brookie:
Here’s a guy I used to see a lot on Itailian work, Lester. Hope he won’t mind me putting this up. Just loaded in Treviso, Delonghi radiators ( I’ve bunged this on another thread too)
was that lads nickname blue from leicester
hanson:
brookie:
Here’s a guy I used to see a lot on Itailian work, Lester. Hope he won’t mind me putting this up. Just loaded in Treviso, Delonghi radiators ( I’ve bunged this on another thread too)
was that lads nickname blue from leicester
Hi hanson. yep apparently he is known as blue. I only knew him as Lester. smashing guy, put me straight on a few things on my first couple of Italians. not seen him for years, he was driving a tipper on local last time I spoke to him on the radio.
regards,
brookie.
Hi , Some really great pics on this topic , my dad used to drive for e m rogers from about 1983 to 1995 , i used to go with him to italy when ever i could get out of school , his name is dave haigh i remember my first trip abroad was in the seddon atkinson 401 they had to belgium ( would love to find a pic of that truck ) he then had a v reg daf 2800 , y reg f10 , a reg scania , b reg scania & last of all an f reg daf 95 , i remember a couple of drivers , one drove for t-o-f i think his name was hughie the other 1 was webby , i was livin in london at the time wiv my mum & webby gave me a lift home 1 morning , we were travelling down the m1 in roadworks when this little datsun overtook us & as it overtook the next lorry it wobbled in to the back wheels of the lorry into the central reservation spun in front of us then ended up in the grass verve off the hard shoulder , i have never seen so many indians get out of 1 car ,
Andrew Haigh
Well Andy, your on the right thread here, it was started by Ash an ex EM Rogers man, he’ll be along in a mo i bet, and he may have a photo of the truck too.
brookie:
hanson:
brookie:
Here’s a guy I used to see a lot on Itailian work, Lester. Hope he won’t mind me putting this up. Just loaded in Treviso, Delonghi radiators ( I’ve bunged this on another thread too)
was that lads nickname blue from leicester
Hi hanson. yep apparently he is known as blue. I only knew him as Lester. smashing guy, put me straight on a few things on my first couple of Italians. not seen him for years, he was driving a tipper on local last time I spoke to him on the radio.
regards,
brookie.
i used to work woth him at pm rucks at coalville he was a great lad last time i seen him he was tramping for stobarts out of crick
Thanks for the update hanson, if you see him say Mark from Radcliffes sends his regards!
brookie. (mark)
davemackie:
Yes this was an Ex Comart Vehicle Pat converted it to three axles, original wheels were trilex.
Five of them were imported from Belguim and registered in UK in 1975 original year was 1972.
He stil has it & is in working condition.
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That is one tough looking F88, and with a championed history. Fantastic to hear the truck is still around!
whereabouts is it? I’d love to have a look at her 
truckerash:
Wonder how much the design guy got paid for this “STUNNING” colour combinationPink Red Black and Blue, umm nice. See nowadays they are all white with a bit of “powdery pink”.
heres 1 for all you northern lads. Anyone remember Eric Hunwick, think he came from M’chester area. Used to see the trucks in France and someone told me they did M/East with F88’s?
R.H Stevens will allegedly always have pink somewhere in the paint scheme, Alan Stevens quoting in TRUCK magazine in 1991 that ‘Father wouldn’t let us change the pink’. Reg sadly left this life about 10 years ago, and my time at Macclesfield college 1990 - 93 took in many dinnertime walks past the Gunco lane yard. That F12 I clearly remember seeing most of the time. At this point in time, a large batch of IVECO Turbotechs were bought, the early H plates with the ‘old style’ cab, and think from H171 BJA was the ‘Turbostar’ style cab, sure you know what I mean. Think the later J reg trucks had regs with ‘RHS’ in,
and tho I’d never been a fan of vatican Macks, the stump pulling 13.8 litre lump and single stack gave the trucks a superb sound when I saw them round the town, and I gave these motors the nod of approval.
One of the drivers always stands out - ‘Spike’. Anyone know him, knew him? had one of the J plates, and always remember a yank numberplate on the bumper - EIR 48J 
Eric Hunwick - yard was in Reddish nr Stockport and yes ran F88’s to M/E. I called in the yard late one
afternoon in 1993 and remember in the office was an impressive painting/mural of some of the trucks once operated - wonder where it is now? The rumour I heard was his son took over the running after
Eric hung himself, mid 90’s? 
Stopped trading ages ago 
Re; Stevens. The reason for the dirty pink is because the old boy had a small tanker that colour which he used to deliver pink paraffin in. I think a lot of people know that.
Re; Spike . His dad drove the old Iveco wagon & drag on Stevens .The police found £250000 in cash around the house & Spike drew 7 years for drug smuggling & then went back on Stevens .Is that the one you mean ?
