dead.duck:
Just started my journey into getting my HGV license. But I’d like to know how much experience on C+E you need before being ‘allowed’ to Euro work? I understand there is no rules but what most eployers expect from their drivers before sending them on European roads?
Back in the day, I’ve known people who passed their test in the morning and were on the way to Italy in the afternoon. One bloke came for a job and was asked what continental experience he had, he said he’d been camping to the Isle of Wight with the Boy Scouts when he was a kid, he was taken on straight away. I set off on my first continental trip on the second day working for the firm concerned.
I’m sure it’s a lot harder now but if you go to a firm which does a mix of UK and European work and you start on the UK side and don’t mess up, it won’t be very long before they send you over the water.