Fantastic, a list of weighbridges. Excellent site.Eileen Davison
I love it. A Boyce.
Lots of hard-work gone into the site, your pictures of the old Trucks are brilliant. Just great to see the old transport Cafe again. Keep up the good work Pete Dexter
Great site. Greetings from Finland. Marco Lehtonen
EXCELLENT, VERY INTERESTING. Dave Baker
Excellent site, vintage section fantastic.Chris Allman, Wrexham.
Great site...never seen one with such comprehensive coverage. :-) I owned a 1953 Wolesley 6/80 in 1967 thro' 1969. Didn't see one of those, but.... On the photo....... “http://www.chrishodgephotos.co.uk/pixcma2/mo06.jpg”...... with the Morris commercial ( Isis or Cowley ?) pick-up, the question is : "Anyone know the town ?"............. ANSWER : Harrow School and Chapel. Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex. As are the other photos locations of that Morris pick-up. I broke down going up that hill ( George St. ) Was delivering Fisons Fertilizer, back in summer of 1968 in a 1967/8 BRS. Ipswich Depot, 98 hp AEC Mercury artic, Fleet No 112.(Same engine the London Transport Route Master buses used ) Lift pump would not suck up fuel going up the hill. (Low fuel condition.) Police called BRS for me and got it towed. The road was narrow and I was hindering traffic. D.K.
A great web site, keep on trucking. Graham Carr
Your website is very interesting. David Swales
I signed guest book before you musn't have got it. Anyway Great site I was a truckdriver from the 60s great times, Thanks Robert(BOB) Moffat Bonnyrigg
Allan Wilson Excellent site. I have a 1948 K Bedford Special truck.
This site is the greatist. Drove trucks 43 years plowing sno in upstate N.Y., USA. Retired now. Drove 46 2647 8ton Oshkosh and Brockway trucks that went out of business in 1977.Thanks for the great site. Jack Terry
G.S. Morrall Transport, Yorkshire.Very good.
Wonderful web site. As a retired trucker of 45 years experience, some of the older English trucks brought back some superb memories of a job that was then both rewarding and enjoyable. Unlike today's rat race.
James Ostick
Thanks for a great site as a truck driver for 40 years it brought back many happy memories. As a point of interest the BP tanker at the start of the pictures had an internal door in the cab, you can just see the doors in the picture. This was to get onto the top of the truck without using exterior ladders. Also I actully drove the Leyland gas turbine when we had a demonstrator at Shell BP depot Wandsworth . Compared to the Scammell Highwaymen we were used to it was a real powerhouse. Regards C.F.Terry
What a great archive. I was looking around for a photo of a Volvo F86 as my Dad used to have a couple of them for hauling timber back in the 70s. He's still driving but nowdays it's a Volvo FL10 hookloader that he uses for his skip hire business in Somerset UK there's a photo of the new truck here http://www.hookloaders.com. I will see if I can find some photos of his old lorries and send them in. Thanks, George, Paris France
A quite nice site. If you are interested in old Finnish truck brand Vanaja, please visit my site in address personal.inet.fi/koti/vanaja Jukka
Very good. Ihin Albahlani
I have just spent 3 hrs looking at your photos. Bloody marvellous..can you find some Moggy ones.good luck.
bert S&CH
Fantastic pictures. do you do a lot of world traveling. My truck pictures are in www.hankstruckpictures.com Ron Grieve Aldergrove Canada
Sean Mackay. Great to see someone else who knows the D.R.Macleod fleet. Iit is a very impressive looking fleet which is getting to be a decent size now. They are probably one of the nearest hauliers to me as well.
