Got to agree with the idea of a centre near Dover to check these vehicles as so many use this route. Just pull in every 5th one for a quick tacho download and document check.
At Porstsmouth there’s an axle weighbridge just before the Border Control building, which DVSA also share, very often you see DVSA marshal a wagon into the inspection area for a spot check, not always foreign I must add, be it for overweight or tacho check.
daftvader:
AndrewG:
Will always be european with a 4x2, we dont need 3 axle units. Could be a driver of any nationality doing this though, it doesnt always have to be assumed euro/\EE…Not always mate.Dutch use 6×2.Seen some over here on fridges.
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And we run 4x2s.
pierrot 14:
Got to agree with the idea of a centre near Dover to check these vehicles as so many use this route. Just pull in every 5th one for a quick tacho download and document check.
At Porstsmouth there’s an axle weighbridge just before the Border Control building, which DVSA also share, very often you see DVSA marshal a wagon into the inspection area for a spot check, not always foreign I must add, be it for overweight or tacho check.
DVSA have a checkpoint in the port on the exit lanes, see many in there with cables through the wheels.
Also one at Brenley Corner on A2/M2 junction and a brand spanking new one off junction 10 of M20 near Ashford Truckstop, they have dedicated spaces to park up offenders in the truckstop.
I don’t think they need anymore sites, just more enforcement
whyohwhy:
RIPPER:
switchlogic:
Livery looks a lot like a Kreiss vehicle. If it is heroes last week when that driver avoided killing a child villains this week for this0
Quite correct Luke…passed it coming south this lunchtime
If he’d been three times the DD limit he’d have killed the kid.
No excuse to be driving a truck three times over the limit at 10.20 in the morning.
Maybe if the companies had to pay for the cleanup they’d be more careful who they employed.
Decent drivers on decent wages and we’d all be better off.
Two separate stories
Why was this other fella a hero?
He saw a coach parked on a bloody bend! Should have been anticipating a potential problem anyway 
I wonder what speed he approaches ice cream vans parked outside schools at?
chester1:
I sure a time will come when it will be ileagal to carry booze in trucks other than the load .
Well by that bizarre logic mate, I’d best stop carrying knives for in cab cooking in case I get the urge to stab somebody eh?
I mean if we’re talking knee jerk re.actions here we best remember …The Yorkshire Ripper was a trucker.
If I want to carry a couple of bottles of Bud in my fridge to unwind while watching tv during my 11 off, I will and anybody who says I can’t can go and ■■■■ themselves!
Concretejim:
There can be absolutely no argument against the fact that the eastern bloc are the king of doing all things illegal in trucks. Not even the irish come close.If the dvsa had a depot near dover, they could probably make a killing of every truck.
The ‘eastern bloc’ is almost as ridiculous as calling them the Taliban. Plonking so many countries all in together when making a statement based on assumption does you no favors.
DVSA do have a checkpoint in Dover, in the port, one where A2/M2 meets and one between Ashford and Maidstone. Not knowing basics like that sort of undoes your first statement
pierrot 14:
Got to agree with the idea of a centre near Dover to check these vehicles as so many use this route. Just pull in every 5th one for a quick tacho download and document check.
At Porstsmouth there’s an axle weighbridge just before the Border Control building, which DVSA also share, very often you see DVSA marshal a wagon into the inspection area for a spot check, not always foreign I must add, be it for overweight or tacho check.
They have at least 3 in Kent alone including one in Dover. I’m not sure why people think they don’t!
RIPPER:
pierrot 14:
Got to agree with the idea of a centre near Dover to check these vehicles as so many use this route. Just pull in every 5th one for a quick tacho download and document check.
At Porstsmouth there’s an axle weighbridge just before the Border Control building, which DVSA also share, very often you see DVSA marshal a wagon into the inspection area for a spot check, not always foreign I must add, be it for overweight or tacho check.DVSA have a checkpoint in the port on the exit lanes, see many in there with cables through the wheels.
Also one at Brenley Corner on A2/M2 junction and a brand spanking new one off junction 10 of M20 near Ashford Truckstop, they have dedicated spaces to park up offenders in the truckstop.
I don’t think they need anymore sites, just more enforcement
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pierrot 14:
RIPPER:
pierrot 14:
Got to agree with the idea of a centre near Dover to check these vehicles as so many use this route. Just pull in every 5th one for a quick tacho download and document check.
At Porstsmouth there’s an axle weighbridge just before the Border Control building, which DVSA also share, very often you see DVSA marshal a wagon into the inspection area for a spot check, not always foreign I must add, be it for overweight or tacho check.DVSA have a checkpoint in the port on the exit lanes, see many in there with cables through the wheels.
Also one at Brenley Corner on A2/M2 junction and a brand spanking new one off junction 10 of M20 near Ashford Truckstop, they have dedicated spaces to park up offenders in the truckstop.
I don’t think they need anymore sites, just more enforcement
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I agree. Enforce existing rules. No need for any more complications.
