Carryfast:
Don’t stop them now it’s getting interesting.We need to know more about the Chinese border crossing formalities for UK reg trucks.Let alone when even the FN changed it’s policy from deportation of the immigrant problem to the final solution.
Well I for one want pics.
There’ll be plenty of time for that during the wait at the Chinese border which the word is is actually easier to cross than the internal provincial ones and that’s just with a car let alone a loaded truck.
The only time I have ever heard anything similar to the alleged French gendarmes advise was when getting ready to leave a port in Nigeria and the subject of stowaways cropped up by an immigration official and knowing how little they value life down there I was not surprised.
Deeireland:
I’m of to India on the 14 August 6 week round trip via Calais then all road.very specialised load.
So China is possible
Running over immigrants that’s utter nonsense .
So India then, what route are you planning on using? I am interested
I’ve spoken with an operator who did say he ran as far as the Chinese border, he wouldn’t be drawn on what he was carrying but he specced a brand new vehicle with some strange additions and an odd fuel system with false fuel tanks etc. It was the actual owner I was talking to and his drivers have said the same thing. I suspected bs at the time but if it is the owner and a couple of drivers all sing from the same hymn sheet?
I heard that French plod/gendarmes story some weeks ago, I laughed at the thought of mr French plod saying such a thing , there was a bit more to the story i heard though and that was run em down if they try and stop you ,and report it once you arrive at Calais port , mmm yeah right, then you get arrested, ect ect, as if , there is is no way i or anyone else for that matter would be turning one self in to plod having just squished one or more of them , then there’s the damage to the truck
They will slide bollards into your path in a bid to make you stop or slow so they can illegally board your vehicle, although if you do have to stop i wouldn’t advise that you get out and confront them, as some are armed they are known to have knifes,machetes and firearms .
tommy t:
I heard that French plod/gendarmes story some weeks ago, I laughed at the thought of mr French plod saying such a thing , there was a bit more to the story i heard though and that was run em down if they try and stop you ,and report it once you arrive at Calais port , mmm yeah right, then you get arrested, ect ect, as if , there is is no way i or anyone else for that matter would be turning one self in to plod having just squished one or more of them
They will slide bollards into your path in a bid to make you stop or slow so they can illegally board your vehicle, although if you do have to stop i wouldn’t advise that you get out and confront them, as some are armed they are known to have knifes,machetes and firearms .
In all seriousness it’s reached the point now where it’s only a matter of time before a truck driver is killed and/or an immigrant with fake passport attempts to drive a truck or more likely a car onto a ferry after hijacking it.
Skippy R:
Correct me if I,m wrong but cast your minds back, didn’t a couple of Ralph.s truck go to china or very near a few,(quite a few now !!) years back ■■?
Yes, 20 odd years ago at least, and never over the border. As Carryfast has pointed out its almost impossible to get a foreign car over the Chinese border, let alone a truck. I’m not saying super long distances never happened, it did. But it doesn’t happen anymore.
what a load of s@@te the french police dont want to watch you on to ferry never mind murdering a migrant on the corridor agree with luke dont think your mate is quite right,i suppose he missed the herald because of a flat tyre,drove through vine yards in the strikes in 80s,had his tyres sprayed in a rdc we could go on fransens of kidderminster got near china in early 90s it was 5 weeks each way i think on a good run and they couldnt make it pay then so no chance nowadays best thing is dont listen to your mate im 23yrs into euro work now and still enjoy it like my first day have a go at it and best of luck with it mate
Tris I’m going to assume you’re new to this job and a bit wet behind the ears, I remember my early days of driving and listening to the European driver bs and being slightly impressed. soon wore off though when I realised how many drivers like to share thier Walter Mitty world with any poor bugger that’ll listen.
Despite all the problems in Calais, driving on the mainland is far better than driving here, yes there are queues, roadworks and checkpoints, but you just seem to be able to get on and when you have to stop the facilities are far better, especially if you know where to go.
If you get the chance to drive into Europe, don’t be put off by the heroic scare stories, give it a go, I doubt you’d regret it.
muckles:
Tris I’m going to assume you’re new to this job and a bit wet behind the ears, I remember my early days of driving and listening to the European driver bs and being slightly impressed. soon wore off though when I realised how many drivers like to share thier Walter Mitty world with any poor bugger that’ll listen.
Despite all the problems in Calais, driving on the mainland is far better than driving here, yes there are queues, roadworks and checkpoints, but you just seem to be able to get on and when you have to stop the facilities are far better, especially if you know where to go.
If you get the chance to drive into Europe, don’t be put off by the heroic scare stories, give it a go, I doubt you’d regret it.
It’s being put on shunting that does my head in and gets me applying for jobs. Applied for two this evening as I hate everything about shunting work. It’s the sort of job a 60 year old should do, not someone my age.
Skippy R:
Correct me if I,m wrong but cast your minds back, didn’t a couple of Ralph.s truck go to china or very near a few,(quite a few now !!) years back ■■?
Yes, 20 odd years ago at least, and never over the border. As Carryfast has pointed out its almost impossible to get a foreign car over the Chinese border, let alone a truck. I’m not saying super long distances never happened, it did. But it doesn’t happen anymore.
That would probably all fit in with various types of UK-Russia which everyone knows was/is nothing unusual.China was/is a totally different matter.Having said that things look like they are about to change massively in that regard at the end of this year according to the final part of this.
switchlogic:
I stopped believing a word at at ‘he’s even off to China soon’, top tip, should this not be a wind up- many European truck drivers are in the Premier League of bullshitters.
Im not making this up.
Fair enough, then you met a prime [zb]. Had you been talking much longer he’d have told you he missed the Zeebrugge ferry by 30 seconds and survived the Mont Blanc fire
In your opinion. Not mine. I can quite believe the French police not being bothered at all if a migrant is killed.
Did you believe him when he said he was off on a job to China too?
muckles:
Tris I’m going to assume you’re new to this job and a bit wet behind the ears, I remember my early days of driving and listening to the European driver bs and being slightly impressed. soon wore off though when I realised how many drivers like to share thier Walter Mitty world with any poor bugger that’ll listen.
Despite all the problems in Calais, driving on the mainland is far better than driving here, yes there are queues, roadworks and checkpoints, but you just seem to be able to get on and when you have to stop the facilities are far better, especially if you know where to go.
If you get the chance to drive into Europe, don’t be put off by the heroic scare stories, give it a go, I doubt you’d regret it.
It’s being put on shunting that does my head in and gets me applying for jobs. Applied for two this evening as I hate everything about shunting work. It’s the sort of job a 60 year old should do, not someone my age.
Bloody cheeky whippersnappers il have you know I wouldn’t want shunting either and I’m 60 cheeky git[emoji6]
Olog Hai:
Did you believe him when he said he was off on a job to China too?
On the basis of the latest information regards China’s plans to open it’s borders to foreign road transport I wouldn’t be so quick to disbelieve it probably as something he might have heard as hearsay not that he’s personally taking a load there and back anytime soon. But the odds of Europe-China even then being viable in that case is another question.
soon wore off though when I realised how many drivers like to share thier Walter Mitty world with any poor bugger that’ll listen.
