does anyone else but me still remember the weekly UCB?
Yes ... rather oddly, I never remembered it as a 'schedule'. Done that route a few times - with some 'painful head' moments after an Orange night stop!!
Re. Sup Crew - yes it was a dodge - For proper pax carriage the crew had to be C cat or better but Sup Crew covered a multitude of uses. Perhaps, interestingly, we all passed out of 242 OCU at Dishforth with D cats. I duly arrived on 30 just as yet another ME crisis blew up and it was 'all hands to the pumps' (again). My first trip was with 'live freight' - as Dad Owen said, "Never mind the Cat just get on with it!"