HELP
any body had any experience driving uktrucks in norway due to be shipped out next sunday sailing dfds imm brevik
will be then leaving truck at a place could porsgrunn then tiping lng road tankers coming in weekly from immingham at brevik port
flying out weekly on sundays back tuesdays.would be most grateful for some feedback regarding snow chains tyres etc.
i take the weather will be a bit colder than wet wales.
You may find Norway a tough country (and expensive too), but beatiful. Unless you go really far north it’s not that cold, because of warm ocean streams. But because it’s so thin and long plus the mountains the weather can change significantly and rapidly as you go along. It’s also pretty wet… you can have mild damp weather at the coast, then it gets colder and rains, then fog and then snow - all in couple of hours.
Roads can be narrow (a welshman should be used to that) and winding A LOT. The surface is also not the best all the time.
Motorway toll: booths where you either go “manual” for cash/card payments or “telepass”. Also tolls at tunnels and bridges. Fuel stations at lonely places are often automatic (just like pay at pump at tesco). Quite a few speed cameras. Snow chains are compulsory and you need “many” of them (like six or seven, iirc). They like to check them at border/port and send those who don’t have them to shop (at least they used to). Min tread depth is also rather high, like 5mm, iirc.
Check info point sticky at the top of the tread, there may be some more useful info.
TRY reading through these links in euro posts sticky,s
Scandinavia :-
Travel and Transport a general information site for Scandanavia.
Norway for their national Transport site.
Sweden for their national transport site.
Finland for their national transport site.
The links can be found there 
try this as well HERE
brit pete:
TRY reading through these links in euro posts sticky,s
Scandinavia :-
Travel and Transport a general information site for Scandanavia.
Norway for their national Transport site.
Sweden for their national transport site.
Finland for their national transport site.
The links can be found theretry this as well HERE
thanks for your info really helpfull still unsure about road weights will be pulling a 4 by 2 tractor and tri axle trailer running at approx 42 tons fully loadead have been advised that this weight and axle combanation is ok to run on norway roads?
get spare fuel filters, just in case of waxing,
do not go out with full tanks , they have better
WINTER FUEL than that sold in western Europe,
get good cold weather clothes stuff that is good
for bad bad weather…
take enough food with you, plus some medicines
like headache pills etc etc
make sure the firm has got health insurance in
case of ill health and accidents,.
do not try to smuggle beer or spirits
the fines and possible visit to jail
when caught,
make sure you have good snow chains
and winter tyres, fitted
anti freeze for the radiator should be
done check around -35 but it can and does get colder
will have a look and a think and then post if i find
any more points to tell you
now do not forget the camera and paper for the write up
we were there last month, nice place, and 8 quid for a packet of smokes 
barry woodcock:
HELP
any body had any experience driving uktrucks in norway due to be shipped out next sunday sailing dfds imm brevik
will be then leaving truck at a place could porsgrunn then tiping lng road tankers coming in weekly from immingham at brevik port
flying out weekly on sundays back tuesdays.
Have you checked the legality of that? Norway isn’t EU so rules on foreign vehicles doing something like that will be different to doing it in another EU member state.
chilistrucker:
we were there last month, nice place, and 8 quid for a packet of smokes
norway cant be that bad.
8.50 euro in ireland for a pack.
Make sure you have enough snow chains for your truck & trailer as when you come off the boat at Brevik they will check you 100% tyres should be at least 3 / 4 mm as well
They sometimes stop you to see if know how to fit chain’s, was in Norway last winter, near Telemark snow , ice , fog,etc but when you get round by Stravanger/ bergen not much snow and quite a bit milder, Was told that is normal around that part of Norway .WATCH your speed, they are red hot on speeding. You watch now i bet i get sent too all the Scandanavian countries , just like last year , I hate snow