It looks like its internet hour at the old folks home.
Locking the cab up ? When I started it some guys used to take ignition keys out of the lock, but then just leave them under the rubber mat on the floor of the cab. Never locked the cab door. In the cab was only their change of clothes and a sleeping-bag. Nobody seemed interested in nicking the loads either.
Throws…
Walking stick at Radar!
robroy:
And I bet the likes of Truckyboy and my mate Trunker08 (who does not come on here enough) with more experience than us could add a lot more of stuff we have never done.
old scool is 1979 puting cold start buton in on a scammall routeman 
or blowing lime stone grit at siloth feed mil with a holms 1 bar blower and half way stoping to let the ■■■■■■■ thing cool down 1980 2.5 hours to blow now top notch two stage blowers 1.00 hour tops 
Radar19:
It looks like its internet hour at the old folks home.
Shush, dont ■■■■ in Radar. You might get a werthers 
It’s when, if you drove a wagon & drag, it wasn’t just an overgrown caravan 
Regards. John.
wirksworth rod:
robroy:
And I bet the likes of Truckyboy and my mate Trunker08 (who does not come on here enough) with more experience than us could add a lot more of stuff we have never done.
I would be in Silloth mill at the same time mate, but either on a 1 yr old Magirus Deutz, or a brand new 2800.DAF…luxury for those days, but unfortunately only holiday relief 
…for a couple of Silloth mates, owner drivers.
When wag and drag meant a 30 mph limit even on dual carriageways, and that isn’t so long ago, don’t think that changed until the late 70’s or early 80’s, mate of mine drove a skip lorry with really short trailer with another skip on, he got a few tugs up the A1.
If you went down the A6 to the A1 from London Colney, and the right turn onto the A1 was a T junction 
A1 for long sections as you went north of Donny was single carriagway.
Oh and when you’re cruising up the A1 about 1am doing a nice steady 80 (er not k’s) and you come behind a white Ford ■■■■■■ and as you go past him like he’s parked up you realise its an old bill motor with no roof light, aaargh, he must have ■■■■■■ hisen laughing 
Right back to work, that’s a set of front pads fitted to my car, parking brake adjusted, all four calipers painted with black Hammerite.
Mrs’s car now for new rear brake pads and adjust parking brake shoes up, calipers already painted, she’s worn the rear pads out where the fronts are barely worn, Latin and nutty as a fruitcake, so the rears have been working overtime keeping the thing on the tarmac as she tries to rip the tarmac up
carry on as you were, back soon.
Radar.
in about 30 years time mate you’ll be a on old ■■■■ too and it’ll be you here telling tales that make the youngsters jealous, well ish 
that Reno rigid of yours looked a handy motor, long bugger mind.
Juddian:
When wag and drag meant a 30 mph limit, and that isn’t so long ago, don’t think that changed until the late 70’s or early 80’s.That’s a set of front pads fitted to my car, parking brake adjusted, all four calipers painted with black Hammerite.
Mrs’s car now for new rear brake pads and adjust parking brake shoes up, calipers already painted, she’s worn the rear pads out where the fronts are barely worn, Latin and nutty as a fruitcake, so the rears have been working overtime keeping the thing on the tarmac as she tries to rip the tarmac up
carry on as you were, back soon.
Radar.
in about 30 years time mate you’ll be a on old ■■■■ too
that Reno rigid of yours looked a handy motor, long bugger mind.
Hell be boring anyone wholl listen about the days when drivers were actually trusted enough to steer the bloody things!
I wonder Franglais, will it go that way, or will the coming civil wars and probable ghettoisation of areas change things completely, reversing many trends?,doubt i’ll be here in 30 years to confirm either way mind.
Im OLD SCHOOL..i consider my self one as i learned and did rope and sheet..drove lorries when no night heaters had been invented..when sleeper cabs was out of the equasion too..when i stopped in digs on a night, when i would stop and help other drivers..roll their sheets, help to rope up etc ( ill help you…you help me attitude )…would mix with other drivers…played tunes on an eaton twin split…double de clutched…always got the lorry home…regardless of the problem ( there were some exceptions of course ) rope or strap axles up on the way back from the middle east…yes long distance work… and been in the industry since 1963…and seen so many changes…i will not put someone down just because he has less experience than me, but hope he would ask for advice and where i can help and assist…like the old pioneers did for me.
OLDSKOOL MEANS…when you read robroys ,juddians and truckyboys description and can actually remember the same things happening to you when your reading it…your oldskool…also.if your able to have a reasonably believable excuse for as to how by the grace of god you just missed the helald (or even if its just one of the usual loads of pish that pops up every year about it),then you could quite possibly be old skool…if…you are about to post…“whats the herald”.then im afraid your not oldskool and never will be…in that case,stick to stobarts and tesco,or pursue a rewarding career in kfc… 
robroy:
If you have done at least two of these in your time as a driver…Driven a truck with strips of rag tied to the mirrors to keep them clean.
Slept across the engine cover on a levelling board and piece of foam.
Or on the parcel shelf of a Bedford TK with your feet out of the window, or in summer under the sheet with a couple of pallets. (tent style)Woke up in a morning and had to scrape the ice off the INSIDE of the windscreen in winter, as a matter of routine.
Parked overnight in London at Aldgate roundabout, The Ramp at Bishopgate, or Sheperds Bush, …and witnessed the antics of the stripppers there
Sheeted 2 30x20s and a drip/fly over the top and roped it.
