Sorry for the delay lately but Ive just been soooooo busy.
Anyway, join me on this short video where we do a bit of UK work in order to get “into position” (rest & location wise) for an epic 2 part trip to………
The guys on the Cover of Truck & Driver magazine are;
Oliver Kettlety & Alex Sawyer – both TOP lads at @broughtontransport1675 & active across the Socials (go give em some likes & follows) along with my Colleagues @TruckerJenko & Captain Slow.
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Good morning all good morning all uh last minute trip this one um we just squeezing in a little UK run um we’ve loaded from uh our customer in South Wales and we’re heading across to Essex and Kent one drop in Essex one drop in Kent um we’ve been slightly delayed
Leaving the uh loading point this morning only by a couple of hour maybe but uh our booking was for 2:00 um but we’re not going to get there until a bit later than that so hopefully everything will be okay um and it won’t have any knock on effect at the second
Drop I don’t think it will CU they’re both for the same customer uh and both for the same end user so we should be all right brightened up a bit from this morning uh had a nice breakfast up at the um the load point it’s always a a
Good good breakfast up there but I wasn’t sure if they were open today being a Sunday um and hopefully I’ll be able to get this video out tonight so you should see pretty much um today’s work tonight but obviously we’ll have to see how it goes uh time wise and editing
Wise and all the rest of it uh brightened up since this morning when I got up it was uh Misty and rainy but um yeah it’s brightened up a bit now so roads are normally fairly quiet on a Sunday we should have a nice run up to uh Colchester to the first
One it’s just over 200 mil so I don’t think I’ll do it in uh a a shift so I’m probably going to have to take a break somewhere on the way up there I’m all like for fuel so no need to do that just yet uh um I’ll probably have enough to
Get me through the day and uh I may top up tonight depending on how the plan goes but as always we shall see what we shall see here we are then just coming up to the M4 off the uh 449 keep left to a48 then take the slip
Road it was here yesterday because the uh the M4 had some Road works or something going on it going on on it uh but that was going in towards uh Newport and Cardiff so luckily I was coming off here nice now nice and sunny temperatures 14° it
Says don’t know accurate that is sorry about this camera there we are it’s a bit better bit better you can’t quite see the um I think it’s the Celtic Mana uh hotel resort thing up on the right hand side it’s massive it always uh it always surprises me how big it is it’s
Huge anyway we’re heading out to the bridge next so I’ll show you that excuse me BL my neck should be nice going over there today bit of sunshine come on mate what are you doing there we are Wiggy Wiggy keep up with the Flo Motorway looks to be running all right in front of us anyway so that should be good here we are then we’ve gone over the Seven Bridge but as you can see the other side we just come through the road top of the M32 here uh unfortunately as
You can see the other side there’s been some sort of bump and uh the traffic is absolutely horrendous we must have passed probably a mile mile and a half so far and it’s just building up and backing up four five Lanes so far our side is okay and we
Should be coming out to the roadway well as you can see qu mile half a mile half a mile so Hopefully afternoon all just a bit of an update uh we’re at uh the roadworks near Swindon and as you can see traffic’s backed up a bit if everything were to go right I’ve actually made up quite a bit of time and theoretically could make it on a card on
The on the first 4 and 1 half hour shift which would be spot on um otherwise it means I’m going to have to take 45 minute break just to run the last sort of 10 miles or so but we’re not through the roadworks yet and we haven’t
Encountered the M25 yet so all could go belly up and uh it is what it is anyway a it so we’ll see how we go on getting through these it is um it was just sort of gridlocked there cuz it goes from three lanes down into
Two but uh it looks to be running okay now so hopefully we’ll be all right we’ll get through it in a way again welcome to the madness that is the M25 uh we’ve just come off the M4 and joined straight into the back of this now I think they were doing roadworks up
Here or they have been lately so I don’t know whether it’s due to that or what um it almost it almost makes me wonder where’s all these people going or being it’s like it’s like Monday 8:00 in the morning Russia and I can understand it everybody going into to work or whatever
But 2:00 on a Sunday afternoon where you all going in out to see your granny take her for dinner anyway with uh 67 mil to go excuse me 67 mil to go and an hour and a half in which to do it so it’s touch and
Go um I think I think the a12 may slow us down as well so I’m I’m probably going to be voving minutes away uh I need to take a 45 that I I sort of thought I was going to need but um I built that in to my et8 when I let
Work out so uh if I if I can get there without needing to take it all the better but if I do need it I need it well as you can see that’s probably scuppered our plans a bit we’ve been in this traffic showing 20 mph with an
Oncoming vehicle sign flashing on the overhead Gantry you can see it just there uh for the last uh five 5 or 10 minutes and uh no sign of any oncoming vehicles and they’ve got exactly the same flash in the other side so there’s no sign of any oncoming Vehicles there because
I’ve come from 10 minutes down the road and I didn’t see anything going towards them either OT can’t be help this it was flashing blue light there look he’s certainly not on coming he’s going with the direction of traffic should be able to see a bit more
