shiped in to hull tuesday had to be in liverpool fir 11 so on the boat not a prob but the price of the beer 3 20 for a pint . so you now me had one then bed .
ok boat was late geting in not a prob so got of the boat , a lot of truckes poles turks liths a couple of brits so me beeing british was thinking thay would not pull me clean recourd never smugeld befor bont wont to . any way off the boat its full of them (customs ) that is . got in line . then hitla come to me normal crap where you loaded have you got any guns ■■■■ tob wine and all normal . pass port , papers for load did i load it . so i said no . i was standing there while thay loaded it . what was it she got the paper work in her hand . have i done the job befor . only for about 14 years i said . (she ment loanding and where i am going to tip) so as you do load at thae place in germany yes 3 times ,have i been to the place i am tiping no first time . then the next thing is she said to little hit going to pull this one , so i said i am english why you pulling me then got her dog to tell me to go to the shed . so did that only 3 got pulled out of two boats . dog in the back not a prob ok was there for about 45 min . then thay got a metal detector and it went off . the load was flat pack coubeds like you get in B Q . the next thing is cos thay couldent get hold of where i was tiping in the shed i go . this part i ■■■■■■ my self . opend the side of the truck hitla got the metal det and was up and down the side she said we will have to open the boxes . i said it is the stuff you put them together with . like you get from MFI and B Q . she didnt have a brain so after 3 and a harf hours i thoned the tip . thay couldent get the shop but i did . think or what i did say to them all the poles and that was on the boat and you didnt look at them at all but you got me cos of the english . well when i got hold of some one by the way thay got two pallets from the front of the load on the floor by this time . she wonted me to give her my phone . no chance i give her the num then she asked if it was a private num . thick or what .how did i know give her the number the next minet the boss come back and said load that back on the traylor he spock to the importer must of got his ars cicked . so after 4 hours i was on my way thay had wasted all that time on me so how meny have thay let in on the truckes that thay didnt look at . i got to liverpool for about 2 but thay was on dinner just my luck and thay sent the lads home apart from 3 was there for 3 hours . just leting you know about my good day with customes .
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Never had no problems personally, used to come through Hull 3times a week.
They are just doing there job if you have nothing to hide just let them get on with it. If you drop the attitude with them and just sit there reading a book or listening to the radio you are normally in there not too long.
i did sit there drinking tea first time i have had truble . but for 4 hours it dose get to you . and when you have to be tiped in liverpool and reload in huntingdon. harf a day gone to them its nothing but to a driver its a hard days work to catch up as you should no .
Ben9:
Never had no problems personally, used to come through Hull 3times a week.They are just doing there job if you have nothing to hide just let them get on with it. If you drop the attitude with them and just sit there reading a book or listening to the radio you are normally in there not too long.
Same for me Ben. I only come through there once a week though.
It’s another hold up, part of our job.
Do you let yourself get this frustrated at a major traffic jam Boost ?
Don’t let the little Hitlers get to you, chill out a bit man.
Customs have a job to do, as do Immigration, and the other departments we all see and get stopped by periodically. Getting stopped is a real pain, it wastes a lot of our time I agree.
However, how will they know that your a good boy and staying that way, if they don’t check you occasionally? They won’t.
Demanding they check only foreign trucks won’t put you in their good books either.
If that was the case there are plenty of British drivers who would revel in the freedom and be driving big expensive cars on the extras they would be bringing in.
Just be polite, reasonable, as helpful as you want to be but politely.
Don’t bother getting all shirty about it, they have the power to strip the whole load and they don’t have to reload it for you, whatever you may have heard.
All of the agencies apply what is known as The Attitude Test, I think, something like that anyway.
Someone who obviously has nothing to hide and is polite etc will probably be in and out as soon as possible.
Someone who starts demanding to know why they’ve been pulled but that foreigner hasn’t, etc gets the full treatment, or as much of it as they feel like.
