Truck Drivers: How to Drive a Lorry Properly (1965) | British Pathé

This film from 1965 follows the routes of two lorry drivers, 'old sober-sides' and 'old tearaway' , as they demonstrate the right and wrong way to be safe on the road.
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(FILM ID:309.01)
Comparison between good and bad truck drivers in Oxfordshire.
The film follows the fortunes of "old sober-sides" the safe driver and of "old tearaway" who breaks the rules. L/S of a policeman standing on country road waving a lorry (Austin) over to a lay-by. The commentator tells us that they are carrying out spot checks to find the good from the bad drivers. The lorry being checked is that of "old sober - sides". The two inspectators stick a certificate on the side of the vehicle and let the lorry move off. M/S of "old tearaway" leaning out of lorry speaking to policemen and inspectors, appearing to be having problems.
M/S of two teenage girls standing on road hitchhiking the safe driver passes by without stopping (this would be breaking company regulations) M/S of bad driver pulling up to give hitchhikers a lift (breaking firms regulations).
Various shots comparing the safe and bad drivers. The safe driver wave cars past him out of courtesy, while the bad violently swerves in front of a Morris Minor as it attempts to overtake, and blocks vehicles at a junction. M/S of both drivers pulling up at roadside cafe. Shot of bad driver putting money in jukebox and playing one-arm bandit. "Old sober-sides" leaves first and heads back to lorry not having wasted time like "old tearaway".
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[@capcompass9298]

The Dutch Minister of Transport - Laurie van Truk.

[@tanja8907]

🤣

[@jasonayres]

From memory, one of blokes from the Boomtown Rats was named Hertz van Rentals.

[@giovanninovelli7424]

L

[@whatyousaidbud]

🤦‍♂️

[@KHHVKimchicel]

Hahaha

[@knightowl3577]

Somethings don't change it seems.

[@ivandavidmonroylavariega4237]

what was the reason a lot of models of trucks do not arrives to Latinoamérica

[@markmarshall9820]

Charles hawtree in the morris minor?🤣

[@robwilde855]

When I was a lorry driver in the early seventies - a few years after this - we always stopped for hitchhikers. Especially if the firm forbade it! Though to be fair that was rare. Later when tachos came in to replace the log book we'd give discs to any hitcher we particularly liked, to help them getting the next lift. We hitched ourselves, of course, whenever we needed to. Hitch-hiking was really common then, and not just for adults, or students, or males. Young folk today would be amazed. I think it was because as a population we had more common sense and thus didn't over-react to scaremongering in the media, and because most folk just liked to help each other.

[@danschneider9921]

Same here in the states. I drove locally in a college town (started in 75) and I picked up daily a student or some random hippie just wanting to get across town. Different times

[@johngrant5448]

Hey I remember that, I used to stop for anybody in the seventies, it was the done thing then. I would always stop my car if I saw somebody holding trade plates, that's something else you don't see now.

[@Jeffybonbon]

It was common for service men to hitch a lift

[@Paul-dv4dr]

Nice comment! In 1983 I hitched from Rotterdam to Yugoslavia, then to Italy and Spain / Gib, and back to UK.... that was before I learned how to ride the rails for free! Now 40 years later i'm a Class 2 hgv driver... but never see any hitch-hikers today. I got quite good at it - choosing the best place to stand and reading all the european number plates... always interesting conversations with drivers and I learned some foreign languages too!

[@capcompass9298]

Hitched every month London to Notts and back, and although I was a truckie, I always hitched as a 'civilian'.

[@renhoek3851]

Who wants to be the bloke with two fit babes in his lorry and gets to eat a nice fry-up afterwards?

[@vtechead1]

After what .? He he

[@garryharriman7349]

You want to be an 'old.tear away'? You, sir, are a scoundrel a cad and a bounder!

[@vtechead1]

Garry Harriman - yep, I’m the guy you’ve seen many times up and down the country, leaning out of my cab with my hat askew shouting - caaaaawwwww fancy a lift ladies ? Jump right in.

