Blood, Sweat and Broken China (the Removals thread)

I know its a working truck but he just laughted and said its not my truck , then moans about wages so low .

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Hi Jakey

Since being stopped driving I have to rely, often, on busses. Travelling to Newcastle the last two weeks I have cringed when the Ariva Double Decker I am on bangs through a strong tree’s branches on the near side. It is at a point where he is joining the A1M at Birtley and some fools from the Highways agency have put down bollards, for no apparent reason and poor devil, he has no choice as the tree branch is unavoidable to the high bus and no doubt the paint on the nearside will suffer.In fact I sometimes wonder if a side window will not crack as the noise is so loud.

Our good drivers always cut back straying branches with saws where they could not tie them back on narrow lanes and driveways, but for every good one you have two not so good and it used to annoy me when I saw scrapes and marks on the nearside top of vans we had.

Have Robinsons changed their livery to blue and white instead of blue and grey, or is it just a trick of light on this photo. If they haven’t perhaps they should as it certainly looks better.

Carl

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Hi Carl, I think its still grey carl ,i will find out , if it is white it wont be for long as the white will turn grey with dirt .

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I tend to give this company some Scotland work .

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Here are two photos of Camp Hopsons vans

JAKEY:
Not anice view at 5pm

Views like that fair makes your heart sink…

JAKEY:
Now thats a better view at 5pm . thats me looking fatttttt on the left with my part timer "donkey dillion " donkey is available to work Mondays and tuesdays but can change the days if he wants with his full time job company with a moments notice , very handy on busy days , only problem is he cant carry and talk ,its one or the other that is very frustrating when your in a hurry .

“problem is he cant carry and talk”

Haha , I know exactly what you mean. One of our regular porters liked a chat, especially with the ladies.

Thanks Carl, Jakey, Cold up north and others for occasionally giving this thread a kick-start, afraid I’ve been a bit slack with it recently so it was nice to see it near the top of the pile when I logged on.

Here is a loverly photo of four of Gardners

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Nice fleet line up , I do not recall Gardners though ! where were they based ?

JAKEY:
Nice fleet line up , I do not recall Gardners though ! where were they based ?

says High Wycombe on that ford

I didnot see that , god knows how I missed it .

JAKEY:
:oops: I didnot see that , god knows how I missed it .

and you do surveys…What are you like mate?? lol

Here is a nice van from Five Oceans

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jdc:

JAKEY:
:oops: I didnot see that , god knows how I missed it .

and you do surveys…What are you like mate?? lol

Oops!

Here are three photos from Hornsley’s Stafford

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Two of Luckers

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Hi Carl , five oceans is a new firm around Oxford with plenty of overseas removals , not had to quote against them as far as I know ,Lukers motors do plenty of mileage in there life time as they do lots of Swiss moves .They started with one truck with Mr Luker himself ,dad knew him very well and he lived well in to his 90s and only6 passing away about two years ago .