TUCKER JAMESON & RICHARD MINTO
R MINTO & SONS PONTELAND
FREEWAY HAULAGE
alan hodgeon (wrangler) at normans cafe
marcus 22:
FRREWAY HAUAGE johhny rodham and eric minto in picturethe pile driver used to get moved 2-3 times a days sometimes
Looks like a drastic solution for a simple problem Mark !!! I hope my doctor doesnât read this thread.
OOPS!!
will put the glasses on kevin its all this driving larky, its got my head puddled man 
marcus 22:
FREEWAY HAULAGEalan hodgeon (wrangler) at normans cafe
Do you think the sheeting polis might need to look into that crimeâ â ?
sorry still canât manage a smilie all I get is a âDâ
aye probably kevin
just remember though he only had one good eye, the offside was probably ok
he will knack me if he reads this
mark
night shift bri:
v7victor:
One Harry might like!How did that work, presumably there must be some sort of turntable on the wagon that the load is chained onto. Would this type of arrangment be legal or was it a case of getting away with it in those days?
hiya,
This method of moving long loads was quite legal and normal practice, yes you had a turntable on the motor bolted at a prefixed point and in our case on the drag which was a standard trailer there was another turntable about the middle of the drag, the steering on the trailer was locked up and the drawbar hooked up to the load we didânt have any dollies like in the picture i suppose they would have made the job easier and unlike our depot the Scunthorpe lads normally returned empty, we got the two turntables lifted up to the headboard and loaded what we could carry as a backload, hard work but interesting and of course you always had the second man to blame if everything wasânt just right.
thanks harry long retired
Do any of you lads on here know of any nightshift jobs going, change overs or shunting, nothing too strenuous, and not too far from mackemland as my carâs not too fit.Iâve been on a gap year and itâs time I was back in the saddle, our lass is busy lining up some decorating so itâs time to make myself scarce. Iâm not too fussy who I work for but Fergusonâs is out of the question. Cheers, Night Shift Bri
mickd1958:
hi greek
can you remember tommy fitch a driver at youngs he was around at that time started off with an f86 artic then had an f88 iirc he used to run to wales and back with stone
mick
Aye know Tommy never seen him for a while he used to come in the Ox now & then.Lot of the lads didn`t have much time for newbies you know what these tipper drivers are like & the it was always job & finish but there was a good lad called Lol Dobson would always help you out remember tipping top of the stockpile of dolomite at Motherwell first time with an artic& some of it was frozen in the front of the trailer arse nipping time trying to shake it out,but lol stopped & gave me advise He ended up working with me at Collinsons
Night Shift Bri Lad just finished Elddis working out of Prudhoe out & back night shift maybe a bit to far from Sunderland But saying that I travel from Stanley
greek:
Night Shift Bri Lad just finished Elddis working out of Prudhoe out & back night shift maybe a bit to far from Sunderland But saying that I travel from Stanley
Thanks for that one Greek. As you say itâs a fair hike to Prudhoe from here plus battling round the Western by-pass every night doesnât appeal, but thanks anyway.
greek:
Did 4 yrs on Northern buses then got my Class1 !974 started for youngs leadgate rounabout the october that yr, same as you Harry nightshift Dolamite to Motherwell But it wasnt the best move they were stock piling at Motherwell so worked 2 wks paid off for a week worked another 2 wks paid off again coming up to xmas wasnt to pleased, had been earning good money on the buses. Never bothered going back then started for Collinsons Jan75.
Collinsons had some early 86`s 1969/70s would be nice to see that Hutchinson one on the Tyne Tees run.
hiya,
May have posted this before, but when at Youngâs i turned up one night for the Motherwell trunk the weather was atrocious sticking snow certainly not suitable for artics but on arrival at the yard was taken to one side and told to take a six wheeler rigid which had been converted from a tractor into the rigid six wheeler by marrying a double drive Leyland Octopus backend to the chopped off f86 unit all nicely painted up and it did look the part, off i goes and it never missed a beat stuck to the road like a limpet, load had to be tipped in the plant got in position shoved the box up and it broke in half brought home on a rigid bar with the lot held together with chains and the propshaft in the back but was able to keep the engine running for a bit of heat but the journey seemed never ending, it was repaired and the chassis done to a high spec and it was quite a decent motor.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi,
Recall J R Young ran a four wheel rigid tipper with a drawbar tipping trailer,At one stage they built tipping bodies for their
own vehicles and other hauliers.
harry_gill:
greek:
Did 4 yrs on Northern buses then got my Class1 !974 started for youngs leadgate rounabout the october that yr, same as you Harry nightshift Dolamite to Motherwell But it wasnt the best move they were stock piling at Motherwell so worked 2 wks paid off for a week worked another 2 wks paid off again coming up to xmas wasnt to pleased, had been earning good money on the buses. Never bothered going back then started for Collinsons Jan75.
Collinsons had some early 86`s 1969/70s would be nice to see that Hutchinson one on the Tyne Tees run.hiya,
May have posted this before, but when at Youngâs i turned up one night for the Motherwell trunk the weather was atrocious sticking snow certainly not suitable for artics but on arrival at the yard was taken to one side and told to take a six wheeler rigid which had been converted from a tractor into the rigid six wheeler by marrying a double drive Leyland Octopus backend to the chopped off f86 unit all nicely painted up and it did look the part, off i goes and it never missed a beat stuck to the road like a limpet, load had to be tipped in the plant got in position shoved the box up and it broke in half brought home on a rigid bar with the lot held together with chains and the propshaft in the back but was able to keep the engine running for a bit of heat but the journey seemed never ending, it was repaired and the chassis done to a high spec and it was quite a decentmotor.
thanks harry long retired.
night shift bri:
greek:
Night Shift Bri Lad just finished Elddis working out of Prudhoe out & back night shift maybe a bit to far from Sunderland But saying that I travel from StanleyThanks for that one Greek. As you say itâs a fair hike to Prudhoe from here plus battling round the Western by-pass every night doesnât appeal, but thanks anyway.
Mate of mine runs from mackem land to Prudhoe every night to Hendersons ( well used to as he did the livingstone run start at 21.00 think he gone back tramping for them now ) but as you said was a bit of a drive
Depends on what you would like to do really
animal:
night shift bri:
greek:
Night Shift Bri Lad just finished Elddis working out of Prudhoe out & back night shift maybe a bit to far from Sunderland But saying that I travel from StanleyThanks for that one Greek. As you say itâs a fair hike to Prudhoe from here plus battling round the Western by-pass every night doesnât appeal, but thanks anyway.
Mate of mine runs from mackem land to Prudhoe every night to Hendersons ( well used to as he did the livingstone run start at 21.00 think he gone back tramping for them now ) but as you said was a bit of a drive
Depends on what you would like to do really
When you find 1 can you let me know as I need a job
hi lads, Kev i hope you are going to do the full route on the tyne tees run , harry some of them cheat, and nip straight back up the A19 from Stockton, one of the best placeâs to take photos is on the chester-le-st to lampton park just has they start to clime the hill from the motorway,these are from a tyne tees run from about 4 years a go,bumper 
PS hope to see you at the do Easter Saturday,anyone who is going please pm me so we know how many to cater fore
