And put me in my place.
It would be like being told off like my ex head master at school,lol 
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Or tell the captain, in his day planes had 12 speed Foden gearboxes, not new fangled auto boxes, like now. 
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That made me laugh out loud, I will have you know that CF was a distinguished pilot with over 563,000 flying hours under his belt in a steam powered aircraft, in this well esteemed and distinguished aviation career he was the first aeronautical engineer to install the Eaton Twin Splitter gear box in the Boeing 747 Jumbo prototype model, obviously there were early teething problems, but not for CF.
Like a true soldier you have to carry on.
He later invented and designed the instrument landing system for all aircraft globally.
The visual flight rules is straight out of his earlier scribblings for passenger safety at all costs.
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The fact that you went by plane to Majorca but I’ll be driving down to Monza then onto Sardinia in a few weeks says a lot about who’s the driver among us here.
Flying scares me if we were meant to fly we’d have wings.
The S83/5 with the Rolls Foden box combination was was sublime to drive.Especially when driving it after the Clydesdale during a shift.
UK work by definition is ‘short runs’ it’s a small Island.
But around 400-500 miles in a shift will hit the same driving time limits here as driving across Euroland.
A Foden could be anything from a day cab tipper to a large sleeper cabbed long hauler.
Or even a council gritter.
The 9 speed Fuller in the DAF 2800 ATI was slap across range change.Retrograde added to retrograde v the 12 speed ZF.
Yep you are quite correct
400 - 500 miles in a day in UK
Feltham-Bristol-Feltham-Bristol-Feltham.
Feltham-Kilworth-Feltham-Kilworth-Feltham.
Feltham-Charnock Richard or Killington Lake-Feltham.
Feltham-Luton-Dewsbury-Luton-Feltham.
In a night at least.
That’s just driving around in little circles and going home every day. What we would describe as a 'round town clown.
Depends on what you are driving
Ramone is obviously thinking in terms of modern day traffic conditions and speed limited trucks and night time motorway closures.Around 3 of those runs would be impossible these days.
400-500 miles in a shift ain’t ‘little circles’.
Ramone is identifying something that smells like the countryside . Double manning was the name of the game with parcel companies for long runs because they couldn’t afford to be late
It is if you can go home every day. Google tells me that Feltham-Bristol is less than 200km, that’s local work.
I used to drive Brisbane-Longreach in one hit. Google that distance, then tell me we did the same job.
We currently have 90kph limiters and a 10 hr max drive time, so realistically 800km is our limit.
With UK traffic that is not easy at all.
I guess that CF was doing it pre speed limiter and at night, back in the old days when roads were open at night.
So it was pure arse that he got his VC, err, I mean safe driving award.
Did he get the big gong under false pretenses or is he bsing about the superhuman mileages he covered.
If no speed limiter “back in the day” 500ml or 800km at night would have been quite doable. Feltham is just off the M4 so a straight flat road to Bristol.
No speed limiter surely didn’t mean no speed limit.
I owned a truck capable of 100mph, wasn’t legal though.
I had an old 142 with no speed limiter, great fun.
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