Good for you yungnad. I agree with everything you said there. Which is unusual for me. All these funny terms like logistics trucker etc. I was a lorry driver and proud of it. Everything seems to be plastic and tacky. Mind you any nippers reading this will say silly old ■■■■■■■■ Perhaps they are right. I feel better now. 
thanks for that charlie one,
gotta hit the sack shortly. weve got a country to run, i take my turn at 04.00,
but remember, if you got it a wagon brought it,(york trailers circa 1974)
or drive carefully daddy (ici petrol tankers circa 1960)
an any other slogan i cant remember,
bye yungnad 
charlie one:
Good for you yungnad. I agree with everything you said there. Which is unusual for me. All these funny terms like logistics trucker etc. I was a lorry driver and proud of it. Everything seems to be plastic and tacky. Mind you any nippers reading this will say silly old [zb]. Perhaps they are right. I feel better now.
Me too,Charlie and yungnad.Can’t do with “logistics” and “trucks”,they’ll either be lorries or wagons to me.It might be old-fashioned to some of the young 'uns,but they can please thersens.
Rayt,off to bed!
I like Haulage & Transport better then Logistics.
The first company I worked for was known as the Humber Carting Agency 
Not a logistika among them 
The one that amuses me is “The Shore Porters Society” from Aberdeen,supposedly the oldest haulage company in the UK.
No “logistics” there either.
I remember the “Humber Carting Agency” Wheelnut,didn’t it eventually become the well-known Humber Mcveigh?
Showing me age now.
Saw a Shore Porters Society wagon and drag today by a strange coincidence Chris.As you know I don’t get out a lot. Matron says it’s not good for me.What does she know. Another one. Highland Haulage.Not a logistic in sight.
charlie one:
Saw a Shore Porters Society wagon and drag today by a strange coincidence Chris.As you know I don’t get out a lot. Matron says it’s not good for me.What does she know. Another one. Highland Haulage.Not a logistic in sight.
.“Heeland Haulage”,now there’s an old name like yer man from Peterheed 
-Sutherland.
Wincanton spent a fortune on re-liverying some of their trailers from “distribution” to bloody "logistics and being a shunter I was expected to keep track and hold back any that required “logistics” pasted on “in case any of the senior management see them when they’re out in their cars on Wincanton business”.Of course you got rid of any you found at night when senior managers were in kip -as usual,off-loading 'em to Chippenham,Milton Keynes,Manchester and East Kilbride.
“Logistics”-another term we’ve inherited from across the watter.
Got to go Charlie,nurse is here in stocking tops and me medication,might get tipped soon.
Even Stobart has changed from haulage to logistics on their livery
Spardo:
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And another - R A H Transporters Darlington.
Also H & L Workington and North Lincs Haulage Scunthorpe formed C.L.S I think.Used to meet em on the old A18 with steel plate hanging over and a bit of a marker boardheading West early in a morning.Bad news in winter when sun was in yer eyes heading east especially where road narrowed under railway bridge near the Two Rivers Cafe
at Crowle.Thompsons took that plot over when cafe shut. CLS were running Big J’s then,a mucky blue colour.
RAH used to specialise in long extendable trailers I seem to remember.
Wasn’t CLS (Consolidated Land Services) formed to foil a long strike at North Lincs Haulage? Mucky blue and cream as I recall, Big Js, whereas N.Lincs had a lot of Invincibles.
I often used to load back out of Thompsons, loved it, no handball, wet ropes and sheets, just a couple of chains after a bit of a wait and off you go.
Which Thompsons?
georgeking:
[Which Thompsons?
Crowle, sort of reddy brown colour as I recall.
That’s the Thompson David,orange/red colour and ran a lot of Volvos IIRC.They were taken over by W.H.Martin from Brigg apparantly.
RAH Darlington did run a lot of extendable trailers George.I once rang 'em for a backload but my 6-legger wasn’t long enough. Spinks Interfreight was another from that neck of the woods doing similar work.
Don’t remember about a strike at North Lincs but CLS on Grange Lane was a big company running tankers as well(Tanker Hire).Not sure if they are still going but I seem to think they had a big place at Immingham - like a freight terminal - on the right running in towards the docks.
borrowed these of clas com hope they dont mind
I’ve got to say that I agree fully with Charlie, Chris and the others when it comes to what gets called what. One good one was UCC. Which was the Union Cartage Company Ltd. cartage being the operative word. For that was what they did, cart things around. I have been owner or co-owner of more than one company and only the word transport or haulage was ever in the title of any of them. I have never bought a truck in my life but I have bought several lorries in my time. I was always told never to trust a company with the word ‘trucking’ in the title as there is a definite stigma about it. It’s a sure sign of here today gone tomorrow and no payment !
Logistics ? Is’nt that the term that the army uses for moving troops and equipment from place to place. Best left to them then !
As for us, we haul, carry,cart and transport and never logistic or truck anything anywhere.
Some photos have been removed as there may be a copyright issue
CLS was taken over by PD Logistic. Yes got a place on the right just before you go on to the dock at Immingham
grahamA:
CLS was taken over by PD Logistic. Yes got a place on the right just before you go on to the dock at Immingham
anyone got any photos of cls
yungnad:
hi, ive hit 50 and a drivers son so heres a few from the memory banks, it may not look like it by todays comparisons, but these are what impressed me and made me want to drive also,
johnston brothers (gilcrux) ltd
h & l workington
c l s scunthorpe
watts of carlisle
elliots of haltwhistle
thistle transport
stampers of penrith
grahams of bass lake
burn bros
brunskill
golightly group
Mc kelvies
donnans (quo vadis)
pandora
hercock and simpson
united carriers
siddle cook
vaux
camerons
tennant
forth
i c i petrol (drive carefully daddy) on the back
blue atkis with powys on the door
you read a lot about old atkis and erfs but what about guy invincible or big j
and same for the europeans how about a merc 1418, or 1924 lps well ahead of its time,
well gotta go filling up, bye yungnad
blue atki’s with powys on the door were Roberts transport from my hometown of knighton. they probably had a fleet of 20 borderers
Tennant of Forth, think their still running.
Popeye had a yard in East Whitburn in West Lothian which is now Robert Wisemans (I think, so long ago)
hi atki dave,
i can remember the atkis when they used to backload out of chapel bank at workington, they used to carry the ingots and bottom plates from the moulding
works of bsc, some of them weighed 21.5 ton, i was explaining this to a newby driver, an he reckoned i had got the engine size wrong,“no mate you cant mean a 180 hp engine, cos i took my test on a 7.5 an it had a 185 in, so they wouldnt put a 180 in a artic”, aww poor lad i didnt even try him on david brown an eatons,
i learned to drive in chapel bank, johnstons shunter had a d reg seddon, then he got a d reg merc 1418 with a bonnet on, what a pig, but a improvement on
the seddon, it was a ex ancliffes tanker nicknamed sidney the seddon,
do you remember j w graham from up our way, they ran some tidy atkis.
bye yungnad