Carna:
Ouch! That is an ex-Contship motor,the Contship name has been painted out on the door.
I’m not sure of the history,but I think Contship ran their own trucks at one time and sold them to Goodways when they started,we certainly did a lot of Contship work.
Chris Clark:
KWGood to hear you are still trucking even though its on the wrong side of the road, trust you are well.
I read your letter with interest it brought back many happy memories, however one story you missed was the one where Tick Tock broke his mirror…I am still in the trucking business now working for Wincanton, funny that so is Tick Tock small world.
Speak soon
Regards Chris Clark
Good to hear from you mate,hope all is well with you,Susan and the girls (you must probably have got them married off and got shot of them by now! 
)
Are you still living in Chelmsford? Never mind,someone has to. 
Tick Tock and that mirror eh! He didn’t really see the funny side of that bit of paper I put up in the office did he! Dunno why,everyone else thought it was hilarious,even Roger ‘Dear Boy’ Jennings.
Speak soon,let’s keep in touch.
BTW,have you got that 20p I leant you in 1987?
Some more pics I’ve dug out…
Another shot of ODX444W
1986,loading in Edinburgh
Tony Giles took this pic of me.I think I’ve still got that shirt.Or one very like it!
Unloading metal swarf in Sheffield,they certainly pack it in don’t they!
Is that a new dance KW? with you at the side of the man OR are you just running to get the job done lol
globby 480:
Is that a new dance KW? with you at the side of the man OR are you just running to get the job done lol
I was practicing the ‘Hokey-Kokey’ for the xmas ‘do’.
Cheeky git.
I BET you was esp if sue cordell was going “lol”
I started on Goodways in 97’ from PTS. It was my first artic job 
. In at the deep end springs to mind 
. Nick Barber seemed to be the only decent bloke in the office, the rest IMHO were not !.
I was also formally introduced to “No neck” Seachey, in the yard, while dropping a trailer in a spot he deemed to be unsuitable. What a berk .
‘Smokey’ Haddock was on Maritime when I last saw him.
Ron Burrows is still on Coscon at Fxt.
Billy Nesling is still with Syntex.
I also had a 9 month spell with James Kemball in 04’ and was given X228LRT, as Daisy had just been given a new Topline. Amongst other dubious items I found when moving in were a ■■■■ pair of speedo’s ! No doubt they’d seen a bit of action at Brentwood.
I left Goodways in 98’ when I started at HTL (DFDS) at Fxt. There were a few ex-Goodway drivers on there too.
Dave(y) Allen
Dave Pas &
Tooley…
They all reckoned (as is usually the case ) that “the job ain’t like it used to be, boy !”
Brian Leader,that was the Uberbahnfuhrers name.He was actually an owner driver with an ex-Russell Davies 111 in Evergreen colours,then he sold it and came to Goodways to drive the forklift.
just found out today KW… that old happy brian has died he got the BIG C, 
JASE, jimmy dawson is of the road in 3 weeks time thats him finished hgv driving now!! dvlc has taken his hgv entitement of him due to diabetic "insulin injections!!!
jase didnt you leave and got to emninox or dinex from goodways■■? was speaking to crowie to day and he said you went there i remeber you now last time i saw you you had just shaved all your hair of “lol?” !!
remeber you coming in the tea hut at grays on a night time,ng"last time i saw you in the hut you had just shaved all your hair of “” prob nits or something you had a 4 series scania with flags and that in it didnt ya!!!
suprised you carnt remeber DODGY with the 3 series scania from kirk smeaton!!! no one could catch him in that truck,
Sue is fine ,Girls both married one getting divorced both with two children boy and girl each, off my hands never…
Yes still living in Chelmsford,
Drop me your e-mail address and next time you are in UK maybe I can return that 20p
Speak soon
Chris
Is this Brian Scania ex Evergreen
Carna:
Yup,that’s the one.He sold it to Dennis,Dennis,Denn…bugger,can’t remember his surname,but anyway Dennis ran it for quite a while subbying for Goodways Mcr.
Dennis,could it be Barber■■? Lived in the Manchester area,but had some big men chasing him for something or other,if they’d have got hold of him he’d be supporting a viaduct somewhere by now.Last heard of somewhere up near Kings Lynn,Noooooooorfolk running a recovery business.
