windrush:
Dave the Renegade:
Change of owners due to be announced this week regarding Tarmac.Not likely to be TILCON though Dave, more’s the pity!
Pete.
Nobody from the UK I don’t expect Pete.
Cheers Dave.
We live in interesting times!! if it’s who I’ve been told is taking over then I’m sure the “Competition & Markets Authority” (used to be Monopoly & Mergers Commission) will have something to say 
splitshift:
We live in interesting times!! if it’s who I’ve been told is taking over then I’m sure the “Competition & Markets Authority” (used to be Monopoly & Mergers Commission) will have something to say
Go on then who is it please?
adamski90:
splitshift:
We live in interesting times!! if it’s who I’ve been told is taking over then I’m sure the “Competition & Markets Authority” (used to be Monopoly & Mergers Commission) will have something to sayGo on then who is it please?
Could be CRH, but then again it could be any other. 
Dave the Renegade:
Change of owners due to be announced this week regarding Tarmac.
got your finger on the pulse Dave, if your a betting man who do you recon?
I did hear that the Tarmac name could be used again, though no idea myself!
Well it ain’t Ben Bennetts !!
Moose:
Dave the Renegade:
Change of owners due to be announced this week regarding Tarmac.got your finger on the pulse Dave, if your a betting man who do you recon?
Anybody’s guess Moose, but CRH has been mentioned.
Cemex 
Holcim? Or whoever owns agg industries? Wonder if Breedons will pick up any “duplicate” pits?
Rest assured who ever takes over it will run by nasty egocentric jobsworth back stabbers full of their own self importance who despise employees and hauliers alike (me bitter and twisted never!)
windrush:
Mattwoodtransport:
Hi moose/windrush, is there a usual route how an o/d may get rid off his truck if he’s upgrading, is there a notice board, is it word of mouth etc, maybe a page on lafarges website? Or do most of them die before being replaced? (The truck-not the O/D) Only reason I ask is iv considered Tarmac or Midland quarry products and if a lorry with life that was spec’d came up I think I’d do it
Kind regards
Matt woodIf you are an actual Tarmac/LaFarge contract o/d I understand that you can only sell the vehicle back to them, that is how it used to be under the ‘old’ Tarmac regime. They will offer you a price lower than what you could sell it privately for, rest assured, and then sell it on to another contract haulier (possibly just starting out) at an inflated price! I know a few lads locally who were caught out like that, however things MAY now have changed for the better and I am totally wrong in what I say. Moose might know more.
Pete.
Hello Pete
I sold a lot of Ford 6 wheelers to Tarmac and these were for owner drivers and painted in Tarmac livery.The chap I dealt was Bill Willocks at Buxton.Tarmac arranged for the bodies to be built.I suppose you could say the vehicles were leased so they would go back to Tarmac.Can’t believe it is about 25 years ago.Correct me if I’m wrong but I’ve been retired 14years so one tends to have to be reminded of things
Tony
splitshift:
Rest assured who ever takes over it will run by nasty egocentric jobsworth back stabbers full of their own self importance who despise employees and hauliers alike (me bitter and twisted never!)
Got it in one. 
Dave the Renegade:
adamski90:
splitshift:
We live in interesting times!! if it’s who I’ve been told is taking over then I’m sure the “Competition & Markets Authority” (used to be Monopoly & Mergers Commission) will have something to sayGo on then who is it please?
Could be CRH, but then again it could be any other.
Spot on Dave good shout!
Moose:
Mainly Caulden low, nr alton towers, though we do go to other plants when needed
hey Moose…i was driving on the A52 by Cauldon Low 2-3 years ago when i came across an artic coming from the quarry that had lost his trailer at the road junction!
carryfast-yeti:
Moose:
Mainly Caulden low, nr alton towers, though we do go to other plants when neededhey Moose…i was driving on the A52 by Cauldon Low 2-3 years ago when i came across an artic coming from the quarry that had lost his trailer at the road junction!
I remember that well if it was a white scania with a silver trailer!
does this jog your memory?
Dave the Renegade:
Change of owners due to be announced this week regarding Tarmac.
Here you go
constructionenquirer.com/201 … -business/
Or here
telegraph.co.uk/finance/news … erger.html
rastone:
windrush:
Mattwoodtransport:
Hi moose/windrush, is there a usual route how an o/d may get rid off his truck if he’s upgrading, is there a notice board, is it word of mouth etc, maybe a page on lafarges website? Or do most of them die before being replaced? (The truck-not the O/D) Only reason I ask is iv considered Tarmac or Midland quarry products and if a lorry with life that was spec’d came up I think I’d do it
Kind regards
Matt woodIf you are an actual Tarmac/LaFarge contract o/d I understand that you can only sell the vehicle back to them, that is how it used to be under the ‘old’ Tarmac regime. They will offer you a price lower than what you could sell it privately for, rest assured, and then sell it on to another contract haulier (possibly just starting out) at an inflated price! I know a few lads locally who were caught out like that, however things MAY now have changed for the better and I am totally wrong in what I say. Moose might know more.
Pete.
Hello Pete
I sold a lot of Ford 6 wheelers to Tarmac and these were for owner drivers and painted in Tarmac livery.The chap I dealt was Bill Willocks at Buxton.Tarmac arranged for the bodies to be built.I suppose you could say the vehicles were leased so they would go back to Tarmac.Can’t believe it is about 25 years ago.Correct me if I’m wrong but I’ve been retired 14years so one tends to have to be reminded of thingsTony
Matt Pm me if you want, i spend a fair bit of time with a Tarmac chap who’s pretty well up with the maintainence and buying and selling trucks on the fleet, a couple of weeks ago i heard they were going to start pressurising drivers with trucks over a certain age to renew, It doesn’t help that they have no new young OD’s entering ‘the game’.
i was 1/2 was through my contract when i bailed out and a bloke i worked with took the payments over, They were just shy of a grand a month quite a few years ago.
Bill Willocks retired 6 years ago, but still bobbing about the place, can still sup like a fish and still on the same old golf course 
Moose:
0does this jog your memory?
was it you Moose? 
No it wasn’t me, though I did go out to help getting it back to the yard then I welded the pin back into the rubbing plate!