Juddian, believe you’re right on peak height as 17’ would hit bridges, doh!
Had an old Hoyner van carrier too, best trailer ever. We did quite a bit of dealer swaps with Land Rovers and 4x4 into Leominster auction and it was great for that.
Never made the big money as I drove for a small Scottish outfit that paid a bit more than general but nothing like ECM etc.
I liked the variety and having to think the job through. As we got larger more work was lease cars down south and we’d sub a plate Co to do a lot of the deliveries as it worked out cheaper. That meant up and down the 74,M6,M1 twice a week and that took the fun out of it.
Munchkin:
Juddian, believe you’re right on peak height as 17’ would hit bridges, doh!
Had an old Hoyner van carrier too, best trailer ever. We did quite a bit of dealer swaps with Land Rovers and 4x4 into Leominster auction and it was great for that.
Never made the big money as I drove for a small Scottish outfit that paid a bit more than general but nothing like ECM etc.
I liked the variety and having to think the job through. As we got larger more work was lease cars down south and we’d sub a plate Co to do a lot of the deliveries as it worked out cheaper. That meant up and down the 74,M6,M1 twice a week and that took the fun out of it.
Well recalled Munchkin, i’d quite forgotten we used to run around with the top deck down at loading position so the peak would have been at full height, obviously we must have known the height exactly cos there were journeys where even empty you’d have to level the deck to bring the peak down to running height.
For those not there, running with the peak as high as poss meant it would swing clear over the top of traffic lights that it would hit if it were at loaded running height 
Just recalled a gem from those days, one of my old workmates was more hopeless than me which is saying a lot, he’d not long had a peaked artic and was struggling to get round an island (Stoke rings a bell), catches the post that was causing the issue and brings it down complete with cables, drives over the debris which is still shorting out and buggers off…what time of day was that i hear you ask? Midnight? 3am?, about 8.30 in the morn with traffic everywhere…that cost him lots of £olly and lots of points 
Brighton used to be fun and games with a peaked artic, especially with a 407 estate up there. Either Pug or Citreon at Huntingdon was a blast, down a drag, left at a set of lights, loads of room but traffic in the left turn would be sitting under the swing of the peak as you went round. I’ve seen a few transit drivers go pale when it suddenly went dark for a second, they never quite twigged if the peak was low enough to hit them there would be nowt of me left above the knees.
I was a relief man so swapped from artics to wag and drag every week, biggest headache wasn’t the 9 and 10 drags, it was hopping from an 11+ to a 12+, I usually sussed it right about when it came to shift deck 1 