Baldrick1953:
Yep… Great run following the river…Re Dixons , not sure if there’s any dirt to dish mate… The article was in the Independent not the Oirish Toimes.
If you google " Michael Dixon independent.ie " you should get it up.
And the article , ooer matron
hi baldrick,cant find anything in papers ■■?
Andrew Morrison:
Baldrick1953:
Yep… Great run following the river…Re Dixons , not sure if there’s any dirt to dish mate… The article was in the Independent not the Oirish Toimes.
If you google " Michael Dixon independent.ie " you should get it up.
And the article , ooer matronhi baldrick,cant find anything in papers ■■?
could only find an old article he’s come on a bit since then sorry to disapoint buzzer don’t think any dirt to dish lol
regards Andrew
Yes Andrew , I think it’s a 2014 article they’d just moved to Swords from out in the boondocks and hadn’t yet opened a yard in uk.
The dixons did start out as farmers from Co Meath Just outside dublin. Nice family all in all… The restaurant ontop of the italian side of the tunnel is still going with proper toilets and a shower up there. Ideal for a 24hr break. even a 45 with coymeure or how ever its spelt just a short ramble down the hill… Shame they put a trailer ban on the pizzaeria on the first hair pin bend. Lovely coffee and food although still allow tractor units in.
Hi Andrew looks a neat outfit,good kit .i myself worked for a company in the in the south where they are,my only advice, however i do not know if you have any Irish connection, anyway ,as good as the company maybe “you will never be one of them” not to ■■■■ on your parade.i wish you good luck…
Buzzer, going back if i may, to a one time on the ITALIAN side of FREJUIS ,i was on dry freight ,Bowkers ,road train left hand drive ,Belgian reg,parked in the layby with one of my fellow drivers ,yes i did run with some men and enjoyed it .
When you drive back up the moutain to France just before you enter the service area for the tunnel ,have you noticed a road goes of to the right ,very steep ,off the run up to parking, and a big sign used to be on the rocks
,i always wondered where it went to, and after years of wondering this Sunday snowing morning my mate and me decide to take a look… we were well wrapped up as it was full on ski-ing season but only jeans as trousers .
Once up there it was a massive ski-ing station with a chair lift ,our first time being close to one…Being the only Brits,we stuck out like sore thumbs ,you know the I ties all flash gear SKIING GEAR ,us with our Bowkers top coats on, so we decided to go for i…,you could get,on and off the ski lift, wherever you liked, , we studied the map on the wall and it looks as if it went right of to France.it did.to the Cedon,
I think we paid about 10.000 leria the chap in the paybooth said something to us but not knowing what ignored him but he did put his arms up in the air ,we just thought another ■■■■, we watched what the score was to get on the lift everyone had ,passes ,skis,googles, all the business ,we had wooly hats and BOWKERS coats with a big emblem saying BOWKERs TRANSPORT…OHH we never had gloves either,only sisses wore gloves…
As we watched the chairs come round you stood in front ,when a empty one comes you had to time it right w the swinging seat sort of scoups you up your feet leave the deck and you are away swinging,we were cracking up laughing,great fun,it was snowing, but the views were unreal you could see all the skiers way down below it was quite a sight,as we were getting transport along, the other cradles going back the way ,had people in them riding back to the start you could see they were just like us viewers of the mountains,it seemed to go on for miles,some more people in seats were going back and they were also waving and shouting at us,so we did our usual English reply like Yes go F—k yourself ,or classic words like that,we cracked up laughing ,we were enjoying it ,it seemed to go on and on [like this story]but true…
after a lest 20 mins we were starting to get colder than before,saying now would be a good time to get off and soon a station came in to view,when the time to get off it slows down you jump off and get out of the way,as it goes round to pick people up to take them back ,once we had got off we started to look around and there was a cafe there,when we stood about deciding what to do, a Italian came up to us and starting gobbing off,another red rag,we both told him what to do one, he then said ahh ENGLISH, YES!! ,
He then proceeded to tell we are the luckiest men up here at this moment,why we asked he said you have just travelled all that way, and you never pulled the safety bar down in front of you, to keep you from falling out,the people going back could see the bar up and reported it when they got off, they expected you to be thrown out Thank god it never happend,going back the first thing we did was pull the bar down ,we now knew what the chap was telling us the first time .ignorance was bliss…Phil if you read this get in touch…this is the first time anyone else will know …we never told anyone, to save our embarrassment plus the nick names we would have got…such was a drivers life.never two days the same ever. pdb.
