YYB 32S on contract to Phillips Petroleum(route66)
revman:
Ye usually call in on my back from avonmouth,load on the new bay after tipping mt pallecons,regards alan
Hi rev man who you on for dc Nuneaton nr evans or private contractor I will come and say hello
XYC 519X . River Mole.
nice pics wrighty . .i see a few of them in london tipping at a dairy in Acton.
Hi Jimcab, that picture of Cobra was another on the Spot fleet running out of Wolverhampton
a bit tight at church hanbrough
hi ADR , was COBRA always coupled to the same tank or did it go under anything ■■
ERF E14 . . River Brent.
B series OMW 68R . .unigate foods i think was based at Wooton Bassett, before the fleet was taken over by wincanton.
Maltby depot.
The tandem axled trailers were sheds and soon swapped for tri-axles.
Milton Keynes depot.
jimcab:
wincanton chilled. rigid ERF
When was that taken Jim? I’m sure we had J950 at Maltby in the 90s.
hi chris, dont know anything about j950. . i rely on blokes like you to tell me . ha…how many motors did you have at maltby ?
jimcab:
hi chris, dont know anything about j950. . i rely on blokes like you to tell me . ha…how many motors did you have at maltby ?
Hi Jim,I can’t remember how many units we had but I know we had 98 trailers on the books. Some were outbased at Malton,Ashton,Winsford and Whitchurch though.We had several subbies working for us a well.
was it all supermarket RDC work ? 98 trailers . . hope you had help with the shunting !!
jimcab:
was it all supermarket RDC work ? 98 trailers . . hope you had help with the shunting !!
It was the Malton Bacon contract Jim,part of Unigate. All RDC deliveries,24/7 including starting Xmas Day night. Shunters were on 4 on 4 off,one on days two on nights.I have been trying to work out how many trailers were outbased and came to the figure of 18,so if we got the yard full at Maltby we’d got 80 on site.It rarely happened because there were so many on the road.Busiest 24 hours was wednesday night to thursday dinnertime,usually up to 60 loads going out,sometimes more.Not bad for a small depot with only six loading docks - there were seven but one was always taken up for Geest products,a contract Wincanton took on when we were hard pressed to do the MBF contract,never mind another one.
thats what i ended up on,4x12 hours-4off. . 3 shunters on days 2 on nights. . best thing i ever done . . kept me away from the M25!
maltby erf with one of chris 98 trailers!no hang on its a trafford pk tr he will tel me were to put that 
saw this in widnes last year–wavin contract
revman:
maltby erf with one of chris 98 trailers!no hang on its a trafford pk tr he will tel me were to put that
Alan,take that yellow T/PK sign off the front,we’ll have that at Maltby,it looks a new 'un. I can give them an old shed in exchange.