Iain Shooglie Ferguson An Ex Volvo Irvine employee. Anyone know of any old Watson Bogie 6x4 or 8x4 F86 27s left.I would like to find one
Have just visited this site for the first time - superb! I have no links with the industry other than as a haulage enthusiast and truck modeller so this site is a wealth of information . Great photo sections, especially the D.R Macleod and Macaskill Haulage selections from Derek Morrison and Sean Mackay, one of my favourite local fleets.Thanks lads. Keep up the good work and I will definitely recommend this site to others
Grant Nairn
truck industry is so challenging
edwin abraham kasambala
I live in Kiev, Ukraine. I have great pleasure visit our site. Everything is very good but... You make mistakes in names of russian trucks. For example, www.photoarchives...calendarpicshome you write Kamaz on indeterminate age. This is wrong. The truck is KRAZ-255 tractor. If you want I will gave you more information about this truck.
With best wishes A Denis
(Corrected now and thanks.)
A Very good site.
Drew Davison, Kane Hatcheries Ltd.
Fantastic pics, better than any film star pinups. I would love to see a bonneted mercedes around 60s.Mmy dad drove one. anyone got one?
Sharon O
Brilliant site. Appreciate you printing my photos.
Sean Mackay
A realy amazing website
John Admiraal
A brilliant site, brought the memories flooding back.
Barryboy
Great, Jack
Nice website, especially historic pictures. Found some nice pictures of a Thames Trader NC 1962 same as I own in the Netherlands.
Regards Bernard Snikkers
WELL DONE
G.S.MORRALL TRANSPORT, BRADFORD
love the site and all old and new trucks
J Grocott
It is the best in the world
George Duncan
The truck industry is far too highly taxed, they need to come down by a lot
Scott Keith
Site well laid out easy to navigate and more importantly Industry Information and contacts and some very interesting commercial vehicle pictures.
Jim Griffin
Great site. Really enjoyed the archive pics. Cut my teeth on a Bedford J1 in early 70s. Greetings from New Zealand, Hans Steinz.
Through your site does anyone have photos of my Scania 142, B232 SKR. I bought it new in 1984 and she went to a new home in 1990. I went to several truck shows and had several pictures in the truck press.Also, does anyone know her present whereabouts.
Steve Trice (e-mail supplied. Please contact via this web site. Click here to e-mail.)
I love my truck and I kiss it.
Chris Johnson
Jules Grocott
Excellent
Married to a trucker so the industry is the best.
Hilary Moore
Really enjoyed looking at the pics of the vehicles. Thank you.
David Dowle
Lots of valuable information which has helped our transport become more alert to the loading issues
As always, a pleasure to browse through the site. Never miss an opportunity to recommend it to friends.
Bob James
FANTASTIC WEB SITE. One of the best I've ever been on. Will call back from time to time.
Pete
Love your site. I have a 1986 359 Peterbilt here in Canada.
Dave Bradbury
I just love old trucks and new trucks
Dougi Cherry
Archive pictures great to look back also enjoy the fun pictures
Pat Caulfield
Wish we had this type of racing in North Amercia . Awseome site.
James
Born free, taxed to death
CSA Road Haulage
A fantastic web site. Love the truckfest photos
Chris
Cool site, lots of info and really cool pictures. Keep up the good work.
John from Dublin
As I am only 15 I am not yet old enough to drive, but one day I hope to start my own truck company up. As for your site....I think its brilliant. The truck pictures are great, all the trucks you have for sale and what I've been looking for for ages.....the information about young drivers training is brilliant as I plan to do so when I am old enough. Keep up the great web site.
Dafydd Brian Tayor
What a fantastic site. Well done, a real great mixture. Miss the emergency vehicles at Ingliston though.
Karen
I come from Edinburgh where I was a truck mechanic. I served my apprenticeship on Iveco trucks and then I worked for Beaverbank Foden in Broxburn. I now live in Australia and miss all those British lorries. I have driven Macks, Kenworth Road Boss and many other trucks over here but they do not match up to British transport.
I work as manager at a haulage company and would like to send some pictures of our fleet. I think your web site is fantastic and I spend a lot of time looking at the old lorries.
Thank you for a great site. Derek Kelly, Melbourne
I am only 16 but my brother works for Scania Ely depot. Most of your lorries are in good condition. When I get older I am either going to run my own lorry firm or drive an HGV artic. When I buy T&D I always go to the back page and look at the lorries you have for sale.
