too keen on the no cafe route, i’ll have to change the rules on that one and maybe do a bit of a detour, you’ve got to have proper grub when you get to my age,the BRS stipulated breaks to be taken away from the vehicle and i’m too old to be sitting on wet grass with a flask and sarnies not good for the Farmer Giles.
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Chris Webb:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Chris that wonderful Bedford, actually drove one like it for a day very early in my career but remember it well i could actually pull a wheelie with it, but don’t want owt to do with bricks, if you still want me on the books it’ll have to be one of the BRS tippers and permanent nights please, i see well in the dark and eat loads of carrots, and you never see rabbits and donkey’s wearing glasses.
thanks harry long retired.
Righto Harry.
Train to Sheffield,pick one of these up from Staniforth Road depot,start Sunday night,two loads of limestone from Buxton into Steel,Peach and Tozer.Watch that black ice in Derbyshire and take a shovel for the snow that you’ll get soon.Take plenty of snap and a big flask,no cafes to sneak into,and no time for canteens at either end.
Let me know how you get on. Good tool that Octopus,got the 680 in.
But it took DAF to stick a turbocharger on that engine.Anyone remember the 3300’s which were on the BRS Coca Cola contract running from London to Bristol?.I thought that less than 2 hours was quick with a 2800 until I saw those come by me.
Hi all,
Chris, it has been brought to my attention that two of your drivers have found another ‘perk’ 
They have been playing Piggy Back and pocketting the the fuel money 
Ray
Well,the pair of scheming owd b******.
I’ll sort summat out that’ll keep 'em quiet Ray,thanks for telling me.I’ll stop any overtime out of their wages to make up for the fuel money they’ve pocketted.
Chris
hiya,
Not guilty Chris only old Norm is versatile in the art of the diesel fiddle and me being an honest Red and Ruster could’nt stoop so low, i’m not saying it is Norm but he always has copious amounts of money to hand, how??.
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Harry,can you and Norman nip over to Wragby Road,Lincoln,and clear this lot up.You can have a bag each for yersens
You can have the car as well 
hiya,
Chris you know full well i don’t do shovels, Dave and Norm are both experienced with the big spoon and Dave’s fully qualified with the tipper handlebars,I can pop along and supervise i’ll only take enough spuds for a pan of chips, i’ll organise Keith with his low loader to assist with recovery, bet the guy in the jam jar has a flat head though better take some Germolene.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi boys
Dave you being a tipper man, should’nt that chap have undone his side board before side tipping? And Harry I’m shore you would be OK with that spoon as it is one of those plastic ones, very light and no rust but still red. 
Regards Keith.
hiya,
Keith could’nt care less if the shovel is sky blue pink with yellow dot’s on i don’t do shovels, i’ll have to watch old Norm he’ll have a stall set up selling the load.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi boys
Harry thats not the attitude you should be only to keen to help a fellow trucker, by the way i’ve just heard of a chap motoring from Northampton with a hot potato van look out
Regards Keith.
hiya,
A man of Norm’s experience won’t take long to get there and no sat-nav required and with all the desert cooking he’s done should be able to turn out a canny baked spud we all might make a bob or two out of somebody else’s mishap, and i’m still not using a shovel i escaped from the coalmines to get away from the damned things and i don’t care if it is a lightweight version.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
A man of Norm’s experience won’t take long to get there and no sat-nav required and with all the desert cooking he’s done should be able to turn out a canny baked spud we all might make a bob or two out of somebody else’s mishap, and i’m still not using a shovel i escaped from the coalmines to get away from the damned things and i don’t care if it is a lightweight version.
thanks harry long retired.
You win Harry,no shoveling.Train to Liverpool and sort Pearsons out.
Then go and get yer breakfast
hiya,
Rimrose rd Liverpool 20 thats Bootle lived in L/pool 20 all through the war just a short walk from Rimrose rd my dad drove for the ministry of supply in the Pool my mother drove for the ministry of supply too but from Lancaster, sometimes i lived with my mam sometimes with my dad, did’nt get much schooling so had to become a driver too not bright enough for owt else.
thanks harry long retired.
Chris now you are talking, I will eat one of those any day, I was dis- appointed with my breakfast at London in the hotel, only toast and a boiled egg, but I did get a real breakfast in a small cafe off Edgeware rd in Church street, where they have a small market each day, two mugs of roseylea, and two doorsteps toast and egg saugage bacon beans mushrooms & three hash browns = £8 for the two of us, and we both did not leave enough to feed a gnat, and a chat with the turkish owner? Sandman Norman
hiya,
Norm after i’d sorted your bar bill i was too skint to afford food, but a tramp felt sorry for me and bought me a cup of tea.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry you are a lying tow rag, I never had a drink in the hotel, it had no bar. You have had no photo on the net, so I only had what you told me, so we came out of the Savoy theatre and walked towards Leicester Square, and saw your theatre, then went to your hotel, and told the bar man my mate Harry from Durham, who was tall dark and handsome, and his wife would be dripping in diamonds, I paid for a large whiskey, and a glass of red wine, I did not give my name, I said he will know who paid for it, but if you gave me false information on your looks, it was the barmans gain and your loss! ha ha ha, perhaps you will be lucky next time. Sandman Norman
hiya,
Lying toe rag indeed, you know full well i’m affiliated to George Washington, but you did get the bit about the looks correct but not the bit about my old lady dripping with diamonds, the best i can do there is imitation, but i’ve told her they’re real so live in hopes that she does’nt read this, the BRS never payed enough to afford the real thing although if i’d worked for Overland i no doubt would have bought pukka gear, what with those wages and all that fiddle things could have been a lot different , just have to be content with being handsome and happy.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry, you do not get any better, I think I will just have to take you how you come!, the only thing is the lads, viewers must have a good laugh at our antics. Sandman Norman
hiya,
Norm, there is a warning sign comes attached to me and it goes something like “light the blue paper and stand well back” or so i’ve been told, what you sees is what you gets, so light me correctly and i don’t fly all over the place, and can be quite pleasant to sand wobblers.
thanks harry long retired.