Whetherby MSA, not quite finished but still there is truck parking and even the CP Plus men are there in their van…“you stopping drive?”, not for me to pay these cowboys £15/18/20 or whatever it is.
No, i’m off to a more sensible place to park. Harrogate…
Closed to the public when there is an exhibition on, but i am exhibiting. Even if it is only a beertowel in my front windscreen. Plenty of room…
Its right next to an Asda and handy for the town centre. The locals drive some dangerous stuff too.
Fish and chips in the services might be about a tenner but i go here for my tea.
Whetherspoons. £6.50 for a small 5oz rump steak with chips and salad and two huge skewers of king prawns and a pint of Abbot Ale thrown in. A no brainer really. And, not a high viz in sight.
Cracking on North to Scotland the next day from Liverpool,…
I love coming up here to see our Haggis eating, sword dancing Celtic cousins. And, if it wasn’t for my sat nav i would never get to see scenery like this on my way up to Glenrothes.
I managed to make the new Lockerbie truckstop my home for a couple of days, plenty of room
No tight turning on the gravel mind and don’t park to close to the building when Kenny is having his electric guitar night or you won’t get a wink of sleep.
£12 gets you a ticket and £4.50 off your grub, which is nice or £7.50 just for parking if you’re on a budget. And its secure.
I was back and forth over the Forth, Glenrothes, Coatbridge, Rosyth.
Forth bridge and Kincardine bridge.
Coatbridge certainley is an unusual place. It appears to be inhabited by red headed, red faced people who drink Tennants from cans and hang around outside shops at 9 in the morning. I’d guess many are homeless. What could be done to get these people back working, its seems such a waste? Well Willie Mac has devised a scheme to get these people out the soup kitchens and into driving HGV’s. This is something that should be applauded. Maybe Rog will do the actuall driver training? Good on you boys, not enough philanthropists about these days!
Here i am dropping down into Rosyth docks
The Navy, for the most part are long gone
Now with lots of haulage companies going to the wall, its good to see some that can expand and diversify
Thats quite an impressive list of services.
For any drivers who have not been to Scotland before i have made a few small translatons which may help. As in Scotland they appear to speak neither English nor Gaelic.
werve ya bin, ah shuddae be hoom bee noo
You’re late for your booking time driver.
where’s yar lines ya preck
Can i have your delivery notes please.
noo get ta fa oot of it
Goodbye driver, you can go now.
And with that, i’ll get going myself now !!