http://www.linku2.co.ukLinkU2 UK business directory RSS Feed, which has business listings by category and location. Submit your website, products and services to our free business listing index and RSS.Copyright 2009 LinkU2.co.ukTo whom it may concern. Buying British products such as meat, milk, poultry etc from our supermarkets, but that will not stop the supermarkets from buying foreign foods as these are a lot cheaper so that makes them more profit, if you were a supermarket owner and you had a choice of British food against the cheaper foreign foods then which would make the more profit, even when they have shipped the food from abroad it is still cheaper than we can produce on our own soil. What we should do is first get out of the EU so that we would be an Island again and then we would grow our own foods and we would have enough land in this country to do that. Secondly if we had to buy from abroad we would buy at a price that suited us not at a price that the EU dictated to us and thirdly we could then sell our exports at a price that suited us, what I am trying to say is this , we as British farmers are really getting fed up with the EU dictating to us what we must grow, what we must sell it for. When are we going to stand up and say enough is enough. My father is 82 years old and still milks 200 cows every day morning and night with his son and sons daughter as well as other work on the farm, my father will be milking cows till the day he dies because the EU has squeezed that much from him that he can not make any profit any more, we have seen what happens when the the British man in the street is sacked because his employer has found a cheaper person to do the same job. well this is the same with the situation with the farmers we bring in foreign foods that are cheaper than British foods that makes our British farmers redundant and this is why you find British men whether farmers or not have taken there own lives because like my father at 82 years old he has worked on a farm since he was 14 years old, how would you feel with it happen to you. But to get back to the subject all we have to do here is get out of the EU produce enough food for our own people and if we need other commodities from frogien lands then we should have a price that suites us for export and import not a price that is dictated to us. Will we ever learn I doubt it, but things are getting really bad I have just learnt today that another two farmers are packing up farming as they can not continue any more with the milk price they are getting and the price of feed for there cattle, where do you think we farmers get the money to buy cattle at between £800 and £2000 per cow these days when milk price is between 17 pence and 19 pence per litre and then pay for cattle feed on top and everything else that goes to produce the pint of milk in the super markets and what is the pint of milk in the supermarket these days, can you see what I am trying to say. Should we be nice British people and let the EU walk all over us, I say not I do not want to pack up farming just because some snotty little person tells me I should, like my heading in my first post "can we be British again" YES WE CAN but we must do one that we should have done along time ago, get out before its to late. http://www.linku2.co.uk/click/d3d3LmxpdHRsZXJidWxraGF1bGFnZS5jby51aw==the british farming industry,farming at it best,can we be british again,why the EU why not britain,the men at the top are not listening to us,This Hino 700 series was first registered in April 2007 it has a 13 litre 410 hp engine with a 16 speed ZF gearbox and is fitted with Jake brake and Hino retarder. The vehicle is fitted with alloy Aliweld body and Harsh electric sheeting system front to back and has Alcoa alloy wheels all round. It is painted in the companies colours of pale blue cab with royal blue chassis and princess grey body, at the rear is a full alloy tailgate with grain hatch. The vehicle has three coloured cameras, one for reversing, one for body loading and due to the new laws one fitted to the passenger side foot well so that the driver can see all pedestrians and cycles etc down the nearside blind spot, the monitor for this sits on the dashboard and act as a inside mirror. The Hino is fitted with digital tachograph and air conditioning with air suspension seats for comfort. The cab is quite roomy inside for a day cab and is fitted with an over night sleeping bunk with ample underneath storage for all the drivers gear. It has a payload potential of 20.800 tonnes and tare weight of 11.200. All it needs know is a cooker and fridge and when the wife kicks me out I will have somewhere to rest my head. Any questions or comments gladly received. http://www.linku2.co.uk/click/d3d3LmxpdHRsZXJidWxraGF1bGFnZS5jby51aw==8 wheels are better than 4,tipper trucks,tipper transport,bulk haulage,your local bulk supplier,bulk sand supplies,bulk stone supplier,blue is the