switchlogic:
Carryfast:
switchlogic:
Your as usual living in your ‘if it was me and it was done like thins in this context’ fantasy land Carryfast. You talk about this euro work as if you did it. I did 8 hours driving in a 15 hour day in France yesterday, why? It took two hours to tip, 1 hour faffing around washing and trying to get the trailer dry, and 4 hours loading in Blois. You live in this ideal fantasy land where everything works like clockwork. Wake up man this is the real world. I don’t like sitting around for 4 hours waiting to load but I’ve the sense to realise that that’s life sometimes, you just have to deal with it. It’s not about the operation I work for, it’s about the people we collect from and deliver too.
So my point is no, if we were side by side yesterday you in your mythical 6x4 Detroit two stroke limited to 65 mph and 11 hours and me doing 53 and 15 hours I’d have been up the road loaded and you would have been waiting till morning to get the load on
Assuming that the end of your 15 hour day was getting a bit further up the road before having to stop anyway.While I’m parked up before getting into the danger zone of sleepy time at the wheel and at 65 mph I’ll probably be close enough at the end of the following day assuming that it’s not a full load for Glasgow from Lyon in which case you’ve got no chance. 
Well Blois is nowhere near Lyon. You also have to understand that some of us have a bit of stamina and don’t doze off after 11 hours.
So lets entertain your fantasty a little. Today is the second day. I started 450km from Calais at 5 am. You would have just been loading maybe. Ran up to Calais, 20 minutes spent filling fuel, 45 minute break. Your speed advantage wouldn’t have been that great as well over half of the run was National roads and towns and villages. Got to Calais at midday. Let’s say you manged to catch me up in your speedy truck and we are on the same ferry, I’m being generous here. So Calais, ends up being a 2 and a half hour wait for a boat. Then the boat was delayed leaving Calais, don’t know why captain didn’t say. So ended up being 2 hours on the boat. OH NO! By the time the boat docks your half an hour over your 11 hour day! Dammit. Poor you. I drive off boat, stop in Tesco for some milk and a something for tea, now in South Mimms for a pee, will head off once I’ve written this and get onto M1 somewhere to park up. Another 14/15 day for me and 9 hours driving. Say we are both tipping Birmingham at 10am tomorrow which is my booking time, I should be under two hours away and an easy because it’s this side of Birmingham. Your in Dover a couple of hours behind, I wonder what time you’ll be hitting the M25? Oh yes, rush hour. I also get to get out of bed a couple of hours later than you, which is better as while you may finished at 5 (if you were lucky enough to find parking anywhere near Dover) you surely wont want to be going to bed at 7 will you?
Without a shadow of a doubt on this two day run if you were limited to 11 hours you’d be well behind me despite doing 65. Speed isn’t everything, maybe in your mind but not in reality.
And all that supposes you’d have got loaded instantly at 5 and caught me up. Both fairly unlikely and in all likelihood you wouldn’t have even made it across the channel today. but I like being generous!
Blimey so in your world well over half of the last 450 kms run from Blois to Calais is RN’s and it’s a 2.5 hour wait for the Calais-Dover ferry.
The way I see it is I start at around 07.30 and it gets loaded by around lunchtime Monday and it gets to Birmingham when it gets there.But hopefully the traffic won’t be too bad getting round Paris from the A10 to the A1 and I get the 17.15 boat.
But I’m not surprised that you wouldn’t want to make the same comparison on a better job like that Lyon to Glasgow run.
But there’s been plenty who’ve though that they’ve got enough stamina not to doze off after 11 hours.At least until the point when they find out that they’re wrong when it’s too late to change their mind.
Carryfast:
switchlogic:
Carryfast:
switchlogic:
Your as usual living in your ‘if it was me and it was done like thins in this context’ fantasy land Carryfast. You talk about this euro work as if you did it. I did 8 hours driving in a 15 hour day in France yesterday, why? It took two hours to tip, 1 hour faffing around washing and trying to get the trailer dry, and 4 hours loading in Blois. You live in this ideal fantasy land where everything works like clockwork. Wake up man this is the real world. I don’t like sitting around for 4 hours waiting to load but I’ve the sense to realise that that’s life sometimes, you just have to deal with it. It’s not about the operation I work for, it’s about the people we collect from and deliver too.
