hi all rocky here got up at 05.30 this morning to type this message it,s now 10.15 and I,m still going strong bit of a technophobe plus I,m old
nice to here from you all. That story you put on MR Evans is a complete lie no such thing ever happened. No pictures I,m afraid one of
my true regrets.
regards rock.
Hi all i must agree with rocky my biggest regret is no pictures if you could do it all again with a camera wouldn’t that be an album to put on here. 
Just had one thought i suppose some of it is better forgotten with no photographic evidence. 
Just thought I’d share a little tale with you guys
Many moons ago (about 19 yrs) I decided to take my HGV test and a kind gentlemen and his wonderful good lady (who would become my second mum) from wellow gave me a start driving a nice Renault 290 GT
But to my horror I had to be an understudy to my big brother Christoper ! Who with his tales of the monty blancy and discos and love boats, I ended up loading groupage trailers for seabrook trailers for him to go on his jollies while I took his imports and went on my merry way !!!
But my friends on Monday the tables are turning and he comes to work for us !!!
Now the question is do I make him pay or go easy on the old fella ?
I would like any suggestions !
Mariner jnr jnr as long as Chris doesn’t have to wear vitacress green he will be happy
Steve (Rocky) with Charlie Hannam with you on a few trips, you would’ve had lots of tea breaks
Jeremy
marrinersnr/jnr:
Just thought I’d share a little tale with you guysMany moons ago (about 19 yrs) I decided to take my HGV test and a kind gentlemen and his wonderful good lady (who would become my second mum) from wellow gave me a start driving a nice Renault 290 GT
But to my horror I had to be an understudy to my big brother Christoper ! Who with his tales of the monty blancy and discos and love boats, I ended up loading groupage trailers for seabrook trailers for him to go on his jollies while I took his imports and went on my merry way !!!
But my friends on Monday the tables are turning and he comes to work for us !!!
Now the question is do I make him pay or go easy on the old fella ?
I would like any suggestions !
Hi Ian,
Hope you are well,how’s Dad ? You’ll have trouble making Chris pay,I’ve never seen his wallet !! give him my best when you see him,he was always known as “My You” or “The Scud” because you never knew where he was going to land, good ol’ boy 
Here he is in all his glory !
Regards
Richard
Rocky IOW:
hi all rocky here got up at 05.30 this morning to type this message it,s now 10.15 and I,m still going strong bit of a technophobe plus I,m old
nice to here from you all. That story you put on MR Evans is a complete lie no such thing ever happened. No pictures I,m afraid one of
my true regrets.
regards rock.
Hi Steve,
Those old gas computers you’ve got on the Island need replacing ! With reference to the story at Paladini’s I am at the moment representing 2 ladies who used to work in Jamesons office who are taking legal action against you because you never made it to the top of the ivy that evening especially when they had left their bedroom window open on purpose 
Regards
Richard
Was that Rocky composing a sorry letter to the two ladies in question in the old turbo frogtrotter ? Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Was that Rocky composing a sorry letter to the two ladies in question in the old turbo frogtrotter ? Buzzer.
John,
Those 2 cans of Myrina actually contained the massage oil he carried with him for just those occasions, all these old dj’s and soap stars are not in the same league as Steve
I would tell you about the time he phoned me one morning about 3.30 am from Frankfurt services to tell me a German livestock lorry had reversed into the front of the Renault but he would probably deny this as well,it’s a good job GazIOW can verify these stories 
Regards
Richard
This is a view from our skyscraper office in the old yard in Andersons Road looking up to what was once Perrins then Harris Transport and of course Lorraines car park including a Geoff Bell trailer who was a regular visitor there. Actually I was not driving that fork lift from that position I was just being used as ballast as it was a 2ton fork truck lifting a 45cwt container, you did what you had to with what you had, cheers Buzzer.
MaggieD I reckon you worked Rocky to hard looks like he’s a sleep at the wheel there !! Still he got it back to the yard !
I remember shipping out on my first trip in Pats 141 LJA 597P for Jamesons I was told to meet a Mr Cherrett at the ferry,
I remember sitting in his Scania he was showing me what to do with all the paperwork T2,Carnet,Permits, and the like
( proper permits too ! ) and I saw Rockys passport and an addition stuck to the back with all these funny stamps and places much further than the Isle of Wight ! I followed him all the bloody way to Santhia ! Where we arrived early hrs on a Sunday morning! Blimey an eye opener that was for me!! Seemed a lot further than London !! 
My load was going to Perelli Torin! Easy life !
Cheers Stevie could nervier forget that !!
Regards Jimmer
Jimski:
MaggieD I reckon you worked Rocky to hard looks like he’s a sleep at the wheel there !! Still he got it back to the yard !I remember shipping out on my first trip in Pats 141 LJA 597P for Jamesons I was told to meet a Mr Cherrett at the ferry,
I remember sitting in his Scania he was showing me what to do with all the paperwork T2,Carnet,Permits, and the like
( proper permits too ! ) and I saw Rockys passport and an addition stuck to the back with all these funny stamps and places much further than the Isle of Wight ! I followed him all the bloody way to Santhia ! Where we arrived early hrs on a Sunday morning! Blimey an eye opener that was for me!! Seemed a lot further than London !!
My load was going to Perelli Torin! Easy life !
Cheers Stevie could nervier forget that !!Regards Jimmer
Hi Jim,
Hope you and Jackie are well, did you eat at the Wooden Hut at Santhia ? I remember Steve telling me about his Middle East exploits and escaping once with a picture of the Ayatollah and no windscreen on the front of his truck,he must have some stories to tell !
I also remember Angie & I taking Gerbil out on his first trip,a long way from Fareham !!
We had 3 I.O.W drivers all first class lads who you could send anywhere and know that you didn’t have to worry they would always get the job done.
The trouble is we all did not realise at the time that we had the best years running European transport,and we will never see those times again,the comradeship ,laughs,tears,fun,strikes,delays,weekends,ferries,and in GazIOW’s case the lay-by’s.
Angie in 1979 being stopped at a peage on the Autostrada in Italy by the police, because she was only 4ft 10" driving a right hand drive Maggie Deutz 310 and they had never seen a lady HGV driver,passéd her test at Botley in 1978,out came the lollipop they didn’t know that her mother was Italian and she spoke fluent Italian ! After realising this, the only thing they said to her was “Why aren’t you at home having babies”?
Where the time has gone I do not know,brought home to me by celebrating our eldest son Nick’s 28th birthday tonight,where have all the years gone ? and our 37th wedding anniversary !!
Come and see us soon.
Regards
Richard
MaggieD:
marrinersnr/jnr:
Just thought I’d share a little tale with you guysMany moons ago (about 19 yrs) I decided to take my HGV test and a kind gentlemen and his wonderful good lady (who would become my second mum) from wellow gave me a start driving a nice Renault 290 GT
But to my horror I had to be an understudy to my big brother Christoper ! Who with his tales of the monty blancy and discos and love boats, I ended up loading groupage trailers for seabrook trailers for him to go on his jollies while I took his imports and went on my merry way !!!
But my friends on Monday the tables are turning and he comes to work for us !!!
Now the question is do I make him pay or go easy on the old fella ?
I would like any suggestions !Hi Ian,
Hope you are well,how’s Dad ? You’ll have trouble making Chris pay,I’ve never seen his wallet !! give him my best when you see him,he was always known as “My You” or “The Scud” because you never knew where he was going to land, good ol’ boy
Regards
Richard
Is that sandals an’ socks I see?? Is Mappo one of his disciples or vice versa■■?
GAZ IOW:
Baldrick1953:
Buzzer:
This is me in my youth taken just up the road from your house Pat in the field by the Haywain pub on occasion a day of Rustic sports and it was in 1971 that’s 43 years gone in a flash, wish I had a rewind button cheers Buzzer.Hi JD…not spoken for a while… Hope all good with you and all the family.
I have to say that photo made me laugh out loud!! What a classic… You look like an original member of the Worzles. Or, even worse , a character from Benny Hill or ■■■■ Emery…I hope you got a prize mate.A rewind button would be nice eh. Time does flash by doesn’t it…
I read through this whole thread recently and was amazed to read on a post from 2008 that Scorey P was 75 around that time?? That makes him in his 80’s now? I can recall my first meeting with him in Rouen… both of us on for PBC him in a split windscreen Daf and me the new boy in a mandator… We used to clear with SCAC was it? We had a meal in a cafe that was a regular haunt for drivers in the square with the tramlines…forget the name but someone will put me right? Pat was a fount of information and helpful, however, a little scary to me as a rookie! I remember a few incidents with the infamous lump hammer en route to tip…Anyways, we have 40 cm of snow here so no chance of planting yet, Spring not far at now though.
Lady in red looking good. Cheers. balders…
Hi Stu that would be C.A.T. at Rouen we used to clear with, a guy called Michel was the agent and sometimes he would
come out and clear us at the routiers at Yvetot, handy if you were going up to Amien, saved going all the way into Rouen!Cheers GAZ
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Ah yes, C.A.T. Had forgotten that and Michel coming out to clear . Well done! Cheers, stu
Hi Richard yeah they were the best days of my working life ! When I was forced out the trade in 85 It took me a long time to get it out me blood, but I had loads of other things on my mind at the time !! The comradery you talk of I’ve herd say ain’t there any more. every man for em selves now, but when you go to the round ups each year it’s still there, you can tell the old school, the way everyone gets on !! and it’s a good feeling when you all get together like that, and evryone is of the same mind about them days, but if you hadn’t have been there and done it what a time you’d have missed !
I remember taking my daughter with me one trip she was about 4and half she remembers it like it was last week !! She’s 33
Now with 3 kids herself, how time flys ! 
If only we could turn back time and give Rocky a camera !
Regards Jim
Hi all Pat is there a tea party tomorrow might be able to make it if there is.
Baldrick1953:
Is that sandals an’ socks I see?? Is Mappo one of his disciples or vice versa■■?
White socks, at least that man is showing a bit of class, where as Mappo’s are BLACK…
then I suppose he never was a fashion icon, was he… 
Now look ,ere Fergie, jealousy will get you nowhere !!!
You,ve only got to look at my old photos, and if you,re honest you must
agree that I was and still am a leader of fashion. Ain’t that right Jimmer.
mappo:
Now look ,ere Fergie, jealousy will get you nowhere !!!
You,ve only got to look at my old photos, and if you,re honest you must
agree that I was and still am a leader of fashion. Ain’t that right Jimmer.
If you answer yes to that Jim…you need to go to Specsavers… 
And Mappo needs to go to Burtons…
Fergie47:
mappo:
Now look ,ere Fergie, jealousy will get you nowhere !!!
You,ve only got to look at my old photos, and if you,re honest you must
agree that I was and still am a leader of fashion. Ain’t that right Jimmer.If you answer yes to that Jim…you need to go to Specsavers…
And Mappo needs to go to Burtons…
I went to spec savers Dave and get good discount as my daughter works there and yes I can honestly say Mappo is a well known Follower of fashion , … Uummmm there’s a song about that !! Then again I don’t think Mappos old enough to know that one !! There you Tone can’t say nought more than that !! that two teas you owe me !!
R Jimmer