Davies Turner - Long Haul Trucking from UK to Turkey in the 90'

From UK to Istanbul with Davies Turner and his DAF 95. Round trip across 11 countries

[@traildog47]

This was great when it was broadcast, I can remember watching it, amazing adventure, no sat nav, get the AA map out, Happy days back then.

[@JG-tk7ov]

The old adverts are golden lol

[@cbwatters]

i remember watching this being broadcast....it encouraged me, so the nostalgia is immense, thanks poster, thanks youtube

[@dollydiddums7889]

Brilliant upload . Bukshish and marlboro 😅 The adverts were a bonus , a brand new car from £10,000 👍

[@chrishague1129]

Loved watching that 👌👌👌👌👌hope he still rolling old H

[@jorgenpinoy1724]

I used to hang out with the Brit’s on my trips, it was safe to say it was always pretty good to kill time on the waiting😂😂😎

[@johna6968]

Loved my DAF 95 when it arrived brand new in '88 E Reg

[@talktoofof]

I remember meeting up with these boys In the south of Spain on there way to Morocco along with the John Mann boys good times

[@RandyBakers]

Those adverts! Lol, proper 90's "Plark remover" haha, and the Hyundai car "With air conditioning"

[@assay1985]

lol that's what I remember when I use Togo with my grandad on my school holidays loved it

[@slowednreverbplug]

No Dcpc No speed limiters Manual gearboxes However did he manage to do his job.

[@kurtmuller1861]

And no seat belt.

[@PhotoYo]

Chain smoking seemed to help lol

[@LeMagnum440]

lol, most lads wont tip the Tesco rdc unless they've got a micro wave and a topline. Greggs and cruise control now, sadly.

[@lehmanns_chris]

No telephone in the truck, no facebook, no sattelit and much more. The best time for me as a driver.

[@PillSharks]

Yes when I started driving I had an old leyland Daf 85.... utter piece of shit and could pull nothing at any decent speed on the slightest of hills. When it rained the foot wells filled up with water, they couldn't find the leak so they decided to cover everything out side with silicone, that didn't work so the only option was to dill holes in the foot wells to let the water out... It was on hire from Hill Hire and the company I was working for had it on rental so cheap they just wanted to keep using them!

[@davidpenn6133]

Right at the end of the film when they wanted to turn him straight round & back out. I used to hate that, but once you back out, you just get on with it. I lost my HGV through I'll health, but i do miss it.

[@gf7835]

fantastiche video,deze chauffeurs zijn de beste

[@georgeberrill4834]

Gordon Bennett, this takes me back, I had a Jennings Cab ERF and did a variety of Eastern Block as well as Greece and Turkey. Turkey was by far the worst place to go because of the bullshit carnies and everyone looking for a backhander just to do the job they were being paid to do. It was a blessing to do Poland and Latvia, but I wouldn't have not gone, the feeling amongst the English drivers was really good, I don't remember anyone being left to fend for themselves when the shit hit the fan. I always wanted to work for Sammy Jones in Aldridge doing the tankers to Dubai, really well paid job, unfortunately I never got in. I did some for Groveland and Howard shipping, that was mostly Benelux but a good experience.

[@f16tuga]

George Berrill sir would you recommend this job ?

[@joehanlon3029]

from one trucker to another well done H i did the same walked away fed up with bribes and two faced bosses

[@deancwhmackinnon6547]

Nice one Royal!

[@koraykoyluoglu4735]

Bu vatandasi hatirliyorum.Eski halkalı gümrüğü.5 numaraya yükü indirdi.Yolda Willy Bayerlein arabayı gördüm o zamanlarin en güzel arabaları o firmadaydı.Londra camping...Eski günler ne guzeldi

[@just-incase3483]

I’ve trucked all over this land, from Maine to the rio grand, I’ve paid the price of this trucking life!

[@jasonmitchell6534]

Stop racism

[@OuradventuresGU]

I Can remember watching this as Kid and loved it! Such a true gritty view of an industry that by far gets not enough recognition! how the tides have turned since the EU became one and now the euro drivers are invading the UK!

[@mickadatwist1620]

...and also EU watermelons invading the UK and Chinese forks and Russian dumbbells invading the "kingdom" too

[@hunzolee]

Great video! Real old school trucking!

[@truckertom3884]

Year I was born. I'm trucker now and I can honestly say hasn't change much

[@chrisb718]

True international tramping. The 90's only seems like yesterday to me, there again so do the 80's, the 70's seem a little further away now ;) But this was not as unrestrictive as some would believe, tachos, speed governed (on many) etc. It wasn't the easiest work by a long shot. Great video. Also Leyland-Daf, before Paccar got a hold of it..