So my point is no, if we were side by side yesterday you in your mythical 6x4 Detroit two stroke limited to 65 mph and 11 hours and me doing 53 and 15 hours I’d have been up the road loaded and you would have been waiting till morning to get the load on
Assuming that the end of your 15 hour day was getting a bit further up the road before having to stop anyway.While I’m parked up before getting into the danger zone of sleepy time at the wheel and at 65 mph I’ll probably be close enough at the end of the following day assuming that it’s not a full load for Glasgow from Lyon in which case you’ve got no chance.
Well Blois is nowhere near Lyon. You also have to understand that some of us have a bit of stamina and don’t doze off after 11 hours.
So lets entertain your fantasty a little. Today is the second day. I started 450km from Calais at 5 am. You would have just been loading maybe. Ran up to Calais, 20 minutes spent filling fuel, 45 minute break. Your speed advantage wouldn’t have been that great as well over half of the run was National roads and towns and villages. Got to Calais at midday. Let’s say you manged to catch me up in your speedy truck and we are on the same ferry, I’m being generous here. So Calais, ends up being a 2 and a half hour wait for a boat. Then the boat was delayed leaving Calais, don’t know why captain didn’t say. So ended up being 2 hours on the boat. OH NO! By the time the boat docks your half an hour over your 11 hour day! Dammit. Poor you. I drive off boat, stop in Tesco for some milk and a something for tea, now in South Mimms for a pee, will head off once I’ve written this and get onto M1 somewhere to park up. Another 14/15 day for me and 9 hours driving. Say we are both tipping Birmingham at 10am tomorrow which is my booking time, I should be under two hours away and an easy because it’s this side of Birmingham. Your in Dover a couple of hours behind, I wonder what time you’ll be hitting the M25? Oh yes, rush hour. I also get to get out of bed a couple of hours later than you, which is better as while you may finished at 5 (if you were lucky enough to find parking anywhere near Dover) you surely wont want to be going to bed at 7 will you?
Without a shadow of a doubt on this two day run if you were limited to 11 hours you’d be well behind me despite doing 65. Speed isn’t everything, maybe in your mind but not in reality.
And all that supposes you’d have got loaded instantly at 5 and caught me up. Both fairly unlikely and in all likelihood you wouldn’t have even made it across the channel today. but I like being generous!
Blimey so in your world well over half of the last 450 kms run from Blois to Calais is RN’s and it’s a 2.5 hour wait for the Calais-Dover ferry.
The way I see it is I start at around 07.30 and it gets loaded by around lunchtime Monday and it gets to Birmingham when it gets there.But hopefully the traffic won’t be too bad getting round Paris from the A10 to the A1 and I get the 17.15 boat.
But I’m not surprised that you wouldn’t want to make the same comparison on a better job like that Lyon to Glasgow run.
Does the new moon have the same alleged affect as the full one or something? I mean WTF?
taffytrucker:
switchlogic:
taffytrucker:
switchlogic:
I quite enjoyed writing that post! It’s all real by the way and my past two days work.
Made me chuckle reading it lol any jobs going lol
I’m sure he’ll come back with ‘if I was doing it in this context I’d only be doing full loads from Rome to Aberdeen so I’d beat you in my 65mph two stroke’ and so on. He’s detachment from reality is hilarious!
Why not just give everyone an irish anolouge tacho scania and we all get twice the amount of work done each week for the same money 
That’s almost what the euro regs are trying to do anyway.It’s just that the Irish obviously had an input into it by saying that it’s ok to drive for 15 hours per day just so long as only 9-10 hours of that is actually driving.
Carryfast:
switchlogic:
Carryfast:
switchlogic:
Your as usual living in your ‘if it was me and it was done like thins in this context’ fantasy land Carryfast. You talk about this euro work as if you did it. I did 8 hours driving in a 15 hour day in France yesterday, why? It took two hours to tip, 1 hour faffing around washing and trying to get the trailer dry, and 4 hours loading in Blois. You live in this ideal fantasy land where everything works like clockwork. Wake up man this is the real world. I don’t like sitting around for 4 hours waiting to load but I’ve the sense to realise that that’s life sometimes, you just have to deal with it. It’s not about the operation I work for, it’s about the people we collect from and deliver too.
