We did really well with the results for N A S S A.
- In the top 8 were Tony, Rob Stuchbery and Ian Course.
- Runner up Best in show Ben Keedwell and
- Best in show was Dave Howell with the vintage Scamell.
So well done to you all. We must thank everyone for packing up the trailer on Sunday and to Ian for organising it all to be moved to Hewitts yard and to Alan Walker for allowing us to park there. Tony & Shirley came home as it was Father’s day. The lorry and trailer is now ready to move on to Santa Pod.
SANTA POD 2009
What a super super show this is probably the most enjoyable one on the circuit something so different relaxed, action packed and Neil & Russ and staff are superb always ready to stop and see you all. The Truck side was a really good standard. We needed a boat on the Friday afternoon it followed us up from Somerset as we had the thunder and lightning and torrents of rain on the Thursday and we had the same up there on the Friday, but after that it was lovely all weekend and so hot. On the Saturday night we held the Dummy spitting competition which was a bit of fun the results were:
1st Ryan Edwards 2nd Laurie Garrett 3rd Ian Course
The Ladies had a go this year and their results were;
1st Vicky Keedwell 2nd Mandy wheeler 3rd Shirley Buckingham
Thanks to Hannah who seems to run that now WELL DONE!!!!!
We all paid a £1 which raised £27 for the charity.
On the Saturday Iain Garaway had the opportunity to go in a 2 seater Dragster (invited by truck insure). They did the strip in 8 seconds which was 167.2 miles per hour. He said it was a wonderfull experience.
On the Sunday we had the pram race up the strip. The boys all dressed up in women's clothes and raced with 2 prams. In pram 1, and the winners, was Joe Osgood with Laurie Garrett and Graham Miness pushing. In the loosing pram was Iain Garaway with Russell Oliver and Ben Keedwell pushing. Thanks to Jenny for raiding the charity shops for clothes etc!!. We didn’t make as much money as we had hoped The pram race was running so late and a lot of the public had moved up the other end to watch the kangaroo kid. We raised around £170 which was still good but not nearly as much as last year.
RESULTS FOR SANTA POD FOR UNITED TRUCKERS
BEST LIGHT COMMERCIAL 1st Richard Haines 2nd Steve Walker
BEST RIGID
1st Tony Moore 2nd Ben Keedwell 3rd Glenn Douglas
BEST CUSTOM 3rd David Gill
BEST NEW TRUCK 1st Stuart Haines
BEST OWNER DRIVER 2nd Richard Haines
BEST AMERICAN 1st Bob Isherwood 3rd Shane Smith
BEST NON WORKING RESTORED 3rd Shaun Boness
BEST VINTAGE 1st Val Maylch
BEST CONSTRUCTION 2nd Gary Brown 3rd Glenn Jones
BEST FLEET 3rd James Removals
BEST WORKING TRUCK 1st Tony Moore 3rd Kevin King
BEST IN SHOW Tony Moore - Axminster
UNITED TRUCKERS RESULTS
BEST RIGID UP TO 3YRS sponsored by Russell & Beth
1st Tony Moore – Axminster 2nd Glenn Douglas - Griffin Freight
3rd Billy Wells - James Removals H/C Alan Coates
BEST RIGID OVER 3YRS sponsored by CDC
1st Gary Brown - Jones Skip Hire 2nd Ben Keedwell
3rd Russell Oliver - Matthew James H/C Glenn Jones - Jones Skip Hire
Both classes judged by Ryan Edwards
BEST ARTIC YP TO 3YRS sponsored by CDC
1st Stuart Haynes 2nd Kevin King – Wilkins
3rd Graham Miness – Smarts
H/C Paul Rummey H/C Vince Jaycock - Coles
BEST ARTIC OVER 3YRS OLD sponsored by Truckinsure
1st David Gill 2nd Paul Cecil 3rd Ian Course
H/C Mark Shorten - H E Payne H/C David Henniker - Sibleys
H/C Steve Harding - Ideal
BOTH JUDGED BY PAUL AND ESTELLE DAYMAN
BEST INTERIOR sponsored by United Truckers
1st David Gill 2nd Paul Cecil 3rd Stuart Haynes
H/C Billy Wells H/C Glenn Douglas
JUDGED BY PAUL AND ESTELLE DAYMAN
BEST LIGHT COMMERCIAL sponsored by United Truckers
1st Richard Haynes 2nd Geoff Simmons
3rd Ben Dayman (he cleaned the van)
JUDGED BY RYAN EDWARDS
BEST CLASSIC/VINTAGE sponsored by United Truckers
1st Val Maylch 2nd Shaun Boness
JUDGED BY RYAN EDWARDS
BEST AMERICAN sponsored by United Truckers
1st Bob Isherwood 2nd Shane Smith
THANKS TO ALL THE SPONSORS AND JUDGES ON THE DAY.
A FUNNY TALE
When the pram race was in progress Jennie told all the men to wear boots to run up the strip as the track was very sticky. What does Jennie wear FLIP FLOPS so got one foot stuck in the strip and then the other stuck Ian had to give her a fireman’s lift to get her off the track a real damsel in distress!!
SHEPTON MALLET
Thank goodness it was a nice dry and hot weekend after having 2 wet years I can tell you it was most welcome. The show was smaller than usual but most of them have been this year. I would say the gate was down and so in some ways it became the show of old when it was smaller. It seemed more like old times friendlier and less impersonal. We as a club were kept very busy as we had around 120 lorries to be judged and we did really well with memberships 14 New members and 25 Renewals up on last year amazingly enough. A few can’t even remember much about the show after drinking, some starting at 7am on the Sat morning!! You know who you are and not to mention others falling asleep in the toilets!!!!.
We did extremely well, once again in Live Promotion Results for United Truckers.
