Hi Norman, great times in the old days, had some good times at the Red Lion of J16, also nearly lost my life down there one Thursday night about 7-70 pm pitch dark doing about 75 middle lane lots of traffic, some kids dropped four house bricks of a bridge two came through the windscreen missed me with about 4-6 inches, sure that was one of my nine lives gone. Cheers Mel
Quite right Mel,I enjoyed it for 15 years, and it came in handy, when we had no phones.
Big Dorris - Cause I always pointed them out for other drivers and said “I’ll let you have that one”
Plasticbag here … I ran with Jaffa Cake, Billy Goat, Holsten, Panama Red Squirrel and loads more.
Night trunk for Swifts out of Northampton and years later with Hop Scotch on Matchbox out of Rugby.
Great times 
Hi Pat, your name ran a bell, when on Brs, we had lads from Blisworth & Towcester, but also when on Carlsberg, we were in and out of youe warehouses storeing and picking up pallets of lager, I was Curlytop, I know one scot, Mc menermy? or similar in the 70’s lived in Towcester.
Hi Pat, your name ran a bell, when on Brs, we had lads from Blisworth & Towcester, but also when on Carlsberg, we were in and out of youe warehouses storeing and picking up pallets of lager, I was Curlytop, I know one scot, Mc menermy? or similar in the 70’s lived in Towcester.
Norman Ingram:
Hi Pat, your name ran a bell, when on Brs, we had lads from Blisworth & Towcester, but also when on Carlsberg, we were in and out of youe warehouses storeing and picking up pallets of lager, I was Curlytop, I know one scot, Mc menermy? or similar in the 70’s lived in Towcester.
Norman … I knew a lot of Carlsberg drivers as most of them were ex Swift
Graham Corcram (now dead), Pete Lewis, John Ragget otherwise known as Captain Dim View. and many more
I dpny know why but all I had to do back in those days was utter a word on the CB and everybody was talking to me, All I could hear all [zb] night were drivers calling for plasticbag … drove me mad … but oh my ! the shags I got 
Yes Pat, Corky was a good mate of mine, he went on holiday with me, knew Pete, saw him at ■■■■ Smiths funeral three years ago, John, we used to call him the rabbi, saw him about three to four years ago, his wife was dead, and he had a new girl friend and went on holiday to Spain for the first time, he did enjoy it, and said I now know why you used to go three or four times a year. Another Carsberg mate is in Florida, I took him in 1991 and he moved there in 93, Charlie Curran.Also I know what you mean about CB, it was the same for me. 
OMG ! Norman you are bringing back such memories LOL
Me, Corky and Trev Lewis (Pete’s brother) used to go out drinking most friday nights and sunday lunchtimes in the late 70’s.
Did you ever see the cartoons of JR ? … I am sure he has copies of all of them, I drew all of them when I worked at Swifts, thats how he got the Dim View name LOL. Sorry his missus died … I rememebr Ruth cooking me diners during the transport strike in 77, she kept me from starvation.
If you get the chance let him know I still think about him LOL
my dad used to use the cb all the time and was roadrunner.
JD if your dad used to go beep beep you have the roadrunner here, I have spoken to him, I do believe I still have his eyeball card in my books.
Pat, Pete & brother are like pea from a pod, Pete was a union man like myself, and was at their xmas do in the eighties, and won a TV in the raffle, the last time I was speaking in the loco club in farcotten, I got him a pint in, he was on the cartransporters, as for John, his wife had mental problems, and was a blessing for him in the end. Poor old Corky wife left him after 28 years, that is why he came on holiday with me, we had a terriffic time, he got a girl friend and seemed happy, but did not live long,went in his 60’s well before retirement, I can remember when I was eating our breakfast in this cafe outside in Tenerife, I was singing to the music, and he said do not look at me when you are singing,they will think we are queers, he was a very nice bloke.
Some more names come to mind, Romping donkey, Deadlegs, Bulldozer, Gingernut,Undertaker,Viking,was a private hiretaxi at Sandbach,Suicide Jockey, Super shunt Lowerstoft,Golden stud.
The taxi drivers at Northampton station all had cb’s also … the one that sticks in my mind was ‘Captain Birdseye’ I broke down one night in St Peters way and he bought me Fish and Chips. good bloke
my dads cb handle used to be tarmac jocky in the 80s 90s.
Pat now I know how Captain Birdseye got his fish fingers, by bringing you fish & chips, this could go down in history boom boom.
Hey Pat, did you know Geoffry Lovel, he came on Brs Overland, he lived at Towcester now in Spain.
i was the big bopper, but just steve over here in canada,who remembers those guys who used to annoy us all by calling themselves squeaky?
ref big bopper.
hi steve, i know your handle, do you remember KORKY from finedon,and all the rats from thrapston. ie road rat ,swamp rat, bug rat, etc.
cheers diesel
HI THERE great to catch up on the CB era of lorry driving. My handle was Sgt. Pepper because I’ve always liked the Beatles (you might have heard of them, they were a popular beat combo from Liverpool). My fondest memories was when I was a drivers mate on Debenhams, there was a chap who lived in Liphook Hants [SILVER BULLET]who’d direct you to a farm house in the middle of nowhere, also in a nearby town called Liss we’d call up our dinner requests to MAGGIE MAE in the Pixie cafe-happy days. I remember a chap called GRAYLING in Bristol- he was red hot, could take you from one end of the city to the other! Do drivers still use CB anymore? I aint been on channel for years. Take care Chaps- Terry