Demand for Euro work

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS EURO DRIVING FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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Forgive the newbie question :slight_smile:

Been reading on here and was wondering apart from fridge work is there much demand for EU work now ? For example what sort of products would haulage companies take all the way from northern England down to say France / Spain. Is there back loads available too - car parts back to the UK perhaps.

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dentonkarl:
Forgive the newbie question :slight_smile:

Been reading on here and was wondering apart from fridge work is there much demand for EU work now ? For example what sort of products would haulage companies take all the way from northern England down to say France / Spain. Is there back loads available too - car parts back to the UK perhaps.

As an example we send juice and smoothies abroad and import cheese and yogurts back.
Edit that sorry you said except fridge work :blush:

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There is a huge demand for absolutely everything you could possibly imagine. I’m in Canada now but the same is true of North America. Sometimes for example I’ll take a load of paper reels from New Brunswick or Nova Scotia here in Canada 2500 or so km south to Georgia and then reload paper reels again, from a different multi-national paper company that will come right back to Canada. I once loaded wood shavings in bales in British Columbia that went 3 days drive south to Texas. You’d think they could get wood shavings nearer, which they could apparently but for more money and they say the Canadian stuff has no dust in it and was of much better quality for their needs (show pig farm). Same in Europe, I once loaded books in Germany, printed in English that were a BBC production that accompanied a documentary series on at the time and took them to Liverpool. There is a huge amount of criss crossing that goes on, both within the UK and across Europe and even globally and its brilliant because it keeps us all in work.

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I’ve taken forklifts, forklift parts, generators, water pumps, soil graders, and a whole lot of other machinery to every EU country.
I’ve reloaded with the same stuff that i’ve taken out there, But also brought back magazines, tiles, marble, screws, the list is endless and the demand is huge.
Some firms can lose a heap of money by waiting several days for a product from down the road, but if a foreign firm has the product ready there and then, then they’ll buy it.

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We bring a lot of paper back from Bordeaux and tinned veg from other areas of France. In curtainsiders.

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Is that ‘You’ magazine job still going from Lille ? It used to be either LKW Walter or Curries who subbed it out.Looked like a ‘flying load’,but very slippy glossy paper.

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As a manufacturer in the UK we are sending on average 8/10 trucks to Europe every day. It’s probably split 50/50 between us arranging the freight and customers collecting. The farthest we ship to is Azerbaijan, but regular to all parts Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Benelux, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Austria,Baltic’s , Russia, extremely busy but as we deal with packaging for food and drink,most of you would have used some of the products this week in the UK or Europe, so keep on drinking tea and coffee or those small pots of mushy peas!!!
Have a good weekend all
Crispie :smiley: :slight_smile:

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crispie:
As a manufacturer in the UK we are sending on average 8/10 trucks to Europe every day. It’s probably split 50/50 between us arranging the freight and customers collecting. The farthest we ship to is Azerbaijan, but regular to all parts Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Benelux, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Austria,Baltic’s , Russia, extremely busy but as we deal with packaging for food and drink,most of you would have used some of the products this week in the UK or Europe, so keep on drinking tea and coffee or those small pots of mushy peas!!!
Have a good weekend all
Crispie :smiley: :slight_smile:

Out of all those trucks working for you or your customers , how many are Brits ? Just curious.

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Liquid food in tanks are~chocolate, glucose syrups,malt,milk,cream,cartel,wine,beer,glycerine,sunflower ■■■■ palm and soy oils all go to and from europe very regular by sitra. abbey .h&s hfs steinkhuler .wemmers .dekkers .van den bosch .fritton bridon. norberts too many products&hauliers to mention doin uk-europe-uk

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We take coal all over Europe. Linseed is another regular load. I took roast barley out to Stella artois in leuven last week.
When I was on stobarts walking floors we were doing waste paper out to Gent. Woodchip goes out by the hundreds of tonnes every week. The list is endless to be honest.

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crispie:
As a manufacturer in the UK we are sending on average 8/10 trucks to Europe every day. It’s probably split 50/50 between us arranging the freight and customers collecting. The farthest we ship to is Azerbaijan, but regular to all parts Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Benelux, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Austria,Baltic’s , Russia, extremely busy but as we deal with packaging for food and drink,most of you would have used some of the products this week in the UK or Europe, so keep on drinking tea and coffee or those small pots of mushy peas!!!
Have a good weekend all
Crispie :smiley: :slight_smile:

would they be UK hauliers or our friends from Eastern Europe?

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routier:
would they be UK hauliers or our friends from Eastern Europe?

Sadly I think we all know the answer to that but it’s better not to say anything otherwise “You is racist, innit” :wink:

Where were the RHA and the FTA when we needed them?

