what about… john dee
charles alexander
barnfathers
jessicas dad:
what about… john dee
charles alexander
barnfathers
John Davison aka John Dee aka Katem this week 
Charles Alexander gone to that big lorry park in the sky where there are no parking charges and nubile young nymphs wash your truck while you sleep 
Dunno where Barnfathers went 
does anyone remember the fridges on euro with ufo on the side i think they were from batley or dewsbury
And Alec MacHayes from Norfolk,he used to run some very nice Scania’s and fridges all over Europe.
And who can forget Martintrux…
~ Seabourne Express from Barking :
Lots of Merc. and DAF 6 wheel rigid boxvans running Ford parts all over Europe.
~ Cadwalladers from Oswestry : mostly Fridges but a few Tilts as well.
~ Lloyds of Ludlow : still going I think - but mostly steel in the UK. nowadays. They used to send platforms as well as Tilts over to Europe,though.
~ Beresford Transport, Tunstall, Stoke on Trent : Mostly ERFs, a dark bottle green colour. (always reminded me of ‘slurry’ 
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~ Dow Freight Services, Stockport : Orange and Black MANs and Ford Transcontinentals.
Deesider:
~ Seabourne Express from Barking :
Lots of Merc. and DAF 6 wheel rigid boxvans running Ford parts all over Europe.~ Cadwalladers from Oswestry : mostly Fridges but a few Tilts as well.
Still running a few, but they are into trailer sales now
~ Lloyds of Ludlow : still going I think - but mostly steel in the UK. nowadays. They used to send platforms as well as Tilts over to Europe,though.
I havent seen Lloyds abroad for a number of years, although as you say they are in the UK
~ Beresford Transport, Tunstall, Stoke on Trent : Mostly ERFs, a dark bottle green colour. (always reminded me of ‘slurry’
Think they just retired, didnt they
~ Dow Freight Services, Stockport : Orange and Black MANs and Ford Transcontinentals.
Now trading as R & J because they got caught for being bad lads 
I bought one of their old tilt trailers, The Dow came from the family name Dowsett
I know a gentleman, who shall remain nameless, who legitimately sold an international haulage company to the dowsett brothers,(1980’s). Unfortunately they ‘forgot’ to notify companies house of this acquisition, and when the fraud squad came to investigate their dealings, my friend spent some considerable time convincing the powers that be, that he had no business association with the dowsett brothers, or the previously sold company.
~ Lloyds of Ludlow : still going I think - but mostly steel in the UK. nowadays. They used to send platforms as well as Tilts over to Europe,though.
You think correctly.
I sat in a queue, in Dudley this week, behind 2 of Lloyds, tipping steel.
Kate:
~ Lloyds of Ludlow : still going I think - but mostly steel in the UK. nowadays. They used to send platforms as well as Tilts over to Europe,though.
You think correctly.
I sat in a queue, in Dudley this week, behind 2 of Lloyds, tipping steel.
I bet it wasn’t this one!
the scania 111 thats one truck i would have loved to have a go at driving i bet anyone with one of those at the time felt king of the road i bet that was the truck everyone wanted.
jessicas dad:
the scania 111 thats one truck i would have loved to have a go at driving i bet anyone with one of those at the time felt king of the road i bet that was the truck everyone wanted.
You’re dead right Dad. I had one of those but a day cab with a drop down couchette. This consisted of a bench passenger seat and the back of the driver’s seat which dropped down to form quite a comfortable bunk. No room to move though while you got yourself organised each night. However, as that was the nearest in that small fleet to a sleeper which in any case at the time were quite rare, I was chuffed to bits to be driving it. Quiet, warm and (comparitively) powerful.
That was with Rodney G. Closs Transport of Bulwell, Nottingham. Anyone remember Rod? I met him in a pub on my trip back home last year, no longer in transport though.
Salut, David.
I had a 141 for a while, It used more oil than fuel, but it would catch pigeons
I was using it on round timber haulage, running alongside my mate who had a Transcon, To hear them both wound up on the M1 was a treat
I was rescued in Hungary by a mate in a 111 when I blew my Daf up, we spent 6 days together in the Scania. not a lot of room, Cosy would be a good word
Hey Routier
most of those irish hauliers used to come through Poole with meat (and
sometimes steel) for Rungis meat market in Paris ,i dont know if its true
but one of transcontinental drivers (as i remember they were red and white)
told me that seven different artics had all tipped over in the same garden
of a house on the road from Fleetwood to the M6 due to hanging meat and
speed on a particular bend?? like i say didnt know weather to believe him
but some of them irish boys certainly knew how to move!
They also use to reckon when they got off the ferry they use to have a bet
who could get to a certain motorway services the quickest usually down
to Hilton Park apparently it was about £10 each,worth winning when
40 motors are involved■■?
Dukes was another company that came through regular can anyone
remember the name of a man mountain who used to drive an F10 volvo
for them with a fridge,he was scottish about 6’4 about late 50s maybe early
60s he was huge ,but sadly died of a heart attack somewhere in or near
Paris,was found dead in his cab about 1990 ish ■■ cant remember the
exact year,but he was a great bloke!
Swains another old company surley there must be drivers on here that
knew Peter D’Bau cant remember if that the correct spelling but anyone
who knew swains drivers will know exactly who im on about■■?
Swains also had an artic tip over on the round about coming into Poole
over the flyover with hanging meat in the 80s.
Dean
beresford stoke i remember readind a ldd about one of there lads doing swiss or austria in a man f90 and tilt trailer.cadwallerders sell trailers now mainly fridges used to have some nice f88s 
Wheel Nut:
jessicas dad:
what about… john dee
charles alexander
barnfathersJohn Davison aka John Dee aka Katem this week
Charles Alexander gone to that big lorry park in the sky where there are no parking charges and nubile young nymphs wash your truck while you sleep
Dunno where Barnfathers went
BECAME BARNFATHER WILKES…AFTER THAT…WHO KNOWS?
DEANB:
Hey Routiermost of those irish hauliers used to come through Poole with meat (and
sometimes steel) for Rungis meat market in Paris ,i dont know if its true
but one of transcontinental drivers (as i remember they were red and white)
told me that seven different artics had all tipped over in the same garden
of a house on the road from Fleetwood to the M6 due to hanging meat and
speed on a particular bend?? like i say didnt know weather to believe him
but some of them irish boys certainly knew how to move!Dean
I heard something similar from a chap who used to paint the Pandoro wagons at Fleetwood. He reckoned that Pandoro tipped a few over on a mini-roundabout at the end of Amounderness Way. He said that the Police threatened to prosecute for dangerous driving, but when the tacho charts were checked they were showing very low speeds. Pandoro claimed that if loaded wagons went through at low speeds, the camber of the road led to them toppling over, and that higher speeds didn’t allow the camber to affect the vehicle as it was through before it had a chance to happen. Needless to say the Police didn’t believe them so Pandoro asked the Police to shut the road and do a trial. They only did so to prove that it was the camber of the road that was causing the roll-overs, not excessive speed, and that if it proved to be the case, the Police would pay for the damage if the wagon went over at low speed, not high.
The day of the test came, the Police shut the road and the loaded Pandoro wagon came through at 25 mph. It went through and stayed up. They brought it back, turned it around and went back through the roundabout at 15-20 mph. It rolled over, the Police copped for the damage and the road got dug up and resurfaced - no prosecutions.
I stand to be corrected regarding the precise details, but it sounds uncannily like the same place to me.
marky:
DEANB:
Hey Routiermost of those irish hauliers used to come through Poole with meat (and
sometimes steel) for Rungis meat market in Paris ,i dont know if its true
but one of transcontinental drivers (as i remember they were red and white)
told me that seven different artics had all tipped over in the same garden
of a house on the road from Fleetwood to the M6 due to hanging meat and
speed on a particular bend?? like i say didnt know weather to believe him
but some of them irish boys certainly knew how to move!Dean
I heard something similar from a chap who used to paint the Pandoro wagons at Fleetwood. He reckoned that Pandoro tipped a few over on a mini-roundabout at the end of Amounderness Way. He said that the Police threatened to prosecute for dangerous driving, but when the tacho charts were checked they were showing very low speeds. Pandoro claimed that if loaded wagons went through at low speeds, the camber of the road led to them toppling over, and that higher speeds didn’t allow the camber to affect the vehicle as it was through before it had a chance to happen. Needless to say the Police didn’t believe them so Pandoro asked the Police to shut the road and do a trial. They only did so to prove that it was the camber of the road that was causing the roll-overs, not excessive speed, and that if it proved to be the case, the Police would pay for the damage if the wagon went over at low speed, not high.
The day of the test came, the Police shut the road and the loaded Pandoro wagon came through at 25 mph. It went through and stayed up. They brought it back, turned it around and went back through the roundabout at 15-20 mph. It rolled over, the Police copped for the damage and the road got dug up and resurfaced - no prosecutions.
I stand to be corrected regarding the precise details, but it sounds uncannily like the same place to me.
Yes, in my 6 years at Pandoro, I recall severall roll-overs (hardly a one in nearly 20 years at Bowker though!), including Amounderness Way, but also Hellfire Corner (when it was still there) and also the old road through Thornton before Amounderness Way was built.
The first one, I think, that brought “slow speed roll over” under scrutiny was about 1973, when an F88 rolled onto a car at one of the old roundabouts at the motorway junction at Samlesbury.