grumpy old man:
I used to enjoy going to the Texaco and Esso refineries in West Wales (gas oil dye, split load between the two), always return empty, needed a couple of loads of derv and one of spirit to get the tank clean after that stuff.
And Plymouth in the summer, down, tip, back up to Taunton for a lovely evening out.
Happy days, long gone.
That would be for Fred Chappell,Owl Lane,Ossett I reckon Brian?
It would indeed. A 3 axle Foden unit, 350 ■■■■■■■ with a Fuller, and and ancient 3 axle tank. It was good work, we had 2 motors on the job (Dave Irvine drove the other). It must have been a good paying job for our leader, it was always empty return.
The dye used to be manufactured by Williams Chemicals, Heckmondwike. We did all the UK refineries.
i remember them well Brian when I worked for A E Evans.Not very often we ran anywhere empty though.
I used to love going down the A49 from Warrington to Ross on Wye then the A40/A449 past Symonds Yat to Newport. Especially in the spring when the daffodils were coming out and the caravans were still in hibernation.
As a kid, going with Dad down to Chipping Sodbury. Via Swindon and M4 on the way down, and Tetbury (pre weight limit) on the return. I loved the descent of Sodbury Hill and then seeing the large dumptrucks tipping into the crusher. I loved the fact you had to drive on the right in there!
On the road myself, I loved taking hogging ballast and pea shingle down to Hanham Abbots, via M4 and A420, then a backload out of Wickwar. Depending on traffic and hours, it’d be either the big layby at Seven Springs or the one near the old Windrush Cafe at Sherborne. Usually once tipped at the quarry I’d get a local load or two to finish.
mushroomman:
I used to love going down the A49 from Warrington to Ross on Wye then the A40/A449 past Symonds Yat to Newport. Especially in the spring when the daffodils were coming out and the caravans were still in hibernation.
Yes,that was another nice,pleasant run,from Shotton to Newport or Shotton to Swansea.And the run back from Swansea to Birmingham/Sheffield via Pontardawe and past Crai Reservoir to Brecon,Leominster,Tenbury Wells,Kidderminster and onto the M5 at Quinton.
grumpy old man:
I used to enjoy going to the Texaco and Esso refineries in West Wales (gas oil dye, split load between the two), always return empty, needed a couple of loads of derv and one of spirit to get the tank clean after that stuff.
And Plymouth in the summer, down, tip, back up to Taunton for a lovely evening out.
Happy days, long gone.
That would be for Fred Chappell,Owl Lane,Ossett I reckon Brian?
It would indeed. A 3 axle Foden unit, 350 ■■■■■■■ with a Fuller, and and ancient 3 axle tank. It was good work, we had 2 motors on the job (Dave Irvine drove the other). It must have been a good paying job for our leader, it was always empty return.
The dye used to be manufactured by Williams Chemicals, Heckmondwike. We did all the UK refineries.
Aye,i remember Fred Chappels tipping dye at Phillips at North tees,(longish job) IIRC.Vic.
That would be Dave Irvine. For some reason the cargo pump was just about as low geared as you could get, nobody ever asked why it was so geared, Dave didn’t give a fishes ■■■ how long it took him, he was getting paid by the hour, he’d have sat there all week.
mushroomman:
I used to love going down the A49 from Warrington to Ross on Wye then the A40/A449 past Symonds Yat to Newport. Especially in the spring when the daffodils were coming out and the caravans were still in hibernation.
Yep, it was a grand drive going down there…and we were getting paid to do it.
Get me a Mk 3 or a Mk 5 and i’ll be off in the morning. “No I haven’t got a bloody mobile phone, I’ll give you a bell when I’m tipped”.
Happy days.
coil c.b.l carrier:
hi one and all
new on here …i had many favourite runs but i use to like travalling over the beacons on a nice sunny day and then down the wye valley towards leominster…i use to work out of the abbey port talbot has a owner driver and living in craven arms in those days gone by…not sure if you remember me dave but allan coxall will…hope lifes ok for you
regards
Hi coil carrier,
Welcome to Trucknet.Good to have another member who knows this area.Alan Coxhill’s son Atkidave is a member on here.Alan is two or three years younger than me.I just remember him at Knighton school about the time I was leaving.
You will have to give me a clue,if I know you.
Cheers Dave.
Having never been abroad i think the best trip i’ve had was a few months ago to the Isle of lewis ( Stornoway ).
I left our yard in Bolton on the thursday morning and arrived in ullapool early evening after driving through some of the best scenery i’ve ever seen , the trip between Inverness and ullapool is nothing short of amazing .
After a good nights sleep i boarded the ferry and delivered my load of cabinets on the isle of lewis and returned to the ferry port to await my return trip .
I arrived back into ullapool around midnight and spent the rest of the weekend walking round the tiny fishing village and watching the world go by .
My backload was way out in the sticks ( Inverness ) and was a load of fertilizer for a mushroom farm in lancaster .
I doubt i’ll ever get a better trip than that on this side of the channel . Amazing .
coil c.b.l carrier:
hi one and all
new on here …i had many favourite runs but i use to like travalling over the beacons on a nice sunny day and then down the wye valley towards leominster…i use to work out of the abbey port talbot has a owner driver and living in craven arms in those days gone by…not sure if you remember me dave but allan coxall will…hope lifes ok for you
regards
Hi coil carrier,
Welcome to Trucknet.Good to have another member who knows this area.Alan Coxhill’s son Atkidave is a member on here.Alan is two or three years younger than me.I just remember him at Knighton school about the time I was leaving.
