I used to pull container flats that had come from bristol to waterford port. They had plasterboard and had been loaded by shunters and most of them had to be resheeted on arrival. It comes down to pride in the job and a lot of people just dont have any.( Both sides of the irish sea )
Bewick:
remy:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Straps sir, pray what are straps,the only straps i know are the ones the teacher used to lay across my arse on the rare occasion i showed up at school.
thanks harry long retired.
Bloody Hell Remy NO STRAPS and!!! no SPOTS either ! what kind of a “cowboy outfit” is this you are getting tangled up with now !! Bewick.
I never drove a flashy motor, just plain old run-of-the-mill company trucks but i did keep them clean and polished. And no i don’t think your trucks are flashy, youve dressed them up nicely with extra spots and pin-striping, now that’s old school 
Some gold leaf lettering would finish it off nicely. 
Charles
remy:
Bewick:
remy:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Straps sir, pray what are straps,the only straps i know are the ones the teacher used to lay across my arse on the rare occasion i showed up at school.
thanks harry long retired.
Bloody Hell Remy NO STRAPS and!!! no SPOTS either ! what kind of a “cowboy outfit” is this you are getting tangled up with now !! Bewick.
I never drove a flashy motor, just plain old run-of-the-mill company trucks but i did keep them clean and polished. And no i don’t think your trucks are flashy, youve dressed them up nicely with extra spots and pin-striping, now that’s old school
Charles
Hiya Remy never got involved with Gold Leaf ( there wasn’t that sort of money in the job !! I don’t know if youv’e seen this shot but this is "pin striping " Curly Cargill used a similar style once as well. Bewick.
Bewick:
remy:
Bewick:
remy:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Straps sir, pray what are straps,the only straps i know are the ones the teacher used to lay across my arse on the rare occasion i showed up at school.
thanks harry long retired.
Bloody Hell Remy NO STRAPS and!!! no SPOTS either ! what kind of a “cowboy outfit” is this you are getting tangled up with now !! Bewick.
I never drove a flashy motor, just plain old run-of-the-mill company trucks but i did keep them clean and polished. And no i don’t think your trucks are flashy, youve dressed them up nicely with extra spots and pin-striping, now that’s old school
Charles
Hiya Remy never got involved with Gold Leaf ( there wasn’t that sort of money in the job !!) I don’t know if youv’e seen this shot but this is "pin striping " Curly Cargill used a similar style once as well. Bewick.
Bewick:
Bewick:
remy:
Bewick:
remy:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Straps sir, pray what are straps,the only straps i know are the ones the teacher used to lay across my arse on the rare occasion i showed up at school.
thanks harry long retired.
Bloody Hell Remy NO STRAPS and!!! no SPOTS either ! what kind of a “cowboy outfit” is this you are getting tangled up with now !! Bewick.
I never drove a flashy motor, just plain old run-of-the-mill company trucks but i did keep them clean and polished. And no i don’t think your trucks are flashy, youve dressed them up nicely with extra spots and pin-striping, now that’s old school
Charles
Hiya Remy never got involved with Gold Leaf ( there wasn’t that sort of money in the job !!) I don’t know if youv’e seen this shot but this is "pin striping " Curly Cargill used a similar style once as well. Bewick.
Yes, great looking tractor, anyone can bolt on chrome pieces like they do nowadays, well they do over here anyway .
Charkes
hiya,
Mr Bewick would that nice pinstripeing have been done freehand?? sure looks swell, it’s all transfers and “wallpaper” in this day and age, there’s a video of one of steady Eddie’s on here somewhere being wallpapered, can’t remember which thread though, wanted to watch it again and mean’t to bookmark it but forgot.
thanks harry long retired.
trunkera1:
back in late 60s, did lots of irish peat bales, on flats shipped in from southern ireland,dont know who taught them irish lads how to do dolly knots,but you couldnt undo the bloody things! and if the rope was wet the only way to get the sheet off,was to cut every rope!god help you if you had to reload the flat!..
