Anyone remember Nightingale Hall Farm, Lancaster? (Don’t bother googling, it’s gone now)
They used to collect animal waste from abbatoirs, heads, hooves, stomachs, guts, and process it into bone meal, fertiliser, god knows what else, probably Crab Stix.
Class 3 (back then) skip wagons.
Check out the Lancaster Guardian for report on that place. Complaints? Millions.
THIS… was my second job, after the general haulage/removals one, after leaving the Army in 78.
I honestly do not know why I took this job when it was offered to me. But I did. And I got on with it.
The smells in that place were the most godawful smells I have ever had the misfortune to smell. They stuck to your clothes, they stuck to your skin, they followed you around town, an absolute nightmare of a job, for smells.
3 drivers, including me (a noob 23 year old, class 2)
Spaulding. Just “Spaulding”, no one ever knew his first name. late 40s, 6’ 2" of pale, skinny, round glasses, attitude 
This guy cracked me up on more than one occasion. Just a funny guy without knowing why what he said was funny.
John Gibson: Late 40s early 50s, obviously an Elvis fan. Right down to the lapels up on his denim jacket, the BLACK dyed hair, the winklepickers, the American flag patches on his jackets.
Great, GREAT blokes. Mines of information for a noob like me.
What I liked about them is that they were willing to sit down and chat, to give up their time to talk to me.
A couple of episodes come to mind…
I was sent to Chesterfield to do a skip swap.
Got down to the M way roundabout at Chesterfield and had to brake hard to avoid hitting a car.
All of a sudden my windscreen went black, totally blacked out, no light whatsoever, couldn’t see ■■■■ all! WTF■■?
Turned out that I’d backed up to, and picked up, a half empty/full skip of what they called Oxo. A wateryish mishmash of some…I dunno…stuff…kinda gloopy. But proper BLACK. TM said I got the wrong one, I disagree because he was an idiot at the best of time.
As I jammed on the brakes it had all slurped over the front of the skip and covered the cab, windscreen, and most of the next 20 yards of road in this stuff 
Not kiddin, total blackout.
Wiped enough off the screen, with me jumper, to get me to the job and get sorted. Shame about the jumper, it was…nah, it wasn’t.
ANother one from Chesterfield…Had a load, proper full load (No need to sheet it, driver, they’ll stick like ■■■■ to a blanket) of stomachs. Heading back to base.
These stomachs are like basketballs. Full, round, solid.
Again, had to brake hard. Was amazed to see a couple of hundred of these things go bouncing down the M6 in front of me
blocked 2 lanes while I was picking them up
BTW, just qualified as a John Lewis Installer.
Coming to your house soon
