spike78:
Lucy:
I [zb] love TruckNet…
P’raps I should start a thread about shoes being nicked out of trailers in Spain, see if it ends up full of warnings about theft hotspots in the UK…?
What is the best truck sat nav?
What’s poa.
Should I wear Hi-viz whilst driving.
What’s the name of the direct ferry link from Portugal to the UK. I cannot see any other way to get the many shoes manufactured in Portugal to market. Maybe you have to sail Lisbon to Genoa on the SS Columbus
Lucy:
I [zb] love TruckNet…P’raps I should start a thread about shoes being nicked out of trailers in Spain, see if it ends up full of warnings about theft hotspots in the UK…?
Haha when ever has a tread on here ever gone past the 1st two comments on topic
If the OP had stated UK only then we wouldn’t have mentioned Europe and an uneducated idiot who thinks only Italy makes shoes but has 40 years experience wouldn’t have posted at all , I never mentioned where my shoes got stolen or which routes I take to save on distance and motorway toll money.
What next , he will say he can’t argue with stupidity and accuse me of lies when I sub contracted for British International, of which the husband of the wife who ran their Porto office owned a shoe business and factory in Portugal, and shoes were made in Trans Montana area of Guimares /Braganza and Braga areas of industry.
Other reliable posters submitted Elche is shoe production area .As they say , you can’t argue with an idiot like Grumpy Old Trucker .
He says I make it all up but I subbed for BI , Euro PSL , Garland Laidley lda, Freight Transfer, LV transport, Garnett Eurotrans and Securicor Omega logistics.
In fact GOT doesn’t know what he is talking about.
I do think Lucy has been a wee bit naive:
Once a thread is started, it develops its own life and goes off wandering around with no sense of direction at all…much like many drivers…
And
Expecting anyone to admit to being the friend of a tramper…those smelly, tin-box inhabiting etc etc…
Brains? Atrophied long ago.
*chuckles, 'cos Franglais clearly doesn’t know my back story where this forum’s concerned - nor where I came from before writing! *
Grumpy_old_trucker:
Tarmaceater:
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So back on subject to UK only .You’re full of the proverbial, to be a good liar you need a good memory and that’s something you most certainly don’t possess!
He’s also forgotten to mention the mayor’s daughter. 
The part I find hardest to believe is that there now seem to be two people spouting almost exactly the same tripe. 
Anyway… back to topic!
Lucy:
*chuckles, 'cos Franglais clearly doesn’t know my back story where this forum’s concerned - nor where I came from before writing!
Don’t leave us hanging Lucy…fill us in.
robroy:
Lucy:
*chuckles, 'cos Franglais clearly doesn’t know my back story where this forum’s concerned - nor where I came from before writing!Don’t leave us hanging Lucy…fill us in.
Lucy is an ex-driver and tramper…
And obviously a better writer than me, since when I tried a bit of humour it fell flat.
Anyone want to buy some left footed shoes ,the right footed ones are being shipped on a different trailer so a slight delay or buy one shoe and walk like an agency limper with a stone in it ?
dieseldave:
Grumpy_old_trucker:
Tarmaceater:
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So back on subject to UK only .You’re full of the proverbial, to be a good liar you need a good memory and that’s something you most certainly don’t possess!
He’s also forgotten to mention the mayor’s daughter.
The part I find hardest to believe is that there now seem to be two people spouting almost exactly the same tripe.
I had him sussed a long time ago, Tarmaceater and his alter ego are among the biggest bullshiners on the forum.
He makes it up as he goes along, I suspect he’s another one of these loners that sits in his bed sit stealing some other tenants WiFi signal trawling the internet trying to fit in……… and failing miserably!
I fully believe that Toby/Eater (Toby eaterie! See what I did there? ) is a lorry driver, I have no reason to disbelieve it, I also believe that he’s one of them delightfully eccentric characters that brighten your day up with total madness when you encounter them.
Keep going Toby, you make me smile which is pretty much all I require from people nowadays.
the maoster:
I fully believe that Toby/Eater (Toby eaterie! See what I did there?Keep going Toby, you make me smile which is pretty much all I require from people nowadays.
Agreed! He’s definitely done the job and knows a lot, although perhaps gets a bit carried away filling in the blanks at times . His comments about farmers are bang on. Always leave 2 hours free to hear the latest tales of woe and never feed the dog, which always makes its route to you through the milk parlour just after the cows have been milked so is covered in cow [zb] when it jumps up at you. So true.
Plus, who else can we rely on to give us daily updates on the truck ban situation on the local roads of Somerset and the Wiltshire border towns such as Bradford upon Avon?
I think Grumpy Trucker needs to lighten up and stop being so grumpy.
GOT ; The Victor Meldrew of trucking , I don’t believe a single word he says.
biggriffin:
Should I wear Hi-viz whilst driving.
Yes…
Of course you should.
Find it hard to believe you had to ask in the first place.
If you don’t wear a hi viz while driving expect a brown envelope in the post to attend a tea and no biscuits meeting with the Traffic Commissioner, my drivers got six penalty points each for not wearing their baby bibs while driving and a £1000 fine .
Toby Carvery .
Tarmaceater:
Toby Carvery .
Carvery shmarvery. Eaterie fitted my pun beter Tobes. Deal with it.
the maoster:
Tarmaceater:
Toby Carvery .Carvery shmarvery. Eaterie fitted my pun beter Tobes. Deal with it.
I picture Toby resembling Harry Monk’s avatar. I can picture him sat on his favourite stool at the end of the bar, smoking his pipe and drinking the type of beer with twigs in it. Wears a herringbone flat cap and has a 12 year old terrier called Alfred who he takes everywhere with him. Drives an old M-reg mk1 Mondeo estate in dark blue, with the obligatory gaffer tape holding the cracked rear bumper together.
