Riverside freight at purfleet had taking your freight further on the trailers.
Used to make me think what do they tracks the long route to the drop or something.
Stuck behind one of Mainland Group’s rigids at 32mph on the A43 between Northampton and Kettering one day and noticed their tag line is “The road ahead is clear”
Of course it is, everyone not sitting behind him has been home for hours by now…
AndyH71:
Stuck behind one of Mainland Group’s rigids at 32mph on the A43 between Northampton and Kettering one day and noticed their tag line is “The road ahead is clear”
Of course it is, everyone not sitting behind him has been home for hours by now…
Good strategy. Make people smile about being held up by a wagon. One of McCains wagons had “Stuck behind a slow moving lorry? Never mind, tuck in to [insert product name here] when you get home” plastered on the back etc etc. If you are stuck behind said lorry you cannot help but grin and accept it and become a little bit hungry at the same time
Also loving the ginsters campaign of ‘man can not live on crisps alone’ on the side of their vans Selling fatty nutrition free crud in place of fatty nutrition free crud! Bet someone got paid more for coming up with that slogan than I will get paid in 20 years. Advertising is where the cash is at chaps.
You can if you’re Cox-Long
Still don’t get “It’s that pole in Leek” though.
Local skip firm, Micks Skips have “We don’t talk rubbish, we move it”. It should read “We also drive it” (they run ancient junk).
NathanB:
You can if you’re Cox-Long
Still don’t get “It’s that pole in Leek” though.
Local skip firm, Micks Skips have “We don’t talk rubbish, we move it”. It should read “We also drive it” (they run ancient junk).
Remember reading about this in a truck mag a few years back. Im sure it had something to do with people in Leek not knowing his name, but knew of him and knew he was a pole. So basicly he just got refered to as that pole in Leek.
Stute in Paderborn, whose main business is supplying dodgy orange juice to Aldi, now have “Finest fruit solutions” emblazoned on their trailers
This is following a trend in Germany to present your organisation as hip and happening by employing an English tag line, dreamt up by some jumped up graduate.