Blog Entries for Tim

Postcard from Corfu.

timboross@googlemail.com — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:00:00 +0100

Day one. Are we there yet ?

The holiday started at 04:30 on Monday morning. It had been a restless night, probably caused by the desire not to sleep through. The routine had been mapped out the day before and for once everything went to plan, which meant that at 05:00 we were in the car heading for East Midlands Airport. By 06:30 I had dropped Dragon and Dragonette, and the luggage off, parked the car and returned to the Check-in Hall. [...]

A Working Life, 7 - Shafted for the last time ......

timboross@googlemail.com — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:00:00 +0100

......... at Shitehole Distribution.

I have to admit that I thoroughly enjoyed the job at Shepherds. It was just a shame that the transport manager was a dickhead and the MD was a complete twat.

The way the job worked there was that the motors were loaded overnight by 'Muscles' and his crew. By and large they did a pretty good job under difficult circumstances. The loads were made up of anything and everything destined for a particular area, and sometime [...]

A Working Life, 6 - Shitehole Distribution!

timboross@googlemail.com — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:00:00 +0100

Shepherd Distribution.

And so in the summer of 2000 my driving career began in earnest. I suppose it would be fair to say that I was a late starter being as I was 40 years old by this time. You see it really is never too late to start something.

My first motor with Shepherds was an old Iveco 7.5 tonner that was dog rough inside, when I did night out I ha [...]

A Working Life, 5 - Back to the steel.

timboross@googlemail.com — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:00:00 +0100

Hillfoot.

The next five years of my working life were to be spent at Hillfoot Steels in Sheffield. Hillfoot are a major independent stockholder of engineering steels and producer of forged products. Established way back with one forging hammer, they have consistently grown until they were recently bought out/taken over by Murrays from Scotland.

I was taken on to drive a sideloader.