I'm now coming 73 and started 1965 as drivers mate all hand ball a forklift truck was a novelty, my driver Norman used to whack me about the head with newspaper, if the rope hitches were not at the same height, I loved him, and Norman is no longer with us, but I'll never forget him on our travels all over the UK, The jungle we always stopped and sometimes we were snowed in. I'll always my travels as a boy with Norman. Then at the age of 21 allocated my own truck the education I gained from still with me today I'm next birthday 73 and I'm still at it, only on three shifts a week, but Norman and the old boys now and then fill me with pride and the passage of time they were real men and all forgotten, but not our Norman, when I'm driving the lorry I look up to summer sky and speak with him and tell him I'm still going and your with me 👍
OMG! - thank you for sharing - i was a kid hitching over Shap from Newcastle back to Cheshire many times in late 60's - maybe I saw you - & thank you for sharing so clearly about Norman x
... I will have to put a visit to Shap on my bucket list, I have driven a Bedford model S with vacuum brakes and had brake fade with them, fair play to the Pioneers Truck Drivers back in the day is why we have the great safe trucks too drive today.....................
Very good and interesting video thank you for posting ..as a driver for different firms since 1994. Its all good to hear what the drivers were faced with harsh conditions etc..
Mr Tennant is absolutely correct,my first lorry was a Foden FG,, vacuum over fluid brakes,handbrake was a single drum on the back of the first drive axle,stall on a hill, problems to say the least
Robsons of Carlisle used to come to Campeys warehouse Hambleton nr Selby opposite where i lived . They were very smart lorrys back in the day . Every boy wanted to be a long distance lorry driver well i did.
The dangers of Shap were the overloading of lorries and their braking systems were less efficient than they are today. What is often overlooked is that the Penrith to Carlisle stretch is a much more dangerous road with all its blind summits and changing widths, and there would be extra traffic off the A66.
An old driver who I worked with many years ago would tell me as well as braking issues over shap would be pulling 10 ton with a 120 horsepower engine and needing to change down the box. The fear was cos no synchro boxes back then if you missed the gear you were going for that would be it game over you were at a stop and wouldn’t have enough power to get yourself moving on the incline. The good old days eh 🤔😊
I'm now coming 73 and started 1965 as drivers mate all hand ball a forklift truck was a novelty, my driver Norman used to whack me about the head with newspaper, if the rope hitches were not at the same height, I loved him, and Norman is no longer with us, but I'll never forget him on our travels all over the UK,
The jungle we always stopped and sometimes we were snowed in.
I'll always my travels as a boy with Norman.
Then at the age of 21 allocated my own truck
the education I gained from still with me today I'm next birthday 73 and I'm still at it, only on three shifts a week, but Norman and the old boys now and then fill me with pride and the passage of time they were real men and all forgotten, but not our Norman, when I'm driving the lorry I look up to summer sky and speak with him and tell him I'm still going and your with me 👍
OMG! - thank you for sharing - i was a kid hitching over Shap from Newcastle back to Cheshire many times in late 60's - maybe I saw you - & thank you for sharing so clearly about Norman x
... I will have to put a visit to Shap on my bucket list, I have driven a Bedford model S with vacuum brakes and had brake fade with them, fair play to the Pioneers Truck Drivers back in the day is why we have the great safe trucks too drive today.....................
Very good and interesting video thank you for posting ..as a driver for different firms since 1994. Its all good to hear what the drivers were faced with harsh conditions etc..
You're welcome.
You might like 'they take the high road' it's about BRS wagons moving cement to a Scottish hydro dam.
@@walt-sh7ju thank you will have a look .
Mr Tennant is absolutely correct,my first lorry was a Foden FG,, vacuum over fluid brakes,handbrake was a single drum on the back of the first drive axle,stall on a hill, problems to say the least
Robsons of Carlisle used to come to Campeys warehouse Hambleton nr Selby opposite where i lived . They were very smart lorrys back in the day . Every boy wanted to be a long distance lorry driver well i did.
The dangers of Shap were the overloading of lorries and their braking systems were less efficient than they are today. What is often overlooked is that the Penrith to Carlisle stretch is a much more dangerous road with all its blind summits and changing widths, and there would be extra traffic off the A66.
An old driver who I worked with many years ago would tell me as well as braking issues over shap would be pulling 10 ton with a 120 horsepower engine and needing to change down the box. The fear was cos no synchro boxes back then if you missed the gear you were going for that would be it game over you were at a stop and wouldn’t have enough power to get yourself moving on the incline. The good old days eh 🤔😊
My late father was old school truck driver he started driving after ww2 until he retired all a roads no motorways only A or B roads
I would not like to commute over that road again I used do in a Albion reiver six wheeler
The car over taking on the bend was taking a bit of a risk .
I came to read the comments to see if anyone else had noticed that.
well spotted by both.