Planes, trains and pizza boxes

I've been away all week and seeing as I only saw one lorry the whole time I thought i'd post a quick message with a few iPhone pics of the last week.

These first pictures were taken on my flight home.
I was horrified to find out I was on Ryanair, booked through the travel company we used.
We were pleasantly surprised with the service because unless you pay extra there isn't any service.Just a seat on a plane.





Parked secretly away is a rather large peice of scrap.




I was sent out to collect a load from Manchester and quickly realised that the orange boards had to come down.






The office hadnt mentioned any hazardous goods but The 7 trem cards ( now called a dangerous good description notice) were a giveaway.



A worse job than lorry driving has to be dressing up as a pizza box and standing next to traffic lights. This was the third one I saw in Birmingham.



Tuesday morning and the office are up to their old tricks again.

This was found in the back of the truck after my last drop but not a scrap of paperwork for it.

It was meant for a freight forwarder.

My first job after getting back was a 7 am drop in Acrington. It's a 3 hour drive and I was looking forward to a 1 hour kip on the bay while they tipped me.

I was given bay 4 but a Dutch wag and drag was on it. Instead of getting off the bay, he was walking round the yard shouting "Golden Vagina ,Golden Vagina" over and over again at any one who came near him. Most people ran a mile or looked at him like he was mad but lucky me, he came over and gave me his life story only stopping to shout "

Golden Vagina" at passers by. It was only when he told me he buys his tobacco from Luxemburg to make a liitle coffee money and pulled a pouch out of his jacket that I realised he was trying to sell us all Golden Virginia !!

Newsweek

My lorryday this week took me to a lot of the Newspapers.

The Guardian in Manchester and the Liverpool Echo were a few of the bigger ones.

In Liverpool huge presses were abandoned, gathering dust in a huge warehouse where all they do now is wash the vans.

I was delivering that crap that falls out onto the floor when you open them and then ends up straight in the bin.

Liverpool is a funny town, It looks great when you arrive at one end, but huge areas are being knocked down, Whole streets are in ruins.

I saw a fantastic car outside a shop, a true fan, Gerard’s face was on the other side, and maybe he’ll have to paint it white when they sell him to Real Madrid!

This trucker was in a rush, he went thundering past me pinning me in with the friendly tipper on my left as I was joining the M4

I’m having a lorryday away all this week and I’m leaving the IPhone and the lappy at home so Ill be back with some Spanish truck pics hopefully and maybe a new job If I’m lucky !

A Testing Week

This week was testing for a few reasons, The heat in London was pretty bad when you spend a lot of the day just sitting in traffic.

It was also testing because I was testing a new sat nav, This isn't just any sat nav, Its a Snooper Truckmate S7000 satnav, The Daddy of all satnavs.I haven't come to a conclusion yet, I need a lot more testing.........

These pictures were taken in Portsmouth. Its where they make the Sea King helicopter, among others.

I don't know if this boat was so big for the Landrover but it was going very very slow.

Into London and the standard of the homeless is at last improving, they don't have homes still but they do have access to broadband and furniture.

Some classic cars.

This is one of the largest tourist attractions in London, Madame Tussuad's.

This character was sitting on a bench in St Albans next to a man with just an eye for a head.

This car was smoking, but in a bad way.

When things go wrong, they really go wrong.

This is a car palace somewhere in London.

Behind this red truck is a classic Tipper like the ones used in Hell drivers the movie but they bloke wouldn't let me take a closer picture.

These are the friendly signs meeting you at Grays Enterprise park.

Duxford Museum.

This Jet fighter looked lost.

This is just a taster of things to come soon.