Coffeeholic:
Harry Monk:
welshboyinspain:
follow what harry says quite simple but REMEMBER take your mileage with you to put on the machine save you walking back to truck twice
So I’m not the only person who has ever had to do that then?
So there is at least three of us on this thread alone then.
Four 
brit pete:
SNOW CHAINS & Winter Tyres, go and read through the EURO STICKYS
there is lots of Info posted from various members,
Kin ell Pete, how many shares in the snowchain/winter tyre gubbins have you got ffs
Simon:
Coffeeholic:
Harry Monk:
welshboyinspain:
follow what harry says quite simple but REMEMBER take your mileage with you to put on the machine save you walking back to truck twiceSo I’m not the only person who has ever had to do that then?
So there is at least three of us on this thread alone then.
Four
5
All I can say is PREVENTION is CHEAPER than the CURE DEALT out
by the enforcement officers,
Suedehead:
Kin ell Pete, how many shares in the snowchain/winter tyre gubbins have you got ffs
Ve haf vays of making you read ze stickies. 
Zat iss an order vitch musst be obeyed vizout kvestion. 
And I’ll own up to being number six in forgetting to note the mileage before going into the office.
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve done the same a fuel station.
To be fair to Pete, he’s spot-on about the snow-chains and snow-tyres, cos you can be parked-up or fined.
greg50:
Simon:
Coffeeholic:
Harry Monk:
welshboyinspain:
follow what harry says quite simple but REMEMBER take your mileage with you to put on the machine save you walking back to truck twiceSo I’m not the only person who has ever had to do that then?
So there is at least three of us on this thread alone then.
Four
5
and after Dieseldave, I will be 7… I even phoned my mileage so I would remember it, and then left my phone in the cab 
A couple of years ago while in Swiss my truck went round the clock so my entry mileage was something like 999789 and when I exited it read 000234
they really weren’t happy about that 
<~~~~ No 8. and 9 only an idiot would be number 10
<~~~~No 10 too
yup its one of those " I will remember all the way up the route to the border to take my mileage with me this time, and … Ballcocks"
jimti:
A couple of years ago while in Swiss my truck went round the clock so my entry mileage was something like 999789 and when I exited it read 000234
they really weren’t happy about that
I don’t suppose you got a refund, did you ?
its hard to keep mind of the mileage though when the truck does 100kph but only reads 90kph,means you cant just read the miles of the tacho and have to do a bit of arithmetic,about a 900 swiss franc donation is required if wrong.
Rikki-UK:
<~~~~ No 8. and 9 only an idiot would be number 10
<~~~~No 10 tooyup its one of those " I will remember all the way up the route to the border to take my mileage with me this time, and … Ballcocks"
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Harry Monk:
welshboyinspain:
follow what harry says quite simple but REMEMBER take your mileage with you to put on the machine save you walking back to truck twiceSo I’m not the only person who has ever had to do that then?
just make the mileage up, it is a lot cheaper…
Until they catch you of course
Wheel Nut:
Harry Monk:
welshboyinspain:
follow what harry says quite simple but REMEMBER take your mileage with you to put on the machine save you walking back to truck twiceSo I’m not the only person who has ever had to do that then?
just make the mileage up, it is a lot cheaper…
Until they catch you of course
On the booths they have a camera which looks a bit like a torch, its on a cable.
This camera is for you to hold against your tacho, so they can read your milage display, on a screen in the booth (Just so you know what your up against). I’ve only had to do this once, so far.
Weil am Rhein border use that camera lots.
jimti:
Weil am Rhein border use that camera lots.
Yes but they aint got one at Koblenz or Vallorbe yet
last time i went through weil-am-rhein was about 4 years ago and i found it easier than the french end.the customs people were actually quite friendly 
glenman:
last time i went through weil-am-rhein was about 4 years ago and i found it easier than the french end.the customs people were actually quite friendly
The queue going onto the border can be horrific if you get there at the wrong time though.
TBH customs at all the Swiss borders is easy and un like the eastern block they don’t mind telling you what you have done wrong 
jimti:
glenman:
last time i went through weil-am-rhein was about 4 years ago and i found it easier than the french end.the customs people were actually quite friendlyThe queue going onto the border can be horrific if you get there at the wrong time though.
TBH customs at all the Swiss borders is easy and un like the eastern block they don’t mind telling you what you have done wrong
Quite true, that is until you try to leave Swiss with the same load you went in with, not 4 hours earlier
Not sure whether I ever posted this. Arrived at Bardonnex at 8am and cleared with Gerlach in about an hour. drove into Swiss with this very expensive chemical for baby food manufacture. just shy of £3000 per tonne Got to factory, sampled it and was rejected almost immediately for the colour and odour. They claused my CMR, gave me new invoices and declared the load scrap… By Lunchtime I was back at the border, the Swiss guy was quite perturbed that my undelivered load valued at 60k at 9am was now worth Null, Zero, Zilch, Nowt.
It took 28 hours to sort that little problem out. Nice restaurant on the border though 
I always preferred Weil am Rhine as long as I timed it to avoid the worst of the queues. I also used to like the Konstanz/Kreuzlingen border, especially when I could get a little ride across the Bodensee from Meersburg - Staad out of it.
koblenz/ waldshut can be nice and easy as the nice ladies and gents both swiss and german all seem to speak good english and the girls ay the agent we use are very helpful and always give you a coffee whilst you wait, only problem is the lack of parking when its busy
I used to clear at the huningue border fairly often when going to swiss,found it much friendlier than basel st louis but have heard it is closed for trucks now.
