On another note one of the last bits to be completed on the Tracy Island complex update turned on today, Buzzer
Buzzer:
Photo shoot by Scania today at Tracy Island, Buzzer
Just looked at the Motor Transport… Nice photo of Mr & Mrs Davies along with 2 sons… Keep truckin !
Regards
Andy
Delivery of fruit from Italy a lot of you will know this name/place
All clean again and it starts to rain 
loaded Ready to depart Tracy Island 
Load me up buttercup lol quick load for Holland
Out on Irish ferries Dover-Calais we’ve been using this a bit lately food a bit better for the drivers think it might be a bit cheaper too & definitely less queuing than the others at the moment 
Parked in Joost Truckstop Meer for weekend & went out for a walk see what’s parked on the surrounding estate as well as the normal east Europeans was a few from Georgia I think (GE) similar flag to our cross of St George as well.Wouldn’t want to be caught short at them prices lol
Andrew Morrison:
Out on Irish ferries Dover-Calais we’ve been using this a bit lately food a bit better for the drivers think it might be a bit cheaper too & definitely less queuing than the others at the moment
Thats the bit that always worried me on ferries.The truck in front rolling back as you were always parked so close.
Buzzer,Are you keeping the older Scania as a spare motor or will it still be running abroad out of intrest ?
DEANB:
Andrew Morrison:
Out on Irish ferries Dover-Calais we’ve been using this a bit lately food a bit better for the drivers think it might be a bit cheaper too & definitely less queuing than the others at the momentThats the bit that always worried me on ferries.The truck in front rolling back as you were always parked so close.
Buzzer,Are you keeping the older Scania as a spare motor or will it still be running abroad out of intrest ?
Hi Dean we are keeping an extra motor as we already had a spare trailer, Paul Durham who has worked for us in the warehouse and yard as well as doing holiday relief driving expressed an interest in driving again and as we have a new warehouseman this is what is happening, so all in house, Buzzer
Buzzer:
DEANB:
Andrew Morrison:
Out on Irish ferries Dover-Calais we’ve been using this a bit lately food a bit better for the drivers think it might be a bit cheaper too & definitely less queuing than the others at the momentThats the bit that always worried me on ferries.The truck in front rolling back as you were always parked so close.
Buzzer,Are you keeping the older Scania as a spare motor or will it still be running abroad out of intrest ?
Hi Dean we are keeping an extra motor as we already had a spare trailer, Paul Durham who has worked for us in the warehouse and yard as well as doing holiday relief driving expressed an interest in driving again and as we have a new warehouseman this is what is happening, so all in house, Buzzer
Thanks for the update ! 
DEANB:
Andrew Morrison:
Out on Irish ferries Dover-Calais we’ve been using this a bit lately food a bit better for the drivers think it might be a bit cheaper too & definitely less queuing than the others at the momentThats the bit that always worried me on ferries.The truck in front rolling back as you were always parked so close.
Buzzer,Are you keeping the older Scania as a spare motor or will it still be running abroad out of intrest ?
That actually happened to me one night Dean - waiting to get off one of the P&O ferries in Calais.
I had threaded my way through the trucks - squeezed between the front of mine and an Italian tilt in front of me, and climbed into the cab.
The bow doors hadn’t opened yet, so I was sitting there reading the newspaper- and all of a sudden I saw the trailer in front starting to roll back.
Naturally I stood on the brake pedal- even though I wasn’t moving - then…BANG.
He only rolled the foot or so gap that they give you, but jeez, I felt it - so did my 3 series Scania, with the front grille pushed into the intercooler.
One of the crew managed to stop the Italian on the linkspan & he pulled over, the driver reckoned he accidentally knocked the hand brake while polishing the dash, and he didn’t realise he had hit me. Really??
It did make me think though- if that had been 1 minute or so earlier while I was squeezing between the back of his trailer, and my cab…
kmills:
“DEANB”Thats the bit that always worried me on ferries.The truck in front rolling back as you were always parked so close.
Buzzer,Are you keeping the older Scania as a spare motor or will it still be running abroad out of intrest ?
That actually happened to me one night Dean - waiting to get off one of the P&O ferries in Calais.
I had threaded my way through the trucks - squeezed between the front of mine and an Italian tilt in front of me, and climbed into the cab.
The bow doors hadn’t opened yet, so I was sitting there reading the newspaper- and all of a sudden I saw the trailer in front starting to roll back.
Naturally I stood on the brake pedal- even though I wasn’t moving - then…BANG.
He only rolled the foot or so gap that they give you, but jeez, I felt it - so did my 3 series Scania, with the front grille pushed into the intercooler.
One of the crew managed to stop the Italian on the linkspan & he pulled over, the driver reckoned he accidentally knocked the hand brake while polishing the dash, and he didn’t realise he had hit me. Really??
