hiya,
Boris have you met Norman??, i have and quite recently i found him a very nice person and very pleasant company he seemed quite knowledgable and i don’t wish to read the things you have posted, until you have met the man please don’t comment, this thread is beginning to detract from the BRS theme.
thanks harry long retired.
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Hiya , just because i haven’t met him personally means that i can’t comment on his thread inputs… 
■■ Like i said, i can tell you guys know what youre talking about- from what you say on here, but his is usually tosh, cos he’s done nothing interesting except overland 
[ & the real middle eastern drivers p***ed themselves at his input on their thread ]
Oh & on the thread detracting from the BRS theme - its a bit ‘pot- kettle’ don’t you think
Love Boris 
Well said Harry.
I’m in complete agreement with you. 
Well Boris you don’t have to read this thread if you don’t want,but to get it back onto topic how about you taking this down to Covent Garden tonight,should shut you up for a bit.Like has been said before,if the only input you’ve got is criticism then find another forum. 
Give us a ring when you’ve tipped 
hiya,
Chris i’d sharp tip that most likely on a bend or roundabout whichever came first, if i did’nt lose it i bet i could put a canny nearside lean on it, then again it would most likely remain bolt upright the speed limit was only 20 MPH and not even i could do much lumber at that rate of knots.
thanks harry long retired.
Nice one Chris.
Chris I 'd make him sheet that load before leaving the yard they have forecast rain
sammyopisite:
Chris I 'd make him sheet that load before leaving the yard they have forecast rain
hiya,
Might not need sheeting could well be lettuce or even watercress or better still empties, and at that height thats all it wants to be on that little motor.
thanks harry long retired.
You would have to give the rope a good throw to get it up over that load. It’s higher than a load of hay bales,as for the sheet,good luck boris 
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Cheers Dave.
harry_gill:
sammyopisite:
Chris I 'd make him sheet that load before leaving the yard they have forecast rainhiya,
Might not need sheeting could well be lettuce or even watercress or better still empties, and at that height thats all it wants to be on that little motor.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry I never said it needed it but practise makes perfect as you know
sammyopisite:
harry_gill:
sammyopisite:
Chris I 'd make him sheet that load before leaving the yard they have forecast rainhiya,
Might not need sheeting could well be lettuce or even watercress or better still empties, and at that height thats all it wants to be on that little motor.
thanks harry long retired.Harry I never said it needed it but practise makes perfect as you know
She’s loaded with boxes of flowers IIRC for Covent Garden.Not far from Cambs to the smoke,no traffic down the A10,would be a good night shift,any takers if Boris knocks?
Chris Webb:
sammyopisite:
harry_gill:
sammyopisite:
Chris I 'd make him sheet that load before leaving the yard they have forecast rainhiya,
Might not need sheeting could well be lettuce or even watercress or better still empties, and at that height thats all it wants to be on that little motor.
thanks harry long retired.Harry I never said it needed it but practise makes perfect as you know
She’s loaded with boxes of flowers IIRC for Covent Garden.Not far from Cambs to the smoke,no traffic down the A10,would be a good night shift,any takers if Boris knocks?
Fair play boris,everyone is thinking of the difficulties you might encounter,also thinking of your welfare 
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Cheers Dave.
sammyopisite:
harry_gill:
sammyopisite:
Chris I 'd make him sheet that load before leaving the yard they have forecast rainhiya,
Might not need sheeting could well be lettuce or even watercress or better still empties, and at that height thats all it wants to be on that little motor.
thanks harry long retired.Harry I never said it needed it but practise makes perfect as you know
hiya,
Go on make em sheet it there’s enough of them, and after my eight legger and drag days i never got a lift but i’m just glad i don’t have to sheet it.
thanks harry long retired.
Hello lads sorry I have missed the fun, what with my garden & bowls I find it a job to find time to come on here, when I do, I find I am getting a loads of bowls from boris, why, is he jealous because he didn’t work for BRS overland? I cannot say, input to other middle drivers, I did not do, I do not call them just because I never ran with them, if they say they did this or that, I accept their word. Now as for driving, I was driving probaly before you had cradle marks on your bum, I have drove every thing the army asked me too, in uk I have drove buses, cranes, dustcarts, so I know rubbish when its spoken, and ambulances, for the lads know I done trade plating for a mate to help him out, plus 22 years on the Carlsberg contract, I also said I did it for the best pay not glory, I enjoyed myself while doing it. my name is up there for anyone to see, I do not hide like some Northampton drivers, windup merchants come and go, but I am still around. Anyway puts some more lorries up and carry on.
Hi Norm,
I think boris has had some salt put on his tail by Harry,he doesn’t need the vinegar,he seem’s sour enough without it.
Keep the stories coming Norm,the rest of us enjoy the craic.
Cheers Dave.
Norman Ingram:
I think they look a lot like the ones who done the London Bricks from J13 on the M1?
