So I was at the truckstop the other night and another driver showed me a photo on his phone of about 50 eastern European trucks parked up for the Christmas period on an airfield near Cambridge. He said they just parked the trucks up there and all got flights home.
Anyone with any info on this please
merry xmas every one
farmer gibbons:
So I was at the truckstop the other night and another driver showed me a photo on his phone of about 50 eastern European trucks parked up for the Christmas period on an airfield near Cambridge. He said they just parked the trucks up there and all got flights home.Anyone with any info on this please
merry xmas every one
Probably waberers on alconbury airfield this time of year they hire parking all over Europe and get the drivers home trucks will be both loaded and empty already to be in the right places in the new year
There used to be a European transport company that parked a load of their trucks and trailers in the top section of Newark Truckstop over Xmas and get the drivers back home either by plane or the train. I think it may have been a Polish company but could be wrong.
I pulled in for a break there just after the new year about 2 year ago and noticed them all parked up. The lady in the cafe told me about it.
There are 300 Waberer Trucks parked on a field in Opglabeek in Belgium since 2 days…
It´s everywhere in Europe the same…
Close to Suben in Austria 100 more Waberers at a Truck Stop
And i´m sure it will be the same at Ashford Truckstop and Transmarck in France…
Can I ask how this ties in with cabotage rules, as I would assume these trucks to be foreign registered, and therefore be returning home at some point. I admit I know pretty much nothing about the topic ,other than they are allowed to do 3 cabotage jobs in a 7 day period. Is it a case of no one pays any attention to the rules, or something else entirely?
I don’t know how monitoring cabotage works, but seeing as we have tens of thousands (the ones we know about, allegedly) of illegal immigrants running round the country and no one has a clue about their whereabouts, and no one who’s job it is to care gives a toss either, i would suggest to my rt honourable friend that no one gives a toss about cabotage either.
Evil8Beezle:
Can I ask how this ties in with cabotage rules, as I would assume these trucks to be foreign registered, and therefore be returning home at some point. I admit I know pretty much nothing about the topic ,other than they are allowed to do 3 cabotage jobs in a 7 day period. Is it a case of no one pays any attention to the rules, or something else entirely?
Has no relevance mate not moving = not delivering
Would be a good opportunity to lesson the cheap competition en masse … set 'em all alight ! 
Juddian:
I don’t know how monitoring cabotage works, but seeing as we have tens of thousands (the ones we know about, allegedly) of illegal immigrants running round the country and no one has a clue about their whereabouts, and no one who’s job it is to care gives a toss either, i would suggest to my rt honourable friend that no one gives a toss about cabotage either.
Well I know it was policed up to about 6 years ago at least.
I was pulled on Ferrybridge one day, and was found to be breaking the alloted time allowed in UK.
I just pleaded ignorance, which was not hard as I didn’t (and still don’t) fully understand Cabotage rules (sorry Messrs Conor and Tachograph 
)
To cut a long story short I was told to catch the next boat, it was a Friday pm, so I went to Hull, dropped my trailer on dock, sent the unit over to Belgium on the night ferry to Zeeby, unaccompanied, and ■■■■ ed off home with a mate.
Never heard anything more about it in terms of getting done, but don’t know about the co.
Cabotage as I know it is 3 loads and back you go it must still be policed was talking to a driver the day other his company had just been fined for not returning after 3 loads
robroy:
Juddian:
I don’t know how monitoring cabotage works, but seeing as we have tens of thousands (the ones we know about, allegedly) of illegal immigrants running round the country and no one has a clue about their whereabouts, and no one who’s job it is to care gives a toss either, i would suggest to my rt honourable friend that no one gives a toss about cabotage either.Well I know it was policed up to about 6 years ago at least.
I was pulled on Ferrybridge one day, and was found to be breaking the alloted time allowed in UK.
I just pleaded ignorance, which was not hard as I didn’t (and still don’t) fully understand Cabotage rules (sorry Messrs Conor and Tachograph
To cut a long story short I was told to catch the next boat, it was a Friday pm, so I went to Hull, dropped my trailer on dock, sent the unit over to Belgium on the night ferry to Zeeby, unaccompanied, and [zb] ed off home with a mate.
Never heard anything more about it in terms of getting done, but don’t know about the co.
Thanks for that, so if its on a time basis, we must presume those are working days not total number of days, could hardly penalise a vehicle thats been stood for nigh on two weeks over the Christmas break doing bugger all.
How they checking the arrivals and departures i wonder, from ferry/rail reg numbers info updated by the ship/rail terminals? , does ANPR at the ports read foreign plates?
Be interesting to know the current state of play, and if overstays happen do they pull the vehicles at the port, of so how do they check how many internal loads the vehicle has completed whilst here.
The cynic in me says no one responsible here gives a toss unless they find the odd ■■■■ taker who’s been here months.
If DVSA?? are doing their jobs where would the information be found if its not ‘‘classified’’?
Juddian:
Thanks for that, so if its on a time basis, we must presume those are working days not total number of days, could hardly penalise a vehicle thats been stood for nigh on two weeks over the Christmas break doing bugger all.How they checking the arrivals and departures i wonder, from ferry/rail reg numbers info updated by the ship/rail terminals? , does ANPR at the ports read foreign plates?
Be interesting to know the current state of play, and if overstays happen do they pull the vehicles at the port, of so how do they check how many internal loads the vehicle has completed whilst here.The cynic in me says no one responsible here gives a toss unless they find the odd ■■■■ taker who’s been here months.
If DVSA?? are doing their jobs where would the information be found if its not ‘‘classified’’?
The rule is maximum 3 trips within a period of 7 days.
Then there are typical interpretation differences between countries.
There was a thread a while back on the owners or euro forum from a dutch haulier whose drivers came out on sunday and stayed in the UK all week unloading their own unaccompanied trailers. Then went back at the end of the week. apparently they were fined for cabotage, so they do give a toss apparently 
found it: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=120482
The french go (late 2014, early 2015) from the idea that 1 pick up and multiple drops is one trip, but multiple pickups and one or more drops are different trips. (don’t ask, it was a hefty and very loud discussion 
). They check on paperwork and peage payments.
Early january this year I was stopped in Norway and there was an EE driver who had unloaded in Norway in between christmas and the new year. He had picked up a load of fish around Bergen on the 6 th of january for delivery Oslo, and was (highly) fined for exceeding the 7 day rule. He could not keep the trailer and had to leave the country unit only…
In Norway they check you on CMR, delivery notes, ferry tickets, fuel tickets and so on. If you have no paperwork and you can not prove how long you have been in the country, you got send back to the border…
edited: link included
Sounds to Me as if, if you happen to have the mis fortune to be stopped and checked, then expect trouble, but most of the while fill your boots, because they don’t really give a toss 
Though this does kinda tick a box, there’s a polish firm who run red mercs units on ferryspeed, IRF Dalesee and other unaccompanied work through Felixstowe, from about 2014 onwards, a lot of those trucks have been british registered, but are identical left ■■■■■■ 4 wheelers to the polish registered units(of the same company), one now wonders whether they had some bother, as they stay in Felixstowe, or the Orwell crossing week in week out
As to the OP, I noticed about 10-15 foreign trucks (indentical) parked at Stibby Diner in the run upto Christmas, must have been doing the same thing