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Nice photos Alan,no wonder you made some money,you spent most of yer time in lay-bys. There was me desperate for trailers and you were lounging about on Woodhead 
Saturday afternoon,bags of trailers loaded for sat night/sunday delivery,night shift nowt to do again.That blue ■■■■■■ is mine M389 YTW,just see the back end of it.
while I was scanning these chris,got me thinking ,do you remember buttercup–Dave butter■■? He ran the tetley job out of Morley then he was on the desk at maltby,last I saw of him was at arla leeds
revman:
Aye,you mean Dave Butterfield Alan,he was a smashing bloke,easy to work with and one of the best TSMs we had. He had a mild heart attack and was laid up for a bit,then I heard he was at Arla Leeds. Wincanton didn’t have that contract very long,what happened,can you remember? Some of their drivers came into Maltby around Xmas time around 2004 maybe,can’t recall why unless they left trailers for service.
J D blew the battery off that TIP shed,he put 24v through it,plugged into wrong socket on shunter. 
It went back to Knottingley and we never saw it again.
ye I always got on with him,when arla first started I got sent from maltby to work from there,& then he would ask for me,but always got decent jobs off him,I see stobarts are in tesco at Donny is alan bailey still working,off to bed,didcot tmorrow at a steady pace unless I get an old un
FL6 on Iceland contract.
Clydesdale farm tanker.
Another saturday afters shot.The Scania was ex Middlebrook Mushrooms Selby and had a dockspotter fitted at Aveling Barford Grantham. It got through two 5th wheels a year,they weren’t up to the 24/7 job in spite of being reinforced by our VMU. Still.it was a handy little tool and beat winding trailer legs up and down. 
hi chris, heres my last shunt motor . spent many a happy hour hiding around the trailer park.
jimcab:
hi chris, heres my last shunt motor . spent many a happy hour hiding around the trailer park.
Did it have a lifting 5th wheel Jim? When the Scania was parked up we were given an ERF E10 on a G plate,that was hard work jumping in and out of that.
We finished up with this after my mate went straight to the Ops Manager and invited him to do a shift in the ERF,stopped the job for about two hours.
Luxury,what a tool,made the job so easy - and safer. 
thats posh chris ! our unit did have a hydraulic 5th wheel but we couldnt use it on tail-lift trailers, they used to drag on the ground . .and 90% of our trailers had t/l . Sods law.
jimcab:
thats posh chris ! our unit did have a hydraulic 5th wheel but we couldnt use it on tail-lift trailers, they used to drag on the ground . .and 90% of our trailers had t/l . Sods law.
I remember those underfloor tail lifts very well Jim. One day I pulled DTL*** whatever it was off the dock,shut the doors and lifted it up and away,you can guess the rest,in a big heap in the yard with drivers and warehouse lads cheering like hell. 
It wasn’t a Maltby trailer,we never used tail lifts and I can’t recall getting a warning or owt -I just put it down to pressure…
i grounded them lots of times . . we just put it down to bad equipment . . no accident reports were ever filled out! what made things harder was that our loading bays were on a up-hill slope.
Hey Chris…Remember this one 
I’m sure you said it was one of yours 
An early Daf 95 taken at Unigate Sunbury.
lemonmouth:
Hey Chris…Remember this one
I do remember it Trev,we had 40040-40044 on our books in the early days of the MBF contract.All the tandems went and were replaced by tri-axles eventually.Was that “incident” at Milton Keynes? It looks like a Trafford Park board on the front,whatever it isn’t Maltby so not guilty yer 'onour.
lemonmouth:
An early Daf 95 taken at Unigate Sunbury.
That trailer is a 24 (with a struggle) palleter,it has a shutter door and we had some at Maltby - like this one being backed on a stock bay.
used this Harris scania out of maltby to stowmarket & winsford
another maltby erf &st ivel tr
filling up at maltby sainsbury job
some more maltby sainsbury,(batesy was shunting then)
did a week out of birch packaging (wincanton Manchester )
Unilever contract Doncaster 