Down the dip and up the other side here yeah oh well guess it is what it is eh nothing I can do about it I’m afraid going to volume of traffic Jesus all them people where are they going and as easy as that with absolutely no traffic they suddenly remove the 20
Speed limit and stick it back up to the National speed limit so there’s nothing there at all there is no oncoming vehicle there was no need for the 20 mph speed limit so why was it even up I don’t get it just no need for it at
All well here’s the reason for uh why we going down at the moment Jesus well they’re getting stuff out the car shopping and stuff and there’s uh don’t have to be anybody still in it injured so that’s good otherwise I wouldn’t have posted it I’m not
Uh not here for that but look at the traffic as soon as they get past it everybody’s had a good G at it they all get going again uh that do not be at all cuz I’ve got less than half an hour and uh I’ll tell you in a moment
How many miles I’ve got to go 26 mil to my destination and 25 minutes to do it so it ain’t happening as I suspected I’m going to have the last couple of minutes is uh just going to prevent from making it in in one shift anyway never mind right as suspected just couldn’t
Make it uh I had I think I had ended up with 18 minutes left and 19 miles to go so no way it was going to happen so um get open a bit mate that’s a good lad so I just squeezed a bit of a break
In and we’re good to go again now uh 18 miles up to the next one it Daisy there we go uh yeah 18 miles up to the next one and In fairness it should get me there half an hour earlier than I my predicted ETA so I have made a bit of
Time up even with taking the break so is not lost hopefully get a good tip there and then down to the next one which is as I say down in Kent on the is of sheppy uh I’ve been past that one before I’ve never been to it so I have an idea
Where it is which is usually saes a minute or two um but yeah hopefully get a good tip there as well and then I think I’m going up to perley to drop this trailer to ship out uh to Belgium to be reloaded and I’m picking one up to tip tomorrow in
That was the plan yesterday that may have changed by now but anyway see how we next run chelsford right this is my exit for the first drop in Chelmsford it’s taken me 22 minutes be another four or 5 minutes so realistically it would have been half an hour and I only had 18
Minutes left so um it certainly wasn’t worth pushing 19 on the left 1 I I definitely toate in that 4 and a half hour shift but there we are so I’ll um I’ll get tipped here and then we’ll switch back on and I’ll give you an
Update and we’ll head round to uh Kent catch you in a bit right there we are that’s that one off uh 20 I don’t know half half an hour was it at the roundabout and exit to windsford way um from going in checking in getting on a bay tipped and back out
So good do really uh now my satav has got me down for 60 m to the next drop on the is sheppy um it’s a shame cuz it’ll probably be dark going over the over the new bridge which is quite nice to see though it is it is on some of my very
Early videos that uh if you want to if you want to go back and have a look when I was working for TEF company I’ve been scabra uh we used to load out with Sheen s a lot so so we were over that bridge
Quite a bit um it it’d be quite funny if you did go and look because they probably only on like 150 or 200 uh views at the moment from all that time ago uh I suppose it’s be a back catalog if you like um but yeah Miss satav is taking me
Back the way that it was trying to make me come which isn’t the fastest way the the quickest way is uh back onto the a12 it’s trying to rout me through uh transfer onto the inner ring Rod but um it’s going to be far better to go this
Way pick up the a12 which is going to be quicker and uh and do that so that’s what we’re going to do it’ll reroot itself any minute this round about I need to double back on self to come back towards London at the roundabout take the first exit to
Chelmer Road and hopefully she’ll rroo herself and uh we’ll all be back on track no it’s still sending me back through chelsford on the 138 there to pick up there in a Ring Road and round that way which as I say isn’t the most productive way so I’m going to ignore
That and get back on the a12 here towards London let me doing some work there whatever it is going Round We Go Round We Go Round We Go off at this one next round about turn right drop onto the a12 uh straight back down the a12 pick
Up the M25 over the D for crossing and then out on the A2 I think it is towards uh Gillingham keep right on a130 then enter the roundabout she 249 I think it is she is and as I said we’ve been going over the bridge which it’s a shame if it’s too
Dark to see cuz it’s quite good anyway we’ll see where we get there won’t we as usual I will show you anything that’s worth worth seeing on the way there we are back on the A2 uh she at the roundout the second exit to chelo Road still not picking up that
I’m dropping on the 812 come on come on come on any minute it should click in what I’m doing right not W I haven’t seen that for a while there we go 62 Mi so it’s 2 mil longer but uh much quicker right I’ll probably show you going over
The um D for crossing next cuz that that’ll be nice should be all be lit up and that continue on a12 a bit here we are then just approaching the Queen Elizabeth Bridge Queen Elizabeth second bridge I think it is uh in Dartford or the Dartford Crossing or the
Dartford Bridge whatever you want to call it call it anything you want it’s strange to think that there used to be uh to booths across across the uh M2 8225 then enter the round well as now it’s uh it’s all done online by number plate recognition Imagine The KES
Then I can remember them they were bad okay that’s the last one off and we’re uh we’re just making our way round to Perle now to drop this trailer off uh we’re going over the shappy bridge here which it’s a shame cuz it’s at night CU it’s it’s quite a good
Bridge to see it sort of Curves round I don’t know whether I don’t think you’ll pick it up cuz it’s too dark but uh yeah it curves around to the left as you as you go over it here um the old bridge is down to the side which I can
