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Scanner:
I have no doubt you spent a long time in road transport and have many years experience. The problem with people like you is, you think you’re still the boss and that every passing person will tip their hat to you and call you gaffer.You think you’re still in the 1970’s when you could treat people like cattle and they would just be grateful to have a job.
There’s a reason firms like that don’t last and it’s called obstinance - something oft confused with stoicism. It’s 2013 and you think people are going to just take your word for it?
Stobart are doing well because they’re now just about too big to be allowed to fail. They didn’t get into that position by refusing to change or not exploring new opportunities. I don’t know anything about how they operate as regards their drivers, but they’re not silly.
Starting with Rolls Royce in '71,British Leyland,Lloyds Bank PLC,Northern Rock,RBS/Nat West------- Stobarts,too big to fail,do me a favour,if Tesco went eleswhere “fast eddie” would be up ■■■■ creek without a paddle,period.You are priceless “Scanner” get real please.Yours Faithfully Bewick.
Ah well, i tried.
Too right if tesco take their business elsewhere and there are plenty of evidence they will take it back in house stobarts will be shagged tesco pump money into stobarts lots of money using them as puppets to do their dirty work
Trust me I know
This is a shot of a 1979 Boalloy “patented” Tautliner fresh from the Congleton factory,there were,of course,many imitations but none came near to the “real” thing.Cheers Bewick. 
ianb4310:
Too right if tesco take their business elsewhere and there are plenty of evidence they will take it back in house stobarts will be shagged tesco pump money into stobarts lots of money using them as puppets to do their dirty work
Now I wonder if this post has been “Scanned” 
No not really just replying to a post no agenda here
ianb4310:
Trust me I know
How do you know and why should we trust you?
ianb4310:
No not really just replying to a post no agenda here
no agenda? Bwah ha ha
Been on the rough end of the stick
Scanner:
JLS Driver SOS:
Scanner:
JLS Driver SOS:
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
Scanner:
Ah yes Ireland, a well known exporter of steel in sheet or any other form. I can just see the driver turning up at a steelworks with a fridge full of hanging and asking them to load him. Think about that, a fridge. Even better, turning up at a meat plant and asking them to be careful not to trip over the steel whilst they’re loading the carcasses.If it’s been on a Police show, there must be an archive of it somewhere, so let’s see it. I imagine it’s on the same one as when (insert Irish haulier here) flashes past the Police car in the 143 and the cop just shrugs and says “there goes Paddy, late for the boat”
Still, at least he wouldn’t have been heading for the Herald.
Must have been an illusion I was watching then on the BBC
Remember the Irish kid of about 18 who came across the reservation on M6 south hit the Royal mail artic and the guy with his Mum in the back of his black cab, check the history books as to what he was hauling and the speed he was running at, if it wasn’t true you would think it was a myth, but he had just over taken me and I saw it…
No, I don’t. When was it?
about 91 ish
I’ve had a look around the internet, nothing to be found. Do you have a link or an archive I could search?
could try “Taxi Driver killed along with his mother on M6 by over hours driver crossing reservation and hitting them head on”… he was taking her home after a visit in his black cab, he after literally driving over the top of the cab hit a Post office artic and killed him too, I think 4 dead, it was really bad, I see it happen about 1k ahead of me, he had passed me doing ± 70mph, I was doing 60 and he came past me like I was parked. in the papers said he was carrying double the allowed weight of cargo.
Nobody likes us and we don’t bloody care 
Scanner,who has told you that Stobart’s are “doing well”?..the truth maybe far from it,I’m glad I have’nt any shares in that company!!
David 
5thwheel:
Scanner,who has told you that Stobart’s are “doing well”?..the truth maybe far from it,I’m glad I have’nt any shares in that company!!David
Nobody told me, I see an ambitious and hungry company expanding in all sorts of areas.