So my point is no, if we were side by side yesterday you in your mythical 6x4 Detroit two stroke limited to 65 mph and 11 hours and me doing 53 and 15 hours I’d have been up the road loaded and you would have been waiting till morning to get the load on
Assuming that the end of your 15 hour day was getting a bit further up the road before having to stop anyway.While I’m parked up before getting into the danger zone of sleepy time at the wheel and at 65 mph I’ll probably be close enough at the end of the following day assuming that it’s not a full load for Glasgow from Lyon in which case you’ve got no chance.
Well Blois is nowhere near Lyon. You also have to understand that some of us have a bit of stamina and don’t doze off after 11 hours.
So lets entertain your fantasty a little. Today is the second day. I started 450km from Calais at 5 am. You would have just been loading maybe. Ran up to Calais, 20 minutes spent filling fuel, 45 minute break. Your speed advantage wouldn’t have been that great as well over half of the run was National roads and towns and villages. Got to Calais at midday. Let’s say you manged to catch me up in your speedy truck and we are on the same ferry, I’m being generous here. So Calais, ends up being a 2 and a half hour wait for a boat. Then the boat was delayed leaving Calais, don’t know why captain didn’t say. So ended up being 2 hours on the boat. OH NO! By the time the boat docks your half an hour over your 11 hour day! Dammit. Poor you. I drive off boat, stop in Tesco for some milk and a something for tea, now in South Mimms for a pee, will head off once I’ve written this and get onto M1 somewhere to park up. Another 14/15 day for me and 9 hours driving. Say we are both tipping Birmingham at 10am tomorrow which is my booking time, I should be under two hours away and an easy because it’s this side of Birmingham. Your in Dover a couple of hours behind, I wonder what time you’ll be hitting the M25? Oh yes, rush hour. I also get to get out of bed a couple of hours later than you, which is better as while you may finished at 5 (if you were lucky enough to find parking anywhere near Dover) you surely wont want to be going to bed at 7 will you?
Without a shadow of a doubt on this two day run if you were limited to 11 hours you’d be well behind me despite doing 65. Speed isn’t everything, maybe in your mind but not in reality.
And all that supposes you’d have got loaded instantly at 5 and caught me up. Both fairly unlikely and in all likelihood you wouldn’t have even made it across the channel today. but I like being generous!
Blimey so in your world well over half of the last 450 kms run from Blois to Calais is RN’s and it’s a 2.5 hour wait for the Calais-Dover ferry.
The way I see it is I start at around 07.30 and it gets loaded by around lunchtime Monday and it gets to Birmingham when it gets there.But hopefully the traffic won’t be too bad getting round Paris from the A10 to the A1 and I get the 17.15 boat.
But I’m not surprised that you wouldn’t want to make the same comparison on a better job like that Lyon to Glasgow run.
But there’s been plenty who’ve though that they’ve got enough stamina not to doze off after 11 hours.At least until the point when they find out that they’re wrong when it’s too late to change their mind.
Ah the fantasist strikes again. Absolutely totally clueless. Leave at midday and get the 17:15 boat? For a start you’ll get the boat they put you on depending on how much freight turns up and not one of your choosing and secondly Blois to Calais in 4.5 hours? You arse, absolutely not a chance, even in a car that’d be pushing it. Via Paris too!
