I do concur with you now Franglais and you are right , sorry to jump on your case , so no offence taken.
Tarmaceater:
I do concur with you now Franglais and you are right , sorry to jump on your case , so no offence taken.
Huh.
Dunno if I wanna talk to you now…
Sulk.
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I could and should have phrased it all better. No offence intended to Mr Eater.
MichalStef please Google Paul Stanyard /Matthews International transport, if you have a heart attack in Europe they won’t pay to bring your body back home .
Bear in mind in Europe, you the driver has to pay a court deposit on the road side , if you are stopped in the middle of nowhere, the police do not care , they will take all your vehicle documents and European permit, but never your lorry keys .
By taking the documents means you can not make a run for it and if you did , and later on stopped for a random control checkpoint, you have no legal paperwork to continue the journey or get on a ferry home .
Roadside fines can be up to 20,000 Euros or more for something that is trivial in the UK but you can contest the amount by appearing at court but risk losing the case and pay back court costs and legal defence in a foreign language so you pay for a translator.
Solicitor and lawyer costs to be paid and loss of time off work with travel expenses to to the court , most foreign drivers just pay up in cash on the side of the road even though they know the police have stung them by a phoney and trumped up charge.
For example in Spain, you could be booked for vagrancy by no means to pay a fine , I told a copper in Sunbilla I have no bank card to pay his fine for not having a spare wheel and he did me for vagrancy even though I did have means to pay but didn’t tell him that as I suspected a con .
I wrote to the Spanish Embassy in London and Spain to contest the fine but only received a formal letter to say they acknowledged receipt of my payment.
When I paid him , he went to the bar to buy an alcoholic drink and stood outside laughing at me while showing off to the punters inside.
I once saw a Portuguese driver in tears with a huge wad of cash to pay a fine for his orange markers on the rear of the trailer not being bright enough due to sun fade .
Two double manned drivers in the Basque area done for thousands as their lorry had illuminated sign advertising on top of the cab which was illegal under competition law in the Basque area , it was only the company name lit up .
Wasn’t there more to that story than met the eye at the time Toby? If it was true as reported then shame on them but I’d like to hear both sides before making judgment.
Matthews refused to pay the £17,000 to bring him home and only worried about their load, the driver collecting the truck refused to sleep in it and used hotels .
Tarmaceater:
Matthews refused to pay the £17,000 to bring him home and only worried about their load, the driver collecting the truck refused to sleep in it and used hotels .
Paul (known as Conebelly)was a good friend of mine, spent many weekends at Folkestone when he was on for Transnoli and I was on for Dave Riby.
Stop making things up and taking snippets from google you bullshiner!
There was more to it than you keep posting.
I can’t be arsed to go into the details but I along with some other friends were instrumental in bringing him back to the UK.
Stop bull shining Tarmaceater, you know nothing of the facts, I suggest you keep your thoughts to yourself when all you know of the incident is what you’ve read on the internet!
You’re the bull shiner with your pedantic, boring and predictable comments, if you were on for Riby , explain away how he packed up on 30/11/2006 but you knew Paul Stanyard in 2016 , I bet you have never set foot in the Gatehouse Hull Road Hornsea , have you ?
Tarmaceater:
Bear in mind in Europe, you the driver has to pay a court deposit on the road side , if you are stopped in the middle of nowhere, the police do not care ,
> they will take all your vehicle documents and European permit, but never your lorry keys .By taking the documents means you can not make a run for it and if you did , and later on stopped for a random control checkpoint, you have no legal paperwork to continue the journey or get on a ferry home
I was stopped at the Blanc on a random check some time back (British truck, British company) and they found that my International Permit had expired,
no documents were confiscated, I was told to park up there and that they would keep a check through the night to ensure that I didn’t leave,
I’m sure that if I had “made a run for it” as you say, there would have been Gendarmes waiting at peages, along the route, back up to the northern coast,
and then the next day, after a few phone calls to my company, I was duly escorted to a bank in Chamonix to retrieve a bankers draft, to pay the fine,
along with a faxed NEW IP.Roadside fines can be up to 20,000 Euros or more for something that is trivial in the UK
where did you pick this amount from? you wont get that for something “TRIVIAL”
but you can contest the amount by appearing at court but risk losing the case and pay back court costs and legal defence in a foreign language so you pay for a translator.
