Juddian:
I laugh out loud when the sickie crew phone in cos they’ve got a cold or broke a nail or feel queezy
Or worse “I can’t come in today my sat navs broke” 
robroy:
Juddian:
I laugh out loud when the sickie crew phone in cos they’ve got a cold or broke a nail or feel queezyOr worse “I can’t come in today my sat navs broke”
mine broke last week when i had 4 drops in london 2 i knew where they were and 2 new drops so had too go old school and buy a street atlas
robroy:
Juddian:
I laugh out loud when the sickie crew phone in cos they’ve got a cold or broke a nail or feel queezyOr worse “I can’t come in today my sat navs broke”
Please tell me thats a joke and its never been used as an excuse… 
Santa:
Is Jack’s Hill still there?
If you talking about the one North of Towcester, yes, it’s still there, there’s a rumour that they buy pallets round the back, but every time I’ve tried to sell a few they don’t want them.
Stratford LIFT used to have a wicked cafe in the middle, lovely breakfast, that’s why I’m a bit overweight now. Lol.
It’s the Olympic Park now, lying empty & abandoned 90% of the time.
Juddian:
robroy:
Juddian:
I laugh out loud when the sickie crew phone in cos they’ve got a cold or broke a nail or feel queezyOr worse “I can’t come in today my sat navs broke”
Please tell me thats a joke and its never been used as an excuse…
You’d think, wouldn’t you? Well, apart from the fact that a driver at our place actually did just this last year! He even paid extra for next day delivery so as not to lose too many days work. He now carries TWO sat nags with him at all times in case one breaks, he still asks four or five different drivers for directions for any new drop and still argues with you when you tell him the way to go to somewhere! I just tell him I’ve never done it if he asks about a particular drop.
Edit to add, autocorrect changed sat nav to “sat nag”. It seemed more apt so I left it. 
gingo:
The Elvanfoot at Crawford.
the best café ever. food was great, boiled potatoes, not just chips with everything ,
loved it , 1977/1985, ish I used it.
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Got to agree with that, used to have breakfast there on the way up from Stoke heading for Aberdeen, (When the M6 finished at Todhills and it was all the old road then), that was between '70/74.
After handballing 20 tons of salt off, would have to run back to Glasgow to reload next morning then have dinner there on the way home.
the maoster:
Juddian:
robroy:
Juddian:
I laugh out loud when the sickie crew phone in cos they’ve got a cold or broke a nail or feel queezyOr worse “I can’t come in today my sat navs broke”
Please tell me thats a joke and its never been used as an excuse…
You’d think, wouldn’t you? Well, apart from the fact that a driver at our place actually did just this last year!
That’s it, it’s official, not only do i go to the foot of our stairs but i’ve without a doubt now heard the bloody lot.
…heard muttering oaths about what has the job come to as he wanders off head bowed in defeat…Jesus wept
the happy hour café at bassets pole on the a38 just north of brum, now a maccy d.
also a little further down the 38 towards brum is the drome café still open food not to bad but crap for parking.
Suedehead:
Was in the Oakdene last Thurs.
Gone downhill a bit since my last visit but would rather use it than an msa.
Is that the one at Wrotham?
toby1234abc:
Grahams transport cafe at Bridgewater has been gone for years.
Loved that place.
The last time I went in there I took my wife with me.
We ordered a number 1 and a number 3.
The woman brought the dishes out and put the huge number 1 in front of me, to which I shook my head slightly and shuffled the plate over to my wife.
Several big fat truckers on the table opposite gave a wry smile at the sight of my dainty wife polishing off one of the biggest plates of food I’d ever seen.
" put the huge number 1 in front of me "
We all miss the bowl from time to time,but to place it in front of you? Should have left it there for the cleaner to sort out.
There used to a great transport café on the left hand side of the A34 going south from Kidsgrove towards Newcastle U-L but I can’t for the life of me remember the name. They used to have a couple of very old one armed bandits in there and the dinners were huge! It went in about 1991 I think? Also there was a good one on the Macclesfield - Leek road quite near Rudyard Lake…it’s a housing estate now!
The enterprise on the A45 west of Cambridge and the jubilee just north of Colchester where always good and the other one at marks tey was ok
Born Idle:
There used to a great transport café on the left hand side of the A34 going south from Kidsgrove towards Newcastle U-L but I can’t for the life of me remember the name. They used to have a couple of very old one armed bandits in there and the dinners were huge! It went in about 1991 I think? Also there was a good one on the Macclesfield - Leek road quite near Rudyard Lake…it’s a housing estate now!
Kernel cafe?
martinviking:
Santa:
Is Jack’s Hill still there?If you talking about the one North of Towcester, yes, it’s still there, there’s a rumour that they buy pallets round the back, but every time I’ve tried to sell a few they don’t want them.
No - It was on the old A1 near Baldock. Found this:
When I was four, my father kept a transport café at Jack’s Hill on the old A1 road. He started in 1939 — bought a hut and had a Tilley lamp for floodlighting. My Mother helped him with the deposit for the hut. It was a 24-hour café and we sold Whale steaks and lots of tea. The business just grew and grew. We served convoys of soldiers travelling up and down the A1 all pleased to have a free “cuppa and a sarnie”. We got the bread from the Welwyn Bakery. My Dad always had a car and we took the water to the hut in dustbins on a trailer towed by the car. I remember being on water duty, getting the water from a standpipe at Gravely. It was a greasy spoon café, really, with a great big teapot and sugar in a basin on the counter with a spoon tied to it.
bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peoples … 8131.shtml
They were still using the same spoon in the 60s 
axletramp:
Suedehead:
Was in the Oakdene last Thurs.
Gone downhill a bit since my last visit but would rather use it than an msa.Is that the one at Wrotham?
Yes mate,that"s the one,just off the M26.
Kinda sad these places are all gone. All we have left now is bloody KFC…
Born Idle:
There used to a great transport café on the left hand side of the A34 going south from Kidsgrove towards Newcastle U-L but I can’t for the life of me remember the name. They used to have a couple of very old one armed bandits in there and the dinners were huge! It went in about 1991 I think? Also there was a good one on the Macclesfield - Leek road quite near Rudyard Lake…it’s a housing estate now!
Lodge cafe on the a34, long gone and houses now.
robroy:
Born Idle:
There used to a great transport café on the left hand side of the A34 going south from Kidsgrove towards Newcastle U-L but I can’t for the life of me remember the name. They used to have a couple of very old one armed bandits in there and the dinners were huge! It went in about 1991 I think? Also there was a good one on the Macclesfield - Leek road quite near Rudyard Lake…it’s a housing estate now!Kernel cafe?
kernels was at great wyrley near bloxwich