It did make me think though- if that had been 1 minute or so earlier while I was squeezing between the back of his trailer, and my cab…
Hello Keith, i can well believe that happening to you. I hated the way they parked you so tight. I used to try and get in via the
passenger door (if you could open it) and climb across the cab rather than squeeze between the front of the truck and the rear
of the one in front which was bloody dangerous. It was ok if the driver was not in the truck in front but if he was i have told them
what i was doing so they never moved.
DEANB:
kmills:
“DEANB”Thats the bit that always worried me on ferries.The truck in front rolling back as you were always parked so close.
Buzzer,Are you keeping the older Scania as a spare motor or will it still be running abroad out of intrest ?
That actually happened to me one night Dean - waiting to get off one of the P&O ferries in Calais.
I had threaded my way through the trucks - squeezed between the front of mine and an Italian tilt in front of me, and climbed into the cab.
The bow doors hadn’t opened yet, so I was sitting there reading the newspaper- and all of a sudden I saw the trailer in front starting to roll back.
Naturally I stood on the brake pedal- even though I wasn’t moving - then…BANG.
He only rolled the foot or so gap that they give you, but jeez, I felt it - so did my 3 series Scania, with the front grille pushed into the intercooler.
One of the crew managed to stop the Italian on the linkspan & he pulled over, the driver reckoned he accidentally knocked the hand brake while polishing the dash, and he didn’t realise he had hit me. Really??
It did make me think though- if that had been 1 minute or so earlier while I was squeezing between the back of his trailer, and my cab…Hello Keith, i can well believe that happening to you. I hated the way they parked you so tight. I used to try and get in via the
passenger door (if you could open it) and climb across the cab rather than squeeze between the front of the truck and the rear
of the one in front which was bloody dangerous. It was ok if the driver was not in the truck in front but if he was i have told them
what i was doing so they never moved.
One night we were packed in so tight I couldn’t get out. IIRC it was the old Pride of Portsmouth. I thought to myself: well if the ship runs into trouble I’m a dead duck; and in case I’m hungry! So I climbed out through the roof-hatch (that’s a long way up on a full cab Eurostar) and squeezed through the wagons to the wall, climbed up one of those vertical seaman’s ladders to a little gallery that led to a service door. When I complained to the reception desk the bloke just shrugged and told me it was the last week the ferry was in service. Two days later it was finished.
Buzzer:
Its that time of the year again, Andrew loading up in Cornwall for Nederland, Buzzer
Bulbs by any chance?
kmills:
Buzzer:
Its that time of the year again, Andrew loading up in Cornwall for Nederland, BuzzerBulbs by any chance?
No not bulbs but tight bud dafs, reason being they are much earlier from Cornwall than any where else, Buzzer
kmills:
DEANB:
Andrew Morrison:
Out on Irish ferries Dover-Calais we’ve been using this a bit lately food a bit better for the drivers think it might be a bit cheaper too & definitely less queuing than the others at the momentThats the bit that always worried me on ferries.The truck in front rolling back as you were always parked so close.
Buzzer,Are you keeping the older Scania as a spare motor or will it still be running abroad out of intrest ?
That actually happened to me one night Dean - waiting to get off one of the P&O ferries in Calais.
I had threaded my way through the trucks - squeezed between the front of mine and an Italian tilt in front of me, and climbed into the cab.
The bow doors hadn’t opened yet, so I was sitting there reading the newspaper- and all of a sudden I saw the trailer in front starting to roll back.
Naturally I stood on the brake pedal- even though I wasn’t moving - then…BANG.
He only rolled the foot or so gap that they give you, but jeez, I felt it - so did my 3 series Scania, with the front grille pushed into the intercooler.
One of the crew managed to stop the Italian on the linkspan & he pulled over, the driver reckoned he accidentally knocked the hand brake while polishing the dash, and he didn’t realise he had hit me. Really??
It did make me think though- if that had been 1 minute or so earlier while I was squeezing between the back of his trailer, and my cab…
That reminds me - The old East German/Czech customs was on a slope (I think it was near the top of a mountain, it’s a long time ago, 1976!) I think a Hungarocamion was having a cab inspection and the guard kicked the handbrake off (again, bit hazy on the detail, but it was the guard who accidentally released the brake, not the driver.) The truck rolled back and squashed another guard, who was checking the plombe, against the truck behind. He died and the person who was arrested was the Hungarocamion driver! A German who was listening to the conversations said that they were saying that the driver would spend a long time in prison.
Afternoon Buzzer
Well the weathers certainly taken a turn for the worse, heavy rain and strong winds, spent this morning getting the rest of the early lambers inside.
They now seem happy munching on some nice hay, they are due middle of the month so it will be all hands on deck shortly.
Cheers Wrighty.
