Logistics was road haulage.
Aggregate supplies was sand & gravel.
Recycling was skip hire.
Metal salvage was scrap metal merchants . . yes i know,i should get out more 
Suedehead:
Logistics was road haulage.
Aggregate supplies was sand & gravel.
Recycling was skip hire.
Metal salvage was scrap metal merchants . . yes i know,i should get out more
That was before the days of marketing men Suedehead.Its a different world now sadly.
Cheers Dave.
And there were digs and no sleeper cabs and everyone was friendly and had the âcraicâ and oh! there was no curtainsiders and every load was sheeted and roped,usually with pride in the finnished job.Decent cafes on all the A roads,no E.coli vans and robber M/way services.Happy days! Bewick.
Bewick:
And there were digs and no sleeper cabs and everyone was friendly and had the âcraicâ and oh! there was no curtainsiders and every load was sheeted and roped,usually with pride in the finnished job.Decent cafes on all the A roads,no E.coli vans and robber M/way services.Happy days! Bewick.
And when you were as an inexperienced youngster deeply in the sâŚ, someone would help you out, be it a puncture, breakdown, folding a sheet, (or getting it on), or even just how to get there, or the best time to load/tip, or even how to get into a works . It really was better, we aint sad, no, we were lucky to have experienced âbetterâ times. Cheerio for now, (I shall seek solace in the Bollinger).
That is why the industry and everything else is in a bloody mess accountants run things nowadays plus it might not be polictally correct to say sand and gravel etc. It is supposed to be progress or that is what they say ?, bed time finished another bottle of Vino
Saviem:
Bewick:
And there were digs and no sleeper cabs and everyone was friendly and had the âcraicâ and oh! there was no curtainsiders and every load was sheeted and roped,usually with pride in the finnished job.Decent cafes on all the A roads,no E.coli vans and robber M/way services.Happy days! Bewick.And when you were as an inexperienced youngster deeply in the sâŚ, someone would help you out, be it a puncture, breakdown, folding a sheet, (or getting it on), or even just how to get there, or the best time to load/tip, or even how to get into a works . It really was better, we aint sad, no, we were lucky to have experienced âbetterâ times. Cheerio for now, (I shall seek solace in the Bollinger).
Putting it like that ,perhaps"it was better".no mobile . . ring the clearing agent.
My first sleeper cab was a Merc day cab with a bit of foam and the back of the passenger seat removed.
Happy days . . mines a Carlsberg export
jastrebsi59:
That is why the industry and everything else is in a bloody mess accountants run things nowadays plus it might not be polictally correct to say sand and gravel etc.
Can you still load carbon black?
I am sure it must have a new name now
carbon black is still carbon black no rubber without it
You ran back to the yard on Saturday morning to pick up your wage packet or you went in for four hours overtime to wash a few lorries.
No agencies, no lay by parking, and no H&S just common sense & discretion.
OMG! Nostalgia isnât what it used to be.
Greasy spoons, the most appalling overnight accomodation with up to ten others in the same room snoring and â â â â â â â their way through the night, horribly congested roads especially before the M25 was finished, the joys of roping and sheeting in the pouring rain and a whole range of illnesses which then carried you off early!
Please! Thereâs an infuriating but true song in Disneyland on one of the rides which shows the progress in living conditions through the last century.
Now is the time, now is the best time, now is the best time in your life!
When on multi drop. first stop was always breakfast, then no stopping till all was done except for the obligatory cups of tea. Then all meet up in the afternoon to spend time supping even more tea and playing the pinball machines. Great in winter, back to lorry and it was all frozen up again. Still it gave you time to make your log sheet out while your mate was scraping the ice off the windscreen 
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Getting back to the yard and the TM saying âyouâre late arnt youâ âYes boss the weatherâs atrociousâ 
Ray
Suedehead:
jastrebsi59:
That is why the industry and everything else is in a bloody mess accountants run things nowadays plus it might not be polictally correct to say sand and gravel etc.Can you still load carbon black?
The driver would have to wear as bloody space suit, H & S Rules everything nowadays, Regards Larry.
flishflunk:
When on multi drop. first stop was always breakfast, then no stopping till all was done except for the obligatory cups of tea. Then all meet up in the afternoon to spend time supping even more tea and playing the pinball machines. Great in winter, back to lorry and it was all frozen up again. Still it gave you time to make your log sheet out while your mate was scraping the ice off the windscreen
Getting back to the yard and the TM saying âyouâre late arnt youâ âYes boss the weatherâs atrociousâRay
You certainly got through some tea Ray,were there any vacancies - did you have a Sheffield depot?
And ringing in when tipped miles away from where you should have been,and tâother end saying âGive us yer number and Iâll ring yer backâ. 
boys in the park, jumpers for goalpoasts. Endearing image isnât it? Is it? Mmmm⌠marvelous
Tops & whips,marbles, a cruck & gourd, catapults, peashooters, Ostermilk tins with strings to walk tall on, chassis made out of old prams, they were the days Eh, thats when I was young Lawrence, now am just owld Larry.
And Curly Wurlyâs were a lot bigger, and sherbert dibdabs tasted different and you could buy two â â â â from a packet at the corner shop !!!
Madguy
Aye, & not to forget Aniseed balls, Gob stoppers,Poor Bens, & midget Gems, Liquorice Root,roller skates, home made Kites made out of wallpaper off cuts, Regards Larry.
I must be old,i like a lot on here have been there done it and remember it all,and happy days they were.We didnt realize at the time but they were hard times but we all pulled together and were free of most of the r/rs todays drivers endure and in my opinion a bloody sight better for it.
regards dave.