| Name: | Geoff Butt |
| Email: | butgeoff{at}hotmail.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | Tatsfield Kent |
| Comments: | Mike thanks to your comments page back in touch with steve lacey after about 20 years have got some pictures of his later scania somewhere will look them out and send to you sadly have no ARC photos cheers Geoff. |
| January 3, 2012 17:27:51 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Geoff Butt |
| Email: | butgeoff{at}hotmail.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | Tatsfield Kent |
| Comments: | Hi Mike what a great site worked with Steve Lacey when he had a bulk tipper trailer for now dissapeared Roger Fletcher bulk haulage from meopham & with Dave Irvine at Lavers & had a few years at ARC Borough Green with a FL10 and ejector trailer running out of kingston & sutton back to Stangate three a day from Kingston would be a job now with the digi card. Some good old names on your site brought back lots of memorys well done to youall the best for the new year Geoff Butt. |
| December 29, 2011 23:27:36 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | vincent ysw kusi |
| Email: | info{at}goodisontrucks.com |
| Where are you from: | ghana/west -Africa |
| Comments: | am in haualge business in ghana,west africa,you are my star,and l will be glad to see for investment in ghana. |
| September 25, 2011 12:46:55 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Jonathan |
| Email: | jonnopye{at}hotmail.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | West London |
| Comments: | What a great site, which I stumbled across by chance - there are some great pictures and anecdotes here. Sorry to hear about Bob Paul, the Long Haul Pioneer book is a fantastic read too. Best regards, Jonathan |
| July 14, 2011 15:04:07 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Rien |
| Email: | vangerven{at}btinternet.com |
| Where are you from: | wolverhampton |
| Comments: | I like a trip to Finland, if you need a driver, 07760259449 or if i can help you out on a (big) job,.... Dutch born, 10 years uk |
| May 7, 2011 19:45:32 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | melvin judd |
| Email: | melvjudd{at}blueyonder.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | strood kent |
| Comments: | just came accross your site it was fantistic looking and reading about the old days i used to work for Don Nicholls at lidsing bredhurst driving a 1626 merc your site brought back a lot of good memeriors waking up in the morning with ice on the inside of the windows no night heaters then if only we could turn the clocks back it would be great |
| January 22, 2011 17:35:53 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Anthony Keirle |
| Email: | ajkhot{at}live.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | from kent but now move to manchester for a new start |
| Comments: | Hey Mike, Just thought id thank you for your kind words recently, its always good to remember the past and where we are from |
| January 14, 2011 19:07:33 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Andrew Field |
| Email: | bulldog_68{at}msn.com |
| Where are you from: | Salford, England |
| Comments: | I've just spent a good few hour's looking through your site and it seemed to pass in minutes. Very Enjoyable, Keep up the good work. |
| January 4, 2011 15:06:01 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | simon gage |
| Email: | far2manycars{at}gmail.com |
| Where are you from: | Dover |
| Comments: | Thanks for a highly enjoyable couple of hours. I used to come to Paddock Wood in the early 90's ? for Seafield/Whitetrux & remember your trucks. Happy days. I'm now moving static caravans & cars as an owner driver. |
| January 3, 2011 01:17:33 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Keith |
| Email: | uumm{at}live.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | Cornwall |
| Comments: | What a fantastic website, it takes me back to when I drove from early 70s to late 90s I really had some fun and this site brought it all back, lorry drivers today don't know what it's all about. AEC 760. |
| December 5, 2010 10:16:43 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Stuart Wilson |
| Email: | stuarthiwayman{at}aol.com |
| Where are you from: | Crawley, Sussex |
| Comments: | What a great web site, I met you years ago in a layby next to the M23 in Crawley, I sold you some CB stickers (at a profit ;-) I seem to remember!! ) and then a few months later at the custom car show at ally pally. Often saw you about in the Ford Tipper, and then when I was a service engineer I used to see artic with your name on them and I thought "He's done good for himself. Looks like you have had the life of a typical small haulier, the back bone of haulage then and now. Keep up the good work on the site. my handle was and still is sundance, I think yours was "Diesel Disco". KOT |
| November 20, 2010 13:23:24 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Peter tate |
| Email: | petertate2{at}btinternet.com |
| Where are you from: | Burley in wharfedale |
| Comments: | fantastic website full of good pictures and tales of a british firm overcoming all the odds to keep going absolutely loved it |
| October 30, 2010 20:05:29 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Paul Keirle |
