Hi Bob just a few photos i don,t think i,ve posted before
toothpick johnny:
Hi Bob just a few photos i don,t think i,ve posted before
x hercock motor mate 
Nice one John !!!
Yes Dreva hercocks and they sold it with the name on and keith sold it with the name on and then they asked me to take the name off. ok i filled up near the footballers and the man said plus i said what [ pause ] pardon he said i said yes just take the micky card as always. most of that is a joke [ you work out which part ]
i will try mate 
bob 2 i picked up from george in the philippines last year hope they work regards alan
yes my unit after the other name came off and maybe before i had the big tank fitted with snap ons
red yes what shade you want
Hi Fellas.
I discovered this site by accident last week and have been captivated by it ever since. I do have some photos to put up (When I read up on how to do it) and have lot of memories from my stints of international work between 1988 and 19…whenever it was they done away with customs! (thats when I lost interest in it!)
I mainly did Italy for subcontractors on Ferry Freighting, but also did some work for Leggetts while working for KG Farrow & Son of Enfield. (Where I used to live.)
The first company I did european haulage for was Ashline Trucking of Chadwell St Mary Essex. (Same yard as BW Rogers & Cowards and just up the road from Martintrux) Ashline was run by a guy with a volatile temper called Colin Jarrett. (and he still owes me a weeks wages! 
) However, at least he gave me a start at European work, which I was finding harder to get than finding a job after first passing my class one! But still, you don’t mess with people’s money!
Another compnay I worked for was…well, when I first started for them they were called ‘Camion Express International’ (Needham Market), but before that had been East Anglian Transport of Clacton, then Marwood Uk of Little Bromley, Colchester, and a year after I started became Eurotrans of Manningtree. This was all run by a guy called Micky Hearn. His Brother used to run CJ Transport as well.
We used to do a lot of work for MAT Transport out of West Thurrock delivering to their Italian counterpart Saima mainly at Turin and Linate airport and also for Ferry Freighting out of Dagenham.
The Ferry Freighting work I preferred most even though you could end up with a ‘wine groupage’ back load. This could be anything up to a dozen collections of wine from small vinyards situated in the most hideaway places you could find. If you didn’t have the ‘Atlanta Stradale’ (Think thats what it was called) which was an excellent Italian mapbook that listed every town village you didnt have a chance!
I once tipped in Ancona only to be given six collections that stretched right down the adriatic coast with the last one at copertino south of Lecce! (Right inside the 'heel of the boot of Italy!)
The names I remember on the ferry Freighting work are: Bournebridge Transport (Colin Clift, Stewart Atkinson. Jack, another Colin and Mark Pattern) Kevin Eastwell (I think?) who had his own unit in Ferry Freighting colours, Ferry’s one and only driver at that time Billy Moore (Bill only had two interest when I knew him-wine and beer! ) and owner drivers Dave Stanway, Paul Sapiano and Gerry who had a black and Gold American White Truck
All of these people were great blokes who would never see you broke down or in trouble. Real old school drivers, the likes of which don’t seem to be around anymore.
I will add more on at a later stage. If anyone remebers these names and knows what they are up to now, I love to hear. Photos to follow soon.
Testing to see if the ‘pic’ link works!
Ashline Trucking 142 Scania.
Here you go Radders! Sorry about the picture quality
Early morning in Carisio & some git cut Billys fuel pipes coz he left his air con running overnight.
The lad in the centre was called Marmite but cannot remember who he was on for!
Late Sunday night after leaving the Pub at Bourg at 10pm & Colin looses an injector pipe at Belley 
The only time i ever got me camera out whilst on McKellars was when someone broke down
about 3 times a week then!
Ashline’s 142 (Driven by me) and 141 still in Unitruc colours and piloted by Mick McCandless
My Eurotrans Scania waiting to unload Woods of Colchester Industrial Fans at Grenoble. I then ran empty over Mont Genevre to load Tesco’s cheapest wine out of Asti!
Waiting to load at Modena with Ferry Freighting tilt on. (Probably the best trailer we had at the time! 
)
When the water running down the mountain freezes…you know its bloody cold!!! -22 If I remember rightly!
