Didn’t like the job, but hey-ho, you gota feed the kids & the dogs! …Oh yeah, & the dark-side, bless her!
Minty Furniture, Horspath Road, Ox’. Picture was taken in the Scottish Highlands, bench seat to sleep on, blankets hung up round the windows at night, bloody freezing! I had started the run 1st drop Leamington Spa, worked my way up the country with about 15 drops, I used to be out all week in that old Dodge usually doing 2 trips, but the old girl never let me down once! Crap trucks but the job was actually not bad, you were left alone to crack on! I was young & keen & didn’t wana go home, & I learnt something new every day! Never be ashamed of what you have driven, cos you learn something from every job, good & bad!
Great pics Andrew, strange, I didn’t know Cannons ran so many left-hookers! Saw Duffy the other day, flashing his lights & waving, he still loves it doesn’t he!
looking good 
leaving cannons yard sunday dinner time loaded with multi drop scotland,well starting penrith finishing top somewhere,every week was different with upto 30 drops as well!!!also got a Gordon&Innes trl on from mosstodloch mine was left up there the previous week 
Andrew Morrison:
returning to your highland theme chris,this was taken coming down the A90
Rather been up there in your Scania than the Dodge mate, but been back since in slightly tidier tackle. I remember the last load I did to Scotland for Cannons was a load of roof panels to the Govan Shipyard, Glasgow, for a ferry they were building. I got up there quite late & found the gate I wanted, it was winter & it was bloody freezing, it was before VAA had a night-heater fitted, the security gaurd was an old boy about 120 yrs old, smashing old boy sat in his little hut with a gas fired heater & portable telly. He said he couldn’t let me in but it OK to park right by the gate so he could see it & he would keep an eye on her for me. So I wandered off & got us both some fish & chips, when I got back he produced a bottle of Whiskey & we watched the footy. He woke me up the next morning with a cup of tea as he was going home, Happy days!
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Andrew Morrison:
returning to your highland theme chris,this was taken coming down the A90Rather been up there in your Scania than the Dodge mate, but been back since in slightly tidier tackle. I remember the last load I did to Scotland for Cannons was a load of roof panels to the Govan Shipyard, Glasgow, for a ferry they were building. I got up there quite late & found the gate I wanted, it was winter & it was bloody freezing, it was before VAA had a night-heater fitted, the security gaurd was an old boy about 120 yrs old, smashing old boy sat in his little hut with a gas fired heater & portable telly. He said he couldn’t let me in but it OK to park right by the gate so he could see it & he would keep an eye on her for me. So I wandered off & got us both some fish & chips, when I got back he produced a bottle of Whiskey & we watched the footy. He woke me up the next morning with a cup of tea as he was going home, Happy days!
unfortunately you don’t find many ‘security’ staff as friendly these days!!the multi drop was not everyone’s cup of tea but me & boris did enjoy ourselves
Also on about good blokes what was the bloke called from charthire in leeds?i can remember before i was driving on road going up to blythe powerstation with duffy as second man on a wide load we called into charthire on way back & they let me sleep in one of the hire trucks & if you can remember they would do the same if for some reason you had problems with truck & they would work on it overnight.just remembered it was tommy
Andrew Morrison:
Also on about good blokes what was the bloke called from charthire in leeds?i can remember before i was driving on road going up to blythe powerstation with duffy as second man on a wide load we called into charthire on way back & they let me sleep in one of the hire trucks & if you can remember they would do the same if for some reason you had problems with truck & they would work on it overnight.just remembered it was tommy
You’re right mate it was Tommy, he had a mate who drove the other 4 wheeler, can’t remember his name but he always had his border collie dog with him!
Great pictures Chris , Andrew . I mention the white haired guy who did the Cowley / milton shunt , buffalo ■■? , is he still about? , he was a bit funny of people gettinghis truck dirty . 
JAKEY:
Great pictures Chris , Andrew . I mention the white haired guy who did the Cowley / milton shunt , buffalo ■■? , is he still about? , he was a bit funny of people gettinghis truck dirty .
hi jakey,last i heard buffalo was working for john cannon as a chauffer,not chauffering john about but john had a couple cars i think up at esso or harwell?
