Welsh Night Out

Whenever I go down the M50 I see this crane, It must of been abandoned but I am amazed that someone could just leave such a marvelous machine to rot away.

I have always been fascinated with the stuff left to rot in peoples driveways, garages and fields.

I would love to have people send in any pictures they have of roadside wrecks they have seen rotting away abandoned by the roadside .

There is a book on American roadside wrecks written by will shier called Roadside Relics.



It looks amazing but I haven't had the pleasure of reading it yet because I only ordered it today.




On the way down to wales I had to pass this bulldozer.

It was easier to pass than the three Somerfield wagons driving in convoy down the M50 later.

I was going to Multidrop in Wales , two in Cardiff, one in Penarth, over to Swansea and then finally finish in Cardigan.

I arrived in Cardiff at 7 am and found the first drop was a council estate in the middle of Cardiff and not a very wide street so I had to walk up to the house and bring the pallet up in three pieces.

The next one in Cardiff was just a few miles away but he wasn't in so after trying the door, the window, the neighbour and around the back, I admitted defeat and carried the extra pallet around wales with me for the next two days.

I planned the next route through Cardiff with precision because it seems Cardiff wasn't made for trucks, I was winding and crawling through the town when I came across this crumbling relic!!
oh sorry wrong way round !

But Seriously I was really impressed with Cardiff as a city, but I don't want to drive a lorry through here ever again.
It was a real cross town trek and it didn't help having to drop 8 pallets of computers in a school playground off the tailfit. At break time!

I had to have an escort as I drove through the playground to the computer department and then unload them while the kids milled around.

I had to laugh when he uttered those immortal words "We've had bigger down here drive"

He also told me the last truck in here had took the guttering offwhen he left.

I squeezed out the way I came in and even with a banks man and an escort, I took a piece of guttering with me as well.

oops.


I got of Penarth and Cardiff and into the open after a while and started driving up into the hills.The road was the A484 to Cardigan and is about 26 miles of nearly single lane. There is room for two vehicles to pass but not really two many places where two trucks can pass.
This led to a few hairy moments with Artics from time to time.
I dropped off my last delivery at the Plumb centre in Cardigan and found a lay by for the night.


This is the route from the tom tom for my morning collection ...... In Bristol!.


My Collection was a warehouse just off the M48 so I had to cross the bridge and enter England this way.
You had to park your truck with the front wheels on these yellow lines ?


Weird.


After passing the Yellow line test, I went up to Cheltenham to collect more pallets for Scandinavia.

One of the collections was in here
No I didn't it would fit either.

I walked down and we got a sack barrow up to the truck, 18 cartons loaded onto the back doors.

I was only half way through the day, I still had a collection in Reditch and then I had to drop everything off in Hinkley.

6pm I arrived back in the yard and parked up for another day.