See now uh but again I don’t think you’ll see you’ll just see some big pillars maybe if it’s slightly little oh you can just see them yeah yeah down in the bottom there on my left hand side um so yeah we’re going to drop this trailer in at per Fleet that’ll ship
Empty across to Belgium and be reloaded with thow projects for back into the UK uh and I’m picking up a pre-loaded trailer that’s come in from Belgium for delivery to Corby in the morning or tomorrow I don’t know what time it’s booked as yet um then also be uh on the
Trailer for me and uh I’ll check when I get it coupled up and all the rest of it and um I’ll probably just run up to uh but I’ll see what time I get out of Perle cuz it’s about an hour away 20 7 at night now so I’ll be up there about
Half 8 um if I can get my trailer dropped and my next one out of there for 9:00 past 9 that give me an hour and 34 uh a bit more I I think they started at4 10 this morning so I don’t see any point in wasting a 15 um what I’ve got to do is easily doable so what I what I’d like to do is uh make it up to bigles we something
Like that it’s only about just over an hour away so might work out just right anyway we’ll see catch you in a bit here we are then the que Northbound for the Dartford Tunnel 8:00 p.m. on a Sunday night how about that crackers well if I pull the uh camera
Back a bit you can see what the delay is left tunnels closed that’s why everybody’s queing here them well we uh ran up to per Fleet and dropped our trailer but the trailer we’re expecting isn’t coming in until tomorrow morning’s boat so it’s not doing until 7:00 in the
Morning see that guy there I’ve loaded with him out in France or tipped with him I can’t remember I’m sure I’ve seen him I know for the fact I’ve seen him before I can’t imagine there being more than one of them uh yeah so um my trailer is not doing until 7:00 in
The morning um and then it’ll be a couple of hours for them to offload the boat so we’ve come up to per Fleet truck stop and parked there for the night good morning one and all so we’ve collected our trailer from pfleet it came in on the boat uh last
Night uh well dock this morning rather um they said it be about half 8 and I arrived uh well I said about half 8 9 9:00 uh I arrived roundout at second exit to ston housee Lane and my boss just sent me a message saying it’s
Showing as off the boat he has trackers on the trailer so it was obviously showing as dock side um and yeah qu an hour 20 minutes later I’ve got it on me back and we’re the round heading out to the M25 to ston Lane uh probably go up the M11 to
Corby right good morning again just a quick update uh we’ve topped up with fuel keep right to M11 then exit left add blue a security alert was reported on M11 security alert wow um I’ve got enough ad blue to get me back to the ad so I’ll probably just top
That up back in the yard or on my journey and fuel I’ve now got enough um we got 850 miles so I should be find it so let’s head out onto the emland and uh head north not much to report uh steady run up the M11 picked up the
A14 and uh cut across we’re heading North now just on the last six miles up into Corby um nice now it’s 13° it says it’s lovely and uh lovely and sunny nice and dry looks like it has been raining but there we are uh half 11 I should be there4 to
12 hopefully I’ll catch them before they go on lunch get tipped and then I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m heading east across into Lincolnshire possibly Spalding area uh whis beach somewhere over that way to reload for Bristol but that’s a pure guess so you’ll see later on in a couple of
Moments in this video whether I’m right or not but as for now we’re 5 and 1 half miles from our destination in Corby and I’ll see you there in front of you there there is uh Rockingham Motor Speedway uh they used to hold British super bikes there and uh I went there a
Couple of times and I’ve also seen British T car championships there as well I’m not sure what they hold there now it was supposed to be one of the uh new great circuits but um I don’t think it took off as well as they were expecting anyway we’re just arriving at
Our de point to the road then take the first right i’ have to switch off while I get sorted on a bay and all the rest of it so be with okay so that’s us tipped in cby Fair plate good tip uh 20 25 minutes maybe done from uh pulling in put me
Straight on a bay and um uh paperwork back all done and dusted like I said 20 25 minutes so that was good um just waiting on instructions from the office now find out what I’m doing next so I’ve just pulled off the site and uh on to this little industrial estate
Here just waiting for uh confirmation from the office what’s next okay so the uh instructions have come through and I’m heading back towards the yard um I need to be off the road tonight anyway cuz that’s my six shifter and uh I think I’ll be
Having uh well I I need uh 45 hours off this weekend I have got 21 hours that I need to make up but I’ve got another couple of weeks in which to do that so there’s no massive Rush um but they may or may not give me
Time to uh to bolt that on to this weekend’s break we’ll see when I get back but um there’s not likely to be anything else to show you on this video uh heading back down the M5 and pick up the M4 back to the yard but if there is
I will show it you if not thanks very much for watching if you’re not subscribed please hit the Subscribe button we’re uh we’re growing nicely everything’s heading in the right direction uh take a look at the other boys truck a jenko uh and Captain slow uh um there’s a couple of young
Starlets that were on the front cover of um trucker driver magazine this month that’s Oliver Ketty and Alex Sawyer they’re both uh on the socials as well um so give them a shout I’ll put links in the description below um and that’s about it thanks very much everybody thanks for watching catch
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