BEST KEPT OWNER DRIVER 2nd Paul Cecil
BEST TIPPER/RIGID
1st Tony Moore – Axminster 3rd Gary Venugopal - James Removals
BEST COMPANY 2nd David Gill 3rd Will Pringle
BEST NEW TRUCK 2nd Steve Cheston 3rd Stuart Haynes
BEST FLEET 1st F G BOND & Son (Nick, Andy & Ed Bond)
BEST CUSTOM 1st Stuart Haynes 3rd Paul Cecil
BEST CLASSIC / VINTAGE 1st David Howell 3rd Val Maylch
ALSO CONGRATULATIONS TO GARY HINDMARSH K.T PARKERS STEVE LYONS AND ROB SHROEDAR FOR REACHING THE GRAND FINAL.
UNITED TRUCKERS RESULTS
PREMIER ATTIC sponsored by CDC
1st David Gill 2nd Steve Lyons 3rd Will Pringle H/C Ian Course
Judged by Paul Dayman & Ady Ford
PREMIER RIGID sponsored by Ian Course Transport
1st Ben Keedwell 2nd Steve Rudd - F G Bonds 3rd Ed Bond
H/C Gary Venugopal - James Removals H/C Tony Moore - Axminster
Judged by Steve Rockey & Mark Treasure
BEST RIGID UP TO 3 YRS sponsored by JOST
1st Alan Walker – Hewitt 2nd Andy Osborne - F G Bond & Son
3rd Alan Coates – Wincanton H/C Tim Skuse - W Rolls
Judged by Steve Rockey & Mark Treasure
BEST RIGID OVER 3YRS sponsored by SC Lyons
1st Gary Brown - Jones Skip 2nd Glenn Jones - Jones Skip
3rd Roger Carter
Judged by Steve Rockey & Mark Treasure
BEST ARTIC UP TO 3YRS OLD sponsored by Autosmart
1st Stuart Haynes 2nd Steve Cheston 3rd Rob Shroeder
H/C Paul Coombes H/C Tony Down
H/C Gary Hindmarsh H/C Darren Wills
Judged by Graham Smith, Tom Burls, Kev Shipway & Richie Lewis.
Final 20 Judged by Paul Dayman & Ady Ford.
BEST ARTIC OVER 3YRS OLD sponsored by CDC
1st Paul Cecil 2nd Adam Walter 3rd Alan Davis
H/C David Moon H/C Keith York H/C Ian Yabsley
RACHAEL LOVELL MEMORIAL BEST INTERIOR
sponsored by Barry Lovell
1st Nick Revitt 2nd Craig Hucker 3rd Stuart Haynes
H/C Alan Walker H/C Ed Bond H/C Steve Rudd
Judged by Dick Gillingham, Marlene Gill, and other Artic and Rigid Judges
Final 20 Interiors were judged by Natalie Rockey & Estelle Dayman.
BEST LIGHT COMMERCIAL sponsored by United Truckers
1st Richard Haines - D & R Express 2nd Geoff Simmons - James Removals
3rd Paul Johnson - Brenhaul
Judged By Jeremy Roff
BEST AMERICAN sponsored by United Truckers
1st David Wearing 2nd Tony Squires H/C Jim Bennett
Judged By Steve Rockey & Mark Treasure
BEST CLASSIC VINTAGE WINNER - David Howell
H/C Val Maylch H/C Paul Davenport
Judged by Jeremy Roff
RAY BRIMICOMBE MEMORIAL TROPHY sponsored by Shirley
WINNER – David Gill
Judged by Mike Harvey
Special thanks must go to all the sponsors and judges. The Judging at this show must be the worse show to judge due to the standard being so high and the number of lorries and also finding them to judge so THANKS
Special Award for most effort at all the shows and yet has not won anything goes to LAURIE GARRETT
ANOTHER FUNNY TALE
Iain & Sue Garaway have a trailer which they bring to Shepton Mallett. The weekend before the show Sue got everything organised and they filled the trailer and if you knew Sue it would include the kitchen sink. They then tried to get it out the back garden!!!!!! The house they live in has all been rendered outside and the gap to get the trailer out has become smaller so despite pushing and pulling, it would simply not go through the gap. So guess what? everything had to be unpacked to get the trailer out and had to be all packed up again.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Congratulation to Mike & Mel Griffiths
on the birth of their first Grandchild.
Congratulations to Glenn & Laura Jones
on the birth of their first baby,
Harry born on 1st July weighing 8lb 7oz.
Congratulations to Simon & Claire Bray
on the birth of Jessica Simone
born 26th May 09, weighing 7lb 5oz a sister for Katie.
Get well wishes to Steve Rudd who works for F G Bond & Son who has been off work since December after having a nasty accident. Hope this is ok for you Steve?
(After having a telling off at Shepton Mallet for not putting it in the mag)
Hope the Welsh cakes were okay Nat.
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15th – 16th Aug
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Thruxton
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5th - 6th September
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BIBIC - Blue Ridge Runners
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12th - 13th September
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Haydock Park
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18th – 19th October
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Pembrey
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Brands Hatch
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Paul Dayman has contacted us advising that his business will update sat navs for drivers of large vehicles. Contact him on 07772598192 or on line at satnavs4you@hotmail.co.uk
On production of your UT membership card at CDC you will receive a 10% discount at the Avonmouth Shop on most goods. (TVs DVDs and videos excluded)
Also Road King Crow Lane Ind. Est. Northampton 01604 402403.
10% discount on all goods on production of membership card
(electrical, TV’s videos, DVD’s etc. exempt)
As both News Editors are away on holiday middle to late August your next news will be middle of September, we shall have to co-ordinate our diaries next year!!
Thanks Nat & Di.
