mushroomman:
Here ya go Mick B and thanks to who ever posted this the first time around.
Found a few other bits in Commercial motor about the story about David Barnes.
Click on the pages to read them as the focus becomes clearer !
Nice to see that drivers were stopping by with supplies.
Very interesting, “Mr Barnes had been found to be 60% to blame for the tragedy but there was no word about whether or not he has stood trial or if he has any right to appeal”. It sounds like a case of, if the foreigner wasn’t there then the accident would never of happened. 
This reminds me of a fitter at Falcongate called Alan who was asked if would he take a load to Baghdad (I think it was). Alan was sitting in his cab while he was being tipped when a car drove into him and then drove off. The car returned later along with a police car and Alan was taken to the cop shop while they sorted things out. The result was that Alan was fined for being there. He agreed that if he wasn’t there then the accident would never of happened but he still had to a pay a fine.
B.T.W. Mick B, if you take a look at The Sweeney thread on here you will see a Pan Express trailer in the Rent Co yard at 11 minutes 11 seconds. Maybe you can tell us where this Rent Co depot was. 
You could not make this up ! Click on page and read “sand to the desert”
I may be wrong but i seem to remember bestbooties mentioning this and i am sure he took one of
these loads ■■?
Working internally in Saudi, you needed, by 1978, a Saudi ‘partner’. Working for Al Qafilah - Caravan trading out of Dammam. Ali Al Ghoson was partner for about 10 of us. He received 10% of our gross earnings for doing… Well, not a lot. He signed a letter inviting us back when we went home. We put this in at the embassy to get a new visa. Eventually we finished up with work visas which meant we had to get an exit visa to get out of the country! Not a man to fall out with.
In 1980, my then wife, Lynda, was coming out for a visit. Ali having wangled the visa for her. The day before her arrival I was heading back out of Riyadh in the Saviem. The two lanes were separated by a central concrete barrier, with gaps at junctions.
A Toyota pick up suddenly appeared broadside in front of me having raced across the other carriageway without consideration of traffic on the other side. I anchored on, but of course smacked into him! I stopped and jumped down. I was certain he was dead. He was immobile, lying across the seats. After a minute he stirred and shook violently. Relief that he was still alive. The Toyota was a write off, but the only damage to the Saviem was a broken headlight and slightly bent bumper.
Traffic stopped all around us, then sirens and police. They let me pull off to the side and then off to the Police office. Zero conversation with the traffic cops. After all the horror stories I was going to be in prison for months!
In the police station, I was taken into the head man’s office. Very friendly, good English. He listened to my explanation of what happened. It was early afternoon. Ali usually came back to the office about 4.30 until close of business at 6.00. I was given chai, and told to wait.
At 4.30, the chief of police had a long, laughing conversation with Ali. After he put the phone down, he looked at me seriously. ‘Your wife is here tomorrow?’
‘Err, yes.’
‘Well, you had better get back to Dammam to meet her!’ And he laughed and waved me out of the office.
I didn’t find out what happened to the Toyota driver, beyond them saying that he was ‘alright’.
I suddenly didn’t begrudge that 10% any more!
John
Found this piece about the ford transcontinental from commercial motor 1976. Surprised it was not a lhd
model ?
A couple of adverts again in an old commercial motor.
Think bestbooties drove for these ■■
A couple of bits i found in an old commercial motor magazine from 1976.
Click on the pages to read as focus becomes clearer.
BRS
Transit taxes in Turkey.
Does Mr Stock ring any bells with anyone,drove for Colintorr from Loughton ?
A few photos going over Tarsus Turkey.
And safely down the into Adana heading East
On top of Gazientepe.
Tipping in Kirkuk Iraq, quick tip, wash and cook up….and heading home 1981.
All the very best
Mick
Love the name of the Hospital in you piece above Dean !
kerbut:
Love the name of the Hospital in you piece above Dean !
Yes the Seabathing hospital looked a nice place right on the sea, its now flats !!
DEANB:
Heres a place you will know well Andy !! Londra Camp.Click on each page to read !
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Those two Yankee trucks are mis-labelled: they’re not Turkish, they’re Iranian! Robert
DEANB:
Heres a place you will know well Andy !! Londra Camp.Click on each page to read !
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Dean,
Just out of interest what year was that story from ?
Was Mervyn from essex Mervyn king ?
Tubbysboy:
DEANB:
Heres a place you will know well Andy !! Londra Camp.Click on each page to read !
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Just out of interest what year was that story from ?
Was Mervyn from essex Mervyn king ?
The article was from a 1986 magazine mate !
Tubbysboy:
DEANB:
Heres a place you will know well Andy !! Londra Camp.Click on each page to read !
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Just out of interest what year was that story from ?
Was Mervyn from essex Mervyn king ?
From TRUCKING INTERNATIONAL April 1986, to be exact! Robert
Photographed in Tehran in 1973
DEANB:
Tubbysboy:
DEANB:
Heres a place you will know well Andy !! Londra Camp.Click on each page to read !
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Just out of interest what year was that story from ?
Was Mervyn from essex Mervyn king ?
The article was from a 1986 magazine mate !
Thanks,
Sounds about the right time frame, if it was Mervyn king ! Who could have guessed that almost 20 years later the amount of ee lorries about !
I met him on one trip and found him a most agreeable chap, of Jamaican origin, brought up in South Wales and had an hotel in North Devon if I remember correctly.
