brit pete:
The story starts with me meeting the lorry which I was to takeover in the motorway services on the german autobahn 45 at
sauerland, My mate had taken the truck and tank to load up with
a product which I was to take all the way from the meeting point
to the customer in Italy. Due to a delay in the loading , he came a little
later as expected, now my mate had picked up the load and papers
that dealt with the load, so being a trusting person all that I checked
was the roadworthness of the complete unit and of course the
bag of money he gave to me, SO off I drove along the following
roads on my way to sunny Italy, the 45,3,9 usw until I come to
the truckstop at Kiefersfelden where I took my 9hrs off,after doing
my allotted driveing time, When my rest was finished I drove to
the border and started to do customs, when I got to the window
I pushed the papers over to the custom officer, he took one look
and shoved them back, so I put them back in and this time he
told me in a wonderful Bayern accent, that it would be nice if I
was to give him the correct T2 papers, I should now add that I
had not looked at the papers at all until he utterred those words
YES my mate was given the wrong copies of the T2 forms so
off I went to find a phone, when I was speaking to the nice person
on the other end of the phone , he politely told me to find a solution
and get new T2 papers at the border and bring the false ones
back to the firm, After getting my mistake fixed I then went back
done the customs and delivered the load.
THE moral of the story for me was never trust that every thing is
correct until you have personely checked everything your self.
A,B,C.
Assume nothing.
Believe no-one.
Check everything.
It’s served me well so far.