Used an old style AM CB radio bought off a Paddy on the ferry, and everyday made a ■■■ of yourself by speaking in all the Yank/Convoy jargon on it all the time…‘Yeh 10 roger on that good buddy what’s your 20 ? Come on’’
While doing the above…driven a truck (again looking a ■■■
Pulled down a dwang (now illegal afaik) with a 4 foot pipe and watching it launch like a rocket through the air nearly killing a fellow trucker iif you let go.
Used a blue suzie line or a ratchet trailer brake.
Had the almost obligatory 80s strips of flags and pennants in numbers on your windscreen, topped off with a ‘Riding on Bandags’ or ‘TGB Trailblazer’ sun strip at the top virtually blocking your entire view out of it.
Driven something with a split windscreen, Foden or Atki Borderer, and managed to avoid a bad back.
Used Air operated windscreen wipers.
Found yourself regularly lying under the front axle greasing king pins to obtain some ease on the non Power steering.
Used ‘Easy Start’ in the air intake or made a fire under the diesel pipes/tank to thaw it and get away.
Changed a trailer wheel on the hard shoulder.
Filled out and/or fiddled a log sheet.
Thumbed it home ‘On a dodgy’ showing a log book at passing truckers.
Young cocky and extremely [zb] stupid …enough to come out of a night club (maybe Park Hall across the field from Charnock Richard MSA) at 2/3 am with other truckers, have a coffee and straight ‘down the road’ (should have had our young arses kicked btw
Pulled a tri axle trailer with 12 wheels on instead of 6.
Managed to survive every working week (with no serious injury
Rang your boss (maybe only once a week or so) bto say you are tipped…in a red phone box not a cabphone.
Only then can you call yourself ‘‘Old School’’
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Put the ‘Uncle Albert’ on before some other smart arse did.
You missed out Plummers Row Bethnel Green car parks, and Brick Lane for your grub
plus…geoff bells,and penkridge where my claim to fame was,and still is ,managing to get my finger up the strippers bum while she sat on the lap of the guy next to me and overturned the entire table and surrounding area as she thought it was him ,so clouted him then the drink started getting flung everywhere…i have no idea who the poor sod was,as i was only sitting next to him…
dieseldog999:
plus…geoff bells,and penkridge where my claim to fame was,and still is ,managing to get my finger up the strippers bum while she sat on the lap of the guy next to me and overturned the entire table and surrounding area as she thought it was him ,so clouted him then the drink started getting flung everywhere…i have no idea who the poor sod was,as i was only sitting next to him…
Is that why you missed the Herald?
Juddian:
I wonder Franglais, will it go that way, or will the coming civil wars and probable ghettoisation of areas change things completely, reversing many trends?,doubt i’ll be here in 30 years to confirm either way mind.
I can imagine some scenarios when NO-ONE will be here mate !
dieseldog999:
plus…geoff bells,and penkridge where my claim to fame was,and still is ,managing to get my finger up the strippers bum while she sat on the lap of the guy next to me and overturned the entire table and surrounding area as she thought it was him ,so clouted him then the drink started getting flung everywhere…i have no idea who the poor sod was,as i was only sitting next to him…
My Mrs is nearly peeing herself over that one DD
the nodding donkey:
dieseldog999:
plus…geoff bells,and penkridge where my claim to fame was,and still is ,managing to get my finger up the strippers bum while she sat on the lap of the guy next to me and overturned the entire table and surrounding area as she thought it was him ,so clouted him then the drink started getting flung everywhere…i have no idea who the poor sod was,as i was only sitting next to him…Is that why you missed the Herald?
nah…i mentioned ages ago as to why i missed it…here it is again for all the newbies,that obviously arnt oldskool…it was in reference to a post about “gassing” another old chestnut for a good debate…i quote myself here…"
some folk might think there victims when they’ve been gassed,but if I hadn’t been gassed back in 1987 then id have made it onto the old herald,makes me shiver just thinking about it…I know I must have been gassed,cos id only had 14 pints in a baghouse in Rotterdam before they flung me out ,so I went for a quick 45 as I only had time to make the ferry flat out,and when I nodded off I woke up 29 hours later with a splitting headache and my clackerbags all red and swollen,so I definitely must have been gassed,otherwise id have been on the boat in time for it to sink…counting my lucky stars or what!!!
Juddian:
dieseldog999:
plus…geoff bells,and penkridge where my claim to fame was,and still is ,managing to get my finger up the strippers bum while she sat on the lap of the guy next to me and overturned the entire table and surrounding area as she thought it was him ,so clouted him then the drink started getting flung everywhere…i have no idea who the poor sod was,as i was only sitting next to him…My Mrs is nearly peeing herself over that one DD
well to be fair…i did put 50p into the pint pot she came round with after the caberet act finished
Having trips out in the lorry with my dad in school holidays, learning routes around the country and tricks of the trade before I got my Class 1.
Learning where ‘Lilly Law’ and the Ministry man was waiting for you and avoiding the same.
Stopping the engine on a Scania by using the exhaust brake instead of the STOP cable!
Ringing up customers to see if they would accept a delivery out of hours so you get a bit further on your journey.
Carrying extra diesel in plastic containers because you didn’t have bigger fuel tanks (with or without fuel gauges!)