| Email: | p.palmer007{at}live.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | my mum |
| Comments: | Hey Mike, Just thought id thank you for your kind words recently, its always good to remember the past and where we are from |
| October 11, 2010 13:11:13 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | derek |
| Email: | dekthomson{at}hotmail.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | aberdeenshire |
| Comments: | enjoyed your site a lot i am a big fan of astran only heard of them when a freind gave me a shot of destination doha a few couple of years ago now got that cola cowboys and ashleys book thanks |
| August 27, 2010 19:22:01 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Martin platt |
| Email: | martin.platt47{at}ntl.com |
| Where are you from: | Flitwick Bedfordshire |
| Comments: | This was a very interesting site for me , I am writing a book about H.G.Brown & Sons. You would not know if UBM 104K is still around and were it would be , any information you would have would be a great help. Many thanks Martin |
| May 12, 2010 19:58:22 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Richard O'Hara |
| Email: | rj-ohara{at}hotmail.com |
| Where are you from: | Swanley |
| Comments: | Hi Mike, its Don and Ruths grandson. Hope you are well. This is a very interesting website, great pictures and stories. Pictures of Paddock Wood and your lorries bring back alot of memories about when we used to come down and clean up your office with nan and grandad!! Good times |
| April 13, 2010 19:34:25 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Ian Anderson |
| Email: | ianmacjude{at}orangehome.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | Chatham |
| Comments: | I was wondering about the crusader was it owned by Les Allen Before Keith. My Dad Bill Anderson Drove for Keith when He had the Foden 8 legger doing Tarmac for the M2 and when Keith Bougth the old Atkinson Boarder. Dad Also Drove for John Newton When John Had Rusty Simmonds Vernon Passmore in the mid to late 70s early 80s dad also done middle east with john newton with Astrans running Tarmac laying machines to Iraq Great photos and write up, BROUGHT BACK SOME MEMORIES DEAR TO ME THANKS |
| April 9, 2010 18:33:41 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Donal Lyons |
| Email: | dglyons{at}gmail.com |
| Where are you from: | Ireland |
| Comments: | Went looking for some AStran stuff tonight and came across your site Mike.Absoloutely brilliant.I love your sense of humour.A handy thing to have in haulage.Did the continent from here in '86.Probably met you along the way in my 111.That's if you were on the road between Fishguard and Dover at all hours of the night.There was some fun then.Is that all gone now? |
| March 13, 2010 01:48:48 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | chris lawrence |
| Email: | chrislawrence{at}mypostoffice.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | tpt mgr at shakespeare before that tpt mgr for g.bosman transport |
| Comments: | very interesting website,also grateful for the bottle of scotch whilst at shakespeare when i over quoted on the water job for you so you retained it,but not sorry whilst at bosmans i wouldnt let bill sell you one of the 6 wheeler fl rigids. i remember mick horne when i was a boy he drove for mustills at five oak green whilst my father drove for henley and tomkinsons (mick and father both lived in tonbridge so their paths crossed often when out on the beer. good luck to you chris lawrence |
| March 2, 2010 20:06:04 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Mark Attlesey |
| Email: | markattlesey{at}btinternet.com |
| Where are you from: | Borough Green |
| Comments: | Great site Mike. I enjoyed the trips out with you and Dave Kyle in the 1980 - 82 period especially the ship prop shaft trip to Plymouth. |
| February 11, 2010 17:40:56 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | sam lee-jose |
| Email: | josesmjs{at}aol.com |
| Where are you from: | redruth cornwall |
| Comments: | good photos justed wished we had photos of or fleet good thinking sam |
| January 16, 2010 21:32:37 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | steve lacy |
| Email: | flyingflash007{at}yahoo.de |
| Where are you from: | hamburg germany |
| Comments: | hi mike well a very excellent site here ..it was so nice to remember some old names see some old pictures and particulary tony kerle god rest his sole he was in my opinion the best scania man of his time..do you have a picture of the old scania 81 that we sometimes drove for astran shunting down to dover ..that was probaly the most powerfull baby scania on the road thanks to tony i found your site by accident i was looking for a crusader to show my german co drivers what a real truck looked like..yours came up ands the germans said something like was ist das..i said german engineering was never this good..grins im still in germany and still trucking i drive now a tgx man for a specialist company delivering aircraft jet engines all over europe for lufthansa..which is perfect for me as i love aeroplanes as well ..i can even start a jumbo now....drop me a line mike be great to hear from you..and i can tell every one that mike taylor makes and taught me how to make the strongest cup of te |