[@PillSharks]

When I started driving as a long distance lorry driver in my 20s all the older drivers used to say you don't know how easy you got it young'un .... now I understand what they meant! And all for a £100!

[@terryleddra1973]

The main problem was running groupage to Istanbul. It took too long to tip and reload. I would take machinery down to Amman in Jordan and run with guys going to Istanbul. We used to park at the Londra camp then so it was a couple of years before this doc was made. I would tip at Amman my back load would be wine from Bulgaria. I would stop at Istanbul on my way back and see the guys I''d run out with still not tipped! Good to see Ronnie holding court at 38:23

[@PillSharks]

Terry Leddra yes I've got a lot of respect for anyone who's done it as it must have been a nightmare, I worked with a few old school drivers who did it and one of my old employers used to do a round trip to Oman. Must of been hell with no air con and the older lorries used back then! I did Benelux, Germany and France but that's about it, mind you if somebody said your taking your truck down to Turkey I would have probably had a go!

[@terryleddra1973]

Phil, in truth the old lorries of the mid 80s were not that bad. Granted you didn't have air con but going through the commie block and Turkey in the winter a good heater was more on your wish list. You didn't have speed limiters so overtaking didn't take 20 miles! The worst thing was the roads they were diabolical. No motorway in Romania or Bulgaria and very little in Turkey. Oman, wow glad I was never offered that I would have done it. 1990 I did two years of Ukraine and Poland, it was much better. Then I retrained became an electrician and never looked back. I would not like to drive today!

[@PillSharks]

Terry Leddra I stopped driving around 12 years ago after only 6 years of it, I couldn't do it now with the way the roads are, to many people on this little island now! Yes he was a bloke called Les Mates and was from South Wales I think and had a haulage company in Avonmouth called mates international and then mates logistics, unfortunately he ended up going through the hoop and we all lost our jobs! Heard all the stories from the older drivers and it's only now I'm older I wish I listened to them more! I worked with another bloke who worked for Ralph Davies and went from Somerset to the China border! A fleet of 5-6 lorries went from memory and they were away for 3-4 months, again it's only what he told me but the other drivers clarified it! His name was Collin I think from the southwest.

[@terryleddra1973]

Pill, I wouldn't say it's impossible to take a load to the Chinese border. Sometimes experiments have been run to see if it is commercially viable to transport loads over road as apposed to sea or rail. My old boss had done a run to Deli in India and was a regular to Tehran. Unfortunately there has always been a fair bit of one upmanship regarding destinations travelled which has led to some real bullshit claims. The advantage road freight has over sea is speed. But the further you go that advantage soon diminishes as it starts to take a day to just to clear customs of a country that you are only transiting. But I wouldn't say it's impossible.

[@Dan23_7]

Only on Thursday 10/10/19 I saw a Davies turner wagon in Nelson BB9 Still the same livery 👍🏻

[@truckertom3884]

Apsalute Hero's these men are and seriously skilled at there trade nothing but respect lads. He was a gent hope he's doing well today keep on truckin Howard law

[@mikewatte4478]

Them cigarettes might have ended him

[@rosscopeeco69]

What ever happened to this guy H? I hope he reconciled and made connection with his children

[@danielpark2991]

I did international driving pulling fridges and tilts i loved the job and would love to drive to Iran again. but times are changing. fresh produce come in on air freight. groupage in intermodal boxes on trains and containers on ships. ten companies nr me did European work those that survived have not sent a truck over the water for 15 yrs or more. Iam just so glad i had a chance to drive abroad. being hurt or killed never seemed bother me it was something that kept nagging me to do more. now iam getting older i tell my stories. the younger ones don't believe its possible to get a truck to turkey, iran. spain or Russia. but the world is changing middle east was a good place to go. but sadly not anymore. the days of the truck are coming to an end. trains to a hub, electric short distance vehicles will deliver to the customer. has it made me a better man? probably not. I wouldn't want my lad to do what i did when i was in my twenties and thirties. but the 80s were a bad time for work. i would love to say long live the truck but like the steam train they will disappear. but for now keep on trucking and if your going a long way. pick me up iam coming with ya.

[@captainchicken6552]

DANIEL PARK - I hope to trucks don't disappear..... I hope to drive across Europe in the next few years

[@freddymarcel-marcum6831]

I got a ride for ya, no sweat mate🇺🇸♥️🇬🇧

[@kowalski7086]

Trucks won’t disappear that’s just a fantasy of super modern fantasists, if they do then I for sure will be gone too.

