Cluey:
Here is some more of Mr Heatons photoes Barry Squibb but who is the driver worked for Barry would say late 70’s early 80’s and Mappo your out of this because i know you will know him.
Come on Cluey, who is your mistery friend ? no ones come up with an answer yet.
Hi all how is everyone i bumped into roy smith from marlborough yesterday he has not changed a bit still looks the same as he did when i first met him must be 30 odd years ago. 
gerbil sb152:
Hi all how is everyone i bumped into roy smith from marlborough yesterday he has not changed a bit still looks the same as he did when i first met him must be 30 odd years ago.
Bloody hell Gerbil you bin on probation or somethin, aint heard from you in ages. By the way whats Smithy doin nowadays ?
Hello buzzer been a bit busy, smithy is driving an old daf for his brother (smiths of axford) doing timber mainly i just happened to be up near hungerford at a grain silo that’s also a public weight bridge he came in to weight had a chat for half hour he aint changed at all. 
I remember his brother did logs big time , they had a yard on the airfield at Membury just behind the service area. I bought a load of logs of him once he had a couple of transit waggon and drags for delivery, quite a big setup it was.
Hi Pat ,i had 2 mercs on dual carriage for a bit bought of FT ,i think i sold them on to Barry Barnes who took 'em on a one way trip to the middle east, he also bought a merc of Micky Hughes which went the same way. He reckons it tok for ever to get there in them old mercs cos they wernt very electric up hills, we always called 'em Stuttgart hillstoppers
Hi Pat did you get your broadband sorted out ? Nice to see ya back 
R Jim
This is my 1000th post…do i get a prize ■■?
Buzzer:
Hi Pat ,i had 2 mercs on dual carriage for a bit bought of FT ,i think i sold them on to Barry Barnes who took 'em on a one way trip to the middle east, he also bought a merc of Micky Hughes which went the same way. He reckons it tok for ever to get there in them old mercs cos they wernt very electric up hills, we always called 'em Stuttgart hillstoppers
Good evening, think you are having a Mary tonight!?
FT sold you the Volvo’s mush.F12’s C560 CWN and C872 UMS, both early pusher axles. The trailers were relatively new, when ‘sliders’ came in and were SDC. The two drivers came with the trucks. A bloke called Richard and also ‘Geordie’ (Never knew his real name) The skellys ended up being sold to Jimmy Alford. The tractor units were kept and became the ‘UK Shunters’ - tipping and loading the international boy’s trailers, steered by Tony ‘the tart’ and Ian Birnie aka Chip. Tractors ended up being sold to Woolston Freight.
mappo:
This is my 1000th post…do i get a prize ■■?
Mappo we could not let this moment pass without recognition of some sort, so im’e of to the local oxfam first thing in the morning to get you a new set of designer clobber, just bear in mind it might be a week or two gettin the gear as its bin really hot just lateley and i think theres bin great demand for short tight black shorts, black socks and sandles so you’ll have to be patient mate, but ime sure they will do there best.
Yeh thanks for that Buzzer…cant wait. 
Just to let you lads that know me and what i drive and how it differs from the rest of the fleet,
well i,ve just been told that as from the end of next week the MAN is going and i,ll be getting a new Volvo
which will just merge with the rest of them. Perhaps i should get a Mappo name plate for the windscreen.
Trouble is that the ADR course i missed this week through illness has been re booked for me the week after next
so someone else will be driving my new lorry during its first week on the road. 
mappo:
Yeh thanks for that Buzzer…cant wait.
Just to let you lads that know me and what i drive and how it differs from the rest of the fleet,
well i,ve just been told that as from the end of next week the MAN is going and i,ll be getting a new Volvo
which will just merge with the rest of them. Perhaps i should get a Mappo name plate for the windscreen.
Trouble is that the ADR course i missed this week through illness has been re booked for me the week after next
so someone else will be driving my new lorry during its first week on the road.
MAN to a Volvo - probably a wise move Tone and you know it. The name plate is a great idea, but also put some Matador Spears at each end of the windscreen to remind oncoming HGV’S of your illustrius and adventurous past. Dont be too upset about someone else breaking it in for you - at least it will put some on the odometer for you to claim.
Hi Tone tell em to put delivery off for a week or when you get back off the course it’ll prob need a new door jus like MAN
R Jim
Knowing my luck Jim, that,s just what i was thinking.
Having said that mate my days of being cab happy have long long gone.
I keep em neat clean and tidy now and thats all…It,s just a working tool.
Horry…i was toying with the idea of the spears myself not
As i,ve said above mate it,s just a lorry that i unfortunately still have to live in all week. 
Jimski:
Hi Pat did you get your broadband sorted out ? Nice to see ya backR Jim
No Jim unfortunately not I have just got back to the yard after delivering and collecting numerous yellow clothes banks around Taunton and Yeovil areas!
Regards Pat
ainacs:
Jimski:
Hi Pat did you get your broadband sorted out ? Nice to see ya backR Jim
No Jim unfortunately not I have just got back to the yard after delivering and collecting numerous yellow clothes banks around Taunton and Yeovil areas!
Regards Pat
OMG Pat i did’nt know you did clothes banks and there was me of to Oxfam to get Mappo a new set of gear, ime sure you could have a kind word and get him a new outfit FOC.
Buzzer:
ainacs:
Jimski:
Hi Pat did you get your broadband sorted out ? Nice to see ya backR Jim
No Jim unfortunately not I have just got back to the yard after delivering and collecting numerous yellow clothes banks around Taunton and Yeovil areas!
Regards Pat
OMG Pat i did’nt know you did clothes banks and there was me of to Oxfam to get Mappo a new set of gear, ime sure you could have a kind word and get him a new outfit FOC.
How about a pair of black slipons size 10 please Pat? Regards Charlie
You should have shouted earlier Charlie I just binned a pair !! Hope your well Charlie
Regards Jimski
Hi Pat,
Hope you had a good time in the good old USA,just got back from Canada everyone seems to have big old V8 pick ups !
If you are looking through the clothing bins Mappo could do with a replacement suit now he’s driving a Volvo, I know this pic has been on before
but at least he had his shorts on underneath !
Regards
Richard
PS Anyone know who is minder is ?
