Loaded up and trucking!!

[grasstype]

That's an impressive looking truck.

 

[Tomtrac]

One for you boys who spread lime if you have a body for it
I wouldnt know the tonnes but must be lighter than a tractor tanker set up if used for slurry and its
wet wet wet

 

[JP1]

The boss has a series of buildings being fabricated in our works for his own 2000 sow unit

 

[JeepJeep]

Rear Axle of the Unit overloaded...

 

[Agriimark]

 

[Chae1]

Whats that sticking up above roof?

 

[CrevisbigX]

Whats that sticking up above roof?

Looks like the sampling arm on a mill weighbridge

 

[Agriimark]

Yes it's a sampling arm

 

[solo]

Pretty sure that truck has been here but not recently. Straight pipe with a lovely sound. I could hear it from miles away

 

[Farmer Bill]

Mark Russell he’s a great bloke
Got a lovely long nose Scania too with an interesting past

 

[Agriimark]

Pretty sure that truck has been here but not recently. Straight pipe with a lovely sound. I could hear it from miles away

Yes i could hear it coming before i saw it, lovely sound to it

 

[Agriimark]

Mark Russell he’s a great bloke
Got a lovely long nose Scania too with an interesting past

Yes that was in the yard to but left my phone in the loading shovel [emoji85] called "the grain train" if i remember correctly on the trailer

 

[bactosoil]

lorry and drag bringing machines home from site

 

[sean m]

both off for mot prep tomorrow,another dear week

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I feel your pain.

I’m getting my old AEC milk tanker ready. Fitted a new fuel tank and header tank. The new fuel tank has led to many niggling problems, eventually replaced the whole fuel line, every single thing faffed about with except the pump.

Got that sorted so trucked off to fill up with fuel. Stood in the kiosk queue I spotted a leak.........from the brand new fuel tank. Got to pump it all out now and repair that.

Bloody things break your heart, don’t they?

 

[Sheep]

both off for mot prep tomorrow,another dear week View attachment 846926

How did she go?

 

[sean m]

How did she go?

not in till tuesday,fingers crossed,spanner man seems up-beat

 

[Andrew]

not in till tuesday,fingers crossed,spanner man seems up-beat

GT and Mark?

 

[roscoe erf]

GERRY HILL – THE LITTLE MAN WITH A BIG HEART.

My name is Philip Nash. I repair heavy trucks in Braintree, Essex. I work within my own business which has been established for almost forty years.
I would like to say how honoured I am to have known an owner driver by the name of Gerrard Hill.

This man stood barely five feet tall. He came from Todmorden, Lancashire. He had a heart of gold and was one of the transport industry’s rapidly disappearing true characters. Gerrard owned an American White truck which was V registered around 1979. He owned the truck for about twenty years, and during that time he drove it all over the Middle East and throughout Europe.
To say that his truck was a very large part of his life would be an understatement. Gerrard, or Gerry to his friends, virtually lived for that truck.
I maintained Gerry’s White truck for many years, and we became good friends. Travelling across Europe in my van to get Gerry’s truck rolling again after the odd breakdown,something that I enjoyed doing and I know that Gerry’s appreciated it. Occasions such as a wiring burn out at the Neuburgring race circuit in Germany and the water pump failure in Stockholm, Sweden bring back such fond memories for me.
The hypocritical, parasitic politicians that pretend to run this country of ours betrayed Gerry. I guess that it would be fair to say that he was not an angel, but who is? Gerry did the job right, and always tried to comply with the rules. All he wanted was to make ends meet and, like most truck operators through history, at times found it extremely hard. Nevertheless, Gerry wanted to continue running his White indefinitely because of his love for the truck. He told me this.
I forget dates, and even what years things happened, but it was about nine years ago that Gerry stopped for a break in Belgium when five Iraqui men slit the roof of his tilt, climbed into his trailer and laid on top of his loads, urinating into it.
It was on the Customs bank in Dover that these creatures were found and Gerry was arrested. The Iraquis were whisked away in a mini bus and are probably still here today. Gerry had his truck taken away from him, and a £10,000 fine imposed on him.
Gerry never worked again from that day. Between us we managed to get his truck back from Customs and Excise, and it ended up in my yard in Braintree. He didn’t pay the fine, because he didn’t have it.
Despite my offer to help him get started again, Gerry could not. He was a broken man, and he was a proud man. He had been made bankrupt over this disgraceful fiasco and could not face some of the people involved.
Gerry, who was always a heavy smoker, sat in his chair and smoked, and smoked. Over the last few years he became weaker and weaker and suffered from emphysema for several years. They took his truck and they took his life, and he just lost the will to carry on.
It was a sad day when his wife, Pauline, phoned me to say that Gerry had died. Pauline asked me to go up to Lancashire with his old truck to take him on his last trip to the crematorium. The truck incidentally had stayed in Essex. I had sold it to a close friend on Gerry’s behalf, who takes really good care of it and only uses it for showing these days.
So off to Lancashire we went with a home made platform over the fifth wheel. Gerry had quite a large family and they all seemed very close. It was very emotional that day as I turned into the top of Gerry’s street with his coffin on the back, because for all those people it was the first time they had seen his truck since it was taken away several years before.
Gerry is now resting in peace, but what of the politicians who are responsible for destroying him? When will they be brought to account?

