My user name “skids” is also my nickname on account of my surname being Marks.
Leylandlover will probably remember “Donkey” Trigg.
His wife told me why!
A car transporter driver tipping his load at a dealers & someone stole a car from his load he was then known as Carlos
we also had a wan in one job , but his name was king
In the 50/60s When I worked for Johny Baxter on Newcastle quayside, There was the Black Night, He didnt wash to often, Maverick who thought he was a real cowboy, but in fact was a right nugget, He was Bart & had a so called brother Brett, I think he watched too much TV, Regards Larry.
When I first started work in the 50s I was on a horse & cart for Newcastle Co-op Newgate Street, There was a lad there who allways got Gabby, His name was Gordon Hayse, Happy Days Eh, Regards Larry, PS Mind you I used to get called Smiler, ■■, My middle name is Smiles of course.
Lawrence Dunbar:
When I first started work in the 50s I was on a horse & cart for Newcastle Co-op Newgate Street, There was a lad there who allways got Gabby, His name was Gordon Hayse, Happy Days Eh, Regards Larry, PS Mind you I used to get called Smiler, ■■, My middle name is Smiles of course.
Hey Larry ,do you remembr smiler wainman racing at Aycliffe!!!
worked with a guy originaly known as joe90 until one time he stayed in digs we used were the landlady did extras! one night we had gone for a pint and he had stayed in so she decided to start early she went to his room opened the door and her dressing gown and asked him if he wanted anything else he looked her up and down and said ill have acup of hot choclate! switched the light off and turned over. she told us about it the next morning and for ever after he was known as hot choclate!
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Lawrence Dunbar:
When I first started work in the 50s I was on a horse & cart for Newcastle Co-op Newgate Street, There was a lad there who allways got Gabby, His name was Gordon Hayse, Happy Days Eh, Regards Larry, PS Mind you I used to get called Smiler, ■■, My middle name is Smiles of course.Hey Larry ,do you remembr smiler wainman racing at Aycliffe!!!
Sorry I dont, but I might have an old programe with his name & number on, I will have a rumage through my shoe boxes when I get time, Being retired is hard work trying to do everything at once if you know what I mean, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
When I first started work in the 50s I was on a horse & cart for Newcastle Co-op Newgate Street, There was a lad there who allways got Gabby, His name was Gordon Hayse, Happy Days Eh, Regards Larry, PS Mind you I used to get called Smiler, ■■, My middle name is Smiles of course.
My Grandad used to have a Clydesdale 'hoss called “Smiler” Larry,are you sure your not getting mixed up as to which one of you was called Smiler !!! Oh! and your on about a driver that was called “the black Knight” well when I was at Brady’s in my late teens the night shunter who loaded in the Steel Works was called N-----,apparently he always had been called this name and there was never a “racial problem” but there sure would be to-day if you used that “terminology”,how times have changed,and not for the better either !! Cheers Dennis.PS,if he had a bath he was the same “shade” as thee and me !!
Another nickname comes to mind from the an old pal of mine the late Albert Greenwood (RIP), he was a real corker when it came to nicknames, I remember being on Tower Hill waiting for a return load, & of course Albert new everything there was to know about London, there was a loose woman used to vist The Hill every day, & Albert called her Spotty Mulldoon, she had a face like Spotted ■■■■ Pudding, She was game for anything among the drivers at that time, but I think she went away a very dissapointed woman of easy virtue, Too expensive perhaps, one will never know will one, The good old happy days doon the Smoke, Regards Larry.
Aye Dennis, there was plenty of drivers about in those days who didnt like soap & water, I worked with a lad who only took a towel & soap plus a razor wrapped up in a owld newspaper , He was away all the week, never changed his linings, shirt, or vest, he used to bloody stink the dirty git, But having said that he was good at his job, & was a good 8 wheeler driver, & worked till he was 70, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Aye Dennis, there was plenty of drivers about in those days who didnt like soap & water, I worked with a lad who only took a towel & soap plus a razor wrapped up in a owld newspaper , He was away all the week, never changed his linings, shirt, or vest, he used to bloody stink the dirty git, But having said that he was good at his job, & was a good 8 wheeler driver, & worked till he was 70, Regards Larry.
We had a great driver( now RIP) that worked for us for over 20 years,used to come into the depot every Sunday (only missed the odd Sunday if it was a bank Holiday) collar and tie,clean and tidy.Came back into the depot on a Friday PM smelling like a Polecat,ye gods!!We never gave him brand new motor,for obvious reasons, but this didn’t bother him as he always had a 'good’un! He was a great lad,do anything for the good of the job and was known “up and down the road” in Scotland,England and Wales,never had a problem with him,salt of the earth lad.Guess what tape they played at his funeral a year or two ago? “King of The Road” great send off !! Cheers Dennis.
Remembered a few nicknames hope they arnt members o well
Ferret That one is explians its self if you knew him
Wurzel
Smelly
Bumpingwaite (sorry Roy )
Carpet chest ( Had hairy chest 
and wore clogs 
Doctor Death( again if you knew him )
Plug
Manic Bob
Sticks
Shrinka ,left handed gun ,speed skater
Wallrus (That wha me dad )
Tommy opporsite
■■■■■■
Show it no mercy Roy
Wooppy
Red mel
Mickey Mouse (rip)
Ringer (rip)
Zoot
Tilt ,Baldrick
Vic vomit
Brassneck
Half ton head
Henry the 8 th
Not going to put the real names other lads on here will know the names and who they are, and will have a chuckle
BIG AW
Remembered a few more
Coco-pops ,alby (because he always said he would be late)
Egg dip (RIP)
Easy for you to say
Banana arse
Tut Tut
I remember a driver of AE Gough & Sons of Llandrindod Wells,called " Bishop " because his dad was a Baptist Minister.
Another one comes to mind He drove a Foden Tipper on distance work he quite often stayed at Normans Cafe at Brotherton He was called Arsebreath, & let me tell you it was that bad a blind man could have felt it with his stick, Regards Larry.
Going back to the 50s, I worked with a cockney geazer, He was from Sheperds Bush , He was a right nugget, fresh from the Army, He married a Geordie Lass, & he was convinced he was one of us ■■? No bloody way were the drivers having that, He was a right lazey T --t & a perfect tea leaf, His nickname Was 4 Skin Ted The B-----d from the bush, I think he is dead now, So no dissrepect for him I will say RIP, You Cockney Git, Regards Larry.
Another one comes to mind, Booler Bill, he was supposed to have been involed in some dodgey tire dealings , that was the patter in those days anyway, But he did end up with a traffic managers job for a Newcastle firm, Regards Larry.
Very early on in my HGV driving career,Riverside Garage in Market Deeping,I drove with another driver we nicknamed “Spud”,on account of his surname being Tatum,bit tenuous but never mind!!!
Take it easy,
David 