Winter driving skills

Winter driving skills

Today saw a group of 10 regular drivers get better acquainted with winter driver skills, such as putting on snow chains, use of the Hi-Lift jack, towing procedures. This was undertaken in the nice dry and warm main workshop of Greater Manchester Waste Ltd in Bolton,...
Winter driving skills

Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal

Some news which appears somewhat late, we are pleased to announce that 22 of our team members have been honoured in this , the Queen’s Golden Jubilee year, to receive the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, which has been issued to those in the Armed services...
Winter driving skills

Incident 90/2002

Today saw us called by GMP to help evacuate a female with suspected broken leg and pelvic injury. Three Landrovers went to the Terraced Gardens in Rivington, to meet up with ex Team member Dave Kehoe, who is also a Sergeant with GMP. We quickly arrived at the casualty...
Winter driving skills

Blackburn Duathlon donation

Following our provision of Standby Rescue Cover to the October 6th Blackburn Duathlon, [for details see earlier entry] on 31st October we were pleased to receive a fantastic £150 donation from the organisers, Blackburn Road Runners.
Winter driving skills

Safeway collection

This evening saw Team members out again collecting at the Safeway, Harwood store. Many, many thanks indeed to the generous shoppers of Safeway as you contributed £511.51 in donations to our Team. This is a large amount of money which the public of Bolton have...