hi geek this must be you, plus a couple of les on the way to brunton, spoke to Davey foster he didn’t have his motor at the show ether, bumper
Thanks bumper yep that’s me , another project ,bought it at red row
greek:
Thanks bumper yep that’s me , another project ,bought it at red row
And very nice too,Its nice to see the older Jags still about in mint condition, Well done, Regards Larry.
hi paw 123 and everyone else
just to let you know that I am now at home recovering from my operation to remove a cancer growth from my pelvic area I have spent the last nine weeks in hospital but still have a long way to go before I will be well enough to go back to work but with the support of my wife, who is also suffering from skin cancer and going for treatment next week and other members of the family we hope to get through this ordeal together.regards prattman
prattman:
hi paw 123 and everyone else
just to let you know that I am now at home recovering from my operation to remove a cancer growth from my pelvic area I have spent the last nine weeks in hospital but still have a long way to go before I will be well enough to go back to work but with the support of my wife, who is also suffering from skin cancer and going for treatment next week and other members of the family we hope to get through this ordeal together.regards prattman
Good to hear your back home and on the mend Gary. Best wishes to you and your family. Good luck to your wife for her treatment next week. Regards Kev.
Nice to hear you are back Hope things work out for you both
prattman:
hi paw 123 and everyone else
just to let you know that I am now at home recovering from my operation to remove a cancer growth from my pelvic area I have spent the last nine weeks in hospital but still have a long way to go before I will be well enough to go back to work but with the support of my wife, who is also suffering from skin cancer and going for treatment next week and other members of the family we hope to get through this ordeal together.regards prattman
Hi Prattman,
So sorry to hear of your bad health, hope you are soon well again. One good thing is while you are not well enough to get back to work, you can spend time writing & adding more of your excellent photos on Trucknet.
Taje it easy & get back on your feet again before worrying about work. Health is so valuable
Best wishes
Carl
Ive just being reading an article in a RHA book regarding some new rules that are coming into force in Jan.2015, Its called CLOCS,Its some more red tape concerning hauliers delivering to construction sites , Has anyone read this or know anything about it ■■?, It seems to me that drivers are going to have more training, Its little wonder there is a shortage of drivers, It appears to be the follow onof the DCPC To me, Just another load of ■■■■■ IMO, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Ive just being reading an article in a RHA book regarding some new rules that are coming into force in Jan.2015, Its called CLOCS,Its some more red tape concerning hauliers delivering to construction sites , Has anyone read this or know anything about it ■■?, It seems to me that drivers are going to have more training, Its little wonder there is a shortage of drivers, It appears to be the follow onof the DCPC To me, Just another load of [zb] IMO, Regards Larry.
larry
Construction LOgistic and Cycle Safety by its real title
regards jeh
Lawrence Dunbar:
Ive just being reading an article in a RHA book regarding some new rules that are coming into force in Jan.2015, Its called CLOCS,Its some more red tape concerning hauliers delivering to construction sites , Has anyone read this or know anything about it ■■?, It seems to me that drivers are going to have more training, Its little wonder there is a shortage of drivers, It appears to be the follow onof the DCPC To me, Just another load of [zb] IMO, Regards Larry.
Lawrence in our day you were just given a truck and learned the hard way made you a better truck driver you learned by your mistakes not like the mam by pammpy way today no wonder its going downhill i am pleased im out of it drove since 1963 great days then heed
You see Larry, while things change all the time, they stay the same!
In 1970, I traded my Ford Zodiac in for a Triumph Spitfire at a second hand car dealers in Preston (sorry, bit off thread for North East, but relevant to the last posts).
The place was on the road from the centre down to Dunderdale and Yates, the Guy and Mastiff dealer, where I’d bought the two Mastiffs I ran. Changed a bit, that part of Preston - not sure I could find where it was now.
The ‘old’ guy selling me the Spitfire was called Blamire. When he found out what I did, he wanted to talk. His family had run a large Preston haulage company for many years. I’ve seen the name on one of the threads on here somewhere.
He told me that he’d seen the last trunk off a couple of years before, then they’d closed the place down. They couldn’t come to terms with all the new legislation. MOT testing of vehicles, ‘O’ licensing, instead of being protected by A,B and C licensing.
‘You young lads will be alright, you’re being brought up with it, so it’ll just seem normal to you.’
He thought they’d had ‘The golden age of transport’ from horses and carts, through the ending of the 20mph limit etc.
Now I’m as old as he was, I think we had ‘The golden age’ in the mid seventies when I was doing the Middle East. Would I want to face the new legislation? No thank you!
Perhaps it was just being young?
John West:
You see Larry, while things change all the time, they stay the same!In 1970, I traded my Ford Zodiac in for a Triumph Spitfire at a second hand car dealers in Preston (sorry, bit off thread for North East, but relevant to the last posts).
