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Cheers Dave.I don’t think they would have dared to cross Harry,he and the knotted rope were feared far and wide Norm 
Dave the Renegade:
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Cheers Dave.I don’t think they would have dared to cross Harry,he and the knotted rope were feared far and wide Norm
hiya,
Cross me at their peril Dave, one young fellah “I was only 22” he just couldn’t stay awake I have a feeling he spent all day erecting tents 
:we was doing night trunk to London down one night back the next he was OK on the return trips, but outgoing no sooner out of the yard and me not yet finished my first ciggie and the big ZZZs was filling the nearside and the heap I drove at that time didn’t have trailer brakes via the footbrake so the lad had to operate the trailer braking with the handbrake in the passenger side, no motorways A roads only and a few downhills when you needed the little toerag to give you a lift when pulling up and holding the motor when at traffic lights etc, anyway I had cause to really blast him, he was only a kid and the tears started to flow, the next time he was at home he told his Dad about me, his old fellah came into the yard going to sort me out but instead of tearing into me, fair play to him he did allow me to explain why I’d been shouting at his boy when I explaining about the sleeping on the job the lad’s old man gave him a belt round the ear and apologised for him then told me to do the same if I had any more trouble with him, he asked for a move to day shift the next time he was in the traffic office and thankfully for me they granted his wish and I got a middle aged guy who knew the job backwards but had never wanted to drive.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
I would have given my right arm for a job like that when I left school.I wanted to go and work at the place where my dad drove for.I thought get a job in the warehouse,but my old man said you can’t start there as you are to young.Don’t know if that was true or not,so I worked up through on builders vans then lorries and onto the over three ton stuff a little bit before I was 21.
But a job as a trailer boy would have been right up my street.The nearest BRS depot was Hereford 26 miles from here.
Cheers Dave.
hiya,
Well Dave it sounds like you would have been excellent material for the post of trailer boy/trainee driver and I think the knotted rope could have been left in the bait cabin prior to departure just hope you liked getting up about 2,00 PM (remember we are on nights) and will be setting off back around 5.00 PM so it’ll be a couple of pints before we go round the cafe for the nosebag to sustain us on the road back first stop Watling Street for supper and another couple of pints before closing time, just hope Lennie the shunter has managed to get tipped and loaded in decent time he usually manages to get the motor back to York Way tucked in opposite the cafe around 4,30 PM and pops in with the paperwork and finds time for a cuppa before he goes home a distance of about 200 yards yes he lived on York Way, now Dave they were proper driving days 20 tons both ways and no roping or sheeting we were really and truly just drivers and at the time you would have left school I think the trailer would have been braked by the drivers footbrake so you would have been able to have a bit of a gonk.can’t remember when trailer boys became surplus to requirements but it was a good number for a year or two and of course most of the lads would have gone on to be drivers being put through the test "non HGV "in those days by the firm, well they could drive well enough by test time anyway the driver needed a bit of a kip every now and again so he used to let the lad have a bit of a go when on open road stretches, I was just sorry I never got chance to to the driver’s mate job I went in the pit until aged 18 chucked that got called up did the national service thingy and then had to go back below ground for another year until age 21 was a large vehicle driver in the forces but was too young to drive heavies in civvy street talk about rules and regulations gone mad.so I did miss out on a good learning curve the best place is at the rough end eh’.
thanks harry long retired.
Hi Harry,
Would have been right up my street.I used to go with my dad on the lorry from an early age.As I got older I went further to Avonmouth and Cardiff docks,also Vitamealo at Keynsham.If my dad wasn’t going to the docks I used bike to the next village and go with another driver.Early starts never bothered me.I used to bike at 12 years old two miles at 4.30am to go with Ted the other driver.I drove with him in later years on tippers which he came onto.
I could rope and sheet when I was a kid,learned from my dad who drove lorries all his working life including six years as a driver in WW2 . Didn’t rope or sheet an artic as he drove rigids even though he passed a class 1 when they came in,so that he could ride shotgun with the blokes who didn’t qualify under Grandfathers rights for the license.
So there you have it Harry.A trailer boy would have been a grand job for me,have always loved travelling,both my younger sisters hate it.We are all different.
Cheers Dave.
