I have 2 photo album of eye ball cards of people I met, when Iwas on the road, here are some of them, Naughty Norman, Floppy chopper, Talcom Malcom, Gay Lord, We used to meet at the nosebag on the A5 near Weedon, Jane was the ■■■■ girl behind the counter, the couple who ran it , their names escape me at this moment of time, they used be be at the layby at Netherheyford on the A45 just a stone throw from Junction 16, but they built a hotel, and they moved to Weedon. All these burly truckers used to put on a queers voice, including myself, ( I am Pulsating ■■■■■, I rise to anything my love) was my usual saying, I know we kept this up for hours on the CB, some of the other truckers were not to sure if we were puffters or not , ha ha ha. We even had a wedding at the gay cabbing at Weedon, Floppy chopper was the Groom, and Naughty Norman was the bride, we even had a cake with two little figues on it , by god we had some laughts. My real handle was Curlytops, if any one come back with a handle, I will check my books, I have got so many tales of people from one end of the country to the other. now Sandman Norman.
i used to know a talcolm malcom,he used to be on the tankers at sammy jones’s.does that ring any bells ?
Didnt Gaylord drive for Wilkinsons? I used to be creased up at his “rants” when travelling down the A1. he had a brilliant sense of humour and could put down any detractors without resorting to name calling or swearing…
thinking about it on those Sunday afternoon drives down South there was often a double act with a guy who called himself “Handbag”
I havent had a CB for many years, got sick and tired of the kids playing techno house garage crap all the time… but still remember the laughs from the supposedly Gay truckers
curnock:
i used to know a talcolm malcom,he used to be on the tankers at sammy jones’s.does that ring any bells ?
yes my old fruit ,was it alderidge north side of brum on the brownhills road, did you ever ear him in his put on voice, and he was a big lad .
aldridge sir,no sorry i did’nt.the tankers got taken over by hargreaves not sure if hes still there
Rikki-UK:
Didnt Gaylord drive for Wilkinsons? I used to be creased up at his “rants” when travelling down the A1. he had a brilliant sense of humour and could put down any detractors without resorting to name calling or swearing…thinking about it on those Sunday afternoon drives down South there was often a double act with a guy who called himself “Handbag”
I havent had a CB for many years, got sick and tired of the kids playing techno house garage crap all the time… but still remember the laughs from the supposedly Gay truckers
I stopped allover the country and had a meal and a drink with him, he used to worry some drivers, because he rarely dropped his gay voice, one time at Watford gap, he nearly had me had me it stitches, when we was in the toilets, having a pee, and one chap who had stopped to eyeball him, he came out with hmm you are a big boy, the fellow almost wet himself rushing out of the building ha ha ha .He drove a large white van.
Hairy fairy was a good laugh, if you heard his voice, you would be shocked to see this 20 plus stone chap with a bushy black beard, smiling at you as you went pass. Naughty Norman was a slim fellow in his late twenties, he packed up the road, and went to to work on a printing firm, I always told him, that he was not a proper knight of the road. Night Nurse, she was on the cb from junction 15 to 13, eyeballed her, she was a nice girl and a real cracker, she loved talking to us truckers so much, she got herself a Hgv licence. One time I was parked on the services near to cooling towers on the A1 between Doncaster & pontefract, and this artic reversed by the side of me, and it was her, even with her dirty face she looked great to me. Floppy chopper was a crazy son of a gun, and nearly hanging out of the window when he used to pass from the oppersite side of the road. Six of us was going up from Watford Gap, and as usual we were in contact ,talking in our queer boy voices, Floppy was saying he was divorcing Naughty Norman, because he was playing a round with Gay Lord, this banter was going on all the way to Scotch corner, When a gentleman came in on the side, saying he was the editor of the CB monthly magazine, then he asked me ( Pulsating ■■■■■) who I really was, and I told him, Curlytop of the Mermaid squadron, and I waved as he turned off to Richmond, he replied I get it Carlesberg Copenhagen. You fellows have entertained me all the way, I have never laughed so much in my life, you will be in the next edition. True as he said we was , those were the days my friends.
I can only remember a guy who called himself “Gervais” sometime in the middle 80’s always seemed to pick him up, no pun intended, around M6 Corley heading South until somewhere around M1 Northampton. Always a good laff and he really got some guys believing his gay line 
Think at the time one of the radio 1 DJ’s was using a character called ‘Gervais’ on his show and this was just a natural extension of that without the overpaid DJ’s wages and crap music. I was doing quite a bit of double manning at the time and some of the other driver’s didn’t take kindly to it and got wound up rotten by ‘Gervais’ used to PMSL
I’m sure someone must remember this guy or was he part of the same wind up team 
Whatever he was very funny.
