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Welcome to the latest addition to CM , a sideways look

24th March 2011, Page 8
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at the road transport industry on telly, radio, papers and even t’interweb Eagle-eyed fans of CV Burp (we know you are out there) will recall our ode to Jim Wilkey – the Hollywood truck stunt driver. Now it appears that Wilkey has a rival, sort-of: Micky Ward.

Before culture-vultures and boxing fans ruin the surprise, Ward is a former junior welterweight and the subject of Oscarwinning film The Fighter, where he was played by Mark Wahlberg. Since retiring, the Sun reports, he runs a gym, became the part-owner of a hockey team and now drives vans for film companies.

Okay, he’s not quite a stunt van driver, but from small acorns and all that. Furthermore, I wouldn’t really argue with him if he said he was a stunt van driver – he won 27 of his 51 fights by KO.

Ward told the Current Bun that he had driven for The Town with Ben Affleck, the Ricky Gervais film The Invention of Lying and the Bruce Willis film The Surrogate. Nope, we’ve never heard of any of these films either, but we are sure they really needed a rock-hard van driver.

Moving swiftly on, the South Wales Echo had a rather arresting headline last week: ‘Prostitutes targeting resting lorry drivers’. It does astound CV Burp just how often the world of trucks gets reported in a sordid way, equating lorry drivers with the seedier end of society – not that we can throw stones in our glass house (see page 14!!).

The paper reports that “lorry drivers stopping in Cardiff have had to place signs in their truck windows to prevent being harassed by prostitutes at night”. Sadly, drivers claim they are being repeatedly approached by women while taking overnight breaks in Ocean Way, near Splott (apparently a real name for a place in Wales).

“I know some drivers now put up signs to say they’re married men,” one driver says. Still lads, we all know there is a difference between a sign to show the wife and what really happens in the bunk of a sleeper cab. Just ask anyone who has been to TruckFest!

On a more sombre note, perhaps the most striking truck image in the media in the past few weeks was the sight of a truck in Japan, the driver totally unaware he was driving towards an 8m-high tsunami wave.

Absolutely heart-breaking.


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