Dodgy night out

[chris_webb]

Good on yer Ray.
I was going round Tinsley Roundabout early one morning in an AEC MK3 and there was a BRS driver waiting for a lift,I slowed down but he turned his back on me. “Must be the wagon that’s putting him off” I thought.Anyroad I was going up the bank between J29 and J28 and it started raining/sleeting,then a Volvo passed me with yer man sat in the passenger side.I came off at J28 and turned right for Derby and yer BRS man was there with the book up so I slowed down,put two fingers up and buggered off.
“A third class ride is better than a first class walk”.

[flishflunk]

Chris Webb:
Good on yer Ray.
I was going round Tinsley Roundabout early one morning in an AEC MK3 and there was a BRS driver waiting for a lift,I slowed down but he turned his back on me. “Must be the wagon that’s putting him off” I thought.Anyroad I was going up the bank between J29 and J28 and it started raining/sleeting,then a Volvo passed me with yer man sat in the passenger side.I came off at J28 and turned right for Derby and yer BRS man was there with the book up so I slowed down,put two fingers up and buggered off.
“A third class ride is better than a first class walk”.

Hiya Chris,

Ray

[tankerman]

Chris Webb:

revman:
Arriving back in the yard after a fiddle the day foreman,would crawl under & feel the diff to see if it was warm,so a bloke I worked with used a blowlamp to warm the diff up.but he overdid it one day & the day gaffer burnt his fingers

Aye,I ran in one snowy and frosty sunday morning with piles of snow on the Mandator cab roof. Booked off at Newark,wagon at Beighton.
Fitters had the cheek to call me a fiddling tw*t,I mean fitters calling drivers that is a bit strong.

I didn’t think that was a very nice thing for a fitter to say to a driver, especially one as clean living and honest as your good self sir.

I know for a fact that every thing you did was to the best of your ability, even getting lift home.
I think if there had been a gold medal at the Olympic games for going home on dodgies you would win it hands down every time.
On of Evans drivers told me in Hull one day that you didn’t realize that there were places with beds for drivers to rest their weary heads away from home.

good neet.

[tankerman]

Chris Webb:

revman:
Arriving back in the yard after a fiddle the day foreman,would crawl under & feel the diff to see if it was warm,so a bloke I worked with used a blowlamp to warm the diff up.but he overdid it one day & the day gaffer burnt his fingers

Aye,I ran in one snowy and frosty sunday morning with piles of snow on the Mandator cab roof. Booked off at Newark,wagon at Beighton.
Fitters had the cheek to call me a fiddling tw*t,I mean fitters calling drivers that is a bit strong.

I didn’t think that was a very nice thing for a fitter to say to a driver, especially one as clean living and honest as your good self sir.

I know for a fact that every thing you did was to the best of your ability, even getting lift home.
I think if there had been a gold medal at the Olympic games for going home on dodgies you would win it hands down every time.
On of Evans drivers told me in Hull one day that you didn’t realize that there were places with beds for drivers to rest their weary heads away from home.

good neet.

[pat_hasler]

I had a few on Swifts but it was apain getting back to the lorry next day. it didn’t seem woth it to me. I remember on Swifts Rod Spear parking at Toddington one friday, being in the pub in Northampton on the same night, next day he was in the yard minus his truck ! He had lost his keys Neil (transport manager) was very sympathetic and always up for a laugh had me drive him to Toddington to get his lorry back, he still got paid night out money.

[chris_webb]

Tankerman:

Chris Webb:

revman:
Arriving back in the yard after a fiddle the day foreman,would crawl under & feel the diff to see if it was warm,so a bloke I worked with used a blowlamp to warm the diff up.but he overdid it one day & the day gaffer burnt his fingers

Aye,I ran in one snowy and frosty sunday morning with piles of snow on the Mandator cab roof. Booked off at Newark,wagon at Beighton.
Fitters had the cheek to call me a fiddling tw*t,I mean fitters calling drivers that is a bit strong.

I didn’t think that was a very nice thing for a fitter to say to a driver, especially one as clean living and honest as your good self sir.

I know for a fact that every thing you did was to the best of your ability, even getting lift home.
I think if there had been a gold medal at the Olympic games for going home on dodgies you would win it hands down every time.
On of Evans drivers told me in Hull one day that you didn’t realize that there were places with beds for drivers to rest their weary heads away from home.

good neet

It’s true Russell,pure as the driven Pennine snow.My log sheets and later log books were always spot on - it was easier and neater to make them out on the kitchen table whilst having a cuppa.I kept my driving records in a little black book and transferred the info onto my log book on my day off - whenever that was.Anyroad they couldn’t do you for falsifying if there was nowt written down,could they,and I did have nights away,bags of them,so had to have some dodgys to pay for them.Never had a night out in Lancashire though,not one.Plenty on the book though.I had a close encounter with a night out on Wilderspool Causeway in Warrington one night but managed to get a lift from the Wooden Hut on the A57 straight through to Sheffield - phew,that was a close thing.Of course Warrington was in Lancs then.

[ray_leggy]

Chris Webb:

revman:
Arriving back in the yard after a fiddle the day foreman,would crawl under & feel the diff to see if it was warm,so a bloke I worked with used a blowlamp to warm the diff up.but he overdid it one day & the day gaffer burnt his fingers

Thats a cracker Chris

Aye,I ran in one snowy and frosty sunday morning with piles of snow on the Mandator cab roof. Booked off at Newark,wagon at Beighton.
Fitters had the cheek to call me a fiddling tw*t,I mean fitters calling drivers that is a bit strong.

[ray_leggy]

Ray Leggy:

Chris Webb:

revman:
Arriving back in the yard after a fiddle the day foreman,would crawl under & feel the diff to see if it was warm,so a bloke I worked with used a blowlamp to warm the diff up.but he overdid it one day & the day gaffer burnt his fingers

Thats a cracker Chris sorry alan i typed wrong mate

Aye,I ran in one snowy and frosty sunday morning with piles of snow on the Mandator cab roof. Booked off at Newark,wagon at Beighton.
Fitters had the cheek to call me a fiddling tw*t,I mean fitters calling drivers that is a bit strong.