North Africa work

robert1952 · 9 July 2014 10:18

stevejones:
yes m8 but home in Northampton uk ive been living Canada 9yrs but home next month for good so get them on here then as u know most had a nickname one time after loading hull for cassa very posh lady in new saab convertible nearly caused a multiple crash then had a go at me of course time I got to tangier my new name was roadrage ha ha another guy was the plank someone while back said he had passed away glad I done the job met some real characters

Memory failing me here, but I thought the bloke who drove that Eurostar before me was called Steve Jones…? Robert

stevejones · 9 July 2014 10:38

wasn’t me m8 few of them white eurostars were run by a guy in Northampton the plank drove one and other guy rick with a silent p.i drove fh globetrotter for tony then Danish spec xl when Geordie dennis left then briefly megaspace merc for ashford seen the ol girl in ur pics and chris helliers nice 530 topliner while he was in Hawaii for 8wks spoke with chris on phone yday he sold up now retired good guy known him maybe 26yrs met him when 1st met tony wot u upto now m8 and anything of steve hutt who was the guy on breda used to get the guitar out .

robert1952 · 9 July 2014 12:01

stevejones:
wasn’t me m8 few of them white eurostars were run by a guy in Northampton the plank drove one and other guy rick with a silent p.i drove fh globetrotter for tony then Danish spec xl when Geordie dennis left then briefly megaspace merc for ashford seen the ol girl in ur pics and chris helliers nice 530 topliner while he was in Hawaii for 8wks spoke with chris on phone yday he sold up now retired good guy known him maybe 26yrs met him when 1st met tony wot u upto now m8 and anything of steve hutt who was the guy on breda used to get the guitar out .

Our paths must have crossed by the sound of it. BTW, the bloke on the guitar from Breda was Simon Greg, although Steve Hutt could, and often did, sing like a proper Welshman. Robert

stevejones · 9 July 2014 12:41

ye must of gd luck m8

robert1952 · 15 July 2014 17:46

I’ve been sorting through boxes of stuff I haven’t seen for some years because they’ve been in storage. Among my treasures I came
across a hand-written list of companies doing Morocco up until the time I stopped in 2005.

John Mann, DTS, Johnsons, Buffhams, Davies Turner, Associated Forwarding, Cliff Luxton, Ashford, Saville Freight / Tacesa, Prima,
Link Fashion Logistics, Lloyds of Ludlow, PJ Transport, GEH, Bergen, Weaver, Eddie Stobart, Summerfields, Jan Verhaegh (NL), Dreier (CH), Breda Transport (NL), Jan de Lely (NL), Meyer & Meyer (D), Benntrans (D), Calberson (F), Gravelean Maghreb (F), SCAC Maghreb (F), Widem (MA/B),
Wimtrans (MA/B), Santrani (MA), Maes (B), Greshake (D), Bloss (D), Interpaouli (I), HV Logistics (MA), Birkharts (D).

All those above were on textiles down - hanging garments back work. But there were others going down there too, with 'fridges and general
freight, such as: Heiploog / Heitrans (NL), B.A.T. (E), Carrillo Grupajes SA (E), Jose Carrilo (E), San Jose (E), Tude Frigo (E),
Guaner Rodriguez (F), Klass Puul (NL), Transmed (GB), CS Bull (GB), Deutch K… (D), Lopez (E), SJL (San Jose Lopez) (E), Gefco (MA/E),
Mory-LDI (F) and Senntrans (MA).

That should get Harry going. Just looking at this list awoke memories because I’d completely forgotten about those Italian drivers on Interpaouli!
Most of them were excellent company over a beer or six, and had done some serious long-haul work. Robert

en-tour-age · 15 July 2014 18:02

Good old NoÃ«l Maes (everybody new when his birthday was) was an early garment-operator,
same as Nedlloyd’s daughter JP Jansen from Venlo and Birkart as well as DKS what stands for
Deutsche Kleider Spedition. Pas tense…Van Gend & Loos was very succesful…ex-Belgium!!!

stevejones · 15 July 2014 20:25

wow Robert all them names u realise how many of us were doing it ye the Italian guys good guys I think skelly worked for jan verhaeg wot a character like u say great memories

robert1952 · 15 July 2014 21:56

stevejones:
wow Robert all them names u realise how many of us were doing it ye the Italian guys good guys I think skelly worked for jan verhaeg wot a character like u say great memories

Yep, Skelly worked for DTS, then Jan Verhaegh bv. Robert

stevejones · 16 July 2014 11:15

ye dts was trying to remember where he was b4 that pic brings some memories back . I sort all mine out when get back uk next month will try post them on here but never done it before got quite a few keep a lookout m8 might be going over Algeciras foot passenger sept just to take Canadian girl stop sol azur and have look round see whos around I presume browns is still there wouldn’t mind seeing joseph 4 a laugh but heard he went prison 4 while told me missus she see completely different world to prince Edward island l.o.l.

robert1952 · 21 September 2014 09:12

pv83 · 28 September 2014 14:48

Some great footage here lads My dad used to work for Jan de Lely, he stayed with them for almost 15 years, I remember our trips to Maroc and the Baltic states quite well, surely happy days back then.
There were two english drivers at the time working for Jan de Lely as well, I think one of the blokes was called Steve, anyone remembers them? They were always good for a laugh, they didn’t seem to care about, well about everything actually
I got a little question though, does anyone got some pics of Jan de Lely taken in the early to mid-90’s? I used to have more pics, but due to some removals I’m afraid some boxes did end up in the bin

Patrick

robert1952 · 28 September 2014 15:02

These any good? I didn’t take them myself, they were on the web. I’ll see if there are some I took. Robert

pv83 · 28 September 2014 15:20

robert1952:
These any good? I didn’t take them myself, they were on the web. I’ll see if there are some I took. Robert

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Oh yes, that’s what I’m looking for Cheers mate And to be honest, I’ve forgotten all about that they did had some pre-commander MAN’s, nice to see them back again

Patrick