Buzzer:
Being as we have had a bit in cattle trucks, bought a lot of second hand trucks from Peter in the past, Buzzer
Some good lads on there Buzzer back in the 80s/90s and they used to use Poole alot. They would backload out of France with
Sicanjou apples and wine in those cattle boxes. Dont think you would get away with that today,arriving at a fruit importers in
a live stock truck.
The various Gilder brothers always run tidy tackle. 
Paul C Gee:
Following on from all the livestock haulage here is another of the Gilders - Gordon - with a nice top of the range outfit - bet that trailer cost a few bob and probably takes even longer to wash out!!!
Nice. Cant remember all the names there’s loads of them. Peter,Gordon,Graham and Edward i believe were all brothers.
I think one of there sons was called Joe ? I expect someone on here knows all the different names.
gingerfold:
“DEANB”
Good stuff Graham. 4,000 motors was a huge fleet. They must have had some serious buying power.
BRS were the largest fleet but were there many other fleets with 4,000 or more motors back in the 70’s you can
think of ■■? 
Probably at least 2,500 of those would have been bread round vans. Back in the '70s supermarkets didn’t have the monopoly they do now, so more sliced bread was sold through traditional corner shops. RHM had about 70 bakeries, ranging from the biggest which was at Cale Lane, Wigan. I was there for 4 years and at one stage we had 140 BMC FGs, and they all fitted into one enormous van shed, as it was called. Trunking vehicles were ERFs and Ford D Series. When I moved to Mothers Pride Chesterfield there were 50 Ford D Series rounds vans, they were bigger capacity than the FGs. Trunking vehicles were Ford D Series, and I had a Mercedes tractor unit on hire for a few months, until I hired a driver and unit from J. Pass of Chesterfield, which saved me a lot of hassle. Typically and depending on the round, a van salesman would do 30 to 35 shop deliveries daily. They were paid on a basic wage plus commission, which was capped at a certain level. Virtually every van salesman at Chesterfield was on the maximum, Back then Sunday trading wasn’t thought of so Saturday was the biggest sales day. Some of the local drivers did an extra Friday afternoon run because the vans wouldn’t hold all the bread needed for Saturday, for the more distant rounds we sent one of the night trunking vans (tail lifts) to a meeting point on Friday afternoon to feed vans that came to meet it. Happy days.
Intresting post Graham. The bread round vans is now a thing of the past like you say. I can remember our local bakers used to
deliver to my house when i was about 10 on a saurday morning and i use to pay him. 
moomooland:
DEANB:
“beanie” Re your message about Austin Wilkinson from Salford.If anyone has any pics of this company can they pop them on as “beanie” is looking for some as his dad drove for them.
Foden S106 tractor unit Reg No C988 END was registered new to Austin Wilkinson & Sons Ltd on the 2nd of June 1986.
Powered by a ■■■■■■■ E290 engine it is seen here when just two days old on one of it’s first outings after loading up at Blyth Docks in Northumberland.
More pictures here in my Austin Wilkinson Flickr Album
Thanks for the pic,info and link Paul, top man ! 
pete smith:
Here you go Shaun,
This is the ex C H Jones motor that was converted to a hook loader by Paul, the other ex Jones’s. ANX 281S was kept as a tipper, Cheer’s Pete
Nice pic Pete !