Andrew Morrison:
Andrew Morrison:
Baldrick1953:
Yep… Great run following the river…Re Dixons , not sure if there’s any dirt to dish mate… The article was in the Independent not the Oirish Toimes.
If you google " Michael Dixon independent.ie " you should get it up.
And the article , ooer matronhi baldrick,cant find anything in papers ■■?
could only find an old article he’s come on a bit since then sorry to disapoint buzzer don’t think any dirt to dish lol
regards Andrew
You could say he’s come on a bit since then 
hope it goes well for you Andrew. Your views Scania v Volvo would be interesting at a later date.
youtube.com/watch?v=k1sYnWpcdS0
Oily
Oily we tied a piece of catapult elastic to Andrews trousers so we know he will come back to his real driving home one day less the elastic gives out and before any one gets wise crackin the answer is NO his trousers are not attached to the yard gates, see you soon “snapper” JD.
PS. he has not paid us back for the dark room we had built for him either.
Buzzer:
Oily we tied a piece of catapult elastic to Andrews trousers so we know he will come back to his real driving home one day less the elastic gives out and before any one gets wise crackin the answer is NO his trousers are not attached to the yard gates, see you soon “snapper” JD.PS. he has not paid us back for the dark room we had built for him either.
Reciprocal employer/employee respect Buzzer, which is nice, a bit of a rarity nowadays compared to years ago.
Oily
This is “Woody” our Labrador puppy helping his mum clean out the horsebox on Sunday, she said he just kept nicking the dustpan and running away with it and was no help what so ever, Buzzer.
Buzzer:
This is “Woody” our Labrador puppy helping his mum clean out the horsebox on Sunday, she said he just kept nicking the dustpan and running away with it and was no help what so ever, Buzzer.
How is your Box configured Buzzer for carrying four ? is "herring bone " maybe. Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
Buzzer:
This is “Woody” our Labrador puppy helping his mum clean out the horsebox on Sunday, she said he just kept nicking the dustpan and running away with it and was no help what so ever, Buzzer.How is your Box configured Buzzer for carrying four ? is "herring bone " maybe. Cheers Dennis.
Dennis had the box built as I said before with carrying both horses and cattle so the gates are full height and width but they are on pins with
3 inch increments so you can put them any where the whole length of the box and the bars top and bottom on the left are telescopic so you can set them on an angle for the horses which is what I do as they are quite big, the floor is rubber mats 18mm but I am considering getting a spray on rubberized granulistic floor as a lot easier to clean and wash out. Having had a few built I know pretty well what works for me but always seem to find an extra option to make things a little better each time.
The tail board is electric over oil ram which is handy as I would never lift it on me own even with assisters, most boxes have that option nowadays as a lot are operated by woman who just don’t have the arm power to lift them.
Buzzer:
Bewick:
Buzzer:
This is “Woody” our Labrador puppy helping his mum clean out the horsebox on Sunday, she said he just kept nicking the dustpan and running away with it and was no help what so ever, Buzzer.How is your Box configured Buzzer for carrying four ? is "herring bone " maybe. Cheers Dennis.
Dennis had the box built as I said before with carrying both horses and cattle so the gates are full height and width but they are on pins with
3 inch increments so you can put them any where the whole length of the box and the bars top and bottom on the left are telescopic so you can set them on an angle for the horses which is what I do as they are quite big, the floor is rubber mats 18mm but I am considering getting a spray on rubberized granulistic floor as a lot easier to clean and wash out. Having had a few built I know pretty well what works for me but always seem to find an extra option to make things a little better each time.
The tail board is electric over oil ram which is handy as I would never lift it on me own even with assisters, most boxes have that option nowadays as a lot are operated by woman who just don’t have the arm power to lift them.
