MIKE’S TOP TEN
It was to be quite a move. When his parents – Norman and Betty – made the decision to up sticks and travel about 70 miles south to live in North Yorkshire (after Norman took up the offer of one rather special job based on Teesside) 15-year-old Mike wasn’t quite sure what to expect. His early years in the Northumberland town of Morpeth had been good enough for him to already identify as being something of a petrol head: “I was daft on cars,” he says and being given the opportunity to even cut off the roof on a Ford Anglia 100E, was a succinct lesson on the integral construction / build / strength of a saloon car.
Like many of us, Mike admits his schooling time wasn’t best utilised but a subsequent stint at Darlington Technical College proved far more interesting. But even more interesting was working at the same firm as his dad and while his first role as a Fitting Shop Clerk was something of a glorified ‘gofor’, the subsequent passage of 46 years has seen all manner of advancement in what’s been an ever changing world of heavy lift and shift.
Mike’s now Technical Director of Bertling Logistics Ltd and if like us you’ve never really heard of them, a click onto . will reveal what a huge longstanding global player the firm is. Of course the Covid-19 pandemic has meant that Mike’s ‘office’ has almost been anywhere his lap top and mobile phone might be but between Zoom conferencing, we ask him to turn back the clock and pick out his Top 10 heavyweights of