[@Kryndon64]

You got the name of the track that starts playing at the 53:14 minute mark? Not sure if it's an actual song or a short tune made for the doc. Either way this was very insightful to watch!

[@CillMhantainSean]

They didn’t mention the German tax on excess fuel levied on foreign trucks transiting Germany….Middle East trailers had ‘belly tanks’ underneath the trailer chassis which enabled the haulier to buy fuel in the Middle east at very cheap prices, which saved haulage firms a lot of money….they were very big tanks that held many hundreds of gallons and you pumped the fuel up to the wagon tanks using compressed air….

[@1bigjohnnyd]

Brilliant a great look into it from an ex trucker

[@driverthree3454]

Fair play to them I passed last September. Can be stressy today with sat navs automatic trucks and the rest. Wouldn't catch me doing that back in the day.

[@ManxAndy]

Brand new unit....I’m sure it read 594 km at the start.....👍

[@deanooo2531]

£100 a week in 1992 😳😳😳...i was on that in 1994 as an apprentice welder at the age of 17

[@nfkngd]

I enjoyed watching that. Hats off to H and all lorry drivers. Special breeds. I hope families Understand all the hard work and emotional dilemmas just to put food on their table. All lorry drivers need more respect. They are ships of the road for everything. 2024.... Still treated like dirt from governments and road planners in the UK. Any big roads are now turned into unused cycle paths and bollards everywhere and also stricked entry into some towns/cities. Narrowed to make a lorry driver look stupid. Not great pay for some still......

[@doms6741]

Those adverts! They seem so classy. whats happened?

[@vulgivagu]

Forgotten the little bar in the top of screen. Came on your telly when adverts were coming. Happy memories of a better time.

[@simonbranston8066]

A far less complicated time...

[@zagork]

well done aitch

[@jonstephens6535]

I wonder where H is now and what he's doing?

[@wildSpiritboy857]

Enjoy the Programmes stuff is so different in the 90s

[@chrishague1129]

I’ve done a bit of Europe driving I love been away

[@MsErikdeking]

Yeah, its fantastic! Specially romania and bulgaria

[@martynmoulsdale5059]

Try overland far better this video is total bs

[@BillyBigBalls770]

I remember this.

[@guy4469]

i went for a job at davies turner in 1989 in trafford park but my boots were shiny and i didnt have any tatooes. endid up at dhl .doing spain to morroco .

[@fasteagel1013]

They still looking for driver s

[@jamessamways8237]

bloody hell... looked like hell! I'm pretty sure Turkey is still in a bit of a state but now thanks to the EU you can fly through those borders, shows how much can change in 20 years.

[@laugesteffensen8768]

Wonder what happens after Brexit transition period??

[@jamessamways8237]

@@laugesteffensen8768 I'd assume crossing the channel will become a massive pain in the arse, but I reckon it would still be faster than back then because of the Eurotunnel.

[@Tehgoat]

@11:44 This is the future of the UK long haul post BREXIT

[@Hedge-Hog]

There is no long haul left for the UK you obviously have no idea whats happened to the Uk haulage industry since we joined the EU. 99% of all EU loads coming and going from the UK are done by none UK firms we cant bid low enough. Why do you think they import drivers from Somalia.

[@Tehgoat]

@@Hedge-Hog Bollox There's plenty of firms operating x-continental based in the UK. Whomever told you that the industry was dead has fed you false information Best of fucking luck getting a Somali to pay up the cash for his HGV 1 license

[@lionsroar9811]

Just get a load of cheap eastern Europeans to do it hence why I voted leave to many foreigners doing our jobs

[@Tehgoat]

@@lionsroar9811 LOL, fuckin Thread Necromancy. You say, "Our Jobs" yet I bet you shit yourself when there's talk of shipping them over to pick fruit. No Matter. We have an unholy trinity looming of Cov-19, an economic recession and Boris's hardon to Brexit in the post but go ahead and blame the foreigners for your troubles, lol

[@lionsroar9811]

@@Tehgoat yeah can't wait till December when we leave the eu properly. Hopefully it won't be that long the way they're pushing their luck and then we can start deporting

[@paulfianatravels]

At the start his wife says he just wants to be away 😂😂😂😂😂

[@michaelmacluskie6089]

Abi...sleepy, sleepy o/k...puty me fookin heady downy to sleepy, sleepy yeah? Good International Lingo, us Brits can easily travel anywhere in the World with our command of foreign languages.

[@secretspyfrog]

Yea, you ain't wrong

[@elizabethtaylor9321]

Michael Macluskie Aye, the Allo Allo French works fine .

