In & out undetected again Snapper, you’re getting good at this! Where’s the fly swatter trademark gone?
Hi Buzzer, I seem to remember you had a depot nr Lorraine cafe? I use to stop there re digs when loaded CKD tractors ex massy for 104 berth,that was early mid 70’s? I remember a Volvo 290■■
Also how do your drivers cope with ■■?at Calais (spelling)
Last how do your drivers keep there outfit so clean? I’ve never seen a dirty outfit yet, big well done to all concernd.
PDB the word you were looking for the first milk of a cow was beastings, very rich in vitamins etc to protect the newborn’s health. They also used to make beasting pudding with it but never fancied that myself cheers Buzzer.
Trunker08 we did have a yard adjacent to llorraines lorry park there for nine years, it was council owned and in the end we got notice to quit, it was LTS there before us but all that area was transport yards before they built on it all.
As for Calais we do try to avoid the place but for safety we don’t park within 100 miles of the place , just run in and on the boat but them buggers are getting crafty so drivers have to be on there metal there.
As for keeping the motors clean they are always washed when they return to base, it cost’s a lot but with frigo’s cleanliness is all important especially when carrying foodstuffs. Occasionally they get washed abroad but that is even more expensive and not done often, the drivers like a clean truck and the livery is simple just gets the message out who we are, thanks for your comment’s cheers Buzzer.
peggydeckboy:
Yes Wrighty the dog will do nicely ,make a good cattle dog[ nipper ], and the lamb in 6 months ,with roasties .mint sauce, buttered cabbage, Yorkshire pud not aunt Bessie a good old fatty bottomed one…nice cold with just a hint of salt.Did you know, the first milk from a cow that has just! calfed, [it has a name and if forgot what it is]was prized , where I came from, the local baker wanted it ,also my mum, as she made the best Yorkshire you have ever had with it, I can still see It now, it still had l, slightly blood streaks in it. double lush…
The seafront is Littlehampton buzzer, they just spent nearly 2 million on a new river walk way,and flood defence, and a border post .to keep FARAGE OUT lol.Well Andrew I know that road to PABORG, SO WELL I worked from Padborg! as a “SPRINGER”, if you do not know what it is ask any Danish transport ,driver ,they will tell you .Padborg to LOCKERN ,was a regular shift…mostly only Danes know what it is…
As for CABBING IT if you got caught on BRS you would be sacked because digs were the way to go ,so no never slept in the cab until I had a Crusader.1997ish however before then, when I was on the cattle trucks anything went, inside the box in the straw in the little luton , enough room for a bale and half, or over the bonnet with coats and sacks [engine covers noise retarders], news paper ,up your trousers leg, that is why I went to the BRS TO GET AWAY FROM THAT but in the end transport changed as you know so we cabbed it like all the others… god save sleepers cabs the best invention since penicillin…dbp,pbd.
Hi pdb the mandator was for autocars so would of got sack just for having me with him if caught but he done this with my brothers as well so must of thought we were worth the risk as we all drivers lol we did use digs as well sometimes
Regards Andrew
short walk:
In & out undetected again Snapper, you’re getting good at this! Where’s the fly swatter trademark gone?
Hi short walk stealth mode under the radar lol fly swatter only comes out now n again for special occasions
Regards Andrew
Buzzer that’s the word thanks .how many of us old truckers[ drivers] would have know that…you are right a clean truck does sell the company although I was not the best, outside, but inside was always tidy , it never stopped it being full when I had the pot on, some men used to scoff at me and others, for most time cook in cab or outside ,but if we were all stuck somewhere they would have the old cup ready , but I knew who they were, and they would get a special T… and a quick dash… I did not like alo-wheels I never paste cleaned the ever, weekend break was just that. you could go so far but the younger cab -mad ,would learn one day. as it was said [all flash no cash], and in a way for the fridge hours, compared to dry freight it was right. why am I still thinking about all that ,i expect it is the masses of hours we did, and never got our true worth as you know ,we would run the same as owner drivers ,why ,I do not know ,daft I expect, look at me syndrome, most company men, had it keep up with the joneses .,
The classic, I and others, we remain incognito, would if disturbed while parked up at especial in Germany, Austria ,Italy probly M T. a fridge would roll up right next to you ,leave her roaring away, all the room to park in the world and parks next to you , to take their break, inconsiderate tw— I and other would get a brew on ,pleanty of tea bags in the cups, get the nicely soaked, and the get your best spoon ,take the bags out, when the truck pulls away, tea bags are flicked on to the trailer and they slide down like a turd trail. so if you ever had brown streaks on a white trailer you know what DID IT .
Also had a German control last week as per normal no problems I did ask if the police woman wanted to swap hats for a Davies one but she declined shame think I would look good with German police woolly hat lol
Sunny side up, JD.
Balders I now you are up to your armpits in builders dust, but wipe of the computer screen and have a look as I have replied to your PM, cheers JD.
PS. On another note I took advantage of the dry sunny weather to mow the lawns today, very satisfying it was too.
Evening Buzzer,
Well up here int Dales it has been a nice sunny day, not very warm but pleasant and a pleasure being outside feeding sheep. Here is a picture of our latest arrival a heifer calf born about 14.30 this afternoon.
