Hi guys. Just found this site and am well impressed. Need some info and the professionals are always the ones to ask so here goes.
I have a camper van that I am touring Europe in with stops to house sit occasionally for repairs, regrouping etc and would really like to do some “proper” driving whilst I’m at it. I hold a clean HGV 1 licence that I have had for over 20 years (22 to be exact) and although I have driven around most of mainland UK as a self employed relief driver, I have never been abroad in an artic.
On the way over here I got talking to a wagon driver in an aire just outside of Calaise ( thank you for pulling me through Orleans, my first French city to drive through) and he told me I needed a special licence to drive in France and Spain. (HGV that is) Is that true and if so, what is it? I got the impression it was some sort of extra test which would be logical but I don’t know. Tried here but everything is in French!!! and mine isn’t good enough to decipher a government web site. French bureaucracy really is as bad as they say!
Any info would be greatly appreciated and if anyone is looking for a driver from Bordeaux to wherever in the next four months, drop me a line…
elaine2303:
Hi guys. Just found this site and am well impressed. Need some info and the professionals are always the ones to ask so here goes.
I have a camper van that I am touring Europe in with stops to house sit occasionally for repairs, regrouping etc and would really like to do some “proper” driving whilst I’m at it. I hold a clean HGV 1 licence that I have had for over 20 years (22 to be exact) and although I have driven around most of mainland UK as a self employed relief driver, I have never been abroad in an artic.
On the way over here I got talking to a wagon driver in an aire just outside of Calaise ( thank you for pulling me through Orleans, my first French city to drive through) and he told me I needed a special licence to drive in France and Spain. (HGV that is) Is that true and if so, what is it? I got the impression it was some sort of extra test which would be logical but I don’t know. Tried here but everything is in French!!! and mine isn’t good enough to decipher a government web site. French bureaucracy really is as bad as they say!
Any info would be greatly appreciated and if anyone is looking for a driver from Bordeaux to wherever in the next four months, drop me a line…
Thanks
Elaine
To work in France you will need FIMO and FCOS , and guess what they are in French
and mine isn’t good enough to decipher a government web site. French bureaucracy really is as bad as they say!