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Hi All
Some of you I already know most I don't so I am looking forward to getting to know you.I am an HGV driver my job is driving an DAF CF 8wh Tipper delivering aggregates and tarmac in and around London.My photo intrest is General Haulage with a big liking for Stobart I also like preserved lorries Thames Traders are my favourite.

A warm welcome to the T&B Forum, we look forward to your photos and comments.

Welcome to T&B Forum, TARMACBOB.

I look forward to reading your messages and seeing your photographs.

Are you an owner-driver?

A warm welcome from the usually sunny Isle of Anglesey, Tarmacbob.

I also like Thames Traders (and 400e's) but have never seen inside one, let alone been inside one!

hello and welcome tarmacbob

Hello Bob and welcome to the forum, enjoy and all the best.

Hello and welcome aboard Bob, my1st lorry was a 6 wheeler Thames Trader flatback, I never actually drove it, I was a mate, and we went to Glasgow ex Halifax with a load of silicates in 45 gallon drums, all the way on the old roads, it belonged to a company called Wm. Aske of Water Lane in Halifax, and was battleship grey in colour, stick some pics on and we can all have a ganders mate.
Take it easy. :) Alex ....www.truckcentral.co.uk

Youngsters today wuddn't believe what used to happen.


Lorries towing drawbar trailers had to have a second man to apply the trailer brakes or place a chock behind a wheel (and were restricted to 20mph).

Greetings TarmacBob, from another Robert.

I used to, regularly, deliver to the Sainsbury's depot in Charlton. I quite often parked in Willoughby Way, behind Matalan.
Nowadays, I'm like a black cab driver, I don't go south of the river. However, I do get down to the quayside at Purfleet. Last time I was down there I got stopped, for a routine check, by the VOSA men.

Sainsurys site at Charlton
 

Hi Robert, the site at Sainsbury is now a building site. Barry

I'm not overly surprised. It is a long time since I last went there. They were talking about closing the smaller ones, like Charlton, Northfleet (since closed) and Hackbridge and replacing them with fewer SuperSized RDC's. Like the ones at Waltham Point and Hamms Hall, near Birmingham. There was talk of building one on the site of the old Joyce Green Hospital, near the Dartford Tunnel.
Since I changed jobs, over 8 years ago, the only one of theirs I have been to, is the one at Stoke-on-Trent.

The site at Charlton is now a super carbon nutrual RDC site for Sainsburys its got about 72 bays and will open in the new year...