Hi all Need a bit of advice.
I left Arnhem this morning after putting my frisbee in at 8.45 got held up in snow near antwerp had 45 at jabeke. Got to the train bang on 5 hrs driving. Had a bit of a wait had over an hour break on train as it broke down. Got of at about half five, So i,ve got 5 hrs driving and until 11.45. Alls great til i get to just past junction 11 of the M1.
Then it took me from about 8 ish until 1.30am to get to northampton so in all a 17 hr day and 12 hours driving.
I dropped the trailer parked 500 yards up the road, wrote on my frisbee, but whats the law and what are the pesky belgians and frogs gonna say if they see it.
Oh and i put the whole ■■■■ traffic jam down to poxy car drivers driving three a breast at 5 mph. 
and i though the 41 minutes over was bad, maybe you would be let off due to adverse conditions, personally that would of been a curtain puller for me, with a polite phone call to the gaffer saying see you tomorow
You are very probably screwed if VOSA get you and you are more than certainly screwed if The French or Belgians do.
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ok so weve all had to strech the driving period a bit to make a safe and secure parking place but come on
If you had stopped 2 hours away from Northampton, you would have been on your 15 hours with 10 hours driving, it is winter, the roads are bad, the customer has to accept that things may be late or delayed.
I doubt the customer will be paying your fine.
I’m no do-gooder and have done similar in the past, , but you did ask 
All the services were crammed the radio was telling drivers to keep of the hard shoulder. and it was my last card. so i am now stuck at round spinney for 45hrs. i always thought that there was a catch all adverse weather rule that exempted the rules. 
I would really take the picture of your truck off the Trans-Haul thread.You never know who’s on here 
Johnny aka Little John:
Hi all Need a bit of advice.
I left Arnhem this morning after putting my frisbee in at 8.45 got held up in snow near antwerp had 45 at jabeke. Got to the train bang on 5 hrs driving. Had a bit of a wait had over an hour break on train as it broke down. Got of at about half five, So i,ve got 5 hrs driving and until 11.45. Alls great til i get to just past junction 11 of the M1.
Then it took me from about 8 ish until 1.30am to get to northampton so in all a 17 hr day and 12 hours driving.
I dropped the trailer parked 500 yards up the road, wrote on my frisbee, but whats the law and what are the pesky belgians and frogs gonna say if they see it.
Oh and i put the whole ■■■■ traffic jam down to poxy car drivers driving three a breast at 5 mph.
hi mate i came of the train at 11.45 after leaving bottom side of Amiens at 07.00 first held up climbing Wrotham hill very slowly because all the empty trucks were skidding all over the place and then a slow trip around the 25 snow ice bad drivers ect ect then twice as bad up the one got to Northampton at 1.00. On the way saw all your Arnhem buddy’s carrs smiths mams all having the same problem. what i decided to do was lose the disc and write a nice manual one showing every thing good and legal
The law allows a driver to write on the reverse of his/her card/printout in one EU community language,i have encountered similar delays where driving time runs out and there is no where to park due to a service area that is full,to cover that i wrote in French,Spanish and English for the transit countries,and impressed a French transport inspector at the Chambery peage.There is an article and paragraph reference to write on the tacho,im not sure what it is,im sure someone will inform us of the references on here.
cheers fellas. as far as i am concerned i was way over my time before i could get off the motorway so the ten minutes from junction 15 to the industrial estate did,nt make no difference.
shame i,m supposed to be going to bloody milan in the morning. 
oh sir+ i aint taking my picture off there aint nothing else i could do. 
Well and truly stuck your head over the parapet,time to wear the tin helmet.YOU RODNEY 
the thing they look at is the rest of your cards, not just todays bad one.
if your cards are dead on the rest of the time, then they won’t prosecute. if it looks like you don’t give a toss, then they will definately make an example of you.
as long as you have marked you card with something on the lines of “adverse weather, no parking available”, then you should be in the clear.
it might be an idea to pull in at a vosa check point, explain the situation, get your card signed, at least it’s dealt with in the UK.
the wat the vosa are they will do you any way even with a explanation on the bak cos it will be should have taken the weather in to considration wen planin your route and stopin place.most of us have miscalculated hour hrs thought we had 1 hr drivin left but you only have 55 mins left.we are only human
limeyphil:
the thing they look at is the rest of your cards, not just todays bad one.
if your cards are dead on the rest of the time, then they won’t prosecute. if it looks like you don’t give a toss, then they will definately make an example of you.
That is why i wrote out a new card the second one in three years with every thing else being good no one is going to get to exited but didn’t want to go abroad with a card showing 20 hrs. even with a explanation on it