Thats ringing a huge bell for some reason. I was regular down there on that time but can’t remember any more than that.
chazzer:
Can anyone remember Ferry Freightings man in Milan, his name was Graham but I can’t think of his surname, what a great guy to work with, I used to load back for them out of Italy if I was returning from Greece on the ferry. A call from Piraeus to let him know I was on my way and time of arrival and a load telex would be waiting in the ferry companies office in Italy. If I was tipping near Dagenham drop into the office, write out an invoice and a kite would be written out there and then, not many forwarding firms you could say that about in the eighties.
Hullo Charlie,
Thanks for forwarding those few jokes, pretty good they were. Now where were we ? Oh Yes the man in Milan, That was GRAHAM SKINNER. When he loaded us, you Pat Riley, many other and me, he was great. But when I started on for Ferry Freighting, to all of us he was a pratt. Lara in the office was a peach though.
Cheers, Archie.
karl2878:
heres 1 for some of you lads from london way who used to be regular to barcelona inthe mid late 80s enyone remember a guy called spanish kenny he lived in castadefelles in an appartment on the right before the coast road towards sitges he used to have 111 scania and used to say he couldnt go back to london he used to get his trailers in calais
Second home to me. Eat at Swiss max’s & disco at the Mosquito.
Archie Paice:
harry:
Bill had a way with words. He once told me he ran with these two new youngsters on TIR. ’ They stopped at every caff. They got rat assed every night & slept til 10 in the morning…I was impressed!!’
Hullo Harry,
I was always well impressed with Bill. He was a man of many different facets, he often used to tell you things when we stopped for a meal in the evenings, his stories were always really interesting and he was a really inteligent man. he was a Cornishman who went into the Army at a young age, he was in a Guards Regiment although I don’t remember which one. He was one of the first men to travel to the Middle East, he once showed me a piece of paper that he always carried with him amongst a lot of other bits and bobs, it was all hand written in Arabic and had a stamp on it. I was at the Iranian Border in 1967 Christmas Day he said. I do know that he was a very early pioneer because one day when I was in the offices in Verona completing paperwork I got talking to a huge either Danish or Swedish bloke, when he knew I was on for Ferry Freighting he asked me did I know Billy, he said he knew him in those early days, he said we used to sit having cay with the Customs in those times, paperwork was a pleasure, tell Billy Motte ? or Moppe ? was asking for him. Bill said that Christmas I was with one of the Managers of Sammy Williams and we were taking a [zb] Chopper, as he called it to Tehran. He worked for Sammy Williams for quite a long time and wound up going with this Sewage Liquidising Unit all over the place, a lot of the time he said was spent in Russia with it, apparently with an accompanied by a guard all the time. I also know he was quite a while with OHS. But he used to impress me most when he had a bottle of his favourite Vechia Romania, a whole bottle of the stuff.
Cheers, Archie.
‘Moppe’,Swedish guy by the name of Thomas Andreasson (I think that’s his surname,I always knew him as Moppe).
I used to work with him at Onsala Ã…keri in Gothenburg,he was telling me one day how he became an insulin dependant diabetic.He was sitting in the sand somewhere out in the middle east and put his hand into the sand and was bitten by a scorpion.
He didn’t trust going to any local doctor or hospital,so waited until he got back to Germany,by that time his hand was the size of a football and he was lucky not to lose it.
I can’t see that he would have been doing M/E in the late 60’s,or even early 70’s as he’s roughly the same age as me,so he would have only been about 12 or 13 in the late 60’s.
The last I heard from him was 3 or 4 years ago and he’s driving just Sweden now.
Top bloke though,and drinks like a fish!
KW:
Archie Paice:
‘Moppe’,Swedish guy by the name of Thomas Andreasson (I think that’s his surname,I always knew him as Moppe).
I used to work with him at Onsala Ã…keri in Gothenburg,he was telling me one day how he became an insulin dependant diabetic.He was sitting in the sand somewhere out in the middle east and put his hand into the sand and was bitten by a scorpion.
He didn’t trust going to any local doctor or hospital,so waited until he got back to Germany,by that time his hand was the size of a football and he was lucky not to lose it.I can’t see that he would have been doing M/E in the late 60’s,or even early 70’s as he’s roughly the same age as me,so he would have only been about 12 or 13 in the late 60’s.
The last I heard from him was 3 or 4 years ago and he’s driving just Sweden now.
Top bloke though,and drinks like a fish!
Hullo KW,
Well that was obviously not the same bloke I was talking to was it. This Guy was Huge, and as I said I am not certain whether he was Danish or Swedish, but certainly Scandinavian. This would have been about '84 or '85 when I met him and I should say that he was about my age, I was born in 1938, or a bit older. If it was your friend, by your reckoning he would have only been about 28 at that time.
Cheers, Archie.
Here’s a few pic’s I dug up of when I worked for Leggetts all them years ago. A quiet Monday morning at the Swiss border at Bachgraben, even though It was a dirt patch it was better than the old customs border at St Louis on the main road, which was where we had to clear our TIR carnet’s when I first started going there with W & M Woods, chaos wasn’t the word for it.
On this particular Monday the Swiss Hauliers decided to have a strike and blockade the border, organized by Frederici I’m lead to believe, this frightened the Swiss government because their country’s total strike rate for that year doubled to 1.
The Scania I think belonged to an O/D called Tony Wetherstone came from Waltham Abbey real nice feller
I’m sure this is Chis Owens, Tommy Peak the younger worked for this Swiss firm as well, Harry will put me right on that
Yeah,Tommy worked for the same outfit as Chris - Schmidts .And so did Gary Glitter for a while. what happened to Chris? Btw. I remember when you ,Ozzy sold up in London & moved oop North. You reckoned you were a millionaire, went round the shops buying everything [Tv’s & stuff] for cash & getting it half price. How did you end up at Spa?
Carl:
geoffo ive got toe or girard in mind altho it were a while ago so i could be wrong lol
Debeaux bought fairfreight out…then trans alliance bought Debeaux ot
cheers st220 thats right blue tilts if memory serves
text is french but some good pics of debeaux,s trucks
http://www.fierdetreroutier.com/photos/transporteurs/debeaux/europe.php
Carl:
cheers st220 thats right blue tilts if memory serves
yeah blue tilts and tautliners…your welcome
A few more from the Meadows stable.
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Flood lineup at Dover.
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Waiting in customs Dun Laoghaire for examination.
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1644 at Bosmans sHeerenberg  By [null](http://profile.imageshack.us/user/null) at 2011-02-19 Old 142 at Bosmans sHeerenberg
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New 143 in Holland.
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Lovely Roff Globetotter.
My first trucks
Must have made a bit by now…
Bet me money is gone soon …
richmond:
Bet me money is gone soon …
That looks like the same trailer that was pictured behind the Transcon’?
Ross.
bigr250:
richmond:
Bet me money is gone soon …That looks like the same trailer that was pictured behind the Transcon’?
Ross.
Yeah that was the same tailer, a peach, triaxle merriwether, with four lockers, twin spare wheel carriers, and a 2000lt belly tank, happy days…
richmond:
Yeah that was the same tailer, a peach, triaxle merriwether, with four lockers, twin spare wheel carriers, and a 2000lt belly tank, happy days…
OOh er,
richmond:
2000lt belly tank, happy days…
Sounds right up my street, the biggest belly tank I had was 1400lts under a tilt in the late 80’s, just nice for southern Spain 
Ross.
Spain, ya slacker, just off the boat…she weighed 19 ton shipping out empty though…