Little Harry's Long Distance Diary

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Brilliant diary Harry. Took me back to when I first used to go out trucking with my incle when I was about 7 yrs old, delivering bails of cotton from the mills around Lancashire and Cheshire. Start em young and they stay with it

Why wasn’t this motoway built with 12 lanes from the start?

I remember when the M25 first opened. We went for a ride round it just for the hell of it and it was almost deserted. Empty to the point where we were waving at other drivers if we saw one.
It took weeks before people got the hang of using it …then the fun started. :wink:

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good stuff harry, i used to go with my dad all over europe when i was younger, and as someone said above, its something i’ll never forget, my old man passed away 12 months ago and i went and got my artic license just before he died, just for him to be honest, but here i am driving the bloody things now :laughing:

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Absolutely brilliant stuff mate!

Cracking diary. :smiley:

It’s great that you are able to stick two fingers up to all the H&S rubbish and carry on a tradition such as this.

I used to travel around on the coaches with my Dad as a kid - some of the happiest memories from my chidhood.

Remember when he got a LAG bodied DAF MB200 DKFL - my God - that was better than arriving in a helicopter, as far as I was concerned!! :smiley: :laughing:

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Brilliant diary Harry, and not a wiff of criticism from the nanny brigade.
I have worked for the big outfits (TD) but in the long ago days before corporate liveries when the individual companies all felt different. The only time we noticed it was an embargo on working for another TD company within 3 months of leaving, but if a driver was needed that was sort of, waived :wink:
And I have always been able to take anybody with me, including the dog. My lad loved it too, that’s why he’s now a teacher. :unamused: :laughing:

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Harry Monk:

thecoder0:
he will will remember those days when the old boy has long passed on.

My exact words to him last trip.

My dad said the same to me and I do remember the days with fond memories.

Is young Harry subject to WTD? :smiley:

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Good Diary :smiley:

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Hope that volvo isnt i shift harry. Too easy to drive as far as junior s concerned. Check" truck drivin irish style" on you tube

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harry:
Sorry,but Little Harry will never make Borstal. He’s too bright. They have to be brain dead & feral to get in there. :laughing:

I GOT IN :open_mouth:

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i take mine out as well…hide in the footwell as we go thru security then hide in the trailer park and work down there…i think he’s doing an impression of harry hill here…lol…i bet they learn a lot more h and s out there doing it than talking about it.

nice post…we enjoyed that.

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wrecktech100:

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This guy has a future as a VOSA inspector. I can picture him now saying remove your tachodisc Mr.Campbell !!!

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lol, my dad used to hide me in the bunk in the queue for the boats if he didnt have a ticket for me, only sometimes didnt have a ticket.

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This guy has a future as a VOSA inspector. I can picture him now saying remove your tachodisc Mr.Campbell !!! :open_mouth:

LOL mike c…we was up to perry barr on saturday,i told him ‘you’re not to come in here without you’re mom…even when you get your class 1…’ :smiley:

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Brilliant Harry, the boy will go far.

Are you going to KLM this year with Abie ■■?

Cheers

Mark

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cracking read Harry and superb pics aswell

the start em young brigade is alive and well in your neck of the woods

takes me back to spending summer holidays going out with dad and granddad in their wagons

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euromat:
great diary harry, that hat needs them words taken off the front though! :laughing:

What, this hat?

There’s a story behind this photo. I took this about 30 minutes after we parked up, watching the early evening BBC news. Little Harry only ever watches news when he’s away with me but finds it fascinating.

Here he is absolutely agog as the main news story of the day unfolds, taking up almost all of the programme.

After it finished, he turned to me and said in a puzzled voice “Daddy, if he’s been sent to prison, how come he was on the radio this afternoon?”

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Taken out the red-eye.

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harry:

Taken out the red-eye.

I would leave it in H my eyes are always red that time of day…mind you Mr Jameson is to blame most days :laughing: