does anyone remember spoors transport from sunderland. i worked for them from 1977 to 1985, serving my time in the garage and driving artics when i got my class one there when i was 21. they ran a mixed fleet on general haulage, mainly f86 and f88. mostly to london area and re loading reels out of snodland paper mill 
Seeing the Better Bake trailer there reminded my did’nt RB take over that work?
I was interested in the forktruck as we had one just like that. It was driven by yours truly, that one is posh though cos it has a cab on it 
I remember them twin splitter, i lived on hylton bank, used to see them all the time ricky warne is still at freeways he used to drive for them, my old man used to park in the water board at the top of the bank sometimes parked just outside on the road he is called stan fahy been on for freeways for 37year now, now that was a bank and a half to climb in the winter we used to make money when we were kids pushing the cars up and clearing the snow
thanks mark
Had a few nights out with a tall thin lad few times can`t remember his name had curly perm Drove an Atki,also so Mell, last time I saw him think he was on for Paul Reay
their is still a few of the spoors family live in south hylton twin splitter, my dad still lives at the top of the bank
i can remember your dads scanias when he used to park them at the top of hylton bank. smart 111s and 112s. i live over the road from stewart spoors wife. he died about 20 years ago, rodham died last year. i had that 111 scania in the photo when i worked at chastneys. when they bought spoors out they sent it to hylton. the driver was derek kirkbride. he still lives in hylton.
aye the names ring a bell, me dad new most of them he used to get a lift home on a dodgy sometimes because their was always a spoors motor going south the next morning, i used to work for Ron tailford which is RTH-lubbers now, but got out of it about 7 year ago, now work offshore i still do a bit when home as i do 5 weeks on 5 weeks off just a bit of pocket money.