You can tell christmas is coming with the amount of UK trucks I saw yesterday heading into Spain. the flipflop brigade don’t want to get stuck in Spain over the holidays so they’ve left the work from the UK and gone home maybe?
I saw a couple of Simon Gibson’s running down with fridges on 
I thought they did bulk powder work
plenty of solstor trailers too and of course the obligatory cheltenham airways flying past evrybody else 
xmas rates upon us…
welshboyinspain:
I saw a couple of Simon Gibson’s running down with fridges on
All of the Newbald Massive go down to Spain for the Christmas runup, they have done it for years, There will probably be a couple going to Ireland on Boxing Day too.
Morrisons & Tesco etc MUST have their satsumas on the shelves!!
Ross.
there have been a couple of ours ,Ray whites since early sept every week on the lambs la coruna, and portugal.
From what I recall that always seemed to be the pattern in recent years. Last week or two before Christmas and loads of UK trucks shipping out and seen everywhere, while all the PL, LT etc etc etc are almost entirely heading east or parking up and even flying drivers home. Same score first week of January but by the second week its business as usual and 75% less UK trucks again as the usual suspects make their return.
I wonder if they are all running down empty and what sort of rates they are getting to load satsumas back ?. I guess they need a lot of fridges in Valencia in the weeks before xmas.
When i used to work for Stuart Taylor Intl we would often run down to valencia empty at christmas , either that or tip fish at lorient then down empty from there.
Running down empty defeats the object. Load down to Spain (with hanging meat in my case) then reload with oranges from Valencia / Murcia. Good work, shame it’s not all year round.
WhiteWhiteWhite:
Running down empty defeats the object. Load down to Spain (with hanging meat in my case) then reload with oranges from Valencia / Murcia. Good work, shame it’s not all year round.
saw one of yours wednesday night running north on the N10 north of Angouleme
Daf or Scania ? Had 2 heading up on Wed ? They were due to come back Bilbao but they cancelled it.
WhiteWhiteWhite:
Running down empty defeats the object. Load down to Spain (with hanging meat in my case) then reload with oranges from Valencia / Murcia. Good work, shame it’s not all year round.
It must be nice to have proper paying out loads to get you down there & keep your trucks working year round, but in the real world many hauliers go quiet by the middle of December so the lure of a round trip rate for a one direction load is much more than just tempting. We’d all load both ways if we could but it’s a luxury many of us simply don’t have, when I was doing the job I’d often run down empty, especially if Xmas fell in such a way that you could do an ‘empty out’ trip between Xmas & New Year.
These were the trips where you couldn’t afford the time for anything to go wrong, & every noise the truck made sounded like it was gonna ‘pack in’ or blow up!!! 
Hope everyone gets home for the festivities.
Ross.
WhiteWhiteWhite:
Daf or Scania ? Had 2 heading up on Wed ? They were due to come back Bilbao but they cancelled it.
absolutely no idea 
just saw the Ray White written down the side of the fridge, it was dark and I was busy looking in my mirror for the gendarmes as I was taking advantage of the dark to pass a tanker 
Didn’t know the spanish bought much of our meat these days. Are you telling me that my lovely solomillo is really a british fillet steak ?.
Ex Haulier:
Didn’t know the spanish bought much of our meat these days. Are you telling me that my lovely solomillo is really a british fillet steak ?.
I hope not seeing as solomillo is pork and fillet steak isn’t
Ex Haulier:
I wonder if they are all running down empty and what sort of rates they are getting to load satsumas back ?. I guess they need a lot of fridges in Valencia in the weeks before xmas.
Im told £4500 plus ferries.
Hombre:
Ex Haulier:
I wonder if they are all running down empty and what sort of rates they are getting to load satsumas back ?. I guess they need a lot of fridges in Valencia in the weeks before xmas.Im told £4500 plus ferries.
Will they only load Satsumas in friges now? I remember when we used to load melons in tilts!!
Ross.
The brits seem to like pretty much everything in fridges, including onions and spuds. We load barrels of pateurised orange pulp in euroliners which has sat in an ambient warehouse in Cordoba for months - it then goes into cold storage in the UK, irregardless that it will last for years ambient to no ill effect. Probably that 'elf n safety fetish you lot suffer from.
WBIS. I bow to your superior knowledge of all things spanish, usually. But solomillo refers to fillet, either beef or pork. Stick it into google mate.
The reason for putting satsumas in fridges is as much to protect them from freezing as keep them cool. Not much chance of that with melons in summer although it’s all done to prolong the shelf life by maintaining a constant temperature.