I have just been onto the photos site and I had not realized how much I had poured down my throat as I was able to go back in time to the blue and silver layout it looks well but I am only bothered about looking at the wagons and reading the comments and I have no personal preference as long as it is not made too technical so I am unable to use it 
cheers Johnnie
Its still the same Johnnie,just the font thats changed.For whatever reason,can’t see the point of it,but never mind.
Cheers Dave.
Where is Harry tonight, he has gone very quiet, come on Harry lets have a bit crack, Regards Larry of then Glen.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Where is Harry tonight, he has gone very quiet, come on Harry lets have a bit crack, Regards Larry of then Glen.
hiya,
Larry not a lot to say for a day or two getting the house ready for some plastering work that needs doing, have been removing radiators,curtain poles handrails on the stairs we went through the phase of having some fancy stuff done to the walls years ago and now the good lady want’s the walls skimmed over, she can’t bear to see me doing nothing so she’s making me get all the preparation work done before the plasterer arrives if she had her way he’d only need to turn up and get paid and bugger off for doing nothing just hope it will be, “normal service resumed” if she thinks I’m doing any decorating she has no chance.
thanks harry long retired.
Common Harry put your foot down with a firm hand! 
Tell your wife you are too old to climb steps & ladders and you might break your neck, specially if you had to take a couple of swigs to calm your nerves. 
Tell her straight the only decoration you know is the ones you got in the army. 
Or you could own up and say darling I love to do the room up for you, but I must admitt I am old and knackered and totally useless, I am sure she will agree you are?
That’s the trouble with women always wanting to change things like decorating or curtains.If it looks clean and tidy leave it alone is my motto,but they don’t see things in the same light as blokes.Its the design of the creatures I’m afraid 
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Cheers Dave.
harry_gill:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Where is Harry tonight, he has gone very quiet, come on Harry lets have a bit crack, Regards Larry of then Glen.hiya,
Larry not a lot to say for a day or two getting the house ready for some plastering work that needs doing, have been removing radiators,curtain poles handrails on the stairs we went through the phase of having some fancy stuff done to the walls years ago and now the good lady want’s the walls skimmed over, she can’t bear to see me doing nothing so she’s making me get all the preparation work done before the plasterer arrives if she had her way he’d only need to turn up and get paid and bugger off for doing nothing just hope it will be, “normal service resumed” if she thinks I’m doing any decorating she has no chance.
thanks harry long retired.
Well,I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again.
The man who invented fg wants decorating and the man who invented decorating wants fg.
anoniom
I expect Harry is sorting his christmas decorations out today ready to start putting them up .
Dave the Renegade:
I expect Harry is sorting his christmas decorations out today ready to start putting them up
I think he will have to turn into Harry Houdini to get out of this one , or just go to the club & have some proper refreshment, to calm himself doon, roll on the Xmas get together, Regards Larry
All you have to do is make a bloody great mess break a few things and make a right pigs ear of decorating and you never get asked again just keep being reminded how useless you are
cheers Johnnie
P S sometimes you get sent to the pub out of the way
Sounds as if you are speaking from experience Johnnie.You will have to write a book to advise naive retired drivers like Harry on how to dodge the chores .
Cheers Dave.
I think Harry has took his wife for a weekend of passion so she will forget about decorating, he is a experience dodger of jobs. That bathroom turned into a major effort for Harry and I think that was his last stand!
Better be careful its about the time of night that Harry comes out and about Norm.Could be a bit dangerous after a day of passion .
Cheers Dave.
Dave the Renegade:
Sounds as if you are speaking from experience Johnnie.You will have to write a book to advise naive retired drivers like Harry on how to dodge the chores
Cheers Dave.
Hi Dave I did think about a book but being illiterate and uneducated the idea was scrapped and then there was the thought of all the irate women folk hammering at the door baying for my blood so you can add coward to the other two reasons as to why the idea was shelved.
cheers Johnnie
sammyopisite:
Dave the Renegade:
Sounds as if you are speaking from experience Johnnie.You will have to write a book to advise naive retired drivers like Harry on how to dodge the chores
Cheers Dave.Hi Dave I did think about a book but being illiterate and uneducated the idea was scrapped and then there was the thought of all the irate women folk hammering at the door baying for my blood so you can add coward to the other two reasons as to why the idea was shelved.
cheers Johnnie
You could always put it in picture form and write under a pseudonym Johnnie .
Cheers Dave.