So, In my world? Oh yes you mean the real world, all that post is what has actually happened to me today and yesterday. And you cant read it properly either can you. Start all you like at 07.30 Monday, I had to tip at 4am Monday in Orleans, 2 hrs, then wash the trailer out, then to Blois. In your fantasy world you’d have been loading this morning and lucky to get to Dover. And yes there was a 2 and a half hour wait in Calais for the ferry, but never having shipped that way in a truck you of course have no idea how it works, as evident from your ‘and I get the 17:15 boat’ joke. Also I avoid Paris at all costs, the traffic is far too unpredictable, the A1 has too many Gendarmes looking for easy money and the National route via Chartres is a much nicer run, not to mention much cheaper on tolls and with a cheap Esso Express in Rouen. But again never having been over the water in a truck you won’t know this will you. Nor will you know that this sort of work is the reality of many a Euro driver these days, not some mythical run from Lyon to Glasgow. You really are quite the comedian old bean
You can just imagine him now googling ‘average wait time for freight at Calais’ and ‘Paris traffic delays’ so he can spout more misinformed crap can’t you! Or calculating some way a truck weighing 40 tonnes can do over 500km via one of the biggest traffic blackspots in Europe in under 4 and a half hours. Can’t wait for the next post…
Carryfast:
taffytrucker:
switchlogic:
taffytrucker:
switchlogic:
I quite enjoyed writing that post! It’s all real by the way and my past two days work.
Made me chuckle reading it lol any jobs going lol
I’m sure he’ll come back with ‘if I was doing it in this context I’d only be doing full loads from Rome to Aberdeen so I’d beat you in my 65mph two stroke’ and so on. He’s detachment from reality is hilarious!
Why not just give everyone an irish anolouge tacho scania and we all get twice the amount of work done each week for the same money
That’s almost what the euro regs are trying to do anyway.It’s just that the Irish obviously had an input into it by saying that it’s ok to drive for 15 hours per day just so long as only 9-10 hours of that is actually driving.
You might want to read that last bit again…
Which Irish people would these be exactly? Coras Iompar Eireann? Pat Kenny? Eamonn Dunphy? Zig and Zag?
switchlogic:
Carryfast:
switchlogic:
Carryfast:
switchlogic:
Your as usual living in your ‘if it was me and it was done like thins in this context’ fantasy land Carryfast. You talk about this euro work as if you did it. I did 8 hours driving in a 15 hour day in France yesterday, why? It took two hours to tip, 1 hour faffing around washing and trying to get the trailer dry, and 4 hours loading in Blois. You live in this ideal fantasy land where everything works like clockwork. Wake up man this is the real world. I don’t like sitting around for 4 hours waiting to load but I’ve the sense to realise that that’s life sometimes, you just have to deal with it. It’s not about the operation I work for, it’s about the people we collect from and deliver too.
So my point is no, if we were side by side yesterday you in your mythical 6x4 Detroit two stroke limited to 65 mph and 11 hours and me doing 53 and 15 hours I’d have been up the road loaded and you would have been waiting till morning to get the load on
Assuming that the end of your 15 hour day was getting a bit further up the road before having to stop anyway.While I’m parked up before getting into the danger zone of sleepy time at the wheel and at 65 mph I’ll probably be close enough at the end of the following day assuming that it’s not a full load for Glasgow from Lyon in which case you’ve got no chance.
Well Blois is nowhere near Lyon. You also have to understand that some of us have a bit of stamina and don’t doze off after 11 hours.
So lets entertain your fantasty a little. Today is the second day. I started 450km from Calais at 5 am. You would have just been loading maybe. Ran up to Calais, 20 minutes spent filling fuel, 45 minute break. Your speed advantage wouldn’t have been that great as well over half of the run was National roads and towns and villages. Got to Calais at midday. Let’s say you manged to catch me up in your speedy truck and we are on the same ferry, I’m being generous here. So Calais, ends up being a 2 and a half hour wait for a boat. Then the boat was delayed leaving Calais, don’t know why captain didn’t say. So ended up being 2 hours on the boat. OH NO! By the time the boat docks your half an hour over your 11 hour day! Dammit. Poor you. I drive off boat, stop in Tesco for some milk and a something for tea, now in South Mimms for a pee, will head off once I’ve written this and get onto M1 somewhere to park up. Another 14/15 day for me and 9 hours driving. Say we are both tipping Birmingham at 10am tomorrow which is my booking time, I should be under two hours away and an easy because it’s this side of Birmingham. Your in Dover a couple of hours behind, I wonder what time you’ll be hitting the M25? Oh yes, rush hour. I also get to get out of bed a couple of hours later than you, which is better as while you may finished at 5 (if you were lucky enough to find parking anywhere near Dover) you surely wont want to be going to bed at 7 will you?
