Bewick:
Now you are jesting Dave—aren’t you? I’d need a Lion tamers chair and whip to get some of these lads licked back into shape!! not to mention having to put a stick of dynamite under their pit’s to get them out for a decent day’s collar!!! I’m thinking particularly of messrs. Gill,Webb,Trotter and Fergie oh! and I’d have DtR doing a shift in’th office he’s got the CPC,any problems with any of them and he could knock on my door for help!! I am sure I could still remember a few choice expletives to serenade their “lug 'oles” !! Cheers Dennis.
Evening Gaffer Dennis,a good crew there and I’m sure thad get some choice expletives back to serenade YOUR lug ‘oles.Can I go on nights please,any trunk will do,just don’t give me a Scania 80/81,you can dish that out to Harry.Johnnie Trotter would want a Scammell with a set of paraffin lamps and Dave the R would want a good camera to take shots of lorries on t’A6 after he’s done all your work routing traffic,while you are out ‘untin,shootin’ and fishin’ with yer rich landowner mates and then drinking with the mayor in his parlour later on.Don’t worry about the job it will run itsen.I’ve got a CPC as well if Dave wants some time off but thad have to pay me top dollar to work in t’office.
Bewick:
Now you are jesting Dave—aren’t you? I’d need a Lion tamers chair and whip to get some of these lads licked back into shape!! not to mention having to put a stick of dynamite under their pit’s to get them out for a decent day’s collar!!! I’m thinking particularly of messrs. Gill,Webb,Trotter and Fergie oh! and I’d have DtR doing a shift in’th office he’s got the CPC,any problems with any of them and he could knock on my door for help!! I am sure I could still remember a few choice expletives to serenade their “lug 'oles” !! Cheers Dennis.
Evening Gaffer Dennis,a good crew there and I’m sure thad get some choice expletives back to serenade YOUR lug ‘oles.Can I go on nights please,any trunk will do,just don’t give me a Scania 80/81,you can dish that out to Harry.Johnnie Trotter would want a Scammell with a set of paraffin lamps and Dave the R would want a good camera to take shots of lorries on t’A6 after he’s done all your work routing traffic,while you are out ‘untin,shootin’ and fishin’ with yer rich landowner mates and then drinking with the mayor in his parlour later on.Don’t worry about the job it will run itsen.I’ve got a CPC as well if Dave wants some time off but thad have to pay me top dollar to work in t’office.
Anon ex IOM
This is my office Chris.I only act for small operators nowadays .
Cheers Dave.
Bewick:
Now you are jesting Dave—aren’t you? I’d need a Lion tamers chair and whip to get some of these lads licked back into shape!! not to mention having to put a stick of dynamite under their pit’s to get them out for a decent day’s collar!!! I’m thinking particularly of messrs. Gill,Webb,Trotter and Fergie oh! and I’d have DtR doing a shift in’th office he’s got the CPC,any problems with any of them and he could knock on my door for help!! I am sure I could still remember a few choice expletives to serenade their “lug 'oles” !! Cheers Dennis.
Get it right Dennis.Two CPC’s National & International.A load of EU regs ■■■■■■■■ most of it.
As for the Big J MA Evans defo had one with the 8LXB,haven’t got a pic of the back of the cab,but they have got the log book when David Edwards finds it.
Cheers Dave.
Not as daft as your suggestion sounds Dave! The International CPC could be put to good use,Fergie and Johnnie could manage the European mainland,Chris could take care of the IOM and Ireland and we’d keep “H” buzzing in the UK with sending them unaccompanied trailers!! And of course if we had the odd trailer for Bagdad or Tehran I suppose Norm could be persuaded to return on the right “terms” obviously!!! Where’s the telephone?? Cheers Dennis.
Can I have a load please, I have just renewed my license this week and dont want it wasted? Have to be a rigid though, only bender that I can drive is my caravan, preferably an eight legger and nothing Foreign. Oh and I cant rope or sheet either, dont want any lifting so a nice tipper and easysheet would suit me just fine, but I done want to be carting stone or sand (to much chasing about) so it would have to be on coated stone, otherwise I aint to fussy.
