Fantastic film 😎 proper drivers with proper trucks and the names on the trailers are a distant memory 😳 many thanks for sharing

I remember serving my apprenticeship on trucks like these. Manual boxes , mechanical fuel injection , everything hard wired , a throttle cable!! Actually felt like you were driving these trucks unlike today. Hardly any overseas companies or drivers. Just think....back when this was filmed everyone would have been complaining how the job wasn't the same as it used to be , imagine if we had known the state of the haulage industry now compared to back then , Being a truck driver is a skilled job , but more so back then........We have all the latest technology and as someone said...LED light bars etc etc haha......but sadly the industry has gone backwards which is a great shame. This is a brilliant piece of video. People actually changing gear manually , and still getting better fuel economy than we have now!!!! No speed limiters , trackers or any CPC nonsense. You would almost think that drivers back then were actually trusted to go and do their job autonomosly rather than the micro managed constantly monitored crap we have today. Is it any wander some drivers don't care!!!!....Great video!!!!

Fantastic old memories when the Scania V8 really sounded like a proper V8 with the roar it made and I can remember it vividly as a 13-15 year old boy catching the Saturday early evening or late night ferry crossing from Larne-Stranraer and then the 500’ miles long punch all through the night/morning down to Dover for the Sunday lunchtime or afternoon ferry crossing to Calais mainly and then travelling mainly to Italy with my late dad. I always remember Sandbach services on the M6 was just as busy on a Sunday morning too with loads of the Irish trucks heading south to Dover? Great days gone by and never to be forgotten! RIP Dad XX

Fantastic bud, 3 series Scania's still rules so many in this video, now we see R or S series Scania's at the services!

Every services was always full of Irish trucks heading for Dover on a Sunday. Could never get parked. Then off we would go only to be overtaken by them all doing 90. Everything done at foot to the floor speed. Take me hat off to these boys they knew how how to get from a to b quickly

Not a light bar to be seen. This is the era of haulage I fell in love with as a kid and set me up driving

Been to So many breakdowns at Hilton park services over the years.. I can almost smell the piss watching the video haha! Brilliant video

Absolutely fantastic bit of trucking history & memories shared in the video, looking forward to any more you might have

Great film brings back good memories when trucking was a bit more fun! Thanks for posting

The days when a 143 was king

Fantastic upload, hope Ned Kelly sees this film. Thanks again for this video.

I enjoyed the job back then but not now! I think that says it all. Great video👍👍

Great vid. I was 14 back then & dreamt of getting behind the wheel of these. Unfortunately not managed it, but great to watch!

fantastic film,some happy memories watching the irish boys on Hilton park thanks for the film,looking forward to part 2.

Thanks for the upload John,nice bit of transport history captured there...👏👏👏👍👍

Not a piece of plastic in sight fantastic video Captured a marvellous time for trucking

Brilliant video, not many video cameras around then which makes it very special now to see this, great memories. Look forward to part 2. 👌🏼👍🏼

Great video! Love the old 143s and the odd MAN etc Brings back many memories, thanks for upload

Proper drivers back then not these wheel attendants they have these days older drivers with respect but todays ones are terrible Great to see this footage well done

Wow, that’s an interesting vid. Lots of old trucks. So many Irish trucks. Bloody hell Hilton park services was like Piccadilly Circus back then. Certainly not much time to get your truck backed into a slot. All skilled guys there, not much room for error. Nice one mate.👍🏻🚚

Back in the days of when trucks were trucks.. I remember working on these types as an apprentice body repairer and sprayer.. Seeing how different the old Volvo F12 and 16 looked compared to the new FH12 and 16.. And how there was still plenty of Fodens and ERF's in use.. No complicated electrics, no cheap plastics.. just good solid built trucks..

Cracking video,great times and trucks that we’ll never see again.

The other good transport cafe i used to go with my dad to when he drove the AA multicar transporter delivering the patrol vans to the depots was jacks hill cafe in towcester. Still there as far as i know and they still quite a busy cafe. Food was always good there too. Some memories seeing some good old real trucks plenty of power and pull anything

I remember painting some of them while working in McElvaney Motors

First lorry I ever drove was an old mk3 scannia. Love them,

Awesome rigs & operators. all the best from Australia

Bloody Brilliant well done mate for posting this up.

And not a single green uniform in sight, lovely bit of old school trucks and proper drivers.

Absolutely brilliant video. To think I more than likely loaded them Alpine Express trailers for Dunnes stores Malaga. Great memories.

Notice all the 4x2's, how times have changed..

This is great stuff mate. I remember them Irish wagons flying past me like i was in reverse! 😂👍

For some odd reason I just find the early 1990s the best times ever I think the reason is due to the fact that our society was so civilised unlike today and it was the end of the Cold War with democracy expanding and I just want to find out what Britain’s roads where like at that time after the ussr dissolved

Ahh da good old days no need 2 carry a magnet just pull a fuse💪💪

Another great upload 👍

Great video thanks for sharing it,👍

The good old days when parking was either free or a fiver , not like nowadays £30 plus 😡 And Behold not one from Romania

Great video.thanks for uploading it.

No wonder the 143 was a market leader every other truvk u seen back tben was a 143 450 most of the irish lads had them and nearly all the guys from aberdeenshire had one or more in their fleet . Even charles alexander the aberdeen company owned by tdg had a pair of 143 400s on the fish work . . Nice to see bains of tarves aberdeenshires old 143 all these lads from this era knew how to work . 100 hr week no problem no lightbars or fancy stuff on these working machines . Love hearing the old v8 go up through the box these 143s werent cheap . I mind around this time a friend pricing one from reliable vehichles in aberdeen fae mr mchardy the sales lad . Hundred grand and change for a tag axle 143 450 on steel springs air was another 2.500 grand so he ended up getting a p cabbed 113 360 tag on air he still was miffed that the boss wouldnt buy a 143 as it was too dear

My dad used to have one of those scania units when driving for Thomas Allen haulage in wendsbury about 1991

Not one single auto

The best days of trucking, before trucks lost their gear sticks and trucking became woke. Glad to have been there.

