Who remembers going with there dad in the school holidays ? I LOVED IT . Couldn’t sleep the night before so exited .
Hi! I was always with dad,just doing seel round Stockholm so no nigits out.
But thous were the days
I now have restored dads first unit as a tribute to him.
Danne
jeffrey ellener:
Who remembers going with there dad in the school holidays ? I LOVED IT . Couldn’t sleep the night before so exited .
Same here
Very happy memory’s,been all over with my dad
The jcb song always reminds me of them days even though we were in his truck
Happy happy days loved it.
Remember always looking for phone boxes and reversing the charges.
I’ve put this up on the site in the past but seeing as this is a thread about those memorable days away on a trip with a Lorry driving Father I’ll put it on again as it sums up those long ago happy days, cheers Franky.
Loved it every holiday without fail off I would go right up till I left school.
It started as an easy way to get round childcare my brother and myself in the TK for trips out.
Later I just went because I loved to go.
Whebn he was on eh milk wagons I would sort out x amount of this and x amount of that as he delivered to all these little out of the way milkmen.
At about 9 I would sit on his knee and he would let me steer the wagon and work the tipper.
After I joined up and came hiome with my HGV I wnet with him and he just said back it up over there.
I could see him grinning like a chesire cast in the mirror.
It was recruiting toll into the industry almost all drivers I know off a certain age seemed to have started that way.
Well it was rides with my Grandad, As my Dad never drove at all, This old Scammell was one of my fave wagons, & allways will be, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
0Well it was rides with my Grandad, As my Dad never drove at all, This old Scammell was one of my fave wagons, & allways will be, Regards Larry.
Wow that’s a great picture,makes me wonder where engineering will go next from now.
I used to go with my dad every school holiday and be away all week,loved it,i had no choice in the matter either because my mam worked full time and i was to much of an handfull for my grandma,my dad went out for a few pints every night with me in the corner listening to all the drivers,i was told not to repeat the swearing and to tell my mam we sat in cab watching tele every night 
going with dad…best bits…flying down blunsdon hill [nr swindon] out of gear [before the bypass] in a old alibon j curtis & son ,very scarery…also hiding in the footwell of said alibion to get in to pressed steel fisher past security…gate…swindon… 
best trip i did with my dad was when we had the ford transcon-a load of fireproof doors to a new power station on the isle of wight from north herts -loved it,felt like we were going abroad on the red funnel ferry lol.i think i was seven or eight years old…
Every chance I got, from days in a foden s83 running parts from Harwich navyard into Vauxhall at Luton, to all week away on group age runs between Germany and Sheffield in a 141. For me, school was just something that got in the way between trips. First drove an artic on one of these, when dad was in the office and the loaders needed it shunting along a bit - how hard could it be for a 9 years old to drive a scania after all? 