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.
I still do 6weeklys for my own peace of mind and to make sure I am squeaky clean when I need to put more vehicles on my uk operators licence. Not every one is out to pillage the industry, I only did it because it works for me at this point in time!
Like I said, I am in quite a specialised part of the industry and if I tried to run sheds I would loose most of my customers overnight!
I’ve seen elsewhere the German government have come up with a thing and it looks a paperwork nightmare but no doubt they will make it work than any non German truck doing a Cabotage job in the fatherland will have to and provide evidence that the driver is paid the German minimum wage of €8.50ph for the time the job takes.
Oh that’s alright then, but it goes against euro legislation, which gives free movement to fellow euro members states. Secondly how do they know a load on a foreigners back is a cabbotage load or not *( for you state that they will have to prove the wage paid during the duress of collecting/delivering said load ) and lastly most foreign operators do not do cabbotage, its a load in, and a load back out, but for many from what I see in the ports, are in fact empty when they leave the uk. As for proving wages, a letter from you boss stating the wage paid would have to be acceptable, as a bank statement is none of their business, so I guess its just truckers drivel you`ve heard from a RDC somewhere.
It doesn’t only happen in Britain, or even just I’m Western Europe. The yanks do it too, there are a few states that only require a one time registration fee for trailers, Oklahoma being one, there are many companies with all their trailers registered in that state. Indiana is another, lots of Swift (18000 units and hq in Phoenix) and Schneider (15000 units and hq in Green Bay) running around on Indiana plates.
If I was in the UK and running abroad there is no way I would spend myself into the poor house by paying UK prices for stuff I could get cheaper elsewhere in the world and still remain legal.
This is a business, not a game and you have to take advantage of every opportunity to save money that you can.
Would I employ EEs? After reading some of the ridiculous stuff I read on here, you bet I would, they can’t be any worse than British steering wheel holders.
newmercman:
Would I employ EEs? After reading some of the ridiculous stuff I read on here, you bet I would, they can’t be any worse than British steering wheel holders.
truckyboy:
Oh that’s alright then, but it goes against euro legislation, which gives free movement to fellow euro members states. Secondly how do they know a load on a foreigners back is a cabbotage load or not *( for you state that they will have to prove the wage paid during the duress of collecting/delivering said load ) and lastly most foreign operators do not do cabbotage, its a load in, and a load back out, but for many from what I see in the ports, are in fact empty when they leave the uk. As for proving wages, a letter from you boss stating the wage paid would have to be acceptable, as a bank statement is none of their business, so I guess its just truckers drivel you`ve heard from a RDC somewhere.
Are you still working for the dodgy greek buisnessman/transport company
truckyboy:
Oh that’s alright then, but it goes against euro legislation, which gives free movement to fellow euro members states. Secondly how do they know a load on a foreigners back is a cabbotage load or not *( for you state that they will have to prove the wage paid during the duress of collecting/delivering said load ) and lastly most foreign operators do not do cabbotage, its a load in, and a load back out, but for many from what I see in the ports, are in fact empty when they leave the uk. As for proving wages, a letter from you boss stating the wage paid would have to be acceptable, as a bank statement is none of their business, so I guess its just truckers drivel you`ve heard from a RDC somewhere.
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.
Dont think there is a other Country with 6 Weeks inspection and hey are all safe on the Way. - and operation is cheaper,so more Money for newer Trucks is left.
kr79:
I’ve seen elsewhere the German government have come up with a thing and it looks a paperwork nightmare but no doubt they will make it work than any non German truck doing a Cabotage job in the fatherland will have to and provide evidence that the driver is paid the German minimum wage of €8.50ph for the time the job takes.