my self and Barry Cleaver( the mayor of canvey) 1990
(Bobby Heath) cor smile Bob you only lent me a fiver!!! Youngs Calais 1988
myself Jimmy Smith (Biffo) and Jerry Bryant ( W.A.S.P) at Bourg En Bresse 1995
Vincenza Customs 1989 Vic Dillon Alan Cox (deceased) Dave Ridge
and (Jockey 2) Jimmy Johnston
Harry Burness, (Baccy Bill) Bill Connoly, Johnny Pattison (the dago)
Johnny Dawkins and i cant name the last one anybody help me out there?
taken at Bourg En Bresse 1989
When the mafia say you smoke you smoke haha Pescara 1995 on the lash.
Johnny Whitbread ( the mayor of barking) sorry got no idea where and when this was taken but he was working for his son Trevor
my best mate Vic ( popeye) Dillon i took him down to Italy on his first trip in 1984 we shipped out late Tuesday night ran down in one hit, i had to leave him at Turbigo customs and he had a horrendous week and vowed he would never
go to Italy again, he stopped doing it 20 years later (never say never) 
this picture was taken at Rosoy of a good mate of ours George Barclay and
two weeks later he died in Spain at Figures when his truck rolled down a embankment at a peage he left a wife and three young children his oldest
son Dean is at this moment serving his country in Afghanistan and im sure we all wish him a safe return, George thanks for all those good times never forget yah 
Gerry Bryant (W.A.S.P) Don Collinsons 1996
Geoff Hoey two of his trucks and Unitruc taken i think at the services top
of the Cerdon 1990.
John Birchall (woodentop) Collisons 1996. what makes you think he comes from Grimsby?? 
collisons St Dizier 1992 Vic with his favourite truck 
Jim Thorburn (turbo) Collisons 1989 Jim runs the pub in Essex where
we have the Christmas reunions now he is a character 
the mayor of Canvey Barry Cleaver (Unitruc) and bless him
Lenny Wiskins (loose change) service Garages from Great Wakering
Essex 1991
Collisons Brescia Italy 1989 this was one dump of a place to tip my mate
Paul King came with me this week he had just passed his test and from
the photo you can see he is not impressed
one of my old girls taken in Italy 1988 in Ravenna 
Unitruc Barry sitting in his F16 Ambassador (posing i think) 1991
Vic Dillon Collisons 1996 swiss border sorry Mulhouse ive been informed 
Kevin Eastwell (MCH International) 1992 this photo was taken at the lake at the bottom of the tunnel du chat we stayed there for the weekend on the
way down to Greece and had a ball. 
Gordon Enwright was a good mate of mine he had his own truck working
for AMG Interfreight at north weald and was not your run of the mill driver he spoke well and was well educated (no disrespects guys) but he was not the type you would normally find driving lorries he got busted for drugs in 1991
and spent some time in prison i always believed him when he told me he
did not know the drugs were in his trailer, and when he was released from prison he had lost his truck, wife,and all he had and was working for a guy renovating houses where he caught a desease from rats urine and died.
This accident happened right in front of me in 1996 on the A7 running
down to Macon when i was on my last tour of duty on Mckellars i was
running down to spain with Hazardous the car hit the Rennie Hogg
trailer in the rear doing well over 100mph and burst into flames myself
and other drivers did what we could to contain the fire so the people inside had half a chance to get out and all survived to my knowledge, i learnt later the guy had tried to commit suicide and take his wife and two children with him.
the joke was that i had used both my fire extinguishers at the scene of
the accident and when i got to the spanish border at La Junqeura the french
did me 2000 Francs for having empty ones i tried to explain but gave up
in the end and paid up. “VIVE LA FRANCE HUH”
Jimmy Thorburn (Turbo) Collisons 1988 when i took this photo
i did not realise until just now that catching a Collison driver writing
out a tacho, PRICELESS!!!
Chicken George (Unitrucs) 1989 any body know where he is now■■?
Pat Finlay 1997
Anybody know the driver?? taken about 1992
Kev Eastwell is this a whale or what■■?
More antics in Pescara my self Jerry Bryant and the guy with the glasses
standing is Ray Larcombe with the bar owners son Carlo this bar was
right on the beach and we was there for the weekend one of the best
weekends i had in Italy the bar owner and his family were fantastic and
we were sorry to fire up Monday morning never got back there i will put
some more photos on from this weekend when i have time to scan them.
Rosoy 1989 Gordon Enwrights 142 and my old girl E788 COO
Alan George (the long un) Mckellers 1988.
My old 143 taken during the Spanish drivers strike February 1997 
Lenny Wiskins (loose change) in his F16 run by service garages
from Great Wakering in Essex 1992
super used to drive this and you know i cant even remember his
real name but im sure someone will help me out on it
the Jose Salvat motor was one of Collisons it was on for Rose Spedition
out of Rainham Essex Harry Burness (ginger harry) drove it photo
taken Bourg En Bresse 1989
Ian the guy in the photo was a mate of Ginger Harrys and Harry asked
me if i could take him to Italy with me as he was just through his test
and could do with the experience and to let him do some driving.
well when we got of the boat in Calais i gave him the jockeys seat
and i did not do no more driving that trip, oh and we one hit it down
and back that trip when we got back to the yard in Ferry Lane Rainham
i went home fresh as a daisy and he slept in his car in the yard for
24 hours and never went to Europe again in a truck, yeah i know what
yer all thinking wicked so and so well i suppose i am.
