Frilly Curtains and Other Crap

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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Bewick:

Muckaway:
There’s not much call for a radio around oxfordshire; Too many crap “local” stations.

I bet you listen to “Radio Traveller” Nathan !! Dennis.

This their lineup: :laughing:
05:00-07:00 Early breakfast show for all those road sign removal gangs.
07:00-10:00 Breakfast show discussing all the latest news including caravan maintenance, how to overload a transit etc.
10:00-11:00 Womans grabbing hour.
11:00-13:00 Midday phone in (ring the kiosk ask for Lee)
13:00-16:00 Afternoon show including consumer advice ( know the loopholes)
16:00-18:00 Uninsured Drivetime
18:00-19:00 Business News such as tarmac prices, stretch limo hire rates, scrap prices etc…

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toxic gas man:
Hi all, Way back in 1962 i had a new 8 legger Guy Warrior Light Eight.Bling was factory fitted,radio, sun visor,electric razor,twin headlights,great,pity about the engine AEC 7.7,totally underpowered.Could get 17.5 tons payload legal.PS, Why all the spotlights these days?,whats that all about? Cheers Ted.

Now your talking Ted ! What a great motor,but it’s a pity it didn’t have the Gardner 150LX under the bonnet !! But that was called the Invincible and was a heavier built motor altogether,and more expensive.But the “new” Guys were sure ahead of their time when they were launched in '59.IMO to-days drivers who go in for all those spotlights ect. must have been kept under the stairs,in the dark,when they were kids!!! And now they are terrified of the dark !! Cheers Bewick.

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Muckaway:

Bewick:

Muckaway:
There’s not much call for a radio around oxfordshire; Too many crap “local” stations.

I bet you listen to “Radio Traveller” Nathan !! Dennis.

This their lineup: :laughing:
05:00-07:00 Early breakfast show for all those road sign removal gangs.
07:00-10:00 Breakfast show discussing all the latest news including caravan maintenance, how to overload a transit etc.
10:00-11:00 Womans grabbing hour.
11:00-13:00 Midday phone in (ring the kiosk ask for Lee)
13:00-16:00 Afternoon show including consumer advice ( know the loopholes)
16:00-18:00 Uninsured Drivetime
18:00-19:00 Business News such as tarmac prices, stretch limo hire rates, scrap prices etc…

You are a “star” Nathan,if I was running the country I’d appoint you " Minister of Traveller affairs" !!! Go on my son !!! Cheers Dennis.

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I didn’t have a radio in my Sed Ak 400 but I did fit one in my 1986 Foden. I remember one of Eaton Concrete from Cheslyn Hay’s drivers being envious of me because their TM, an ex military chap, insisted that radio’s and CB’s were removed from their ERF’s and Foden’s as he deemed them a distraction.
Regarding spotlight’s, Tarmac O/D’s from Bayston Hill who used to work nights from our quarry in Derbyshire had lights on the roof and grille on their Volvos, they would give you a ‘friendly’ flash while you were negotiating our narrow B roads and for a few seconds you couldnt see a thing! :open_mouth:

Pete.

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Come on drivers…'fes up. Who had a Mr Bibedum(?) Michelin Tyreman …and worse, who had a light inside it too ! :laughing:

I never was one for flags and ‘stick to the windscreen’ note pads. I never even ran a number plate on the trailer. You’ll learn why later.

Being as I usually ran night’s, ( Over weight, over time and ‘over there’. ) I invested in 100watt spot lamps on the top of the cab. It all started when I was running Italy.

Over there the cars coming towards you on the stradiali sported CIBE driving lamps and extra fogs all blazing into your eyes because sitting higher in the cab you didn’t get the benefit of the anti dazzle sticks on the center median. The cars couldn’t see you was a truck so they kept the brights on.

With two of the 100 watt spots pointing slightly to the left, you could peel the retina off oncoming drivers eyes over the central barrier. Very effective. :smiley:

Another bonus was running Mont Blanc, Chamonix by the river at Bonneville on the old road before the super slab was built.

Early morning mist would form a 6 to 8 foot deep fog off the fields and river rolling across the road… The roof spots allowed you to see real well over the fog.