Solicitor and lawyer costs to be paid and loss of time off work with travel expenses to to the court , most foreign drivers just pay up in cash on the side of the road even though they know the police have stung them by a phoney and trumped up charge.For example in Spain, you could be booked for vagrancy by no means to pay a fine , I told a copper in Sunbilla I have no bank card to pay his fine for not having a spare wheel and he did me for vagrancy even though I did have means to pay but didn’t tell him that as I suspected a con .
I wrote to the Spanish Embassy in London and Spain
Why would Spain have an embassy in their own country ■■
to contest the fine but only received a formal letter to say they acknowledged receipt of my payment.
When I paid him , he went to the bar to buy an alcoholic drink and stood outside laughing at me while showing off to the punters inside.
I once saw a Portuguese driver in tears with a huge wad of cash to pay a fine for his orange markers on the rear of the trailer not being bright enough due to sun fade .
Two double manned drivers in the Basque area done for thousands as their lorry had illuminated sign advertising on top of the cab which was illegal under competition law in the Basque area , it was only the company name lit up .
You do come up with some total utter carp ffs
Cant be arsed to go through all of the above BS, but just highlighted a few 
Tarmaceater:
You’re the bull shiner with your pedantic, boring and predictable comments, if you were on for Riby , explain away how he packed up on 30/11/2006 but you knew Paul Stanyard in 2016 , I bet you have never set foot in the Gatehouse Hull Road Hornsea , have you ?
I’m going to make an exception in this case as you’re obviously not very bright and the forums biggest fantasist.
Yes Dave Riby sold European Road Freight as we were then known to Dominic Yeardley who later renamed it to Eurovision Logistics which still trades to this day.
I along with others decided to move on because we didn’t want to work for Yeardley, not long after that Conebelly left Transnoli and went to Mathews along with quite a few ex Riby drivers.
Just because we changed jobs didn’t mean we didn’t stay friends and in touch!
The reason the unit and trailer that was parked at the services just north of Ancona where Paul was having a 45 min break before going for the ferry had to be collected as soon as was possible was because of the contents of the trailer, the press were not informed of this for obvious reasons.
Let’s face it the only press that reported on it were the tabloids, never let the facts get in the way of a story do they?
Mathews insurance only covered repatriation in the event of an accident or death whilst on duty, the fact that Paul died whilst on a break gave the insurance a get out and Trevor Mathews offered to contribute a large sum towards repatriation, IMO he should’ve offered the entire sum but didn’t hence the stories and outrage in the tabloids and social media.
As stated earlier Conebelly was a good friend for many years and in his memory I need to put the record straight so as fantasists like Tarmaceater that scour the internet and post inaccuracies about a subject they have absolutely no idea about.
Thanks for your reply Pierrot , what I meant was the Spanish Embassy in London and the UK Embassy in Spain where I wrote to them both .
That will teach me to drink a bottle of wine and post mistakes highlighted.
I encountered Spanish and Portuguese drivers who did pay 20,000 Euro fines to the Basque police, as each authority area interpreted their own breakdown of fines as the Basque used to be seen a soft touch to get away with anything, so they clamped down hard afterwards.
The trivial part is something the DVSA may fine a driver a small amount or even allow you to continue the journey, compared to being stopped in the Basque area or the Catalan area and may not see it in the same way .
Years ago in the red cap area, they had a purge on illuminated advertising of the company name at the top of the cab in the front , the bar called Alaska not far from Miguel’s was where drivers were waiting for the bank wire transfer to pay up .
As you may recall the Spanish vagrancy act and means to support yourself as I found out for myself on that one and it backfired.
For taking of documents, they couldn’t have trusted me in case I ran off without paying.
