hi all, I know it’s caravans but someone’s got to deliver them. Saturday Morning in the yard dropped trailer to have tyres turned only to find out theres no point just run them out.
The old spare being started first time in a while
All hooked up ready to go
Monday Morning ready to go
Fueled up at Sandbach first stop T Bay services
At Livingston Dropping off
Return load out of the SECC for Birtree Darlington
This smart Daf parked outside
Loading inside, hooked up with my college who had deliverd in Dumfies 
sorry about the focus on some of the photos the automatic focusing has broken so its manual most of the time, obviously operator going blind by some of the night shots I took later lol
loaded and spotted this when on way out sat at the lights
Stopped at Bothwell on way back down.This was a nice sheeted load from Fraserburgh but couldn’t understand him and he was off before I could get the camera out lol.
Stopped at Lockerbie
Dropping off at Birtree Tuesday morning
He went up to Consett for some Elddis vans back home and I went to Copart at York for 2 scrap Range Rovers back to a 4x4 breakers near our yard.It was raining so didn’t stay out of the cab for long 
Delivering them at home
Parked up home time
Down to Baileys at Bristol in the morning 3 loads to Basildon. Was going to post the rest of the week but thats enough for now. Part 2 tomorrow? That’s if anybody wants more?
Yeh keep em comin 
Interesting work
Keep em coming mate
That’s a proper sleeper cab you have behind you!
Enjoyed that. Didn’t realise how much I missed some of the diaries from on here.
Was you heading south M5 with a single van on back about half 5 / 6 this morning 
Nice 
In the photo bellow ‘Delivering them at home’ … Why does it look like that car is flying ? 
Keep them coming
Thanks for the replys,will post thee rest of the week later. No I wasn’t southbound on M5 sat at Ferrybridge on way to swifts at Hull in the morning. Flying It’s the only time we use a Forktruck lol
Ade
Interesting rig, clever loading. Love that old Merc!
Great stuff Ade keep them coming. Eddie.
Hull this morning
Cheers
Cracking pics lurpak, also some valuable kit on your outfit. Keep them coming.
Cheers Dave.
Heres Part 2
Loaded at Baileys Bristol for Melbourne Aus unfortunately we have have to take them to Bowdens yard Basildon.Busy day today try and get back and load make it easier tomorrow.
Bowdens yard
In the container
De Rooy waiting for tractor factory
Back at Baileys loaded with 2 twins for Alphi Basildon the same shipping agent around the back of Bowdens yard.
Parked at Liegh Delamere early Thursday morning.
Alphi’s yard
The vans I delivered yesterday
Unloading
Other lorries unloading
A proper lorry turned up 
Waiting at Liegh Delamere to fill up
Loaded at Bristol and parked at Liegh delamere again,2 Dutch Lorries it was dark, so bit blurred as mentioned earlier lol.
Friday morning early before i left for Basildon again I think I know the way now
Alphi’s yard again
parked outside having a break
Back to Baileys now to load for NEC. Part 3 later
The ERF Olympic looks well for her age and puts all them SWEDISH and DUTCH junk to shame. You can tell I am no biased eh. Eddie.
Great. Have you tried the De Rooy piggy-backing business with your mate? 
Not sure I phrased that correctly!
Great pictures thanks. I used to drive the sister motor to that ERF gko2 vlt for courtenham. Good motor plenty of space inside and went like a steam train. Only downside was the bunk if you move about a lot in your sleep you were forever falling off it.
Great diary, and putting that caravan inside the container is a work of art. One of the best jobs i ever had was many years ago on caravans, but these were the 40footers, we were a recovery company for the RAC, and often ran out empty to recover either broken down or stolen or even finance company owned, was also the best paying job even more than a driver earns today. Our boss wanted to take -loads out to europe, and recovery work for the return, so we started taking holiday vans to the south of france, this was great for about a year, then he had the idea to buy land, and then site the vans, then moving on from that, then decided to build the vans himself, carry them out, and site them on his own land, then rent them as holiday homes. They were well equiped and had everything pre fitted before delivery, including twin air-con units, and a heat shield on the roof. Our recovery work meant we had to go to many garages where the cars were, some were wrecks and others had lengthy repairs, and always there were storage fees to pay, and we were pre told of the amount and were given that amount of cash to pay, however on most occasions the amount was a lot lower, so a back hander to the owner or mechanic and we were quids in with the real receipt, bit like the old Plus system for fuel. Often we would collect 2/3 vehicles and sometimes had a caravan on the tow bar and would often go home with £200/300 in our pockets with wages on top. The other plus side was if we only had to collect 1 car, would sometimes find a brit broken down on the way back, and would make a few quid giving them a piggyback, all the vehicles were in RAC blue and sign written so we had a prestige existence. There were times when we would also fly somewhere to drive a car home where the owner had broken a leg or something, maybe hospitalised, and on one such occasion i flew to switzerland to pick up a bentley belonging to Stratford Johns of Z Cars fame, oh what a drive home that was, sadly the bosses son was a gambler, and with the newly found fame and money, the office in Mayfair, he ended up bankrupt, but that was after i left due to an accident i had in the yard with a car transporter top deck falling on my head, but thats another story.
Thanks for the replys, will post the rest of the week later as Brass Band contest in Torquay tomorrow has take over.Trucky boy, nice story i can remember reading about it on one of your posts. Cargocargocargo patience is a virtue lol. One of our drivers was moaning that his lorry wasn’t in the photos and has he is the hardest worker on the fleet so he says heres the proof lol
A38 Tewkesbury
Cheers Ade