anyone remember those macks, i believe they ran a night trunk to north london, i was on shap the night when one went over the side with a load of pipe, i never did hear what actually happened.■■
oldsandshuffler:
anyone remember those macks, i believe they ran a night trunk to north london, i was on shap the night when one went over the side with a load of pipe, i never did hear what actually happened.■■
The name was P&S Contracts Ltd Glasgow, There is already some data about them somewhere on this thread, Its worth having a look for it, Regards Larry.
Just type "P&S Mack’s " into search engine box and loss of posts will come up, enjoy.
Jim
They certainly were not petrol engines sandshuffler, the were Macks own Thermodynei diesels , I think the early ones were 170 bhp and later ones had the 220 bhp Thermodynei. Cheers Alec
Regards to what you saw was probably me,but it was just north of shap village ,I was driving dva79c with a load of bricks for longgannet and as I passed the lodge house on a left hand bend I was confronted by line of south bound truckers with a small van over taking I had no choice but to take to the soft scattering bricks for 138yards, the van never stopped ,i spent four hours restacking my trailer and carried on,and that was the last of it I heard Joe henning
Joepipe3:
Regards to what you saw was probably me,but it was just north of shap village ,I was driving dva79c with a load of bricks for longgannet and as I passed the lodge house on a left hand bend I was confronted by line of south bound truckers with a small van over taking I had no choice but to take to the soft scattering bricks for 138yards, the van never stopped ,i spent four hours restacking my trailer and carried on,and that was the last of it I heard Joe henning
Great story Joe, did you know a driver called Dennis Mawer when you worked for P&S
Jim
JFC999:
Joepipe3:
Regards to what you saw was probably me,but it was just north of shap village ,I was driving dva79c with a load of bricks for longgannet and as I passed the lodge house on a left hand bend I was confronted by line of south bound truckers with a small van over taking I had no choice but to take to the soft scattering bricks for 138yards, the van never stopped ,i spent four hours restacking my trailer and carried on,and that was the last of it I heard Joe henningGreat story Joe, did you know a driver called Dennis Mawer when you worked for P&S
Jim
Sorry Jim ,but the name does not stir any grey matter ,but it takes a Mack to pass a Mack!
They used to come down from Scotch and changeover at Kelly’s cafe ,Boroughbridge.
Dennis would have been there, he lived at Knaresborough.
Years later his son , Ian did a great restoration of a mack in P&S colours , it’s all on here somewhere and also a feature in Truck mag.
Jim
Joepipe3:
JFC999:
Joepipe3:
Regards to what you saw was probably me,but it was just north of shap village ,I was driving dva79c with a load of bricks for longgannet and as I passed the lodge house on a left hand bend I was confronted by line of south bound truckers with a small van over taking I had no choice but to take to the soft scattering bricks for 138yards, the van never stopped ,i spent four hours restacking my trailer and carried on,and that was the last of it I heard Joe henningGreat story Joe, did you know a driver called Dennis Mawer when you worked for P&S
Jim
Sorry Jim ,but the name does not stir any grey matter ,but it takes a Mack to pass a Mack!
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This Power Plus Octopus and trailer could, and did, pass Macks ! 
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Oh! and they weren’t parked up on a layby when the Octopus sailed past ! 
