As Alice in Wonderland said, it gets curiouser and curiouser.
Why would a car transporter need to carry out consecutive movements inside another country?
Cabotage rules are due to be removed completely in the next 5 years, which basically means we are all screwed europeans will undercut everyone!! try doing andinternal movement within france as a UK registered haulier and you wont do or get offered one try doing multiple internal moves in the UK as a french haulier yep thats no problem as long as you undercut the UK haulage industry and current cabotage rules what are those!!
edwardj:
Cabotage rules are due to be removed completely in the next 5 years, which basically means we are all screwed europeans will undercut everyone!! try doing andinternal movement within france as a UK registered haulier and you wont do or get offered one try doing multiple internal moves in the UK as a french haulier yep thats no problem as long as you undercut the UK haulage industry and current cabotage rules what are those!!
Not if we vote to get out of the eu 
Harry Monk:
As Alice in Wonderland said, it gets curiouser and curiouser.Why would a car transporter need to carry out consecutive movements inside another country?
Presumably theres not enough uk transporters to move the cars hense the consideration.
edwardj:
Cabotage rules are due to be removed completely in the next 5 years, which basically means we are all screwed europeans will undercut everyone!! try doing andinternal movement within france as a UK registered haulier and you wont do or get offered one try doing multiple internal moves in the UK as a french haulier yep thats no problem as long as you undercut the UK haulage industry and current cabotage rules what are those!!
Source please.
I think the trainer as mis read something its 3 for 7 days not 3 to 7
Regulation (EC) No 1072/2009
- Once the goods carried in the course of an incoming international carriage have been delivered, hauliers referred to in paragraph 1 shall be permitted to carry out, with the same vehicle, or, in the case of a coupled combination, the motor vehicle of that same vehicle, up to three cabotage operations following the international carriage from another Member State or from a third country to the host Member State. The last unloading in the course of a cabotage operation before leaving the host Member State shall take place within 7 days from the last unloading in the host Member State in the course of the incoming international carriage.
I’ve found this .
IRHA Opposes EC Proposals to Liberalise Cabotage in the EU in 2014 11-12-12
The Irish Road Haulage Association (IRHA) has today, the 11th of December, joined calls from a number of Member States in opposing any further liberalisation of cabotage in 2014, as per the European Commission’s proposals.
On the 1st of January this year, haulage operators from both Romania and Bulgaria joined 25 other Member States in availing of a provision which permits up to three domestic transport operations in another Member State over a seven-day period, immediately after an international operation into that respective Member State. However in 2014 cabotage could potentially be free of any restrictions for haulage operators in any of the Member States.
The IRHA is concerned that unfair competition from haulage companies with a much cheaper cost base, from Eastern European countries in particular, could render countless Irish haulage companies uncompetitive. The IRHA is calling on the European Commission for the continued supervision of cabotage operations by enforcement authorities until such time that there is greater harmonisation across Europe on social and fiscal regulations.
The IRHA is also inviting the UK authorities to reach agreement with the Irish Government to establish a functional area between the two countries. This, the IRHA says, will remedy the difficulty which has arisen as a result of the UK’s interpretation of unaccompanied trailer traffic between the two nations and is contrary to the spirit of the cabotage rules according to the IRHA. The Association has estimated that this interpretation has resulted in adding €70 million to the cost of Irish exports.
The IRHA believe that the continuation of restricted cabotage operations - temporary and only after an inbound international operation - must continue in order to maintain healthy competition across the European Union.
ENDS
For further comment please contact IRHA President Eoin Gavin on 086 816 1420
as above
Try explaining the cabotage rules to a french water bottling company based in staffordshire, that has a french haulier with french registered vehicles almost based at there site to do UK/UK deliveries already !!
edwardj:
as above
Interesting, i must say i have heard that but because i didnt have a source to back it up i didnt want to say anything.
Nothing passed by the EU yet, But when it is our government will just accept it and that will be another nail in the UK haulage industries coffin. (while the French as usual will just ignore all EU legislation and protect there own industries)
Nah don’t worry lads, Cast Iron Dave will negotiate a British WTD veto in 2017 so you can work 100 hours a week for 39 hours pay, that’ll level the playing field somewhat… 
Harry Monk:
As Alice in Wonderland said, it gets curiouser and curiouser.Why would a car transporter need to carry out consecutive movements inside another country?
Harry.
I’ve got a mate who works for a Belgian car transporter company & just before X-mas last year, he & a couple of other drivers where asked to go to the UK because the demand for car export was so great ( ).
What they had to do was ship over empty, load cars In the factory & drop them at the ports…
The third load they had to bring back over here themselves, unload the cars In Zeebrugge & ship back over empty…
They did this for 2 weeks solid & only until the export demand died down a little…
The British car transporter company who’s contract It Is couldn’t cope with the demand so asked this Belgian car transporter to help out…
Thanks for that Geoff, good clarification.
Harry Monk:
Thanks for that Geoff, good clarification.
You’re welcome…
its so ECM can use irish and latvians when its busy instead of british subbies.