Wheelnut and Jonboy@RH - this is picture of Willi Betz, it is old and they doing running to UK in long time ago
ok, I am 16 year old and not yet became trucker but I will !, When i was young, I live in Uxbridge and my school in St Albans and I using travelling by minibus via the M25. when i was i always waving the lorry and the lorry driver waving back me, I was enjoying. About half dozen year agos, I am big fans of Eddies Stobart and James Irlam but now I am more interesting into foreign lorries and became maddest fan of Willi Betz, how i take interesting the foreign lorries because in couples of years I been visit to Paris (twice) by school trip Coach and became interesting contential lorry job because there are plenty of different culture, langauges of Road sign and good atomsphere in Dover and lots of Foreign lorries driving on way to London/UK and I am amazed some lorries come very long way from here like Russia, Turkey, Iran, Morocco and Eastern bloc too. I am interesting seeing different the foreign lorries from here like style, kits and people too, My dream is Contential job but I never been ride the wagon but i been into but no moving but my dream maybe someone take me a ride to europe by lorry!
Wow ! A big response from a question.
Thanks again to all who have replied.I didn’t expect so many people to reply.
First of all, Ladytrucker thanks for the apology but you did not ruin my thread you only added to it and I sympathise with your bad run over the water.
Secondly, KitKat! nice comment. Ask anyone up your way ( over the border !)
if they remember Carrons of Falkirk. I ran shotgun with my brother in the Early eighties out the old Freightliner container depot in Dudley.
Last but not least - thanks to all the would be truckers who have taken time to reply. Don’t worry boys and girls - if it’s your dream one day it will happen
Niall:
Wow ! A big response from a question.
Thanks again to all who have replied.I didn’t expect so many people to reply.
First of all, Ladytrucker thanks for the apology but you did not ruin my thread you only added to it and I sympathise with your bad run over the water.
Secondly, KitKat! nice comment. Ask anyone up your way ( over the border !)
if they remember Carrons of Falkirk. I ran shotgun with my brother in the Early eighties out the old Freightliner container depot in Dudley.
Last but not least - thanks to all the would be truckers who have taken time to reply. Don’t worry boys and girls - if it’s your dream one day it will happen
hi niall, yes i know carrons of falkirk very well, in there every know and again,not a bad delivery,bit tight at times but we get there in the end.i heard from our depot that they where in talks to get that contract.thats all we need dhl carring that sort of frieght. there bad enough with what they carry now
I was about 18 when I got the urge to drive something large,tried to get a class3 out of the council aged 21(free of charge) but they cancelled their training programme.Then got back into it aged 23 after chatting to a couple of drivers sitting outside the courier company I worked for.Got shown around their trucks had a brew or three with them and decided then that is what I want to do.
Took classII which I held for 14yrs before taking my 1 last year and have never regreted it. Just enjoy driving large vehicles.Also the choice of your own company or having a chat with your peers,knowing that you’re all in the same boat so to speak.
Coffeeholic:
Ladytrucker, I think I was on the same ferry as you when you shipped back to the UK. Last Thusday morning there was a women driver driving a white t cab with a blue horse trailer and she was accompanied by a couple or three other horse trucks. A little later you had stopped in Clackett Lane services. If I had know it was you i would have said hello.
Coffeeholic I wish you had said hello that was me! I remember I wasn’t looking my best but it had been a busy couple of days. If you see me again and lets face it I’m hard to miss, I will get the coffee’s in.
Coffeeholic:
Ladytrucker, I think I was on the same ferry as you when you shipped back to the UK. Last Thusday morning there was a women driver driving a white t cab with a blue horse trailer and she was accompanied by a couple or three other horse trucks. A little later you had stopped in Clackett Lane services. If I had know it was you i would have said hello.
Coffeeholic I wish you had said hello that was me! I remember I wasn’t looking my best but it had been a busy couple of days. If you see me again and lets face it I’m hard to miss, I will get the coffee’s in.
Think i was as far away from trucks as is possible to get, but in the early 70’s went from school to doing a HND course in building dropped out of that after a year, all my mates were earning i wasn’t so as i live near Felixstowe got a job as a dock runner for Davies Turner, after a while i landed up doing exports, by the mid 70’s Davies Turner were doing fair amount of work to the middle east and Greece, most middle east work was through the then truck control in London we did the odd carnet mainly T. docs for belly tanks, and carnet’s for the Greek traffic, most of the guys that Davies Turner used at that time were UK owner drivers, or small firms, ie few guys we used were going overland in Guy big J’s and sundry other trucks, few were going to Tehran in non sleeper atki’s, tho recall that Tony Funston used to have a brace of nice R reg 3 axle F89’s. Got to know quite a few of the drivers in the time i was at DT and got hooked that way, tho by the time i took my class 1 as it was then, it was the start of the 80’s and the bottom had fallen out of the middle east work and all the people i knew had either finished or moved on to other things, but by then I had got the bug and been driving ever since, even spend most of my time now going to Greece so gone full circle really.
biggles
Ladytrucker679:
Coffeeholic I wish you had said hello that was me! I remember I wasn’t looking my best but it had been a busy couple of days. If you see me again and lets face it I’m hard to miss, I will get the coffee’s in.
Made redundant, with a good payoff and decided to go into something that their was a lot of work about (allright I know better now - it’s the work you want that’s hard to find). However I’ve allways hated being cooped up in an office and not being able to do my own thing, so I suppose this suits me down to the ground.
Ladytrucker, I really do sympathise with you. I cannot and will not double man. I hate it, even chewing the fat with other truckers I tend to avoid because their are some right dipsticks out their (present company excepted of course ). Look at it this way, if I had to double man, there’d be bodies all appearing all over the place and my boss would be seriousley short of drivers . Pat’s suggestion is quite a good one. You sound like you could make it work… Why not show the blokes a thing or two? At the end of they day, why let a few ■■■■■■■■■ push you out of a job you seem to love doing?
my dad has drove trucks ever since ive been born, at the age of 2 all ive been interested in is trucks. even before i started secondery school i knew i was gonna drive a truck. when i was about 12 my dad started on his own, so that was it i was on top of the world. i passed my driving test within a month of 17 i was bought a transit hitop van which i drove all over the uk. i worked that till i was 21, i was put through my class2 i passed that and 2 later i went in for my class1. i failed first time i was gutted but within a week i done it again and passed. so then my dad gave me a job, there u go he said 480 super space daf , so i drove that for 4 months and then my dad bought me a 144 530 topline left hand drive i drove that i england for six months. it was a dream come true at first it was hard driving on the wrong side but i was ok within a week , we moved to spain and took the scania with us which me and my dad double man spain-uk now i love every minute of it, its got the lot side pipes kelsa bars top middle bottom every minute i drive it i can’t wipe the smile off my face, i drive down the road and people stop and stare at this truck with over 60 side lights on it. its the nuts and i love it.
). Look at it this way, if I had to double man, there’d be bodies all appearing all over the place and my boss would be seriousley short of drivers 