Where are you now Gervais 
Regards
Dave Penn;
it was steve wright on radio 1,gervais was an hairdresser.
Hi fellow truckers, The friendship in my era was magical, if you had a puncture or your load shifted, there was half a dozen drivers there to help you, and if you could rope and sheet, how you would enjoy it in the freezing snow. When I came out of the R.E.M.E., I was a recovery & vehicle mechanic, I only did this because I wanted to drive Large lorries, this was in 1958, just after man u crashed in Munich, I was in Germany when they done their tour, what a team,they gave Hanover two goals start, and beat them 8-3. I went to this local firm Barricks to apply for HGV drivers job, one of the bosses sons took me to a place where a tipper lorry was parked, it had been upgraded to a ten tonner, the radiater cap, was a Sioux Indian head, I will not tell you the type, but he said jump in , and we will soon find out if you are a proper lorry driver, if you can drive this one, without grinding any gears, you have the job. I was feeling the gears before I started up, what was the problem Umm, then it struck me, this vehicle was the same as Carrier in the army, the gears were back to front. So I started up and put it in gear and away we went, I played the gearbox like a fiddle, the look on his face was of amazement, he said you are a real lorry driver, yes I replied army trained, he said you are the first one out of ten, who drove it without grating a gear, yes but you never told them about the gearbox, he just grinned. this lorry had no heater, when it was frozen, would use newspaper set alight to clear windscreen. Can you tell me type it was■■?
Norman Ingram:
Hi fellow truckers, The friendship in my era was magical, if you had a puncture or your load shifted, there was half a dozen drivers there to help you, and if you could rope and sheet, how you would enjoy it in the freezing snow. When I came out of the R.E.M.E., I was a recovery & vehicle mechanic, I only did this because I wanted to drive Large lorries, this was in 1958, just after man u crashed in Munich, I was in Germany when they done their tour, what a team,they gave Hanover two goals start, and beat them 8-3. I went to this local firm Barricks to apply for HGV drivers job, one of the bosses sons took me to a place where a tipper lorry was parked, it had been upgraded to a ten tonner, the radiater cap, was a Sioux Indian head, I will not tell you the type, but he said jump in , and we will soon find out if you are a proper lorry driver, if you can drive this one, without grinding any gears, you have the job. I was feeling the gears before I started up, what was the problem Umm, then it struck me, this vehicle was the same as Carrier in the army, the gears were back to front. So I started up and put it in gear and away we went, I played the gearbox like a fiddle, the look on his face was of amazement, he said you are a real lorry driver, yes I replied army trained, he said you are the first one out of ten, who drove it without grating a gear, yes but you never told them about the gearbox, he just grinned. this lorry had no heater, when it was frozen, would use newspaper set alight to clear windscreen. Can you tell me type it was■■?
hi norman was it a guy vixen or otter, feathers in our cap was the inscription on the cap, bumper 
bumper:
Norman Ingram:
Hi fellow truckers, The friendship in my era was magical, if you had a puncture or your load shifted, there was half a dozen drivers there to help you, and if you could rope and sheet, how you would enjoy it in the freezing snow. When I came out of the R.E.M.E., I was a recovery & vehicle mechanic, I only did this because I wanted to drive Large lorries, this was in 1958, just after man u crashed in Munich, I was in Germany when they done their tour, what a team,they gave Hanover two goals start, and beat them 8-3. I went to this local firm Barricks to apply for HGV drivers job, one of the bosses sons took me to a place where a tipper lorry was parked, it had been upgraded to a ten tonner, the radiater cap, was a Sioux Indian head, I will not tell you the type, but he said jump in , and we will soon find out if you are a proper lorry driver, if you can drive this one, without grinding any gears, you have the job. I was feeling the gears before I started up, what was the problem Umm, then it struck me, this vehicle was the same as Carrier in the army, the gears were back to front. So I started up and put it in gear and away we went, I played the gearbox like a fiddle, the look on his face was of amazement, he said you are a real lorry driver, yes I replied army trained, he said you are the first one out of ten, who drove it without grating a gear, yes but you never told them about the gearbox, he just grinned. this lorry had no heater, when it was frozen, would use newspaper set alight to clear windscreen. Can you tell me type it was■■?hi norman was it a guy vixen or otter, feathers in our cap was the inscription on the cap, bumper
Bingo, you win the prize, you must be as old as me, or your very keen on types of vehicles. Sandman Norman
Romping donkey was a well known c/ber, he done Carlesberg work when on Walkers, then moved to Copenhagen Transport, and died on the job, that dreaded big “C” but he was a nice fellow, Dereck knew people all over uk, that was in the late “90” he past away. Sandman Norman.
curnock:
it was steve wright on radio 1,gervais was an hairdresser.
