Yet a simple, Jaguar brake line is totally bewildering for him.
Brilliant. I love to read his ramblings, a psychiatrist would consider him ‘a challenge’. :rofl.
Keep it coming CF
P.S.and I hope all you so called lorry drivers are heeding all this valuable advice, FREELY given by our hero. 
I remember it well, It’s the one that I ran it into a wall one cold and frosty winters morning. The wall was undamaged, the trailer push bar was ‘modified’, the radiator survived (just).
Happy days.
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Have a care sir with wild statements like that, you should know by now that our Leatherhead correspondents knowledge IN ALL MATTERS is unsurpassed. In fact, his knowledge is encyclopaedic. 
Not bewildering, it’s all part of his master plane to lull us into a false sense of security. “Ah, so he doesn’t know everything” we assume, thereby fooling us into believing he isn’t a fruitcake after all. Try reading some of his ramblings on the Busy Mr Trump thread - he actually makes Trump seem normal. He thinks that Hitler was a left wing nut job because his party was called the “National Socialists”. He probably thinks that Currys is an Asian fast food joint and Boots is a shoe shop.
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Socialist nut jobs do actually generally call themselves and their regimes Socialists.Who would have thought it.
Those 8 wheeler drawbar outfits looked as impressive here then as in NZ now.
An anonymous benefactor in Leatherhead has donated a complete set of The Encyclopaedia Britannica to the local Library. Apparently the individual concerned stated that the set of books were an unwanted gift and of no use whatsoever as he knew far more than anything that was in a set of Encyclopaedias. .
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If you haven’t read it before here is the famous poem by Pastor Martin Niemoller:
“First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me”
And you think that Hitler was a left wing nut job. If anyone should know the definition of a “nut job” it’s you. How did you get it so wrong.
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Oh, the irony, from someone who has relied on the public teet for most of his life.
Now then SDU I’m not having that. This man dedicated a large part of his life to the cause. When he wasn’t gritting roads he was collecting rubbish whilst at the same time advising the transport chiefs on vehicle selection and the maintenance dept on best practice. He should have been awarded a medal for his sterling service. The good folk of Surrey lost a star when he changed his career path - I don’t think they’ve ever recovered.
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Hear hear, well said. We should all be indebted to our Leatherhead correspondent, the world would be a poorer place without his knowledge of ALL things . A genius in all but name. 
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What could possibly go wrong? 
Those kids are going to have GOM on their case.
Yeah you can just hear the driver when he walks back.
‘‘OI 
…..get to ■■■■ you little ■■■■■ ‘‘
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Bedford looks to be a 6x4 (if all that wheel-trim tat isn’t disguising non-matching hubs!)
That’s just how we played in those days. There was the occasional mishap but that’s how we learnt to cope with the real world. The youngest there is about two and the eldest (on the bike) can be no more than ten at most - so nearly all infants, then.
If you left that tanker for today’s teens to clamber on, they’d look at in disbelief and get their smart phones out!
No, sorry, that’s all wrong. An 8 wheel Foden tanker is NOT a plaything.