Saw a Romanian truck parked for the night on the A303 tonight, nothing unusual, but then I started to think…
What do they make in Romania that we need in the South West?
Any ideas? coz I aint got a clue
i doubt very much he’s brought anything to the UK from romania.
Exactly that. He will have loaded in Italy, Spain, Germany etc and when he has tipped he will load in the UK for one of those places, he will spend several months at a time trundling around western Europe, possibly up to a year, without ever going anywhere near Romania.
I don’t blame him for doing it, he’ll probably be earning three times as much as a Romanian doctor but what the hell were the RHA thinking of in standing blindly by as the British international transport industry was destroyed?
There’s no connection where a truck is based in the EU and where it operates.There are only limits on cabotage operations not inter EU state tramping ones.
SWEDISH BLUE:
Saw a Romanian truck parked for the night on the A303 tonight, nothing unusual, but then I started to think…What do they make in Romania that we need in the South West?
Any ideas? coz I aint got a clue
Agricutural workers 
Hi all.I have loaded such diverse things in Romania as honey,furniture,shoes and fridges.It’s all made under license by big companies due to cheaper labour costs.This applies to most of EE countries.
Harry Monk:
Exactly that. He will have loaded in Italy, Spain, Germany etc and when he has tipped he will load in the UK for one of those places, he will spend several months at a time trundling around western Europe, possibly up to a year, without ever going anywhere near Romania.
I see the mmtm institute of statistics is working overtime again… actually there probably is a lot of stuff that the uk imports from romania, much less going the other way but still, not every eastern truck you see is working in the west for months on end. many are still running back and forth to their homecountry, as some people don’t like living in their trucks, whatever the money.
milodon:
I see the mmtm institute of statistics is working overtime again…
Why don’t you research what percentage of trucks travelling through Dover in 2003 were British registered, and then compare it to what percentage of trucks travelling through Dover in 2013 were British registered? All there to find in Commercial Motor.
One of us is hallucinating, but I think you’ll find it isn’t me. 
Harry Monk:
Exactly that. He will have loaded in Italy, Spain, Germany etc and when he has tipped he will load in the UK for one of those places, he will spend several months at a time trundling around western Europe, possibly up to a year, without ever going anywhere near Romania.I don’t blame him for doing it, he’ll probably be earning three times as much as a Romanian doctor but what the hell were the RHA thinking of in standing blindly by as the British international transport industry was destroyed?
The RHA didn’t have much choice anyway with us being an EU member and the Americans obviously calling the shots in pushing for EU enlargement in an attempt to do what Hitler couldn’t by trying to invade,or at least surround,Russia a bit at a time.It’s just that Obama hasn’t quite got just how far it is from Warsaw to Vladivostok yet and then threw his toys out the pram when Putin decided to stop him at Ukraine. 
I see lots of old British right hand drive trucks with foreign number plates on and by the looks a foreign driver, and I doubt they ever leave these shores.
milodon:
Harry Monk:
Exactly that. He will have loaded in Italy, Spain, Germany etc and when he has tipped he will load in the UK for one of those places, he will spend several months at a time trundling around western Europe, possibly up to a year, without ever going anywhere near Romania.I see the mmtm institute of statistics is working overtime again… actually there probably is a lot of stuff that the uk imports from romania, much less going the other way but still, not every eastern truck you see is working in the west for months on end. many are still running back and forth to their homecountry, as some people don’t like living in their trucks, whatever the money.
It’s probably a safe bet to say that it’s more a case of the cheapest east Euro operations being used to carry out west European haulage operations in addition to East-West traffic from manufacturing operations that have been transferred to to the east.While any West-East traffic is all goods that we’re effectively giving away as a form of EU subsidies to keep the east Euros on side so the Americans can keep moving NATO eastwards into Russia’s back yard.
I love how everyone is mentioning RHD wagons on foreign plates, but nobody bothers about all the British registered left hookers. We may have a problem with the amount of Taliban as I refer them as undercutting sub contractors rates. Then big companies wonder why subbies are a dying breed, baffles me how short sighted some people are. Then again, I’m sure that there are some British firms out there running European runs on terrible rates so we’re probably just as bad.
Romania make and export furniture and car parts as well as the Dacia Duster.
Harry Monk:
milodon:
I see the mmtm institute of statistics is working overtime again…Why don’t you research what percentage of trucks travelling through Dover in 2003 were British registered, and then compare it to what percentage of trucks travelling through Dover in 2013 were British registered? All there to find in Commercial Motor.
One of us is hallucinating, but I think you’ll find it isn’t me.
so there were x amount of british trucks going through dover then and y amount going now. how does that prove that all the romanian trucks in britain are continuously working in western europe and never going home?
SWEDISH BLUE:
Saw a Romanian truck parked for the night on the A303 tonight, nothing unusual, but then I started to think…What do they make in Romania that we need in the South West?
Any ideas? coz I aint got a clue
Probably quite a bit.
milodon:
Harry Monk:
milodon:
I see the mmtm institute of statistics is working overtime again…Why don’t you research what percentage of trucks travelling through Dover in 2003 were British registered, and then compare it to what percentage of trucks travelling through Dover in 2013 were British registered? All there to find in Commercial Motor.
One of us is hallucinating, but I think you’ll find it isn’t me.
so there were x amount of british trucks going through dover then and y amount going now. how does that prove that all the romanian trucks in britain are continuously working in western europe and never going home?
It doesn’t make much difference where a UK freight journey originates from or where it’s destined to.What matters is that there’s a massive proportional disparity in the amounts of east euro trucks carrying out those journeys as opposed to uk reg ones.It’s equally obvious that a large proportion of those freight journeys will involve imports from/exports to western european countries being hauled by east euro tramping operations.As I’ve said all being part of the US driven scam to get eastern europe onside with NATO thereby provoking Russia just as Farage says.
alamcculloch:
as well as the Dacia Duster.
and Sandero too.
Used to load hanging garments in ROM for UK . DTS.
Has anyone seen the trucks from Malta and Cyprus.?In the UK.A rare sight but makes you look.
Malta trucks mainly attrans been coming over here for years they used to have a lot to do with rh. malta not that far a ferry from genoa will take you there at least it used to