Hi all 
Just wondering if anybody knows of any UK (Or Irish) hauliers that are based or have trucks registered in a different country? I thought I heard something about Nolan having Bulgarian registered trucks or something 
Maybe I’m crazy but maybe someone knows something 
Mathews of Gt Yarmouth have some Dutch registered ones.And so does Richard longs also.
Stobart have Czech reg plate.but who is now if we see some company truck with Dutch or Czech reg plate-it is really company base there or just some country company work under franchise.
Tunderman. Scotland and Holland.
Haven’t seen many UK firms on ee plates. But the spanish frigo hauliers have gone crazy with it…
J carrion has about 200 of their 300 registered in Romania, and several other bigs firms aren’t far behind. Sertrans are all Bulgarian registered and only take on Bulgarians speakers in the traffic office… A very sad state of affairs.
Company based in SE run trucks on BG plates, cant for the life of me remember the name.
Edit: darley ford transport
Alan Knight had some registered in either Holland or Belgium, don’t know if he’s still keeping one step ahead of VOSA or finished?
A right hand drive darley ford transport truck with bulgarian plates flew past me on m1 just yesterday…and i mean flew at 65mph on the flat 
Plenty of rhd rent a wrecks running round the south east on ro and bg plates with both British and flip flop drivers but the Cabotage rules are working acordingly to the vostapo.
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kr79 SENIOR MEMBER Posts: 6017Joined: Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:36 pmLocation: Lost
Wonder if you care to elaborate,do you mean BG or RO cabs should be burnt out, or does that include the Dutch and Belgium registered to UK owners !
I drive a BG registered outfit, working for a UK boss, who treats us with respect, and pays far more than the Uk counterparts, taxes are paid, running legal, and supplies most things a driver requires, like a fridge, sat-nav with messaging service. so don’t put everyone down as it works both ways.
Mainly the gv9 on wheels shaged out wrecks pulling ferry trailers out of the south coast ports. But the whole system stinks all it does is shaft the working class in this country.
I have just registered in BG, solely because of the traffic commissioner for the south east who, after a 10 day transport managers refresher corse as his only experience in the transport industry is given the power to be judge, jury and executioner with people’s lives!
By registering in BG I no longer need 6 weekly inspections, only mot once a year. My vehicles are 8,600kg so no road user charge and leave the uk nearly every trip so no issue with cabotage! Does it make me proud to be English? Not really. Does it make good business sense and keep my English drivers in a job? Yes!
N.B I conform to all the EU rules in BG that stopped me getting a variation to go from 1 vehicle to 3 in uk, and it’s a level playing field■■?
mutley75:
I have just registered in BG, solely because of the traffic commissioner for the south east who, after a 10 day transport managers refresher corse as his only experience in the transport industry is given the power to be judge, jury and executioner with people’s lives!
By registering in BG I no longer need 6 weekly inspections, only mot once a year. My vehicles are 8,600kg so no road user charge and leave the uk nearly every trip so no issue with cabotage! Does it make me proud to be English? Not really. Does it make good business sense and keep my English drivers in a job? Yes!
N.B I conform to all the EU rules in BG that stopped me getting a variation to go from 1 vehicle to 3 in uk, and it’s a level playing field■■?
Once more and more of the industry takes the same line and advantages against the competition are needed once again, how long will it be until you and others on BG plates for example look at the blatantly obvious cost saving measure in all this and employ Bulgarians on your Bulgarian vehicles at Bulgarian wages, or at the very least on considerably less than the UK wages being paid now?
I fully understand why you’ve done what you have, but I don’t believe for one minute that in the end it will lead to continual employment for British drivers in the long term.
My boys and girls will stay mainly British for the most part as it’s a very specialised part of the industry and a lot of customer interaction is involved!
Andrejs:
Stobart have Czech reg plate.but who is now if we see some company truck with Dutch or Czech reg plate-it is really company base there or just some country company work under franchise.
seen a few Czech stobrats 
AlfieJones:
Hi all
I can’t say I’ve seen any of Nolans trucks on East European plates but have seen Breens on them
Darley Ford aint a SE company
there based in Cornwall
mutley75:
I have just registered in BG, solely because of the traffic commissioner for the south east who, after a 10 day transport managers refresher corse as his only experience in the transport industry is given the power to be judge, jury and executioner with people’s lives!
By registering in BG I no longer need 6 weekly inspections, only mot once a year.
So given we only have one MOT a year as well your whole argument for registering in BG is that you can avoid 6 weekly inspections, effectively taking a cowboy haulage attitude.
I find it quite funny you slag off a traffic commissioner for playing judge and jury with people’s lives when it appears your reason for registering in BG is so you can run your shoddy pile of crap to lower maintenance requirements than we have here thus putting the lives of those sharing the road with your sheds at risk.
Won’t be long before you have flip flops driving your sheds.
Every rhd motor on bg plates I see looks like the ones sitting in tilbury waiting for export