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hiya,
Don’t know if this is the place for this query, but some time ago it was given the OK for 18 year olds to become LGV drivers just wonder if any youngsters have made it into the driving seat as yet??.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry, I know of a couple of 18 year olds driving class 1 vehicle. One is my mate,s son who works for his dad driving a low loader in the West Midlands, regards Bob.
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Harry, I know of a couple of 18 year olds driving class 1 vehicle. One is my mate,s son who works for his dad driving a low loader in the West Midlands, regards Bob.
Surprised they got insurance for that.Still,suppose if you can afford it someone will cover it.
Insurance on my 3.5t Daily jumped 50% on mention of an SP30.It jumped up on all the motors but more so on that one. 
Mark.
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Jim,I can find next to nothing on them,which is strange for a company which has/was going so long.There`s references to them building things in 1904 right up to the seventies but not a lot of different info.
Jim, just to satisfy my curiosity…why are we interested in pics of a building company`s lorries when you nearly had a stroke not long back when I mentioned articulated tippers? 
Will pics of Wimpeys four wheelers be next? 
Mark.
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Had anybody else asked for brogan tipper photos I would have pointed them in your direction , can well remember the time about 1966 you never let me pull away until you shot a full roll of film. None myself, of anybody but I,ll ask around about the tams loup ones as theres still a few ex drivers locally. Have you come across my old DAF photos yet?
harry_gill:
hiya,
Don’t know if this is the place for this query, but some time ago it was given the OK for 18 year olds to become LGV drivers just wonder if any youngsters have made it into the driving seat as yet??.
thanks harry long retired.
Hiya Harry…I don,t know much about whats actually happening nowadays but S Coopers (Northwich)was doing some sort of
driver training for 18 year olds, that was maybe 5 years ago.I think there was about 5 companys that was allowed to carry this
trial out,They was spread around the country but have no other info of things today.Can,t ring them they don,t like me anymore.
John
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stravaiger:
3300John:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Don’t know if this is the place for this query, but some time ago it was given the OK for 18 year olds to become LGV drivers just wonder if any youngsters have made it into the driving seat as yet??.
thanks harry long retired.Hiya Harry…I don,t know much about whats actually happening nowadays but S Coopers (Northwich)was doing some sort of
driver training for 18 year olds, that was maybe 5 years ago.I think there was about 5 companys that was allowed to carry this
trial out,They was spread around the country but have no other info of things today.Can,t ring them they don,t like me anymore.
John
You got me intriqued in this one lads, from the start Harry I was just giving dozens of others a chance to have a say 
Here’s a clipping from our near neighbours from just over a year ago. At that point the jury was still out to say the least and that from the training industy as well as the operators. It’s been looked at before as the young drivers scheme etc and really the only take up would have been family business’s keeping it in the family. But with steady eddies big advertisement …nah, surely not 
Anyway what’s this reference to an “Ageing workforce”? Cheek.
So! just over a year has passed. Anyone with any update information, or any reason why Harry shouldn’t qualify 
…jim
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hiya,
Jim the only thing i can drive now is “her indoors” round the bend, her words not mine, and long may it go on hoping for a chunk of that £140 a week pension we’ve been promised in 2015, who laughed?? another carrot from the party political fibbers, it’s supposed to be a money saver, if so why not bring it in now they’re trying to save money immediately i am capable of spending it for them, they must think we oldies are a load of donkey’s.
thanks harry long retired.
Jim,
I have the photo’s, but sadly not the time to spend adding them to photobucket etc for uploading to the site. Sorry but the website take 90% of my spare time.
Brian
stravaiger:
toot-toot wrote…“can well remember the time about 1966 you wouldn’t let pull away until you shot a full load of film…”Very good toot-toot
It was 3 shots and I had them for years and along with manyothers, neagatives and colour slides they dissapeared. I would never have chucked them out, they just went off with the gremlins.
Your Daf pics, I’ve got 2, both with the kids so I’ll get them to you.
Please ask around for the quarry wagons. Even if it means you have to force youself out to the club on Sunday.stravaiger:
Gridley51:
Jim, just to satisfy my curiosity…why are we interested in pics of a building company`s lorries when you nearly had a stroke not long back when I mentioned articulated tippers?
Will pics of Wimpeys four wheelers be next?
Mark.
Mark, We are interested in most things on rubber. So tippers it is
Still haven’t any 4 wheel Wimpey’s Mark will this do for the moment
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And while I was rummaging I came across this one that I hurriedly snapped from the snack van south of Tranent on the old A1,early 80s. I remember seeing them around and think they came from that area, which in turn brings to mind Findlay Guy and loads of others. Surely there must be some who visit this site who wouldn’t mind sharing? Can but live in hope …jim
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Heres a link to a part of a forum which is about low loaders,all fifteen pages of them.Apologies if its been posted before.
classicmachinery.net/forum/h … t1401.html
Mark.
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Hiya… about this 18 year old driver training, my thoughts are when insurance companys stopped us carrying passangers
was the end of young kids getting intrested in the trade.i was driving artics at 17 mostly on private land and motorways
under construction, the chap who let my have a go was always explaneing how to go about things and i slotted in.
Now as you can,t take anyone with you the driving dose,nt creep into the blood streem.It did,nt take me long to get a job at
21 and passed my test as most local hauliers knew me and how many places and methods of loading i was used to and the
driving experiance i had.
john
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hiya,
You could be spot on Jim £140 a week i would go crackers and be tempted to imbibe the Scottish wine rather more than i do on my princely present “wages” of £90 some of us are better off being kept worse off, “know what i mean Arry”
thanks harry long retired.