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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Mysteryman on 24 September 2010, 20:04:18
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Channel 5....now!! Silly truckers.
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:o Half a billion pounds of turnover a year; making jobs for 5000.......very impressive! :y
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They have a depot near here,
they always have "spotters" standing outside.
odd people :D
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They have a depot near here,
they always have "spotters" standing outside.
odd people :D
totaly sad if there was a sad meter it would of overloaded by now.
Train spotter-ok can handle
Bus spotter-should lie down in front of train.
stobart spotter-well any sugestions. I say needs help(doctor+pills) ;D
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and Im sure its the same ones I see looking at trains,
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I found that quite interesting. Not a patch on trawlers, ice road truckers etc.
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There's a bloke who sits in a bus stop in Ashford, he gets all excited when a lorry comes along, stands up and everything, he's of the odd variety.
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I though the directionally challenged tanker driver was a bit of a pratt!
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I though the directionally challenged tanker driver was a bit of a pratt!
I was disappointed in the £8 an hour bit. Not much for throwing a 40 tonner round the motorways of Britain.
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And the ex-chef crane pilot! Kinnell ;D
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I though the directionally challenged tanker driver was a bit of a pratt!
I was disappointed in the £8 an hour bit. Not much for throwing a 40 tonner round the motorways of Britain.
That is down to the EU borders being opened and drivers travelling here and willing to work long days for that, part of the reason I came off the wagons!
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There's a bloke who sits in a bus stop in Ashford, he gets all excited when a lorry comes along, stands up and everything, he's of the odd variety.
got one of those in bordesley green, brum. there everyday, thumbs up to the passing traffic. he is a local landmark.
(http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b460/tapper888/tomfatherted.jpg)
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There's a bloke who sits in a bus stop in Ashford, he gets all excited when a lorry comes along, stands up and everything, he's of the odd variety.
got one of those in bordesley green, brum. there everyday, thumbs up to the passing traffic. he is a local landmark.
(http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b460/tapper888/tomfatherted.jpg)
Is the dancer still there? Jeez, he's been there years!!!
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There's a bloke who sits in a bus stop in Ashford, he gets all excited when a lorry comes along, stands up and everything, he's of the odd variety.
got one of those in bordesley green, brum. there everyday, thumbs up to the passing traffic. he is a local landmark.
(http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b460/tapper888/tomfatherted.jpg)
Is the dancer still there? Jeez, he's been there years!!!
thats the fella, he had a time out for a bit when some lowlife nicked his walkman.
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I though the directionally challenged tanker driver was a bit of a pratt!
Nearly choked on my pint when the narrator said he'd "emptied his load!!" ;D ;D ;D
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I didn't watch the programme but I think Stobart pulled a smart move when they created their cult following. Such a good idea no-one has copied it in the trucking industry AFAIK.
It actually smacks of a well-run business as well. Uniforms and washed trucks. :y
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Regarding the "spotters" here in the port town of Immingham we have an old boy by the name of George. He has an F reg VW LT campervan painted up in the old Stobart colours with his nameplate in the window, stickers all over...home is where you park it etc.
He drives out to the A180 & flashes/waves at every wagon heading in or out of the dock. Been told he's a retired driver...must've loved the job more than i do!!! ::)
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i think the tv programmers have missed a trick. instead of focusing on all these professions to make tv, why not round up these odd types from around the country and put them in a tv studio together.
scurb that, thats jerry springer. ::)
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i think the tv programmers have missed a trick. instead of focusing on all these professions to make tv, why not round up these odd types from around the country and put them in a tv studio together.
If nothing else the UK must lead the field in breeding eccentrics! ::)
scurb that, thats jerry springer. ::)
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I though the directionally challenged tanker driver was a bit of a pratt!
You got to give the bloke some credit he put his hands up to it.
It's not as bad as what I done earlier this year I took a 50yarder to landfill with air in it. I pick the same skip back up i'd just emptied :-[ :-[ :-[ ;D
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I though the directionally challenged tanker driver was a bit of a pratt!
You got to give the bloke some credit he put his hands up to it.
It's not as bad as what I done earlier this year I took a 50yarder to landfill with air in it. I pick the same skip back up i'd just emptied :-[ :-[ :-[ ;D
I can go better than that! Had a younger guy pass his class1 so the boss gives him his first artic run, he'd done about 18 months on an 18t rigid prior to this incident. Anyway, 24 pallets of stuffed toys (if you remember the boots wild animals they were giving away about 6 or 7 years ago?) to various points, first drop Leamington. After 3 hours and no word, he was told to call in when he'd tipped each drop, so the traffic office call him to make sure he's alright. Convo went something like this:-
Traffic: Are you alright?
Driver: Yes mate I'm on the M25.
T: WTF?
D: On my way to Lymington!
His first debrief as a class1 didn't go well ;D ;D
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They dont seem so good now they are no longer really Eddie Stobart as such.
These are quite interesting!
(http://www.therailwaycentre.com/NewSitePOD/POD19_09.jpg)
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They dont seem so good now they are no longer really Eddie Stobart as such.
These are quite interesting!
(http://www.therailwaycentre.com/NewSitePOD/POD19_09.jpg)
Ahhh! Boys' names. That's interesting! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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interesting the Volvo FH cost £80k and the MAN truck £150k, unless that was including the tanker? :-/