It was a regional programme shown only in the ATV Midlands area on Mondays after News At Ten but later moved to Sunday teatimes as the current affairs element of the God Slot
Times have changed, get up at diffrent times most day's, no camaraderie, no transport cafe's, just shit money shit companies and computer programs and wet behide the ear cretins running the show.
All those British men working. We gave it all away over the last 50 years, mates. 2000 years to build our nation....50 years to destroy it by letting everyone in.
My old father in law drove for years tramping all over the country. They were a differant breed to todays drivers. He slept on a piece of wood with a cot mattress across the seats. No night heaters or luxaries like todays trucks. He was a week off retiring after christmas and went back to work so he could park the old girl up in his words. He had a fatal accident and never got to retire after 40 odd years of it. BOB Dodds a legend in his time amongst truckers in his day.
Loved the DEUTZ truck I had they were some of the BEST back in the mid 70s, trucks were trucks then, drivers were drivers, the food was the food, and we did not have all the BULL SHIT you have now like cctv in cabins watching you every second, the 70s were when men where men....My lit up michelin men on my cabin were great and trucking was more relaxing then too many a holes on the road today.
The 1974 Scania in this video only lasted until 1983 ...You had to really concentrate all the time driving these old-school lorries... No automatic gearbox D...N...R (Drive..Neutral...Reverse) on these old-school lorries.. The UK Government changed to law so if you passed your driving test in a manual car ...Then you passed your lorry test in an automatic lorry ....you could drive a manual lorry.... This is INSANITY..... You would not have a clue how to drive this manual gearbox lorry if you had never driven it before... Further proof the UK Government is a set of ass-clowns Edit...... Did you also notice the lack of side impact crash protection on the trailer? at 09:35 in this video.
I used to go to scotland with my dad and uncle when i was about 11/12 if i remember my dad drove a foden my uncle drove a guy engine cover used to in the cab I'd fall asleep on it specially in the winter rope and sheeting in them days 58 yeats ago sheets used to be rock solid trying to roll them up on top of load taught me how to do double dollies great times and seeing this clip brought back so many memories 10 bob for a full english on the east lancs going over the shap great experience for kid really enjoyed watching thanks
Glad I found this . As a truck driver I find it interesting to look back at them years and see how different it was . Less traffic and restrictions and better drivers facilities ie transport cafes and digs . Although the trucks are much more comfortable and driver friendly. I really appreciate people like Pete and my grandad who drove back then . Real men
What a dreadful diet if they eat in the transport cafe every day, all that fat 😱 By the time she finished interrogating them their meal would have been clap cold 😮 I’d say he slept well after all those incessant questions 😱
Im 39 and drove since 19 years old on artics ,, i can rope and sheet and do a dolly knots ,,, think im the last of those trained to do that ,,, now you cant find drivers that can driver manual gear boxes ,, its nothing against them just the times we live in ,,,, love watching this film reminds me of my late grandad and father god bless them ❤❤
So much has changed in such a short space of time. Even little things, for example theyre dropping off mining equipment to be shipped for use in China. No doubt that relationship has reversed these days
As a driver of 73 vintage this brings back loads of memories, and mostly good ones. Drivers were given a wagon worth thousands and a load worth thousands more, and unsupervised were expected to get it delivered in a timely fashion, find a return load, deliver that, and occasionally phone the yard, for any instructions, from a phone box if you could find an unvandalised one! Flatbed work is rarely seen now, drivers just draw the curtains or shut the doors. Rope and sheet or chain were the order of the day on general haulage, and it could be anything hauled. Hay or straw, agri fertiliser, steel, tinplate, copper ingots (don’t stop for anything), rice pudding, tractors, palletised food or soft drinks, fresh fruit or veg, sacks of spuds on the flat, pipes, concrete sections, bricks or blocks, Catchweight sacks (up to 2cwt [100kg] self loaded on the flat, boxes of shoes, iced fresh fish in boxes…… oh my head hurts just thinking of the variety of loads, but we were independent minded, got on with it, and sorted out minor mechanical issues and changed flat or blown out tyres by the roadside on our own - no phoning for tyre services to do it for us. It was a great life, hard but rewarding personally and in the bank account. Stood me in good stead for the rest of my life - independent and focused. Great people lorry drivers every one😊
Omg, if only you could see the future! When you compare a drivers lot in the 70`s with the absolute bollocks that goes on now it borders on the criminal whats been done to the job. I ended my HGV career way too early due to discrimination by the authorities against decent hard working, & resourceful truckers to go about their work in the manner they had been accustomed to, singled out with arcane rules & regulations which made the work for me & many of my colleages unbearable. We won`t even go into the lack of investment into the industry regarding infrastructure, i.e. roads, safe parking, & keeping diesel prices & road tax at levels where our companies could actually compete fairly with other European countries.
“ car drivers do silly things at you “ !!!! Last Tuesday on the A1 up near Berwick-upon-Tweed About 8.30 Heading north waiting at traffic lights A class 1 HGV going south swerved on purpose at me only yards away , the trailer was snakeing out of control behind him missing us by inch’s
