Down and Out in Ipswich and Felixstowe

The new(er) CMH volvo, at Crowfield I think??

chorcheela:

kindle530:

KW:
Peanuts now drives for Tony Everrett.
Corcheela, his new truck parks up in Leggets yard.

That sounds like a familiar nickname, I remember from the late 70’s a guy known as Peanuts, used to live near the station in Elmswell - had long hair and drove a white transit. Might be a long shot but would that be the same guy?

Sounds just like him, i think he now drives around in a left ■■■■■■ BMW, and yes thats Ray Millers new truck in the pic.

harry:
Next, some Stralis (what’s the plural of 'Stralis?? A ‘Gaggle.’

Isnt the plural of Stralis “SCRAPYARD”? :laughing: :laughing:
Good pics. Are there still plenty of RH motors knocking about the docks?

Note to self… must read all the post first! :unamused: :wink:

euromat:
elkar rent is a trailer rental company who are owned by welsi bv (edwin who owns welsi and his wife owns elkar), which own a 50% stake in irf hence all the polish ones are over in the uk pulling their trailers. the amount of polish motors doing that for all the lines out of felixstowe and harwich etc is scary to say the least, then you have companies like rynart trading, which are dutch registered trucks but the drivers all used to be estonians, but as they cannot underpay them anymore, they have got rid of them and replaced them with romanian drivers, no wonder british trucks on traction cant make a living

nearly right! Elkar are rental arm of Welsi BV, from Venlo, they also do have part ownership of IRF, and share haulage, rent trailers to/from etc etc. However, Edwin is the chief traffic planner, Geert and Willi started Welsi, used to run a lovely 3 series Scania drawbar with Esteppe high roof conversion in TNT colours. Geert used to run middle east in the good old days, and was chuffed when i sent him a copy of Destination Doha, he’d never heard of it. Welsi used to specialise in Dutch/German and Dutch/UK haulage, now go all over. They started off running a couple of Poles as were finding it hard to get Dutch drivers to stay away for long periods, they admit it took at least 4 years to get them to work the way they wanted, but now are fine and work hard, hence they have many units registered in Poland now. Incidentally, they also use subbies, and have one with a stunning Volvo Globetrotter by the name of Haukes, but i think this is a different person to the yellow Globby with the Elkar trailer. If i can find the pics i will post on here, also a beautiful muraled Daf Super Space.

speaking of poles working for the dutch, these trucks operated by postma of ijhorst are all driven by poles, gerrit now has 1 dutch driver left…

they were at the orwell crossing cafe the other sunday, im sure a few of them always park there at weekends, also out and about iround ipswich i saw these

all at the tescos truckpark, copdock