| December 14, 2009 20:16:33 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | steve lacy |
| Email: | flyingflash007{at}yahoo.de |
| Where are you from: | planet earth |
| Comments: | i know mike taylor would be great to get his email address anyone |
| December 14, 2009 19:28:08 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | mark cooper |
| Email: | markginny{at}aol.com |
| Where are you from: | maidstone |
| Comments: | wow this is a brilliant trip down memory lane,a good ol haulage firm with a decent boss i wish i could of had a job on your firm !!!! my dad drove for taffy griffiths at hadlow for years and i always went everywhere with him and so used to see your motors about everywhere .thanks for sharing your stories and pictures it brought back some nice thoughts of the good ol days . |
| December 8, 2009 20:51:11 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Bill Clowes |
| Email: | clowesjw {at}ntlworld.com |
| Where are you from: | http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clowesjw/ |
| Comments: | Hi Mike I must say that your website is the best trucking read I have had for ages, I started reading straight off the monitor but decided this needs more time to get the best out of it - so I printed it off - feet up on the settee and thoroughly enjoyed it. You've certainly had a busy life and you had the forethought to take some photographs which most people don't do and regret it. I must admit my driving life was not as interesting as yours, I started off on tippers, Ford Traders in the mid '60s, drove D series tippers and a D1000 8 pot Cummins which was some truck. After a spell working inside I returned to quarry work with Tilcon at Ballidon driving first a S36 8wheeler then an S50 30t half cab. After a while I wanted to get onto artics so went driving for Mr Kipling Cakes driving Seddon 32/4s and some D series Fords, we also had Volvo F88s on hire. Stayed there for 14 years or so progressing from driver to traffic supervisor to shift manager over transport and warehousing, |
| November 30, 2009 09:55:50 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | mick cook |
| Email: | mjc57{at}hotmail.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | whistable |
| Comments: | Brill web site.I'm ex driver for Swains, Colin Wild, AAG, Seymour, Dave Longhurst.Bought up on the road, timber out of Millwall Docks. Feel like I've done a hundred years and I'm only 52!!! lol. |
| November 29, 2009 15:49:40 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Paul Keirle |
| Email: | p.palmer007{at}live.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | Welling-Kent |
| Comments: | Hi Mike, ive been trying to contact you but i had not been in the office to pickup your email. How you been, those words were very kind about Dad, thankyou. It would be great to talk to you again, been too long. All the best.... |
| November 5, 2009 12:32:57 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Derek |
| Email: | derekn{at}btinternet.com |
| Where are you from: | Wrotham |
| Comments: | An interesting site Mike even though I'm not involved with transport. Derek |
| October 13, 2009 16:26:59 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Linda Town (Garrett) |
| Email: | ldtown{at}btinternet.com |
| Where are you from: | High Halden, Ashford |
| Comments: | All very interesting, I enjoyed reading through it. |
| July 26, 2009 21:19:42 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Bill Robins |
| Email: | billrobins94{at}yahoo.com |
| Where are you from: | Lincolnshire |
| Comments: | Nice to come across a picture of my old 110 UBM104K drove her when i worked for H.G.Brown at L.Buzzard lovely old lorry. After me a bloke called Sid Phillpott drove it and i think i am right in saying that Sid had her from new. |
| July 15, 2009 10:41:15 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Dave Pennington |
| Email: | davepenn54{at}googlemail.com |
| Where are you from: | West Yorks; |
| Comments: | Just spent about 3hrs reading through your site, really enjoyed it and I'm sure I remember some of your motors from back in the day. I used load currants and sultanas out of Dover Western docks for storage in Manchester so was up and down the roads through Kent a lot in the 70's/80's. Again great read Regards Dave Penn; |
| June 6, 2009 13:20:29 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Keith Williams |
| Email: | keith.williams{at}telenet.be |
| Where are you from: | Belgium,originally Whitstable |
| Comments: | Great stories Mike,I always like to hear of people from Kent,having been born and bred there. |
| May 21, 2009 19:09:27 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Chris Bosman |
| Email: | cbosman{at}aol.com |
| Where are you from: | Bosman Transport |
| Comments: | hi mike i enjoyed your website makes you wonder why we ever got involved in transport best wishes to you both regards Chris |
| January 27, 2009 13:46:07 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Mike |
| Email: | mike.cast{at}virgin.net |
| Where are you from: | Responding to Over the Hill |
| Comments: | Just hazarding a guess: the first F10s were roadtested in 1977, with CM and MT reporting that you had to have the windows open to hear the engines. Our first F88, bought in 1980 from Ken Topham, a timber haulier, was ex Reeds and N reg, 1975, so I suspect F88s ran from early 70's to 1978. drop me an email: do I know you? don't be shy. Mike |
