Hi Harry & Andrew,
I’m in between you chaps age wise.I find some of these vehicles fitted with the blue lights,mainly cars to be hard on the eye’s. I don’t do that much night driving these days,also half the time you are not on main beam as you are constantly meeting vehicles or following them,it’s only on quiet roads that you can use main beam. Will admit I have got a couple of spots on my vans,and have always had them on cars,so am not in a position to pass judgement. You have a point,some firms I know fit them,othersot’s the drivers.
Cheers Dave.
Congratulations Dave, and everyone who has helped this thread reach 100 pages. I wish I could contribute some photo’s, but there’s not to many anyone would know running around in central Florida. Hopefuly, next trip home I will call on some friends and see if they will share theirs with us!
Regards Paul
Hi Harry, yep im with you these days, although like I said I must be getting older, I know of one driver who paid over £2000.of his own money to have a cow catcher painted and put onto his lorry,and his partner must be more forgiving than my misses, as he spent all the money he had saved up for them to go on holliday to put leather throughout the cab, and its a company waggon. WHY ?
Also I was told that if you did export then you used to have to pay extra for the exta space a cowcatcher takes when on a ferry, and what about the loss of payload and added fuel consumption to push all that extra edges through the air. Sorry, Ill keep quite on this subject now !!! 
regards Andrew.
Thanks Sammyoposite and Paul,there is no way I could have got to a 100 pages without a lot of help from people posting pics,also a lot of kind people lending me pics,and also Tracy for taking nearly all the pics that I have along with my two brothers-in-law.
Cheers Dave.
Well done Dave, also helps that your running a cracking webpage, congrats.
Hi Andrew,
Haven’t really been in keeping with this forum,it’s old time lorries,but couldn’t get enough of those,so been putting the modern one’s on,most people seem to like them. I have been promised quite a few older pics,will stick them on when I get them,also it keeps our little backwater in the swim with the rest of the haulage world.
Cheers Dave.
andrew brick:
Hi Dave,yep seems to working a treat, results speak for itself, oh and never lt Radnorshire die,talking about Radnorshire (big clue there) do you want one last go at the location or shall I tell you ? bet youve stopped there more than once , but why I am up there in the snow ask the boss !!
the road was white over and it was freezing hard,talk about ice road truckers.
regards Andrew.
Dave the Renegade:
Hi Andrew,
Haven’t really been in keeping with this forum,it’s old time lorries,but couldn’t get enough of those,so been putting the modern one’s on,most people seem to like them. I have been promised quite a few older pics,will stick them on when I get them,also it keeps our little backwater in the swim with the rest of the haulage world.
Cheers Dave.
Now now Dave don’t lose heart !! here’s one just for you and I know you would just love to run up and down to Neath one more time !!!Dennis.
andrew brick:
andrew brick:
Hi Dave,yep seems to working a treat, results speak for itself, oh and never lt Radnorshire die,talking about Radnorshire (big clue there) do you want one last go at the location or shall I tell you ? bet youve stopped there more than once , but why I am up there in the snow ask the boss !!
the road was white over and it was freezing hard,talk about ice road truckers.
regards Andrew.
Elan Valley old Aberystwyth road,or Cwngwyn above Felindre,got me beat Andrew,can’t think where those boulders and the barrier is.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Just back to the extra lights thing for a minute, my other car is a 52 reg Xsara automatic diesel which the missus drives for work was parked up in it while she did some shopping the other day and was looking at the lights on it and found it is fitted with built in fog and spot lights that neither of us knew it had, so they have never been used, i eventually found out how to switch them on, have only had the car seven years though, would’nt know the reg either.
thanks harry long retired.
harry_gill:
hiya,
Just back to the extra lights thing for a minute, my other car is a 52 reg Xsara automatic diesel which the missus drives for work was parked up in it while she did some shopping the other day and was looking at the lights on it and found it is fitted with built in fog and spot lights that neither of us knew it had, so they have never been used, i eventually found out how to switch them on, have only had the car seven years though, would’nt know the reg either.
thanks harry long retired.
I always thought ex night trunkers rode round with all their lights on main beam day or night !!! Bewick.
You sound a bit like me Harry I never read the users manual on any of the vehicles Ive had over the years,until I can’t work something out,then I refer to it. 
Cheers Dave.
Hi Dave,okey dokey,ill tell you,its the layby on top of Epynt,just to start down the bank to Garth, if you look hard you can see the Clee,Church Stretton,Black mountains and on a clear day Snowdon. notthe best of places to be in the winter !!.
Dont worry Harry, just been to collect a 1961 Porsche 356 today,couldnt start the dam thing,she just wouldnt fire, ran the battery down and needed a power pack, still wouldnt fire, eventually read the owners handbook out of desperation, found that there was a switch for the fuel pump as standard feature, turned it on and she started a treat, felt about an inch tall 
regards Andrew
andrew brick:
Kerry Forest 
no that’s Shropshire,I will leave it for atkidave to guess.
hiya,
Yes Bewick i did a few months trunk for J&E transport in the very late fifties and my nickname was “sidelights” due to the fact i only ever drove on same so not guilty of blasting your eyeballs with my main beam but my own built in “headlights” was pretty good in those days and to be truthful the motors was’nt very nippy either so it was more like convoy you could always see a pair of tailights to run with.
thanks harry long retired.
congratulations dave you should have a few more pics soon 4 welsh boys came up to kington today special job cheers martyn
sammy dog:
congratulations dave you should have a few more pics soon 4 welsh boys came up to kington today special job
We have a load of tippers and mixers here at the moment Martyn,a lot of work has come on all at once,a new Tesco at Llandrindod Wells,a bypass for Newbridge On Wye plus a lot of tarmac and concrete.
Cheers Dave.
whilst Im being a bit red faced thought that you might like a joke on me
do you recon I could read the future, only problem was that some B…d has stole my horse !!
andrew brick:
whilst Im being a bit red faced thought that you might like a joke on me
do you recon I could read the future, only problem was that some B…d has stole my horse !!
Was it one of these two Andrew
Hi Dave, yep recon so, but its bit late now though, Ive lost the b…dy waggon !!!
regards Andrew