Just a reminder French Driving Ban on Saturdays
Prohibition is in effect:
Saturday 20th and 27th July and 3rd, 10th and 17th August 2013 from 07:00 to 19:00
note: driving is allowed on these Saturdays from 19:00 to 24:00
The UK should adapt the same policy and give the drivers more family and quality home life.
The truck bans in Europe may be due to the fact the fire brigade have time off and there is no cover in rural areas.
So they park the trucks up to reduce accident risk.
In France the fire engine is also an ambulance.Paramedics ride with the firemen so no need to send out two appliances.
toby1234abc:
The truck bans in Europe may be due to the fact the fire brigade have time off and there is no cover in rural areas.
So they park the trucks up to reduce accident risk.
As a sapeur-pompier in France, I would like to point out that summer is our busiest time, and the period we are least likely to take any holiday. The trucks are parked up to reduce accidents and pollution on the days of highest traffic density.
toby1234abc:
In France the fire engine is also an ambulance.Paramedics ride with the firemen so no need to send out two appliances.
Pompier ambulances don’t carry paramedics, and they are a seperate vehicule to the fire enngines (though the same colour). We are all trained in first aid and our ambulances are very well equipped. We may carry a nurse (infirmier) if there happen to be one who is a SP at the station concerned, and we do have a seperate vehicule to take a doctor to the scene.
Hope that clarifies matters.
Héraultais:
toby1234abc:
The truck bans in Europe may be due to the fact the fire brigade have time off and there is no cover in rural areas.
So they park the trucks up to reduce accident risk.As a sapeur-pompier in France, I would like to point out that summer is our busiest time, and the period we are least likely to take any holiday. The trucks are parked up to reduce accidents and pollution on the days of highest traffic density.
toby1234abc:
In France the fire engine is also an ambulance.Paramedics ride with the firemen so no need to send out two appliances.Pompier ambulances don’t carry paramedics, and they are a seperate vehicule to the fire enngines (though the same colour). We are all trained in first aid and our ambulances are very well equipped. We may carry a nurse (infirmier) if there happen to be one who is a SP at the station concerned, and we do have a seperate vehicule to take a doctor to the scene.
Hope that clarifies matters.
Not in Toby’s world, it is a wonder he didn’t mention somewhere nice to go swimming at the back of the ambulance park
toby1234abc:
The UK should adapt the same policy and give the drivers more family and quality home life.
It doesn’t really have that effect either Toby.
In Germany, at a lot of companies, drivers have to be in the yard ready to roll the instant the ban lifts at 10pm. So they’ll have to sleep most of Sunday afternoon so they are fit to drive all night. Not much quality family time involved in that.
The dreaded 22.00 starts.Did hear rumours of being fined a few weeks later for driving before 22.00 by checking the tachos.
Also don’t forget Italy and Germany bans