[@alantaylor4213]

Hardcore haha great!

[@BirdieBrietling]

How much do they pay for this?

[@Republicofliverpool]

Nothing changed for the treatment of drivers in the uk still treated like shit

[@oakesy6746]

whats the song 2:46 ?

[@guy4469]

give me a paper tacho and no speed limiter every day, love it now days your screwed .

[@MrJasdog107]

What job that was back in the day no mobile phone or sat nav . You had to think on your feet . Bet he got some good tales to tell.

[@CillMhantainSean]

For those who went further into the Middle East and down into the ‘Gulf’ it was even worse, I remember drivers used to get stoned driving through small villages, and once the Arabs realised they could get money out of these foreign lorries they started throwing crippled children under the truck wheels to get truck driver arrested and get a payout….(my uncle used to do Doha and the Gulf) I’ve done Tehran plus Ireland / Europe with Fridges.

[@s125ish]

Driver seems so hard done by

[@systemofthehounds3012]

I kind of miss it and yet I dont

[@liva236muzika]

42:50 Serbia. I recognize the Zastava car.

[@joemengler1666]

Any info on the picture in the thumbnail? It looks a lot like my dads magnum when he was pulling for DT’s I have no pictures of it, would be great if that’s the lorry!

[@andrewcrisp9700]

Joe Mengler.. can you ask your father if the McKinnons are still about.They worked out of Battersea London for DT’s,please.

[@Hedge-Hog]

95% have to bend it, and there you are that's why there will never be enough drivers if your over 40 your going to tell them to fk off )unless your slow to grow up) I haven't driven for over 15 years now I'm over 60 I'm not even going for the medicals so I don't have the license and good fk luck to it. I recommend any young man thinking to drive for a living think before you do, no personal life, never see your family or kid's, living in a metal box for minimum wage you would be better of stacking shelves based on the same hrs you would earn twice as much. Do I miss driving ? of course I do, I don't miss the assholes on either end of the driving that think drivers are the scum of the earth and don't forget its your fault, that's everything from being late because the load wasn't ready on time to get there, to having the right load at the wrong depot even though that's the address you have for the delivery . The government rating skill for LGV drivers is the same as a traffic warden, traffic wardens get a better rate of pay and get to go home every night even though most of them don't have enough skill to walk in a straight line never mind drive in one. If you want any respect in life never get a LGV license.

[@PillSharks]

It's true mate, I drove in my 20s for 6 years on mainly long distance work, nothing like the guy in this video but up and down the country and across to Ireland and the continent every now and then! To many rules and regulations now, this CPC is something I'll never do, drove lorries long before it came out like thousands and did the job in a safe and efficient manner, now I have to sit in the classroom and be told how to do the job I've been doing already! I here now the EU have bought another great regulation in... your weekly rest can't be taken in the cab, you now have to find some hotel! I loved the traveling and especially chatting with the older drivers about their experiences but if I never sit behind the wheel of a lorry again then I'll not be bothered in anyway... Shit wages, shit hours is part and parcel of driving a HGV!

[@amateurknight235]

Couldn't have put it better myself, when I started I loved it I'm 50 now and doubt I will ever do it again the changes in 20 years are huge . Micro managed by telemetry and you have to do it their way but still carry all responsibility. ?

[@Horsecockbadger]

He is now an owner/operator of chain smoker transport.

[@s125ish]

What year was this

[@nevango0690]

1992

[@richardboyes9215]

Crikey...I watched this all those years ago......drivers today wouldn’t enjoy that haul with that truck

[@marktucker208]

I wanna be this guy

[@colemeeker908]

Wow… 70K miles per year. That’s cake. Most truckers in the UIS do 100K miles annually

[@mikewatte4478]

What year was this. 100 a week. I was taking 650 a week on building sites in london city in 1989

[@georgemcneill6408]

yeh and I was taking 162 quid in 1988 - and no hope of doing anything better on the sites, cause I is not born in earshot of the Bow bells!!

[@mikewatte4478]

@@georgemcneill6408 believe what u like lad but its a fact.

[@georgemcneill6408]

@@mikewatte4478 not saying you're doing a porky! just maybe.....life is complicated .....and pretty bullshit sometimes too!

[@elizabethtaylor9321]

mike watte So your the reason a one bed flat costs 2 million lol .

[@s125ish]

Not 89'was later , what would 650 be now ?

[@habibie153]

What the TIR means on the plat number?

[@hakunamatata7037]

Transports Internationaux Routiers

[@epicans6065]

@@hakunamatata7037 Transit international routier *

[@JonJon-dk3nh]

£100 per week?! Why year was this ?