Too busy troughing banquets at Mansion House with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown to represent the UK transport industry…

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Why all the negative answers.
As I don’t always work from the factory I have checked with our distribution team and have the following for you all you doom mongers on here.
All UK deliveries are by a local company with a very good reputation and we also use companies from Scotland & Ireland for shipments to those parts of the UK.
For europe it is broken down as follows

  1. Scandinavia is 90% containers out of Immingham to Sweden, Norway, Finland via UK shipping agents and UK transport
  2. Russia,Azerbijan, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovenia, Romania, Croatia all are Ex Works so yes most would be hauled by Eastern European companies
  3. Swiss, Italy, Spain, Greece again all are Ex Works usually by the nationals going home although I did see a BG registered truck from Arcesse to ship to Italy last week
  4. Malta, Cyprus, Middle East by containers agIn Ex Works.
  5. For the rest of the EU, F, D, NL, A, DK, B, these are DAP and we use UK freight companies for this-and the split is 60/40 in favour of UK trucks this is usually due to the loading programme whereby we load for these destinations Thursday Friday for delivery the following week if we have shipments leaving Tuesday Wednesday then generally it would be the nationals going home the same as for the UK guys reloading back to the UK mid week to return home.
    Whenever we can we will use UK companies, but like all companies whether in transport or manufacturing we all have to look at costs, but also service is paramount in our business it is no good saving £100 if it takes longer to deliver.
    So yes sometimes we have to use " Eastern European" but we have to for operational reasons.
    Apologies for the length of the message
    :neutral_face: :smiley: :frowning:
    Crispie
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Why all the negative answers.
As I don’t always work from the factory I have checked with our distribution team and have the following for you all you doom mongers on here.
All UK deliveries are by a local company with a very good reputation and we also use companies from Scotland & Ireland for shipments to those parts of the UK.
For europe it is broken down as follows

  1. Scandinavia is 90% containers out of Immingham to Sweden, Norway, Finland via UK shipping agents and UK transport
  2. Russia,Azerbijan, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovenia, Romania, Croatia all are Ex Works so yes most would be hauled by Eastern European companies
  3. Swiss, Italy, Spain, Greece again all are Ex Works usually by the nationals going home although I did see a BG registered truck from Arcesse to ship to Italy last week
  4. Malta, Cyprus, Middle East by containers agIn Ex Works.
  5. For the rest of the EU, F, D, NL, A, DK, B, these are DAP and we use UK freight companies for this-and the split is 60/40 in favour of UK trucks this is usually due to the loading programme whereby we load for these destinations Thursday Friday for delivery the following week if we have shipments leaving Tuesday Wednesday then generally it would be the nationals going home the same as for the UK guys reloading back to the UK mid week to return home.
    Whenever we can we will use UK companies, but like all companies whether in transport or manufacturing we all have to look at costs, but also service is paramount in our business it is no good saving £100 if it takes longer to deliver.
    So yes sometimes we have to use " Eastern European" but we have to for operational reasons.
    Apologies for the length of the message
    :neutral_face: :smiley: :frowning:
    Crispie
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We run regular into Italy with Yogurts , collect Juice back , meat into France , trays into Spain now and again when the Producers will pay us more then the Spanish with lettuce back which isnt very often , Yogurts into Holland , Germany and bakery products back . Keeps us busy and overflow is subbed out to British and German Owner Drivers of good repute :sunglasses:

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Big demand for British Meat. Keeps my company very busy to the following country’s

Norway
Denmark.
France.
Belgium.
Holland.
Italy.
Spain.
Portugal.
Germany.
Austria.
Switzerland.

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WhiteWhiteWhite:
Big demand for British Meat. Keeps my company very busy to the following country’s

Norway
Denmark.
France.
Belgium.
Holland.
Italy.
Spain.
Portugal.
Germany.
Austria.
Switzerland.

Hopefully transported in fridge trailers ? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Suedehead:

WhiteWhiteWhite:
Big demand for British Meat. Keeps my company very busy to the following country’s

Norway
Denmark.
France.
Belgium.
Holland.
Italy.
Spain.
Portugal.
Germany.
Austria.
Switzerland.

Hopefully transported in fridge trailers ? :stuck_out_tongue:

Most of the time… :smiley:

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Suedehead:

WhiteWhiteWhite:
Big demand for British Meat. Keeps my company very busy to the following country’s

Norway
Denmark.
France.
Belgium.
Holland.
Italy.
Spain.
Portugal.
Germany.
Austria.
Switzerland.

Hopefully transported in fridge trailers ? :stuck_out_tongue:

Flats. :laughing:

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limeyphil:

Suedehead:

WhiteWhiteWhite:
Big demand for British Meat. Keeps my company very busy to the following country’s

Norway
Denmark.
France.
Belgium.
Holland.
Italy.
Spain.
Portugal.
Germany.
Austria.
Switzerland.

Hopefully transported in fridge trailers ? :stuck_out_tongue:

Flats. :laughing:

hanging beef and lambs don’t work too well on flats Limeyphil :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: