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Happy New Year :smiley: Hereā€™s a bit of light hearted entertainment with our driver training videoā€¦
youtube.com/watch?v=U9GRB1rUyYU
I think the man driving the 4wheeler is Pete James with hair :laughing:

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Muckaway:
Happy New Year :smiley: Hereā€™s a bit of light hearted entertainment with our driver training videoā€¦
youtube.com/watch?v=U9GRB1rUyYU
I think the man driving the 4wheeler is Pete James with hair :laughing:

Pete looks good with hair :laughing: I was on for Hawletts when I was young, so now you know why my hairs so long and curly. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Muckaway:
Happy New Year :smiley: Hereā€™s a bit of light hearted entertainment with our driver training videoā€¦
youtube.com/watch?v=U9GRB1rUyYU
I think the man driving the 4wheeler is Pete James with hair :laughing:

Pete looks good with hair :laughing:

Not much good when he does his Alf Garnett tribute act :laughing: I bet his Parish council meetings are the most colourful ever minuted;
ā€œNO THEY AINT HAVING PERMISSION FOR A 'KING CONSERVATORYā€¦NOT IN MY 'KING VILLAGE!ā€ :laughing:

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Muckaway:

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Muckaway:
Happy New Year :smiley: Hereā€™s a bit of light hearted entertainment with our driver training videoā€¦
youtube.com/watch?v=U9GRB1rUyYU
I think the man driving the 4wheeler is Pete James with hair :laughing:

Pete looks good with hair :laughing:

Not much good when he does his Alf Garnett tribute act :laughing: I bet his Parish council meetings are the most colourful ever minuted;
ā€œNO THEY AINT HAVING PERMISSION FOR A 'KING CONSERVATORYā€¦NOT IN MY 'KING VILLAGE!ā€ :laughing:

It doesnā€™t bear thinking about. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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This soft sand is actually recycled from a muckshift from BMW at Cowley.

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Hello Muckaway. While waiting to unload at Tesco Harlow today, i got chatting to another driver. He told me he used to work for Smiths some years ago. I think he said his name was Michael and he drove a Foden eight wheeler which he liked to keep clean. Do you remember him?. He seemed like a nice chap and certainly knew his lorries!!!.
Rgds MR.

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Mark R:
Hello Muckaway. While waiting to unload at Tesco Harlow today, i got chatting to another driver. He told me he used to work for Smiths some years ago. I think he said his name was Michael and he drove a Foden eight wheeler which he liked to keep clean. Do you remember him?. He seemed like a nice chap and certainly knew his lorries!!!.
Rgds MR.

Michael Haines? Drives for Fine Lady Bakeries of Banbury? If so he still worked for us when I started in the quarry. He had a G reg 4000 that was as good as the day he had it new, and it was about 10 years old when he left. It lasted until 2004/5 and did a few years for a local contractor afterwards.

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Wintry sunrise over Gill Mill plant

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Len and Jim got a good day to do the DCPC/EPIC course at head officeā€¦

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Yes thats him. Iā€™ll look out for him next time iā€™m there.

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Hey Nathan , did your dad get a new truck ?

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JAKEY:
Hey Nathan , did your dad get a new truck ?

No Steve; thatā€™s the Stratford one (the 61reg); He doesnā€™t want one unless it ā€œhas a gearstickā€ :laughing:

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Great stuff, I see a lot of these about. I really, really like those MANs! (Iā€™m a bit of a Merc and MAN fan myself)

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BanburyDan:
Great stuff, I see a lot of these about. I really, really like those MANs! (Iā€™m a bit of a Merc and MAN fan myself)

For all the problems with automatics (real and imagined) the MANs are quite good off road, Dan. Theyā€™ve always been great tippers more so in muckshifting as theyā€™re a bit heavy; Smiths could buy lighter but Iā€™ve been told any loss in payload is offset with a tough chassis and tipping body that will last the life of the vehicle.
Come to think of it, Smiths MANsā€™ arenā€™t any heavier than the M and N reg ones that Sheehansā€™ used to operate; i used to load them with about 18.6t so with all the modern stuff fitted to tippers perhaps Smiths havenā€™t done too badly?

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I was in the classroom today doing DCPC/MQPC training. (Basically it used to be the EPIC skills card) It was actually a worthwhile thing to do although I donā€™t think it needs to be done/renewed every five years but at least there wasnā€™t so much emphasis on tarmac haulage and more on general safety. You have to do a multiple choice test paper (common sense) to get skills card which has separate sections for tipper and mixer drivers. I filled in the mixer test (despite never driving one or actually doing any of the training) aswell just to see what happened and Iā€™ve passed that aswell as tipper one :grimacing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Muckaway:

BanburyDan:
Great stuff, I see a lot of these about. I really, really like those MANs! (Iā€™m a bit of a Merc and MAN fan myself)

For all the problems with automatics (real and imagined) the MANs are quite good off road, Dan. Theyā€™ve always been great tippers more so in muckshifting as theyā€™re a bit heavy; Smiths could buy lighter but Iā€™ve been told any loss in payload is offset with a tough chassis and tipping body that will last the life of the vehicle.
Come to think of it, Smiths MANsā€™ arenā€™t any heavier than the M and N reg ones that Sheehansā€™ used to operate; i used to load them with about 18.6t so with all the modern stuff fitted to tippers perhaps Smiths havenā€™t done too badly?

I just like MANs to drive, although I once had an auto one that was not quite so good. Iā€™m very much getting used to the Eurocargo I am driving now, even double de-clutching it when the mood takes me (I like the noise)

Didnā€™t see you about today Nathan, but did see one of your 8x4 MANs near Appleton.

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Muckaway:
I was in the classroom today doing DCPC/MQPC training. (Basically it used to be the EPIC skills card) It was actually a worthwhile thing to do although I donā€™t think it needs to be done/renewed every five years but at least there wasnā€™t so much emphasis on tarmac haulage and more on general safety. You have to do a multiple choice test paper (common sense) to get skills card which has separate sections for tipper and mixer drivers. I filled in the mixer test (despite never driving one or actually doing any of the training) aswell just to see what happened and Iā€™ve passed that aswell as tipper one :grimacing: :laughing: :laughing:

Good for you Nathan.Any extra qualification is always handy to have.You should do your managers CPC.You have had a background in haulage since you were a kid,give it a go,it could prove useful one day.
Cheers Dave.

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Dave the Renegade:

Muckaway:
I was in the classroom today doing DCPC/MQPC training. (Basically it used to be the EPIC skills card) It was actually a worthwhile thing to do although I donā€™t think it needs to be done/renewed every five years but at least there wasnā€™t so much emphasis on tarmac haulage and more on general safety. You have to do a multiple choice test paper (common sense) to get skills card which has separate sections for tipper and mixer drivers. I filled in the mixer test (despite never driving one or actually doing any of the training) aswell just to see what happened and Iā€™ve passed that aswell as tipper one :grimacing: :laughing: :laughing:

Good for you Nathan.Any extra qualification is always handy to have.You should do your managers CPC.You have had a background in haulage since you were a kid,give it a go,it could prove useful one day.
Cheers Dave.

I thought about it about 10 years ago when I considered getting my own wagon; I reckon Iā€™d fall down on the hours rules as in tippers, itā€™s hard to push your hours and so Iā€™ve never taken much notice of spreadover periods etcā€¦