[@garryharriman7349]

@StealthyMonk ☺️☺️☺️

[@brunster64]

A ride for a “ride” 😀

[@Mariazellerbahn]

1:29 Old Tearaway was doing the Moggie Minor driver a favour by not letting him overtake over double white lines.

[@Goldenrod01]

A favour indeed, that Moggie would have gone head on into the wagon coming round the bend, had he overtaken.

[@Goldenrod01]

@@trigpoint1936 I’ll call it what I like, bellend

[@DivPivShiftmaster]

Back when H&M was a transport and logistics company

[@crushingvanessa3277]

Is that the same h&m as the clothing store now?

[@oo0Spyder0oo]

@@crushingvanessa3277 no

[@finddeniro]

Lawsuits 5 ..out of Business ?

[@soposh5673]

@@crushingvanessa3277 lmao

[@dogmeat4275]

Now they're world leaders in child labour infrastructure

[@AR1G3]

what I learned from this: How to drive a lorry properly: don't pick up girls

[@legdig]

Well i'm hardly gonna pick up men. Am I?

[@Alex462047]

Don't rush, mate. That's the takeaway here.

[@jackthurgood9614]

And don’t eat fry-ups.

[@kollygodders5019]

@buffalo wt Reference to the Yorkshire Ripper? That dates you!

[@seanmaxwell3319]

60’s Top Gear

[@large_crab]

CLARKSON

[@beaufighter245]

Before the days of Clarkson and co. Great!

[@rezafirdaus3179]

Clarkson was 5 years old in 1965

[@ratscoot]

The good old days of trucking, many roadside cafe’s, no cellphone or track&trace devices.

[@nobodyyouwouldknow1]

I would totally stop for those 2 young ladies!

[@flitsertheo]

Meanwhile they are probably in their seventies ...

[@tanja8907]

@weird science a bit of 10w30 will do the trick 😜

[@jayswarrow1196]

@weird science They've made 'em to *last* , back in those days ;) Would make a good daily runner, too, for those, with enough skill and guts to handle one.

[@alan-sk7ky]

Ginger blonde one appears to be cosplaying Jane Asher in Michael Caine's 'Alfie' 😀

[@greglinski2208]

They’re probably like 90 by now. Spreading their legs would be like pulling apart a cheese toastie 😂

[@mikequinn6273]

It's your Matchbox trucks and cars come to life.

[@johnleinen9409]

1966 had the JAMES BOND ASTON MARTIN MATCH BOX .

[@jerryturton6789]

Chris's cafe! Still there near High Wycombe!

[@profloor-restore1955]

And the Lambert arms!

[@robertboddington7650]

I knew it well.

[@yan24to]

I think I had a night out there.

[@game_doc1908]

I’ll have to give it a visit

[@danielfinch362]

I thought I recognised it!

[@biggusdikkus8974]

All those lovely old motors , would love a few of those .

[@BigJoeChrisLewis]

I love the way that the makers of this film have thrown in a load of value-judgements, along with the road safety message. As well as being a bad driver, our errant trucker is: over-sexed; likes pop music; and a flutter. Clearly the wrong sort. This film could have been made by my parents...

[@MediaFilter]

What on earth did he have to go and be over-sexed for.

[@stephenrice4554]

Sadly , as it transpires , the overtaking , road blocking and bad judgement means he should have had a slap from the driver he put at risk . Seen it many times, cut up one , get slung out of the cafe later .

[@monkeyintensity1]

I love the 60's innocence of these films....the formal attire and all.

