hiya,
that’s it Chris you’ve cracked it, get me a start at the co-op, just one question do you get divi as well as wages,now old Norm, get him a start at Fairy Briidge his cabaret spots in turkoland makes him spot on for that job just give him a box of eggs and he’ll do his dance routine, that should keep the tourists happy,and Keith can fill in on the mountain tram he’s up to date with trams and trains, now you Chris when you’ve finished your laundry you can get the beers in, that’s a proper job.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Boys
Chris Webb:
You can bring Norman and Keith with you and I’ll get you all fixed up
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I just missed a job on nights,they wanted a windsock washer at Ronaldsway Airport.
Chris you will never get a lift when you are on a dodgey standing there like that , try holding out your log book. 
Regards Keith.
dessert driver:
Hi BoysChris Webb:
You can bring Norman and Keith with you and I’ll get you all fixed up
I just missed a job on nights,they wanted a windsock washer at Ronaldsway Airport.Chris you will never get a lift when you are on a dodgey standing there like that , try holding out your log book.
Regards Keith.
I left me log book on the kitchen table Keith,our lass said she’d fill it out 'cos she reckoned she could make a better job of it.
Seriously you must say hello to the fairies when you go over the bridge otherwise you can get yersen in deep trouble.
That’s how that Co-op driver got a Scania.
Hey you lot, who is a fairy, give me a kiss ,and find out, just because I had a wind up handle on the CB, of “Puff Pastry”, I rise to anything my love, hem you seem like a nice boy,don’t make me a fairy. Sandman Norman
hiya,
you said it Norm, Puff Pastry indeed, this here’s your Rubber Duck, OVER. the landrover that has turned over was pulled back over with another landrover,over.
thanks harry long retired.
Harry, someone said to me, if you have a sandwich in one hand, and your CB mike in the other hand, how do you steer your lorry, I said , with a broad smile on my face " Guess", and this girl said, you drivers have a one track mind, I thought “Bloody hell”, I will never ask anyone to guess again. Sandman Norman
hiya,
Norm i hope you are referring to normal hgv practice and steering with your knee
thanks harry long retired
Really harry, what else could I steer with ■■?, the mind boggles in trying to think of something ha ha ha
When I was doing my middle east trips, I always passed through Hungary, like us , they had their own state run transport, and I went to several depots and used their canteens, and toilet fascilities, I told the manager of one of them, to send a telex to Brs head office, with my registation and name, and say they would like the same treatment for their drivers, if ever they was near to one of our depots. Well they recieved a copy to give to their drivers, telling all managers, they had free use of all fascilities, even deisel, which would be charged to the Hungarian depot, could not remember one word of their language, it was so difficult, but German & English, they understood, and they told me some tales, and one time in Tehran, in Davies Turner yard, I played on their side, against the British truckers at football, once again I was a winner, ha ha ha. Sandman Norman
Hi boys
Now we know It was you Norm that started to encourage all these foreign trucks, shame on you
Regards Keith.
Keith, they were the same as us, but they were the green & rust, but they got privatised, even if it was a few years later, and quite a few got killed on the middle east work, and not all in accidents, I had many a chat with them, and them Hungarians women, hubba, hubba, what a waste I could not use my chat up lines on them, well not a lot of them, ha ha ha . Sandman Norman
Hi boys
Norm I know exactly what you mean, those Hungarion Camion drivers were more helpfull than your own countrymen. One wag and drag reversed down the mud track at Zakho and pulled us up,not many drivers would have done that,…Whenever you met one they would always wave.
Regards Keith.
Well lads, I must say, I never met any of them green & rust lads, with out a smile on their faces, and a yugo driver helped me out, when I had a little trouble in between Belgrade & Lubijana, and I was travelling back on my own from kuwait, and a car came out a side road, straight in front of me, I slammed on my brakes, and miss it, but he buggered off, and I had jackknifed, and my air pipes was in a mess, managed to drag it on to a patch of hard waste ground, when this yugo truck driver who was following behind me pulled up, and through knowledge of a little German, he told me to brew up, while he sorted my pipes out, and repaired my battery holder, he had air drills and grinders etc. He finished, and I gave him hot water to wash, and had a meal & tea ready, I said dobra, he nodded while eating, then said gute dobra, I said good, ja ja he replied, he liked my food, we shook hands,and Igor jumped into his cab and was gone, he took the road that branched off to the left, where I was heading towards Hungary, another time I will tell you about the Turk I helped with a blown tyre. Sandman Norman
My friendship with a turk, one of my many trips, i was on my way down through Yugo, when I saw this turkish driver sitting on a tyre, his face was full of whoe, I swung around and pulled up behind him, english, he shook his head, nur deutsch, ( only german), no problem, I speak german, I have problem my tyre as blown, no problem my friend I have a old tyre, and a new innertube, so we set about getting the old tyre off, and replacing it, with the one I gave him, and soon he was back on the road. Norman you are my friend, it took me all my strength to stop him kissing me, I shook his hand and said goodbye Ammile. Everytime I saw him or he saw me, if he was going in the oppersite direction, he would cut across dual carriageways to meet up with me, even my sandman mates would tell me about him, they did not understand him, until he said Alkerdash Norman, my friend Norman. The turks were a funny people, if you had something they wanted, they would take it, but if you were destitute, they would help you, if you helped a turk, he would be your friend forever more. Sandman Norman
Good stories Norman, keep em coming mate, we all love to here these tales from years ago. Get some of your old mates to shake the sand out of their brains and put up some of their memories to!! 
Bullitt.
Norman
But would the Turk have stopped for u I dought it 
I saw many drivers with blown tyres if I had stopped for everyone as u claim u did it would have taken me six months to do a trip .
Rita
Sinbin Rita, whatever you call yourself, one I never said I stopped for every one, but if he was a TIR driver, whatever his nationality or religion, and I could help him, I would, as for taking six months, why would it worry me, I was on wages not trip money,the longesr trip I took was thirteen weeks to Iran and back, I have never heard of you, I never saw a women driver on the middle east, that is if you are a woman? I do not hide behind a name, what you see on my thread, is what is on my passport, if you had read this and others, their is photo, of me when I was 39, also one when I was 71, last year, also photo’s and newspaper pictures of my accident in Istanbul near to Londra Camping, I still have my old passport with all my stamps in, and their is not many who did not know BRS Overland, with their red & white Leyland Marathons. Yes I did get help from turks, bulgarians, Hungarians, and many more countries, I feel sorry for you if you never gave help or recieved it. But then we have no proof you ever went there? Sandman Norman
Hi boys
Well said Norm…Now go and have a lie down
Regards Keith
hiya,
by jove Norm i’ll bet you needed that, you’ve filled my living room with steam.
thanks harry long retired.
Norman, you have just shown, by that post, your lack of knowledge of someone who did the run long before you started, and who continued long after you finished. Sinbin (Roger Haywood) is one of my friends and as an owner driver working for Astrans throughout his time in the game is well known and respected amongst those of us who quietly went about our business doing the Middle East. Anyone taking thirteen weeks wages from a company to do an Iran trip is taking the mick and hastened the demise of BRS on this particular run. After all they were not doing it for long and I spent considerable time recovering loads for Tacettin Kocman, who was given this task.
The Middle East was littered with the half a trip John’s.