Long-serving Alan Pearce has shown he has the white stuff with 40 years as a milkman – and NEVER taking a day off sick.
The 68 year-old grandfather started working for family-run Taylor’s Dairies in January 1975 and still gets up at 2am every morning to start his round.
He has battled severe weather and the occasional cold but never missed his doorstep deliveries.
Alan, who lives with his wife Doreen, 68, said: “I’ve only really been ill three times over the last 40 years.
“I had tonsillitis when I first started but I got it just as I had a week off work and that seems to have happened quite a few times.
“You get your normal colds, but I always think that getting out and about makes you feel better. You just feel worse if you sit at home.”
Alan, from Newport Pagnell, Bucks, started out when a pint of milk cost four and a half pence.
In recent years he has been forced to widen his round as more customers get their milk from supermarkets.
He got his job after he chased their milk float down his street and pleaded for a job.
Alan added: “There must be something about it I like if I’ve been doing it for 40 years.
“You get up at 2am, leave the dairy at about 3.30am and you’re back home by ten, which is what I loved about it when we had young children.”
