Colonel:
That journey can be done in a legal day, it is only 489 miles.
It is interesting that Google maps agree exactly with your estimate of a legal day. Not 490 miles about 500 miles or even 800km.
Quite a coincidence, most drivers will have made a diary or written notes in an old atlas. Myself included, these notes show distances such as 1900 miles, 600km or 250clicks.
I was never so precise until it came to setting a rate for a customer 
That was always AA mileage plus 7% for luck
Wheel Nut:
Colonel:
That journey can be done in a legal day, it is only 489 miles.It is interesting that Google maps agree exactly with your estimate of a legal day. Not 490 miles about 500 miles or even 800km.
which is exactly where he has got his information from, if you were to go back to the 90ĆĀ“s it would have been more as the roads twisted and turned a lot more.
Vascoingles:
Wheel Nut:
Colonel:
That journey can be done in a legal day, it is only 489 miles.It is interesting that Google maps agree exactly with your estimate of a legal day. Not 490 miles about 500 miles or even 800km.
which is exactly where he has got his information from, if you were to go back to the 90ĆĀ“s it would have been more as the roads twisted and turned a lot more.
Once again you are wrong in both respects.
1, I did not Google, I used theaa.com
2, I worked for Daviesās in 2001 not the nineties.
If you cannot do that kind of mileage in a legal day then you are not working at it. Simple as that.
Colonel:
Vascoingles:
Wheel Nut:
Colonel:
That journey can be done in a legal day, it is only 489 miles.It is interesting that Google maps agree exactly with your estimate of a legal day. Not 490 miles about 500 miles or even 800km.
which is exactly where he has got his information from, if you were to go back to the 90ĆĀ“s it would have been more as the roads twisted and turned a lot more.
Once again you are wrong in both respects.
1, I did not Google, I used theaa.com
2, I worked for Daviesās in 2001 not the nineties.If you cannot do that kind of mileage in a legal day then you are not working at it. Simple as that.
Which just goes to show how much you know basically sod all if you are judging what should be possible in a day, just look at the distance between Bilbao and Oviedo 290kms which by your way of thinking should be easy with a 4 1/2 hour period (and now is) but only up until 4-5 years ago you would have been lucky to do it 6.
You probably also think that it is only 25 odd miles through the centre of London and only takes an hourā¦
So explain something else. This Visa for the USAā¦ tell more about it, please. After all, there are many on this site would love to know how to get one for themselves.
Not sure if your digs have been aimed at me at all about derogatory comments, but I am away working at the moment. I am averaging 1100 kms a day so I am busy. Before you chirp, my truck is on a limiter of 102 kmh, so it is difficult to do more than that in my 11 hours. I also am running very light and have a 550 CAT to do it, so maintaining that average is not difficult. I also am on logbookā¦!
But this 489 miles thing. If you do a 10 hour day on tacho then you have to average 48.9 mph. As most limiters seem to be set for 53 mph now you would be asking an awful lot to get that average speed over those hills. I would agree that Victors was about all you could do. Then again, I was generally leaving Porto on Saturday morning so had the ban to consider once I got back towards the Basque.
Obviously, Vas and a couple others have encountered you elsewhere. Is your life so empty that you have to bounce from forum to forum being annoying?
Colonel:
Feel free to add whatever you wish, Vasco, you will not be able to get the better of me, no matter how hard you try, that also goes for the rest of you amateurs.
Challenge acceptedā¦Bring it onā¦ 
Watercress depot and farm in Odemira in Algarve,Portugal,was not the farm owned by the famous lady that stripped off and ran naked on a football match in the uk,a policeman covered up her bits with his helmet,cant recall her name,but she did make the front page on most tabloid papers.
