Buzzer
Couple of yard shots of Burroughs Transport, no longer going.
DIG:
Buzzer:
Buzzer SunIt certainly looks like an Oz unit Buzzer I tried to blow it up to get a better view of the front number plate which would have the state the vehicle is licensed in.The road Train signs and bull bar are pretty much the norm.
What is strange is what appears to be an "Oversize"flag tied on the bull bar as the permits for an oversize road train are issued for indivisible loads only.
Perhaps Mushroom man or Star down under may know the truck or company I haven’t seen or heard of them here in WA but that docent mean much these days.Dig
I can sort of answer the Oversize sign there Dig, here in South Oz you can apply for a permit to run ‘oversize’ with a ‘divisible’ load - the most common cases are farmers & hauliers carting bales of hay & straw- which generally hang or even just bulge an inch or two over the edge of the trailer.
The overall width limit of 2.5m is rigorously enforced- as are most rules here, so anything past the edge of the trailer is Oversize. If it’s indivisible, standard oversize terms & conditions apply as per the gazzette, if it’s divisible you can apply for the permit- but generally they are granted to rural & agricultural freight.
As for Smith’s, we use them at work occasionally if we have something small destined for Tumby / Port Lincoln that doesn’t need one of our crane trucks- I’ve been in their Adelaide yard a few times. They’re a typical country hauler, running between their local area and the nearest big city, there’s plenty like them around the country.
Cheers all
Keith
You reckon the flanges are outside the coaming, Keith?
If I had that, I wouldn’t have signed it, I’d have just run with it. Up here, you’d have to be doing something else stupid, to get knocked off for that.
A couple of DAF lorries, either side of the traffic lights on the A577 at Pemberton, near Wigan.
Just half a mile to the rear of the white DAF is junction 26/M6 and the M58 to Liverpool. 14/07/2022.
Ray Smyth.
Minor repairs to Wearmouth Bridge Sunderland.
If this was present times the whole bridge would be shut to traffic and probably the wildlife evacuated from the river below.
Tyneside
Thanks to mushroomman, Buzzer, Ray Smyth, Kempston and tyneside for the photos 
Buzzer’s photo of the MacRobert’s wagon got me thinking to my childhood and grandfather(mother’s side) who worked for Lady MacRobert, he was a farm grieve(scots lingo), the grieve was a working farm manager who grafted alongside the other farm servants and this was back when horses were still the main pulling power. He was a disiplinarian that I never came to like having on one visit felt the weight of his hand around my earhole, that was for “gulping my food” at the the dinner table, I would’ve been about 5 or 6 then.
Lady MacRobert was widowed in 1922 and lost 3 sons (RAF) during WW2 the story here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacRobert_baronets
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Oily
oiltreader:
Thanks to mushroomman, Buzzer, Ray Smyth, Kempston and tyneside for the photosBuzzer’s photo of the MacRobert’s wagon got me thinking to my childhood and grandfather(mother’s side) who worked for Lady MacRobert, he was a farm grieve(scots lingo), the grieve was a working farm manager who grafted alongside the other farm servants and this was back when horses were still the main pulling power. He was a disiplinarian that I never came to like having on one visit felt the weight of his hand around my earhole, that was for “gulping my food” at the the dinner table, I would’ve been about 5 or 6 then.
Lady MacRobert was widowed in 1922 and lost 3 sons (RAF) during WW2 the story here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacRobert_baronets
Pathe News video clip britishpathe.com/video/macroberts-reply
Oily
The MacRobert story is a sad one.
kmills:
DIG:
Buzzer:
Buzzer SunIt certainly looks like an Oz unit Buzzer I tried to blow it up to get a better view of the front number plate which would have the state the vehicle is licensed in.The road Train signs and bull bar are pretty much the norm.
What is strange is what appears to be an "Oversize"flag tied on the bull bar as the permits for an oversize road train are issued for indivisible loads only.
