my company are trying a new run next week from bedford to cologne and back to bedford double maned do you think its posible to do it in 1 double maned drive i think its riht on the limit of what can be done
forgot to say it leeves at 5pm each day
The boat to Aachenerland services is 4 hours 10, give it another hour into Koln for messing around in the city, traffic etc, I’d guess at 3 hours or so from Bedford to Dover / Ramsgate, so on paper it’s doable.
Ship into Dunkirk or Ostende and you’ve got a bit of extra leeway
Try it and see would be my answer.
leaving at 5pm, you’ll easy get there on a ten hour drive.
The trouble you’ve got is the return journey in the German traffic.
I can’t see why they want to double man it. Two drivers one load dosn’t make much sense, When you can pay one driver to do each load.
limeyphil:
leaving at 5pm, you’ll easy get there on a ten hour drive.
The trouble you’ve got is the return journey in the German traffic.
I can’t see why they want to double man it. Two drivers one load dosn’t make much sense, When you can pay one driver to do each load.
I’d guess it’s to be a fast turn-around and straight back job. No 9 hour rest.
Simon:
limeyphil:
leaving at 5pm, you’ll easy get there on a ten hour drive.
The trouble you’ve got is the return journey in the German traffic.
I can’t see why they want to double man it. Two drivers one load dosn’t make much sense, When you can pay one driver to do each load.I’d guess it’s to be a fast turn-around and straight back job. No 9 hour rest.
I know what you mean, But there’s two things that don’t add up when working out whether to double man a lorry.
- Each load goes at 5pm each day. That dosn’t suggest time crytical. Time crytical goes when it’s ready.
- A load each day? That again dosn’t suggest time crytical.
It looks more like pen pushers trying to figure things out that will go completely wrong, Then blame the drivers.
Just because a load has a regular departure time doesn’t mean it isn’t time critical. Could be mail or parcels or something whereby the return leg is time critical
And you have to get on with the other driver, i have known husband and wife to teams to get divorced, sharing a cab is enough to drive anyone mad, smelly socks, flatulence, is she or he a smoker, or swears every word, a bible basher converting you on the way down. 
That explains why Murfitts drivers were always scrapping with each other in Bourg and Macon 
The habits of some drivers would seem trivial the first day, but weeks on end with the same driver then the fights start.Nose picking and flicking bogies to cutting their finger and toe nails on your bunk, spilling tea/sugar and coffee all over the cab, to a smoker.
Derf:
That explains why Murfitts drivers were always scrapping with each other in Bourg and Macon
Never saw any all the time I worked there neither before or after.
But then if we’re honest then there’s a very high probability that you didn’t either 
If everybody who said they were there and saw it actually did then the place would have been overflowing and trucks lining up back to Dijon to get in.
I’d guess the myth (and I accept not solely Murfitts) is not without a grain of substance.
It seemed the Brits in general that stopped at Bourg and Macon had a bit of a reputation. My mate and I used to double man ourselves, so we only popped in there to grab some chow and to swap over, that said there was always noisy beered up British drivers there. Both Bourg and Macon were pretty chocka with Murfitts motors every time I stopped there as well to be honest. Whether they were always scrapping though is open to debate. It’s an easy (and possibly unfair) conclusion to draw that if you see mainly Murfitts motors parked up and leary Brits in the bar, you’re going to get a negative perception.
I used to bump into a couple of Murfitts double man teams quite regularly when I was doing Italy - one of them were husband & wife, they were all pretty nice people and we used to have a laugh on the CB. Happy days indeed.
skids:
Derf:
That explains why Murfitts drivers were always scrapping with each other in Bourg and Macon
quote … ‘Never saw any all the time I worked there neither before or after’.
Nor me, I only saw one argument and that was over as quick as it started between two of their foreign drivers but as I could not understand what they were saying it may not have been an argument at all but a lot of hand waving.
Violence between Murfitts drivers was a fallacy I think but even then everyone had heard of it but no one had witnessed it first hand.
Derf:
The boat to Aachenerland services is 4 hours 10, give it another hour into Koln for messing around in the city, traffic etc, I’d guess at 3 hours or so from Bedford to Dover / Ramsgate, so on paper it’s doable.Ship into Dunkirk or Ostende and you’ve got a bit of extra leeway
From the boat is that via Brussels, antwerp or mons- liege? …
Brussels/Antwerp same distance mons longer…
jimboy124:
Derf:
The boat to Aachenerland services is 4 hours 10, give it another hour into Koln for messing around in the city, traffic etc, I’d guess at 3 hours or so from Bedford to Dover / Ramsgate, so on paper it’s doable.Ship into Dunkirk or Ostende and you’ve got a bit of extra leeway
From the boat is that via Brussels, antwerp or mons- liege? …
Propstier Wald bitte! 
Wheel Nut:
jimboy124:
Derf:
The boat to Aachenerland services is 4 hours 10, give it another hour into Koln for messing around in the city, traffic etc, I’d guess at 3 hours or so from Bedford to Dover / Ramsgate, so on paper it’s doable.Ship into Dunkirk or Ostende and you’ve got a bit of extra leeway
From the boat is that via Brussels, antwerp or mons- liege? …
Propstier Wald bitte!
You are showing your age there mate :lol: