kerbut:
Did Tony Bradfield have The Joker after you ? and change it to Hot To Trot and it eventually caught fire at Cherbourg.
Tony Bradfield had this one Kerbut
gazzer:
I havent seen any of these blue tilts mentioned:
My ROBA contribution
Bloody hell. Is that the time ? Night all.
mappo:
Bloody marvelous innit. While i,m toiling away doing a honest weeks work, you
lot are taking the p…ss outa me.
Honest weeks work Tony 
. What you doin home on a Thursday night then 
Hi Gary do you remember the 140 Scania on the right RWC691K?
Not sure if it was you or not but Gary Bampton was driving this 140 and it hit the back of your? trailer and he had to leave it in Southern France I think he double manned with you to get the trailers up to the port! Dave Tutt and I went down with the middle 110 EDM137J and towed it all the way back to Le Harve on a rigid bar !
Didn’t the Joker get smashed up at sometime?
Regards Pat
Nipper
Hi Ian, what,s this then, pick on Mappo week ? 
Actually mate, i,ve got the week off from today, i,m just about to take the missus
into hospital for a bit of key-hole surgery.
Ainacs
Yes Pat, The Joker did have a bit of a mishap,i,m sure someone will put a pic on.
ainacs
Nice pic of Scorey P in all his glory Pat.
A man ahead of his time, he used to give his vehicles a good hiding
for misbehaviour a good decade at least before Basil Fawlty.
Nice to know he’s still ok.
Regards GAZ
Better them coming from the horses mouth!
Gazzer
What a sad picture mate. More Choker than Joker!!!
Regards GAZ
What a shame.A lovely machine in its prime.I think slightly more than a glancing blow.I feel deeply for what ever ■■■■ did that.
mappo:
ainacs:
Hi Gary
Don’t recall this one but I seem to remember didn’t a chap called Dave Adams(I think) have a black and white 110 he drove all over the place?
Regards Pat
Was this the guy that used to do the big lumps of quarry stone from France for
the C. of E.?[/quote yes tonyit was dave adams truck he was always iin le harve in the bar drinking waiting for the boat he came from north baddesley he smashed it up i think he had an ex sayers 111 after this one he had trouble with that and ended up with a merc was always parked on the road with stone on
Thanks for that Ron,
The old memory has,nt gone completely then, thank goodness
Ron
[That’s Dave Adams usually to be found in The Ferry Boat having a drink with Chantelle & Beatrice, think he tipped the stone at Chichester.
Mappo
Tony take no notice of these pixx takers,they are only jealous of your vast experience ! Here’s a pic of you shipping out on your first trip.
Regards Richard
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Thanks for that Richard, i was hoping to keep my age a secret.
mappo:
Thanks for that Richard, i was hoping to keep my age a secret.
Hi Mappo i have given Kev some more pics to put on
for me ,including the very first lorry you ever drove
Regards Shiney Boots
Bloody hell Shiney Boots,not you as well.
Come on then, let,s have ,em
Mappo, this is your kind of weekend away vehicle…but who can tell me who owned it when the foto was taken?
Give us a clue then Gazza, obviously someone with a bit of dosh.
Must have been an owner drivers then.
Dunno what you mean about my type of vehicle anyway, what you trying to say ? 
Col du Lautaret Mappo? Cuh! If you wanted to go Mt. Geneve there were two ways once you got to Briancon (I think)an electronic sign telling you the road condition. One: Go the long way round (Via Gap?) and up over or Two: The direct route, through the gorge, over the dam and a ■■■■ sharp right turn into a tunnel blasted in the rock that was only wide enough for one truck to travel its length, you had to occupy the middle of the road. Then there was a long climb up to the Col du Lautaret. Down hill thru an avalanche half open tunnel (like at the Simplon) to the link with the Mt Geneve road. It saved at lot of time than going around Gap but the weather was fiercer than Mt Cenis as me and John Eaton found out one day 'cos the Frejus was closed.
John was solo for Transport Services, reclaiming a trailer. At Briancon it said “wet” and it was getting dark, we wanted to make Mt. Geneve. 3km before Lautaret it started raining, then snow, John pushed on up while I kept up as best I could. 300 metres before the top I lost traction on the packed ice. Snow chains were no help the road was too steep. he came back down to give some help but he was spinning too. There was not a sole around and nil visibility in the cloud. While I was stopped the truck started going backwards! But the handbrake was on…the warm tyres were melting the ice and I was sliding backwards! It was coat on, passport and wallet in pocket and door open because there was NO barrier on the side of the road into the gorge! 6" of ice, piled up on the edge of the road stopped 32tons from sliding over.
We (I) was rescued by a Highways 6x6 snow clearing machine who appeared out of the cloud and pulled me the 300mtrs to the top. He wanted nothing but settled for 20 cigs. At the top it was wet, we managed to get to Mt Geneve but all our effort was in vain because the reason the tunnel was closed was because there was an avalanche/rock fall south of Bardonnecchia on the way to Susa which blocked our route too. 3 days we were there amongst the Skiers.
Thanks for that detailed account Gazza, i have been that way through that narrow tunnel, it,s just that the name Lautaret did,nt register.
Sounds like you had fun and games getting to the top then.
I had a similar experience one winter climbing Pamplona hill from Irun.
Me and Paul Nichols had tipped somewhere in France and were going empty to Betera. We had a few sherberts in Irun, as you do, and decided to get to the top that night.
As we started climbing it began to snow quite heavily and the few other trucks on the road were pulling over where they could, but me and Paul being full of
Dutch courage thought we knew better.
I was in front and when we got to the first hairpin, that was it. I was slipping and sliding all over the place and had no traction at all. Pauls truck had just been fitted with new Pilote tyres and luckily still had traction and was somehow able to get by me.
We attached a couple of straps to his trailer and managed to just get me moving enough to crawl , slip and slide our way to the top opposite that bar on the left. When we got up late morning the trucks were buried in snow where the snow plough had been through while we were kipping.
Shiney Boots
Here are the photos you asked me to put on.
Routiers on N137 south of nantes
Your Transporter
4 of the 5 transporters dockside in France
south of Granada on route to Malaga
Lunch time in Alverca
Mappo
Your first truck Richards words not mine
