billybigrig:
Posted via free wifi from my comfy bed in my lovely cabin (not shared) somewhere between Killingholme and Hoek
So was I
Just coming into Poole on the cotentin ! Very relaxed after a nice overnight crossing in my own cabin. It’s not the overnight crossings that are a problem it’s ■■■■■■ Portsmouth/Caen with their tiny overcrowded cabins.
turnip:
Just coming into Poole on the cotentin ! Very relaxed after a nice overnight crossing in my own cabin. It’s not the overnight crossings that are a problem it’s [zb] Portsmouth/Caen with their tiny overcrowded cabins.
Yes your right I used poole a few weeks ago, a freighter from Cherbourg that was ok.My own cabin.
have they burned the coutances yet?
Spacemonkeypg:
have they burned the coutances yet?
Hopefully so, along with the Purbeck.
Simon:
billybigrig:
Posted via free wifi from my comfy bed in my lovely cabin (not shared) somewhere between Killingholme and HoekSo was I
Well I did wave
billybigrig:
Simon:
billybigrig:
Posted via free wifi from my comfy bed in my lovely cabin (not shared) somewhere between Killingholme and HoekSo was I
Well I’m so easy to recognise that lots of people wave.
I see and chat to people all the time, then don’t see them for 6 months or more, by which time my memory has cleared itself. They remember my beard, so think I’ll remember them. Ha, fat chance, my memory has never been great. The older I get, the worse my memory gets, I frequently can’t remember where I went last week. Trips are frequently fairly similar, so they just blur into each other.
(If I have to, I can work out where I went, I’m not totally doolally, yet )
Come over next time n introduce yourself (re-introduce yourself) as billybigrig. Unless of course I’ve chatted with you before and once was enough. I hope not, I wouldn’t want to be another Toby 
Simon:
Come over next time n introduce yourself (re-introduce yourself) as billybigrig. Unless of course I’ve chatted with you before and once was enough. I hope not, I wouldn’t want to be another Toby
You know, I would of done Simon but I was going the opposite way and didn’t fancy the swim Hence the boat to boat wave
Simon,the films on the ferries are not too bad,some crossings i am too tired to up the stairs,so i stay in the cab,i can not be doing sharing a cabin with strangers,and wake up to see my £1200 weeks running money gone. 
does anybody still stay in the trucks on overnight crossings or any crossings. 
I do all the time,you get more sleep,wake up fresh,but do not let the boss on the loading deck see you,the loading marshalls do not bother,they have seen me climb in the bunk but turn a blind eye,i use the split curtain,and keep my clothes on in case of a fire,it is not safe as they do not know you are down in the dungeon.
If a load leaked gas or fumes,you could be in trouble,or if the ship,sank,the doors would be shut,no way out.
I have to admit to doing this once or twice ! Be careful though as getting caught will result in a ban from that particular company.
turnip:
I have to admit to doing this once or twice ! Be careful though as getting caught will result in a ban from that particular company.
can’t wait to ship LD line now 
Jump in bunk before they see you.
jessicas dad:
does anybody still stay in the trucks on overnight crossings or any crossings.
I’ve seen a few Poles and Bulgarians stumble out of their pits on the Dover/Calais ferries as I get back in to my truck while they were parked along side me, etc.
I used to sail from Immingham to Cuxhaven quite regularly on the DFDS freighter and they once tried to make me and two very unhygenic Polish drivers share a cabin, when there were four empty cabins in total. When I picked up my bag and announced that I’d be sleeping in my cab out on the weather deck they soon backed down and issued me with the keys for one of the spare cabins. They always tried it on on those boats so they had less cleaning to do afterwards.
I would never sleep in my truck down on an internal deck though. In the event of a power failure, you’d be buggered trying to find your way in the dark to an escape route between trailers and other obstacles.
I always used to stay in the truck on seafrance crossings during the night, but then so did most drivers.
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Wait untill all the crew have left the loading decks,they do not stay down there long,then get on the bunk.
Mate of mine jumped into his bunk in zeebrugge one night on the spirit of free enterprise. He unfortunately lost his life. Not the best advice to sleep on your bunk in a ferry
And nobody would know you are down there,no way out in an emergency too.
reagle ill do it:
Mate of mine jumped into his bunk in zeebrugge one night on the spirit of free enterprise. He unfortunately lost his life. Not the best advice to sleep on your bunk in a ferry
Yes, there were some drivers killed on the sister ship too, the Herald of Free Enterprise.
How do you know your mate stayed in his cab?