Once they managed to contact your importer, they knew your load was legit, so let you go. If the importer had given them an arse kicking, along with the attitude you seem to have given them, they would probably stripped the load anyway, just because they could.
If customs want to strip every pallet, they’ll strip every pallet. The loads importer has got no say in it.
i didnt have a attitude it just ■■■■■■ me off . sitting around i put the kettle on and had a brew . thay didnt even have a stacker truck driver there for 30 min . i am just saying . the time it takes . that s all
In fairness to boost though if he’s referring to Killingholme then they can be a pain, I came in there last saturday (17) all I wanted was to get home 
all the trucks in 1 lane into parking area, then divided into 2 lines, brit trucks to the right, others to the left, OK ? no because this means that when you get to the custums everyone has to climb across the cab to get to the window 
WHY
Asked what the load was, replied “coke”, then got told “don’t be a smartarse” ffs, I had 25 tonne of coke in back, “wheres the paperwork ? Oh, it is coke, where from?” “I loaded in Germany, CMR shows that” " OK, you can go now"
Best part of an hour after the ferry docked I drove out of the gates 
Going into thr Hook I’m usually out and up the road inside 10 minutes
A couple of months ago I went to the UK (thankfully a rare occurrence) and was put on the deck at Dover. The load was 2 steel coils - UK customs were adamant that there were drugs concealed between the layers of steel within the coil, so after waiting five hours I was escorted to a steel factory in Rotheram where the coils were lifted off and un rolled. As expected there was nothing to be found. So Customs say OK you can go now!!
We had to pay for the coils to be unrolled/rerolled, re wrapped, craned on and off and the extra fuel to take them to Rotheram, then back down to Wolverhampton where they were intended for.
In a word - ridiculous.
why not take the load to the customer and do the check there
as this would be the ideal place for the check ,also whats wrong with
the X-ray machine,what a bunch of ““pillocks””.
If you are not a regular into Hull, you will get a tug. If you are a regular in Hull you will also get a tug.
When I get pulled the last thing I worry about is missing the delivery slot. They are doing their job and trying to keep drugs and guns off the street. Hull have a good record for this.
If I had been Customs I would have arrested Boost for his attrocious (sp) spelling 
They wouldnt agree to take the coils to the customer in Wolverhampton because they might have been involved in any smuggling operation (they said). This of course is utter nonsense as they were destined for a multi national companys factory. Complete numptys.
i am a driver not a writer at least you could read it . didnt like school so didnt go .
how can you even write your tachos?
nity pick hay how the [zb] can you on a digicard nice one i carnt see the prob with the speling you can all read it . or you wouldent be going on .
(Small language edit. Simon.)
boost:
nity pick hay how the f can you on a digicard nice one i carnt see the prob with the speling you can all read it . or you wouldent be going on .
relax im only pulling the ■■■■ (dont know bout the other tho…)
boost:
nity pick hay how the f can you on a digicard nice one i carnt see the prob with the speling you can all read it . or you wouldent be going on .
just leting you know about my good day with customes .
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You started it 
Hombre:
A couple of months ago I went to the UK and was put on the deck at Dover. I was escorted to a steel factory in Rotheram.
they escorted you from dover to rotherham.
what did they do when you had your break, stand over you with guns 
surely there is a steel place closer to dover than rotheram that takes the [zb] 
(Small language edit. Simon.)
There are plenty of steelworks nearer to Dover than Rotherham,that take the [zb].
I think Hombre meant that it was the choice of the great brains(sic)of HMC&E,being the only steelworks capable of unrolling & re-winding the coils.
I once told a customs officer that I had a bottle of booze with an higher IQ than him,he wanted to see the bottle as Polish Proof Spirit was not allowed in my quota.
beattun:
how can you even write your tachos?
If you’re going to take the ■■■■, at least sort your own grammar out first.
Simon:
beattun:
how can you even write your tachos?If you’re going to take the ■■■■, at least sort your own grammar out first.
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don’t tell me you’re on about the lack of an apostrophe?