Matthew Rayner
I think this is the most sorted site that I have been in.
Scott Thomson
This site is brilliant & cool
Jake
A very diverse and informative site. Just included our transmission business on your industry directory. Many thanks to Chris and the team from Eddie and all at Hindle.
Excellent. Grew up in the industry in England in the 50s. AEC, Maudslay fan. Now semi-retired drivng petrol tankers in western Canada.
Great stuff. Any old plant and construction stuff?
Peter Ferguson
Trucks are beautiful thats we believe in Malawi
Riaz Mahomed
Fantastic site. Just 'wasted' hours of my valuable time. Just love old trucks, (or lorries as you call them) specially the bonneted types. I am just restoring a 1958 Mercedes truck, (prime mover) with a looong bonnet. One vehicle you describe as a vehicle from USA or Canada??? Could it be a Humber Snipe Mk 2 or modified, with a modified bonnet? Looking at the guards and tyres, it could be. Your site gave me hours of pleasure and I will visit it again. With Kind Regards, Herby,
Weighbridge information is very well covered. Should save a lot of time, Kms and shunting. Well done.
Brian Dickson
This site is one of the most informative that I have found on this subject and the section on Recovery vehicles & Trade Plates is spot on and has put me right on a number of things, it is now placed in the fav's on my system. keep up the good work. ..&
Thank you. best regards Peter
First class site , i will visit often , i drove quite a lot of the vehicles , a long time ago and still keep photos of all . Thanks again . Peter
Hi, wanna thank you for a really wide selection of use truck in your page, I really ejoyed browsing the page. Also take my hat of to the UK standard of safety and building trucks for years. Keep the good work up from Lee over here in Barbados.
Lee Carson
Very good site. Very impressed on the pics
Jonathon Vincent
Hi again, great site but could do with a little upgrading. C'mon you old truckers, send in your unwanted photos to this site. Keep it up, see ya.
Alun Jones
Hi Everyone. First time I visited , very nice site and good to see somebody standing up for the road transport industry instead of running it down. Well done.
Andrei Szakalo
A big fan of trucks. Dad drives a truck. Grandpa got killed in a truck. My uncle drove a truck and I plan to drive.
Leonard Coppage
I enjoyed the vintage photos page. My father was a truck driver for over 30 years. I left school and became an apprentice mechanic in the haulage industry. Keep up the good work.
Jim McGuire
Fantastic selection of pictures in your archive section. Thank you.
Peter Smith
Fantastic website. When I left school I worked for a local haulage company as an apprentice mechanic and errand boy who ran a fairly large fleet , mostly Dodge. Some of the older Surrey or Kew models were, to use that modern term, real sheds. Your archive pictures are superb and bring back happy memories. Keep up the excellent work.
John Fellows
I purchased a picture from yourselves earlier in the year and the service received from yourselves was second to none and the quality of the photo was excellant. I would like to thank you and the web site is brilliant. My father has been a lorry driver for over fifty years and he loves to visit the web site and this brings back many happy memories for him.
Lorraine Middleton
A brilliant site. I have driven a lot of the older trucks, AEC Mandator, Ford Transcontinental, AEC V8, Dennis. Retired on a Renault 380 Turboliner doing Spain & Portugal. Keep it up.
Alun Jones.
How about a special section on weighbridges and their hunky operators. Good to have a photo of these keepers of the weight. The guy that works the weighbridge in Hillhouse Quarry, Troon is the best my goodness.....it's ME. Happy trucking, good site.
Tommy
Very interesting, enjoyed the older trucks as I have a VC Commer 1973, thing of the past here. Thanks for the tour thru the ages
Colin Dunn, New Zealand
This site is excellent but should try and get more breakdown lorrys in stock
Gary Longhurst
What a sight. Thanks for the trucks you have shown me. I've just bought and I went on your web sight and I loved it. Richard.