Helping Nigel of Falcongate get his cab up to fix a diesel leak at Jayat! His cab pump didnt work!
jacko22:
Here you go Radders! Sorry about the picture quality
Early morning in Carisio & some git cut Billys fuel pipes coz he left his air con running overnight.
The lad in the centre was called Marmite but cannot remember who he was on for!
Late Sunday night after leaving the Pub at Bourg at 10pm & Colin looses an injector pipe at Belley
The only time i ever got me camera out whilst on McKellars was when someone broke down
about 3 times a week then!
Aah, Colin Clift… What a brilliant guy this bloke is. I first encountered him on the old road from Frejus to Turin where we had an Ashline Trucking Mercedes twin steer towing a clutchless Scania 142 to Novara, but the Numpty in the Merc (Not me! I was in the 142) has ran out of diesel! (We had towed it all the way from Valence in France, over Mont Genevre and into Italy like that! with a tilt as well!-All because Colin Jarrat (The boss) knew Aldo the fitter in Novara and thought it would be cheaper to get it fixed in Italy)
Anyway, the local police turned up doing their pieces and Clifty who had stopped to help, calmed him down, found some more diesel, bled the Merc, then had to tow start it and then followed us to Turin services to make sure were ok. I then sat in his cab with him for an hour drinking coffee before he cracked on (The next day was a national holiday and therefore lorry ban) to make his customs point. I got to know him better a few years later when I was doing Ferry’s work and always had time to stop and have a chat with him. I doubt if you’d get that kind of help these days. 
Another one of Micky Hearns trucks. I used to drive this before I swapped it for…
This! Yes, I know it was several years older, but I found out that he was paying an extra £50 a trip to those driving trucks that had no repayments on them! A sort of incentive to get the drivers to drive the older trucks. You’ll be surprised at how many turned down the extra £50 to get a newer motor!!! 
When he asked why I wanted to swap trucks, my exact answer was ‘coz I’m not buying your poxy lorry for you, I’d rather have the extra cash!’ He just laughed and said ‘fair enough mate, swap your gear over!’
keep them coming boys great pics
My first ever run abroad in the Ashline Trucking Mercedes…
delivering to here! I then reloaded out of Europa in Paris.
bob some cracking photos needs a reply
bob hows Vic now saw him at south ockendon 2 years pass. along with Ronnie H ah the longon still wind the seat up on a 110 to make himself look taller, not that i ever did that
Is Colin Jarrett still in the job?
I drove that 142 intercooler for a bit after I flogged him some of my permit allocation…
[packed it up then got talked into doing trips for people]
He had a Daf wagon and drag and a couple of Scanias at the time.
dashman:
Is Colin Jarrett still in the job?I drove that 142 intercooler for a bit after I flogged him some of my permit allocation…
[packed it up then got talked into doing trips for people]He had a Daf wagon and drag and a couple of Scanias at the time.
Haven’t heard his name connected with anyone or anything for ages. With the amount of people he knocked and p*ssed off, he probably moved away from Essex years ago!
Hi all glad to see my thread is still getting attention did not think
for one minute when i started it that it would be looked at so much and thank’s
to all who have added photo’s and storie’s to make it such a well read thread.
i dont seem to get the time at the moment to put more stuff on but with the winter coming
im sure i will find some time to get on here more, most of you i will see in December at Turbo’s
dont it come round quick i mean blimey im 60 this year where the hell has it gone?
this year a good friend passed away Bill (wheel’s) Abraham’s he was a good driver and
those of us who knew him will miss him that guy could make a Scania sing haha
Billy sorry i ain’t been in touch but i dont handle that sorta stuff to well nowaday’s
and we have had my brother in law die recently which ain’t helped.
well i hope all you diesel jockey’s are well and still trucking, well those who still can that is LMFAO,
hope to see you all soon and let’s Crack on to Macon.
one of my first ever european runs was fans from woods of colchester, i was working for n c cammack at the time and they did all the trane work from earls colne to france etc and were trying to get in at woods, i went to koln for them, loved every minute of it!
keep them coming please!