Taken 1987 i think at Zust Ambrosettis Vicenza
Taken in a AGIP oil terminal in Siracusa Scicily 1993
Another one of Peter Wisdoms when i think about what a carsy our yard was
in Choats Road Dagenham i dont know how we kept the motors looking so
clean
keep em coming bob you have sussed it at last 
yep i agree with billy boy ( drevas new name ) keep em coming.
looking at those pictures again they look like a right bunch of charcters…
you sure some of them anit escaped from the nick. 
Cheers Bob, great photos and stories.
jessicas dad:
:lol:looking at those pictures again they look like a right bunch of charcters…
you sure some of them anit escaped from the nick.
well mate you could be right im sure Shaw Taylor (police5) knew a few of
us and the customs men in Dover knew us all, HAHA
Excellent pics, memories of the way it used to be!!!
Bet its not the same crack now, all rush rush and “just in time” deliveries!!
Bring back clearing customs, T-Forms etc!!
great photos mate.more please, memories of how it used to be.
Thanks bullit yer right mate i packed it up in 2000 mainly coz the crack
had gone from the job but watch this post mate im working on a new
batch of photos now im of next week so should not be to long the hard parts scanning em with my 1920s scanner HAHAHAHA
Brilliant snaps & post. Nice to see that Sgt.Major Whitbread hasn’t changed much over the years. You know he is living in Harwich( Sorry ; Dovercourt ) now ,I suppose.
Bob, the bloke with the glasses is Ray Larcombe, he was mates with Ronnie Hunt for a while anyway! I haven’t seen him for a year or so, last time I spoke to him he had to come off the road due to poor health, all those years of one hits & 60 B&H a day have caught up with him.
Nice to see Jimmy Turbo before his Pie addiction took hold, I was on PJL with him in the mid 90s, you’re right he is a character.
Good photos mate, bring back many happy memories.
newmercman:
Bob, the bloke with the glasses is Ray Larcombe, he was mates with Ronnie Hunt for a while anyway! I haven’t seen him for a year or so, last time I spoke to him he had to come off the road due to poor health, all those years of one hits & 60 B&H a day have caught up with him.Nice to see Jimmy Turbo before his Pie addiction took hold, I was on PJL with him in the mid 90s, you’re right he is a character.
Good photos mate, bring back many happy memories.
thanks mate i thought his name was Ray i have edited the photo now
so its spot on yeah Turbo and pies dont mix but i think that goes for all of us nowdays glad you liked the photos watch this space for many more
Nice photos bob,good to see all the old faces and haunts from the past.The mackeller trailer in the last picture might be the one i,me taking to france tommorow,carr brothers are still running 6 of them,mtc 961 thru to 966.
some good memories there bob, when i find my photos ill post em up, 2 moves in as many years and ive still got boxes unpacked in the loft. as the man said, keep them coming.
Good pics, the unitruc driver, was he called Barney, used to see him regular clearing custom’s in Turbigo.
It was good to see RH pulling their own trailers with their own units unlike now.
I think the driver was Richard Bishton, no longer with RH.
reccymech:
Good pics, the unitruc driver, was he called Barney, used to see him regular clearing custom’s in Turbigo.
It was good to see RH pulling their own trailers with their own units unlike now.
I think the driver was Richard Bishton, no longer with RH.
The Unitruc driver is Barry Cleaver (the mayor of canvey) he is retired
now, he worked for Alberti Santi in Italy after Unitruc and was and
still is a very respected driver amongst all who know him he did
a lot of Turkey and middle east and actually spent time in prison
in Istanbul in Turkey in the early seventies the same nick as the film
Midnight Express was based on i have seen the photos him and a Dutch
driver smuggled out of the prison ■■■■■■■■■ stuff believe me.
Some nice old pictures there and good tales.
Keep them coming, especially if you have any of us lads from oop north
I was in a pub with a driver the other night. His father owned Central Freight from Nottingham. He was amazed that I remembered them
Nice pics, good to see. Lenny gave me pictures of their F16 (Service Garage)when they got it as a tractor, before it was converted into a wrecker, nice to see some more, I have a blurry snap of their Scania too somewhere. Good to see the Unitruc pics too, will PM you soon when I have a bit more time regarding them, will explain in PM! Jimmy, now I recognise him, I recognised him in your other thread but never got rund to replying, did he work for Paul Luckett out of Truckworld? I am sure i have seen him there when I was on Felgates. One of our blokes left Ernie to go on with Paul so he could do Italy, and I am sure Jimmy was giving him help over a route one day when I saw him in the yard, got a feeling he used to drive one of the Globetrotters?
some great photos on there - i remember getting “stuck” at salvat’s depot in barcelona with ginger harry, johnny patterson and a few others around 1989 due to a customs strike, great canteen and a couple of San Miguel vending machines