EDITOR’S CHOICE
(^12) Summer 2019 Truck & Driver
blockaded the Stanlow
Refinery near Ellesmere
Port, Cheshire. “He asked
if we were prepared to
do something in South Wales,”
recalls Mike. “In those days CB
radios were a big thing. So we
got onto the CB and set up a
meeting at Cross Hands in
Carmarthenshire at 6pm Friday
night. We had 100 trucks turn up
in just a couple of hours. We were
at Pembroke for six long days.”
Mike says there was a good
spirit among the protestors there,
but also with the police. “They
had a job to do. When it was on,
they were telling us ‘you can’t
block the road’ but in the night
when the cameras were gone,
they were joining us for coffee!
We had a bar, a cooker, playing
cards; it was good. And a lot of
friends were made down there.”
It worked too; in November of
that year, then Chancellor
Gordon Brown introduced
measures to reduce the tax
burden on trucks and ended the
fuel duty escalator. While Mike
doesn’t think anything like that
would happen today, there is still
camaraderie between the
hauliers in the Llanelli area.
Work together
“All the hauliers around here, we
all work together,” Mike says. “It’s
better to work together than
against one another. Then
everyone has a piece of the cake.”
It is this attitude that has
helped M&M Greene stay in
business for 35 years – a
milestone that many haulage
companies never get to. Mike is
proud of this but knows that it’s
hard work and providing a good
service that keeps the business
going – he is often in the office
past 7pm. “It is a hard business but
we try our best,” he says.
XLX cab is perfect for Scott’s tramping work; has an under-bunk fridge and TV
“In those days CB radios were a big thing.
So we got onto the CB and set up a
meeting at Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire
at 6pm Friday night. We had 100 trucks
turn up in just a couple of hours. We were
at Pembroke for six long days”