it s about the dangers that we got to go through, the roads we got to travel in order tojust deliver goods for people to survive. when you come to the uk, we have very different driving conditions, and yet i presume you have this kind of bond with drivers and truckers wherever they re from? yeah, you know what? getting to know other truckers, just like truckers here at the uk, getting to talk with them about stories, and interchange stories on what i did driving, or what they did driving, there s always room to learn. steve graham is risking his truck and his life to board a barge. - steve graham, from australia s outback truckers, is another star guest. i it is good to share with people, | you know, the hardships involved in trucking sometimes - the tyranny of the distances. i mean, back home i had ajob to do, 1000 kilometres. - the bridge is out at fitzroy, l i had to go 7,290 kilometres to deliver that required water treatment stuff. | the peterborough one way system is not quit
yeah, you know what? getting to know other truckers, just like truckers here at the uk, getting to talk with them about stories, and interchange stories on what i did driving, or what they did driving, there s always room to learn. steve graham is risking his truck and his life to board a barge. - steve graham, from australia s 0utback truckers, is another star guest. i it is good to share with people, | you know, the hardships involved in trucking sometimes - the tyranny of the distances. i mean, back home i had ajob to do, 1,000 kilometres. - the bridge is out at fitzroy, l i had to go 7,290 kilometres to deliver that required water treatment stuff. j the peterborough one way system is not quite that bad. on a bad day! mind you, at least when i did my| detour, i can park on top of a hill and maybe have two vehicles go past me during the night. - your lay bys are so small here, - and trying to get asleep when you re parked alongside a motorway with a constant stream - of traffic whi
chinook helicopter, back to fitzroy. all this time, this was about ten days after the ship was hit, the ship was still there burning. it was decided, before we were going to move from fitzroy, we would have a service to commemorate the boys. and the boss said to me, would you read the names out? so i said of course i would. | corporal philip anthony sweet, lance | corporal nicholas david mark thomas. lance corporal christopher francis ward. last post sounds steve newberry was on the galahad. his sister was anxiously awaiting news at the welsh guards barracks, where she lived. when we were kids, steve and i used
all this time, this was about ten days after the ship was hit, the ship was still there burning. it was decided, before we were going to move from fitzroy, we would have a service to commemorate the boys. and the boss said to me, would you read the names out? so i said, of course i would. corporal philip anthony sweet, lance corporal nicholas david mark thomas. christopher francis ward. last post sounds steve newberry was on the galahad. his sister was anxiously awaiting news at the welsh guards barracks, where she lived. when we were kids, steve
atlantic and back home. first paragraph to your mum and dad, sad letter to write, because if you don t already know we were on the sir galahad, so far as missing, presumed dead. i was looking for, probably, my best friend for days and days and days after, so we didn t know who had survived and who had died. my parents were told, mistakenly, that i was missing, presumed dead. it took several days, really, for the smoke of war, you know, to clear and for people to find out that to gather the information to find out actually who was alive and who was dead. yes, my parents went through hell but they said that they didn t stop believing, and you don t. after the war had finished, we were airlifted back there by the one and only surviving chinook helicopter, back to fitzroy.