Nice to see one of the late Freddy Fosters Scania with a Ferrymaster trailer, might have been me.

Looks like some of the video was taken at the Hollies Cafe at Cannock

Back when you could get a space, not full of foreigners you see and did you see the guy watching him back you would never get that nowadays,yeah that's when the job was worth doing

This footage is pure gold

Few quids worth of classics!!!

bonjour les artiste moi en 1994 je rouler pour F R T en inter j'avais le 705 ces de bon souvenirs souvent bloquer les dimanche sur la route s"étais comme sa la vie de routier au long court salut a tous les ami de la route Daniel F R T 705

Some cracking old school scanias 🚛🚛🚛

Brings back memories that but Wasn't all at hilton park

Amazing, brings back memories, hilton park was the second stop for tay after Penrith truckstop and then the watford gap and then Smithfield market. I see the late Isobel Millar in Joe Millars centurion 500 Scania. I had a couple of 143's pulling for the famous Ross Reid of Interland Transport fame in those days. The crack was good there were no speed limiters men were men and Scanis's were real trucks then.

Great footage

Some of this vid looks like the Hollies on the A5.

Would love to see some videos from inside a distribution centre from the early 90s

Old School last dance badass truck and men.

Love your Video, Were Scania trucks cheap at that time becuase im impressed with all those Scania's.Thanks,Keith,Malta

Good old days before speed limiters and rolling road blocks

Great memories great trucks and great times, but sadly at a time when the industry was about to go through massive changes and not for the better , now look at it shit lorries, clueless steering wheel attendants and transport staff 😞

wow 4 x2s and scania ruled the roads

Great video sadly some companies no longer here

అద్భుతం ( Wonderful )👍👌

Great vid well done 👍👋

Series 1 FH was brand new that year..

International Diesel service A5 hollies truck shop.

Would love to use this in a documentary I am making. Please let me know how best to contact you for permission, thank you.

Bet them Irish lads were on there 5th taco card.. happy days back then..

I was in that video . about 3mins into it . the guy in the black waistcoat walking across the car park. ....

All trucks have an identity here,,non of this “ logistics” and “solutions” rubbish you see firms putting on there plain white Renault or merc 3 year lease truck......

Class 👍👍

It looks like a Scania Volvo parking lot cool trucks wonder if some of the trucks still servive

Brillant👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Little Eastern European trucks back then

All the paddys have been took over by the foreign lot.. sad really i go over to Ireland often and the eastern block lot are getting more and more

Well, the weather hasn't changed since then.

Kurła kiedyś to było...

Bellissimi scania 143

Carna Transport still going strong just a few miles up the road from me.

O, my God... 25 years ago... It's a terrible... Spirit of time

Europeans b like, we have the best looking trucks in the world, Australians and Americans b like, hold our beers.

Thease guys could drive thease beauty's think the hardest thing must have been parking at the services than delivering the loads they had the fun of changing gears them selfs not like us now

In 84 it was dafs erf and aecs.lol

Tidy blind side reversing of walsh western at 9.26

Sam Patterson had that MAN on demo before Ewing’s bought it v10 roadhause a flying machine

Today only trucks are different on this services. Asphalt is still the same. I don't understand, why Britain stop in 90' with road infrastructure.

What a excellent video just ruined with a few vulvas and german trucks, no supprise with the f12 at 8.43 with the cans on the chassis more than likely water for the kettle engine on the boil

Nice footage, but not a single british manufacturer lorry to see!

I migliori camion del mondo il 143 450

Great days for me as an owner operator - Scania 113.360 Topline 6 x 2 tag axle running fridges to Spain. The Irish lads were a hard working bunch, mad as a box of frogs but would never leave you in trouble. We will pass over the multiple tacho discs but hey they had a long way to go. I went on to operate 5 trucks of my own (MAN 22.422 Roadhaus and an FH12). So sad that while we all just traded and drove trucks and had a few laughs along the way in the EEC we now have the EU giving us a hard time because we wish to leave and sadly the useful idiot in Dublin Veradkar is leading the way. Every one of these trucks and every one since and until a couple of years ago never paid a penny road tax or bought any diesel here but if the EU keeps up this attitude we will leave with no deal and the Irish lads won't be using British roads to get to the EU. Politics eh?

Irish hauliers have always been well on top of the job. Underpowered trucks just wont do the job.as you can see nothing slow here.

No Renault Trucks😕

в Англии !?

I was born

Trucker myself, totally awesome trucks here. And drivers with gears., yeah gears. No poxy chauffeur driven autos. And two things stand out in this video one good one bad. 1 actual parking 🅿 for British, Scottish and Irish reg trucks good point whey hey. no 2. Bad point. No greggs ohh f*ck.. Off to hollies for a nice slice of waitresses 😉

Aye snowflakes need not apply for drivers jobs back then these guys were true drivers these guys put in a week what some folk wouldnt do in a fortnight . Aye and be there saturday for the boat across to the bean then down to dover tip monday morning back home wednesday morning wed night loaded and away back doon the road . No fancy light bars and marker lights just suitcase on the bed and keep er lit . Those trucks could tell some stories i bet . But as allways what happens on tour stays on tour am i right or am i right lol .

Yellow scania taking up 2 bays bad parking 😑

Volvo the better trucks