There was a big one at the services just past venlo truckstop going into germany towards hilden last month pulling everyone and anyone checking everything even the new law about carrying a breathaliser but apparently they aint gonna fine you till towards end of year got mine just incase tho
fozzie:
There was a big one at the services just past venlo truckstop going into germany towards hilden last month pulling everyone and anyone checking everything even the new law about carrying a breathaliser but apparently they aint gonna fine you till towards end of year got mine just incase tho
Thought that was a new law for France ! Why would the Dutch/Germans check for that ?
turnip:
fozzie:
There was a big one at the services just past venlo truckstop going into germany towards hilden last month pulling everyone and anyone checking everything even the new law about carrying a breathaliser but apparently they aint gonna fine you till towards end of year got mine just incase thoThought that was a new law for France ! Why would the Dutch/Germans check for that ?
I asked same question the bloke said everyone will be checking I too thought it was only france I guess everyone is going to be bringing it in I’m not sure TBH just passing on info. From what they was checking
Vascoingles:
has something changed on these forums ?why has Britpete not been on
to tell him that all roads to anywhere go via Luxembourg ■■?
The RO-LA train must also have stopped paying his commision. He hasnt been doing the hard sell like he used to.
On a serious note havent seen him around the forums for a while hope all is well.
He is on Facebook, proberly like others just fed up crap on here.
alxa1988,i used to have a Volvo FH with a safe fitted under the bunk,was handy to leave paper work in and other stuff you do not want to walk around with.
Ask the garage to fit one,they are cheap to buy.
You can not eat a full blown Rouitiers meal on a 45 minute break,best to have it at night,allow 2 to 3 hours,theres the drinks at the bar before you sit down,the hand shaking,sit close together at the tables,then the digestif drink after the meal.
Very noisy too,wear ear plugs.
Best not to photocopy any truck documents,they dont like that.Leave all the numbers of the bank cards and passport details with your wife at home,so if you lose them or get them stolen she can sort it out.
The false theory of drivers being gassed is realy drivers that have spent the bosses running money in the “club”.
Some drivers ratchet together the cab doors at night,but if there was a fire,no time to get out.
Check the test dates on all your fire extinguishers for the cab and trailer,i got asked for this at a French minsistry check point.
Take your own coffee and small gas cooker,the coffee is ditch water.
toby1234abc:
Take your own coffee and small gas cooker,the coffee is ditch water.
Yep, good idea to take a kettle and a few teabags as well. First run I did was Nottingham-St. Tropez and got hooked on the 1.20 Euro cinnamon coffee in the service stations in France. Fast forward to the return trip and I had to stop for a [zb] on 4 seperate occasions between Charles de Gaulle airport and Calais after reloading in Paris. Seriously not cool. 
Got to agree with that Duck. I think it is down to the rubbish Coffee that all those machines on the Autoroutes services dispense.
Same goes for the Belgian Coffee which gives me bad indegestion from the ones at Jabbeke but those Bean machines in Belgium, Holland and Germany are much better.
toby1234abc:
Some drivers ratchet together the cab doors at night,but if there was a fire,no time to get out.
Seatbelt through the door handle works for me
Duck:
toby1234abc:
Take your own coffee and small gas cooker,the coffee is ditch water.Yep, good idea to take a kettle and a few teabags as well. First run I did was Nottingham-St. Tropez and got hooked on the 1.20 Euro cinnamon coffee in the service stations in France. Fast forward to the return trip and I had to stop for a [zb] on 4 seperate occasions between Charles de Gaulle airport and Calais after reloading in Paris. Seriously not cool.
I take my own…
Hmmm■■? You know what, it might have been vanilla coffee actually…
Whatever it was I still had to hit the showers on the boat at Calais for a mini colonical irrigation. 
NASTY, VERY NASTY…
didler:
well sed russell had that my self that is if you can get on the bus dont know what it is with drivers they have to congregate round the door rest of bus is just about empty
its so you can smell their sweaty arm pits wen thay are holding onto the grab rail
Well done lads, you will have frightened the poor bugger to death now, did they say to strap the eastern european to the railway track, was it vanilla in the adblue tank or cinnamon was ok to bribe the gendarme if you didnt have a breathalyser. I remember them saying about a bus, do I follow the coaches?
I have photocopied the trailer and left my fuel cards with the wife, she is looking after my passport too.
Dont worry, enjoy yourself, if you ask for help, you will generally be given good advice, except on these forums of course…
Wheel nut,i do not concur with your post,are you sure you did not mean to fax the trailer,i am confused now,i think the wife should keep his digi card at home when he is away driving,in case he is gassed and the digi is stolen by the Phampton gasser of the european highways.
DON’T WORK FOR NOTHEGGER IN AUSTRIA (like me) unless you don’t wanna go home LOL
russell2587:
didler:
well sed russell had that my self that is if you can get on the bus dont know what it is with drivers they have to congregate round the door rest of bus is just about emptyit’s a pain when your one of the last to get on, the door opens and there’s 2 or 3 on the steps and they just look at you
Not when you look like me. I just growl a bit and its like the parting of the Red Sea 
(I have to admit to looking a little like a wild, slightly crazed Scotsman though)
Simon:
russell2587:
didler:
well sed russell had that my self that is if you can get on the bus dont know what it is with drivers they have to congregate round the door rest of bus is just about emptyit’s a pain when your one of the last to get on, the door opens and there’s 2 or 3 on the steps and they just look at you
Not when you look like me. I just growl a bit and its like the parting of the Red Sea
Simon, “slightly crazed Scotsman” UNDERSTATEMENT!!!
rOSS. 
bigr250:
Simon, “slightly crazed Scotsman” UNDERSTATEMENT!!!rOSS.
I left that as it was, just so someone could agree, or not
(Don’t forget to knock your CAP lock off )
Simon:
bigr250:
Simon, “slightly crazed Scotsman” UNDERSTATEMENT!!!rOSS.
I left that as it was, just so someone could agree, or not
(Don’t forget to knock your CAP lock off
tHANKS sIMON, BUT WHAT KIND OF IDIOT WOULDN’T NOTICE THAT THEY’D LEFT THE CAPS LOCK ON??
Ross. 