Jimski:
Hello Pat,Nobby(TIR)
Speaking to a family friend tonight the name Bingo Dollery R.I.P was mentioned.If this is the same Bingo he was quite a character .Mike said that Bingo would run steel to South Wales and reload coal in the early 60s.Mike said he would often get a call from the POLICE asking Mike why his lorry was parked outside the TOPRANK If this is the same Bingo he also worked on Bulwark tankers but only lasted a year.Doing things like LIVERPOOL and back in a day
Regards Jacko.
Hi Jacko Liverpool and back in a day !!! thats ok thats legal…Look in the old log books see, easy !!! R Jimski
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Hello Jimski
LOG BOOKS abit Before my time Was that legally aloud in the late 60s early 70s
Regards Jacko
Jimski:
Hello Pat,Nobby(TIR)
Speaking to a family friend tonight the name Bingo Dollery R.I.P was mentioned.If this is the same Bingo he was quite a character .Mike said that Bingo would run steel to South Wales and reload coal in the early 60s.Mike said he would often get a call from the POLICE asking Mike why his lorry was parked outside the TOPRANK If this is the same Bingo he also worked on Bulwark tankers but only lasted a year.Doing things like LIVERPOOL and back in a day
Regards Jacko.
Hi Jacko Liverpool and back in a day !!! thats ok thats legal…Look in the old log books see, easy !!! R Jimski
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Hello Jimski
LOG BOOKS abit Before my time Was that legally aloud in the late 60s early 70s
Regards Jacko
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Hi Jacko, log sheets before log books and the drivers were such terrible writers that they used to end up making several out each day and when log books came in they were elastic and it was not unusual to have done 600 plus miles in 10 hours driving legal of coarse
Jimski:
Hello Pat,Nobby(TIR)
Speaking to a family friend tonight the name Bingo Dollery R.I.P was mentioned.If this is the same Bingo he was quite a character .Mike said that Bingo would run steel to South Wales and reload coal in the early 60s.Mike said he would often get a call from the POLICE asking Mike why his lorry was parked outside the TOPRANK If this is the same Bingo he also worked on Bulwark tankers but only lasted a year.Doing things like LIVERPOOL and back in a day
Regards Jacko.
Hi Jacko Liverpool and back in a day !!! thats ok thats legal…Look in the old log books see, easy !!! R Jimski
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Hello Jimski
LOG BOOKS abit Before my time Was that legally aloud in the late 60s early 70s
Regards Jacko
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Listen here you nippers.In the sixties,Soton to Sandbach was a good eleven hours work.My old Leyland Octopus was only capable of 35mph.Mind you Nobby could do it! Regards Charlie
Hello All
Ive posted this photo before of W.J.HILLS.But the bottom photo is of a Christmas eve early 60s i guess pre Bakers days having a Christmas drink (Grandad can be seen centre of the photo with a sandwich in his hand).You don’t see scenes like that any more
Regards Jacko.
Log books were fine until you had the dreaded “silent check”
Then you prayed that things were right!!!
Who remembers the little wooden huts along the roads? Wasn’t there one at the start of the Chandlersford bypass Winchester end on the left at Compton that is now the M3?
Pat, I`m to young to rember log books in the U.K, but I soon got the hang of them when I moved out here ,must have been my background and training.
A truck was parked at the ferry over here, shipping from North Island to South Island, a ministry bloke went up to the cab and asked the woman in passenger seat for the drivers logbook,( driver was off having a pee or something) the woman asked ministry bloke… which one do you want, the one for the South or the one for the North? Women eh?
IVECO 3.5ton VAN
FORD CARGO 7.5ton
17tonner IVECO FORD 1990
MY FIRST ARTIC FORD CARGO
THIS IS A PHOTO OF BARRY JEWELL R.I.P(he was an ex Bakers tanker driver put dad through his car test) WE JUST LOADED CABLE DRUMS IN DERBY.
THE LAST LORRY I WOULD DRIVE ON PITTERS 190.30 IVECO FORD(loading grain at Wallingford)
JUST TIPPED A LOAD OF MACHINERY MANCHESTER
JUST LOADED TRACTORS AT BASILDON
THIS WAS TAKEN OUTSIDE AVONMOUTH ICD
MY DREAM WAS TO COME TRUE IN MY LAST WEEK AT PITTERS.ME AND DAD RUNNING TOGETHER LUCKLY I HAD MY CAMARA WITH ME, WE’D JUST TIPPED AT NEW WAVE LOGISTICS AT MILKTON KEYNES
Hi Jacko.I,ve just trawled through your posting.Some great photos there.Very impressed.I can see that you are very handy with a camera.Wish I was.I only have memories.I can see that your dad is better looking than you.Ah well,you cant be clever and good looking.Regards Charlie
I’ve had a quick scan throguh the postings on here and have seen nothing of the latest news on Harry Nash. It was only today that I learned that poor old Harry died suddenly on the 20th September. There is a service at Southampton crematorium this coming Thursday at 11.45 am. I don’t think there are many older drivers out there that didn’t know or work with old Harry. I worked with him from back in the early 60’s on two or three company’s and later actually employed him as a driver. I for one will try to attend the service and hope that a few more will show up to say farewell to him.
R.I.P. Harry.
Sad regards, Nobby.
.Mike said that Bingo would run steel to South Wales and reload coal in the early 60s.Mike said he would often get a call from the POLICE asking Mike why his lorry was parked outside the TOPRANK
If this is the same Bingo he also worked on Bulwark tankers but only lasted a year.Doing things like LIVERPOOL and back in a day
R Jimski
