Hullo geofthecrow,
I remember Metro Freight, White and Blue with Red Lettering. Didn’t one of the Hardman lads drive for you ? Either Ken or Daryl was it.
Cheers, Archie.
geoffthecrowtaylor:
Sheeplady never put you down as a shepherdess you should remember us you dealt mainly with my wife Susan sadly no longer with us. We brought lakes of wine from Pavlikeny and Suhendol aswell as fields of hops from near Celje. I remember your legendary parties, do you still live at Kirby Malzeard , best regards the Crow ps what about the Patrick White drivers Kylie et al
Hello Geoff - course I remember you and am very sorry to hear about Susan. Gone are the days of the parties - and cheap wine, but here’s a photo or two you may remember?
As to Patrick’s drivers - Steve helps run the Christmas driver get-togethers and Kylie married a British girl and has two boys and is busy farming back in NZ. The others I eventually lost contact with and some are on the above photo - Bruce, and his brother I believe? A few more faces I’m sure you and everyone else will remember.
geoffthecrowtaylor:
Best Booties aka Ian Taylor remember you well mate helped you change trailer wheel studs at Londra camping once also bought a load of f89 bits off you at Stoke our original name was Metro freight Bury later changed to Eastern European Freight and finally Taylor bros Rossendale our colors were always blue and white except one f88 which was in dawnyards dark blue and yellow .Dawnyard which was run by Keith Rayner was the successor to Ski International and Arabian Freight he operated from Bury and later formed TIF he died several years ago . Incidentally my first trip was in 1976 to Craiova for Dawnyard in a1968 g reg ex Sammy Williams non sleeper Scania followed by several more to Romania and then in 1977 2 trips to Izmir all in the same truck which belonged to us and so you can say the saga had really begun best regards Ian Crow
Hi geoff,
Yeah I remember flogging off all the parts of Volvos,engines,gearboxes,cabs etc,.stuff left over from SI to raise some money to fund a few more trips before the end…
Archie no Hardmans drove for us or hard men either ,drivers were me our Tony Dave Mason RIP Dave Ireland Brian Shepherd John Tilson RIP Pete Hollick Tony Boden . Mason and Ireland had previously worked for Aylsbury and Pegler and then later for Gem Transport who had a yard in Gorton Manchester they did a lot of work for Manchester Liners on containers. Ronnie Scott the owner was an Irishman and lived in Macclesfield. When times got hard the whole fleet went overland to Saudi and did internals .His newest truck was a Scania 111 all the rest Fodens including an S80 .Tilson and Boden for Eric Hunwick Shepherd for Transcontinental Freight at Heywood and Hollick finished up after us at Dow Freight. Keep on trucking mate regards Crow
Alison thanks for that Susan lost a 4 and half year battle to the dreaded big C in October 2010 2 weeks short of our 25th. In the photos I can see Bob Westwell Dai Blunt Pat Seale maybe Mick Eckersley and in the first one maybe me behind Dai Blunt.What are you doing with yourself these days. regards Geoff.
Hi Keith the thief, I did’nt work for Ray Emptage, but his brother Russell did a couple of trips for me though so maybe I do know you. Give my regards to Brian and Emma I first met him when he drove a 380 Iveco for a couple of brothers up in Walthamstow whose name escapes me maybe Brian could jog my memory, just out of interest which race team’s truck did you buy.
Regards Charlie.
Scarecrow
I was not upset at all just couldnt follow the jist of what you were on about, most folks know of the connection of Rita Hayworth and myself ,we were in a film together back in 1958,and the news spread ,which made me a film star truck driver 
Roger(Rita)Haywood
chazzer:
Hi Keith the thief, I did’nt work for Ray Emptage, but his brother Russell did a couple of trips for me though so maybe I do know you. Give my regards to Brian and Emma I first met him when he drove a 380 Iveco for a couple of brothers up in Walthamstow whose name escapes me maybe Brian could jog my memory, just out of interest which race team’s truck did you buy.
Regards Charlie.
sorry chazzer wrong man the two brothers might have been stada international they was behind the standard pub they had a few fiat californias doing italy the warner bros worked for then as well i got that russell on astrans with us a proper snake trying to slip in to our buyers in the m east we soon put a stop to it he wont work for astrans again we all said we would pull of (6 of us) on the 1st trip he carded up grahams buyer in qatar his bro is a real good friend of mine iv gota know ya chazzer i did greece for years and iv been doing continental 31years and still at it i first me archie when he was doing ferry freightings work about 25year ago i had one of them 190 38 ivecos ex demo 26k never did pay for it lol peter colby comercials were the best losers in the world
who did you do greece for chazzer?
sorry chazzer in reply to your question i dont know neil jarrod (eurotrucks)put me on to it its only a small team by the look of it but i have got an actros in my yard now ex bernie eclstones only 150k km and i took down an fh 12 and a fh16 that i brought last year they came from bmw sauber both minters and an ex red bull fh16 i sold to graham ball in qatar there are lots of little race teams that use specialist hauliers i seem to find these units i took a 144 530 ex owner driver called sean mc garvey down last year he pulled for bradwell motor sports or something like that it only had 57k km on it as well the old fh12 i just brought has only 470k km as well a friend of mine just brought some of the current mans of red bull all lhd minters they are out there just gota keep looking lol
keith the thief:
chazzer:
Hi Keith the thief, I did’nt work for Ray Emptage, but his brother Russell did a couple of trips for me though so maybe I do know you. Give my regards to Brian and Emma I first met him when he drove a 380 Iveco for a couple of brothers up in Walthamstow whose name escapes me maybe Brian could jog my memory, just out of interest which race team’s truck did you buy.
