Gazzer I can remember that brown Volvo IN Pompy docks when the weight went up to 38ton, we were pulling SCAC trailers and there were very few tri axle units about then so he who ever it was got lots of work till we got up to speed with tri’s, as soon as the weight went up there were a dozen trailers arrived from France overnight all at 22/3 ton loads and no one to pull em as all tandem trailers, RH&D did milk rounds for a while taking a couple pallets of each trailer till we all got sorted, Buzzer
Buzzer
Hi all, can anyone remember a guy called Richard Elford he did a lot of Italy in an 88. He is I would guess late 60s lives In Glastonbury and has a red Alfa Romao. 
I think he lives in Ilchester
gazzer:
I cant say he did or not Kev. He may have before buying his own.
I’m sure it was a Scotsman who bought it originally. You’d have to look at the ASR thread for further details, maybe furnished by Scattercash. There is a photo of his son Ollie washing the truck in Rawlings yard ( I had the photo but my hard drive developed a bad sector and a swathe of photos have gone).Jock did drive it but there was a young black haired lad who drove it too (not Pretty Boy b4 he lost his hair LOL).
Not sure of the Henry Tyrer tie up.
Hi Gary,
Didn’t Nick the Greek drive a brown F12 on Rawlings,I seem to remember him getting stuck on the railway lines at Verona station one evening ?
Hope you are well
Regards
Richard
Hello our legal beagle.
As there was only one brown F12 on ASR…Nick the Greek probably did.
Scattercash would remember but he is none too well at the mo. I’ll leave it there!
Hi all, Kerbut any idea who he drove for.
I knew him when he lived in Brittany (as we did), He did mention he used to work for Jim Squibb. He came back from France and settled in Ilchester maybe 10 years+
Hi Kerbut thanks for that.
DISPATCHER:
Just to move back up the page
I hated those top sheets, they were terrible, and every engineering factory in Milan / Turin wanted to load through the top…
OldishJoda:
DISPATCHER:
Just to move back up the pageI hated those top sheets, they were terrible, and every engineering factory in Milan / Turin wanted to load through the top…
Yes, and dangerous teetering, on the blades of a fork truck. When I drove for Cheveralls of Luton we had a regular run for a time from Swansea to Neuf Brisach in Alsace. 3 great big lumps of aluminium for a full load in a tilt. With reference to a different thread, non of them restrained. 
At the delivery point they always wanted a full strip out to use an overhead crane. Totally fed up with this and because I had noticed thay had a giant fork truck on site, I one day said there was something wrong with the trailer and only the sides could be opened. So they brought the big fork to lift them out of the sides. Funny how ever afterwards every trailer had something wrong with the roof. 
Hi Ricardo trust you & Lady Wellow and the family are in fine fettle, not heard from your legal eminence for some time. That picture brings back some memories not just the Volvo rigid but the load of ATOchem in the background, looks like one of Les Flack’s trailers and I would like a Golden coin for every load of that we pulled for SCAC & Les, rope in a hundred bits as they could not grasp the tying of a dolly, took out a coil of new rope every time they loaded in France, they either tied a permanent loop & tied it of and cut or wrapped it round the tighteners which were common on the side of there flat trailers also cutting to length then we had to tie them altogether if we reloaded the trailer.
To think all that went on well over 40 years ago now when we wuzz young, keen & fit, still have flashbacks of a very slight female spreading sheets over a load in Fawley refinery and could not believe what I was watching and of course she was your wife, wonder if she could still do it today , anyways enough of my rambling all the best, Buzzer JD.
Buzzer:
MY OLD MATE MARY, THOSE WERE THE DAYS FOR SURE
My wife has a care assistant who looks just like that in the summertime. But she is 64 
I kid you not, it is a very hard life in this neck of the woods.