I remember them well in my Pandoro days in the late 70s and early 80s, particularly in 1982 when I did a stint working at the outstation at Preston Dock, and prior to that when I was responsible for managing the peat deliveries, working in the traffic office at Fleetwood.
In theory, it was 330 plastic-packed ‘Handibales’ (handy?? 
) on a 30’ trailer, and 300 on a 40’, allowing for the higher tare weight of the longer trailer. Of course, since trailer length was chargeable on ferry trailers, most came through on 30’ trailers. The weights used to vary enormously, depending upon how wet the peat was when it was packed.
Especially with the 30’ trailers, loaded sky-high with 330 bales, it was a regular routine for the yard shunters to get the loads straightened up after they came off the boat. The first stage of the journey was to shunt them 25 miles to the overspill facility at Preston dock, where they probably had to be straightened again, and re-roped.
Then they’d be called off for delivery somewhere (the stuff was held in stock in trailers, sometimes for weeks or even longer) and might be trunked to Stoke Depot… where they might have to be straightened and/or re-roped.
And then some poor driver would have to try to deliver the thing somewhere without it all falling off! To their credit, I can’t recall one ever being thrown off, apart from one that was actually caused by a mechanical problem and not by the load security.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Mr Bewick would that nice pinstripeing have been done freehand?? sure looks swell, it’s all transfers and “wallpaper” in this day and age, there’s a video of one of steady Eddie’s on here somewhere being wallpapered, can’t remember which thread though, wanted to watch it again and mean’t to bookmark it but forgot.
thanks harry long retired.
Bewick:
harry_gill:
hiya,
Mr Bewick would that nice pinstripeing have been done freehand?? sure looks swell, it’s all transfers and “wallpaper” in this day and age, there’s a video of one of steady Eddie’s on here somewhere being wallpapered, can’t remember which thread though, wanted to watch it again and mean’t to bookmark it but forgot.
thanks harry long retired.
Hiya “H” how are you keeping OK I trust ! Yea the pin striping was all done freehand at that time as we didn’t use vinyl until the late 80s when our image had evolved to black letters on a white background.But there lies a tale!our then signwriter had started using vinyl and was desperate for us to try it but I wasn’t keen but finally I relented and said he could use a Scany repaint that was comming out of the shop but if it was crap he would have to re -do it proper like F.O.C.!! Well he letters it with vynyl and I didn’t like admitting it but it was a nice job ! However two days after it was done the Driver only rolls it over on a roundabout and it slides along the road on its N/S ! I could’nt resist ringing the signwriter to wind him up ! I says to him "I thought you gauranteed me this new fangdled vynyl would never fade or come off " Yes he says ! so Itell him its hanging off the N/S door like snot but its OK on the O/S ! Well he’s beside himself can’t understand why but will come down pronto to sort it !I butts in and says do you think the reason its all hanging off is maybe because it has slithered along the road for 50yds on its side ! He called me all the rotten B******s under the sun but I had him going I can tell thee H !!! Cheers Bewick.
240 Gardner:
trunkera1:
back in late 60s, did lots of irish peat bales, on flats shipped in from southern ireland,dont know who taught them irish lads how to do dolly knots,but you couldnt undo the bloody things! and if the rope was wet the only way to get the sheet off,was to cut every rope!god help you if you had to reload the flat!..I remember them well in my Pandoro days in the late 70s and early 80s, particularly in 1982 when I did a stint working at the outstation at Preston Dock, and prior to that when I was responsible for managing the peat deliveries, working in the traffic office at Fleetwood.
In theory, it was 330 plastic-packed ‘Handibales’ (handy??
Especially with the 30’ trailers, loaded sky-high with 330 bales, it was a regular routine for the yard shunters to get the loads straightened up after they came off the boat. The first stage of the journey was to shunt them 25 miles to the overspill facility at Preston dock, where they probably had to be straightened again, and re-roped.
Then they’d be called off for delivery somewhere (the stuff was held in stock in trailers, sometimes for weeks or even longer) and might be trunked to Stoke Depot… where they might have to be straightened and/or re-roped.
