Tarmaceater:
La Jonqueria Spanish border town was notorious for cab break ins as spotters saw drivers walking to the shower with a towel so there’s the time window to get in but mostly Eastern European gangs operating there from Albanian , Romania and Bulgaria according to the police crime reports.
Any lay by on the free or toll motorway and dual carriageway road network from Jonqueria to Barcelona to Alicante to Murcia with numerous reports of North African illegal immigrants living rough in the orange groves to carry out random cab break ins , the Valencia area being the worst.
Marseille is a no go area and never park within a 50 mile radius from it.
FFS, do you make this up as you go along?
“Valencia area being the worst”, give over man, you made that up!
“Alicante to Murcia”, you made that up as well!
La Jonquera to Barcelona, yes the parking areas have always been suspect but it’s only in recent years that La Jonquera has been dodgy.
Tarmaceater:
No I didn’t make anything up , it’s what I read in the papers as I can speak and read Spanish,French, Portuguese and Italian, can you make it up ?
I speak from experience of working in these areas for the last 40 years, not hearsay or reading it in newspapers FFS!
“NEVER ARGUE WITH STUPID PEOPLE. THEY WILL DRAG YOU DOWN TO THEIR LEVEL AND BEAT YOU WITH EXPERIENCE.”
Lucy:
Er…Guys…I hate to ■■■■ on your parades, but I forgot to say - UK only please!
I didn’t bring it up, it’s some guy who’s read stuff on the internet and claims to have read stuff in foreign newspapers but in actual fact knows zero about the subject.
I’ll say it.
So your going to write an article on unsafe laybys around the country? And publish it in a trade magazine.
I know your trying to highlight the lack of suitable safe parking for HGVs around the country, a lot of the reasons muppets park in laybys is down to companies not paying parking, Publish a list of those and it may help, Only people who can change parking is if government declare a shortage, offer tax incentives to build lorry parks, and preferential planning. You need articles like you are going to write to appear in MSM,but unless it envolves a minority it won’t fit the agenda. Just look what Kentcc are doing towards HGV. And breathe
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I’ll say it.
So your going to write an article on unsafe laybys around the country? And publish it in a trade magazine.
Nope. Doesn’t have to be laybys, it can be anywhere.
I know your trying to highlight the lack of suitable safe parking for HGVs around the country
Wrong again. That would, after all, be preaching to the converted. It’s just a bit of general interest stuff which might, just might, end up helping someone.
But I understand your pain - it’s one of the many reason I decided to stop tramping after 15 years.
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I’ll say it. So your going to write an article on unsafe laybys around the country? And publish it in a trade magazine.
I know your trying to highlight the lack of suitable safe parking for HGVs around the country, a lot of the reasons muppets park in laybys is down to companies not paying parking, Publish a list of those and it may help, Only people who can change parking is if government declare a shortage, offer tax incentives to build lorry parks, and preferential planning. You need articles like you are going to write to appear in MSM,but unless it envolves a minority it won’t fit the agenda. Just look what Kentcc are doing towards HGV. And breathe
It’s all moot because no-one reads Comical Motor. And you can’t even read the non-ad part of the website as it’s all behind a paywall. She could write about house bricks and no-one would notice. I dare say an article on house bricks would make for more interesting reading…
Wouldn’t it be funny if the police read your article then decide to camp the 10 hotspots and catch some thieves? If they can use an artic to spy and fine people for eating crisps at the wheel then surely they can use one or a few as diesel honeypots
ETS:
Wouldn’t it be funny if the police read your article then decide to camp the 10 hotspots and catch some thieves? If they can use an artic to spy and fine people for eating crisps at the wheel then surely they can use one or a few as diesel honeypots
What a bloody good idea ^^^ lorries are designed to be double shifted, days for catching maniacs drinking coffees and night for catching the vermin who venture out to take what the vermin have never had to work for!
ETS:
Wouldn’t it be funny if the police read your article then decide to camp the 10 hotspots and catch some thieves? If they can use an artic to spy and fine people for eating crisps at the wheel then surely they can use one or a few as diesel honeypots
They have hidden in undercover vehicles on A1 Newark overnight and caught the scumbags redhanded. I remember reading a news report recently
ETS:
Wouldn’t it be funny if the police read your article then decide to camp the 10 hotspots and catch some thieves? If they can use an artic to spy and fine people for eating crisps at the wheel then surely they can use one or a few as diesel honeypots
They have hidden in undercover vehicles on A1 Newark overnight and caught the scumbags redhanded. I remember reading a news report recently
They catch them on a regular basis, but they keep coming, think last lot were using a disco with a IBC in back, going across fields, then pipe up to layby, wooosh all gone.
It was Franglais that brought up the subject of Jonquera not me , for GOT to tell me I don’t know nothing about the subject is insulting as I have been robbed in the areas that I mentioned and not quoting off the internet.
From nearly half a load of shoes stolen on a windy night so didn’t notice the trailer rocking and numerous petty theft in the areas i mentioned with cab locks duffed in or broken cab windows.
If I was making it all up , why did the Australian lady that ran a restaurant out of Valencia loan money to drivers that got wiped out from being robbed.
So you’re saying media reports are all lies when the local police state the facts?
I know the running money lark where drivers got drunk and spent it on lady action so had to explain it’s gone by being robbed while asleep with their trousers on and the pockets cut out with the money in !
I’m trying to be pragmatic here .
So back on subject to UK only .
Tarmaceater:
It was Franglais that brought up the subject of Jonquera not me , for GOT to tell me I don’t know nothing about the subject is insulting as I have been robbed in the areas that I mentioned and not quoting off the internet.
From nearly half a load of shoes stolen on a windy night so didn’t notice the trailer rocking and numerous petty theft in the areas i mentioned with cab locks duffed in or broken cab windows.
If I was making it all up , why did the Australian lady that ran a restaurant out of Valencia loan money to drivers that got wiped out from being robbed.
So you’re saying media reports are all lies when the local police state the facts?
I know the running money lark where drivers got drunk and spent it on lady action so had to explain it’s gone by being robbed while asleep with their trousers on and the pockets cut out with the money in !
I’m trying to be pragmatic here .
So back on subject to UK only .
You’re full of the proverbial, to be a good liar you need a good memory and that’s something you most certainly don’t possess!
1st you state you’ve read reports in foreign newspapers because you’re multilingual, I very much doubt that.
2nd you then claim you’ve spoken to British drivers and you’re passing on their experiences forgetting your first claim.
3rd and finally you’re claiming it’s your own experiences you’re regaling.
I find it difficult to believe a word you type.
As for the Australian woman, the bar you’ve obviously heard others talk about was between Teruel and Sagunto, I’ve stopped their for a meal more times than I care to remember but I never, ever heard her say anything about giving drivers money because they’d been robbed in the Valencia area.
The only places in that area where drivers lost a fortune was at the Upstairs/downstairs at Nules.
I have my own thoughts on you having a trailer of shoes robbed in La Jonquera, shoes were always loaded in Italy not Spain.
Franglais:
Elche was, and remains a major shoe production centre.
Absolutely right but from Elche unless you were clueless or had money to burn you wouldn’t come back La Jonquera you would come back overland and through Irun.
Franglais:
Elche was, and remains a major shoe production centre.
Absolutely right but from Elche unless you were clueless or had money to burn you wouldn’t come back La Jonquera you would come back overland and through Irun.
A lot of those shoes could easily end up in warehouses in Barcelona. Maybe as part of groupage loads, or subbied out full loads.
If they can use an artic to spy and fine people for eating crisps at the wheel then surely they can use one or a few as diesel honeypots
