TIR Original:
Fishmeal , Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. If I phoned for a return load and they mentioned that awful word then I would throw the phone down and run!!
It wasn’t that I was a coward, it was just that…Well yes I was.
Once got a lift from Goole to Woodhall services when fiddling home with one of Hull Fish Meal wagons and got my own table in t’pub.
A few days later one of Prosper de Mulders from Bentley,Doncaster picked me up on his way to Silvertown and that was even worse.
Mind you “A third class ride is better than a first class walk”.
22ton of lino off h/ball round to spillers 880bags on up to lancaster tip at pyes upan elevator round to nairn swap trailers and home and the bloke who showed me the right way to load rope and sheet is still about at 89
TIR Original:
Fishmeal , Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. If I phoned for a return load and they mentioned that awful word then I would throw the phone down and run!!
It wasn’t that I was a coward, it was just that…Well yes I was.
Once got a lift from Goole to Woodhall services when fiddling home with one of Hull Fish Meal wagons and got my own table in t’pub.
A few days later one of Prosper de Mulders from Bentley,Doncaster picked me up on his way to Silvertown and that was even worse.
Mind you “A third class ride is better than a first class walk”.
Jacmil
Mal,I see you’ve mentioned Jacmil Transport,did they work for HFM? I got the lift from the Woodside .
TIR Original:
Fishmeal , Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. If I phoned for a return load and they mentioned that awful word then I would throw the phone down and run!!
It wasn’t that I was a coward, it was just that…Well yes I was.
Once got a lift from Goole to Woodhall services when fiddling home with one of Hull Fish Meal wagons and got my own table in t’pub.
A few days later one of Prosper de Mulders from Bentley,Doncaster picked me up on his way to Silvertown and that was even worse.
Mind you “A third class ride is better than a first class walk”.
Jacmil
Mal,I see you’ve mentioned Jacmil Transport,did they work for HFM? I got the lift from the Woodside .
Oops,duplicate post,don’t know what happened there.
charlie one:
I remember loading bone meal with many of the bags split open.Dust everywhere.Later that week listening on the radio about the dangers of anthrax through handling bone meal! Spent a week scrubbing meself all over.
Run for a time Bone Grist from Tilbury Docks to P Leiner & Sons in Treforest South Wales, terrible smelly stuff, it stopped when the Dockers at Tilbury refused to handle it they said it came from the Ganges in India and ther were Human Bones in it and could get Anthrax from it.
HI all
Different story to tell here loaded at Birkenhead 30 seconds no problem (and father christmas is coming soon too).
Now the truth !!! go to the ship 11.45am and no queue (this was tipper work)its dinner time “lar” so get my head down its summer red hot.
1.oclock ish by now and i’m in a comer.(the loading method is to load a hopper overhead to a set weight open doors gentley the
load of bauxite rock trickles into lorry) Hm hm not today!!! The Dockers joke, is open hopper fully 20 tons drops into F86 in one go, driver still horizontal ish
hits cab roof , where am i?? what happend ■■ why who what when?? Docker shouts pull out drive. Who said you can’t get loaded.
In Passed years i’ve had all the troubles at all the docks, the same as everyone else. I’ve gone through the who do you see mate “him over there” hi’ya got some bla bla bla for you !!! Oh you need to see "that chap in the coat " got this for you pal “you need to see him over there” quick look he must be a twin i’ve seen him once somewhere before !! . Unless the load was edible or thirst quenching, then it was come over here drive i’ll tip you on the quiet. Then it’s give me a lift out to the gate its 8.30and Ive unloaded 2 pallets today already.
We’ve all been there (but not anymore for me) even if the sky fell in the docks was a lost cause
John
I spent hours and hours and hours in the hole years ago, for no other reason than they were a load of over paid scouse prat’s, I wonder if they were ever bright enough to realie how they ended up on the dole.
TIR Original:
Fishmeal , Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. If I phoned for a return load and they mentioned that awful word then I would throw the phone down and run!!
It wasn’t that I was a coward, it was just that…Well yes I was.
Once got a lift from Goole to Woodhall services when fiddling home with one of Hull Fish Meal wagons and got my own table in t’pub.
A few days later one of Prosper de Mulders from Bentley,Doncaster picked me up on his way to Silvertown and that was even worse.
Mind you “A third class ride is better than a first class walk”.
Jacmil
Mal,I see you’ve mentioned Jacmil Transport,did they work for HFM? I got the lift from the Woodside .
If I remember Chris they did work for Hull Fish Meal, were they white Leyland LAD or Ergomatic with red signwriting?
TIR Original:
Fishmeal , Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. If I phoned for a return load and they mentioned that awful word then I would throw the phone down and run!!
It wasn’t that I was a coward, it was just that…Well yes I was.
Once got a lift from Goole to Woodhall services when fiddling home with one of Hull Fish Meal wagons and got my own table in t’pub.
A few days later one of Prosper de Mulders from Bentley,Doncaster picked me up on his way to Silvertown and that was even worse.
Mind you “A third class ride is better than a first class walk”.
Jacmil
Mal,I see you’ve mentioned Jacmil Transport,did they work for HFM? I got the lift from the Woodside .
