hope I’m not getting on anyone’s nerves here with all these questions, but where do I park if I’m about to go over my hours and I’m miles from a truckstop, can I just pull up in a layby, side of the road, ind est, or does it have to be a controlled ■■■■■■■■■■■■, once again sorry for the ignorance :-/
Laybay would be the best bet, but always try to plan your stops. Means you avoid any nasty surprises.
suppose its a case of learning as I go 
dont get into that position-plan ahead park up 30 min b4 your time is up
silvasurfa67:
suppose its a case of learning as I go
What I do is do a printout from the machine, get the time I’ve driven, subtract the remaining time then set an timer on my phone. Lets say I’ve got an hour and a half before my 9 hours is up. I set the timer for 45 minutes or so, after that 45 minutes is up I’m starting to look for a good place to stop. I now know that I have 45 minutes to find a good place to stop.
Of course you can play it by ear or set yourself a goal like making it to Peterborough Services but that requires you to know how much time you have left. If you have a smart phone, there is an app that will keep track of all your times during the day. I think its less than £3.
Radar19:
silvasurfa67:
suppose its a case of learning as I goWhat I do is do a printout from the machine, get the time I’ve driven, subtract the remaining time then set an timer on my phone. Lets say I’ve got an hour and a half before my 9 hours is up. I set the timer for 45 minutes or so, after that 45 minutes is up I’m starting to look for a good place to stop. I now know that I have 45 minutes to find a good place to stop.
Of course you can play it by ear or set yourself a goal like making it to Peterborough Services but that requires you to know how much time you have left. If you have a smart phone, there is an app that will keep track of all your times during the day. I think its less than £3.
going to download it now, cheers radar
you could try hgv parking . com
You’ll find good places to park as you go along.If laybys.Try find ones with a divide between them.Get a better nights kip and not rocked about by everything that goes past.Ind estates are another good one.Generally nice and quite.Truckstops and services are good also.Because obviously you have showers and toilets.But they do tend to get full pretty early.
Radar19:
What I do is do a printout from the machine, get the time I’ve driven, subtract the remaining time then set an timer on my phone. Lets say I’ve got an hour and a half before my 9 hours is up. I set the timer for 45 minutes or so, after that 45 minutes is up I’m starting to look for a good place to stop. I now know that I have 45 minutes to find a good place to stop..
Dude, you’re making an easy job difficult. If you were paying for the tacho rolls you wouldn’t be so keen on doing printouts. There’s no reason to faff about like that as all the information you require can be displayed on the tacho itself with just a few button pushes. All you need to do is look at the clearly displayed daily driving time and say for example it displayed 7h 30m you then know you’ve got one and a half or two and a half (if available) driving time left.
Think of the trees young Radar! 
planning ahead is good but we all come unstuck, I personally hate laybys, but if all else fails the passing traffic might rock you to sleep, industrial areas are good, (watch out for yellow loading ban bars on the kerbs and do not block access to gates. I quite often use the car parks of smaller supermarkets, an added bonus is their delivery trucks will call in the night and keep an eye out for the diesel borrowers, (used these all over Europe), out of town shopping areas some times have loading areas at the back where you can quietly hide, football grounds, dog tracks, some schools, swimming pools, haulage yards, bus depots such as Plymouth, some fuelling points, all are possibilities, if you can drop the trailer at the delivery/collection point this opens up a world of exploration such as pub, cinema, fitness club, car parks, some council car parks such as chorley allow parking after a certain time say 18.00 hrs to 07.30. I have even used the hearse pull in at a cemetery it was dead quiet there, some of your old drops are useful so try to be nice, and remember any place to park will only remain available if you treat it with respect, its not a toilet, do not leave your rubbish, make as little noise as possible (if you need to build up air in the mornings get the bloody leak fixed)
I also forgot that caravan and camping sites are good especially as they have showers and toilets, some have cafes and little pubs, again be nice, be ready to accept a few no sorry you cant park heres, but I have found most people very accommodating,
Thank you everyone for all your very kind advice