The latest issue of T&D has a piece about all the driver comforts in todays new and not so new trucks and yes,I do agree where were Iveco? Can I send a message to Iveco ‘it is not the
winning it’s the taking part’ seems the Eyties must have forgotten Mussolini already but I digress.The actual piece was featured last month in the excellent French mag ‘France Routes’
which has in this months issue a tale about the antics of the Lithuanian Mafia,classed as a gangrene in French transport.Robbing drivers,loads etc.etc. with the use of guns.Worrying!
Perhaps T&D would like to repeat in the next issue this particular tale,translated.Course,might be my French is crap and the tale is about a Lithuanian driver who got gangrene
tackling the Mafia but I don’t think so.
The regurgitation of the same Stone Age Gossip that a has been fuelling discrimination since the printing press was invented…
Feel free to sit mithering in your bunk about the pointlessness of it all, meanwhile the rest of us will carry on earning a crust with one eye open while we sleep, just like we’ve always done, even before the Internet told us the World was dead nasty.
BERK,
W
Ah! your Labour credentials are shining through Alex,will assume you are not planning to vote UKIP indeed you might be too busy welcoming the Rumanians and Bulgarians.
I am merely reporting what is featured in our French colleagues monthly transport magazine.You lower yourself using abuse.
Armagedon:
Ah! your Labour credentials are shining through Alex,will assume you are not planning to vote UKIP indeed you might be too busy welcoming the Rumanians and Bulgarians.
I am merely reporting what is featured in our French colleagues monthly transport magazine.You lower yourself using abuse.
I appreciate the direct reply Armagedon but jf you look at at any of my posts I’m probably Conservative with a small ‘c’.
I dread the idea of our Bulgy and Roma colleagues swamping the British Haulage market next year any more than I enjoyed the idea of our Polish friends doing the same a decade ago (doesn’t time fly?)
The only defence we have is to do our job properly and be valued enough for your employer to think better of employing so called ‘cheaper labour’ so it’s up to you, do you want to crack on or do you want to waste your your time spreading (fairly racist) rumours?
W
It isn’t “racist” to suggest that many Bulgarians and Romanians will arrive here as criminal gangs, Alex, it’s just the truth, and playing the “race card” doesn’t alter that…
Even though they haven’t arrived in any number yet, virtually every Big Issue seller you encounter in London is Romanian nowadays. They aren’t homeless, it’s just that selling the Big Issue for 16 hours a week gives them self-employed status and they can then claim a raft of State Benefits. They knew that on the day they decided to up sticks and get on the minibus.
I don’t blame the Bulgarians and Romanians, as I always say “blame the game, not the players”. Common Sense screams that immigration needs to be stopped, not racism. We were full up years ago.
Harry Monk:
It isn’t “racist” to suggest that many Bulgarians and Romanians will arrive here as criminal gangs, Alex, it’s just the truth, and playing the “race card” doesn’t alter that…
Whilst you’re probably correct, or not, it doesn’t matter. WTF has this got to do with T&D reporting or copying a French mags report on Lithuanian Mafia (in relation to trucks) ?
So before anyone else starts …if you start on about EU waffles and this and that and i don’t think its about T&D reporting on the french issue with the Lithuanian mafia i’ll remove the post, or just delete it.
As I understand it, the OP is saying that a French trucker’s magazine has reported that many truck drivers in France are being held up at gunpoint by Lithuanians gangs, and the OP felt that the story would possibly be of interest to Truck & Driver or some other UK transport periodical. I don’t see the OP as anything to get bent out of shape about.
Harry Monk:
As I understand it, the OP is saying that a French trucker’s magazine has reported that many truck drivers in France are being held up at gunpoint by Lithuanians gangs, and the OP felt that the story would possibly be of interest to Truck & Driver or some other UK transport periodical. I don’t see the OP as anything to get bent out of shape about.
I agree with you 100% and i’ve not mentioned anything about the OP. You however appear within about three posts to have gotten to Bulgarians and Romanians appearing here as criminal gangs. I’m just telling you (or anyone else )that thats not a disscusion we’re going to have here.
Well Mike if you have the ear of T&D there is also a comparison test between the Kenworth T2000 and the Peterbilt equivalent in France Routes,both wearing French plates one of
which I have pinged in another place before.Now that translated would interest me greatly and probably others.
Armagedon:
Well Mike if you have the ear of T&D there is also a comparison test between the Kenworth T2000 and the Peterbilt equivalent in France Routes,both wearing French plates one of
which I have pinged in another place before.Now that translated would interest me greatly and probably others.
Two big cabbed trucks with ancient technology. One of their selling points is probably that they have a new and innovative thing thats only just arrived in North America in the last two years called ‘Disc brakes’!! (which is probably an optional extra costing many of thousands more) Rather than translating it, read a back issue of T&D from the early 90s when they’re comparing an ERF EC10 to a Seddon Atkinson something or other and pretend they have big cabs.
Robinhood I can understand your comment but I am not interested in technology I like these cabs for the space they offer when parked up and because the French have the same length
limits as us,these guys are still willing to run US rigs,admirable.I have seen the new Volvo,Mercedes and the cab offered to drivers isn’t really offering much more than we had 30 years ago.
End of a busy day I could go in a hotel or I could like US rigs do take the hotel room with me, Europe might have the technology and don’t get excited about that,went to war with MB for
7 years because of their new technology but the US does have the comfort I want at the end of the day.
The size of the cab does make you forget and forgive all of the many many bad points about driving an American truck. I wouldn’t want to drive this truck in the UK though, even with a short trailer, the length of the cab is probably not much different to a UK rigid and it’d be a pig to manouver. The Volvo does have a much better turning circle though and the big VNL780 is about as good as it gets in North America, epsecially if specced with I-shift and not a crash box out of boudiccas charriot.
The crash box is what French operators complain most about,they can’t find young lads willing or able to operate it so if they own these rigs they end up driving them themselves.But
you have to admit the T2000 does look good on the road .
Armagedon:
The crash box is what French operators complain most about,they can’t find young lads willing or able to operate it so if they own these rigs they end up driving them themselves.But
you have to admit the T2000 does look good on the road .
I’ve never been keen on the looks of the T2000 to be honest. I much prefere the new 680 or 700, whichever it is. The only Kenworth I’ve driven over here was an old 600 ant eater and it was the most hiddeous thing I’ve ever has the misfortune to suffer but it was quite old and batterd by then and I only had to drive it 20 miles down the road to the workshop.
Probably favour the T2000 because of the number on French roads.
Armagedon:
Probably favour the T2000 because of the number on French roads.
How common are American trucks in France now?
robinhood_1984:
Armagedon:
Probably favour the T2000 because of the number on French roads.How common are American trucks in France now?
What’s this got to do with the Lithuanian Mafia? Mike the mod is gonna be angry with you going off topic… 
We are running trucks into France every week and there has been no talk of such gangs , I am in France every week and have not expierenced any such problem and neither have any of my work mates, so I would put this down to scare mongering by the French and the resident Bigot.