The place was on the road from the centre down to Dunderdale and Yates, the Guy and Mastiff dealer, where I’d bought the two Mastiffs I ran. Changed a bit, that part of Preston - not sure I could find where it was now.
The ‘old’ guy selling me the Spitfire was called Blamire. When he found out what I did, he wanted to talk. His family had run a large Preston haulage company for many years. I’ve seen the name on one of the threads on here somewhere.
He told me that he’d seen the last trunk off a couple of years before, then they’d closed the place down. They couldn’t come to terms with all the new legislation. MOT testing of vehicles, ‘O’ licensing, instead of being protected by A,B and C licensing.
‘You young lads will be alright, you’re being brought up with it, so it’ll just seem normal to you.’
He thought they’d had ‘The golden age of transport’ from horses and carts, through the ending of the 20mph limit etc.
Now I’m as old as he was, I think we had ‘The golden age’ in the mid seventies when I was doing the Middle East. Would I want to face the new legislation? No thank you!
Perhaps it was just being young?
Hi John,
Isn’t it strange how we all look back on our youth with so much affection, yet I bet all of us would get the shock of our lives if suddenly we found ourselves back forty years ago, with the stress & worries we would be experiencing that day. We remember the best pictures.
I always remember my grandfather talking about his life in the army during the first world war. He was gassed & twice wounded once with a bayonet passing through his leg. Said how they only got these hard biscuits to eat, which had to be soaked in tea to be able to gake a bite, yet his memories were always good ones.
I met a Frenchman who had worked for my grandfather in the early 1920s repairing his Ford Model T 1 tonners, and he was saying how he wished he could strip down a engine from one (about 1960) yet if he went back to a day when he was doing so and remembered the day when he struggled to unloosen a nut and his hand slipped & he cut his thumb open, he might not have been as enthusiastic.
However I think we did live through the best days of road transport, as I might be mistaken but I don’t think the day will ever come again where a youth could buy his first vehicle and built it into a succesful fleet of HGVs, as more & more PLCs and large companies control the future.
I often worried when we were operating how I could bring my daughter & son into our business. I had been , as so many others been in the fortunate possition of riding with my dad in cabs from all my memories of childhood, Worked as a child on removals, carrying everything I was capable of into vans. Adding up accounts & learning to type from the age I was learning to add & write. I could never offer my children this as I very rarely got the opportunity to drive a wagon myself and it wouldn’t be the same letting them ride in my car and sit and wait whilst I went to visit customers and talk rates for doing their work, or sit in my office as I did my work from behind my desk.
Just the same of drivers of today, with their sat navs tracker road planners etc. I never think they will be able to look back with pleasure remembering driving a vehicle completly unsuitable for the work you are trying to do with it, or get a wagon back home where you have lost your brakes & relying on your gear changing to slow you down
Yet we have so many ‘happy memories’ & I hope we all have many more years to share them
Carl
the heed:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Ive just being reading an article in a RHA book regarding some new rules that are coming into force in Jan.2015, Its called CLOCS,Its some more red tape concerning hauliers delivering to construction sites , Has anyone read this or know anything about it ■■?, It seems to me that drivers are going to have more training, Its little wonder there is a shortage of drivers, It appears to be the follow onof the DCPC To me, Just another load of [zb] IMO, Regards Larry.Lawrence in our day you were just given a truck and learned the hard way made you a better truck driver you learned by your mistakes not like the mam by pammpy way today no wonder its going downhill i am pleased im out of it drove since 1963 great days then heed
Great days indeed when you were given a motor & off we went tipped got a back load & back to Newcastle Defo the good old days IMO, No ■■■■■■■ red tape as drivers have to-day, I drove this 8 wheeler Mk 5 AEC For my late great uncle Isaac Smiles, when I was in my earley 20s, running a lot to London a great Co to work for good wages & exs, Regards Larry.
you cant make mistakes now a mistake means a 3 week investigation.
a mistake from my day (and i am not as old as some on here) meant a clipe round the head from my dad at worst or a bollocking beyond belief, i can recall at fergys i had a roll of paper break free and smash through the trailer (yesit had been strapped and chocked) anyhow no one was hurt so lucky there, but by god i had alec purvis going off my old man going off etc etc etc.
never made that mistake again and never would.
some of my best memories as a child were goign with my dad, learning and occasionally earning 
war1974:
you cant make mistakes now a mistake means a 3 week investigation.a mistake from my day (and i am not as old as some on here) meant a clipe round the head from my dad at worst or a bollocking beyond belief, i can recall at fergys i had a roll of paper break free and smash through the trailer (yesit had been strapped and chocked) anyhow no one was hurt so lucky there, but by god i had alec purvis going off my old man going off etc etc etc.
never made that mistake again and never would.
some of my best memories as a child were goign with my dad, learning and occasionally earning
Were you driving a Iveco when this unlucky thing happened to you ■■, Regards Larry.