servo88:
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We can be sure of one thing…that is NOT Harry Gill. 
Good to see North Riding police Hillman Imps at Cliffords Tower in York
remy:
0These Freightliner Columbia’s were what Schneider replaced the cabovers with.
Limited as I was by the views of such OTR bloggers as Indiana Jack and others, also many prejudicial YT videos, Schneider always seemed to be among the firms, like J.B Hunt that more independent drivers loved to hate.
Was/is there any justification for such opinions?
Spardo:
remy:
0These Freightliner Columbia’s were what Schneider replaced the cabovers with.
Limited as I was by the views of such OTR bloggers as Indiana Jack and others, also many prejudicial YT videos, Schneider always seemed to be among the firms, like J.B Hunt that more independent drivers loved to hate.
Was/is there any justification for such opinions?
Yes. I worked for A J Schneider who started Schneider Transport and we were union and fairly well paid, when he died his son took over and started a non union company called Schneider National (known as SNI) because he wanted quantity over quality. He told SNI drivers not to talk to us union thugs SNI didn’t pay as well so would hire anyone just to get meat in the seat. They had lots of accidents and got a reputation as a company to avoid. Schneider Transport ceased to exist and SNI became the biggest truckload carrier in the US. I think their reputation has gotten a bit better now but they’ve ruined many good driving jobs by taking over own account trucking with their rate cutting and putting SNI drivers in for less money.
remy:
Spardo:
remy:
0These Freightliner Columbia’s were what Schneider replaced the cabovers with.
Limited as I was by the views of such OTR bloggers as Indiana Jack and others, also many prejudicial YT videos, Schneider always seemed to be among the firms, like J.B Hunt that more independent drivers loved to hate.
Was/is there any justification for such opinions?
Yes. I worked for A J Schneider who started Schneider Transport and we were union and fairly well paid, when he died his son took over and started a non union company called Schneider National (known as SNI) because he wanted quantity over quality. He told SNI drivers not to talk to us union thugs SNI didn’t pay as well so would hire anyone just to get meat in the seat. They had lots of accidents and got a reputation as a company to avoid. Schneider Transport ceased to exist and SNI became the biggest truckload carrier in the US. I think their reputation has gotten a bit better now but they’ve ruined many good driving jobs by taking over own account trucking with their rate cutting and putting SNI drivers in for less money.
Thanks for that Remy, makes sense now. 
Thanks to DIG, Ray Smyth, Dennis Javelin, Buzzer, Tyneside, gazsa401, servo88 and remy for the photos also essexpete for the link
Oily
Inverness last week.
An lang mae yir lum reek
translation:- eternal life, a scottish toast at Hogmanay or any other time when taking the dram 
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Oily
I cant remember if I have posted this early 1960s picture on here before. It is from Bootle History Forum.
The location is Roe Street in the centre of Liverpool, The Austin/Morris/BMC lorry is at the bottom of
Great Charlotte Street which leads up to one of several wholesale fruit & vegetable markets. The tram
tracks are still there, even though the Corporation trams ceased running in 1957.
Cheers, Ray.
The Vauxhall Cresta was the nicest looking motor that Vauxhall ever produced ( in my own personal opinion that is ) .
And it’s such a pity that those granite setts disappeared under a layer of tarmac . Although you could get a bit of an arse clenching slide on when coming up Scottie road and hanging a hard right on the cobbles to take a run at Everton brow on a rainy morning .
Still , as Butch Cassidy famously stated … “ Small price to pay for beauty “.
Buzzer:
Buzzer
Guys Buzzer would the photo of HB & H have been taken at there depot on the outskirts of Newton -Le-Willows , If I’m right there was a Transport Café there and a copy of warehouse behind the Café . Cant think of the name of the Cafe but that road going into Newton was the A49 Other way and you can join the East Lancs ( A560) or Haydock M6
Eddie Heaton:
The Vauxhall Cresta was the nicest looking motor that Vauxhall ever produced ( in my own personal opinion that is ) .
And it’s such a pity that those granite setts disappeared under a layer of tarmac . Although you could get a bit of an arse clenching slide on when coming up Scottie road and hanging a hard right on the cobbles to take a run at Everton brow on a rainy morning .Still , as Butch Cassidy famously stated … “ Small price to pay for beauty “.
There’s still a cobbled street quite close to where I live in Glasgow. I had to go down it a few days ago, it was like being on a trampoline.
Boatchaser:
Buzzer:
BuzzerGuys Buzzer would the photo of HB & H have been taken at there depot on the outskirts of Newton -Le-Willows , If I’m right there was a Transport Café there and a copy of warehouse behind the Café . Cant think of the name of the Cafe but that road going into Newton was the A49 Other way and you can join the East Lancs ( A560) or Haydock M6
The name of the café that you’re thinking of Boatchaser was the Woodlands . Previous to that , back in the late 60s early 70s , we knew it as Johnson & Wild’s . Allison freight lines had a depot there for a period after the café closed . Then in the 80s the place became a pallet yard .
There’s all manner of fancy new buildings on the site now , but I don’t have a clue as what goes on in any of them .
I don’t think the HB&H photo was taken there though , although I could well be mistaken . I’m more inclined to suspect that it would have been taken at the yard that they had at the bottom of Vista road in Earlestown , next door to the labour club , ( or it could have been a conservative club … I forget ) , as they did tend to move about quite a bit . But again , I stand open to correction , as I distinctly recall seeing that octopus with the drag pulling off the northbound M6 at junction 23 loaded with Calor propane bottles more than once in the 60s .
Further to Boatchaser’s query regarding the café on the A49 at Newton-le-Willows , I’ve dug this photo out of my late brother’s collection .
I believe it to have been taken at the location in question , although as to the year it was taken , I wouldn’t care to guess . But there does appear to be one of HB&H ‘s trailers parked up there . So who knows ?
Buzzer:
For all those down under, Buzzer
Light relief
I have a picture in a book, which I think I have put on here before, of one of Johansson’s long post war trains where he set bottom gear in motion and (steering wheel secured?) while walking round the whole lot checking the tyres.
Buzzer:
Buzzer
TN member Pete359’s Old F16