So if anyone in Manchester is still owed by Dennis,then his address is…
Good to see the pics of the 111 Scanias, I remember seeing them charging through Kimbolton pretty much every day of the week back in the early 80s.
Back in those days all the container fleets jockied for position, regularly meeting on the infamous Kimbolton bends!
It was a Goodway driver that came to the rescue in the very early 1980s when an A series ERF had a halfshaft go whilst negotiating the George corner by the school early one morning and blocked the road.
It was a busy road in those days and it didnt take long for traffic to build up.
THe Goodways man in a 111 dropped his 20ft skel container trailer in the main street, nipped round East St to the front of the A series, stuck a chain on, pulled the unit out of the way and then shunted the trailer back up the main street and traffic flowed again.
All this happened whilst the local bobby was on his radio trying to get a recovery wagon!
Do any of you remember doing that?
Cheers
Mark
Globby,you’re on about Mark Horgan,he’s still at Eminox as far as i know,ain’t seen him for a few years though,probably still ducking and diving somewhere lol!!
Crowie should remember me,when i told the git i was leaving(i went to a proper transport company-Stobarts lol!!) he basically told Paul Miller he was having my 4 series Scania and i was having his MAN for my last shift.
Swopping gear over and,fire extinguisher boxes and whatever else he’d pinched/begged/borrowed over the last few years into my old truck at 1000 of a night in Grays was not funny!!
Sorry to hear about Jimmy Dawson though.
sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but gerry baldwin died some 4 weeks ago in broomfield hospital, as far as i understand he suffered from leukemia, i did go in to see him a few days beforehand, but he was almost blind by that time and didnt really understand what was happening around him, i knew him for a number of years doing italy. him on ges, me on f p youngs. his brother mickey is still in prison somewhere in france and i dont know if he has been told yet.
SUPERCUBE:
sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but gerry baldwin died some 4 weeks ago in broomfield hospital, as far as i understand he suffered from leukemia, i did go in to see him a few days beforehand, but he was almost blind by that time and didnt really understand what was happening around him, i knew him for a number of years doing italy. him on ges, me on f p youngs. his brother mickey is still in prison somewhere in france and i dont know if he has been told yet.
That is bad news,Gerry was an ok bloke whom I had a lot of time for.
RIP
my names ricky vincent, does anyone remember my dad gary vincent in the 80s and 90s, was an owner driver, red and white scania 111 and a blue scania 142. or johnny dickens, drove a blue f88. going with my dad i remember hearing tiktoks name mentioned before
ricky.v:
my names ricky vincent, does anyone remember my dad gary vincent in the 80s and 90s, was an owner driver, red and white scania 111 and a blue scania 142. or johnny dickens, drove a blue f88. going with my dad i remember hearing tiktoks name mentioned before
I left in '91,but I can’t recall your dad,did he subby for Grays or Felixstowe?
Only subby I recall with a Scania 111 was Ray Miller from Bury St Edmunds.There was also a guy from Cheltenham way that subbed for Goodways Felixstowe,he had a real old 240 F88,left-■■■■■■,but can’t remember his name.
Norman Harvey was a long term subby too,he came from Ipswich and ran an old SK Merc.
Hi kw. my dad did work out of Grays in late 80’s early 90’s also subbied for armour’s transport and csm in 90’s to 95’ i’ll dig out some of my dad’s trucks pic’s and try and post them soon sent a load of dad’s his photo’s to trucking mag they put his photo’s in august 07 mag. unfortunatly dad’s not with us anymore to share his trucking stories he passed away nov1998.
Rummaging through some old books etc. I came across these drawings.
It was obviously from March 1990,as that’s the date I put on them when I drew them,and it was when ‘Tick-Tock’ had started doing the continental work for Europartners.
Europartners was owned by Ted Hall,an ex-director of OOCL,and most of the work was un-accompanied until Goodways was approached to do some accompanied.
Due to ‘Tick-Tock’s’ reputation for carving any job up that he did,I made these drawings which were proudly put up on the office wall,and made everyone chuckle,including Roger Jennings!
They were drawn in the style of the cartoons which used to appear every month in the dutch Truckstar magazine,of which I had a subscription for several years.