sammym:
Well I have my start on euro work after my holiday… Going on the continent. In a Luton van.
You will all laugh and take the micheal. Which is okay - but I really fancy giving it a go and it’s probably a more gentle introduction that taking an artic over with very little experience. After I’ve done that once or twice I’d be able to know what I was doing a bit more and go up to something bigger.
I hope we’ll be getting a photo diary of your first trip, they seem to be in short supply these days and don’t worry about it being a van, we’ve had diaries of all sort of vehicles of all shapes and sizes and I was drving anything from artics to a Discovery and trailer abroad last year so who am I to comment.
albion:
C’Mon reef, this is a van, he’ll be tipped Lyons and back in less than 48 hours…
This^^^^ I used to do Zona Franca in Barcelona and back same day. Well, it was nearer 40 hours but as I only stopped for fuel and to tip it bloody well felt like the same day
dieseldog999:
theres no steeper learning curve than having lied through your teeth to get the job,coming down the ramp off the boat with your bumhole twitching like a rabbits nose muttering,oh god,oh god,oh god,oh god,where do i go,what do i do,wheres the guy in front going,what the hell is that guy waving for,remember and keep my elbow to the kerb,and dont drive in the fast lane,oh god,oh god oh god,no,no,no no,
then 30 mins later at the 1st peage theres the,oh christ,the slot is on the wrong side,and theyre all hooting behind me,then…after another 30 mins,its …this driving abroad is a doddle…that lasts until the first exit,round the roundabout,and right up to the 1st staggered crossroads,then refer to the start of this post again.
all goes well till your coming back into the uk a week or 2 later,then you write yourself off at the roundabout coming out of dover
that’s one of the funniest - and accurate - things I’ve read on here diesel - applies to us mere van and puddlejumper drivers
Even though the people who sent me on my first abroad knew about my lack of experience, I could still relate to much of that, coming up the first slip road out of Calais was a surreal experience, felt really wrong.
dieseldog999:
theres no steeper learning curve than having lied through your teeth to get the job,coming down the ramp off the boat with your bumhole twitching like a rabbits nose muttering,oh god,oh god,oh god,oh god,where do i go,what do i do,wheres the guy in front going,what the hell is that guy waving for,remember and keep my elbow to the kerb,and dont drive in the fast lane,oh god,oh god oh god,no,no,no no,
then 30 mins later at the 1st peage theres the,oh christ,the slot is on the wrong side,and theyre all hooting behind me,then…after another 30 mins,its …this driving abroad is a doddle…that lasts until the first exit,round the roundabout,and right up to the 1st staggered crossroads,then refer to the start of this post again.
all goes well till your coming back into the uk a week or 2 later,then you write yourself off at the roundabout coming out of dover
that’s one of the funniest - and accurate - things I’ve read on here diesel - applies to us mere van and puddlejumper drivers
Applies to every single one of us, whatever we were driving on that first day ower the wata
There’s no way in hell I’d have the nerve to tell my Missus “I’m off to do Euro luv, see you in a couple o’ three weeks for a day and a half maybe even a full weekend if we’re lucky” [emoji38]
Ahh but if I was single… stares wistfully off into the horizon
C’Mon reef, this is a van, he’ll be tipped Lyons and back in less than 48 hours…
True, but I wasn’t suggesting Sammy would be away that long, I was projecting how my scenario would pan out especially considering that S&K are pretty much my only ‘local’ option.
dieseldog999:
theres no steeper learning curve than having lied through your teeth to get the job,coming down the ramp off the boat with your bumhole twitching like a rabbits nose muttering,oh god,oh god,oh god,oh god,where do i go,what do i do,wheres the guy in front going,what the hell is that guy waving for,remember and keep my elbow to the kerb,and dont drive in the fast lane,oh god,oh god oh god,no,no,no no,
then 30 mins later at the 1st peage theres the,oh christ,the slot is on the wrong side,and theyre all hooting behind me,then…after another 30 mins,its …this driving abroad is a doddle…that lasts until the first exit,round the roundabout,and right up to the 1st staggered crossroads,then refer to the start of this post again.
all goes well till your coming back into the uk a week or 2 later,then you write yourself off at the roundabout coming out of dover
that’s one of the funniest - and accurate - things I’ve read on here diesel - applies to us mere van and puddlejumper drivers
Applies to every single one of us, whatever we were driving on that first day ower the wata
O yes remember it well, getting of the ferry at Calais, it’s pitch black, leaving the port, heading round the long sweeping bend, WHAT dam exit do I need, then seeing the sign A26 St Omer paege, nearly hitting the blast walls, then un-clench buttocks, relax, till it’s time to find the little village in the morning… and sleep, were do I park,
- applies to us mere van and puddlejumper drivers 
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