Buzzer:
fte:
jonny , did you sell the horse box ?.FT no no no no yes paid for gone went to carmarthen to look at replacement but no good terrible traffic on way home ■■■■■■■ down and every body thinks they and themselves have the devine right to stay in the middle lane time for you to fix the forklift to the frount of my disco fte to get the buggers out the way i hate driving anywhere over here.
what you need is helicoptor, i’m sure you could arrange it in the company budget.
Buzzer:
mappo:
Here,s one for you HorrieWithout going back through all the previous pages i dunno if this has been put on before or not.
From left to right…Andy ‘gooj’ Andrews, a young horrie and Brian Paling.
I,ll let you explain Buzzer why the red Volvo.
I think Horry is the only one to explain that Tone he’s got an amazing memory for detail especially drivers lets see if he knows.
Good evening. October 1993 FH ride and drive courtesy of then Princes Commercials. Was held at Cobham test track at the top of the M3. Buzzer had by then already had a go round the track in Sweden. Can hardly believe it was nearly twenty years ago. 1st Jan 1994 marked the first ever FH’s into our fleet. We had four in one sitting. L11 GEL (Kwozzy) / L22 GEL (Shaun Downs from Coventry, formerly Harry Mason) / L33 GEL Cockney Mark / L44 GEL Dave Morgan ‘The Organ’.
Amongst others from Southampton to take one from Princes Soton at the start were: BKG / AS Rawlings / STS / BYTR / Kawasaki /TranIHT / GH Lucking sorry if I missed anyone. The early ones had a ‘computer’ display rather than dials as standard and I remember correctly, they would give an inaccurate reading of fuel levels remaining all the time (20% meant virtually empty!!) Still think the first attempt with the FH was the best by a long shot, with the exception to the introduction of the ‘XL’ cab in 1996.
You see fte i knew horry would remember i did not go to that day as Horry said i had been treated to a trip to Sweden courtesy of Volvo it was for thee days flew from birmingham they did two batches in one week southern England then northern about 50 of us on each sitting must have cost a fortune for Volvo but they treated us well.
The FH i drove in Sweden was a waggon and drag fully loaded with timber at 60tonnes gross and was awsome. Another Mary Hopkin moment. (those were the days my friends)
Near the bottom of page one so heres one from the early years me and my first driver Stan Matthews some where in europe dont know where. In those days the trucks had names and these two were “The Incredible Hulk” i surpose cos it was green and “yanky Doodle Dandy”
Buzzer:
Near the bottom of page one so heres one from the early years me and my first driver Stan Matthews some where in europe dont know where. In those days the trucks had names and these two were “The Incredible Hulk” i surpose cos it was green and “yanky Doodle Dandy”
Oops forgot pics here they are.
Buzzer:
Hey Tone i thought we had engine brakes put on them daf’s
Hi John
I worked for you around that time and remember the DAFs being fitted with the engine brake. The first couple of installations had a dodgy looking switch by the ■■■ lighter but that was later changed for a proper DAF switch.
They performed nearly as well as the Volvo brake and worked in a similar way when you lifted off the throttle.
Although i never had a DAF full time you gave me a polo shirt with brake company logo on and IIRC didn’t they come from the Chichester area.
Still one if the most enjoyable jobs I’ve had.
Cheers
Neilf
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Hi Neil how goes it with you . we did have the engine brakes fitted and i think the company came from Shoreham , we had to get it cleared with DAF so as the warranty was not effected. It was acopy of an jake brake as fitted to ■■■■■■■ engines and i thought they worked quite well. Any way its nice to here from you keep in touch regards John (buzzer)
Buzzer:
Andrew Morrison:
Buzzer:
Hori in the background of the DAF washin downobviously didn’t like his first job,rarely seen with a brush in his hands these days!!!
Andrew that was a five year apprentiship but hes still the best truck washer meticulus springs to mind. he’ll be gutted today after the 2 all draw with pompy and hes got to face Trevor on monday.
Hi John,Hori said if you get him a new brush he would be on that wash like a flash or something like that,well it was before 10am regards Andrew 
Andrew Morrison:
Buzzer:
Andrew Morrison:
Buzzer:
Hori in the background of the DAF washin downobviously didn’t like his first job,rarely seen with a brush in his hands these days!!!
Andrew that was a five year apprentiship but hes still the best truck washer meticulus springs to mind. he’ll be gutted today after the 2 all draw with pompy and hes got to face Trevor on monday.
Hi John,Hori said if you get him a new brush he would be on that wash like a flash or something like that,well it was before 10am
Hi Andrew as most of the family know its not wise to talk to Hori till after midday. The flash bit was him dissapeering into the warehouse i think.
