Monday morning, I arrive in the yard to take 9 cars to Scunthorpe…off to a flying start then!
Once up and running with a nice new trailer tyre, I see this beast on the M18. I like big machines I do! Secretly, I’d love to have a go at machine movements or heavy haulage (or both! )
I arrive in Sunny Scunny without incident (we deliver here very regularly) and I take a picture of my magnificent steed…here’s a picture of my truck too
5 down…4 to go…
OOOHHHHHH! like a roller coaster, only more dangerous! (depending on how fast you go down the top deck! )
Right, cars off, decks up, ready to roll…
…a whole 500 yards, to here!
Billy does the best sausage, egg and tomato butty in Britain!
With nothing to re-load on the “east side”, it was back to the yard empty and a quick local collection in the afternoon…easy life!
Tuesday was pretty unremarkable really…a local collection in the morning and another in the afternoon. There wasn’t anything of interest to photograph!
Wednesday saw me over Lancs/Manchester way with a drop in Preston, one in Manchester and a collection out of Bradford on the way back…
It rained on Wednesday…a lot!
I’ve been up that Kearsley road before, it was a devil of a road!
Nothing moves fast (or even at all) on that M62 in the rain!
Dark, miserable day. Dark, miserable motorway.
I got a thorough soaking unloading in Bolton, another in Manchester, and as I was loading in Bradford…another frikkin soaking! The same cloud followed me all day. Here’s a bit of welcome respite…buttys and a coffee in the cab!
Crap innit!
Two things you can guarantee as a transporter driver is that 1) it will only rain if you get out of the cab to load/unload, and 2) it will stop raining the instant you have finished!
That’s it for now…part 2 (Thursday and Friday) to follow soon…