Monica Roe
toby1234abc:
May not be possible cos of that IP5 mountain road by Guarda to Villar Formoso border,about 3 to 4 hours are lost on the shift,worse if heavy,due to the design,and steep gradients,the builders fled to Brazil with the contract money and deposits.Porto to Burgos was the limit from Porto,and on the day i got stopped i could have been in the Guimaraes/Braga/Braganza area collecting shoes/marble/clothing etc and finish up with groupage in the warehouses of Matosinhos or Maia and Gaia industrial zones,thus using up driving time to get to Irun with excess driving time allowed in one shift,i never used a wire.
Empty or loaded it was about an 8 hour slog from Villar Formosa to Porto before the motorways . And you didnāt need cruise control ā¦
Re: Trainee Basque Policeman on Peage. When I was running down there all the cherry pickers were trainees ; & they were poisonous !
Instead of fat grey haired coffee cop it changed overnight to skinny little Vietcong lookalikes with attitude who took no prisoners - Muy caro ,Hombre!!
I think my method was best run on your own load her up and get her home, does any one know why u very seldom seen the J Davies lot alone,
V8 Passion:
I think my method was best run on your own load her up and get her home, does any one know why u very seldom seen the J Davies lot alone,
Herd instinct I suppose ? One ā ā ā ā I know used to brag he did M/E for years & never even carried a screwdriver . His mates used to do it while he made the tea. I ran with him once back from Spain ; it cost me money & lots of time .Never met a more selfish Bātard in my life . Next trip was Italy & he was upset that I run on my own . The prob with the convoy thing is you are as fast as the most stupid trouble loving member of the team . Always a loner .- I carry no-one !
Monica Roe,thats the stripper.A very polite basque officer,said it was not possible to be where i was stopped,as his familly did the same run in his caravan.No fine,just shook his head.A new line of road traffic enforcement officers seemed to appear overnight,gone were the overweight bearded santa claus lookalikes in 4x4s,replaced with keen and dynamic younger viet-com.Liked to throw their weight around,i have seen seasoned and mature truckers sat in cafes waiting for fine money to be wired by western union,allmost in tears,and somtimes there for days.In 2008,they made a fortune with Portuguese trailers,with the brightness of the orange rear marker plate on the back that said "Vehiculo longo",the fine was in the thousands.In the 90s,it was the expiry date and numbering on fridges.ATP for foodstuffs etc.
erica roe.?
toby1234abc:
Monica Roe,thats the stripperā¦
PMSLā¦another classic post from the Tobemeister!!
Monica Roe may indeed be a stipper toby, i wouldnt have a clue!!..but āERICA Roeā was the āstreakerā
Good to see some humour creeping back into this thread
LOL.She has the farm in the Algarve.Tobemeister. 
Erica Roe
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Erica Roe, also known as the Twickenham Streaker, is remembered for a ā ā ā ā ā ā ā run across the pitch of Twickenham Stadium during an England vs. Australia rugby union match on January 2, 1982 has been described by the BBC as ā[p]erhaps the most famous of all streaksā.[1] Roe, who later claimed to have been inspired by alcohol, ran onto the field during half time, exposing her 40-inch chest.[2] Roe and the friend who joined her streak were corralled by police officers on the field, one of whom covered Roeās chest with his helmet while leading her off the field.[3]
While Roe was not the first or the last streaker at an athletic event, in 2007 The Independent of London declared that her āmemorableā streak made her a suitable icon to represent all such streakers in their article on sports interruptions.[4] The event prompted Manchester Confidential to dub her āthe most famous British streakerā.[5]
Roeās continuing celebrity saw her appear on the nostalgic British TV programmes After They Were Famous (1999) and 80s Mania (2001).[6][7]
She was working at the time in a bookstore in Petersfield, Hampshire, but relocated with her husband and children to Portugal to become an organic sweet potato farmer.[3]
I loaded on the famous Erica Roeās farm once,Iām sure her husband is Dutch,he tries to play down the special event.but TC will know all this Iām sureā¦
i would quite like to meet erica roe.
jessicas dad:
i would quite like to meet erica roe.
You would certainly need a big helmet to cover that
Fill yer boots - Absolutely disgusting !!! Erica is smoking a ā ā ā !
and jeans!!!
