Aye I can’t complain PDB it’s a steady number alright,the only downside is working lots of weekends and bank holidays such as Christmas day, but we usually work round it. And yes Buzzer the night heater is on low just to keep the cab aired, like you said there is no grass coming yet and spring feels a long way off but as they say what a difference a week can make…
Cheers Wrighty.
Mappo & Buzzer, just brought back some memories , My ist introduction to Mr viner was at bells abatoir in tadworth i used to load there when i worked for a french company, you could not go through the village before 6am as the locals complained , MrV worked in the office i think he was T M. A few years later i worked with him for Solstor. Take Care Melv.
Papa Numpty:
Mappo & Buzzer, just brought back some memories , My ist introduction to Mr viner was at bells abatoir in tadworth i used to load there when i worked for a french company, you could not go through the village before 6am as the locals complained , MrV worked in the office i think he was T M. A few years later i worked with him for Solstor. Take Care Melv.
Papa Numpty rumour has it " Billy Liar " as he was affectionately know wound some body up to much and he was found hanging up in a meat railer fridge, weather that is true or not I don’t know. He had an XR3I Ford when he was at Solstor and it went missing one night, Mr Aitchen told him if it wernt back in 12 hours he was gone as well and hey presto it re appeared.
Talking from first hand experience he could stand right opposite you and lie and you could not tell, he was very good at that, Buzzer.
pete smith:
What would cause this, fitting rails to a standard reefer or overloading? I know it has nothing to do with Davies Int but as they run fridges I thought I would wack it on here, Cheer’s Pete
Back in 1980, my Dad bought a tidy looking Freight Bonalack (anyone remember them?? - they were as good as any fridge at the time) from Mike Swallow - this was about the time that Cadwalladers bought out Swallow’s.
Anyone,a year or so later I was with him with hanging beef in Yugoslavia - anyone remember the ‘Intervention Beef’ job?, and after waiting to clear customs for a week in Maribor, the load was rejected, and we ended going to a coldstore in Holland with it. The trailer looked completely normal from the outside, but when we opened the back doors, the whole lot - beef, meat rails, the inside of the roof etc… was all in a heap on the floor of the trailer… That was that - load written off, trailer written off, and it didn’t much for my Dad either!
Memory from the past and bet a lot of you have been past this sign more than once, Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Memory from the past and bet a lot of you have been past this sign more than once, Buzzer.
Ran out of hours in Modane on New Year’s Eve 2001. As you know, it’s at the top of the mountain on the French side of Frejus. I was returning from Doha and I’d picked up some duff diesel in Greece, but didn’t realise it until the next morning when I found my diesel had waxed. It was bitterly cold so I went into the restaurant for coffee and received my first ever Euros in the change. Euros had kicked in at midnight. After an expensive visit from the garage down the hill, I tipped my load of Pirelli tyres from Turkey near Paris. Not sure why I took the picture on such a bleak morning, but here it is. Robert
kmills:
pete smith:
What would cause this, fitting rails to a standard reefer or overloading? I know it has nothing to do with Davies Int but as they run fridges I thought I would wack it on here, Cheer’s PeteBack in 1980, my Dad bought a tidy looking Freight Bonalack (anyone remember them?? - they were as good as any fridge at the time) from Mike Swallow - this was about the time that Cadwalladers bought out Swallow’s.
Anyone,a year or so later I was with him with hanging beef in Yugoslavia - anyone remember the ‘Intervention Beef’ job?, and after waiting to clear customs for a week in Maribor, the load was rejected, and we ended going to a coldstore in Holland with it. The trailer looked completely normal from the outside, but when we opened the back doors, the whole lot - beef, meat rails, the inside of the roof etc… was all in a heap on the floor of the trailer… That was that - load written off, trailer written off, and it didn’t much for my Dad either!
Hi kmills this was posted on Axminster thread this week, Freight Bonalack trailer cheers Buzzer
Very sad today as we lost our Labrador Molly who we had from six weeks old for over twelve years and you just cant put into words how attached you get to animals, they don’t answer back they greet you when you come home and if you treat them well they give back 100 fold. It is six years since we lost our other Lab but now they lay at piece side by side in our garden but our house suddenly feels empty.