[@emptyangel]

jesus, the police officer just standing in the middle of the road

[@TheDiner50]

Yea! If it was in todays world.. The cop is almost getting run over by the lorry. And right after the lorry there is a car stuck up the ars of the lorry (if the lorry hit the brake hard at least) But back when there was common sense speeds where lower and stuff. Since now lorry drivers learn that slowing down for any reason is unacceptable. Since delivery cost need to be unsafely cut down to make products cheaper for the costumer. But in reality it is the company's that just the the savings and put them in there pockets. Like no time to slow down seeing people standing close to the side of the road. Looking like a cop or something. Some truck drivers do not even slow down when they see the road being blocked by a stuck lorry blocking the hole road. It if first when in the last possible moment they hit the brakes.... As it is first then they think that the gap is to small to pass at full speed. (or even at all possilbe to pass)

[@typhoon5445]

Without a hi vis which we all know will protect you from a direct hit from an artic

[@MediaFilter]

He's not Jesus. He's Mr Plod. (look it up if you fail to get the reference)

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Impressive film quality

[@garethonthetube]

35mm as used in movies. With modern scanning it can look superb.

[@malfattio2894]

This would look even better if they scanned it in HD

[@ianmangham4570]

Film

[@noaht2005]

Yeah, it’s well restored. Would look great to see ol’ tareaway in HD though

[@edsuffield2270]

Those two young women were never seen again...

[@DanFreeman723]

The labcoats are hilarious. Are these guys doctors or scientists? Or DMV?

[@carlbirtles4518]

Nowadays, they would be wearing hi vis jackets.

[@wstevenson4913]

They are gynecologists doing a bit of moonlighting

[@stevewilson6390]

Colgate white overalls! Manky yellow is the colour today.

[@johnking1381]

Somebody's been skipping on maintenance.....but they're letting him go anyway😂ffs

[@Texaca]

1:02 ....who cares about tickets and regulations, that lorry driver had a good time that evening 😄

[@RohanSanjith]

guy is having time of his life!!

[@MediaFilter]

...and thus, new gingers were created.

[@Texaca]

@@MediaFilter ....that lorry driver is my hero 😆 I drove a Class-6 delivery truck, a 2003 Mack Freedom truck, built by Renault. it was a damn nice truck. And why are those Inspector wearing White coats 🤔 ..I'd be Suspicious of anyone on the side of the road, wearing lab coats

[@leplessis8179]

An interesting look at the roads long the Oxfordshire/Berkshire borderlands, long before the M40 was thought of. Wallingford on the signposts: that's where I went to school!

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

When it was Berkshire before being assigned to Oxfordshire in an action worthy of the Soviet Union

[@rhedinrage1601]

Lorries used to look beautiful.

[@MediaFilter]

Not to mention red-headed Lauries.

[@freesaxon6835]

The riotous lifestyle of the lorry driver led to an early death at 86. Meanwhile the other lorry driver lived on to 87, getting run over by a milk float when his rope sandals caught in a manhole cover

[@lauriwiren6398]

Red headed hitchhiker. Guy is in trouble for sure.

[@MediaFilter]

...and thus, new gingers were created.

[@jeanlefranc3817]

Clearly, 1965 UK was a much better place than its 2020 version. Same could be said about most European countries. When did we get it so wrong ?

[@tanja8907]

The kalergi plan. Use the search engine duckduckgo to research it.

[@josef5319]

your stupid liberal laws allowing people from different cultures to remove your own.. shame on the UK really..

[@rahuld8706]

1. Unchecked immigration. 2. Immigrants bringing their stone age traditions. 3. Immigrants producing more babies than the natives 4.Unemployment among immigrants is high, some of them dont go to work on purpose so that they can receive government benefits. 5. They make more babies so that they can get bigger homes from the Goverment.

[@juliethurgood3667]

@@rahuld8706 Just Tony Blair...

[@q3b26]

I've been trying to work out where those crossroads were... I'm guessing it was before the M40 was built and the B4009 was bypassed around villages, so my best guess is Lambert. It appears that Butts Lane and High Street would have made the original B4009 as a staggered crossroads and the old A40 would have gone straight through opposite to how it does now)... I loved the old black road signs and the HALT on the road instead of stop.