Thanks for the informative explanation Buzzer and I agree with you about always finding that extra “tweak” to the spec when building the next box! I see that cleaning the box out is undertaken by our Female staff whichever end of the country you live 
Cheers Dennis.
oiltreader:
Andrew Morrison:
Andrew Morrison:
Baldrick1953:
Yep… Great run following the river…Re Dixons , not sure if there’s any dirt to dish mate… The article was in the Independent not the Oirish Toimes.
If you google " Michael Dixon independent.ie " you should get it up.
And the article , ooer matronhi baldrick,cant find anything in papers ■■?
could only find an old article he’s come on a bit since then sorry to disapoint buzzer don’t think any dirt to dish lol
regards AndrewYou could say he’s come on a bit since then
youtube.com/watch?v=k1sYnWpcdS0Oily
Hi oily bit mixed on scania verse Volvo would prefer the Volvo to drive n sleep in but the scania a we had on Davies’s are spec’d out better inside for the driver
cheers Andrew
Went to Salisbury market yesterday and purchased five well grown pigs, they wont be here long maybe 5 weeks before they get the chop and are made into sausages as we are getting low on stocks in the freezer.
Today I had to go and see the gob merchant who happens to be a German and have a tooth extracted, it has been giving me jip for a week so admitted defeat. The extraction did not stop there as me wallet got hit as well when he had finished, Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Went to Salisbury market yesterday and purchased five well grown pigs, they wont be here long maybe 5 weeks before they get the chop and are made into sausages as we are getting low on stocks in the freezer.
Today I had to go and see the gob merchant who happens to be a German and have a tooth extracted, it has been giving me jip for a week so admitted defeat. The extraction did not stop there as me wallet got hit as well when he had finished, Buzzer.
Sounds to me that extracting anything from your wallet Buzzer will be a bigger challenge than pulling a tooth without using anaesthetic ! and how do you keep the Golden Eagle under control when you opened said wallet and it saw daylight !, Oh! and are White fivers still legal tender down your way Buzzer, it’s years since they were up our end ! 
Cheers Dennis.
Dennis I think I am a generous sort of fellow most of the time but don’t like the micky took, and as for the white fivers they are keeping me bed on a the level so im’e not allowed to touch them, Buzzer.
Here are my pigs having brekky this morning, they get cleaned out and pen washed down twice a day then fed. Pigs given the chance are very clean animals better than some drivers I have had in my time, Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Here are my pigs having brekky this morning, they get cleaned out and pen washed down twice a day then fed. Pigs given the chance are very clean animals better than some drivers I have had in my time, Buzzer.
Fine looking hogs there Buzzer.when you mention drivers who were none too tidy
I thought of Mappo. However I did stick up for him. One of his so called friends told me that he wasn’t fit to live with pigs. I said he is fit to live with them! That’s what friends are for! Regards Chealie
Buzzer:
Dennis I think I am a generous sort of fellow most of the time but don’t like the micky took, and as for the white fivers they are keeping me bed on a the level so im’e not allowed to touch them, Buzzer.
Has that white fiver been “a prisoner” since you got it in 1937 Buzzer ? !! Speaking of dentists we have a great one who we’ve been with since he started up 20 odd years ago, he is an excellent Dentist and his official title starts with “Doctor” and he will do anything to avoid “pulling” a tooth, apparently he is in the top five dentists in the UK for saving teeth rather than pull them. Anyhow, he also does both NHS and Private and is fairly “tightly wrapped” with his needle always hovering near the red line, however one day I was “in the chair” and he was ranting about some of his patients being near suicidal with their dental problems so when I was able to speak I said “I don’t wonder when you give them your Bill” well his dental nurse nearly choked with trying to supress her laughter, She was nearly crying ! and he is so serious but he has to accept the “craics” that a retired Haulier can come out with. He has been struggling to get NHS accreditation for a couple of highly qualified Greek Dentists to join his busy Practice so he wasn’t half ranting about the NHS the other day when I was in the “chair”. Cheers Dennis.
A shot of two of the 20 strong Euro fleet we ran in the 90’s standing at the Convent Spd. depot in Emmerich on the Dutch/German border while loading groupage for the UK.Cheers Dennis.
