Well when I started driving HGVs at the age of 21, The firm I worked for then Baxters Road Services on the Quayside Newcastle were in fact very safety mined people If anything occurred to any of their employees It was all recorded into the Accident Book no matter what it was they insisted that this had to be done, The fitter old Billy Shore from Gateshead allways made sure that this was done, & Of course H&S Was about in the 50s, Mostley in factories Etc But not like is to-day, Mind you I do agree with some of the regulations but It all comes down to common sence IMO, Which of course has gone out of the window in a lot of cases, Regards Larry.
Aye Larry, “The Good Old Days” as you say these places kept us in a job, Splillers, Ranks, CWS at Dunston, Tyne Brand at North Shields, Sunderland Binder Twine factory where the lassies were to be treated carefully lest you lost your trousers or more ■■ Plus of course all the Quayside sheds that we either delivered into or loaded out off and TIC Quay at Shields where the dockers were (zb) awkward to say the least.
Still its good to reminisce,had we worked in a factory life would be dull now we are retired as we have nothing to siscuss on a site like this.
Cheers Leyland 600.
Leyland600:
Aye Larry, “The Good Old Days” as you say these places kept us in a job, Splillers, Ranks, CWS at Dunston, Tyne Brand at North Shields, Sunderland Binder Twine factory where the lassies were to be treated carefully lest you lost your trousers or more ■■ Plus of course all the Quayside sheds that we either delivered into or loaded out off and TIC Quay at Shields where the dockers were (zb) awkward to say the least.
Still its good to reminisce,had we worked in a factory life would be dull now we are retired as we have nothing to siscuss on a site like this.
Cheers Leyland 600.
Very true my friend, You like myself and thousands of other drivers from that Era, Made a good living and earned our daily bread as the old sayings went, But I did enjoy it and I worked with some great old drivers who of course are long gone now, Something to be very proud of wouldn’t you agree, Regards Larry.
Yes Larry I most certainly do.
Cheers LEYLAND 600
A nice and easy straight forward job I used to do ex Krefeld D
Loaded six lifts with overhead crane three sheets,strapped and roped in about an hour and still time to admire Mr Bewick
Yes I accept its a dying art and like Phil No Rush I was taught by my late father who started in this industry in 1956.
So like him I take pride in a job well done.
The Boys Own:
A nice and easy straight forward job I used to do ex Krefeld D
Loaded six lifts with overhead crane three sheets,strapped and roped in about an hour and still time to admire Mr Bewick
Yes I accept its a dying art and like Phil No Rush I was taught by my late father who started in this industry in 1956.
So like him I take pride in a job well done.
I bet its a bit tricky getting your sheets tight with that stepframe trailer?
I bet its a bit tricky getting your sheets tight with that stepframe trailer?[/quote
Take a another look Pete and you’ll see he’s “cheated”, big sheets on the bottom, small sheet on the top.
Leyland600:
0Hi Dennis, I dont know what the load was but RWB was always geared up with the correct sheets for the job. Can you imagine what he would have said if Ken had got the load wet. At the LDOY national championships in 1970 RW attended as a spectator but after watching some attempts to sheet trailers decided to have a go just for a laugh, resulting in him winning outright and again the following year. Here he is in action.
Cheers Leyland 600
Probably made him badly watching some of the “efforts” until he was bursting to have a go eh! I have seen that shot somewhere before L600,did you put it on an earlier thread a while ago ?,there may be a few that were as good but there’d be none much better than RWB at sheeting and roping,my mate on the Brady Octopus and trailer was a “fair hand” which is who I learned from.Cheers Bewick.
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Thats not a load it’s the drivers living accomodation when he goes to truck shows ! Cheers Dennis.
Proper lorry .
Yes i agree with you there. 14 litre ■■■■■■■ 380 was tweaked up by ■■■■■■■ at West Thurrock came out something around the 470 mark coupled to the brilliant twin splitter gearbox pulled well and sensible on fuel. was on air suspension best truck i have driven or owned.
Dan Punchard:
Proper lorry .
Agree with that.
No Rush:
I bet its a bit tricky getting your sheets tight with that stepframe trailer?
[/quoteTake a another look Pete and you’ll see he’s “cheated”, big sheets on the bottom, small sheet on the top.
Hi No Rush, cant see the cheating its obviously a light load, there’s nothing over the pin its only common sense, we used to load wool 14ft high on step deck trailers only problem was not enough rope hooks where the were needed most, but that’s driving nothing’s perfect you have to adapt. 
Les.
Yeh they did and thats why you dont see any now what a load of ■■■■■
double dolly and youd pull them over[
quote=“adr”]R & S Dutch style! Apparently these trailers only weighed 4180 Kg! Regards Chris
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Tidy job mate
Lister intl sheets were always hard work ripped ties missing etc
littlerichard:
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