[@JackWilliams-bt8wg]

The crossroads are still there today so is the lambert, highstreet heading towards Lewknor is a dead end with some type of service road going under the m40 joining the other side at Lewknor and butts way is just a dead end, the B4009 just goes around Lewknor and has a m40 junction.here's the coordinates from Google maps 51.678098,-0.956164

[@catch-2259]

@@JackWilliams-bt8wg Thanks! I wish people would give coordinates like when people are trying to find something or somewhere nostalgic!

[@geejayhey]

I paused the video at that point and found the junction. I love Google Maps and KZbin comments.

[@CableWrestler]

I also tried to find it. God bless you guys.

[@bencurry5295]

Old England Eh.

[@YourMom-lb3mt]

You mean englishtan?

[@adude8424]

@@YourMom-lb3mt It was england. It became Englishtan in 2010 ya bonkers

[@johnnyhun1]

@@adude8424 england was full of refugees way more back than 2010... even in 1993 refugees are broke into trucks just to slip into england so its not a recent stuff, and if you ever visited London there are almost no native englishmans today, only fourth-third generation people from pakistan, albania and other countries like that...

[@abidhussain6757]

@@johnnyhun1 amazing, right?

[@corydorastube]

@@johnnyhun1 counties like what?

[@boneshaker6819]

You wouldn’t want to drive a lorry back then. Power steering and power brakes were rare, they were noisy and underpowered by today’s standard, and slow. No motorways either, the vast majority of roads were normal A roads, so deliveries took for ever.

[@marknestbox]

Just out of interest I would like to know what became of the two hikers, how did they get there parts and did they progress to other epic productions? That aside, I am totally smitten by the brunette, what a bleeding scorcher, proper '60s hot totty now in her mid 70s!

[@adichew]

Is there a part 2?

[@notwennalla007]

Try searching "CUTS/OUTAKES FOR CP526 MOTORWAY MACHINES,TRUCK DRIVERS"

[@turboslag]

Bloody hilarious!!

[@terrypresnell7874]

I enjoy these old British films and I'm an American I like the old British trucks in the film never knew they were called lorries instead of trucks in England

[@keithterry2169]

A workmate and I once drove two HGVs from Kent to Gloucester. We hitch-hiked all the way back to Kent by way of three HGVs in turn. The last driver dropped us outside our depot and we gave him a handsome tip for his trouble; this was swiftly recouped when claimed overtime and hit the expenses for rail and taxi fares 😋

[@captaincurly1532]

Loving the "carry on" music

[@ianwatson3315]

👍🏼🤣

[@wenyuanzoe6148]

In those days British drivers still drove British lorries

[@MediaFilter]

That was before the British realised how godawfully unreliable British automobiles (and many aircraft) were compared to German, American, Japanese etc. Leyland, Austin, Morris, Rover... the list goes on. All in the end failed or got bought out and conglomerated.

[@48billy0]

Whenever there is a program on TV about lorry drivers, they always show him picking up gorgeous hitchhikers. I was an HGV driver for over 40 years and the only hitchers I came across were usually down and outs holding up a tatty tacho disc, cracking on they were drivers.

[@BIGBLOCK5022006]

What is the tachograph for anyways? Is it like a log book that American lorry drivers use?

[@48billy0]

@@BIGBLOCK5022006 Used to be a log book in the old days, then it was a paper disc that was inserted into a speedo size clock. Now it is a credit size card. It records EVERYTHING a driver does. Card is then downloaded to a computer. A bit old fashioned is the fact that there is a 'till roll' inside, to enable a printout that the police etc can ask for. The times I have got in a truck, that needs a new roll, because the previous driver was too lazy to replace it.

[@capcompass9298]

@@BIGBLOCK5022006 20 tons of tacho discs per WEEK shipped off to some securer whare-house deep in the EEC then.