| December 15, 2008 09:07:59 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | |
| Email: | aidey67{at}supanet.com |
| Where are you from: | |
| Comments: | Mike i hope you got my email sorry if you did'nt i'm having some probs with it |
| November 16, 2008 12:20:25 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Keith Greenhalgh (L Tp 58-60 ok Jerboa) |
| Email: | theredcoat2{at}yahoo.com |
| Where are you from: | Now live in the US, well sorry just moved to Mexico,originally Blackburn Lancs |
| Comments: | Great Site, congrats on your 40 yrs of marriage, we just made it 43, met the wife in Aden when she was 15, daughter of an RAF Man |
| November 16, 2008 05:41:21 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Adrian |
| Email: | aidey67{at}supanet.com |
| Where are you from: | Ipswich |
| Comments: | This is a really exellent web site thourghley enjoyed looking through it. Can rember bringing containers in to you when you were at paddock wood |
| November 15, 2008 00:12:20 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | ian spellar |
| Email: | ian.j.spellar{at}btinternet.com |
| Where are you from: | guess |
| Comments: | nice one |
| November 12, 2008 01:23:09 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | kevin goldup |
| Email: | kevingoldup{at}hotmail.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | planet earth |
| Comments: | hello mike,visited your site a few weeks ago and noticed you missed my name out on a group photo.but today i noticed youve added it in bold letters.its good to see some of the lads and remember back to some good times we all had.i have some photos of your trucks if you are interested.regards to you and jacky and hope your both well.kevin |
| November 10, 2008 13:58:57 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | karl skilton |
| Email: | karl{at}harleywoodhaulage.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | gloucester |
| Comments: | Excellant website and history,made me laugh and also moved me a bit too,proper road haulage as it should be but is not anymore, thanks karl |
| October 31, 2008 21:44:51 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | andrew marten |
| Email: | AIRBORNE{at}LIVE.CO.UK |
| Where are you from: | MAIDSTONE,KENT |
| Comments: | HI MIKE,YOU PROBABLY DONT REMEMBER ME,I USED TO WORK FOR BILL ANDERSON AT LENWOOD STORAGE,WE USED TO HANDLE ASTRANS CARGO AND ALSO FOR YOUR COMPANY ASWELL,ONLY A FEW PALLETS I THINK.I DO REMEMBER COLIN SALT THO,HE USE TO WIND ME UP SOME DAYS AND BILL WOULD SAY DONT PICK ON HIM.MR BILL ANDERSON USED TO HAVE THANK FIAT IVECO FORT LIFT TRUCK A GREY ONE.IF YOU NEEDED HELP IN LIFTING SOMETHING,YOU WOULD CAN FOR BILLS HELP.I ALSO USE TO REMEMBER THE 20 AND 40FOOT CONTAINTERS WE WOULD UNLOAD AND STORE FOR YOU ON THOSE BLUE COSTA PALLETS.I HAVE NOT SEEN BILL FOR OVER 15 YEARS NOW,HE DID LIVE NEAR CHARING,ON THE OUTSKIRTS OFF ASHFORD.HIS WIFE USE TO WORK FOR TVS AT SOUTHAMPTON AND HE HAD A DAUGHTER.LOOKING AT THE PHOTOS ON YOUR WEBSITE,IT ALL CAME BACK TO ME,ESPEACIALLY THE YELLOW FORK LIFT,BILL WOULD ASK TO USE IT TO UNLOAD SOME PIPES FROM A DELIVERY FOR ASTRAN GOING TO THE MIDDLE EAST.I ALSO REMEMBER SMITHS FOR SAND,JUST AS YOU ENTER INTO ST MARYS PLATT INDUSTRIAL ESTATE.WELL,ITS NICE TO SEE |
| October 24, 2008 15:26:49 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Martin Pullen |
| Email: | martin.pullen3{at}btopenworld.com |
| Where are you from: | |
| Comments: | A good trip down memory lane and a fascinating life story. Will dedicate more time to this and reminisce some more. |
| October 23, 2008 08:41:22 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Dave Silburn |
| Email: | davesilburn{at}yahoo.ie |
| Where are you from: | Strensall York |
| Comments: | well done Mike, remember you well from army service, |
| October 19, 2008 02:49:48 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Barclay Hollands |
| Email: | fastbear{at}tiscali.co.uk |
| Where are you from: | Harrietsham kent |
| Comments: | Hi very much enjoyed your pictures, my dad Johny worked for Terry Bonner, Keith Noaks, and pulled to the middle east for Astran. I've great memories of these days and the trucks I grew up in, thanx for reminding me, all the best Barclay. |
| October 10, 2008 19:49:29 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | mike |
| Email: | |
| Where are you from: | |
| Comments: | test |
| October 6, 2008 07:37:10 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Bob Taylor |
| Email: | C.R.TAYLOR{at}SOFTHOME.NET |
| Where are you from: | Same place as you |
| Comments: | Nice to see you are still tilting at windmills. We may get older, stockier and slower but we never get any wiser. |
| September 2, 2008 15:08:41 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | David peirce |
| Email: | dave{at}davidpeirce.com |
| Where are you from: | Mars |
| Comments: | I remember Mike Taylor Haulage. When I was a kid it was like the Eddie Stobart of Borough Green. Nice site Mike |
| August 29, 2008 20:13:23 (GMT Time) |
| Name: | Mike Taylor |
| Email: | |
| Where are you from: | |
| Comments: | Test |
| August 19, 2008 07:57:46 (GMT Time) |