70s & 80s into the 90s then the British haulage industry just disappeared, now all I see is East European trucks on our roads, a sad old timer looking back onto some found memories of a time never to be seen again.....thank you for posting.

A great selection of pictures of trucks from times when a person was a lot younger and nice music to go with thanks

do any of the old school drivers remember the Locarno Ballroom in Hull? Hull was a regular night out for us, We took carbon black from Avonmouth to the docks. Myself and a couple of other BRS drivers from other depots, went to the Halloween Ball at the Locarno circa 1969 . All of the digs in Hull were great, clean and good food.

Very thanks for perfect work . Nice years trucking and quality and pure music. Henry from CZ.Bye

Yet another great collection

Great to see my old truck in this one

Brilliant buddy ❤

Great british trucks a great mark in British Transport

A fantastic selection of photos

Thanks for including my Foden 4000 series at 16:43 , I took that photo at Hints quarry in Staffordshire over 20 years ago

Those were the times ... remember the ERF and Foden lorries at the Truck Grand-Prix at Nürburgring in the mid 90ies 💪 Great collection, i especially like the old Transcontis ! Best regards from south Germany

Nice video, great song that ended at 3.50 !

If Dependable Vehicle Transporters had those (3xMK1 and 1xMK2) Lotus Cortinas today, theyd be £200k worth of goods on the trailer!

Love it, Me & Dad in a Guy Big j4T doing 65 mph with 20 tons of newsprint at 5am from Ellsmere Port to the Cirecester County gazzete just as the dawn broke on the M5, with a 9v battery powering a transístor rádio scream8ng out George McRea singing 'Rock me baby'- just audible over the 220 Cummins. Although he never let my have a piss, só I had to use a tiny bottles sometimes. LOL, I was 10 yrs old. I prefered his new Scania 110 super-(MDM273L) but that company only paid £40/ wk But with the Noisy(&faster Guy Big J)-he could earn £60/week. (SDM700M)- and the Guy only had a 6 speed David Brown box with no synchro. Could not believe a few yrs later when he had a new F12- with 'Stereo' you could hear at 75 mph. Wow.

Yep lived the dream doing European,35 years later. Nothing left but missed all the great old times we stress we cryed but boy did we laugh

What ever happened to Paddock Wood I used to tip fruit and veg trucks from there all the time in the old days. Does anyone remember Norman Clow haulage ??? From Leicester I think 🤔🤔🤔

Lotus Cortina's on the transporter 👍

Blimey. Seeing Syms and Trotmans brought back good and bad memories from Swindon. Shame you didn't find any orange and black Dow Freight wagons from the same era. Or better still some Radclive 89s and F12s from Faringdon.

@truckinghistorymydiecastco5274

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If you check the older videos you will find my friend 👌 😉

@1chish

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@@truckinghistorymydiecastco5274 Seems like a plan mate .. 👍👍

Looking for any Dobson of Edinburgh or as they later became Dobson Distribute. Based out of Straiton,Loanhead,Edinburgh.

Love the old trucks,driven alot of them but the music gets on my tits.Sounds like a super market.

VERY NICE, BUT I HATE RIGHT SIDE STEERING !!!!!!!

@stupididiot6116

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……..makes us Brits stand out from the crowd ! Why would a British Haulier want a left hand drive truck ? I’ve spent over 20 years driving HGV’s all over Europe .One of my old bosses asked me if I’d prefer my next truck to have left hand drive seeing as I spent more time in Europe than in the Uk I told him no way ! I want to keep my British identity and stand out from all the rest of the Johnnie foreigner trucks 😉!

@1chish

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@@stupididiot6116 I always found it quite handy going up and down from the Blanc on the old roads past the Monkey House and to Aosta. Looking into a valley out the window sharpened the eyesight no end! Some Italian areas used to demand the trucks were Right Hand Drive because of the mountain roads.

@stupididiot6116

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@@1chish ….always used the tunnel de frejus when going into Italy . The drive is beautiful going through Chambery in France and heading towards the Alps. Used to work for a firm in Birmingham that did work for Anglo overseas and this involved a lot of work into France ,Switzerland & Italy . Used to always backload out of a firm in Bergamo called Intertransporti with groupage back to the uk . Used to stop at a truck stop regularly by Milan ( I’ve forgotten the name) but there used to be an old guy who sat in a chair and you bunged him a couple of quid to make sure you could get parked up in such a way that you could get away easily the next morning without being blocked in . Used to fill up in Suza on the way back as I headed back towards frejus tunnel . 👍🚛

@stefankassbohrer2765

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@@1chish Correct - like old swiss buses, too. My father was a bus driver in the 70ies, he told me it was an adventure to drive in the narrow and steep swiss Alpine passes with a LHD coach (Mercedes O 302). In addition, the swiss trucks and buses there were only 2.30 m wide, not 2.50 m. That was also an advantage. Best regards from Swabia

@1chish

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@@stefankassbohrer2765 Swiss registered trucks were also 2.3 M wide but you could drive from Basel to Chiasso on the autobahn paying a transit fee with 2.5 M trucks as a concession. The wider 2.6 M Fridge trucks were not allowed but we tried to get past the border guards with them. I got caught once and had to go all the way back round to Mt Blanc! I used to do a run from the UK to Como / Chiasso TIR park at Monte Lucino and then on round northern Italy. Always loved the Swiss transits.