Don’t mean to be picky and your trips sound great but you know it’s not for hire or reward but do the foreign men in blue because, if it looks like a typical 7.5t with ‘Engrish’ registration and you are doing a lot of autobahn, autostrada, autoroute or any other foreign motorway driving then they often like to pull you and look for the EU document thing that says you have an Operators Licence and I know it sounds daft but, you can either explain it’s a Private truck to them in their languages or have it written in all those languages because many a helpful official who has just pulled you for the sake of pulling you might just not get it.
Some speak ‘Engrish’ well and others will pull you in the tunnel du Chat for being 17.5 t when in fact you are 7.5t but they don’t know the ■■■■■■ difference. So then you’ve got to show them the plate on the inside of your door frame.
Just sayin -