Bewick:
Now you are jesting Dave—aren’t you? I’d need a Lion tamers chair and whip to get some of these lads licked back into shape!! not to mention having to put a stick of dynamite under their pit’s to get them out for a decent day’s collar!!! I’m thinking particularly of messrs. Gill,Webb,Trotter and Fergie oh! and I’d have DtR doing a shift in’th office he’s got the CPC,any problems with any of them and he could knock on my door for help!! I am sure I could still remember a few choice expletives to serenade their “lug 'oles” !! Cheers Dennis.
Get it right Dennis.Two CPC’s National & International.A load of EU regs ■■■■■■■■ most of it.
As for the Big J MA Evans defo had one with the 8LXB,haven’t got a pic of the back of the cab,but they have got the log book when David Edwards finds it.
Cheers Dave.
Not as daft as your suggestion sounds Dave! The International CPC could be put to good use,Fergie and Johnnie could manage the European mainland,Chris could take care of the IOM and Ireland and we’d keep “H” buzzing in the UK with sending them unaccompanied trailers!! And of course if we had the odd trailer for Bagdad or Tehran I suppose Norm could be persuaded to return on the right “terms” obviously!!! Where’s the telephone?? Cheers Dennis.
I think there are quite a few on TNUK who are CPC holders Dennis,not all ex hauliers like yourself. I think several have the PSV versions as well,so if you are going to involve coaches in this transport consultancy,better get Wheel Nut on the case as well .
Cheers Dave.
Hey ! I can drive a modern wagon a “Strato” with 410 ■■■■■■■ and twin splitter would do me fine no fancy phones or such things or I would stop thinking it was a warning light and sumat was wrong if it went off.
Cheers Johnnie
Bewick:
Now you are jesting Dave—aren’t you? I’d need a Lion tamers chair and whip to get some of these lads licked back into shape!! not to mention having to put a stick of dynamite under their pit’s to get them out for a decent day’s collar!!! I’m thinking particularly of messrs. Gill,Webb,Trotter and Fergie oh! and I’d have DtR doing a shift in’th office he’s got the CPC,any problems with any of them and he could knock on my door for help!! I am sure I could still remember a few choice expletives to serenade their “lug 'oles” !! Cheers Dennis.
Evening Gaffer Dennis,a good crew there and I’m sure thad get some choice expletives back to serenade YOUR lug ‘oles.Can I go on nights please,any trunk will do,just don’t give me a Scania 80/81,you can dish that out to Harry.Johnnie Trotter would want a Scammell with a set of paraffin lamps and Dave the R would want a good camera to take shots of lorries on t’A6 after he’s done all your work routing traffic,while you are out ‘untin,shootin’ and fishin’ with yer rich landowner mates and then drinking with the mayor in his parlour later on.Don’t worry about the job it will run itsen.I’ve got a CPC as well if Dave wants some time off but thad have to pay me top dollar to work in t’office.
Anon ex IOM
This is my office Chris.I only act for small operators nowadays .
Cheers Dave.
Why else do you think I offered you the job!! We wouldn’t exactly be the size of “fast eddie” would we now,but the quality of the service we would offer would be miles better with this crew!! I’ve got a handy lay-by lined up for you to park “the office” in every morning and I’ve done a deal with the e.coli van for our snap!!! Don’t need a fancy depot with Aspidisras growing in the foyer!! The motors would never be standing long enough any road!! I’d leave my Merc at home and pop in with the mini van!! Low profile Dave,say no more wink wink! otherwise if we looked too prosperous it would set our Shop Steward,brother Trotter,off and we’d soon be up to our armpits with union trouble!! By the way Dave do you know who the full time Mothers Union official is■■? Cheers Dennis.
Will this one do for you Pete.Will get it painted a different colour and get the name taken off it,thats if Paul Griffiths will sell it,as its one of the last Foden’s made.
Cheers Dave.
I somehow have the feeling that we would be over subscribed with quality staff and one thing we never did at my old firm was turn down a driver who we knew to be a top man!!Could we get enough motors on the road ! probably have to “double man” as well as double shift a few!!! Probably need 3 trailers to every tractor! Cheers Dennis.