A couple of months back I recall Saviem had the same with " his lad " his faithfull horse which he had to put down, it is a hard decision to make but you do your best for the animal and its suffering, they don’t go away as you think of them daily but it is still very hard so sympathy to any one who has gone through this. Buzzer.
RIP Molly…
Buzzer:
Very sad today as we lost our Labrador Molly who we had from six weeks old for over twelve years and you just cant put into words how attached you get to animals, they don’t answer back they greet you when you come home and if you treat them well they give back 100 fold. It is six years since we lost our other Lab but now they lay at piece side by side in our garden but our house suddenly feels empty.
A couple of months back I recall Saviem had the same with " his lad " his faithfull horse which he had to put down, it is a hard decision to make but you do your best for the animal and its suffering, they don’t go away as you think of them daily but it is still very hard so sympathy to any one who has gone through this. Buzzer.
Hi Buzzer,
Had our dog put down last year,she was 12 year old American Bulldog and was the most faithful well behaved dog I have ever known, its been nearly 7 months now and sometimes think have I fed the dog! A saying my Dad used was, I like Dogs,Horses and Children but cannot stand people!
Sorry to hear of your loss Buzzer it’s always hard when you lose a dog, they certainly are a man’s best friend like you said always pleased to see you and never judge you…
As the saying goes “a home without dogs is a house” too true.
All the best Wrighty.
This must be a present day shot of Cenis as there is not a truck in sight and its daytime, loved that route Buzzer.
Buzzer, sorry to hear about your “Mans best friend”, I am sure you will eventually find another friend, that might like to run alongside, or ride in your carriage.
As for Cenis i never did go over it.why .i was told to do FREGUIS [SPELLING] by every company i worked for, and i did as i was told…the old road from freguis to Torino was not that bright was it.
Stobart took the Nafi over ,is that how he got the Military work for ifor, or was it some one elses. subbing. allways wondered
peggydeckboy:
Buzzer, sorry to hear about your “Mans best friend”, I am sure you will eventually find another friend, that might like to run alongside, or ride in your carriage.As for Cenis i never did go over it.why .i was told to do FREGUIS [SPELLING] by every company i worked for, and i did as i was told…the old road from freguis to Torino was not that bright was it.
Stobart took the Nafi over ,is that how he got the Military work for ifor, or was it some one elses. subbing. allways wondered
PDB we did that work to Bosnia for 8 odd years for JSL from Stoke they had the contract and we did a lot of that work for them, you had to be vetted by the Ministry to be able to do it also William R.Young Uttoxeter did it for JSL but Steady Eddie wanted it bad and bought out JSL to get in the door but you had to have a bit of nowse about you for that job and I don’t think some of there glory boys of the day had that.
It was good work at the time and we were pleased to sub it from JSL who always treated us fairly and paid us twice a month to boot.
Our loss of Molly was sad but after grieving and time we may get another dog in the future, cheers Buzzer.
How our you john,well thats another week of tarmac done.them 2 f88s wouldnt look out of place here in donegal haha.the blue looks well on the 88s.made them stand out from the crowd.i work for a man called martin boyle,you might know the trucks,green scanias and curtainsiders .plain colourscheme but look well.hard to beat colour scheme that is not plastered with lettering.think there a pic of the yoke i drive on the southampton link somebody put on.i think men took a lot pride in the colour scheme of there trucks back then.its all stickers these days.that s reg 88 looks well with the scaac trailer.was you at a lot of traction work in them days
kev143:
How our you john,well thats another week of tarmac done.them 2 f88s wouldnt look out of place here in donegal haha.the blue looks well on the 88s.made them stand out from the crowd.i work for a man called martin boyle,you might know the trucks,green scanias and curtainsiders .plain colourscheme but look well.hard to beat colour scheme that is not plastered with lettering.think there a pic of the yoke i drive on the southampton link somebody put on.i think men took a lot pride in the colour scheme of there trucks back then.its all stickers these days.that s reg 88 looks well with the scaac trailer.was you at a lot of traction work in them days
Kev143 back in the early 80’s we had three trucks on for RH&D they came from Poole but had an office in Pompy dock doing SCAC trailers, this is when pompy ferry terminal was gravel and if it had 25 trailers it was full up, I watched over the years as it developed into what it is today. We were on traction by the mile and did not often reload but we did Massey tractors from Coventry but that was an easy reload.we were earning 11 to 12 hundred pounds a week and now when I look back it was good money for the time but we got our asses in gear to earn that bending it a bit as well as you did. I had a little Bionic Bubble and did locals but still earned a fair screw with her and I only paid £900 for her and paid for it in the first week. Traction was not all it was cracked up to be especially on Euro work and in 1988 rented trailers and started doing the whole thing meself and built it up from there, happy hard days but would do it all again Buzzer.