colour,littler blue hino,hino 700 series wow,aggregate tipper transport,So the government are now telling us that we are out of the recession. On Wednesay night`s evening new at 6.00pm on television I heard it was announced that we have come out of the recession and may have been out since May 2009, what a load of cod`s wallop, come off it, does our government think that we can be in a recession one minute then out the next, I don`t think so, maybe they haven`t got all their marbles in one bag. Lets take the haulage situation, how many haulage companies have gone to the wall in the last twelve months through no fault of there own hundreds infact thousands, I can not count all of them but it will be a lot more if we don`t do something about it now. These companies whether big or small can not cope with the high fuel prices and low work rates. When our banks have frittered away money then the government has to bail them out and we the injured party then take the flack upon our shoulders of not being able to borrow money to help our haulage businesses to survive. We are not millionaires, none of us and the only way for some is the down turn of our destiny. To borrow money is fine but it has to be paid back sooner or later, so when the government borrowed the money from other countries to help our situation with the banks then instead of increasing our fuel prices and other prices we should have accepted a slight increase of income tax to be able to replenish the funds we borrowed. I am sure that we haulage companies would have been better off if income tax had risen slightly rather than we pay for it at the fuel pumps and the increase of taxation on our vehicles still to come yet, as it stands now the government have borrowed all this money we will surely be paying it for years to come. In the 1940`s Germany had a man who wanted to rule the world, we got rid of him. Now the EU are trying to govern us by dictating our fuel prices, our driving hours, digital tachographs, new EU rules for our highways, they will be telling us next what under pants we should wear and what colour they should be. For crying out loud when are we British hauliers and drivers going to face facts we are doomed under the EU. I will never understand some drivers and hauliers who have spoken to me in the past and have said it was the best thing Britain ever did getting in to the EU, you must be joking all these new rules have come from some where and they didn`t come from Britain, you could say we have now hit rock bottom and there is only one way to go, we have pleaded with our government to help us, mind you look at the help they have given the farmers we don`t want that kind of help not now. I was talking to two farmers last week they were telling me how much they get from the dairies to produce the pint of milk, I feel sorry for them as it was only the price of a single electrical fuse.Please don`t let us go down the same road. One wish is all I ask for, some of you may agree others may not but if we could only bring back the great lady that made the B in Britain we could be saved. Alas she is not in government any more and that`s a shame. If only we had some one who could stand up for our rights and say enough is enough, back off EU Britain is ours not yours. I don`t want the EU to be our bosses and tell us what we can do and what we can not do. This is not 1940 it is 2009 or is it? Do we know the difference? You tell me. http://www.linku2.co.uk/click/d3d3LmxpdHRsZXJidWxraGF1bGFnZS5jby51aw==fuel pumps,more taxation,replenish our funds,work rates,companies,government,haulage businesses,recession is it over,where do we go from here,money and more money why,lets all just calm down,My earliest memory was of my dad putting me on a cows back in our shippon one night after he had finished milking. It was 1957 I was 3 years old. It was a blue roaned cow and she was always tied in her stall on the right hand side wall, she looked enormous from where I was standing but my dad picked me up and put me on her back, she never flinched, I think it was his way of me getting use to the cows and other animals we had on the farm. In 1960 my mum and dad moved to farm at Lower Withington, where they rented the whole hundred acres. On that farm it was under a tenancy that my dad paid rent for per year. We milked in a back-to-back shippon with feed areas close by. We grew corn and kale for the winter months. 