Sounds like a right character. Never knew the guy just that his wagon seemed to stand out more than the
rest. A long time friend of mine worked there in the early 80’s.
brookie:
Thanks for the update hanson, if you see him say Mark from Radcliffes sends his regards!brookie. (mark)
yeah no problem i do look out for him
this spike your talking about how long ago was it when he worked for stevens?. and how old would he be now?..
NICE PHOTOS TRUCKERASH I HAVE JUST JOINED, I USED TO WORK FOR RTH INTERNATIONAL DELIVERING OILFIELD EQUIPMENT FROM ABERDEEN DONT KNOW IF YOU KNOW THEM, ITS CALLED RTH-LUBBERS NOW.
‘Spike’ must be in his 60’s now would have thought
ahh not the same spike weve got at our place. mid/late forties from mac worked for stevens and been inside. hell of a nice bloke though.
ahh not the same spike weve got at our place. mid/late forties from mac worked for stevens and been inside. hell of a nice bloke though.
wirralpete:
ahh not the same spike weve got at our place. mid/late forties from mac worked for stevens and been inside. hell of a nice bloke though.
Thats the Spike I know. Is his dad still working?
There’s only one ‘Spike’, that’ll be him Wirralpete 
. I didn’t know how old he would be; its 17yrs alone
since I went to Macc college! Say hello! and tho I dont know him, that I remember him driving round Macc
in the early 90’s . I’m 99% sure he had J20 RHS
sounds like the same bloke. his dads still working for stevens btw.
ref to your photo on page 24. 140 scania gvv 7n my dads truck for over a year he picked it up from patricks yard a couple of weeks later it was painted in d&w colours. it was owned RAY D WALKER i think he had 4 scanias 110s i was only about 7 or 8 at the time me dad DAVE WALTON (SCOUSE) DROVE EML 361J FOR ABOUT 2/3 YEARS DOIN ITALY GREECE AND TURKEY. MY FIRST TRIP AWAY WITH ME DAD I WAS ABOUT 5/6 I WENT TO GREECE WOT A BUZ IT WAS 110 SCANIA WITH STEPFRAME SUPERCUBE TILT WAS LOADED WITH A 4 WHEELR COMMER ROADSWEEPER WE TUK IT TO PATRAS GREECE I THINK WE HAD TO DAYS IN PORT BEFORE GETTING BOAT (CARIJORGES) BACK TO ANCONA ITALY AND INTO PRATO FOR ALOAD OF SHOES FROM ALBENES I TRAVELED ALL OVER ITALY AND GREECE IN THE 110 I LOVED IT THEN ME DAD TOLD ME HE WAS GETTING A NEW TRUCK A 140 V8 WHICH WAS GVV 7N 2 WEEKS AFTER GETTING IT HE CAME HOME TO LIVERPOOL WITH IT AFTER ITS FIRST TRIP TO GREECE HE WAS AT HOME FOR 2 DAYS BEFORE GOING BACK TO GREECE AND I WAS GOING WITH HIM COULDNT WAIT TO GO WE LEFT SUNDAY TEA TIME BACK TO THE YARD IN PLASTOW WE GOT ON THE M1 COUPLE OF HOURS LATER THIS WAS A FAST SCANIA WE WERE PASSING EVERYTHING WE GOT STOPED BY THE POLICE THEY SAID THAT GVV 7N HAD BIN STOPPED A FEW TIMES WEN IT WAS OWNED BY PATRICK INTERNATIONAL FOR SPEEDING THE LAST TIME IT WAS STOPPED IT WAS DOING 85MPH THEY TOLD ME DAD SLOW DOWN AND ON WE WENT . ME DAD HAD GVV 7N FOR OVER A YEAR THEN HIS NEW TRUCK AFTER ABOUT 5 YEARS WORKING FOR RAY WALKER WAS A SCANIA 111 MOO623P WHICH WAS ALEFT HAND DRIVE LIKE GVV7N I PROBLY SPENT 2/3 MOUNTHS EVERY YEAR A WAY WITH ME DAD.AFTER DRIVEING MOO623P FOR ABOUT 3 YEARS HE GOT ANOTHER JOB DRIVEING A FORD TRANSCONTINENTAL WHICH HAD THE WORDS (TONKAEATER) ACROSS THE FRONT I WENT TO SAUDI ONCE IN THIS TRUCK I WAS ABOUT 12/13YEARS OLD ME DAD CAN GIVE MORE INFO ABOUT GVV7N AND THE REST OFTRUCKS IF ANY ONE REMEBERS ME DAD HE IS 74 NOW AND HE COMES AWAY WITH ME NOW CONTACT ME AT . l8n.walton96@hotmail.com