Right then! I am not a driver nor do i proclaim to be one , why should i be jealous of you? i am 42, you are old & a '‘numpty’ . I am full of admiration and respect for the ‘old school’ lorry driver which i pointed out you are not! Drivers that roped & sheeted anything , organised their own backload, handballed 20tonsof 2cwt sacks, then drove lorries with no power steering, heater, radio , 150bhp on pre motorway roads…Buses, ambulances & cranes don’t count Your comments/contribution above- about the BRS 8 legger pics said it all really Do you ever read the Astrans middle east thread? Why do you get ridiculed on their also? Why should i not voice my opinion your trucknet ‘buddies’ only back you up because they are being polite & it sure is more interesting than ‘old women’ chat you lot like
A former BRS manager informed me that Overland was set up when BRS was in decline and was an amature set up with mostly amature & rookie drivers [like yourself] oh and your 22 years on Carlsberg - tanks & taughtliners all union men… yeah!That makes you a driver doesn’t it
Anyway to show a BRS contribution ,more than you do a pic i found taken at BRS corby 1980
P.S. Does anyone (who’s still talking to me) know if the BRS eastern ‘brown’ colour has a name?
Love Boris xxxx
What’s your problem with Norman boris 
all the bloke does is come on the thread and have a bit of banter like the rest of us. All of us over 60 have carried two hundred weight sacks,and where did it get a lot of blokes,constant back trouble.
We all drove lorries without power steering,heaters or radio’s,so what,it’s a different day and age. It’s a pity you aren’t older than 42,you might think twice about admiring us lot and have a proper knowledge of what the job was like,the conditions and the wages,which in most cases were crap until the HGV license came in.
Lighten up boris.
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
What’s your problem with Norman boris
We all drove lorries without power steering,heaters or radio’s,so what,it’s a different day and age. It’s a pity you aren’t older than 42,you might think twice about admiring us lot and have a proper knowledge of what the job was like,the conditions and the wages,which in most cases were crap until the HGV license came in.
Lighten up boris.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Dave i think those two hundreweight sacks are coming back to haunt me, it was china clay in my case, at age 74 i feel like i’m caryying one full time 24/7.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Boris ,
Worked at BRS corby myself in early 90s on the DRG plastics contract , loads of old timers were still there then coming up to retirement , they had loads of stories of driving the old Bristol 8 leggers loaded with steel from the works . It was a shame when the depot closed . My father is what you would call an ‘old school’ driver- he drove for BRS Northampton in the sixties and then Swift’s up until his retirement . Couldn’t wait for school hols- out monday morning full load roped & sheeted(2 halfsheets & fly) and he made sure he was carrying timbers(in landing leg struts) chocks, backscotch(for reels of paper) & chains(for steel) on general haulage out all week sorting out his own backloads then back saturday morning to wash the unit down… Happy days 
harry_gill:
Dave the Renegade:
What’s your problem with Norman boris
We all drove lorries without power steering,heaters or radio’s,so what,it’s a different day and age. It’s a pity you aren’t older than 42,you might think twice about admiring us lot and have a proper knowledge of what the job was like,the conditions and the wages,which in most cases were crap until the HGV license came in.
Lighten up boris.
Cheers Dave.hiya,
Dave i think those two hundredweight sacks are coming back to haunt me, it was china clay in my case, at age 74 i feel like i’m carrying one full time 24/7.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
I carried a few,but my dad carried them for over forty years,he drove for an animal feed firm who were also grain merchants. They used to pick sacks of wheat barley or oats up with a stick,one each side the sack and heave them up onto the lorry. Then he had the first hydraulic sack lifter on the firm,a cradle on the back of the lorry,which you had to catch the sack off the cradle onto your back on the bed of the lorry. That wouldn’t go down much with the handling and lifting laws nowadays.A lot of those sacks straight of the cornfield were more than 2 cwt.I used to carry 2 one cwt bags of cement on my shoulder at a time off the lorry,talk about being young and dull. 
Cheers Dave.
Yes Boris if you had had been thought of in the 1970, you would have seen London brick lorries, hundreds of them, and they did remind me of them, I have handled a few of them in my time " Bricks", concrete blocks, kerb stones, and those 2cwt sacks of corn, oh sorry Boris I was right to say I was driving before you had cradle marks on your bum, you must have been all of two when I was lugging bricks around, you was not even thought of when I was doing the same with sacks, or when I was loading stinking chickens, and concrete garages, I am not proud I did those jobs, but the pay was good and it fed my family, on Carlsberg, it was the best thing I ever done, and drivers from at least twenty miles away was queueing up to get on there if someone died, a load from swifts, butts, wrefords, Rogers, was asking to come on, and I can name at least a dozen who did, as for union I have been in one since I came out of the army in 1958, and proud of it, and they got the drivers pay rises due to the fact of the Hgv licences comming in, for most at earlier times were working for peanuts, and blokes like Harry can tell you, that is why the old red & rust is endeared in their hearts. The middle east men can comment because they did the job, what they say is their opinion, it does not make it true. But you read a few statements and criticise on something you have no experience of, comm’n Boris tell us you driving life and where and when you started what you drove, and did you ever get your hands or clothes dirty and we might be able to wind you up 
. I have two sons older than you, and I gave them good advice, never talk about things you know nothing about, for just reading about it don’t make it true or make you a expert.