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Mark Bolam

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  1. Mark Bolam
    Why have you got my key ring Will? I bloody knew I’d left it somewhere!
  2. Mark Bolam
    Missed this Mick, sorry. Merry Christmas mate.
  3. Mark Bolam
    That’s easy. When you die.
  4. Mark Bolam
    Meant calm!
  5. Mark Bolam
    He’s pretty cam isn’t he? Most un-American!
  6. Mark Bolam
    It did bloody well yesterday shifting the chipper around in those ground conditions. Timber shifting (although it’s all staying on site) will have to wait until it dries out a bit. It was like the Somme when we’d finished. Just going to wash the machines down now, they got put to bed dirty after a diversion to The Woolpack for a couple of festive Peronis.
  7. Mark Bolam
    Finished the year yesterday with some Biblically wet connie killing.
  8. Mark Bolam
    £25k? My postie mates earn a bit more than that taking on extras, but it’s not so much about the money as about screwing around with contracts. Say you sign up for £25k on a 5 day week. Then a new contract is put in front of you, 6 day week for £25k. Would you take it? In tree terms it’s like a twat customer who you’ve taken 5 trees down for the agreed £2000. He now wants the 6th taken down for nothing. What do you do? Do it for nothing because you want to keep working? Or ‘go on strike’, ie tell him it will be an extra £400 or he can whistle?
  9. Mark Bolam
    I’ll start. Yes.
  10. Mark Bolam
    Whilst I agree ‘Diversity Managers’ etc. on £200k deserve sod all, as Gareth has said where do you draw the line? If you chucked a lump sum of say £10k at everyone, it would make a huge difference to the front line staff who are really struggling, and a pittance of a percentage rise to the fat cats, who don’t need it anyway. It could work.
  11. Mark Bolam
    It’s no surprise @Big J moved to Sweden really.
  12. Mark Bolam
    Fair point.
  13. Mark Bolam
    Anything over 3.5 requires ‘O’ licence and another set of bollocks I can’t be arsed to deal with. I’ve been running over for decades, and will continue to do so until they sort the shite laws out. Plating trucks capable of 5.5 down to 3.5 is a joke. Pikeys do what they want, with utterly no recourse, me running a bit over makes sod all difference. A couple of copper mates thought I could carry 3.5t in my Transit. The system is FUBAR’d.
  14. Mark Bolam
    And before anyone starts bleating on about brakes, remember the truck is plated for 6225 GTW, so they can handle a bit of extra chip before I fail to stop and wipe out a busload of orphans. I don’t take the piss, but 1500kg of chip locally wouldn’t be uncommon.
  15. Mark Bolam
    That’s the way it is. I’m also legally obliged to have a ‘NO SMOKING ALLOWED IN THIS VEHICLE’ sign clearly visible on the dash at all times, or be susceptible to a £100 fine. I haven’t got one, it would get hidden behind Danny Mac’s Golden Virginia pouches and Rizla boxes. My vehicle, my rules. These fuckwits seem to have forgotten who pays their wages.
  16. Mark Bolam
    My DC Tranny goes 2850 on the bridge with 2 of us, tools and dog in the cab. Leaves a payload of 650. It’s f-all really. 2.4m3 bed space without sides (which I have), and fresh conny chip going about 300kg/m3, if I’m level, I’m loaded. Then reality kicks in….. I just pop another Stella for every additional 50kg.
  17. Mark Bolam
    Are you taking the piss? There’s not 720 there in the first place!
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  19. Mark Bolam
    That makes sense, although I can’t remember getting a letter, and didn’t watch much tv back then. I wasn’t using it anyway, so doubt I could have argued it. They are still bastards for taking it though. They have taken my dreams, and my future.
  20. Mark Bolam
    I found my old paper licence which clearly shows C1E up to 12000kg. I only ever did the car test.
  21. Mark Bolam
    I did have the old bastards paper licence, and like Rich it definitely had 12000 on it. Apparently if I’d requested to keep it at that they wouldn’t have downrated it to 8250. They told me this after the event. I’m not too bothered tbh, I’m usually too pissed to care.
  22. Mark Bolam
    Depends what it says on your licence. The bastards downrated mine from 12000 to 8250 when I had to swap to a new ID licence, and didn’t tell me.
  23. Mark Bolam
    That’s the fella. He’s a really fun gi.
  24. Mark Bolam
    Those nylon strips were a dream.
  25. Mark Bolam
    Found one of me from similar vintage Mick.

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