Aye curnock did know who it was on radio 1 but this was a guy running on a CB, possibly home base, sounded just like Wrighty’s hairdresser but wasn’t contolled by the rules of the BBC.
hi dave yes, there was a lot of people who was on legit radio, and bears who was on c/b, one time I was parked up in a layby near Avenbury and I had bootson, and cqing Charlie tango 006 and a reply from The Bosun off the coast of the cape of good hope he was on a ship, and I got two americans truckers on route 66 they was on their way toTexas, and one was telling the other he had just seen a bear hideing behind a billboard, I came on the side, told them I was a british trucker from Northampton, who was on a mountain in Scotland, but they thought I was a limey in U.S.A. winding them up
Sandman Norman
This is for Deisel Dan & classicman also Plasticbag who was some of the crazy truckers, I thought I would bring this up from the rear. 
hi,
i got my rig in early 79, those days there were hardly anybody about with one,for a long time it seemed that myself and deputy dog were the only breakers about,(this was on nights)and then suttons drivers started getting them, so then we had a convoy,then by 1980 most night trunkers had them,i made a lot of life long friends through the cb,and we used to have a good laugh every night.i got busted twice in a year by BUSBY and CUSTOMS near j6 mi, they threatened to impound my lorry i f i didnt hand over my cb,still i was back on air the next night.i think the cb scene went down hill fast when it was made legal,as the rigs were suddenly affordable to the masses and kids used to play music or swear on them all night.the going rate for a am cb was about £120 in the uk and a fm was about £45,for me the eighties were the best years of my driving career ,every night it was(as the beach boys would sing)fun fun fun till they took my cb away.
Just sitting at my laptop, when another handle came into my head,Camp david, Colonel bogie, Widdowmaker, Layby Len, Ever Ready, Battery Boy, Towman used to be on the M6 when they had roadworks, with his tow truck,see you had a look DD , yes there were about, but didnt over use them, I use to speak to several radio hams, and I had my channels so I could split them, so when there was idiots on I would say can you split to who I was speaking to, and they would say yes and we would dis-appear by just flipping a switch, and they could not find us, we had a am CB club in 1978, we visited several in other places, one I remember we went to Leicester on a coach to, 1979/80 when the goverment brought Fm and made it legal, but that when school kids as well as idiots used to try to key you out, I used to have two sets going for at least ten years, when I was parked up on a mountain, I used to do a lot of CQing, I would speak to Germans, Italians, once they got you, they used to jump on you like a plague of locus, I speak a little English, a lot I know who who done the skip jumping,they took the test and became Radio Hams, I had a huge aerial on my chimney some good boots, and one time a chap in Queensland answered me, and was taken back that I was in UK, I had to post a QSl card to him, and he done the same, I had America several times, Brazil,once, so many in Europe, but when I got right to the southern hemesphere, I just lost interest, and the fines were a couple of thousand, so it was time to cease, but they were wonderful times. 
hi curlytop.
there used to be one of dave abbotts drivers called crazyhorse(pete bryan),he used to sit in their wellingborough yard and putting on a strong italian accent called out for a copy, and loads of locals thought they were dx ing to milano. my misses used to go on those demonstration bus trips, she has met you, her handle was iceberg and her mate was day dreamer, do you remember that dynamic duo.
cheers diesel dan. 
diesel dan:
hi curlytop.
there used to be one of dave abbotts drivers called crazyhorse(pete bryan),he used to sit in their wellingborough yard and putting on a strong italian accent called out for a copy, and loads of locals thought they were dx ing to milano.
cheers diesel dan.
i remember him well, then of course there was turbo trucker ( eric jones ) when you were on for eales do you remember dave sawford ( countryman)? we have some good laughs over here too on cb but nothing like we used too, one wind up i had here is as follows, i am loading the other side of sakatoon and two others (who are young and green)from the same company are loading about 50 miles to the south, we are all heading back the same way which will be a 6 hr trip and i am certain i am in front but they wanted to be, after a bit i hear the other two on cb in the back of the box and by the way they are talking i know i am in front but they think i am behind, i hang back a bit so we can all talk to each other and for 5 hrs they think i am behind them, then i get to a pull in 45 mins from the yard and let a little grain out the trailer and drive off, by this time i see their headlights in the mirror and tell them to look to see if their is any grain in the pull in, yes they reply why do ask, because i put it there and i’m in front of you!! steve
norman, do you remember tea lady from finedon?