Just wondered who’s worked for cowboys in the past? Mentioning no names, what are your reasons for labelling them as such?
I’ve worked for cowboys and both were tipper operators. Made up weights on tickets, loading one type of material and writing something different on the ticket…False addresses on waste transfer notes to avoid having them analysed…
Muckaway:
Just wondered who’s worked for cowboys in the past? Mentioning no names, what are your reasons for labelling them as such?
I’ve worked for cowboys and both were tipper operators. Made up weights on tickets, loading one type of material and writing something different on the ticket…False addresses on waste transfer notes to avoid having them analysed…
I don’t /never have done waste…are you saying you tipped waste that was classed as one type but in actual fact another type…as in tipped asbestos but declared it as slate 
and falsifying a legal document.
not having a pop just trying to understand what your saying here.
I have worked for a few cowboys but the worst we did was overload a bit and stretch the rules to the limit. 
es,lddnsd
worked for a few cowboys but gained experiance at the same time
I know of one general haulage company, that is still in existence, that wouldn’t buy ropes for its flatbed trucks. Drivers were encouraged to ‘acquire them’. For acquire see - lift off empty trailers at drops etc.
Another general haulage company that I did some work for myself, actually used to ‘hide’ ADR goods under the sheets. On one occasion I had food spices and corrosive chemicals on adjoining pallets and for good measure a small pallet of bricks atop some long bright bars. 
scotstrucker:
worked for a few cowboys but gained experiance at the same time
Same here scotstrucker,you are better off not mentioning names ,everybody does it no matter who
hiya…i certainly worked for a couple…i must say although been ripped off on rates(20%days)
these firms was much more fun than your hoyty toyty outfits that are around today.
one time i saw boss and driver having a real fisty cuffs fight in the yard one had bleeding nose
the other had a swollen eye. plenty of steam let off then back to work. no grudge. work to do.
i would think you get a written warning today with suspension without pay…yawn!!!
one outfit i knew of(chap across the road drove for)had two identical lorries parked up both had the
same number plate, scam was you taxed one lorry, then you contact dvla say you had a windscreen go
(they used to shatter) the tax disc was lost. when you get a replacement disc you have one for each lorry.
dose that qualify for cowboy…another chap i know had a DAF 33 car, he also had a DAF 3300 lorry with some
neat pen work the lorry was taxed for the price of a car, the car was only ever parked in a shed…(never seen).
And the tractor tax discs ey john
Nope, only ever worked for decent companies who treated me right. If I occasionally bent the rules slightly it was to my advantage, not theirs! I did know of plenty though, naming no names.
Pete.
don’t need many guesses about 2 lorries with the same plate , stan tried every trick in the book and then invented some more .
nearly forgot john , that bloke from harpur that you worked for was born wearing a stetson . dave
scotstrucker:
worked for a few cowboys but gained experiance at the same time
+1.
Well one in particular.
Must admit i was" a bit green" at the time,looking back it was valueable(spolling) experience and would gladly go back, given the chance .
or picking up ferry trailers and if they had newish tyres on and were passing the yard on the A75 ,drive into the shed go for a coffee and come back in an hr and carry on. 
photocopied tax disks,if we were running into the woods for a load fill with heating oil(fuel).
never mind drivers stealing diesel ,if the driver had a diesel car you never took it into the yard in case the boss stole it! and was said before aquire your own ropes/straps. opened the eyes of a young country boy.
jimmy
Gezt, no it wasn’t hazardous. When tipping at landfills they want inert material lab tested (which costs). The way around it was to pull out the copy of the ticket that the tip would get before you wrote out the paperwork. Fill the rest out as normal, write the customer and address on the pulled out copy of a site that has been tested. Give this copy to the weighbridge so that the computer says yes. Works fine until you arrive with clay from Joe Bloggs Builders, Station Yard Cowley. Then Trucknet member Steve66 pulls up behind you with chalk and subsoil, remarkably from the same site. 
Even more awkward when the tip foreman used to work for Joe Bloggs builders, knows that that site was finished over a year ago, and that yours truly delivered there for a previous employer.
rigsby:
nearly forgot john , that bloke from harpur that you worked for was born wearing a stetson . daveHiya Dave…i forgot about the Harpur man. in fact i don’t really think he ripped me off apart from the end. he wouldn’t pay
redundancy so i went to tribunal, he never turned up, i got payed the owed money.
one thing he did. when i first met him i bought a 4x4 of him. i payed cash for it(god did his eyes spin round in his head)
he told me he run lorries and offered me a job on a new tipper(i was driving a 9 year old ERF) so i jumped at the offer.
(well i didn’t know him i lived over that hill)so i worked for him, he new my details and signature(signing log books).
anyhow i decided to sell the 4x4 to a truck dealer 5 years later.he said its on finance for 3 more months i said nothing he must have payed up. i didn’t sell the jeep i kept her for another 6 years.
Now Stan!!! i forgot about him as well. did you work for him Dave. he come after me to drive his first lorry a AEC 8 legger when he got the new Scammell i said no… then when to Harpur…Joke.
the two i mentioned would be apprentices compared to the other two.
John
3300 john im with you worked for a few cowboys but they was happy days one hit to spain a day of and one hit back tachos just keep putting them in,on the wire to those that know what I mean
and these was happys days a lot better than now don’t know how half you put up with all the health and safety rules tacho rules debriefing(WHATS THAT ALL ABOUT) I have been to some places where drivers have to give the trailer number plates over the counter at the end of there shift is that so you don’t get in the wrong truck when they give it you.
i worked for graham when he first started with lorries in 1967 , i was young and didn’t give a sod , but even then the strokes he pulled were legendary . if we ever meet up i’ll give you the full story . never worked for stan , you only had to know some of the chancers he employed to be warned off . doing time was never part of my game plan . cheers , dave
I once worked for a taxi firm running 504 puegots ,10 of them all identical . only one of them went for a test ,10 times . if you got a producer a local agent would turn up at the yard and provide you with a backdated cover note . we were all young and daft and thought it was a big joke at the time .
I was a bigger cowboy than John Wayne as an owner driver in the 80s , you name the scam and I have most likely done it but at that time everybody was, as you got away with it mostly then.
3300John:
hiya…i certainly worked for a couple…i must say although been ripped off on rates(20%days)
these firms was much more fun than your hoyty toyty outfits that are around today.
one time i saw boss and driver having a real fisty cuffs fight in the yard one had bleeding nose
the other had a swollen eye. plenty of steam let off then back to work. no grudge. work to do.
i would think you get a written warning today with suspension without pay…yawn!!!
one outfit i knew of(chap across the road drove for)had two identical lorries parked up both had the
same number plate, scam was you taxed one lorry, then you contact dvla say you had a windscreen go
(they used to shatter) the tax disc was lost. when you get a replacement disc you have one for each lorry.
dose that qualify for cowboy…another chap i know had a DAF 33 car, he also had a DAF 3300 lorry with some
neat pen work the lorry was taxed for the price of a car, the car was only ever parked in a shed…(never seen).
wud not have needed the other car as you used to be able to tax a truck ‘‘unit only’’ at the car rate years ago. most euro boys used to do this until dvla cottoned on to people coming back in with a trailer