delivering to the store?
The only two drivers I knew double manning for CE were Fred Gillby and Johnny Valentine, been doing it for a long time, but don’t know if they still are. I have a mate who lives outside Malaga, but he don’t work for Spanish or British companies, and only passes through to Marocco, but manages to gets home every couple of months. Sorry cant be of any help.
Ossie
Blimey Ossie, What a couple of charactors you named there! They wern’t manning together were they!
Last time i see Valentine was at Bailen about 6 years ago. He was double manning for CE with a young lad
and gist never took the job from fowler welch gist previeously boc as the man said ,brought out spalding haulage to get there hands on the lucrative flower work and with regards to continental express i know the 2 guys responsible for the overall running of the group peter and sammy iv known them since they were boys 2 sensible lads who never discuss rates and contracts with the drivers i know they told the manager to pull his sox up and to be honest i dont really think they care if they lost the work the last time they went in for a rate increase some crowd from leicester went in it turned out they were drug smuglling and the owner got put away they soon come running back safeway that is and remember a contract goes 2 ways when there aint no produce in spain them lads go straght back to holland to load from gib empty aint a lot of profit in that if any . the only reason they run the trucks is to get there own produce back . years ago burlington from manchester went pop they were the main subbie for stubbins then peter mario pauline and sammy decided they needed there own trans port thats when joe r the brother in law started con ex and since then its been a faun in there side trust me lol iv been an o/d for 30 years and i still park in the brother in laws yard in hoddesdon thats joe who is now p c l and one other thing i doubt if stubbins are the biggest importer of produce from spain i would say by far and away its solstore with all there spanish subbies they do hundreds of loads in season every week iv just done an almeria this week it cost me with every thing inc derv tolls and ferrys £2500 to do the job put a nother £700 gross for the second driver a new daf on cantract hire about £350 a week new fridge £200 thats£3750 to find before they got a penny it dont take no working out a gib load down back to nl to load i doubt if ther breaking even at that time of the year it dont make the good times so good its a shame morrisons are even looking for some one else con ex have given them bloddy good service over the years is there no loailty
Sfreshlink are doing it .double manne- d tied with cont expressm
backload area landes france wi carrottes at the mom better rate than loadig oot o spaine
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Sfreshlink are doing it .double manne1. d tied with cont expressm
backload area landes france wi carrottes at the mom better rate than loadig oot o spaine
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Hombre:
klunk/■■■■■■■■
Sfreshlink are doing it .double manne1. d tied with cont expressm
backload area landes france wi carrottes at the mom better rate than loadig oot o spaine
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I’ll ave a go at being Google translate for ya :-
Freshlink are doing it, double manned, some tie-in with Continental Express.
They backload out of somewhere in France with carrots presently, because the rates are much better than Spain.
Simon:
Hombre:
klunk/■■■■■■■■
Sfreshlink are doing it .double manne1. d tied with cont expressm
backload area landes france wi carrottes at the mom better rate than loadig oot o spaine
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I’ll ave a go at being Google translate for ya :-
Freshlink are doing it, double manned, some tie-in with Continental Express.
They backload out of somewhere in France with carrots presently, because the rates are much better than Spain.
billybigrig:
Landes (department) - Wikipedia
Did you check that wiki link ?
Simon:
billybigrig:
Landes (department) - WikipediaDid you check that wiki link ?
No but I see what you mean 
Landes (department) - Wikipedia fixed it for you. The bracket was missing 
orys:
Landes (department) - Wikipedia fixed it for you. The bracket was missing
dziękuję orys
orys:
Landes (department) - Wikipedia fixed it for you. The bracket was missing
And Landes is ?
Simon:
somewhere in France
The area south of Bordeaux, known to almost every driver as “The Forest”.
keith the thief:
and gist never took the job from fowler welch gist previeously boc as the man said ,brought out spalding haulage to get there hands on the lucrative flower work and with regards to continental express i know the 2 guys responsible for the overall running of the group peter and sammy iv known them since they were boys 2 sensible lads who never discuss rates and contracts with the drivers i know they told the manager to pull his sox up and to be honest i dont really think they care if they lost the work the last time they went in for a rate increase some crowd from leicester went in it turned out they were drug smuglling and the owner got put away they soon come running back safeway that is and remember a contract goes 2 ways when there aint no produce in spain them lads go straght back to holland to load from gib empty aint a lot of profit in that if any . the only reason they run the trucks is to get there own produce back . years ago burlington from manchester went pop they were the main subbie for stubbins then peter mario pauline and sammy decided they needed there own trans port thats when joe r the brother in law started con ex and since then its been a faun in there side trust me lol iv been an o/d for 30 years and i still park in the brother in laws yard in hoddesdon thats joe who is now p c l and one other thing i doubt if stubbins are the biggest importer of produce from spain i would say by far and away its solstore with all there spanish subbies they do hundreds of loads in season every week iv just done an almeria this week it cost me with every thing inc derv tolls and ferrys £2500 to do the job put a nother £700 gross for the second driver a new daf on cantract hire about £350 a week new fridge £200 thats£3750 to find before they got a penny it dont take no working out a gib load down back to nl to load i doubt if ther breaking even at that time of the year it dont make the good times so good its a shame morrisons are even looking for some one else con ex have given them bloddy good service over the years is there no loailty
gist did take it from fowler welch around about 2005 or 2006ish.
Jesus, ■■■■■■■■ on a post, some of you have nowt better to do.
Landes is area 40 south of Bordeaux, not all of it is forest. 
And i know the road is the forest road,but not the area.
The reply i did was on my i phone, and i canna see the print as its ower larl, also me fingers are ower big for the keyboard. 
back on the laptop noo
klunk
You do not have use the forest road,there is an alternative that runs by the side of,then the weight limits kicks in south of Bordeaux,more choice of restaurants,less police presence too.
You are right ftere toby this last 2months the police are on the forest road all the time, and showing no mercy.
Klunk
klunk just out of intrest were are the 2 locating lugs gone of your saudi transit plate
keith the thief:
and gist never took the job from fowler welch gist previeously boc as the man said ,brought out spalding haulage to get there hands on the lucrative flower work and with regards to continental express i know the 2 guys responsible for the overall running of the group peter and sammy iv known them since they were boys 2 sensible lads who never discuss rates and contracts with the drivers i know they told the manager to pull his sox up and to be honest i dont really think they care if they lost the work the last time they went in for a rate increase some crowd from leicester went in it turned out they were drug smuglling and the owner got put away they soon come running back safeway that is and remember a contract goes 2 ways when there aint no produce in spain them lads go straght back to holland to load from gib empty aint a lot of profit in that if any . the only reason they run the trucks is to get there own produce back . years ago burlington from manchester went pop they were the main subbie for stubbins then peter mario pauline and sammy decided they needed there own trans port thats when joe r the brother in law started con ex and since then its been a faun in there side trust me lol iv been an o/d for 30 years and i still park in the brother in laws yard in hoddesdon thats joe who is now p c l and one other thing i doubt if stubbins are the biggest importer of produce from spain i would say by far and away its solstore with all there spanish subbies they do hundreds of loads in season every week iv just done an almeria this week it cost me with every thing inc derv tolls and ferrys £2500 to do the job put a nother £700 gross for the second driver a new daf on cantract hire about £350 a week new fridge £200 thats£3750 to find before they got a penny it dont take no working out a gib load down back to nl to load i doubt if ther breaking even at that time of the year it dont make the good times so good its a shame morrisons are even looking for some one else con ex have given them bloddy good service over the years is there no loailty
the crowd from leicester was euro cold, white ivecos and also did removals as well, i did i spell for them
(a very short 1!!!)