2 years had gone by and the landlord of the farm decided to put in a milking parlour which gave my mum and dad a bit more scope. In 1958 my brother was born and he goes on to work the farm with my dad. In 1960 we all moved back to Sandiway where I was born, dad had worked hard with mum and saved money but still needed a bank loan to buy a farm between Sandiway and Weaverham . It was 75 acres and a grassland farm, still a shippon milking 40 cows and a dairy close by. In 1968/69 when we had survived the foot and mouth epidemic dad had decided to buy a milking bale and put it behind the shippon and hook up to the dairy for the transport of the milk, I was 11 years I would get up early before school and help dad to milk and feed those 70 cows. On weekends dad and I would milk together morning and night, it has always been a 7 days a week job even on Christmas morning. In 1969 I left school I did not have any exam certificates and as dad said to the school job officer that came one summer to see what I was going to do when I left school. "There`s only one place my lad is going to work for", and I heard him say, at home, when truly I had in my own mind that I was going to join the navy, I soon realised that the navy option was burnt from my memory. So on the 1 st August 1969 I started work for my dad, OK working for your dad maybe be great but as it turned out we were always arguing, I was going to Reaseheath Agriculture College at the time and I would becoming home telling dad of the new fangled ways of milking cows that I had been taught at college, which didn`t go down too well either considering dad I had been milking cows since he was 14 years old himself and was a self minded person. The arguments would go on week in week out till both of us had decided enough was enough and I left to work on another farm at Pickmere Nr Northwich. I suppose it was the best for both of us but I could see that dad was disheartened, I was young and foolish at the time and my head as any young man will never say was full of anything but the job and their family. After 12 months of working on another farm having a girlfriend and motorbike to take care of, I realised that the money I was earning was just not enough so I packed in farming and went to work in Middlewich for British Crepe. I was working in the dye house I found it to be hard work and very hot, fine in winter and quite warm but in summer even with the doors open it was red hot and after 1 year of working there I moved and found a job driving for Hales Of Frodsham on 10.00 tonne gross Bedford wagon. It was a job that catered for the fruit and vegetable markets and we would go out in the mornings carrying our loads of veg to shops that we delivered around the Frodsham to Northwich areas, I would even drive on Christmas morning in the early days but after a few years that stopped and then I could open my presents like anyone else could on Christmas morning. I worked on that job for approx 10 years I even had my licence upgraded from a car licence driving 7.5 tonne vehicles to the 10 tonne wagons sort of 12 tonnes de-rated to 10 tonnes and no power steering, not like today. Having now got the driving disease within my blood and dreaming that one day I would become that big trucker driver myself, I spied upon a job that had been advertised in my local paper to work for Daleford Estates at Sandiway. It was driving 16 tonne Leyland sand tipper wagons and I went for an interview with the owners Mr & Mrs B. Guest who I later found out had three sons and also knew my father and mother from their younger days, I also learnt that Mr Guest use to call my dad `mucker` but for some unknown reason I will not go in to that. The interview seemed to go fine but for one problem and that was my licence was not a class three only a licence for driving ten tonne vehicles, I thought that`s the job up the spout, and Mr Guest said he would be in touch if he thought any more about it. A few days later I had a telephone call regarding the sand job, Mr Guest explained that he would take me on as a driver and put me in for my class 3 licence on the understanding that I would work for him alone for the next two years, I suppose he worked it out that he would get his money back one way or another. So a week later I started driving for Dalefords with a Professional driver beside me teaching me the ropes of big drivers wagons so I thought, and a couple of weeks went by and I went to Crewe to take my test on HGV class 3 wagons and guess what I passed first time. After approx 5 years being at Dalefords Mr Guest came again to see me and asked would I like to upgrade to a HGV class two licence and a couple of weeks later I passed the test and got my class two, I stayed at Dalefords for quite along time, in fact you could say those were the happiest days of my driving years. We would deliver building and concreting sand all over the Cheshire and Northwest areas and I must admit I drove with some really nice blokes young and old a like. Those were the good old days. While driving round delivering sand to those areas I would have to stop to have my break it was then I would start working out how I would go on trying my hand at being an owner driver, it took approx 12 months from the dinner break, I first went on a course for my CPC certificate which I passed that was taken at Whally near Blackburn, then I went to See my bank manager to try for a loan which I got, then in October 1987 I bid my favourite