anyone worked them looking for any feedback are they reputable etc
They have been going for many years. They do Show Biz stuff. If you are lucky you will get the F89 Globetrotter… 
F89 Globetrotter■■? i would like to see that!
F12!! 
They are F10’s.
There are 5 off them, all ex London Rubber Company.
Sorry to be picky, I’m bored!!!
be prepared to work and mean work long hours behind the scenes no thanks for the job
send a pm to drew as he works for stardes i think
Dazzler Bored ■■? In Halstead…■■? You must be joking… Why don’t you go to Colchester & see the invisible Xmas lights ■■
So its F10’s . All I can say is that they have lasted well.
I knew the Guv’nor when he was a roadie & only had the one Globetrotter. I think one of his legendary trips was London to Athens non-stop ,single handed !! ( That was overland,not Italy to Greece by ferry )
I think one of his legendary trips was London to Athens non-stop ,single handed !! ( That was overland,not Italy to Greece by ferry )
Good for him.
He said he would never do it again!!
Stagetruck have a good reputation as far as I know, did Coldplay last year in Denmark and there were a few Stagetrucks on that and the chaps seemed happy enough, nice shiny Volvos. You can have a look at stagetruck.com Also Fly By Night are nearby in the Birmingham area and we see their trucks all over the place, they seem busy.
I heard from other drivers that the day rate was not so good for Stagetruck, but could not confirm that. For the most part there is tour catering, so food is sorted, P.D.s and also you can get a followspot call for £45ish, so you save a bit of money and also get the chance to boost the day rate, so you might have look at the day rate, but feel the other stuff makes it worth while.
Downside: A one truck tour is gonna be lonely, you need to love to live in the cab, I did 2 months on a tour bus with hotel rooms on just 2 days of that. It sometime is hard to sleep when the bed ain’t moving after a long tour. I would also say its quite boring, shed tours look the same wherever you are, there can be some long drives and you might get another to help drive. You might be in a city center, so not for a light sleeper who can’t sleep during the day. Also its bit strange on the body clock, you might get a 4 hour drive, sleep outside the venue for a couple of hours, then do the load in (there will be local crew who do the hard work tipping, but you need to be there to check it all goes in the right order, then have breakfast and try to get to sleep again, if you see what I mean.
The upside: Its a good crack, like a small touring family, you have truck drivers, bus drivers caterers, light, sound, backline guys and everyone looks after each other. You see some great gigs and meet lots of stars, who for the most part are cool and down to earth, a truck driver is an important part of the team, so you do not get looked down on. Girls, drugs of course.
You need to be pretty laid back I would say, you need to understand what you have in the back and how the pack should be, some things can not be tipped off their wheels and some boxes are to heavy to stack, so you get used to building walls of flightcases, no one likes a few boxes left with no room on the truck, try telling 6 local crew at 2.00am that they will have unload and start again, no not a good idea. You will have to be used to travelling at night and sleeping in the day, also maybe sleeping only for few hours before say moving to a dock, then trying to go back to sleep. Drivers do not do anything much in the build of the show. Come showtime the drivers do a followspot or maybe sell tee-shirts in the foyer for some more cash, the first option may require a wee head for heights, some of the spots are attached to the touring trusses, so you climb a wire rope ladder 7m or so and sit in a spot chair above the crowd.
I think thats all in a nutshell
Andy
MY KNOWLEDGE WAS AT LEAST 20YRS.OLD. THANKS FOR THE UPDATE.
( Caps lock on!! )
drew128:
Stagetruck have a good reputation as far as I know, did Coldplay last year in Denmark and there were a few Stagetrucks on that and the chaps seemed happy enough, nice shiny Volvos. You can have a look at stagetruck.com Also Fly By Night are nearby in the Birmingham area and we see their trucks all over the place, they seem busy.I heard from other drivers that the day rate was not so good for Stagetruck, but could not confirm that. For the most part there is tour catering, so food is sorted, P.D.s and also you can get a followspot call for £45ish, so you save a bit of money and also get the chance to boost the day rate, so you might have look at the day rate, but feel the other stuff makes it worth while.
