Simon:
:shock:I hope thats a compliment Orys
In fact, it meant nothing. Are we allowed to post some meaningless words here? 
Thanks for that video - a great help for first-timers like me
ploughman1963:
Thanks for that video - a great help for first-timers like me
No worries- next time I ship Dover-Calais I am going to film the procedure from arriving at the dock, through booking on, to arriving at the lane from where you board the ship, I reckon that might be helpful for first-timers too.
and if you are going into switzerland from france could you do a video of how to clear at the border,like which sour faced customs man gets which bit of paper 
glenman:
and if you are going into switzerland from france could you do a video of how to clear at the border,like which sour faced customs man gets which bit of paper
Well, this is the miserable, squinty-eyed, big-nosed, comedy-bearded specimen on the French side who stamps your Carnetā¦
And hereās my boy getting the Transit Tax. Donāt forget the maschine has no brainā¦
Rather like the witty Swiss chap who printed out the notice 
no one will tell you what window or person you need to hand papers in to,and the same in chiasso,with maybe a whole line of people behind who do know what to do but dont speak english been through a few times and never really knew what the bits of paper were really for ,sometimes i handed them in in a folder and the customs stamped what he wanted and sometimes i just got it shoved back and the window shut until i held up the one they wanted.
glenman:
Going into Swiss at St Louis, to deliver at least, (I think transiting is the same but Iām not sure)
get your tax
queue at any Transit window in the Swiss Customs building, (no need to go to the French any more, with standard general goods)
say good morning / afternoon / evening (as appropriate) and hand over your T-Forms and tax
wait patiently
hopefully all is in order and youāll receive everything back, stamped up and with your total number of T-Forms noted on the back of one t-form. This note will also be stamped and initialled.
drive around to the final check booth, usually in front of the French customs building
say good morning / afternoon / evening (as appropriate) and hand over your T-Forms and tax
wait patiently
again, hopefully everything is still in order and you are handed it all back
away you go
hey all, firstly, many thanks again for all the help and advice that was passed on and given, the trip was a good one, with no problems at all, i went via enschede border, straight across germany to berlin, up to poland, had 2 and half days off while gig was on, then back same way, since then, ive used the maut to go from basel to hannau, and also hannau to somewhere on czech border (on way to hradec kralove) no problems at all, allthough i was lucky and didnt have to divert at all, allthough i was suprised that every services and autohof had maut machines in them which made things very easy indeed, so once again thanks to u all. 
p.s, i will do a diary soon for the trip, but im having real problems with the photbucket thing on here, so iāll have a read throught the stickys and sort it out, but i warn u in advance, like many rookies to an exciting job, i got home and virtually all the photos i took are of the dodgy old rigid i used for the job!
Stop making excuses, n post that diary.
Youāve had nearly a week now 
Harry Monk:
mjbaron:
thanks very much for all your wisdom and guidance gents, very much appreciated, going to be taking lots of pictures over the next 6 weeks, so once i figure out the way round putting them on here, cheers all, mjEasy. Download them onto your PC by plugging in the SD card into the SD card reader, or use the USB lead to connect your camera to your PC. (You have to have downloaded the CD that came with your camera first)
Then open an account at photobucket.com/ or some other photo host, itās free and quick. Click āUPLOADā and browse your PC for the images, then upload them.
When they have uploaded, you will see four sets of code beneath each picture, the bottom one will look like this and is marked IMG CODE.
!(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b305/margamatix/PHOT0050-4.jpg[/img
Now, the reason the code is showing, and not a picture is that I have removed the last bracket- ]- and this has broken it. If I put the bracket back and post it againā¦
Voila! A picture of a numpty being craned out of a ditch in rural mid-Wales!
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hey harry, thanks for that, after sittin an havin a think about it and a trial and error session, ive got it figured out, what was messin it up was when i clicked the img button to get the 2 sets of brackets, then copied and pasted, i was gettin another set in capitals, so deleted them, and hey presto, it works, so no more cursin, and shoutin at computers!, diarys to follow!)
Simon:
Stop making excuses, n post that diary.Youāve had nearly a week now
hahaha! got the picture adding thing sorted now! so diarys to follow this weekend!
well what can one say GET POSTING ASAP
W3hen i did poland 10yrs ago i used to ship out immingham to rotterdam.Then r/dam to dutch border at bad bentime a30 to osnabruke and bad oysen[spelling] a2 to,hanover magdeberg and berlin,left onto a10 ringer park up 1st services.This was a 10hr drive with 3 one hour breaks.Next day it was one and half hrs drive to border,and half hr into szczecin.
regards dave.
Thanks for the video!