When i did Greece regularly (for a year i did nothing else), it was allways empty from Athens to load Prato in Italy, then after tipping Blyth Northumberland, it was allways empty back to the yard at Bury St Edmunds. I did on a couple of occasions go empty to Prato for loading from Bury St Eds.
At TransAm, empty to the yard from Oostende.
I spent a summer doing gib for Continental Express and during august ran empty back into holland a couple of times.
As with most people who have spent time on fridges I have also ran empty from the uk out to both valencia for oranges and deep into italy for peaches.
Recently I have run solo from the south coat to lincoln to move a trailer to york then solo back to the south coast.
Cheers
Neilf
neilf:
As with most people who have spent time on fridges I have also ran empty from the uk out to both valencia for oranges and deep into italy for peaches.
Like you say, a common practice, empty down for early season Peaches or Citrus was the most common, but I once ran empty from Charlton to San Javier to load the first of the season’s Iceberg Lettuce, there were 14 of us that did the same thing, spread over a week, but the firm was a produce importer first and a transport company second, so it was not that unusual 
mine has to be istanbul to the yard empty… soon to do it again but the other way around…
Once Barcelona to load in Tourin,
and once from Coventry to load in Cologne,
and once empty from Hamburg to Salzburg
Took a load of McCains chips from Ballarat in Victoria to Perth in Western Australia, and was told to go back to Ballarat empty to pick up a 2nd load for the same customer. A total of around 3,300 kms! When I got back to Perth, they’d found me a load of Kangaroo meat to go back to Adelaide…
What about that?
I was in Gent, Belgium and my office sent me empty to go to Austria to pick up our driver waiting in the hotel as his van has broken down and was taken to the garage…
I drove all the way down there, then he drove most of the way back…
Next to his hotel was a train station, he could come to Glasgow with three changes at fraction of the price that they had to pay for fuel, tolls and my salary to go and pick him up… And he speaks fluent Germahn, he used to live in Germany for 10 years or so…