South Wales Hauliers sixties and seventies onwards (Part 1)

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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pete 359:

A nice clean fleet there Andrew! If the container on the 4 wheeler is 10 ton then that drive axle must be over weight!!! Happy days whats the problem then? Just gan canny son!!!Cheers Dennis.

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hi andrew, getting there slowly

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daibootsy:
hi andrew, getting there slowly

Wish I had a £1 for every time I’ve been down there dai, but never seen it from that position.

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daibootsy:
hi andrew, getting there slowly

well done daibootsy mate :smiley: .dennis,i think maybe lyn howells driver had his first drop loaded in front of the box :smiley: .
regards andrew

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daibootsy:
hi andrew, getting there slowly

Hello - Dai,
Who’s Seddon Atki is following behind Illtyd’s ERF on the Portalbot bypass ?
I seem to know who it is – is it DM Davies.
regards - Hywel.

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hi hywel,that s not d m davies they didn t buy their sed ack until early 88.i think that lorry is a400 not a 401
graham.

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ec14:
hi hywel,that s not d m davies they didn t buy their sed ack until early 88.i think that lorry is a400 not a 401
graham.

good morning ec14,
trust an illegal thomas b’ series with a load of alloy frag.to be in an m4 photo from the 80’s :smiley: .
regards andrew

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Hiya…thats some photo on the P/T bypass (done a few trips across that) but whats noticable to me look how much traffic is
or isnt on there…It must be about 1980 is it ■■? when we say we could cover some ground in a older lorries we had no traffic
to deal with.
John

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Illtyd Thomas the early days.

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pete 359:

daibootsy:
hi andrew, getting there slowly

well done daibootsy mate :smiley: .dennis,i think maybe lyn howells driver had his first drop loaded in front of the box :smiley: .
regards andrew

So how had he got it out Andrew------with a tin opener? Dennis.

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daibootsy:
Illtyd Thomas the early days.

These motors were still the “backbone” of haulage in South Wales when I was running into the Abbey and other places on the Octopus and trailer in 66/67!!!Dennis.

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ON A 45MIN BREAK

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pete 359:
thanks graham :smiley: .

Thanks for sharing these, sad to see that yard empty, I have walked across that yard many times

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daibootsy:
ON A 45MIN BREAK

Oh dear Dai-Bach that yard is a real S*** hole for sure—you will need wellies to get to them Atkis so as to keep the cab’s clean!!! Bewick.

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Bewick:

daibootsy:
ON A 45MIN BREAK

Oh dear Dai-Bach that yard is a real S*** hole for sure—you will need wellies to get to them Atkis so as to keep the cab’s clean!!! Bewick.

hi dennis,
that’s exactly what i thought when i saw that yard/swamp :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: .watch out for them there gator’s!!! :smiley:
regards andrew

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a pair of lyn howells’ b series.

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apparantley ropes and sheets are no good in vosa’s eyes as a form of load security these days :open_mouth: .

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That will be the same VOSA who issued a leaflet saying that straps were not required in a curtainsider as the curtains held the load secure.

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truckfing:
That will be the same VOSA who issued a leaflet saying that straps were not required in a curtainsider as the curtains held the load secure.

that must be the same vosa,that when i recently carried out the first module of my driver cpc,even the cpc instructor commented on the conflicting information printed in the book,when compared to the cd :imp: .