Remember when

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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Well Im not deaf, but I only hear what I want to from the master of the house, & guess who that is ? Regards Larry.

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charlie one:

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 it’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:

But not necessarily in that order Charlie!!

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If your battery was flat you could at least bump start it to get it going, either by letting it roll or getting someone to give you a push with folk truck, my first lorry an O type Bedford even had a handle to give it a swing, wouldn’t fancy trying that with a V8 though, what do they do these days what with all the electronics on these motors, it must cost a fortune in time stood waiting just to get someone out to give you a jump.

Happy days

Ossie

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OssieD:
If your battery was flat you could at least bump start it to get it going, either by letting it roll or getting someone to give you a push with folk truck, my first lorry an O type Bedford even had a handle to give it a swing, wouldn’t fancy trying that with a V8 though, what do they do these days what with all the electronics on these motors, it must cost a fortune in time stood waiting just to get someone out to give you a jump.

Happy days

Ossie

Aye ossie thats what they call progress. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
regards dave.

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Remember when there were no mobile phones? Timed delivery■■? “what’s that, I’ll deliver it when I get there”. “give us a ring when you’re empty”
Wages?? I’ve still got an old wage slip £18-1s-11p GROSS. for 40 hours, 4 wheel Commer tank on the fuel oil job.
As said already, I’d go back tomorrow but I wouldn’t go back to the modern day job.

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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 :stuck_out_tongue:

You mean they still aren’t all these things?? :open_mouth:

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I remember having to stop every couple of miles to thaw out the air system valve which some Swedish pillock of a designer had placed within a foot of the nearside front wheel. Come the weekend, some pillock of a lorry driver had modified it but we never got weather as cold as that again.
Makes you wonder, how come, in Swedish winters, that valve doesn’t ice up permanently? My boss reckoned some anti-British assemblers at the factory put the ■■■■ thing there on purpose!

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Closest thing I ever got to a mobile phone was seeing a dozen red telephone boxes loaded on someone’s wagon.

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Was there a red telephone box just for drivers log books. :confused: The number of drivers who I heard say in transport cafe’s, the Old Bill stopped me so I hid my log book and told him that I must of left it in the telephone box, where was this telephone box :slight_smile: .