And then some poor driver would have to try to deliver the thing somewhere without it all falling off! To their credit, I can’t recall one ever being thrown off, apart from one that was actually caused by a mechanical problem and not by the load security.
I did a load of peat moss on a flat a couple of years ago, scariest thing I’ve ver had on the back, every corner, camber or bump had me convinced it was all going to fall off, here it is…
tonyb70:
3 lined up ready to go.The far 2 were full loads and the sheets were a bit short,so thats the best i could do.Certainly keeps me fit.
Tonyb
Tony , stupid question but why flat trailers 
boris:
tonyb70:
3 lined up ready to go.The far 2 were full loads and the sheets were a bit short,so thats the best i could do.Certainly keeps me fit.
TonybTony , stupid question but why flat trailers
Not a stupid question at all.
Some deliverys are craned straight up onto the roof of a building,but even after a job has specified a flat trailer,they can still get forklifted off,Which is wasting alot of time by sheeting and unsheeting a load.
Tonyb
i know it’s an old post but stumbled upon it and had to put a few of my attempts’ first one waste paper from reeds at lydbrook, second one reels of paper from tilbury to lydbrook and third one is polystyrene [spelt right i looked it up] from vencel resil whitecroft. happy days
wideboybob:
my first attempt at this fine art! my 111 with a load of chipboard out of KRONASPAN at chirk. circa 1988
I loaded out of there in the 70s,it was like sheets of glass,if you didn’t double dolly them you’d part company for sure.Fun days with wet ropes and the line of dirty water down your face.
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Hi all,anybody remember loading out of Reckitt & Colman on the Norwich ring road.You needed corner boards,double sheets and a fly.We used to run the loads over to the Co-op at Blackford,Somerset,If there was the slightest moisture the load was rejected.They allowed you to put the first layer of sheets on then you were out in the yard in all weathers.A few years later the law changed and all foodstuffs had to be in curtainsiders.I’d moved onto tilts on international work by then.Still got the scar on my head from the s****y things falling apart when stripping them.The best loads were JCBs out to Le Havre and perfectly square pallets of rubber compound back to Michelin, Stoke.A French driver asked us to show him how to make a dolly and he fell on his ae first one,then he got the hang of it.He went off chuffed to Fk.
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had a couple of loads of polystyrne like that in on windy days on the M5 stopped in sedgemore and a fridge artic pushed it back stait again re-rope and seeted and away to go.
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You gonna tell us more Dennis it was certainly roped and sheeted ok?
ramone:
Bewick:
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It was a Bowater Scott load of Andrex ex Barrow for West Thurrock RDC,it was the only load out of '000’s we caried from Barrow,on flats, over the 13 years we ran out of Barrow that we “lost”.This catasrophe happened late one friday afternoon on the A590 at Newby Bridge at the south end of Lake Windermere.The driver responsible is the one in the maroon trousers(he wouldn’t turn to be photographed!!!) He managed to get it onto the lay-bye and we pulled another artic up along the nearside,on the grass.We transhipped it and didn’t lose a “carton”,Phew!!! Didn’t last too long at Bewick Transport that driver though!!!The driver never sheeted and roped that load,he only changed trailers!! Cheers Dennis.
Bewick:
ramone:
Bewick:
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It was a Bowater Scott load of Andrex ex Barrow for West Thurrock RDC,it was the only load out of '000’s we caried from Barrow,on flats, over the 13 years we ran out of Barrow that we “lost”.This catasrophe happened late one friday afternoon on the A590 at Newby Bridge at the south end of Lake Windermere.The driver responsible is the one in the maroon trousers(he wouldn’t turn to be photographed!!!) He managed to get it onto the lay-bye and we pulled another artic up along the nearside,on the grass.We transhipped it and didn’t lose a “carton”,Phew!!! Didn’t last too long at Bewick Transport that driver though!!!The driver never sheeted and roped that load,he only changed trailers!! Cheers Dennis.
Ah so it sounds like he was a formula 1 driver Dennis?