hi dave,yes the work in the welsh quarries has dried up for most of the tarmac franchisee’s so they tend to work out of the mid-wales quarries.fast forward 20 years @ the same location as the previous picture and my semi retired father is checking the job out on a customers man 8 wheeler.
HI EVERYONE,WILL PUT SOME MORE PHOTOS ON SOON ONCE I HAVE WORKED OUT PHOTOBUCKET,HI ANDREW,JUST WONDERING DO TOU HAVE ANY MORE OF CT
pete 359:
hi dave,yes the work in the welsh quarries has dried up for most of the tarmac franchisee’s so they tend to work out of the mid-wales quarries.fast forward 20 years @ the same location as the previous picture and my semi retired father is checking the job out on a customers man 8 wheeler.
Hi Andrew,
I can see the quarries out of my window,other side of the valley,also hear them on th CB,the hauliers up here are being messed about just the same,think they are trying to get them all to jack it in,your chaps and these.
Cheers Dave.
hi dave,the industrial estate that we are on is at the entrance (almost) of the quarry,my understanding is that all of the tarmac franchisee’s are swamped with debt and working for nothing,i don,t mean to be rude as they like us are just hard working guys,someone somewhere is making alot more money out of them than they are!anyway here’s one for bernard.porthcawl seafront 1987 and the 1st f90 that cardiff airlines ever bought.
THANKS ANDREW,I REMEMBER WHEN THAT WAS BRAND NEW,LIKE I SAY,I SHALL WORK OUT PHOTO BUCKET AND GET SOME OF MINE ON,GOOD TO SEE SOME JOINTS PHOTOS,ESPECIALLY THE ERFS IN OLD COLOURS
hi bernard,she wasn,t very old when i took that photo,but with cardiff transport mileages were high and a 1 year old motor could look like a 2 to 3 year old motor.they really were notorious,joint motorways worked closely with them and they used to drop trailers in one anothers yards.i can recall loading coil out of their warehouse in newport for pembroke dock and seeing the 20 tonne forklift they had loading cardiff’s trucks to the gunnels!they had so much coil in the warehouse that the concrete floor broke up/cracked and collapsed under the weight.brian lewis who owned the firm retired to a yacht in marbella? ithink?
pete 359:
hi dave,the industrial estate that we are on is at the entrance (almost) of the quarry,my understanding is that all of the tarmac franchisee’s are swamped with debt and working for nothing,i don,t mean to be rude as they like us are just hard working guys,someone somewhere is making alot more money out of them than they are!anyway here’s one for bernard.porthcawl seafront 1987 and the 1st f90 that cardiff airlines ever bought.
The tipper job must be horrendous now by what I hear from you lads in Wales .A lot different than when I started building the M6 over Shap with my Thames Trader on a B licence .I used to run 9" stone out of Kendal quarrie and dust back from Shap to tip on the Haul roads .I soon got sick of that for a game of cowboys !! even though you could make a decent do.But I got my first “A” licence and went back down the road on distance !! I didn’t have anything more to do with tippers until 1973/4 when we ran a couple of Bulkers on Pig Iron , coal, frag & feeding stuff ect. But they were a pain in the ■■■■ to run them amongst the flats so we kicked them into touch a couple of years later and I checked into re-hab !!! Never ever again to run tippers !!!
HI ANDREW,I WORKED AT CT FROM 1989 TILL 2004 AND USE TO WASH THE LORRYS ON THE WEEKEND WHEN I WAS 14,ME AND MY BOY WENT TO GAYDON SHOW THIS YEAR AND I SAW YOUR LORRY BUT DIDNT SEE YOU ABOUT,WAS HOPING TO HAVE A CHAT WITH YOU,SO I REMEMBER THOSE DAYS WELL
pete 359:
hi dave,the industrial estate that we are on is at the entrance (almost) of the quarry,my understanding is that all of the tarmac franchisee’s are swamped with debt and working for nothing,i don,t mean to be rude as they like us are just hard working guys,someone somewhere is making alot more money out of them than they are!anyway here’s one for bernard.porthcawl seafront 1987 and the 1st f90 that cardiff airlines ever bought.
Hi Andrew,
The hauliers and drivers from down your way are ok,they and the hauliers and drivers this way are ok with one another,they are all being messed about and are in the same boat,its looking grim for all of them.
Cheers Dave.
Bewick:
pete 359:
hi dave,the industrial estate that we are on is at the entrance (almost) of the quarry,my understanding is that all of the tarmac franchisee’s are swamped with debt and working for nothing,i don,t mean to be rude as they like us are just hard working guys,someone somewhere is making alot more money out of them than they are!anyway here’s one for bernard.porthcawl seafront 1987 and the 1st f90 that cardiff airlines ever bought.The tipper job must be horrendous now by what I hear from you lads in Wales .A lot different than when I started building the M6 over Shap with my Thames Trader on a B licence .I used to run 9" stone out of Kendal quarrie and dust back from Shap to tip on the Haul roads .I soon got sick of that for a game of cowboys !! even though you could make a decent do.But I got my first “A” licence and went back down the road on distance !! I didn’t have anything more to do with tippers until 1973/4 when we ran a couple of Bulkers on Pig Iron , coal, frag & feeding stuff ect. But they were a pain in the ■■■■ to run them amongst the flats so we kicked them into touch a couple of years later and I checked into re-hab !!! Never ever again to run tippers !!!
Hi Bewick,
Its mainly tippers in this area,because apart from the Quarries there’s very little else. The problem at the moment is the management has moved to another area,the Welsh area is now merged with the West Country and the HQ is down there. A lot of the materials which were sourced from these quarries is now being sourced from other quarries,this along with the drop in the construction industry has affected the work. Then tarmac cut the rates by 2.5% from october the first,so they are all caught between a rock and a hard place. When you had your Thames Trader,you could make money,as they could here,the quarries were owned by smaller companies and not so ruthless as these big conglomerates.
Cheers Dave.
Hi In the picture of the MAN tipper (KGH Legger)Is that a F88/89 cab hideing in the back ground??
John.
3300John:
Hi In the picture of the MAN tipper (KBH 8 Legger)Is that a F88/89 cab hideing in the back ground??
this darned key board can’t spell.OR spot the mistakes.
John.
Yeah I always blame the keybord 
But in weal life I just kant spell.
hi all.
Hi everyone,i posted these pictures yesterday & just worked out photobucket
Hi bernard,
Great pics,looks as if you have cracked it,most of us struggle to post them to start with. I certainly did,look forward to seeing some more.
Cheers Dave.
top man bernard.i havn’t a clue how to work photobucket.it just seems to happen somehow and seems to take me forever.anyway here’s another of jr’s taken around 1985 at their old bridgend yard loaded for germany and driven by ■■■■ hopkins (sadly deceased)■■■■ was a driver all his life and always looked after his trucks.he later worked for cardiff/carline and finished up driving one of their bull nose scania’s.
here’s we have one of raymond’s many f10’s with a fairly new trailor tilt loaded for italy with railway lines and driven by dai beer 1985.
one of jr’s 401’s tipping a load of coil at vw’s in gent 1988.
few picsof K B H S trucks at the welsh truck show Carmarthen