If I remember Chris they did work for Hull Fish Meal, were they white Leyland LAD or Ergomatic with red signwriting?
They were white with red writing as you say Malc.I remember they ran ergo Leylands but can’t be sure about LAD cabbed Leylands.HFM wagons were white as well I think.
It was a long time ago,a lot of watter gone down the Humber to the North Sea since then.
When I was a relatavly new driver 40 odd years ago I was advised that if I had to park overnigh on Regent rd.[dock rd.],to fold my sheetws and run my trailer wheels on topof thm for safety. I went in digs and the following morningfound my sheets neatly folded on the bakc of my trailer with aa note uner the wipers IF WE HAD HAVE WANTD THEM, WE WOULD
HAVE HAD THEM…
Mid 70’s I took a load of cardboard boxes of “sports gear” to Liverpool docks, and on returning back to our yard in Salford. Got asked if I’d seen anything of the Merseyside Marathon ? … apparently a pack of dockers had all jogged out in NEW RUNNING kits, they must have been super fit to have all that energy left after their hard days graft …
Alfred Dexters was infact a London Company who were based around the corner from the BRS Depot at Hampstead, they also had an office at Covent Garden, fruit to Liverpool being their mainstay work. They ran mainly Atkinson Artics with the odd Guy Invincible. Alfie Dexter was a short little bloke who was allright to talk to and to work for.
Just discovered this thread now. Fantastic stories guys. Most of that stuff was just before i started driving but i have really enjoyed reading about it.
Didn’t the same kind of militant unionism put paid to the car industry (Triumph?) on Merseyside?
wire:
Just discovered this thread now. Fantastic stories guys. Most of that stuff was just before i started driving but i have really enjoyed reading about it.
Didn’t the same kind of militant unionism put paid to the car industry (Triumph?) on Merseyside?
Well I disagree with militant unionism anyway,but unions got us safer working conditions ,paid holidays and lots more benefits. Now you know sometimes you have to be hard because the management aren’t just hard they are RUTHLESS CYNICAL A***HOLES who get a pat on the back,to varying degrees for ‘kippering’ the workforce.This can be anything from a holiday. a car for the wife and so on and so forth. I remember Standard Triumph in Speke,I was working for BRS and worked on the ‘flit’ down to Swindon I don’t remember it as being particularly militant,just working men.I worked out of as well as in Fords I seen some lazy gits in there I have also witnessed the managers pulling some sly tricks as well.Especially if the car park was getting full of newly made Escorts, you could guarantee there would be a strike,mostly engineered by the ‘slimy dogs’ When is this country going to wake up and smell the coffee?
TIR Original:
Fishmeal , Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. If I phoned for a return load and they mentioned that awful word then I would throw the phone down and run!!
It wasn’t that I was a coward, it was just that…Well yes I was.
Once got a lift from Goole to Woodhall services when fiddling home with one of Hull Fish Meal wagons and got my own table in t’pub.
A few days later one of Prosper de Mulders from Bentley,Doncaster picked me up on his way to Silvertown and that was even worse.
Mind you “A third class ride is better than a first class walk”.
Jacmil
Mal,I see you’ve mentioned Jacmil Transport,did they work for HFM? I got the lift from the Woodside .
If I remember Chris they did work for Hull Fish Meal, were they white Leyland LAD or Ergomatic with red signwriting?
They were white with red writing as you say Malc.I remember they ran ergo Leylands but can’t be sure about LAD cabbed Leylands.HFM wagons were white as well I think.
It was a long time ago,a lot of watter gone down the Humber to the North Sea since then.
Thanks to the bubbleman again, although they must have been quiet on the fishmeal that day. Back to Liverpool Docks, sorry
altitude:
I spent hours and hours and hours in the hole years ago, for no other reason than they were a load of over paid scouse prat’s, I wonder if they were ever bright enough to realie how they ended up on the dole.
Years ago I was on the M6 listening to the CB and this scouser was running his mouth (as they do) about how everyone hated them which in his opinion was very unfair and un-warrented --ahh! Then this other voice cut in and said do you scousers never learn ? You once had a dock 3 miles long now its 300yds. long ----Ooooo! the channel went blue scouse was fit to be tied down !!!
TIPIT:
Mid 70’s I took a load of cardboard boxes of “sports gear” to Liverpool docks, and on returning back to our yard in Salford. Got asked if I’d seen anything of the Merseyside Marathon ? … apparently a pack of dockers had all jogged out in NEW RUNNING kits, they must have been super fit to have all that energy left after their hard days graft …
We once had a trailer overturn on a Sally ferry crossing to Ramsgate .It was loaded with 80 forty five Gal drums on the deck and topped out boxes of new trainers ! We got our Insurance man there PDQ but was still to late !! He told me later that he had a look into a number of Boozers and every where he turned someone was sporting a new pair of Adidas trainers !!
did anyone watch the program on BBC4 last night at 7pm “The box that changed the world”
excellent, and very interesting that the dockers interviewed were still still blameing everyone but themselves for their demise,
its bound to be repeated so if you can catch it the next time.
Some good old footage of liverpool / london and Felixstowe docks…chris
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