hi greek
i have just noticed the times of your posts, all early hours 
do you suffer from insomnia or maybe work nights 
regards
Hi Greek, I was lucky, I never had a Seddon Atkinson. In1986 I would have had a Daf.
Happy days,
Regards Old Bill
iamupforit:
hi greek
i have just noticed the times of your posts, all early hoursdo you suffer from insomnia or maybe work nights
regards
yep nightshift out & back for Elddis out of SCA Prudhoe home every day usualy get finished early hrs
Just say remember the Dafs bill
Somebody mentioned the Tea job earlier in the post I remember when you used to pick it up, now most of it comes in Port of Tyne & Elddis run it down to Eaglescliffe & do the Haulage out of Aycliffe but Tetleys warehouse staff at Aycliffe have all just got 90 days notice & I have heard that its supposed to all go down to somewhere in the Manchester area
Hi Kenny, thanks for the info on OPT 900D, it was yellow when I had it.
Greek, If you pick this up, Mickey the Pole was, and still is, Hungarian.
Regards Old Bill
hi there bill
how are you, have you any ideas on this lad from chester le street whom i am trying to remember
your memory was always rather good
regards
Hi Alan, Been looking through my old union book, and three names come up but I can not remember where they lived.
John Milburn,C.Smiles, and P.Stephenson. You may be able to remember.
Regards Old Bill
iamupforit:
hi ronnie
no, it was not jimmy wynn, the driver i am thinking of had the similar motor to kevin dale
they were 2 d800 s with side boards on, this lad was short and stocky with dark hair and lived
chester le st way, he fell off work and i took his motor for what i thought would be a short time but lasted over 3 months, when he came back i was given a thames trader which they had taken the box off and made into a flat but only 16 foot long, it used to fly
on the m1 at barnsley and got the sack, when the artic was eventually repaired and put back on the
road they gave it to me
the name dennis keeps coming to mind but i am not sure
regards
Hi I remember that accident with BUP587B, but can’t think of the drivers name. He said he bent down to pick a paper off the floor and ran into the back of a tipper. John Bell got that motor new, he was highjacked at the Bloody Oaks cafe.John was locked up in a hoppickers hut in Kent, the motor was later found in a layby, sheets folded properly and fastend on the trailer.The speedo clock had been smashed. I can’t remember what the load was. Regards Ken
hi bill
thanks for looking, i know all three you mention but they are all from the later period ie; 80s
i am trying to remember as far back as 1970 doh!!
i am sure kennyjohnson will come up with a name
regards
hell kenny!! must have been posting at the same time 
regards
Dents first 8 wheeler UUP 762 loaded with Ringtons tea.Its first load was 15 ton of Armstrong Cork and topped off in the warehouse with 10 ton of carpets.Rodger had it new. It has a Birmingham office number on the front
kennyjohnson:
Dents first 8 wheeler UUP 762 loaded with Ringtons tea.Its first load was 15 ton of Armstrong Cork and topped off in the warehouse with 10 ton of carpets.Rodger had it new. It has a Birmingham office number on the front
wow kenny!!! do you mean 25 ton payload on that motor 
regards
iamupforit:
kennyjohnson:
Dents first 8 wheeler UUP 762 loaded with Ringtons tea.Its first load was 15 ton of Armstrong Cork and topped off in the warehouse with 10 ton of carpets.Rodger had it new. It has a Birmingham office number on the frontwow kenny!!! do you mean 25 ton payload on that motor
regards
Yes!!! They kept loading till it went down on the springs. Rodger had some foam rubber on the bonnet and it melted on Regards Ken
As someone mentioned earlier, John Henry always said, he was restricted on width, restricted on length, but as long as it fitted under a bridge, it was his.
Dents first motor YPT59 with the fibreglass cab.these motors were doing 3 trips Darlington to Bristol a week with 20tons of sugar.32mph no motorways, no bypasses,Two of them were on a add. for Atkinson Vehicals loaded with sugar. Photo taken outside the London depot Crooked Billet pub on the corner.
great photos kenny, 
the pic at the bottom of the first page of 617 BPT, any idea where it was taken,
looks a little like the street where the garston diner was 
regards
Mick the Hungarion yep when he worked for Wrights everyone called him (Uno) because of the way he spoke nearly always started with the phrase, You Know
Somebody else mentioned Kenny Smith is that the same kenny that worked for Jacky Copeland last time I saw him he was driving 7.5 t then I heard he lost a leg few yrs back haven`t heard much since but thats the downside of nightshift & the job these days , no crack
hi kenny greek
yes, your right on both counts, mick is still about and working until recently (over 70 +)
and kenny smith is still around but minus a leg 
regards
iamupforit:
hi kenny greekyes, your right on both counts, mick is still about and working until recently (over 70 +)
and kenny smith is still around but minus a leg
regards
was dents known as prouds before becoming dents
regards
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was dents known as prouds before becoming dents
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hello there
they were indeed, i dont know the complete history but i am sure there will
be someone on here who can fill in any details
regards alan
iamupforit:
regards
was dents known as prouds before becoming dents
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hello there
they were indeed, i dont know the complete history but i am sure there will
be someone on here who can fill in any details
regards alan
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im sure my grandfather barty holmes who worked for prouds told me it become prouds,also think jock murdoch aka black arab was another employee