Thank you for the great, very informative and extremely varied site, equally interesting for a professional and for an enthusiast. I have become a bit of an addict viewing the archive CM photos as often as I can. Keep them coming. They are like a time capsule from the days where variety was the name of the game and the British truck industry was one of the strongest in the world and British buses operated in cities literally all around the world, Poland included. Can anyone explain why most European countries except Britain have managed to retain their indigenous truck manufacturers, Renault, Iveco, MAN, Volvo etc so that they went on to become international players. By the way, my friend Paul Hancox of Birmingham says that the mystery big wheeled Thornycorft captioned back at Basingstoke is a 4x2 Antar articulated earth scraper. The design apparently was a flop and never persued. The Stewart & Stevenson of Houston is the American contender for the massive MOD tender to supply trucks, light in this case for the British Army. The truck may be American but the cab looks Steyr to me.
Andrzej Bakowsky, Poznan, Poland
I really enjoyed your vintage and world pictures. Keep up the good work.
Len
Great site but I need to see prices on the site.
Netaai N Mgodi
Price of trucks would be much appreciated as sales office in not open at times to suit everyone.
Andrew
Thanks for a great site but you need more pics of trucks for sale
Thanks Jim
Hallo again, the GPO hired-in vans make a welcome contrast with the current hire fleets of Cargoes, MANs, DAF 45s and MB Sprinters don`t they. The hired van with Morris? in the caption is a normal control Commer, though I am not sure of the model except it`s probably a one tonner. Did you see the Scammell Mechanical Horse in the background of that photo?
Bill Aldridge
keep up the good work enjoyed the site
25 May 2002
I am now certain that the mystery truck is a Leyland Lynx. What is different about this one is the possible replacement cab, though it might just be an original one not built exactly to the normal Leyland design. The radiator is possibly a post war replacement and the bonnet sides of the normal Lynx had more than 3 louvres. That said, the vehicle underneath it all is a Lynx!
Bill Aldridge
17 May 2002
Good coverage in the Commercial Motor magazine. I buy it every week.
Darren Magee
17 May 2002
The mystery truck in the Archive Pictures is either a Leyland Cub or Leyland Lynx dating from about 1938. The cab looks similar to a normal control Thornycroft and although the radiator looks non standard I am pretty certain that it is a Leyland.
Bill Alridge
16 May 2002
It would be nice if there was a standard questionaire/procedure document available so that all the required legalities were adhered to whilst interviewing a potential new driver.A standard tick box form would be great.
15 May 2002
(We don't have one but are having a look at it. Editor)
Thanks for the fantastic old photographs put on view to see. I enjoyed your site tremendously. Keep em coming.
Charlie
8 May 2002
Thank you for being here.
John G
6 May 2002
Facinating stuff on your site. I am always interested how folks on the other side of the pond manage the business of trucking. My magazine is written for truckers by a trucker with 23 years of experience in North America....me. Keep up the good work.
Jim Park, Managing Editor of HighwaySTAR Magazine, Toronto, Canada.
5 May 2002
What a great picture of the taxi racing in the veterans. Does anyone know any more about it or when it stopped.
Tracey Shaw
2 May 2002
(I have a book on the history of Brooklands and there is not even a mention of it. Editor)
Thanks for the weighbridge guide. I've used it 3 or 4 times and it's saved me a lot of time & money.
Ted Birch
30 April 2002
The history archive photographs are fantasic. No wonder we have sore backs, the best thing to happen was power steering, then the heating system and we could scrap the blanket around the legs. How many long distance drivers have fibrosis in the neck?
Thomas Adams
ex P&O Roadtankers, Glasgow
27 April 2002
Great set of pictures from Commercial Motor, keep 'em coming. I have fond memories of driving a few of those beasts but wouldn't want to be doing it in one of them now.
Hugh Gardner
26 April 2002
Glad to see the budget didn't stuff us again. Goes to show that standing up for ourselves gets noticed. What about charging foreign trucks? It still sounds as if they are just thinking about talking about it.
Peter Cox
23 April 2002