Hi, I’m off to Spain on my first Euro job. Hope it’s not too silly a question but do I need my own health insurance or am I just covered by my company or EU health card?
Sure your Eu health card covers you.
Cheers Vader it’s what I thought!
Enjoy your trip and behave,keep to the speed limits,your time.Park up safely,avoid parking next to east Europeans,keep security your foremost
thought,not scaring you just reminding you a great many are swanning around Europe on someone else’s derv,money,cards,bits n pieces.Not the
happy place it was many years ago.Quite uncomfortable actually and I do spend almost all my time swanning around the NEW Europe.
The eu health card doesn’t cover for everything if you need to be flown back to the uk if you are taken seriously ill it doesn’t cover that your need health insurance
Armagedon:
avoid parking next to east Europeans
That’s him [zb] then!
As Trucker ten said, the UK EHIC card gets you free treatment the same as a Spanish national.
The Government advises insurance for repatriation by air ambulance and long term health care, there was a firm that specialises in European lorry drivers, they had an orange sticker in the windscreen, what were they called ?
They fly you back.
Don’t stop at La Jonquera, not even for a shower, cab crime, they watch drivers with a towel and know there is time to empty the cab contents.
On a weekly rest period, expect to be sat over the weekend in a service station full of EE trucks that start their engines all day and night to charge their batteries from watching tv using satelite dishes the size of a Sputnik space station on the roof.
Offences can cost thousands in fines, some 20,000 or more,especially in the Basque and Catalan areas,keep the tacho hundred per cent clean.
French Customs or Douanes may ■■■■■■ trucks off the road to a mobile X ray scanner.
If stopped by the Police or Customs, remain cool and polite, they may intimidate you to start with, at the end of the control, you end up cracking jokes and shaking hands.
Open the cab door when stopped, offer to shake their hand, it goes a long way to reducing the fine amount or not fining you.
A safe in the cab to store valuables is what I did.
Photocopy documents if originals are stolen.
Transmed is the company that offer repatriation insurance. Works out about £140 per year per vehicle.
Transmed , that is the one, good as gold, I have heard they do wonders to get injured drivers back home after serious crashes.Arranging nurses to fly on the plane with the patient.
When starting and ending a shift in Spain, enter the code for the county,scroll the digi menu to do this or get a fine.
This is done, to fine drivers if they have driven on a truck ban,as they have many Fiestas and religous holidays.
So if start in the Basque and end in Andulucia,enter it.
Look for menu del dia,or fixed priced drivers menus,five courses with cheese and wine, with coffee at the end.
If see a building with Club ,you will find ladies wearing underwear or bikinis.
If heading South on the coast,it may be warm enough for a dip in the sea.
Breakfast in Catalonia is a toasted baguette with tinned tomatoes and olive oil on top.
Before the main meal,most drivers have an apperitif to get an appetite.
Then after a meal, a digestif drink to aid digestion and ferment the meal, in France it is Calvados, a strong apple liqueur.
Or a brandy or cognac straight or in the coffee.
Andulicia has the best salad produce, you can taste the sun in it all.
Road side hotels are cheap, if fancy a bath and a room with air con and satellite tv, makes a change from the cab.
Toby, you should start up a new career as a travel agent! 
Toby-Tours 
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