Now whos gonna be first to call me/us a grass, or a police wannabe, or WTF? Whos gonna say all drivers should stick together? Form a queue.
switchlogic:
The ‘eastern bloc’ is almost as ridiculous as calling them the Taliban. Plonking so many countries all in together when making a statement based on assumption does you no favors.
A bit like tarring all ‘‘foreign drivers’’ with the same brush when all the anti EE crap comes out on here.
Dutch, German, French, Belgian drivers are similar culture and mindset to Brit drivers on the whole.
So when the Brit anti EE drivers drive abroad, they will be ok with the same label being applied to them over there as ‘foreign drivers’ eh?
I reckon not.
just looking at the local rags crime page does show there is a problem with foreigners and drink driving ( unless some on this thread are going to claim the editors racist ) , it’s every week , reels of them done for drink driving , even the Mrs who’s pro - Europe 
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Good old Maris.
■■■■■■ up Latvian knobhead.
Thwack
Christmas on the dole…and in jail.
no fixed abode ?He has now for 16 weeks …
robroy:
switchlogic:
The ‘eastern bloc’ is almost as ridiculous as calling them the Taliban. Plonking so many countries all in together when making a statement based on assumption does you no favors.A bit like tarring all ‘‘foreign drivers’’ with the same brush when all the anti EE crap comes out on here.
Dutch, German, French, Belgian drivers are similar culture and mindset to Brit drivers on the whole.
So when the Brit anti EE drivers drive abroad, they will be ok with the same label being applied to them over there as ‘foreign drivers’ eh?
I reckon not.
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Always makes me laugh when i hear the usual anti EE brigade spouting off and really dont understand any of it. At both our places, Malaga and Reims, drivers of all nationalities are treated equal, theres access to both cafes, showers, rest rooms ect and none of this refering to drivers not indigenous to France>Spain as ‘foreign’. We’re all human beings, where someone originates from is totally irrelevant.
As for this particular drink driver, too many are over keen to jump on the anti euro bandwagon of hate, it could have been a driver of any nationality inc…yes a UK one…
AndrewG:
robroy:
switchlogic:
The ‘eastern bloc’ is almost as ridiculous as calling them the Taliban. Plonking so many countries all in together when making a statement based on assumption does you no favors.A bit like tarring all ‘‘foreign drivers’’ with the same brush when all the anti EE crap comes out on here.
Dutch, German, French, Belgian drivers are similar culture and mindset to Brit drivers on the whole.
So when the Brit anti EE drivers drive abroad, they will be ok with the same label being applied to them over there as ‘foreign drivers’ eh?
I reckon not.^
This
Always makes me laugh when i hear the usual anti EE brigade spouting off and really dont understand any of it. At both our places, Malaga and Reims, drivers of all nationalities are treated equal, theres access to both cafes, showers, rest rooms ect and none of this refering to drivers not indigenous to France>Spain as ‘foreign’. We’re all human beings, where someone originates from is totally irrelevant.
As for this particular drink driver, too many are over keen to jump on the anti euro bandwagon of hate, it could have been a driver of any nationality inc…yes a UK one…
In all fairness though mate, every time we see a news article of a drunk driver, or parked on a hard shoulder, or bent cards etc, most of us reckon " that will be a flip flop…"
And it usually is. It’s also no accident that DVSA almost exclusively tug flip flops.
I know what you’re saying Beav, and in many ways you’re right.
But lets not get carried away here, for every d/head that was caught driving ■■■■■■ and all the rest of it, how many of them were sent away checked and ok, and if what you say is true that they are targeted, it will be a fair few. 
I aint an apologist for EE and other foreign drivers, but I was on the end of all this anti foreign crap from Brit drivers once over, as I’ve said before on here.
@switch, are you aware of what are considered to be “eastern bloc”? Here’s a list to help
East Germany
Soviet Union/Ukraine/Belarus
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Bulgaria
Albania
Hungary
Romania,
Kind of covers much of all the countries that Rob and Andrew didn’t cover so I think eastern bloc is more accurate than you might be comfortable with when someone is making a negative point?
I’m all ears about the non existent problems surrounding Romania and Bulgaria when it comes to driving standards, kit standards, exploitation and an all round lack of acceptance of regulations through out Europe.
Just because someone might not have your European experience doesn’t make their point about UK roads less valid.
@ Andrew, I think your experience is relevant, however you are on the “mainland” so things remain very mixed and probably more accepting if you know what I am trying to say, the borders are less relevant when it comes to drivers and the languages are more readily mixed, no doubt to this countries detriment.
@Rob, agree with your points apart from the bit about UK drivers abroad, in my experience professionally in Morocco and personally on various trips to Le Mans I can absolutely assure you that I was, based on my number plate and position of my steering wheel, persecuted and picked on as a foreigner and a cash cow much as beaver points out in relation to “foreign” drivers over here.
There is a very good reason that DVSA pick them out almost exclusively at some checkpoints, they need the income and that’s where they will find it.
Cold facts I’m afraid, not racism, no xenophobia, just raising funds from easy to find fines.
I’m probably alone in finding the irony in trying to shout ignorance at people whilst seeming to be ignorant of the cultures surrounding alcohol in countries other than ours.