After wknd in stockyard loaded turf in a field nr scunthorpe for Cap D’Antibes,Mr Abramaviche’s chateau
Bloody hell Andrew, what temperature was that run at then ■■? 
Come on Tone; You told me that you knew every thing,I agree it might have been over a few carajilios(that would have been you I would have been on agua con gas)… 
mappo:
Bloody hell Andrew, what temperature was that run at then ■■?
Mappo it was at plus 20c and andrew had to stop for a 45 south of Paris to mow it.
Mappo good morning. Ignore buzzer he is being silly. We did not have to mow it south of Paris as due to LEZ restrictions, you cannot use a Qualcast petrol jobbie without paying €200 euros per day emission charge. Andrew threw a bottle of Scotch over it so it came up ‘Half Cut’ TTFN ■■
neilf:
Buzzer:
Hey Tone i thought we had engine brakes put on them daf’s
Hi John
I worked for you around that time and remember the DAFs being fitted with the engine brake. The first couple of installations had a dodgy looking switch by the ■■■ lighter but that was later changed for a proper DAF switch.
They performed nearly as well as the Volvo brake and worked in a similar way when you lifted off the throttle.
Although i never had a DAF full time you gave me a polo shirt with brake company logo on and IIRC didn’t they come from the Chichester area.
Still one if the most enjoyable jobs I’ve had.
Cheers
Neilf
Alright Naz, how’s it going shag? The company in Shoreham was called ‘Smart Brake’
Horry:
Mappo good morning. Ignore buzzer he is being silly. We did not have to mow it south of Paris as due to LEZ restrictions, you cannot use a Qualcast petrol jobbie without paying €200 euros per day emission charge. Andrew threw a bottle of Scotch over it so it came up ‘Half Cut’ TTFN ■■
Mappo now you know who’s the king off silly. By the way it is amazing what we have koaded in a fridge over the years, i remember when we were doing loads to Bosnia for JSL out of Stoke one day Geordi Billy loaded two scorpian tanks in a fridge , he said there was only an inch each side to play with and an 18 year old swaddy put them in there with the guidence of his mate. That was the only time we saw Billy tanked up ! ! ( sorry )
Hi Buzzer and everyone keeping this thread alive.
Great to see this thread going and what a great read it is.
Nice to see you have still got your finger on the pulse John, how are you ?.
When I can remember how to post photos back on here I’ll try and put some on of me and “mini who”. he’s 21 this year.
I don’t get on line very much (well not on these sites), but will be looking in again soon . All the best to all of you.
Paul.
shady:
Come on Tone; You told me that you knew every thing,I agree it might have been over a few carajilios(that would have been you I would have been on agua con gas)…
Sssssshhhhhh Shady…dont let Buzzer hear you say that.
Buzzer:
mappo:
Bloody hell Andrew, what temperature was that run at then ■■?Mappo it was at plus 20c and andrew had to stop for a 45 south of Paris to mow it.
Hilarious Buzzer.
Horry:
Mappo good morning. Ignore buzzer he is being silly. We did not have to mow it south of Paris as due to LEZ restrictions, you cannot use a Qualcast petrol jobbie without paying €200 euros per day emission charge. Andrew threw a bottle of Scotch over it so it came up ‘Half Cut’ TTFN ■■
Brilliant Horry…very witty.
On a serious note, regarding the engine brakes on the Dafs, when Axle and me had the first two Dafs they definitey did,nt
have them on.
If you remember i left shortly after having R88 GEL , so they must have been fitted later.
Talking about loads in fridges i think i may have mentioned this before,but here goes anyway.
In the infancy of doing fridgework for you Buzzer, i shipped out of Dover with hanging Beef from Tadworth to Rungis and Brest,
re loaded from St Jean De Pol with Cauli,s for Munich and then loaded from Deventer in Holland with hanging Pork for Madrid.
I then ran down to Murcia area for fruit but because of bad weather could,nt get a load, so loaded roof tiles from nr. Murcia to
somewhere near Cannes i think it was. I then loaded tomatoes from Marseilles to two drops in Germany ( cant recall where )
and then finally loaded Pineapples from Antwerp back to the UK where i had a full strip out at Dover customs, when they drilled holes
into the inside fridge walls checking for drugs. They obviously thought i looked a bit dodgy.
Now i know that later we did loads of three legged work, but that was a six legger. Is that a Davies record ■■?
That probabley is a record Tone. When they drilled them holes in that frigo you wuzzent wearin them short black shorts black socks and sandles wuzz you?
