Some of the four wheelers ive drove

This was a bag of crap…glad I was shunting full time and didn’t have to take it out,bad enough loading it and parking it up in t’yard.
Harry G would have loved it.
BigG-Unit:
Here’s a couple of pics. from late '80s of some of my motors. I think we took this as it was very rare to get the motors that were on the greenhouse job back together! This was a time when drivers still took wagons home, so with that and the nights away with that job this sight was a one off.1
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see that photo was taken when a tautliner was a sought after comodity as seen on the boxer
R975ENC:
BigG-Unit:
Here’s a couple of pics. from late '80s of some of my motors. I think we took this as it was very rare to get the motors that were on the greenhouse job back together! This was a time when drivers still took wagons home, so with that and the nights away with that job this sight was a one off.1
0see that photo was taken when a tautliner was a sought after comodity as seen on the boxer
Yep i drove it for a few months with the box then my boss got the tautliner fitted
BIGRIG:
R975ENC:
BigG-Unit:
Here’s a couple of pics. from late '80s of some of my motors. I think we took this as it was very rare to get the motors that were on the greenhouse job back together! This was a time when drivers still took wagons home, so with that and the nights away with that job this sight was a one off.
see that photo was taken when a tautliner was a sought after comodity as seen on the boxer
Yep i drove it for a few months with the box then my boss got the tautliner fitted
I’m totally lost now!!
Got to admit there are some cracking stories and photos being posted on here.
Here’s a few of the limited number of photos I’ve got (don’t start me on why the others went missing )
First is one of the luton TKs I drove, slow as a wet Wednesday till it came to stopping it, then it was too fast by half. After a while with that they trusted me with a new TL. Compared with the TKs this was luxury - cloth seats! Cab insulation!! Because I didn’t get into too much trouble and because I went for and passed my Class 1, the mob I was with made me the regular driver on a pair of DAF 2100s, this one was the later one. We did all sorts, local & distance removals, then they got into general haulage specialising in bulky freight, all over the UK.
Thee were plenty of other 16-tonners out there that were faster, (the 1617s we had for a start) but I got fond of these DAFs (and still am) - I put more than 500,000km on one and the one pictured was no spring chicken either, and bar servicing they were never off the road. They were a bit heavy for good payloads compared to D series, Dodge Commandos and even FL6s, but no matter what I put on them if I loaded it right they never looked overloaded, lopsided or tail-wagging-the-dog.
If I dig up any more I’ll post them up, but that’ll do me for now.
Some great photos and stories on here, I keep seeing wagons and firms I remember from the 80s and I’m glad people are taking the time to archive this stuff - it’s amazing what slips from your memory, then one day you see a photo of something and all sorts of memories come flooding back. Some of them are even good ones
Drive safe people
Steve