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UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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And all the stress involved in buying condoms from the barbers shop. :open_mouth:
And after a hard days fishing in my boat seeing the school truant officer waiting for me on the beach as i came in :cry: Mike

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When you went in the drivers room & the table had copies of Commercial Motor, Headlight, Motor Transport, Truck & Mayfair on it, Now with the modern ā€œDriversā€, the table is has copies of GQ, Zoo, Loaded, Mens Health (4.f.Sake), B&Q, PMT,Hair & Beauty etc etc. :open_mouth: The first thing they do when they get in now at 5am is put the ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā–  in the screen, I do what Dad always told me the 1st thing you do is, put the bloody kettle on :smiley:
Regards
Chris

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Stocking topsā€¦ :wink:

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And dont forget the garters & suspenders, & girls white ankle socks they wore for school, & the boys in their braces & hobnail boots shining like s t on a barn door, Happy days, Regards Larry.

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I can remember standing in a queue at the butchers during the rationing in the war & getting 2 ounces of corn beef, & my dear old mam worked wonders with it plus some spuds & carrots from our allotment, Regards Larry.

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And the best bits for me definatly were proper prams with proper wheels to make go-karts with, and the all time best, the original Chopper Bike, i spent most of my school holidays one year strawberry picking to earn the Ā£10 i needed to buy a second hand one and it was bright red !!!
Summers were hot and sunny, winters were cold and snowy, donā€™t you just wish you could go backā– ā– ?

Madguy :smiling_imp:

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No power steering,servo assisted brakes that faded.Under powered engines.Cold cabs in winter,hot in the summer.
Sixty hours plus to take home Ā£20.00 a week.No drivers rest rooms at loading or tipping places.Sit in the cab with another driver and chew the fat.
Those were the daysā€¦And I would do it again. :laughing:
Cheers Dave.

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Bewick:
And there were digs and no sleeper cabs and everyone was friendly and had the ā€œcraicā€ 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.

:smiley: As Mary Hopkins would say- ā€œThose were the days my friendā€ā€¦the real days of haulage. Yeah! H-a-p-p-y Daysā€¦ but long gone.

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hutpik:
And all the stress involved in buying condoms from the barbers shop. :open_mouth:
And after a hard days fishing in my boat seeing the school truant officer waiting for me on the beach as i came in :cry: Mike

Luxury, my truant officer drove a beige morris marina .
Came home after a days fishing at Plaums pit to be greeted by that ā– ā– ā– ā–  sat with me parents :open_mouth:.

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Lawrence Dunbar:
I can remember standing in a queue at the butchers during the rationing in the war & getting 2 ounces of corn beef, & my dear old mam worked wonders with it plus some spuds & carrots from our allotment, Regards Larry.

Well by the looks of what has transpired over the years you took no harm on rationing then Larry,probably had a bit of ā€œblack marketā€ as well eh!Well it was,Iā€™ve been told,rampant in the North East and from what I was told when my old Grandma Smith passed away at South Farm in Rhyhope they found a few grand in readies in her feather bed and the tax man wanted to know where the cash had come from for the new Fergie that was standing in the implement shed! Cheers Dennis.

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Chris Webb:
Stocking topsā€¦ :wink:

You were lucky Chris, we had to paint our legs with Coco powder :laughing: .

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Going into the boozer with the other lads getting a few beers down your neck so you could go back to the lorry (cab hotel) and get to sleep on your piece of plyboard across the seats and bonnet. :wink: lovely jubbly :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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I remember making a tent with the drip sheet Parked in Goodmans Yard Tower Hill on the back of my 8 wheeler, it was summer time of course, they were the days Eh, Regards Larry.

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Lawrence Dunbar:
I remember making a tent with the drip sheet Parked in Goodmans Yard Tower Hill on the back of my 8 wheeler, it was summer time of course, they were the days Eh, Regards Larry.

You Cowboy Larry ! Anon1.

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[/i Aye, but I was a proper cowboy, I was the Sheriff & drove a M5 AEC 8Wheeler, & I was just a boy Eh. Ha Ha, Regards Larry.

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Yep, good old days. Most of the old time drivers are kept reminded of them by the bad back, caused by hand-balling and sitting in a poor old seat for hours, bad stomach caused by throwing down fry-ups and near boiling tea and hitting the road again before itā€™d had time to go down, and deaf as a beetle through hours with a two-stroke screaming under you, with not a lot between you and it! :slight_smile:
Bernard

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Lawrence Dunbar:
[/i Aye, but I was a proper cowboy, I was the Sheriff & drove a M5 AEC 8Wheeler, & I was just a boy Eh. Ha Ha, Regards Larry.
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Same here Larry. When I was upgraded from a MK3 AEC MM to a MK5 I was King of the Road,like a dog with two tails. :smiley:

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albion1938:
Yep, good old days. Most of the old time drivers are kept reminded of them by the bad back, caused by hand-balling and sitting in a poor old seat for hours, bad stomach caused by throwing down fry-ups and near boiling tea and hitting the road again before itā€™d had time to go down, and deaf as a beetle through hours with a two-stroke screaming under you, with not a lot between you and it! :slight_smile:
Bernard

Blimey Bernard.You and I must have worked for the same firm.Ive got all those complaints. However the three main complaints suffered by old time lorry drivers are 1 Bad backs. 2 Piles.3 Divorce.Ive got all three.Regards Charlie :laughing: :laughing:

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albion1938:
Yep, good old days. Most of the old time drivers are kept reminded of them by the bad back, caused by hand-balling and sitting in a poor old seat for hours, bad stomach caused by throwing down fry-ups and near boiling tea and hitting the road again before itā€™d had time to go down, and deaf as a beetle through hours with a two-stroke screaming under you, with not a lot between you and it! :slight_smile:
Bernard

Are beetles deaf?
Ive heard the sayings,ā€œbald as a cootā€,ā€œblind as a batā€ but down here its ā€œas deaf as a doorpostā€ (mind you, i hail from Wiltcestershire) :laughing: :laughing:

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Suedehead:

albion1938:
Yep, good old days. Most of the old time drivers are kept reminded of them by the bad back, caused by hand-balling and sitting in a poor old seat for hours, bad stomach caused by throwing down fry-ups and near boiling tea and hitting the road again before itā€™d had time to go down, and deaf as a beetle through hours with a two-stroke screaming under you, with not a lot between you and it! :slight_smile:
Bernard

Are beetles deaf?
Ive heard the sayings,ā€œbald as a cootā€,ā€œblind as a batā€ but down here its ā€œas deaf as a doorpostā€ (mind you, i hail from Wiltcestershire) :laughing: :laughing:

Iā€™ve lived in Lincolnshire for many years now, but Iā€™m an ā€œex-patā€ Londoner, ā€œdeaf as a beetleā€ comes from there, I donā€™t know whether beetles are actually deaf or not, but I tried talking to one this morning, and he didnā€™t answer! :smiley: If the noise in my old motor is anything to go by, ā€œdeaf as an Albion driverā€ would be about right!
Bernard