Rather than park at the Autopark truckstop opposite the airport,the drivers menu upstairs is horrific,and the staff dont like drivers,it is not a menu,and was cold,and expensive,they tell you what you can eat,no pudding,and drinks are extra.
It is better to have a toasted sandwhich in the bar down stairs.
If you come off the first exit,coming from the French border direction,there is a large sports complex,swimming pools,one that is outside for the summer,and plenty of quiet space to park,and walking distance to the town centre.
If you walk to the bus park,you can take the cable car up to the mountain,two Dutch drivers had the same idea,as i recognised them.In the winter,the sun is strong enough to get a face tan,and plenty of eateries on the slopes,but more expensive.
Along the river banks,they have a walk and cycle track,that goes on for miles,all the way to the prison.A lot of drivers are happy to sit in the cab for 45 hours,that is their agenda.
Thanks for the report
well youve done it now, every man and his dog will be there, have you not wondered about some of the people on here, they will be trying to park next to me now, drive carefull might see you there some time.
how much is the cable car?
i’ve often thought about going on it.
The mountains up there are beautiful. Never parked up in a truck there but done loads of skiing trips to Aosta valley on the coaches and got a free weeks snowboarding. Good times
Limeyphil,the cable car is not cheap,i think it was about ten quid,and it stops quite early in the evening,so you can stuck up there for the night,or it is very long walk down the meandering and twisty lane,the buses use this route.
There are Roman ruins in the Aosta town centre,if you like old stuff.
toby1234abc:
Limeyphil,the cable car is not cheap,i think it was about ten quid,and it stops quite early in the evening,so you can stuck up there for the night,or it is very long walk down the meandering and twisty lane,the buses use this route.
There are Roman ruins in the Aosta town centre,if you like old stuff.
Turin is just a cheap train ride away from Aosta last time i was down there, we used to do a lot of coach driving down there for the English Ski group Interski. On the last 2 days we were banned from skiing incase we had an accident, so i used the dead time wisely.
There are some great views at Pila which is the ski resort at the top.
Unloaded at the huge Iveco factory outside Turin,with the language barrier,you can quite easily mess your day up,if you tip the load,and have not been weighed in on entry,when you are empty and try to leave,you can not,so they will send you back to put the load on you have just tipped to be weighed.
With numerous zones and bays/ramps,they will not make life easy to tell you where to go,you may go to one area,then to another,papers in one place to get stamped,unload something,go back,papers again,a whole day for few pallets is normal,they work very slow,ie two speeds,slow or very slow,unions are rife there.
A driver waiting showed me the ropes.
jon boy 100:
toby1234abc:
Limeyphil,the cable car is not cheap,i think it was about ten quid,and it stops quite early in the evening,so you can stuck up there for the night,or it is very long walk down the meandering and twisty lane,the buses use this route.
There are Roman ruins in the Aosta town centre,if you like old stuff.Turin is just a cheap train ride away from Aosta last time i was down there, we used to do a lot of coach driving down there for the English Ski group Interski. On the last 2 days we were banned from skiing incase we had an accident, so i used the dead time wisely.
There are some great views at Pila which is the ski resort at the top.
I used to do the Interski work too for Parnhams.
Cant remember if it was the Blanc or Freujus,while waiting for payment to go through,i took a long walk through the woods,lovely views along the valley.French side it was.
switchlogic:
jon boy 100:
toby1234abc:
Limeyphil,the cable car is not cheap,i think it was about ten quid,and it stops quite early in the evening,so you can stuck up there for the night,or it is very long walk down the meandering and twisty lane,the buses use this route.
There are Roman ruins in the Aosta town centre,if you like old stuff.Turin is just a cheap train ride away from Aosta last time i was down there, we used to do a lot of coach driving down there for the English Ski group Interski. On the last 2 days we were banned from skiing incase we had an accident, so i used the dead time wisely.
There are some great views at Pila which is the ski resort at the top.I used to do the Interski work too for Parnhams.
It was a cracking number, if you were a skier!!. Good Times 
I worked for Shearings.
Plenty of rich totty on top of those alps. 
toby1234abc:
Plenty of rich totty on top of those alps.
LOL
toby1234abc:
Unloaded at the huge Iveco factory outside Turin,with the language barrier,you can quite easily mess your day up,if you tip the load,and have not been weighed in on entry,when you are empty and try to leave,you can not,so they will send you back to put the load on you have just tipped to be weighed.
With numerous zones and bays/ramps,they will not make life easy to tell you where to go,you may go to one area,then to another,papers in one place to get stamped,unload something,go back,papers again,a whole day for few pallets is normal,they work very slow,ie two speeds,slow or very slow,unions are rife there.
A driver waiting showed me the ropes.
Always been the same that place used to take axels from Ayr (15 years ago) most weeks could take all day to get tipped, one side of factory for first paperwork stamp then to the other side for weighbridge then another area to park to tip, then on green light go inside to tip.
They would tip you in a matter of mins but keep you waiting for hours first.
Christ not good news for Interski today. Awful situation for everyone. Brings it home having done a lot of Interski trips myself.
switchlogic:
Christ not good news for Interski today. Awful situation for everyone. Brings it home having done a lot of Interski trips myself.
uk.news.yahoo.com/british-touris … 43014.html
Indeed, Terrible news and my sympathy goes out to all involved 
Such sad news after we were just reminiscing about happy times in the Aosta Valley and the link with Interski too.
Very sad news, the ferry yesterday had lots of coaches on it full of kids who’d been skiing, had my lunch went to go to the shop but got to the bottom of the stairs and turned round, it was chaos.
Think Aosta is a small British colony 
switchlogic:
I used to do the Interski work too for Parnhams.
Is Ray Parnham still alive?
My dad used to do the odd school run for him (in the days when all his coaches were brown)
I don’t know, was the father called Ray because he dies 10 years ago. I spoke to Dave a couple of years ago but I haven’t done any work for them for about 4 years.