hiya,
Welcome back Keith, loved the job until i hit the 50 and then i could have left it behind without any hesitation guess i became dissolusioned, i think the work i preferred had just about all gone, the tramping was’nt the same all your work was found for you and those timed deliveries and collections, hated that, very little heavy haulage about in my part of the world, guess i was spoiled with the old Red and Rust where you could just about load for wherever you wanted and there was always plenty of variety, hated repetition if i loaded for the same place twice i found it boring, i guess i was just about unemployable to most companies, and although i was’nt wishing my time away i was glad when could i chuck it for good.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Keith,Harry & Co,
I would be back in a lorry like a shot. I know its all changed,mainly for the worst,but I was born and bred with lorries,my old man used to say when I was a kid,your not going lorry driving like me,get a job in a bank,or an office. Needless to say,it fell on deaf years. I do a bit of work in an office,the only good thing about that,is the females,but otherwise,its still lorries for me.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Dave, must have been a wrench for you when you had to give up the job that you really enjoyed, i did manage to escape the haulage industry for the last few years of my working life still driving but little stuff and only around the doors, it took a little while to get into the habit of being in the house at 4.45 on a daily basis, but it was’nt long before i got into it and would have stayed on a little while longer if they had’nt had the retire at 65 rule, but got to admit i had my best years with the BRS and would have stayed with them had they stayed around, but it did,nt happen and i could’nt find a privateer who was anything like i had got used to but the “water board” came a very close second.
thanks harry long retired.
Lads I loved my job, but they tried to change it, and at 62, I was not going to change at my time of life, so I took money and went on my merry way, and never thought twice about it. but the years that I had, will live in my heart, because I had a life of riley, would I do it over a again, “YES” I would in the same era.
hiya,
Norm i’d only do the BRS bit again, can’t say i was ever into working in the private sector, might have made a million doing something else, i actually enjoyed working in the coalmines but if i’d stuck with that i’d never have done my bit in the forces and i enjoyed that as well, when you think about it life is one big “IF”.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry, I loved the REME too, if it was not for a German girl, I would still be in the army, then I would have missed out on the driving jobs, m/e etc, and of course I would not be in contact with you nice lads, oh woe is me, where did I go wrong? ha ha ha.
hiya,
Norm, you will remember when we was young and just out of the forces not many 21 year old lads had driving licences let alone lorry driving experience so i guess i just drifted into the driving game “because i could do it” i don’t think i could have worked in the cotton mills or the shoe factories which in those days were very plentiful, although i had to head back below ground for a year “because as a new civilian ex forces driver” i was too young to drive lorries legally when first demobbed at age 20, but at age 21 and 8 days was doing London night trunk with an 8 wheeler and trailer “on trial” as an holiday relief driver for a now long gone firm, it did pay the mortgage though.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry, one of my inbetween jobs, I went on the buses, they told me I would have two weeks training, I went out with this inspector and three other fellows, on a crash gear type bus, I was playing tunes on the gearbox, and was told to stop on a steep hill, then pull away, then we stopped for a break in the canteen. When we started back, we had this chap with a suit on, I went through the same route and tests, when we got back in the depot, this man gave my a form, and said now you may drive buses, you will get you badge and licence in a week, I said are you not checking me for road signs, “No” he replied, with the licence you have, you should know them by now, half hour later I was driving a no.6 bus with a clippy hanging on the back, some of them was crackers, but after a year, I was longing for the open road.
hiya,
My old man, long gone, was a coach driver as well as a lorry driver he used to do all over the UK work, he got me a slot to take the test, a freebie with his firm to be done one Saturday morning, i did’nt make it was in running from somwhere and could’nt make it in time, never got the chance again, often wished i had, another string to the bow and all that, ah well won’t get the chance now.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry and Norman, I was looking at some old classic commercial magazines today and I came across a BRS 50 year supplement from november 1998.If either of you would like it just pm me with your address and i will post it to you f.o.c.I also have loads of classic commercial magazines dating back to 1997 for anyone out there who might be interested.
Regards’
Robert
Thanks Robert, if it was 72/78 era, I would be more excited, with Harry, I think he would like 1898, or if you have some photo’s of BRS chariots, first used by Bodicca. 
hiya,
Robert would love the BRS mag will gladly pay postage, not really interested in newer stuff, if you’ve still got the one in question please PM me and i’ll give you my address via PM.
thanks harry long retired.
hiya,
Norm, can’t trace back to Boadicea but a family member on my Mothers side of the family has traced the family tree back to the Henry the 8th era have never bothered to check it out “live for today” is my motto, wonder if any of my forebears worked for Shore Porters Society of Aberdeen who where supposed to have started roping and sheeting in the 14th century, must have got the driving bug from somewhere.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
Bet those two Oxen were heavy on the steering,especially with thos two wooden wheeled carts. 
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Dave, bet the oxen cart was’nt as heavy on the handlebars as the old Maudslay you’ve heard the saying about standing up to pull the steering round well with that old girl you had to, the old Octopus that i drove later was like power steering by comparison, but being a BRS motor it would see a grease gun on a regular basis.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi You BRS Men, Got this picture from my collection, poor old girl sitting in her grave yard, she’s really seen much better days. I’m sure someone will know her by the depot number. She’s still there too expensive to buy.
John
where is this ?
Hi all
The seddon is in Rush Green 2 or3 more scattered around the yard, Theres some great stuff in their, Brough should open it up as a musium as he likes to keep it for himself.I supose itchy fingers would empty the place in a day. Mind you he did sell me a Seddon windscreen a few years ago
John.
Hi John,
Its amazing how many old moters are parked around the Country. A lot of them have been around for years,and the same as your man with the Seddon,they won’t part with them. Its a good thing that some of these blokes are like that,oyherwise,with the price of scrap,they would have been long gone.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Dave could spend my annual holidays in a place where old wagons end up, the older the gear the more i would enjoy my stay and if i got the opportunity to do a bit of tinkering that would be the icing on the cake, there would be only one proviso would need a buttie bar handy to keep the cholesterol level topped up, am i easily pleased or what??.
thanks harry long retired.