Delivery Dublin

Can i deliver goods to Dublin from Yorkshire using a Transit van ??

Is this a Customs question?
Eire is in the EU, Yorkshire isn’t. So commercial goods will need the appropriate paperwork etc.

Operators License ? does the driver require a visa ?

Transit van? Over 2.5T but under 3.5T? Tachograph (and driver needs a tacho card of course) International O-licence and permit. Goods may need certificates of origin if 100% UK origin and extra documents if not.

UK / EU passport holder needs no visa. Check vehicle insurance too.

Transit van 2 ton unladend

It is the plated weight of the vehicle that matters.
MAM Max Allowable Mass I think it is currently called. (It could equally be a car and trailer)

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its dublin not timbuktu ffs

Does that come under the 90 day visitors rule?

Nope. We still have the UK/Eire Common Travel Area dating from 1923.
And Eire is not in the Schengen zone

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It might be easier going to Timbuktu smart arse

Maybe so …but at least you would get a much better pint of Guiness in Dublin than in Timbuktu.:joy:

no it wouldnt because you still have to cross europe

Probably better off going Belfast then driving to Dublin as no checkpoints along the way.
But saying that there could be unmarked patrols stopping vans and trucks as they cross the border. But there’s no physical checkpoints

Nope.
True, there are no permanently manned land borders between GB and NI.
But…there is effectively a border between GB and NI.
It was part of the original Brexit deal and modified under the Windsor Framework.

Traders in GB (England, Scotland, Wales) need to register for an EORI before they can send goods to NI.

(I am resisting passing comment, and trying to be factual, only)

Yeah? :flushed_face:
Not like you to pass up an opportunity to bore the arses of us all with your dissatisfaction bleating and gobbing off about anything Brexit related.:roll_eyes:

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Used to love driving through Ireland…15 16 years ago.
Landing at Belfast with about 20+ drops on North to South, (good places sorted to park overnight.. with the obligatory pints of Guiness :grin:)
Then shipping back out Rosslare to …Fishguard was it?..straight to Dover, Calais and pick up next load from Belgium and Lux, ship out Zeeby to Hull …good days, good job.

An ex work colleague of mine did a brief stint for Brit-Euro out of the Zeebrugge depot on the carpet work. Got the sack after doing a trailer swap in Dartford,and he forgot to detatch the fork/pole lift off the back of the trailer :grinning_face:

Yeah a good firm to work for.
I was sorry when it shut.

Didn’t it use to have a different name? Carman or something like that?

Me too, not often enough though, and many years before that.

Stopped by other drivers in the middle of nowhere just to have a chat, once on a narrow lane, could only pass on a corner when the hedges widened out (I imagined that the man tasked with planting them had done this bit after ‘lunch’ and he skidded off before he realised there was a bend :rofl:), then being told by the other driver that the police car which arrived and was blocked by us would not worry and indeed the coppers turned off their engine to relax until we were finished, treated to supper by the finance director in Galway when I arrived after hours, and allowed to drop my drag on the double yellows of Parnell St. Dublin, while I delivered in a difficult narrow lane (‘sure you’ve got yer job to do?’ the traffic warden said before he stood guard on it until I came back, after market traders had demolished their stall to allow even the wagon around a tight corner :joy:).

Not to mention the pantomime at the Newry and Dundalk borders where the ridiculous official line was followed to the letter before, in both cases, Irish humour took over and the rules were thrown away for me. :joy:

Lovely place, lovely people, I would live there now if only it wasn’t so bloody cold and wet. :rofl:

Sorry to the OP, can’t help with your question, but you launched me firmly into long ago and far away land. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

I applied for that Brit-European carpet job and spoke to the manager Noel.