since jackson619 posted a thread about J F INTERNATIONAL and how he once worked for them i think he is just winding you up and by the replies doing a fine job. i think some times these forums need a bit of humur. maybe jackson619 is going through his second childhood and thats why he thinks he is still at school. 
if the industry went on strike it would put the shoplifters out of work as all the shelves would be empty.
icky:
since jackson619 posted a thread about J F INTERNATIONAL and how he once worked for them i think he is just winding you up
He didn’t say he worked for them, he gave information on them which could simply be 2nd hand info. On the other hand… 
ok lads sorry for the wind up but couldnt resist when i seen trubrits first post.im a 46 year old driver from sunderland.enjoy edinburgh when you get there trubrit.
ps.has anyone seen the holy grail 
well spotted deisel dave 
jackson619:
ok lads sorry for the wind up but couldnt resist when i seen trubrits first post.im a 46 year old driver from sunderland.enjoy edinburgh when you get there trubrit.
ps.has anyone seen the holy grail
Thank goodness…two pages of shipping out experiences and only two entries per that subject…nice one Jackson or whatever your name is.
By the way its Munchman my “partner in curry” over hear thats heading home to Edinburgh…I’m originally a tractor boy
And finally Esther…anybody else got any first time shipping out experiences??
i was taking the holy grail to ireland in my tautliner, but it got pinched whilst parked up overnight on the dock road.
tooo funny
Coffeeholic:
jackson619:
as for french drivers having license took off them do you mean all of them.wouldnt that cause a bigger problem.like i said if the french want it theyll get it because they stick togetherHave you read anything which has been posted on this thread? As has already been mentioned several times these days the French drivers do not stick together any more than drivers in this country do. Since the nineties every time they tried anything they were threatened with loss of their licences and the action just fizzled out as they were not prepared to risk losing their licences and livelihood. The whole “French drivers stick together” thing you hear spouted all to frequently is nothing more than an urban myth these days, and has been for more than 10 years.
The only time the french drivers will ever stick together again is if they use some of this :
whats an urban myth.
jackson619:
whats an urban myth.
A young girl from the city who talks with a lisp…
The 1st time I shipped out was around 18 years ago. My brother took his CPC’s and I took my hgv 1. One week later we were the proud owners of an Iveco 190-30, E527 PJV. I know Iveco’s didn’t have the best of reputations but I thought it was a lot of motor for little money. We gave about £6500+vat for it from the auctions at Brighouse, it was only 2 years old and very tidy. I drove it back to Manchester after the auction, it felt like a Rolls Royce compared to what I’d driven before. The only truck I’d driven before was the one which I’d learnt in, I think it was an old Leyland with a crash box from Stockport HGV . Took my test at the end of the weeks course and failed at Bredbury, took it again the following week at Stone and passed.
I’d never had a full length trailer behind me until I picked this hire trailer up from Central Trailers in Trafford Park. The trailers at the training centre were all flats and very short. Anyway I picked this trailer up and it was massive, a 13.6m stepframe with R&J International plastered all over it. I looked like a proper international trucker now!
I’d never carried anything in a trailer before so when I went to load it, I took an experienced international truck driver with me, who knew the ropes. A brilliant driver when he was sober, but when we loaded this trailer I think he must av been [zb]. The load was about 18 ton , but it didn’t take up a lot of room. The bloke on the fork truck asked how I wanted it loading. I looked at my mate and asked him how I wanted it loading and he said to just put it on as it comes.
All loaded and ready to roll. Thessaloniki here we come!
I wasn’t brave enough to set off to Greece by myself, I was following the experienced international trucker. All went well until I reached Dover. We’d had to stop at the main entrance to the port, near the police station. I pulled off slowly to go up the ramp, but it had been raining. No traction over the drive axle. It took me about six attempts to get up the ramp, I had to keep reversing back down and going further and further back. I felt like my head was going to burst before I’d even got in the port. The rest of the trip seemed quite uneventful after that start.We got the night boat to Zeebrugge and then I followed a trail of empty stella cans all the way to Greece, via Belgium, Holland, Germany, Czech, Hungary & Yugo.