Tarmaceater:
I would suggest contacting all the rock and roll hauliers such as Stage Truck , Brian Yeardley ( Featherstone Wakefield) , Fly by Nite, Trans Am as they are not doing live music and festivals at the moment and are on general haulage to supermarkets or on containers.When the concert industry kicks off , they have trusted you working in the UK and will send you on a world tour of six months away .
Then there’s the motorsport industry of rallies, motorcycling and Formula 1 and racing tyres .
International horse trials and race horse firms go all over Europe.Relocation may be option for firms around the Dover area such as Alcaline , Mike Beer or flying out to Hungary to join Waberers , they go everywhere from Turkey to Russia.
A WORLD TOUR, DONT BE A MUPPET ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF EUROPE, RUSSIA OR THE UKRAINE WILL BE FLOWN ON ITS CARNET NOT DRIVEN BY A TOUR COMPANY STOP TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING YOU HAVE NO EXPERIENCE OF
Tarmaceater:
Drivers earn extra money by clicking by counting how many punters are coming in ,or help out with setting up rigging and light/ sound equipment.
Most tours are driving at night or you fly out to country to drive to a few venues and fly back again with expenses all paid.
For a big tour , like the U2 or Madonna world tour there would three leap frog or relay logistics to sort out, one convoy goes ahead to set up , then continue to next venue .
The other lot are dismantling the last gig .
Oh dear once again talking out of your ■■■
there is something called tour buses which transport the crew said crew are lampies techs riggers etc, funnily enough they set up their equipment not the bloody drivers
I shouldn’t really be telling you this as it will only fuel your imagination to post more on something you know nothing about
robthedog:
Tarmaceater:
Drivers earn extra money by clicking by counting how many punters are coming in ,or help out with setting up rigging and light/ sound equipment.
Most tours are driving at night or you fly out to country to drive to a few venues and fly back again with expenses all paid.
For a big tour , like the U2 or Madonna world tour there would three leap frog or relay logistics to sort out, one convoy goes ahead to set up , then continue to next venue .
The other lot are dismantling the last gig .Oh dear once again talking out of your ■■■
there is something called tour buses which transport the crew said crew are lampies techs riggers etc, funnily enough they set up their equipment not the bloody drivers
I shouldn’t really be telling you this as it will only fuel your imagination to post more on something you know nothing about
Don’t be giving him ideas, he’ll be claiming to be Ollie Kite’s best friend.
Wait while he starts googling!
Tarmaceater:
Drivers earn extra money by clicking by counting how many punters are coming in ,or help out with setting up rigging and light/ sound equipment.
Most tours are driving at night or you fly out to country to drive to a few venues and fly back again with expenses all paid.
For a big tour , like the U2 or Madonna world tour there would three leap frog or relay logistics to sort out, one convoy goes ahead to set up , then continue to next venue .
The other lot are dismantling the last gig .
What a load of old rubbish . Almost all of this is incorrect !!!
robthedog:
Tarmaceater:
I would suggest contacting all the rock and roll hauliers such as Stage Truck , Brian Yeardley ( Featherstone Wakefield) , Fly by Nite, Trans Am as they are not doing live music and festivals at the moment and are on general haulage to supermarkets or on containers.When the concert industry kicks off , they have trusted you working in the UK and will send you on a world tour of six months away .
Then there’s the motorsport industry of rallies, motorcycling and Formula 1 and racing tyres .
International horse trials and race horse firms go all over Europe.Relocation may be option for firms around the Dover area such as Alcaline , Mike Beer or flying out to Hungary to join Waberers , they go everywhere from Turkey to Russia.
A WORLD TOUR, DONT BE A MUPPET ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF EUROPE, RUSSIA OR THE UKRAINE WILL BE FLOWN ON ITS CARNET NOT DRIVEN BY A TOUR COMPANY STOP TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING YOU HAVE NO EXPERIENCE OF
One from worst euro job-all this Formula,cirkque and more.There 1-2 day drive,aftef 5-7 day stay in one place and wait.Was do cirque du soleil.Horrible driving job,no form me.One day drive ,6 day wait.