[@johnvanstone5336]

A Morris Minor overtaking? Don’t make me laugh!😂

[@DA_BEAMERRRR]

These cars used to be mainstream cars in my country

[@volante8657]

1:28 that's the Morris asking for trouble, and the lorry driver is actually saving the Morris from certain death

[@NobbyClark-g3y]

Those were the days, lorry licence that looked like a small book, tatty and stained. Now, it's track and trace, cameras in and outside the cab, GPS timings on your speed, justify to the last litre your mileage, bloody awful. Just finished working for a company that watches your route all times, flags up if you speed over any limits, when you get back it's a warning, do it three times you're sacked and reported to the police with the evidence so they can prosecute you. Hmmm? Wonder why they go through hundreds of staff? Add to that the DVSA/VOSA Nazis don't bother

[@rishabhpal9845]

ngl the Bad Driver is living a much more fulfilling life

[@driverjeff1498]

Friggin white lab coat at the DOT checkpoint. Did you just lick that nasty piece of paper and stick it on my truck.

[@TheShanampan]

That Moggie was in the wrong,double white lines mean NO overtaking,so the truckie was right!

[@64SGH]

Wow, everything looks so clean

[@andrewh5457]

These are the lorries of my childhood, my father had so many, themes trader, aec, albion, erf, foden, commer.

[@georgerenton965]

I’d spend my summers when I was a young kid with my Dad on the fish run from Ardrossan to Grimsby and Hull back in the early to mid 60’s. I remember all those trucks well. Life was a never ending adventure. We moved to Canada in 65. I was a Cummins mechanic after I left school for almost 5 years, then drove and owned trucks most of my life. I’m 67 and still driving HGV all over N.A. , but I’m still proud of my roots. Drivers today don’t know what they missed.

[@nickwillobey2205]

Just imagine being asked politely by a policeman to stop.,or a man in a white coat asking if 😅

[@deantaylor1512]

Picking up birds... fry ups every day ... And you actually got paid to do it ....wots not to like....

[@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars]

Well, the Minor driver shouldn't have been trying to pass on solid white lines! Lol

[@truckrobo147]

"This is a hard job because I'm not just saying this to win favor with lorry drivers, it's a hard job. Change gear, change gear, change gear, check your mirrors, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder, check your mirrors that's a lot of effort in a day" -jermey Clarkson

[@robertpalmer5803]

Those were the days...sheets and ropes ...no power steering snd loads of roadside cafes....Bob...Paignton...

[@carparkcampers8407]

O’l tear away ❤

[@bucko321]

Give a man a white chemist coat, back in the day. You would have a fully trained expert. 😊

[@UhtredRagnarsson1949]

When I started truck driving in 1970; if you broke down or had a puncture, you had to walk to the nearest phone, or rely on somebody stopping to give you a lift. Fun! it wasn't.☹☹☹

[@BIGBLOCK5022006]

The old school British version of a Level 1.

[@Vamshk]

Where's the next part? I want to see the full clip

[@paulmarwood4325]

British lorries and real policemen and not a foreign car in sight, ah bless.

[@carsonbrown7603]

Anyone know what the background music is?

[@lifetimesofamultiplemediam1003]

Those hot red heads eh!… LOL

[@flosbuttocks4444]

What was it with having to wear NECKTIES? Was it a sneaky "BDSM thing"? I can't think of one reason for needing to wear those things.

[@harrycurrie5295]

My old dad drove one of these in the days living in digs no sleeper cabs back then

[@THESTIG-cc7fq]

Driving trucks with shirt and tie or shirt and Suit Jacket 😂😂

[@jackbarrie6007]

One minute it's a truck next it's a lorry lorry is a mans name

[@johnleinen9409]

Awright birds, where too? Oh just down the lane abit.