One of the best experiences of my life!
I’d forgotten about that ramp in Dover that was a dog in the wet with a 6 x 2
also a problem the first time driving up it in an auto actros,had left it in auto and it couldnt pick the right gear,realised manual selection of gears were handier. 
Stitch01:
I followed a trail of empty stella cans all the way to Greece
he wasn’t from chadderton was he?
well i’d best do as trubrit says as he has a fearsome temper on him - although as i spent half me childhood shipping out, there’s no funny story about the first time i flew solo, as i was a seasoned profeshnial by then… not
i do remember one tuesday in about 1985, i’d invented a teachers strike to blag a quick trip to trailer change at the wollkamerei (sp?) in bremen (with a little F7 from graylease with 20tonne of wool behind, whole other story) with my mate, the boss of the firm, who usually only did the uk tipping & loading by that time, having 4 or 5 motors
seem to remember we just missed the 20:30 to zeebrugge, so waiting for the 00:30 i got bored of the greasy spoon so wandered off to sit in the seats by the dolphin bar and got shooting the breeze with a brit european tanker driver 
“suddenly” my mate comes storming through the doors, sees me sprawled across 2 chairs, nonchalantly smoking a ■■■ and no doubt telling matey about some arduous trip I had completed - and for a usually quiet and polite bloke, launched into a rather large tirade - he’d been looking for me for an hour and we had missed the boat…
ended up doing the changeover in lokeren instead, so besides the half day silence from my chauffeur, i got major grief from the lad who had to hoof it down from bremen too
Trubrit:
I’d forgotten about that ramp in Dover that was a dog in the wet with a 6 x 2
yep - not changed any, even now if we go out with a low loader we stop and get the toytown police to open the gates so we can go through “on the level”
jj72:
Stitch01:
I followed a trail of empty stella cans all the way to Greecehe wasn’t from chadderton was he?
well i’d best do as trubrit says as he has a fearsome temper on him - although as i spent half me childhood shipping out, there’s no funny story about the first time i flew solo, as i was a seasoned profeshnial by then… not
i do remember one tuesday in about 1985, i’d invented a teachers strike to blag a quick trip to trailer change at the wollkamerei (sp?) in bremen (with a little F7 from graylease with 20tonne of wool behind, whole other story) with my mate, the boss of the firm, who usually only did the uk tipping & loading by that time, having 4 or 5 motors
seem to remember we just missed the 20:30 to zeebrugge, so waiting for the 00:30 i got bored of the greasy spoon so wandered off to sit in the seats by the dolphin bar and got shooting the breeze with a brit european tanker driver
“suddenly” my mate comes storming through the doors, sees me sprawled across 2 chairs, nonchalantly smoking a ■■■ and no doubt telling matey about some arduous trip I had completed - and for a usually quiet and polite bloke, launched into a rather large tirade - he’d been looking for me for an hour and we had missed the boat…
ended up doing the changeover in lokeren instead, so besides the half day silence from my chauffeur, i got major grief from the lad who had to hoof it down from bremen too
Ouch…I feel like a priest at confeshional after that one!
Hi jj72,
He was from Glossop
Stitch01:
Hi jj72,
He was from Glossop
no can’t be then - there was a lad from chadderton who drove for a subby of mine late 80s who couldn’t get down the road without a tray of stella - we found out one sunday night when we found him asleep, ■■■■■■■ with doors open and wallet on show in the first rest area out of calais - instant tin tack from his boss
nice chap that I’am employed him mid 90s (at whittlesey trubrit) only to have to send another lad out to the polish border cos he was a wreck and couldn’t handle it - shame, de eeeeevils of de drink eh 
This guy who I knew could handle the job, but he couldn’t handle his booze. I think he’s been found in every truck stop from here to Turkey, [zb], with doors open and wallet empty!
we wont get anything sorted we cant even get on when were on line but hay ho