hi robert few to bring some gd memories back happy days
heres one of me and mr chivers on way home via calais which was unusual for us coming c/hbourg /caen usually he was quite the character was john
our usual tip/load in ben/mzik cassablanca sorry forgot correct spelling early days on associated fwd before davies turner took over
stevejones:
anyone been down will know these gates sometimes a welcome sight
Even more welcome if you arrived on a Friday evening because the export parking would be nearly empty so you could get a good place and go to the Marco or the Spanish for a few beers and some nosh with whoever else had arrived early. You might not embark until midnight the following day but you were deffo on the way home! In later times I used to park up in the Offshore parking or the Tan-Tan to avoid all the clandestines trying to get in the lorry to write off half a million quid’s worth of hanging garments before climbing out through the roof in Spain. People look at me in disbelief when I mention that part of the equation. There should be a much stronger voice for hauliers and drivers in Calais than there is, IMHO. Robert
Sorry double post 
ye pulled outta algeciras one fine morning went under a bridge and guardia were parked on top as i went by one of the jokers that must of got in while parked in algeciras poked his head out cos we started moving and bingo guardia seen him. that cost me rest of day and roof repair to t.i.r. standard ten thousand shirts condemned when got to uk there was 5 of those lovely fellas in trl
stevejones:
anyone got a match loading the morroccan way
Will this do steve? not my picture, taken by Ian Gibb’s
ahh yes gr8 loading probably 3drivers upfront as well 
wow imagine that going up the m1 was that just before the t.lights robert where it was a gd idea to keep rolling as if you stop they seem to be allover your truck in seconds
stevejones:
wow imagine that going up the m1 was that just before the t.lights robert where it was a gd idea to keep rolling as if you stop they seem to be allover your truck in seconds
Spot on! That’s exactly where it was, Steve . Then they upgraded the next stretch and made it dual carriageway, but the road sank badly in places so that if you forgot about it and hit one of the indentations at night at full whack, everything flew out of the cupboards and you ended up with your gas bottle in your lap 
. Robert
aah yes thats the place robert