[@vtecpreludevtec]

Tearaway

[@silverliteway]

0:21 The designed panel gap of the 1960s - gotta love it 😀

[@princeallellooya9407]

Good ole British Propaganda "we gotta watch you cuz your bad and naughty"

[@gordonhickson7524]

Less stress then

[@lee2217]

The 2nd guy drives for Eddie stobbart now

[@TM-26]

That is England that I always imagine to be clean nice people.

[@Franz19970]

Cute girls to go along with, sounds fun

[@richardclarke376]

"Driver Cholmondeley Warner has an upside down whisky bottle on his dashboard like you see in pubs. PC Henshaw soon puts him right" Amazing high quality video considering the year

[@luthmhor]

When Britain was still Britain

[@Anshuman566]

The lorry and the bad guy are the same as shown in India even now ...

[@paulatradies1942]

I am with old tearaway he looks like his having more fun

[@danielwilson5102]

Still relevant today.

[@dabcatty567]

The song is so catchy. What is the name?

[@michaelgibson4705]

I think that might be “Lay by “Bob with those two birds 😂a new meaning to the double dolly knot.Lorry driver speak

[@p.m.dolgalev7393]

дорожный контроль в белых халатах..это не клиенты 7 палаты?

[@robertpalmer5803]

The crossroads was Lambert Arms...on the old A40...where the road wrnt to Chinnor...north of High Wycombe...Bob....

[@Horizon344]

Note: "Lorry" not the Americanism "truck".

[@juliethurgood3667]

Naw mayun yu gawt eet rong, eets pronawnsed truuuk.

[@agoradacerto]

É Caminhão

[@wangdangdoodie]

They are both British expressions. These can be truck's, but strictly speaking articulated vehicles (ie with tractor & trailer) should be referred to as 'Lorries'.

[@bastogne315]

When driving lorries paid a living wage.

[@eastdawn2471]

Truck inspector wearing lab coat while working on road side, checking brakes and everything

[@leesmith8366]

I remember my dad driving a thames trader in the 60s, think it was for a fulham company "telfers" .

[@Matt-wr9cc]

I drive my truck everyday like I stole it you know why cause I don’t own it hahahaha

[@bencurry5295]

Old England Eh.

[@alanpartridge2140]

@Gappie Al Kebabi That was just beginning in the era shown

[@andrewjones-productions]

Still the same domineering hypocritical England it was then as it is now. Sorry, but no points for nostalgia. If you were ever good, the independence movements in Scotland and Wales would never have been born let alone growing. Idiots.

[@jeffmackie547]

@@andrewjones-productions Get the chip off your shoulder. Bringing your ridiculous politics and usual England bashing into this lovely little film give it a rest

[@googlesucks7840]

1:30 Bad driver just saved the car from a head on collision on a bend.

[@tilerman]

Interesting fact. The 2 young ladies are probably in their m id 70's, if indeed they are still alive. Meanwhile, everyone else in this video is dead.

[@davidluck4608]

Some Great old Makes of Lorry…. Including my old Company AEC❤️

[@Paul-bm9en]

This should be on cpc training, boys at my firm need to see this.

[@PeterCooperUK]

My granddad was a lorry driver in the 60s and he would have been Old Tearaway for sure. His main story was how he dumped the family piano on the hard shoulder of the M1 the first week it opened.

[@davidpearn2484]

Old tearaway oooh you are,awful 😂😂😂

[@upnorthvlogs]

LARRY😊

[@hugostiglitz6914]

The picture quality in the old British Pathé films is amazing.

[@radharcanna]

Those two drivers weren’t exactly in their youthful prime.

[@ricardocabral4913]

Muito bonito caminhoes

[@rodgeyd6728]

What ever happened to all our truck manufacturers?

[@flipper2392]

Scania, Volvo and Merc happened, while we were stuck with Leylands, Atkis, Fodens, and ERFs. Oops, nearly forgot the good old Guy.

[@alexanderv7702]

'A ride for a ride,' was what a driver was told, after giving a female hitchhiker a lift!

[@nigden1]

I'd have picked those girls up, no problem!