Perhaps Mushroom man or Star down under may know the truck or company I haven’t seen or heard of them here in WA but that docent mean much these days.Dig
I can sort of answer the Oversize sign there Dig, here in South Oz you can apply for a permit to run ‘oversize’ with a ‘divisible’ load - the most common cases are farmers & hauliers carting bales of hay & straw- which generally hang or even just bulge an inch or two over the edge of the trailer.
The overall width limit of 2.5m is rigorously enforced- as are most rules here, so anything past the edge of the trailer is Oversize. If it’s indivisible, standard oversize terms & conditions apply as per the gazzette, if it’s divisible you can apply for the permit- but generally they are granted to rural & agricultural freight.
As for Smith’s, we use them at work occasionally if we have something small destined for Tumby / Port Lincoln that doesn’t need one of our crane trucks- I’ve been in their Adelaide yard a few times. They’re a typical country hauler, running between their local area and the nearest big city, there’s plenty like them around the country.Cheers all
Keith
Thanks for that Keith,looling at the pic it appears the flanges are over the combings a tad.
The rules and regs state to state are a joke at times,
I Recall loading for Darwin out of Perth with Sub sea equipment which was engage but overheight a permit was issued so I could run in 2 trailer road train configuration but my rout was via Nullabor Port Agusta and then up the Stewart as a cyclone had closed the coastal hwy in the west my load was then legal in WA and the NT but not in South Oz.
I managed to avoid any open weigh bridges etc but it certainly put some strain on the log book. 
Dig
That’s a decent diversion, Dig; and some of the fellows on here complain about having to leave the motorway.
For the blokes from whom I am light heartedly extracting the urine, that’s about the same distance as driving from Land’s End to John O’Groats. I hope the remuneration was adjusted accordingly, Dig.
That Henry Long tipping wool bales into a warehouse, those crane hoists were bloody lethal. I remember long ago a driver called Keith Brown (Harrisons of Dewsbury) tipping a load of baled rags into a Dewsbury warehouse, he was shunting a London trunk motor, the empty hoist came down, Keith clamped it onto a bale…“OK, take it up”, but one of the hooks caught in his wedding ring, up went the bale AND Keith, complete with finger, the finger didn’t last long (he was a big fella), up to Dewsbury Hospital he went and that was the last he saw of his wedding ring finger.
grumpy old man:
That Henry Long tipping wool bales into a warehouse, those crane hoists were bloody lethal. I remember long ago a driver called Keith Brown (Harrisons of Dewsbury) tipping a load of baled rags into a Dewsbury warehouse, he was shunting a London trunk motor, the empty hoist came down, Keith clamped it onto a bale…“OK, take it up”, but one of the hooks caught in his wedding ring, up went the bale AND Keith, complete with finger, the finger didn’t last long (he was a big fella), up to Dewsbury Hospital he went and that was the last he saw of his wedding ring finger.
Lucky it was just the finger not the tackle. 
regards Kev.
One of my former traffic managers lost a finger in a not too dissimilar fashion………If memory serves, I seem to recall his name was, or hopefully still is, Alan Rathbone.
When I knew him, he was in charge of the traffic office at Steetley brick at Upholland, a nice guy, and he too was missing the third digit of his left hand.
He’d previously been employed as a driver for Holt Lane transport at Whiston on the BICC contract , and on one eventful occasion had jumped down off the back of the wagon , as we’ve all done at one time or another , when his wedding ring snagged on something or other . Result ….goodbye finger.
I suppose the moral of the story here has to be ……if your job description includes working in a physical capacity within an industrial environment, then,…….leave your bling at home. It isn’t quantum physics really is it ?
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Hello Buzzer …another South Wales gem …John Watkins of Llanfoist Abergavenny …long gone but his Westgate garage remains in situ …Geraint
kenfig bill:
Buzzer:
BuzzerHello Buzzer …another South Wales gem …John Watkins of Llanfoist Abergavenny …long gone but his Westgate garage remains in situ …Geraint
Your welcome Geraint, on the lost finger thing I had a driver who jumped of a flatbed SCAC trailer catching his wedding ring on a nail, it did not rip it off but did such damage to the flesh he had to have it amputated, we had to send another driver to get the truck back home from Nottingham, Buzzer