You will have to give me a clue,if I know you.
Cheers Dave.
hi dave
thanks for the welcome…not sure if youll remember me but my name is colin lunn and had a few lorries in my time .the last one on the steel was a blue seddon atki working from the abbey mainly to the north west but did alot of shotton..i finished on good terms with british steel..had a spell from haulage but thats another story..i started again with another lorry working for taylors out of kingspan mainly doing scotland which was a good job ( better alot than british steel )..i finish in 2008 when the crunch came and retired to a better life than the uk..im abit older than allan coxill…not sure if your in the kington area but was palls with the burton boys ( john dennis and robert ) but that was many moons ago…never did any tipping work but one of my good friends was on it a man named fred archer maybe you remember him…he`s sadly gone now but is son donald is still on the tipping work out of wigmore…send me a reply and again thanks for the welcome
regards to you and all that remembers me
Used to do a regular multi drop maybe start Bristol into somerset down to Budliegh Salterton and back up to Barnstable & ilfracombe last drops, but the best bit was back across for my backload out of Wallington western Frome via Taunton & Glastonbury on the old 361 with the F88 you could see over all the hedges & see for miles loved it summer & winter.
On a later job on for Ge Armstrong Durham got to every ■■■■ & cranny of the Uk, West coast Scotland the Ilses anywere they wanted Gas water or Drainage pipes not your normal industrial areas , most enjoyable job I`ve had in Haulage
Not a long journey.In 1969 we were hauling stone from the local quarries on the Welsh Border to Kidderminster when the ring road was being built.It was through the summer and two loads a day and a short one was a good day.The run to Kidderminster was down past Tenbury Wells on the A456 and up over Clows Top and down through Bewdley pre bypass days.
It was nice countryside and nice mini skirts in Bewdley through the town and by the river Severn.
Cheers Dave.
5thwheel:
Load a 40ft Seatrain container,driving for Humber McVeigh’s Manchester,take down to Felixstowe via Alconbury,good digs at the Routemaster at the Docks,one off and one on,back to Manchester or at least North following day,usually as a convoy,as Humber McVeighs Sheffield would also be tipping and reloading there,good days.
David
grandad Eric Alcock was transport manager at salford think it was langworthy road im lookin at old pics thes yard with looks like atkinson theres red n blue and then theres green motors and what looks like a setrain reefer on a flatbed , i have more pics of the HMcV scanias at shell chemicals and theres seems to be a thankyou letter from shell also i found a big brochure of a ship that must have been from norway or denmark ,ay the good ol days ,todays transport managers never ever turned a wheel ,maybe i posted it in wrong section but who cares i just happened upon this forumn as i was thinking back and i found folk who actually know of McVeigh
no sure if the seatrain box is a reefer is white though on a flatbed too before skellys i not seen that in a long time down the A14 to felixstowe and that redhead woman in the layby hehe
I used to like taking concrete lamp-posts (before these new-fangled collapsible things) from the works near Coleford in the Forest of Dean to the council Depot at Camborne, Cornwall. Day one would see me setting out from our depot and parking at the Redruth truckstop in mid-afternoon. Shower, shave, decent meal, then Newcastle Brown until midnight. Next morning it was in to the council yard for 0830, hang around a beach waiting for a return load until after lunch, then load bagged china clay out of St Austell for Liverpool. Happy, sunny summer’s days in the mid-sixties.
Also used to like taking bricks to Pembroke Power Station, then re-loading bagged milk powder out of the Whitland creamery before a night out at my mate’s club near Tenby.
In the earley 60s I used to run to Trawsfynnyd, Loaded from Pamatrada at Newcastle with 2 reactors for the power station there, Tip & load 2 that had been operated for a lot of hours & returned to be checked, I used to park up there , And sleep in a camp sought of thing they had for the workers, They were like army huts, It was only coppers to pay for the bed & they food was cheap & you could get up any time for an earley start, Happy Days, Regards Larry.
For me, I can still remember those very early mornings, / late nights, thundering…no,…chugging through Bridge on the A2, (I was in a 4LK powered Foden after all, and it did not improve even with a Gardner 150 Foden), to get a ferry to “The Continent”, those pangs of expectation and excitement, the anticipation of the “unknown”.
Then the anticlimax on my return…dirty cafes, lousey greasey food, unfriendly locals, and digs that should have been dug into the ground…and buried!!
Just could not wait to go back…then the feeling was always the same, I suppose todays people would call it an adrenilin rush…to me it was totally addictive.
I was lucky enough to drive all over the UK as a youngster, the scenery in so many places filled my heart with joy, …but that little Kent village, and that bank, and the houses on the edge of the road… it was like opening the door of Pandoras box!!!
I have always preferred “Scotch” whilst in the UK. I was lucky enough to do it on a daily basis from Hull for several years, but the climax of any good trip was collecting the Mars bar at Granthouses
August 1998 working for Concord Roadshows I did a weekend show in Loch Moy near Inverness, packed up on the Monday and left for Stithians in Cornwall arriving there on the Friday morning (no hurry and stopped in Newton Abbott for a night on the town with my nephew, that drive was my most memorable ever.
Second best was my first real long haul over here, left home on a tues, collected in Cobelskill NY and Jersey city NJ, ran cross country to Kansas City then Prescott AZ and Las Vegas NV. Took US 56 across Kansas, single carriageway with a 75mph limit, spent the thursday night in Dodge City at a truck stop opposite the Wyatt Earp hotel… saw my first breathtaking scenery.
