who started the idea off of putting womens/ girls names on trucks , just doesnt seem right as the majority are driven by men
whats wrong with football teams [ can see a few of im not driving that bag of zb] 
., but surely it makes more sense
but i just wondered whos idea was it 
vehicles,ships etc are usually she,s. would,nt call a truck after a bloke.
imagine telling your missus you had a night out in big baz 
there is a truck painted half in liverpool and half in evertons colours.
but imagine drivng a truck in all liverpools colours and having a night out in manchester.no thanks.
same applies vice versa 
Think Stobarts started it.
I don’t think I’d be too keen on driving all this Ellie-Louise-Michelle crap.
there’s a firm called Parkside based at Stowmarket who give their trucks the names of minor planets, such as ‘Ganymede’, ‘Pandora’ and ‘Triton’, which I rather like.
Unless, of course, you’re a new starter who is handed the keys to ‘Uranus’!!
chorcheela:
Unless, of course, you’re a new starter who is handed the keys to ‘Uranus’!!
Could be worse, could be ‘The Big Bang’
I’m not a fan of the girly names they’re putting on the trucks, Catherine-Anne-Stacey or Racquelle-Penelope-Margaret and similar daft names.
I vote for putting names of films on the front, ‘The Terminator’, ‘The Lovebug’, ‘Dumb and Dumber’
In Hebrides Haulage they call all vans by “island sth”
Island rocket, island sprinter, island ceildih, island star, island that, island this…
Yeardley trucks where named after racehorses
Robsons of Carlisle where all Border something
i had ex Gibbs of Fraserburgh called Northern lights
who cares can call it doris as long as they pay the most money
probably named after ladies/women because we now how temperamental they can be at certain times of the month depending on which model you drive 
HAIRYGORILLA:
probably named after ladies/women because we now how temperamental they can be at certain times of the month depending on which model you drive
LOL Good call!
My favourite is Carters, who have since 1965 named their trucks with a 2 part name - the first part being a river and the second being a name from mythology, but linked to the country of the truck’s origin.
The first one was ‘Deben Viking’, the story of which used to be on their web site.
Being Woodbridge based, in fact a hundred yards from the River Deben (which is pronounced ‘Deeben’), the first part of the name is normally ‘Deben’, though it has been ‘Alde’ (another local river), and also ‘Nene’ (near their Peterborough yard), and ‘Solent’ (Southampton obviously). There is a guy who has contributed almost all the names since the late 60’s. Much more interesting than girls names!!
chorcheela:
My favourite is Carters, who have since 1965 named their trucks with a 2 part name - the first part being a river and the second being a name from mythology, but linked to the country of the truck’s origin.can just see that here humber loads of work high wages ---- loads of work being mythology bit and high wages
It’s down to the old saying 'If it’s got ■■■■ or tyres it’ll give you trouble 
It’s down to the old saying 'If it’s got ■■■■ or tyres it’ll give you trouble
Hmmm! I always heard if it had Wheels or Nuts it would be trouble
I used to work for a driving school that was owned by an old Teddy Boy.
He named all his trucks after the fifties era.
There was Stagger Lee, Long Tall Sally and Peggy Sue as I remember.
The only truck i know of that has a blokes name works for LV Transport,
Named Dennis the elder, after lennys (the owners) father i believe.
Mines got a name.
Peesoshitmerc
Tipper-driver01:
The only truck i know of that has a blokes name works for LV Transport,Named Dennis the elder, after lennys (the owners) father i believe.
Far from unique, I’ve seen loads of dustcarts called Dennis. 
lol
They should give them pornstar names…nothing too well known…so it’ll just be a perverts joke… 