when they put the weight up to 32ton with the trucks of today you still cant get 20 ton payload with all the crap you have to put on the trucks i once owned an 04 plate volvo tare weight on her was neally 13ton i had a scania muckshifter tareing lighter. cheers martyn.
pete 359:
mike68:
Anyone got any pics of Hazells haulage or his son who ran under the name of M.D.W, Would be the icing on an already excellent cake.hi mike68,
thanks for that,how about this?
Thank you, still painted in those colours when we finished in 94, L412 FHB an 1834 merc was the last one I drove.
This photo came from a Welsh photo source,did they have a place there.
Numbum:
This photo came from a Welsh photo source,did they have a place there.
hi numbum,
excellent pictures again,thank you.in the background of the tanker shot is what to me looks like margam mountain.this tanker was probably working in the abbey or bp llandarcy?if my theory about the background is correct.more than that i wouldn’t know as it’s a little before my time,please keep em coming. 
regards andrew
Hi numbum, i agree with Andrew, it looks like margam mountain to the right and goytre mountain to the left, cracking photo though ,Chris.
hi all,
here’s somemore from dai bootsy.b.a. rodgers were a well known bulk haulier.they were based on the side of the a465 heads of the valley road,they had a hard worked fleet of mainly/all? british trucks.their foreman fitter was a chap called eric davies,he still runs his own workshops in port talbot.
dai has just rang me to say he has somemore photos!he also hopes to be registered with trucknet very soon,thanks a million dai.
regards andrew
here we have looks like 1969 bedford tk .This was the first lorry that peter shillibier bought ,on the photo its says feb 75 in the album its 1973 the album was kindly lent to me by leyton shillibier who now runs the buisness.
sammy dog:
Hi Martyn,
I drove a Bedford KM tipper almost identical to that one for C M Philpotts of Kington throughout most of 1970,it had a five speed gear box and a two speed axle,it would outpull anything in the quarries around here including the D series Fords with the 360 turbo engine,only difference to that one was the one I drove was on an F plate.
Cheers Dave
sammy dog:
here we have looks like 1969 bedford tk .This was the first lorry that peter shillibier bought ,on the photo its says feb 75 in the album its 1973 the album was kindly lent to me by leyton shillibier who now runs the buisness.
I think that is more like a KM mate, I maybe wrong.
ill have to pop down and see peter when i get five to confirm ,he s now a farmer down in pencoed also when he started he was know as pj shillibier then changed at some point to shillibier haulage .
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looks like an ex ecc quarries truck brought into the fleet in 1977 you boys will probably tell me what engine they fitted in these would it be a 502 when i worked for davies bros ione of the trucks i drove was a mamouth major i believe an av760.)
altitude:
sammy dog:
here we have looks like 1969 bedford tk .This was the first lorry that peter shillibier bought ,on the photo its says feb 75 in the album its 1973 the album was kindly lent to me by leyton shillibier who now runs the buisness.I think that is more like a KM mate, I maybe wrong.
Hi John,
Its a KM,as I said I drove one,they were the same cab as a TK,only mounted on a wider and higher chassis,also the double bumper, made for the 16 ton plated weight,that and the one I drove had the Bedford 466 engie,the later models had the 500 blue series engines.
Cheers Dave.
ileft davies bros and went to work for shillibiers first truck a lend only volvo 86 it had been in griffin mill ponty for gearbox under warranty i beleive he bought it as an ex demo after that i got the bison on the right thats me with ntx 949r which he bought new must have been loads of work then.
anyone remember this one ?
here’s one for chris 143,a “slightly damaged” bridgend brs scania.
crazy ray underhill used to drive this scania for pyle based celtic recycling,seen here with a ken jones (keedwell group) flat.
crazy ray was more often to be seen pulling this low loader with all kinds of machinery or scrap transformers on it.
my mate jason williams had this beautiful 620 topline brand new back in 2006.seen here at the 2007 carmarthen truckshow which he subsequently won and several regular show winners really “spat their dummy’s out” over that.