Ex Haulier:
Sod that, if i go to a resturant i want somebody to do the cooking for me. T bone is rubbish anyway, you should always go for sirloin. Best place i know is opposite the supermarket at Sotogrande. Place called La Reunion, if your passing that way at lunchtime it’s well worth a stop.
Gazzer, the new terminal opened about 2 weeks ago. It’s pretty hard to miss as you come through the border. Have to say it’s pretty impressive compared to the old one which always reminded me of an old UK transport cafe.
What do you think a T-bone is? its a cut from the thin fillet end of a sirloin of beef, containing a T-shaped section of bone,in laymans terms,its fillet one side and sirloin the other.Fillet is best any how 
Hombre:
WhiteWhiteWhite:
I have got 2 trucks tipping hanging Lamb in Zaragoza and La Coruna on boxing day. Both reloading oranges from Valencia. 7 drivers away for Christmas in total.
bloody long way from A Coruna to Valencia, must be a good rate.
12 hours empty. Yes good rate.
Hombre:
Ex Haulier:
I wonder if they are all running down empty and what sort of rates they are getting to load satsumas back ?. I guess they need a lot of fridges in Valencia in the weeks before xmas.
Im told £4500 plus ferries.
One very well known company were offering £3,500 in 2009, in 2010 the rate was £3,500 again so our Boss said no way … this year they offered £3,200!!! This is solely down to the Easterns that are bringing them up for them. Yet another very well known company (who wouldn’t dream of using Easterns imo) offered us £4,200!
What would be the typical rate being offered these days during a normal period for UK - Spain - UK loads? My first ever trip abroad with my dad was to Barcelona in 1993 and years later when I started working for the same company the boss told me that back then the rate was something like £1500 one way…yet in 2005 the same company were offering him the same work at the same rate or even as low as £900 at one point. Hence he pulled off Spanish work a long time ago.
the rate depends on how many eastern europeans are waiting around for work, over the last couple of weeks the spanish are paying good rates for fruit to the UK because the supermarkets are willing to pay for guaranteed before xmas deliveries.
normally though there will be plenty of fridges sat around scraping the barrel and willing to work for terrible money and the supermarkets know this so they won’t pay decent money either.
we only have one fridge and it just does malaga to granada everyday so we don’t get these rate fluctuations but we do suffer with rate drops on our normal work. all year we’ve been working on our normal customers work but the 2 weeks before xmas we’ve been offered silly money for jobs to the UK but only because the slovaks and romanians have gone home for xmas, as soon as they come back the rates will go back down again.