jw21, you are right Sir, the tachos were called frisbies, i was stopped for no tacho in the head, the fine was about fifty quid for not keeping records, so in theory, you could drive all day or night with no analogue tacho in, they had no evidence of how far or how many hours were driven.
It was common practice to do a one hitter from Le Havre or Caen to Malaga or Gibraltar, in the end, doing it all the time, the body and mind would burn out, the nervous system in tatters.
You have to remember that when a planner looks at a road map of the UK, it is only a couple of inches from Liverpool to Leeds 
You also have the ones that do it my postcode, eg thinking that all NR postcodes must be close together and therefore it doesn’t matter what order they go in.
how do they do it?
map on a dartboard and a ruler,
simples
alder:
. Anyway I begged the boss to deduct £100 from this weeks wage but he said no phucking way! I would rather sack you
Oh God!! (said with head buried in hands cringing )
Pleeeease tell me you are not serious, or I will go out and chuck myself under the first ■■■■■■ car.
Is it JUST me?..drivers 
muckles:
Pimpdaddy:
Does it matter? Driver should take whatever breaks whenever & however he/she wants, as long is it’s legal.You can’t just take breaks when you want in other industries, why should you be able to do so as a truck driver?
Because unlike other industries breaks are there to counteract the potential drastic effect of driver fatigue.
If you feel tired, ■■■■ Mr Teenagespottyarse and his planning, take a break when YOU feel like it.
robroy:
alder:
. Anyway I begged the boss to deduct £100 from this weeks wage but he said no phucking way! I would rather sack you
Oh God!! (said with head buried in hands cringing )
Pleeeease tell me you are not serious, or I will go out and chuck myself under the first [zb] car.Is it JUST me?..drivers
We are amongst them Rob 
Bádly
toby1234abc:
The bad planning reminds of my first trip abroad in my own lorry, i had no clue how to do it, i threw the CMR out of the window, which was the proof of delivery to get paid in two months time.
When you came off the ferry at Dieppe in Northern France you were expected in Lisbon Portugal in two days time, legally this was impossible.
I ran down with a scouser called John Povey, he only stopped for an hour on the whole trip or for a loo or coffee stop,it took a day and a half, running all day and all night.
To do it legally would take four days, to arrive in Lisbon on the fourth morning, either one full load or multi drop groupage loads in the mountains and villages built in the horse and cart era.
i had to learn the game fast, and told the company in Porto which their head office was in the UK , that two days was impossible, my request for four days fell on deaf ears.
All the drivers do it in two days, so why do i take so long and do it in four days causing problems for the back loads to the UK.
The freight forwarders, warehouse staff and customs agents all assume it takes two days off the ferry and the same time going back.
It was common practice that you had to run bent in the 1990s, if stopped, you offered ■■■■ or coffee money to the road side enforcement officers so you could be on your way, or refuse coffee money , they could make life harder and a higher official fine with a proper receipt.
From France to Gibaraltar and back, i was paid two thousand and two hundred pounds round trip, which is not bad, Lisbon was about one thousand nine hundred pounds plus more to reload in Porto on Friday night/Saturday morning.
When I first got my CE in '97, I used to spanner for a small outfit that ran to Gib and loaded usually out of packhouses in southern Spain for the return leg. Did the trip a couple of times myself with an old hand at the job and we met up with other fellers at La Linea.
One shots from southern Spain to the channel was nothing unusual and neither was cabs full of cartons of cigs and booze. Most cops could be, er, persuaded with some folding and / or contraband like Tobes has said.