Downside: A one truck tour is gonna be lonely, you need to love to live in the cab, I did 2 months on a tour bus with hotel rooms on just 2 days of that. It sometime is hard to sleep when the bed ain’t moving after a long tour. I would also say its quite boring, shed tours look the same wherever you are, there can be some long drives and you might get another to help drive. You might be in a city center, so not for a light sleeper who can’t sleep during the day. Also its bit strange on the body clock, you might get a 4 hour drive, sleep outside the venue for a couple of hours, then do the load in (there will be local crew who do the hard work tipping, but you need to be there to check it all goes in the right order, then have breakfast and try to get to sleep again, if you see what I mean.
The upside: Its a good crack, like a small touring family, you have truck drivers, bus drivers caterers, light, sound, backline guys and everyone looks after each other. You see some great gigs and meet lots of stars, who for the most part are cool and down to earth, a truck driver is an important part of the team, so you do not get looked down on. Girls, drugs of course.
You need to be pretty laid back I would say, you need to understand what you have in the back and how the pack should be, some things can not be tipped off their wheels and some boxes are to heavy to stack, so you get used to building walls of flightcases, no one likes a few boxes left with no room on the truck, try telling 6 local crew at 2.00am that they will have unload and start again, no not a good idea. You will have to be used to travelling at night and sleeping in the day, also maybe sleeping only for few hours before say moving to a dock, then trying to go back to sleep. Drivers do not do anything much in the build of the show. Come showtime the drivers do a followspot or maybe sell tee-shirts in the foyer for some more cash, the first option may require a wee head for heights, some of the spots are attached to the touring trusses, so you climb a wire rope ladder 7m or so and sit in a spot chair above the crowd.
I think thats all in a nutshell
Andy
Great post, I’ve done a little bit of this work myself, and am currently looking to buy a stepframe box to do a bit more. The full blown tours are a bit of a no no being a family man, but I’ve done a few small gigs, mainly religous types, but my claim to fame is Ronan Keating for a one off charity do at Linden Hall, and a week driving a wagon and drag, on the Blondie tour a few years ago.
cheers boys thanks 4 the feedback, will look into it
for those who dont know we need a definition of ‘follow spot’
Search light.
Usually a large spot lamp at front of house with a person operating it, that person can move it around and follow people on stage, hence follow spot. All rock n roll drivers will ask if there is a follow spot, before they say hello and whats your name, as its a nice paid extra for them on a tour.
Apart from one fella… After a few days I asked him why he hadn’t asked to do a followspot call. He said when he started doing touring as a driver he had a go. A guy told him, its easy, you wear these headphones and the lighting director tells you were to point it and so on. Show starts and the lighting director askes for spot 3 to iris down a bit. This is our new driver who asks “iris down what do you mean”. He gets told that means make the beam smaller and there is a large knob on the side of the spot to do this. He turns and turns, the lighting director is shouting at him to get the beam smaller, then there is a large crash as the follow spot falls of the stand. Wrong knob!!! he told me he has not felt like having another go.
Andy
Speaking as someone who has done a fair bit of work for Edwin Shirleys over the years, i can tell you that one down side is gonna be the amount of total ■■■■-heads you will have to put up with. Complete pricks who think it is the pinnacle of the driving world, but would never survive doing, say, a trip a week to Italy, and the other production types who will treat drivers like [zb] I used to work with idiots who went on the dole between tours because they considered normal driving work to be beneath them. You need to be very tactful and learn to walk away, because, believe me, these people are not in the real world. Dont bother. Get a proper job. Look at the above post and you will see what i mean. Rock and roll drivers For christs sake!!! Get a life.
If it needs a star to get past the autocensor you know its not allowed…Denis F
One of these type of transport firms have bought 3 of our old fh12’s and put globetrotter cab extensions on them.Surley it would of been cheaper to get a second hand globetrotter in the 1st place.
All have done in the region of 600,000k’s but light work so should be good for a few years yet,but the cad interiors were getting a bit tatty.
If anyone sees them about i’d be glad of a photo or 2.
They all have the prefix DX51
Tony b
They are currently advertising for a class one driver…click on their web-site link then click the “contact us” tab, then “jobs”
GOOD LUCK 
Let us know how anyone gets on.
Tony b, do you drive for Halfords?
If so, my mate Lance from Acme Production Services has just bought 2 of the FH’s you talk about and has just had the Globetrotter roofs put on them.
If you want to keep an eye out for them, they are now painted bright orange with blue wings etc & white wheels, coupled up to similarly painted mega cube box trailers.