'I'm UK's oldest truck driver - people are shocked when I reveal my age'
Sprightly Brian can still hop up onto the truck’s trailer without any assistance to tie down a tarpaulin with rope.
Most weeks he will clock up nearly 1,000 miles taking at least two trips to Lancashire and notching up a 12-hour day making three drops inHe also often drives to North Wales and Newcastle – round trips of nearly 300 miles.He has sat-nav but doesn’t use it and two map books in the cab that he never refers to.
When his National Service ended he drove tankers for Esso for eight years delivering petrol and paraffin to farms within a 20-mile radius of Sheffield. When Brian started trucking he drove an eight-wheel Leyland Octopus on long-distance runs carrying steel to Liverpool docks and bringing back sugar from Tate & Lyle’s factory.
“Then you had to throw on ten tons of sugar by hand – 700 bags weighing 28lbs and you’d have to chuck them off again at the other end. It was a nightmare but it kept me fit.
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