mercman123:
Heres a couple i drove on scrap and coils
Used to get ‘quite a few’ of Joints in Walkers at Guide works, Blackburn
one from my old firm
Mental Metal Micky:
mercman123:
Heres a couple i drove on scrap and coils
Used to get ‘quite a few’ of Joints in Walkers at Guide works, Blackburn
Hi Mickey yes i used too go too Walkers quite a bit. Then i used too go too Walkers of Manchester too load scrap too go back down too Port Talbot South Wales . Tony
To many too’s lol think it is just to ! Tony
No photos I’m afraid 
I drove for BSD, out of their Bellshill depot, for about 3 years.
Initially I was agency doing night trunks down to Komatsu in Birtley with plate.
It was either the MAN in Exel colours or the ERF EC14 (340 ) in BSD blue, always with a flat. Sheets, chains n dwangs.
Then I was offered a full time day job, which I took, and drove that ERF for another 2 n a half years.
There were two routines, either the early start day trunk down to Komatsu, possibly with a back load out of Walkers at Blaydon. Or the local week, easy 6am start with a preloaded trailer for Hyster in Irvine. Then the other preloaded trailer up to Terex at Newhouse.
In the afternoon it could be anything, plate to Rosyth dockyard, one batch of memorable loads was some plate for ballasting a new boat. 3m x 3m x 700mm cut diagonally. That was a bit of a bugger to tie down and a great laugh watching the docky slingers trying to lift it. My offering of how we’d lifted it to load was brushed aside, these guys were professional slingers, a mere driver knew nothing 
Another regular was a ship building place in the middle of Edinburgh. They made stabiliser fins. The hinge pin plates where also pretty big lumps.
After we became part of Corus, there was a major shake-up of the logistics. I was put on JCB work, mainly profiles down to their plant at Rocester, but also to small subbies round about for painting n stuff. Then backload. Could be beams out of Newcastle u Lyme, one lift, full load, sheet on, chains on, gone. Could be plate out of Scunny, preloaded trailer swap or into the plant and go round the whole place for a few tonne of this, a few tonne of that till I was up to max weight. I even went down to Wales once 
I was made redundant and started with a local general haulier doing flats work. Plank Transport out of Denny. Funnily enough his main contract was sawn timber from Callanders saw mill in Falkirk. I quickly moved up to the flagship motor, a Scania 143 500 hi-line Streamliner. Due to almost everyone else ‘moving on’, not due to me being anything special in driver stakes by the way. Anyway, we took planks of wood all over England and often reloaded home out of Corus (used to be Walker Steel) in Blackburn or Austin Trumans in Walkden. A.T. gave us a lot of work to Pearce Construction, over near Ayr. Quite a bit of that was 65’ beams on trombones. Unloaded by an old small iron fairy crane, one piece at a time 