I started on Albions on steel haulage out of Sheffield in 1968.7637 WJ was my first one,a Reiver.Then onto a Clydesdale artic with a splitter lever at the back of the cab and a BTC four-in -line trailer.You had to be a contortionist changing bloody gear but soon got used to it.Graduated onto a Leyland Badger 9902 FZ ex Northern Ireland Trailers and then a Leyland Octopus FWJ 975C,a nice motor.
When the ergo cabs came out I was on market work and had an AEC Mercury four-wheeler and a Mercury unit-both could catch racing pigeons
.Also a 6-wheeled TK(underpowered rubbish),a KM 6-Wheeler (much better) and an AEC MK5 Mandator ex Leathers Chemicals,Bradford.This unit had been round t'world twice I reckon and threw a piston at Burton at 0200 one saturday morning en route to Birmingham market.We'd only had it a week!
Aye them were the days.
More to follow.
Chris.