Drivers turned away from ports will be clamped in Kent

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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Stop with this project fear, it will never happen. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Seems like the best bet is to head for the Waterbrook site since you’ll be there 24hrs. The ONLY facilities on site reported to be 5 toilets.

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So you turn up at the port thinking all is OK to find some office dork has screwed the paperwork and you have done 9 hrs 50 driving to get turned away.
Then you get stopped by DVsa over your hours trying to find somewhere to park not in Kent …what’s your defence when it’s tea and bikkies with the TC’s ?, Or the cop in France when he really screws you over with a huge roadside fine three days later for the infringements?
Answers please.

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3 wheeler:
So you turn up at the port thinking all is OK to find some office dork has screwed the paperwork and you have done 9 hrs 50 driving to get turned away.
Then you get stopped by DVsa over your hours trying to find somewhere to park not in Kent …what’s your defence when it’s tea and bikkies with the TC’s ?, Or the cop in France when he really screws you over with a huge roadside fine three days later for the infringements?
Answers please.

You wouldnt turn up at Dover or Folkestone on 9hr 50

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Wheel Nut:
No self respecting lorry driver wants to go to London or Kent, just starve them out, let them get their shopping from France

I’ve driven a lorry in 33 different countries in Europe and Asia and the only country I’ve turned down has been the UK :laughing:

Granted that was during the worst of the worst in Calais, but it looks like it’s only getting worse in actual UK.

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robroy:

whisperingsmith:
The resolution is for Drivers to refuse to deliver to Kent - unlikely to happen tho

It ain’t the drivers, it’s their employers that should be refusing to send their trucks in there until at least this fiasco was sorted short term, then go on to demand some reasonable parking facilities there .
All sorts of things could be achieved in theory, but never in reality. :unamused:

Right. Who would those employers be then? The subbies for global logistics operators, who either do what their told, or risk having to find new work for their five trucks and nine drivers? They have no say in the matter. I’ve been in that situation, either do what your told or drop the trailer in the nearest Autohof.

And the Dhls and Dsv-s of the world couldn’t care less.

In the UK they’re only risking fines and waiting time, here in Norway they risk life and limb, coming here with a 4x2 on summer tires.