boss a good farewell which I suppose he understood at the time, anyway a few years later Dalefords was sold to CEMEX the concreting firm, and Mr & Mrs Guest are now retired and they certainly deserve that. My first wagon I bought as an owner driver was a Leyland Mastiff 6 wheeler alloy body tipper 1982 on an X reg plate it was in army green colour so I painted it in a lighter green so you could see it coming in the dark. It had a 8 cylinder V8 Perkins engine in her at 180 hp and a 9 speed Eaton gearbox with over drive as they say, what a box best one yet, it had double springs on the back which after working out of Buxton they didn`t last long either they had to be renewed on several occasions, it wasn`t the wagon nor the driver`s fault, it was the hard rough quarries I was working out of at the time, so a couple of years later I traded in my Mastiff for a 1985 F7 Volvo tipper with 245 hp engine and 9 speed box, I though I had become king over night driving the smooth tipper all round the Manchester areas, I kept that wagon for four years but as life has to go on I thought I would upgrade her and this time try for something a little newer, I spied upon a Foden 6 wheeler 3300 series tipper with 265 Cummins engine and another 9 speed box with alloy body that came from Pelican Engineering Company at Leeds, you know the one I am talking about they use to call it a plastic shed, because it was all fibreglass cab. I called it great as it had rubber suspension on the back and hardly anything to go wrong as I thought, but after having it for 3 months, yes you guessed it the blasted engine blew up and I was faced with a money loosing hole, so I hunted round for an engine, couldn't`t find anything that would do, so I got in touch with Cummins main Headquarters and played holly hell with them, I suppose they understood what I was going through no wagon no engine nothing, so after I blew my top at them they telephoned me to say that if I took my truck into Sandbach Fodens old service garage they would order me a brand new Cummins 265 engine and fit it as long as I would put in a new clutch. What do think I did. Yes you guessed it, got the old girl round to Sandbach and within two weeks I was back on the road again with an almost new vehicle. and may I say it didn`t cost me anything apart from paying £400 pounds for the clutch. That`s Cummins service at it`s best well done! I kept that wagon three years. She did me well and paid my loan off too. The next 6 wheel tipper I bought was Foden with a Caterpillar 300 bhp engine on a L reg plate. She came from Airdrie, dam good wagon in purple with Scottish thistle painted on her sides, best wagon so I thought, I kept her 4 years, have you noticed now that I am becoming a Foden man it gets in the blood you know. Next was a Brand New Foden 6 wheeler with 385 Cat engine and 12 speed ZF gearbox with alloy body and alloy wheels and electric front to back sheet, good wagon she was kept her 3 years and swapped her for a New Foden 6 wheeler with 450 bhp Cat engine and 12 speed ZF box. This one could go up Kelsall Hill in top gear just dropping half a gear at the top in next to nothing time fully loaded carrying 16.600 tonne. She was the best Cat powered truck I have ever had and I suppose ever will have. In 2005/06 Foden`s decided to retire and then that gave me a dilemma on where were I to get my next truck from and which one was I to buy I didn`t want to go down the Volvo or Scania road as I was so use to having Foden in my blood and understood how to get the benefits from Fodens. I was looking for new again and another two year warranty, but which one. My local Foden representative a Mr Gosnay from the Stoke area had gone from Fodens and got a job as a area manager with Hino at Chester. He was the person who I always bought my trucks from so he came one day and brought a new 8 wheeler Hino with an alloy body for me to try, guess what in my mind it was a Foden in sheep's clothing and after having her for a day or two I ordered a New 8 wheeler Hino tipper with 410 bhp engine and 16 speed ZF gearbox with electric from to back Harsh blue sheet and alloy wheels all round you know the type of truck all singing, all dancing, at cheap money may I say, doesn`t break the bank and carries a good payload of 20.800 tonnes to boot, does between 6 and 8 to the gallon and has quite a good sleeping area for that odd night away. What more could I ask for. She is the one in my photos, the one that will be bringing your load one day. And guess what, after being on my own these last twenty odd years my dad is still my dad and my best friend, so you see what comes around goes around. http://www.linku2.co.uk/click/d3d3LmxpdHRsZXJidWxraGF1bGFnZS5jby51aw==Early Driving Experience,supplying building aggregates,builders merchants,transport,tipper wagons,bulk haulage,bulk haulage supplier,road transport,farming our way,cows and farming,milking herds,grassland farm,corn and kale,