Outrageous!! Drive abroad? No thanks
In my earlier life, I was involved in several of these Brit drivers banged up abroad cases…and let me tell you while our justice system may seem a bit flakey at times it is a mountain of virtue compared to what goes on abroad.
You really are guilty until proved innocent in most of Europe…whether you are involved in a fatal RTA or caught with drugs in ‘your’ trailer.
And the British government will offer you no help at all.
I’d strongly advise anyone driving a truck abroad to get some kind of legal insurance (I think you can get it if you are a trade union member)…because the one thing that will get you justice is a big, scary lawyer. But you have to be able to prove, very quickly, that your ‘dog’ is bigger and stronger than their ‘dog’ or they will bang you up for years while it is all sorted out.
After 3 or 4 years in remand in the Maison de Correction no one will give a stuff whether you were guilty or not…you will still be broke and unemployable.
I wish I was joking…but I’m not.
Gasgas is correct.Many Uk drivers have been locked up.
An airline pilot ,train driver and ships Captain are immune from prosecution if a drug smuggler is caught on THEIR transport mode.
Something which might help if you pick up a preloaded trailer is to refuse to check the load at all and demand that the trailer is sealed.
Then write on the notes, in the language of the country where you are picking up…
“This load has not been checked by the driver. It was loaded and sealed by the consignor, who takes full and sole responsibility for its contents in all circumstances.”
then see if they will sign it!
GasGas:
Something which might help if you pick up a preloaded trailer is to refuse to check the load at all and demand that the trailer is sealed.Then write on the notes, in the language of the country where you are picking up…
“This load has not been checked by the driver. It was loaded and sealed by the consignor, who takes full and sole responsibility for its contents in all circumstances.”
then see if they will sign it!
You can write words to the effect of unchecked on the CMR.
Someone once wrote on a thread the actual phrase that should be used.
I can’t remember what it was though.
limeyphil:
TTX boy:
Don’t talk to these people,all they are after is making a tv programme which will make you look thick,stupid and a criminal.
Once you sign on the dotted line you have no say whatsoever what goes in the programme.
These people arnt trying to help you,they just want ratings !You have been warned !!!
Are you talking from a bad experience?
nothing has every happened to me but I know what these tv companies are like.
limeyphil:
I remember when we only had 2 channels.
What was that then? Off and On?