Buzzer thank you for the information ,as for the w young uttoxeter i new MARK YOUNG UTOXETER when he first started subbing for Rokold NICE LAD.and the macCANNS [john] .
to be honest when Stobart first started doing the NAFFI they had a depot around Breda /lockern i think, me and other driver used to wonder where he got the Expedience drivers from ?then he starting doing the Bosina work? ,well now i know… .tks, me and others did some Aid into Croatia when the trouble was still ongoing ,but the time it took, i bet it did not pay, as i could not understand why the company i was on for did not do the IFOR work, but it suited owner drivers ,once when i was getting unloaded, all women, no men allowed to touch it, i was told there was phone call for me .i went and it was the big chief, the top honcho from the RED CROSS, i was slightly embarrassed, as the way he spoke as if i had just drove through the front line “bullets singing” anyway i took his praise,but could not understand why, it was just a job. i have never mentioned that before to anyone…
How long did a round trip take or did you just keep shunting trailers down there form somewhere in Europe?
PDB when we first did the job it was to a freezer ship berthed in Split and we sailed from Ancona, the ferries on that job were old and not very good especially with height this was a constant worry of some one taking the roof of a fridge, later we did it overland as no permits on IFOR and little restrictions but you could face long delays at the border if the right personel were not there. It became a bind when they moved the store inland as you had to go over a small mountain to get there, this was ok in the summer but totally different in winter. One Christmas we had 4 or 5 drivers fly home as it was totally snow bound, also the army would not let you sleep in the cabs even with night heaters they stuck the drivers in a billet but they had good hot food supplied. When going to Split we could do the job in a week in the summer as we had plenty of loads of fruit from the North of Italy, overland ten days if no major hold ups coming back into Italy by Venice When I had the schedule for the trucks I would fax the fruit importer we worked for a list and what days we could load and this worked well and there rates were better by £200 than any one else at the time with no market deliveries either. Looking back they were good times even though the Bosnians had it rough, drivers took picture of one house anialated by gun fire and destroyed in the middle of a block just because they were from a particular sect, what went on there was horrific especially when you got close to it. We took out loads of petrol and oil, 45 gallon oil petrol in Gerry cans in cages on pallets plus all manor of other things that we would use every day back here like bog rolls. Don’t know if Steady Eddie still does MOD work but should not think there drivers were cut out for it, transport is just a game to them anyway.
Wrighty went for a stroll round my field today to check the grass growth and there is a bit there but it is cold here yet, I asked me mate to put some fert on but he wont do it till he does his own but its too wet still where he is but it wont be long, I am putting a picture on just to make you jealous at what grass is there. Going to market on Tuesday with ten stores, a couple of Angus, three Sim X and five Charolais leaves me ten Sim X at home but not putting them out just yet.
You’re so hard on The Boss John. There she is taking a photo of your dedication and she is saluting you! Devotion of the first degree!
Sorted Buzzer,
Alice is arranging transport as I type how many yows wi twins would you like, been a real day up ere got two new born calves sucking one is convinced it’s mothers teats are between her front legs. Trying to get a calf to ■■■■ when it’s hormonal psychotic mother is trying to kill you is not always easy oh the joys of livestock farming.
Some good photo’s on the thread at the moment, have we found out where “snapper’s” working now, just put the dog out and it’s white over so much for bloody spring…carry on regardless
Cheers Wrighty.