One night in 1987, coming north from Rheims I was running around 105 to 115mph all alone on the auto-route coming up to the junction with the Paris road. Truck was a Tempo Freight IVECO 190-38 with the pump turned up to 2700 rpm.

As the Paris road joined mine there were two Happy Days coaches approaching the merge so I flashed the spots to let them know I was there. There was no response so I flashed them again, but nothing . I passed them in the left lane, I then saw why they may not have responded.

There was a green police Renault 4 wagon with 4 flat cap cops leading them. The “Oh s***t” expression was never used so much in earnest before. I knew then I was bound to go to jail. The ‘gate’ was about 20 miles or so further on and I just knew the cops would radio ahead and have me stopped…what to do?

If you want to find out what happened to me, let me know.

regards

dk

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Wheel Nut:
From the keeper of one of the better threads on this forum :smiley:

As a younger man of course

All those stickers doubled the trucks’ value :laughing:

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Now I’m all for a bit of personalisation myself, I’ve done it a lot in the past & still do but I’ve toned it down a bit now, but when does enough become a little too much :open_mouth:

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hi,i have to admit that i had a michelin man with a light in it, also a holland duck(do you remember those?), twin trucker cb aerials, these were fitted on a A series erf, :unamused: i was on night trunk so nobody saw them :unamused: what a plonker. :laughing: cheers diesel

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Still got a Holland duck and my michy man we even had reverseing bleepers with our company name on
Every vehicle had a visor and roof spots and wheel trims and roof racks kept the nut and bolt men away

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I worked alongside an owner driver some years ago, He had a wendy house cab frills here frills there, dangley Teddy Bears, Tassels, you name it he had it, I couldnt get my head around all this because the dirty git never had a wash before turning in on several times I was parked up next to him, & this was where there was facilities for free, but every one does their own thing I suppose. Regards Larry.

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Putting items within the windscreen area in the swept area could also result in a prohibition and will result in an MOT Fail.


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I wonder if any number crunchers have little scarves in their BMWs with “Accountant” written on them…Being as we can have “Driver” ones in our cabs.
:laughing:

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hi, to be really cool in the seventies you had to have a pair of les routier stickers on your bumper and a bucket hanging from the front towing eye on the bumper, :unamused: yep, had those as well :laughing: :laughing: cheers diesel

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I had the pleasure of driving another drivers truck last week. Cab full of his stuff I could cope with, but the frilly pelmet over the windscreen really ■■■■■■ me off.
I finished for the day and was parked in the yard when another driver came back. Not just with frilly pelmet, but frilly side curtains and various crap and cuddly toys all over the dashboard. Oh and one of those hanging dreamcatchers
:@

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I think this is where the word PLONKER came from, & there is plenty of them still about, Regards Larry. With their frills etc,.

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Lawrence Dunbar:
I think this is where the word PLONKER came from, & there is plenty of them still about, Regards Larry. With their frills etc,.

Aye,I never liked any Bling on my motors either Larry!!! Anyhow,how could you fix curtains ect on this “state of the art” machine,I bet they would blow a bit 'gannin ower Carter Bar !! Cheers Dennis.

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Bewick:

Lawrence Dunbar:
I think this is where the word PLONKER came from, & there is plenty of them still about, Regards Larry. With their frills etc,.

Aye,I never liked any Bling on my motors either Larry!!! Anyhow,how could you fix curtains ect on this “state of the art” machine,I bet they would blow a bit 'gannin ower Carter Bar !! Cheers Dennis.

I spot shiny brass on there…
:laughing:

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Bewick:

Lawrence Dunbar:
I think this is where the word PLONKER came from, & there is plenty of them still about, Regards Larry. With their frills etc,.

Aye,I never liked any Bling on my motors either Larry!!! Anyhow,how could you fix curtains ect on this “state of the art” machine,I bet they would blow a bit 'gannin ower Carter Bar !! Cheers Dennis.

Nice one Bewick at least the windscreen has no swept area ? :laughing:

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Can’t stand bling and all the other crap, keep the cab clean on distance work because it’s your home other than that stuff all the crap.

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Each to ther own,One mans meat is another mans poison