Regards Charlie.sorry chazzer wrong man the two brothers might have been stada international they was behind the standard pub they had a few fiat californias doing italy the warner bros worked for then as well i got that russell on astrans with us a proper snake trying to slip in to our buyers in the m east we soon put a stop to it he wont work for astrans again we all said we would pull of (6 of us) on the 1st trip he carded up grahams buyer in qatar his bro is a real good friend of mine iv gota know ya chazzer i did greece for years and iv been doing continental 31years and still at it i first me archie when he was doing ferry freightings work about 25year ago i had one of them 190 38 ivecos ex demo 26k never did pay for it lol peter colby comercials were the best losers in the world
who did you do greece for chazzer?
Kieth,
You’re right mate it was Strada (Graham Piper, an ex Copper) and yes I think both Alan and Tony did a bit for him.
Cheers, Archie.
Hullo Charlie,
I keep missing you on Skype, but I shall catch up again soon. I’m home again on Monday so probably early next week. How’s the Trailer business shaping up ? Very well I hope. Anyway I WILL catch up soon.
Hullo Kieth,
I think I met you a bit earlier than when I was on for Ferry Freighting mate. It was at Stalinborough. We were both loading chemicals for as you said Italy. The reason I remember that was because I was desperatevto get to a phone to call a bloke about som parts for my Lotus Cortina. There was no phone nearby that I could use. Then out of your cab you produced a bloody great big phone contraption, “here mate you can use this” you said, that really was a mobile, you needed a bloody handcart to carry it around. Happy days gone bye eh ? Do you still see anything of Dodgy these days ?
Cheers, Archie.
Rita no harm done mate never new you were a real film star but what the hell two much water under the bridge to worry abouty bygones lets all stay mates regards CROW
Archie didnt know you were on skype you can get me at the crow1942 , when our Tony is up to it he s going to post a load of old photos on here stay safe regards Crow
i remember it well archie you had that lovley daf never seen that grass dodge for years i got nicked with a 955 cat moving it maidstone reginal crime squad nicked me in barking. in the cell the copper told me look son we have better things to do than chasing plant around you have been grassed chose your friends more carefully then told me who i knew anyway cos that tucker from dover cid turned up turns out he had been nicked in dover for micky italian permits and no o licance and grassed me to get him self out p.s i got a not guilty lol no evidence to say i knew it was stolen scm stalling borough was the factory archie there to milan every week brain damage ha do you remember paul sapiano on ferry frating little fella out of popular i met john cameron in thailand i hadnt seen him for 15 year hadly recognised him god knows what would happen if we all met up we would need name tags lol i will have a natter when your home im doing a removal down to almeria next week than il be home
Crow
No probs just make sure your not in the middle of the road pecking at road kill when I come round the corner or some other crow will be pecking at you
Roger
keith the thief:
i remember it well archie you had that lovley daf never seen that grass dodge for years i got nicked with a 955 cat moving it maidstone reginal crime squad nicked me in barking. in the cell the copper told me look son we have better things to do than chasing plant around you have been grassed chose your friends more carefully then told me who i knew anyway cos that tucker from dover cid turned up turns out he had been nicked in dover for micky italian permits and no o licance and grassed me to get him self out p.s i got a not guilty lol no evidence to say i knew it was stolen scm stalling borough was the factory archie there to milan every week brain damage ha do you remember paul sapiano on ferry frating little fella out of popular i met john cameron in thailand i hadnt seen him for 15 year hadly recognised him god knows what would happen if we all met up we would need name tags lol i will have a natter when your home im doing a removal down to almeria next week than il be home
Hi Keith,
Do you know, now you mention it I do remember hearing something about that Cat., and I don’t think any of us could forget bloody Tucker 
Paul Sopiano yes, he was on for Ferry Freighting when I was, along with Billy Moore, R.i.P, Ronnie Evans, R.I.P, and Stewart Booth. I was in Thailand for three months late last year and earlier this year. I see your friend Graham Ball has opened a Bar / Club in Pattaya. I don’t know the bloke but I was going to go there one night with Steve Gray, who is also living out there. There you go, perhaps we should all meet up over there, I know a few more of the old school that are also living there too. I am back in the UK next Monday morning for a few months, then off again. Have a good run down to Spain and catch you later.
Cheers, Archie.
Rita this crows equipped with air to ground missiles so make sure your radar is working// Crow
Archie where are you now in UK or out .Did you know any of those drivers who worked for us Crow
Here’s one for you crow,me off the road at Tekirdag,a grader tried to pull me out of the ditch,but only succeeded in pulling off the front bumper.A Turkish army tank eventually got me out the next day,it cost me 25 quid.The truck behind is Roy Tatlock.We were on the way to Istanbul with a load of 2nd hand Massy Ferguson tractors.
Hello Keith, it was Strada int with Graham and his brother Mervyn, funny how a name jogs the memory but there were another pair of brothers who worked with them one of who was called Reg and had done time for the big M. I started doing Greece for Radclive Transport out of Faringdon in 79 then pretty much did nothing else but work for Mondial, Anglo Greek, Solar Marine and Intersped up until 1990 when I sold my Transcon to Dennis the rat and went to work in motor racing which is why I asked about the FH. I worked for Bernie in 07,08, and 09 until I moved to the States driving those Actros’s so I probably drove that one you’ve got; a bit gutless but immaculate inside, always highly maintained and polished every week. He’s just bought about 15 new ones, supposedly the first of this particular model in the uk, biggest engine and every extra available. On another note I used to reload for Ferry Freighting if I returned from Greece via Italy, did’nt know Billy Moore had died though, I must know you if you were a regular on Greek, did you do ferry or overland?
Charlie.
