Dan Punchard:
Not sheeted to usual standard is it though ?
Does the N/S look any better then Dan? 
Dennis.
Lawrence Dunbar:
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I think this load of ours could have come up from Llanwern Larry,but I’m not 100% sure.Cheers Dennis
PS this shot should set the “Rope over the fly sheet Mob” off. 
It’s a scania ,what can I say ? I know ,ERF c series would look better ,get digging Dennis.
Lawrence Dunbar:
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This is a late '70’s shot of our T37 Larry,no I’m not comparing Jakeys lettering with ours 
But this T37 of ours was an oddball as it had obviously been built for a double drive unit because it had one hell of a long neck which isn’t just evident on this shot.It was a near new Crane Fruehauf I bought when I was struggling to get new ones at that time because of demand.Once the supply of new CF 40footers eased in late '77/78 I sold it to a lad who ran a long Scania 6 wheel unit,he was like a dog with two tails,it was just what he wanted,but I was afraid it was an accident waiting to happen with us how it never went up on it’s nose I’ll never know 
Cheers Dennis.
Dan Punchard:
It’s a scania ,what can I say ? I know ,ERF c series would look better ,get digging Dennis.
How are these 3 new B series for you Dan 2 sleepers, and a day cab in the background,standing on the park at Milnthorpe waiting to go for painting and lettering prior to going into service.Cheers Dennis.
GREAT ,a blue trim ■■■■■■■ is the ONLY vehicle I would swap my current E series for.
A load of Bleached Kraft reels ex Blyth for our local Mill,Henry Cooke,where they will be cut up for re-pulping and re-manufactured as new paper.The Finns and Swedes used to occaisionally “dump” finished product into the UK at times and then when they couldn’t sell it they would reduce the price to that of woodpulp but only sell the reels to a few select Mills as they did not want these reels coming onto the market via “spurious” means and sold as the finished product i.e. finest quality Bleached Kraft which at a knock down price the the paper bag and food packaging firms would have jumped at it 
So it was always a somewhat touchy job,but it always seemed a crying shame to me,after all, the paper had been made to a top spec only to be re-pulped for the “first life” fibre.So,thats why we didn’t fly sheet these reels but just treat them the same as woodpulp loads,as long as they were kept clean and not get any road film ■■■■■ on them. 
Nice load and a nice job,well done that man 
Sometime in the mid '70’s
Same depot a number of years later with the Tautliners standing in the same position as the sheeted trailers,except facing in the reverse direction.Sign of the times I suppose the only difference being the massive increase in capital expenditure for no more return on the bottom line 
What kind of time saving was there mr berwick ,I should image quite a lot but they don’t look as good as a sheeted and roped load,and think of all the single malt u must have bought with the money you saved on sheets 
Bewick:
Sometime in the mid '70’s
Evening Dennis this photo of the flat trailers parked in the yard looks a lot more interesting than the next one full of curtainsiders,but thats just my oppinion .Where i work at joda we have about a dozen flats and stepframes but with all this health and safety stuff we now have to put a safety rail round the trailers when empty ,crazy .I,ll photo one and post it on here.cheers Richard.
scud:
Bewick:
Sometime in the mid '70’sEvening Dennis this photo of the flat trailers parked in the yard looks a lot more interesting than the next one full of curtainsiders,but thats just my oppinion .Where i work at joda we have about a dozen flats and stepframes but with all this health and safety stuff we now have to put a safety rail round the trailers when empty ,crazy .I,ll photo one and post it on here.cheers Richard.
Aye Richard,sights like that are long gone never to re-appear .They’ve been replaced by hordes of curtainsiders which more-or-less makes every firm look the same,a bit like the “snow on the garden syndrome”,your garden is kept immaculate but next doors is all weeds etc.but when it snows they both look alike eh! Cheers Dennis.
Telekonsteve:
What kind of time saving was there mr berwick ,I should image quite a lot but they don’t look as good as a sheeted and roped load,and think of all the single malt u must have bought with the money you saved on sheets
I can assure you TKS that the saving we made on sheets didn’t make the slightest dent into the capital cost of the Tautliners 
Admittedly there was a time saving element when loading and unloading but we didn’t do anymore work with the Tautliners than we did with the flats but I am not promoting sheeting and roping as a better option,far from it! But prior to the advent of Bo-Alloy Tautliners the flat platform was the way 90% of all loads were moved so the skill had to be aquired by drivers and many were masters of the craft,and some were always ■■■■■■■ useless and no matter how they tried (if they could be bothered that is) never mastered the skill Cheers Mr. B-E-W-I-C-K.
That’s a classic example of how times change mr bewick, there I’ve disarmed the spell checker and please except my humble apologies
Bewick:
Telekonsteve:
What kind of time saving was there mr berwick ,I should image quite a lot but they don’t look as good as a sheeted and roped load,and think of all the single malt u must have bought with the money you saved on sheetsI can assure you TKS that the saving we made on sheets didn’t make the slightest dent into the capital cost of the Tautliners
Hear hear Dennis it’s all about pride in the job and in my opinion the prides long gone
Your right about the expence of these new trailers but then theres what it costs to maintain them ripped curtains damaged front corners bent rear doors i could go on,we ,ll,spend hour a week repairing curtains and then the internal straps usually ripped out by forklift drivers, theres no pride anymore because everones in a big hurry years ago we got on and did the job but there was always time to help each other provided you coud do the job.Most areas had there own traffic with us it was mainly wool but you had to be able to load anything on your return load if there was no wool.One of the thing was though you had to be careful what you used your wool sheets for because they had to be kept clean and if you ripped them there was hell to pay when you got back.I .m just looking out of the front room window now and it,s pi…ing it down and dark how many times have we been out on nights like this ropping and sheeting then driving home wet through ,the good old days eh. cheer,s Richard.
scud:
Your right about the expence of these new trailers but then theres what it costs to maintain them ripped curtains damaged front corners bent rear doors i could go on,we ,ll,spend hour a week repairing curtains and then the internal straps usually ripped out by forklift drivers, theres no pride anymore because everones in a big hurry years ago we got on and did the job but there was always time to help each other provided you coud do the job.Most areas had there own traffic with us it was mainly wool but you had to be able to load anything on your return load if there was no wool.One of the thing was though you had to be careful what you used your wool sheets for because they had to be kept clean and if you ripped them there was hell to pay when you got back.I .m just looking out of the front room window now and it,s pi…ing it down and dark how many times have we been out on nights like this ropping and sheeting then driving home wet through ,the good old days eh. cheer,s Richard.
You just took in your stride Richard,if you got ■■■■ wet through,so what,it was the job ! The damage and repair costs of to-days trailers must be horrendous as driver quality,IMHO,has continued to sink so someone is having to pick up the bill in repairs and damage and all this DCPC bollox will only make matters worse.Cheers Dennis.
Yes but what have we become when they won’t even change a bulb, unbeleaveable