 

[bumkin]

GERRY HILL – THE LITTLE MAN WITH A BIG HEART.

My name is Philip Nash. I repair heavy trucks in Braintree, Essex. I work within my own business which has been established for almost forty years.
I would like to say how honoured I am to have known an owner driver by the name of Gerrard Hill.

This man stood barely five feet tall. He came from Todmorden, Lancashire. He had a heart of gold and was one of the transport industry’s rapidly disappearing true characters. Gerrard owned an American White truck which was V registered around 1979. He owned the truck for about twenty years, and during that time he drove it all over the Middle East and throughout Europe.
To say that his truck was a very large part of his life would be an understatement. Gerrard, or Gerry to his friends, virtually lived for that truck.
I maintained Gerry’s White truck for many years, and we became good friends. Travelling across Europe in my van to get Gerry’s truck rolling again after the odd breakdown,something that I enjoyed doing and I know that Gerry’s appreciated it. Occasions such as a wiring burn out at the Neuburgring race circuit in Germany and the water pump failure in Stockholm, Sweden bring back such fond memories for me.
The hypocritical, parasitic politicians that pretend to run this country of ours betrayed Gerry. I guess that it would be fair to say that he was not an angel, but who is? Gerry did the job right, and always tried to comply with the rules. All he wanted was to make ends meet and, like most truck operators through history, at times found it extremely hard. Nevertheless, Gerry wanted to continue running his White indefinitely because of his love for the truck. He told me this.
I forget dates, and even what years things happened, but it was about nine years ago that Gerry stopped for a break in Belgium when five Iraqui men slit the roof of his tilt, climbed into his trailer and laid on top of his loads, urinating into it.
It was on the Customs bank in Dover that these creatures were found and Gerry was arrested. The Iraquis were whisked away in a mini bus and are probably still here today. Gerry had his truck taken away from him, and a £10,000 fine imposed on him.
Gerry never worked again from that day. Between us we managed to get his truck back from Customs and Excise, and it ended up in my yard in Braintree. He didn’t pay the fine, because he didn’t have it.
Despite my offer to help him get started again, Gerry could not. He was a broken man, and he was a proud man. He had been made bankrupt over this disgraceful fiasco and could not face some of the people involved.
Gerry, who was always a heavy smoker, sat in his chair and smoked, and smoked. Over the last few years he became weaker and weaker and suffered from emphysema for several years. They took his truck and they took his life, and he just lost the will to carry on.
It was a sad day when his wife, Pauline, phoned me to say that Gerry had died. Pauline asked me to go up to Lancashire with his old truck to take him on his last trip to the crematorium. The truck incidentally had stayed in Essex. I had sold it to a close friend on Gerry’s behalf, who takes really good care of it and only uses it for showing these days.
So off to Lancashire we went with a home made platform over the fifth wheel. Gerry had quite a large family and they all seemed very close. It was very emotional that day as I turned into the top of Gerry’s street with his coffin on the back, because for all those people it was the first time they had seen his truck since it was taken away several years before.
Gerry is now resting in peace, but what of the politicians who are responsible for destroying him? When will they be brought to account?

that is a very sad tale sounded like a real good chap