Mowing lawns is a while away for us., 350 yows to lamb first…
Cheers Wrighty.
Yes Buzzer you are correct these post are up my street,I can relate to it all .
Out with the team today along Meon sea front with the Solent in the back ground and the IOW on the horizon, weather fine but crisp Buzzer.
What some lovely horses ,looks like the blues and royals have lost four.DO they all keep the same position in the reins, leading ?I understand calling them by name, is one [THE MUTTS NUTS] I bet they are truck names -Scania, Volvo ,Renault Leyland .lol ,are they ,colts. or geldings…i doubt they are stallions, or mares.i have no idea…
I and loads of others drivers used to load MARS from slough and it went to Holland to a place called HAGANUA, or similar spelling, it was by a canal if you look on mars M-Ms packet it says HAGANUA FRANCE…do you do work for them…have the boarders moved that much.lolpdb
PDB all my horses are geldings and three are by the same stallion so are half brothers, the leaders are called Alex and Paddy who stay same order and the wheelers are Carlos and Woody who I do change side to side,.
We don’t do Mars work but in the past we did tons of chocolate through Solstor for Rowntree’s Mackintosh, Italy France and Spain Mainly. Used to love going to Holland as the place is so clean, no one throws rubbish out the window there. All the kids go to school on bikes not in four x four’s like here, and most speak English. The only thing trucking there is when they say a bridge is 4 meters it is exactly that and a few got caught out with that one.
SEe you relented on the EU topic and went back, some how you get drawn back in and there are certainly some odd views on that subject.
Hopefully the likes of Me and Wrighty can keep your interests away from that especially as you and I are too old to worry about that outcome, cheers Buzzer.
peggydeckboy:
What some lovely horses ,looks like the blues and royals have lost four.DO they all keep the same position in the reins, leading ?I understand calling them by name, is one [THE MUTTS NUTS] I bet they are truck names -Scania, Volvo ,Renault Leyland .lol ,are they ,colts. or geldings…i doubt they are stallions, or mares.i have no idea…
I and loads of others drivers used to load MARS from slough and it went to Holland to a place called HAGANUA, or similar spelling, it was by a canal if you look on mars M-Ms packet it says HAGANUA FRANCE…do you do work for them…have the boarders moved that much.lolpdb
PDB, Hagenau is certainly in France - the Mars factory is actually just outside Hagenau in Schweighouse, north of Strasbourg, but was always referred to as Hagenau. Generally ingredients were delivered to Hagenau, then loading back choccy bars from Mars there, I always loaded out of Brumath - 10kms up the road, which was a wharehouse operated by Faure & Machet. The Mars deliveries (finished product) to Holland went to Veghel (Can’t think who operated the wharehouse, it was a transport company But I can’t remember who, and its going to bug me all day now), but ingredients to Holland went to either Port Vliet (near Bergen op Zoom) or Doetinchem - the other side of Arnhem. From memory, this is the one next to the canal.
I did Mars work during the 90’s - a couple of good regular jobs that I remember were down to Swiss (delivery to Schaffisheim) - mars only loaded you to the 28 ton swiss weight limit, so depending what product you had, you might only have had 12 or so pallets on. At that weight, I used to be able to get over 10mpg out of my 143 - and that was all Luxembourg fuel aswell, the cheapest around at the time. Another good job was 2 pallecons from Slough to Hagenau - yes, 2 pallecons - maybe 2 ton all up. That used to go a couple of times a week- I think it was a certain colour coated Peanut for M&M’s that came straight off the production line in Slough, and straight to Hagenau. Memories…
I’m enjoying the farming & horse content too, keep up the great pics and input everyone.
We used to deliver into Mars at Slough with whey powder out of Maelor, two or three loads every week. A perfect morning up ere not a cloud int sky, about to go and feed the sheep, then back to it tomorrow for five days of driving and relaxation…
Cheers Wrighty.
How did you get on at Bargh’s when the Lune flooded, Wrighty?
I understand Malcolm Woodhouse had a few Mercs underwater, and there’s a tissue mill on there as well isn’t there?
John.
Kmills ,yes you are correct Veghel,it was in the early 1980s however thank you ,and BRUMATH as well I was on ROKOLD then.
Buzzer your oration, on your other ,shall we say BBC2 POSTS, very true, a new soap box will be in the post o,yeh o-yeh.
that is the last I say, you are right who gives a [zb] were to old to care .
As for your horses, GELDINGS are the same as bullocks .no nutts,
is the one you keep on the left side of your cart, left hand drive then , or is it because the left leg is slightly shorter than its right. [it makes sence] so it turns quicker, like a leading leg
. If a human is in the middle of a area, with no reverences of anything sky ,land ,ie in the middle of a ocean [if you could walk]] you would walk in a circle because we have a leading dominant leg ,the one you kick with…useless info…
I do realise that the reins determine which way they turn ,but if they were all tacked up and in the shafts, which one would strike out first, if you were not there is there like a boss between them or would they just stay there, until told to get-up…when I was driving after time ,I never used to let my [I think I ought to do this or that ] if unable to contact base, for no reason like weekends ,I would always obey my last instructions no matter what…even now if I say I will be going this or that way I do not change, I was the same transiting countries there were all ways better ways, this is quicker whatever.
BUT ON HERE I AM ALL OVER THE PLACE.