Laughing at all these memories, but still carry ropes and sheets, trust me it wasnt much fun yesterday in the wind and rain of Northumberland , but got two loads tipped, then that was me finished for the week.
peterm:
carryfast-yeti:
Sand Fisher:
Trickydick:
No ABS
Only one electrical suzie
Three air lines
No air suspension
320bhp being seen as decent horsepower
Tautliners being seen as dead poshWrong 240hp seen as decent horsepower. Started in late 1970’s on the road in 1980. First motor CMR244L Seddon 180hp Gardner !
my first unit at Carryfast was a SedAtki 400 with a 180 Gardner…what a surprise when one day i was allocated a borrowed 400 unit from Reg Morris’ up the road…expecting it be another 180,was in fact a Mighty 240! wow…what a motor
How did you get on with the clutch when shunting with the 240? I think they were a prick of a thing unless they made the air assisted thing work a bit smoother a bit later.
can’t recall struggling with shunting in the 240…but i was a big strong lad back in those days!
Yeah, I was never a big strong lad, but it was the air assisted clutch that was a bugger to use. Maybe I had a dodgy one. I’m a fair bit bigger now… if you count round rather than up. 
I can remember all of those and trailers without spring brakes and wheels on the landing gear that would go flying backwards when you tried to get under them. Trailers with no load sensing valve that locked up when empty, sometimes bouncing and shaking your light lenses off.
I can remember being first one in of a morning and starting all the lorries up to get them warmed up for the drivers, or coming in to a nice warm lorry if someone beat me to it. I remember no night heaters and crashing out over the engine tunnel with blankets for curtains and being parked next to someone in a sleeper with their night heater roaring away.
I also remember drivers helping each other out, not just folding sheets etc, but on the road too, you almost never had a lorry drive past you if you were waiting to pull out of a side road, if you were tramping on down the middle lane and the lorry in front was catching someone they would see you were horsing down the road and keep out of your way and let you get down the road.
I miss the latter, but I’m glad the former is a thing of the past, not all nostalgia makes for a fond remembrance.
Picking up unaccompanied trailers at Ramsgate or Dover and having to carry 2 different sets of rear lights and lenses and two red/clear side marker lenses. Two pin and single pin bulbs, large and small and a winding handle and bolt!
robroy:
tonyj105:
Fat Controller:
Anybody remember trying to press the throttle pedal extension on the offside of the grille at the same time as pressing the cold start lever on the opposite side of the grille of the ford D series fitted with the Ford engine, or trying to check the oil of a Commer Commando without the dipstick splashing over the inside of the cab as you pulled it out of the hatch in the cab floor?i do , we had loads of d series over the years from d reg to v reg
I remember locking myself out of a D series, and a guy showing me if you stuck your arm through the front air vent you could reach the inside door handle to open it…in other words it was pointless locking the [zb] thing.
All of the above .
Keeping my motorbike suit on in the winter for the first hour because the heater was broken and the thermostat was stuck .
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