Without a shadow of a doubt on this two day run if you were limited to 11 hours you’d be well behind me despite doing 65. Speed isn’t everything, maybe in your mind but not in reality.
And all that supposes you’d have got loaded instantly at 5 and caught me up. Both fairly unlikely and in all likelihood you wouldn’t have even made it across the channel today. but I like being generous!
Blimey so in your world well over half of the last 450 kms run from Blois to Calais is RN’s and it’s a 2.5 hour wait for the Calais-Dover ferry.
The way I see it is I start at around 07.30 and it gets loaded by around lunchtime Monday and it gets to Birmingham when it gets there.But hopefully the traffic won’t be too bad getting round Paris from the A10 to the A1 and I get the 17.15 boat.
But I’m not surprised that you wouldn’t want to make the same comparison on a better job like that Lyon to Glasgow run.
But there’s been plenty who’ve though that they’ve got enough stamina not to doze off after 11 hours.At least until the point when they find out that they’re wrong when it’s too late to change their mind.
Ah the fantasist strikes again. Absolutely totally clueless. Leave at midday and get the 17:15 boat? For a start you’ll get the boat they put you on depending on how much freight turns up and not one of your choosing and secondly Blois to Calais in 4.5 hours? You arse, absolutely not a chance, even in a car that’d be pushing it. Via Paris too!
So, In my world? Oh yes you mean the real world, all that post is what has actually happened to me today and yesterday. And you cant read it properly either can you. Start all you like at 07.30 Monday, I had to tip at 4am Monday in Orleans, 2 hrs, then wash the trailer out, then to Blois. In your fantasy world you’d have been loading this morning and lucky to get to Dover. And yes there was a 2 and a half hour wait in Calais for the ferry, but never having shipped that way in a truck you of course have no idea how it works, as evident from your ‘and I get the 17:15 boat’ joke. Also I avoid Paris at all costs, the traffic is far too unpredictable, the A1 has too many Gendarmes looking for easy money and the National route via Chartres is a much nicer run, not to mention much cheaper on tolls and with a cheap Esso Express in Rouen. But again never having been over the water in a truck you won’t know this will you. Nor will you know that this sort of work is the reality of many a Euro driver these days, not some mythical run from Lyon to Glasgow. You really are quite the comedian old bean
You’ve forgotten it’s all a hypothetical comparison in which it’s only you who’s got the Gendarme problem because I’m able to run at 65 mph legally remember.
However it’s not my fault if I’ve got the ferry boarding protocol wrong because I’ve seen enough wagons drive off the end of the M20 and board the same ferry as me with the car using the usual idea of going through the check in points and then drive into the line and go straight on the boat when it loads.
As for journey times with a truck you’ll probably tell me next that it’s impossible to run from Heathrow to Leeds in around 3 hours.
But if it’s all about 15 hour days and runs from Blois to Birmingham now and not even Lyon-Glasgow I’m better off out of it all. 
What he will do next, as per normal Arthur Scarryfast, is come back at you with your own point and still say you’re wrong. He really is the inspiration for Vicky Pollard from little Britain. Yeah but no but yeah
Well you see your falling down again. We all have a Gendarme problem because if they want to stop you and get their teeth into you they will, for any reason they can find. As for getting ‘ferry boarding protocol’ wrong well yes it is your fault, you imply I’m making the 2 and a half hour wait up when you clearly haven’t a clue what your talking about. I don’t go on to a thread and start telling tipper drivers or tanker drivers they are wrong do I. You have made yourself look really stupid on this thread even by your usual standards. I wouldn’t comment on Heathrow to Leeds having never done it directly in a truck, see what I did there? Maybe you should try it sometime before telling us you can do 500km via Paris in under 4 and a half hours. You’d need a lot more than 65. And yes yours was hypothetical of course, where as mine was what actually happened in the last two days. Just as well you never got on to Euro work, you’d never of been able to hack it. Today and 15 hour days are a walk in the park compared to what it used to be.
Happydaze:
Truly. Remember when the days used to blur into one, which then became a trip, which then ended with being turned again…?
You haven’t done a proper days work till you see at least two sunrises two sunsets in one shift in my opinion…
And even then some of the old boys would say that’s half a shift!