Who told you they’re not?
happysack:
bubsy06:
U aint seen Jack Richards drivers, motto - You are following one of the bestwatching some of Jack Richards drivers loading boards at chirk is quite entertaining.
I suppose when you first went you was a true expert??.
Nasty load that chirk if in the wrong hands
JLS Driver SOS:
Scanner:
JLS Driver SOS:
Scanner:
JLS Driver SOS:
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
Scanner:
Ah yes Ireland, a well known exporter of steel in sheet or any other form. I can just see the driver turning up at a steelworks with a fridge full of hanging and asking them to load him. Think about that, a fridge. Even better, turning up at a meat plant and asking them to be careful not to trip over the steel whilst they’re loading the carcasses.If it’s been on a Police show, there must be an archive of it somewhere, so let’s see it. I imagine it’s on the same one as when (insert Irish haulier here) flashes past the Police car in the 143 and the cop just shrugs and says “there goes Paddy, late for the boat”
Still, at least he wouldn’t have been heading for the Herald.
Must have been an illusion I was watching then on the BBC
Remember the Irish kid of about 18 who came across the reservation on M6 south hit the Royal mail artic and the guy with his Mum in the back of his black cab, check the history books as to what he was hauling and the speed he was running at, if it wasn’t true you would think it was a myth, but he had just over taken me and I saw it…
No, I don’t. When was it?
about 91 ish
I’ve had a look around the internet, nothing to be found. Do you have a link or an archive I could search?
could try “Taxi Driver killed along with his mother on M6 by over hours driver crossing reservation and hitting them head on”… he was taking her home after a visit in his black cab, he after literally driving over the top of the cab hit a Post office artic and killed him too, I think 4 dead, it was really bad, I see it happen about 1k ahead of me, he had passed me doing ± 70mph, I was doing 60 and he came past me like I was parked. in the papers said he was carrying double the allowed weight of cargo.
I believe you saw it and I’m sad for everyone involved, obviously also for those who witnessed such horror. However, I’m not going to take something written in a newspaper as anything like the truth, I’ve seen some pretty big headlines about people and events I know personally to be totally false.
In 1991, anything to do with Ireland was fair game for the press, gutter or otherwise. I would suggest that the actions of various groups coloured every headline with a sniff of Ireland about it.
I’m still no closer to solving the beef/steel mystery.
selby newcomer:
they drive scanias and volvos and all have flash cars in the car park, he must have been in a hurry to get back to the yard to jump into his Bentley
I hate Scanias and I have no Bentley, only an Alfa… 
Re beef/steel, a guy I work with runs JCB’s 360’s etc his father in Ireland used to run reefers mainly beef to US military bases in Germany the story was that some Irish hauliers would claim(those boys loved a story or two) to reload steel from Germany to Ireland (but not beef & steel together), but as he says why risk damage to an expensive reefer for the sake of a crap rate backload when the outbound rate was excellent and it was better to run home and load out to Germany again,then I suppose that do’nt make for a good tale (think about it how could sheet or steel bar be loaded into a reefer)
splitshift:
Re beef/steel, a guy I work with runs JCB’s 360’s etc his father in Ireland used to run reefers mainly beef to US military bases in Germany the story was that some Irish hauliers would claim(those boys loved a story or two) to reload steel from Germany to Ireland (but not beef & steel together), but as he says why risk damage to an expensive reefer for the sake of a crap rate backload when the outbound rate was excellent and it was better to run home and load out to Germany again,then I suppose that do’nt make for a good tale (think about it how could sheet or steel bar be loaded into a reefer)
Exactly. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve seen Irish drivers telling yarns to English ones. The English guys would sit there open-mouthed, desperate to get to the RDC canteen and recount the story about Paddy doing crazy things. Truth be told, Paddy revelled in the myth surrounding him and re-told the story of “Drive” with his smart uniform lapping it up when he got home, to much hilarity. Interestingly I never saw a Scotsman fall for it, they’d either join in or walk away.