Early start for me JAN2nd

[The laird]

If any of you lot are on the A1 tomorrow have a look out for me in my truck ,I’m setting off from base at 04*00 am for tees docks then heading back up the road around 10*30 so if you see a really handsome driver in a Scania with GTS on it blue in colour it might be one of the other guys?joking apart look out for this saddo ?

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Drive safe. I know you will, it's the other b's you have to look out for!

 

[tonybvi]

If any of you lot are on the A1 tomorrow have a look out for me in my truck ,I’m setting off from base at 04*00 am for tees docks then heading back up the road around 10*30 so if you see a really handsome driver in a Scania with GTS on it blue in colour it might be one of the other guys?joking apart look out for this saddo ?

Why such an early start?!!
Seriously I note that an awful lot of lorry drivers head off early doors, including the timber hauliers round us. I have often wondered why they start so early - what’s wrong with a decent start time later in the day. I’m sure there’s a good reason for it but never having been involved in the haulage industry I can’t see why.

 

[The laird]

Why such an early start?!!
Seriously I note that an awful lot of lorry drivers head off early doors, including the timber hauliers round us. I have often wondered why they start so early - what’s wrong with a decent start time later in the day. I’m sure there’s a good reason for it but never having been involved in the haulage industry I can’t see why.

All to do with traffic tony as your time on the Tachomaster gets eaten away if you are stuck in traffic

 

[tonybvi]

Thankyou Gordon. I never thought of that - I thought it must be something to do with pick-up or drop-off times at the depots. I’m glad that there’s still things for me to learn at my age!
The other day I was chatting to a fellow motorhomer who also drives timber wagons and learnt why most of the log lorries going into our local forest have what look like air lines or hydraulic pipes running from the hubs of the drive wheels to under the tractor cab chassis - another great revelation to me. University Challenge here I come!
Tony

 

[The laird]

Thankyou Gordon. I never thought of that - I thought it must be something to do with pick-up or drop-off times at the depots. I’m glad that there’s still things for me to learn at my age!
The other day I was chatting to a fellow motorhomer who also drives timber wagons and learnt why most of the log lorries going into our local forest have what look like air lines or hydraulic pipes running from the hubs of the drive wheels to under the tractor cab chassis - another great revelation to me. University Challenge here I come!
Tony

Yeah they can alter tyre pressures so they don’t get stuck ,I presume that’s what you mean Tony?

 

[tonybvi]

Yep - that’s what he told me, Gordon. Apparently it also reduces damage to the forest tracks by lowering the pressure. Simply raise pressures from inside the cab when they hit the proper roads again.

 

[Chris356]

Them loggers drive like cnuts when we were in kintyre in our T5 we had them nearly touching our bumper at around 60mph think they were Volvo fh I just pulled off out of the way wherever I could happed a few times

 

[jeffmossy]

Some mornings if I leave our yard at 6.30am to drive 10 miles into Manchester city centre I can clock up over 2 hours driving time stuck in the traffic , it has even been known for me to clock up over 4 hours on a really bad day , so that means I then have to take a 45min break before I can even go to my second job , and they wonder why there is over 100,000 driver jobs vacant