[@simonbranston8066]

I was getting 80 quid a week id just finished a yts!

[@ronniebiggs4026]

Bet this dude is well finished now coughing and wheezing like an old bag🤕

[@jamessamways8237]

Michael Mulraney if he hasn't died then he's probably happily puffing on a vape 😁😁😁

[@jankobogdanovic9357]

Great video! Name of the driver,please!

[@geirriis4606]

Check out Oslo - Bandar Abbas

[@janarnold5569]

Dubai Road Express

[@alrightdave6135]

Nightmare journey in a right hand drive truck

[@truckerdaddy-akajohninqueb4793]

Any work over there for a Canadian driver?

[@spear8492]

Trucker Daddy - AKA John in Québec why does a Canadian wants job in Europe? You guys are in the top of the world But yes there is plenty of work if you are willing to take it

[@spear8492]

Guard Walker I don’t wana sound like stupid but 10 an hour is not that bad in my shithole Im thinking about getting my license Are you a truck driver ?

[@spear8492]

Guard Walker I don’t want t disturb you but do you recommend it ?

[@SuperFIFTHGEAR]

@@spear8492 60hrs a week, £10 an hour, £25 for a night out. You'll be driving for 9hrs a day, working 12hr days most of the time, up to 15. Think of it as a lifestyle. Volunteer to be a drivers mate if you want to see what the job is like for a few days. There are companies out there that will pay for you get your C2 and C1 licence, although usually you have to sign a disclaimer to say that you'll stay with the company for 1 year or two. Stobarts were doing it, Turners apparently if you already have your C2 they'll take you on and train you up to a C1. Everybody complains about the bigger companies, but they give you experience and they won't want you bending rules. If they want to send you somewhere and you're a day driver (not sleeping in the cab) just got to say "haven't got the time to get there and back". You'll have to stand up for yourself. Good luck if you do choose to do it.

[@spear8492]

SuperFIFTHGEAR thank you sir for your response. It’s hard to find someone who is willing to help .

[@davidburchael2707]

No sat nav back then.

[@fluggaenkoecchicebolsen]

I guarantee Davies Turner don’t use British drivers on these international runs now

[@johnstevebs9756]

Any one no the where abouts of this truck driver today

[@daeshbagcentral5298]

£100 quid a week?

[@Unexpectedperspectivesnow]

nice documentary but the sound is very bad.

[@johnbower7452]

Did he say 3 weeks? Google shows it as 30 hours each way; 10 hours drive that means 60 hours tops. That should be just over a week round trip.

[@alrightdave6135]

John Bower plus ferries. They said 300 miles a day. I guess you don’t drive a truck?

[@robmoody2722]

Your some sort of clown do it in 60 hours you foolish person you haven’t a clue your an utter muppet

[@webweb9673]

John bower leave the trucking to the professionals or you'll give yourself a nosebleed

[@nevango0690]

You have to stop to sleep plus ferries and unloading and loading in Turkey

[@jameswhitbread7173]

1992

[@torbennielsen5029]

back then drivers spoke english but the companyes where they delivered cargo to deed not. today the companyes speak english and the drivers NOT A FU... word most only speak "vodka" we see those drivers every F.... day here at the factory

[@egdiryellam68]

NO SOUND

[@guy4469]

this driver is cool i think hes called ned kelly...he still does videos .

[@misterjei]

Ned's Irish

[@elizabethtaylor9321]

guy Not Ned my friend , Ned is Irish ! This guy English and by now pushing mid sixties , Ned is mid Forties .

[@simonbranston8066]

Wonder if the driver is still alive?

[@joemengler1666]

Good to see it’s always been a dying industry....

[@alanmorris9425]

Here we are in October 2021, a shortage of truck drivers leading to supermarkets with empty shelves and queues at the petrol pumps and a Conservative Party that behaves as if the experience of 1990s truck drivers was a new thing. Wake up

[@pit_stop77]

Did "h" make it to retirement I wonder? Be surprised with a smokers wheeze like he had.

[@IG2105]

He is probably beter than you

[@redblock5949]

Driver looks like philthy animal taylor

[@petermcgregor3274]

X

[@truckertom3884]

All that work for a £100😱

[@sirbeardoftheshire1993]

Tune that guitar lol

[@johnstatham6490]

no wonder we voted to leave

[@simoncoe7872]

Will make it harder lol

[@eddielloyd4070]

you voted to leave and gained absolutely nowt ,,but lost a lot ,,,like lambs to the slaughter