Ive got 1 of those cpc thingys too cuts no ice here ,ive been trying to get a job where i can use it since march to no avail , driving a bleeding hook loader its doing my head in
ramone:
Ive got 1 of those cpc thingys too cuts no ice here ,ive been trying to get a job where i can use it since march to no avail , driving a bleeding hook loader its doing my head in
If you have a full time job,you can’t use it for someone else after December ramone.There will be plenty of operators who have people acting for them in that capacity who will be looking for replacements,so you could get lucky.
Cheers Dave.
ramone:
Ive got 1 of those cpc thingys too cuts no ice here ,ive been trying to get a job where i can use it since march to no avail , driving a bleeding hook loader its doing my head in
From what I read about the antics that “fast eddies” Planners? Oooooh! get up to “ramone” I bet you could run rings round them!! At least you would know what the driver was talking about when he rang in!! Cheers Dennis.
Evening all, well were off again are we? Is there room for a little one inside? I can get us some cracking motors, for the International I could find some nice Bussings, for the UK they will have to be big power, but light, so I expect there is no choice Seddon, Rolls Royce seems about right, oh dear I didnt pass the interview!! Ive finished our last bit of drilling tonight, but the ground is so dry, 25acres of “Timothy” that I drilled over a month ago has still not germinated, and that normally is a strong grass! Came in for tea, announced to my Managing Director, (41years this month), "Im going to get a proper computer, that can handle photographs" To which came the reply, "I have been waiting two years for you to put up the Greenhouse you bought me"!! So I have a little more work to do before I can (try), putting up some of my photographs. First one will be my shot of the Smith of Maddiston Highway, behind PWG48M, which I have noted as a "240 Big J ". Doesnt any one from the Black Country have a photograph, or details of Brian Orchards Big J 8LXB?? Dennis, you know the thing that bugs me, over all the years that I knew Hulme Robertson, (J&A Smiths fleet engineer), I cannot recollect him waxing lyrical about 240s, and he was an incredibly clever Gardner man!! Smiths must have been one of the biggest “hire and reward” ■■■■■■■ users in the UK, but I do know that they had some Gardners on the fleet. Wonder if we will ever get a rear cab shot?? Ive just found a photograph of a Scania LB76, retro fitted with a 180 Gardner, (Trev H will know this one), Cheerio, off to give the Bollinger a bending, I think I`ve earned it, (anyone who has sat on a John Deere seat for 12hours knows what I mean)!
Dave the Renegade:
Will this one do for you Pete.Will get it painted a different colour and get the name taken off it,thats if Paul Griffiths will sell it,as its one of the last Foden’s made.
Cheers Dave.
That will be right fine Dave, get that blooming awfull name off it as you promised, give me a full snap bag and away I will go! Limestone from Ballidon to Bisons at Lichfield, sand from Hints quarry to Meriden, sand from Meriden down to Gore, dinner at your house and then granite chippings back to Ballidon, oh the good old days!
Do you mean to tell me this is not a very serious thread and everybody is just taking the ■■■■ it is enough to make take the bottle out again and fill the glass.
cheers Johnnie
sammyopisite:
Hey ! I can drive a modern wagon a “Strato” with 410 ■■■■■■■ and twin splitter would do me fine no fancy phones or such things or I would stop thinking it was a warning light and sumat was wrong if it went off.
Cheers Johnnie
P S I have one of them CRAP thingies
I took mine when at GGD,Huddersfield Tech,1980,only did it for the skive and got paid nights as well.I’ll bet Dennis wouldn’t pay that do you Johnnie?
Same as you,I don’t want a motor with a row of warning lights - I’d just cover 'em up with black tape anyway.No phone,CB or Band 3 but I wouldn’t mind a Jimmy Saville,a cab light,heater and two wipers - oh and a log book or some log sheets,no fancy tacho thingy for me.
Do you think he’d set us on on Johnnie? Don’t forget we are both from Yorkshire…
it is enough to make take the bottle out again and fill the glass. 