As we all know the foreign lads cook up out of their trailer box kitchens, gas cookers, and fitted side fridges, for some reason this has never been popular with the Uk/Irish lads who prefer to cook in the cab, making it smell bad-odours.
If a manufacturer made and sold a trailer kitchen, would you buy one and use it, to save money on meals out, and getting stuck with no food, as in an industrial action/strike or delayed for a ferry/train.?
toby1234abc:
As we all know the foreign lads cook up out of their trailer box kitchens, gas cookers, and fitted side fridges, for some reason this has never been popular with the Uk/Irish lads who prefer to cook in the cab, making it smell bad-odours.
If a manufacturer made and sold a trailer kitchen, would you buy one and use it, to save money on meals out, and getting stuck with no food, as in an industrial action/strike or delayed for a ferry/train.?
The answer is yes!! I do like the odd meal out and bottle of wine when in Europe but it does get expensive everyday!!
Would be good. But I still enjoy making my cab smell of curry powder etc etc and burnt toast in the mornings gets shot of stale ■■■■ smells
In a country where it rains most of the year it’s a ■■■■ idea.
on my old ERF in the summer up went the Grill and a small wind break attached then a small table would appear for the cooker along with deck chair, 
summers were summers .
Would surely have one because of not being able to park in the uk where you can get decent meals. But will use Les Routiers always.
Some good points so far, if it rains you can take out the wooden boards from inside the trailer, then lift up the side curtains of the trailer to make a tent, so not to get wet in the rain, a small chair/stool and a picnic table that can be folded away, then bob is your uncle.
Must admit, you can not beat being waited on in a French restaurant, and most drivers may not be in the mood to cook/wash up after a 15 hour shift.
frenchflyer:
Would surely have one because of not being able to park in the uk where you can get decent meals. But will use Les Routiers always.
that Les Routiers is doing all right for himself is’nt he. He’s got restaurants everywhere!
I used to do trailer-box cuisine but obviously it does depend on pulling the same trailer semi-permanently and that just doesn’t happen nowadays, the flip-flops do all of the long-haul Euro work now.
The best person to blame is Mrs Thatcher who thought it was wicked that Communism forbade eastern Europeans from travelling to the West and strove to liberate them. 
Harry Monk:
I used to do trailer-box cuisine but obviously it does depend on pulling the same trailer semi-permanently and that just doesn’t happen nowadays, the flip-flops do all of the long-haul Euro work now.The best person to blame is Mrs Thatcher who thought it was wicked that Communism forbade eastern Europeans from travelling to the West and strove to liberate them.
And thus put a very cheap workforce in her buddies factories.
One has to look after ones friends you know ! Working class people you say ? They don’t matter “do they” ?
Harry Monk:
I used to do trailer-box cuisine but obviously it does depend on pulling the same trailer semi-permanently and that just doesn’t happen nowadays, the flip-flops do all of the long-haul Euro work now.The best person to blame is Mrs Thatcher who thought it was wicked that Communism forbade eastern Europeans from travelling to the West and strove to liberate them.
Wow, really? This must be the first time you have brought this up. Oh wait…
I used to have a cooker under my trailer but after having it nicked twice I keep it in the cab now.
grahamrfd:
I used to have a cooker under my trailer but after having it nicked twice I keep it in the cab now.
I used to have a cooker in my cab, But his student visa ran out so i had to get rid.
I have heard that Pulleyn in Reading do not allow their drivers to have a cab cooker, a driver of theirs told me on the ferry that the boss will check the cab when you come back to base, and he said he locks his cooker in the locker and takes the key home.
kindle530:
frenchflyer:
Would surely have one because of not being able to park in the uk where you can get decent meals. But will use Les Routiers always.that Les Routiers is doing all right for himself is’nt he. He’s got restaurants everywhere!
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I went to school with Leslie Rouitier, he only started selling fruit and veg from his Dad`s small holding from a lay by, now he has a private jet or three, luxury dingy in the Bahamas, all the trappings of wealth and success.Good luck to the man, to be honest.
A lot of drivers who ran outside of local europe eg Benelux, France and Germany had trailer boxes usually one long box divided into two compartments, one for equipment and spares and the other for the outside kitchen. Many companies and owner drivers running to the M/E in the 70’s/80’s would have an ‘‘Aksaray’’ bespoke box fitted, so called because it was made by a small trailer repair firm in the town of Aksaray in the middle of Turkey where you could stop on the way down, tell them what you wanted and have it fitted on the way back with compartments for your cooker, tinned food etc but trailer manufacturers in the uk who built them to M/E spec would also fit them if required. Another option in the 70’s was the M/E spec cab offered by Volvo and Daf in the F89 and 2800 trucks which had a raised bunk with a sink and water tank underneath with a swivel passenger seat and a gas cooker with a feed from an outside gas bottle, can’t quite remember the exact layout but I think it included a fridge. If I remember right the Daf had a pump and shower hose which could fit on the side of the cab, I’m sure someone will remember if this is correct.
Cooking outside the cab is OK but don’t do as I did one brecky time, and that was to sit a hot frying pan on the plastic cover for the batteries cos it stuck 
milodon:
Harry Monk:
I used to do trailer-box cuisine but obviously it does depend on pulling the same trailer semi-permanently and that just doesn’t happen nowadays, the flip-flops do all of the long-haul Euro work now.The best person to blame is Mrs Thatcher who thought it was wicked that Communism forbade eastern Europeans from travelling to the West and strove to liberate them.
Wow, really? This must be the first time you have brought this up. Oh wait…
Some people need to blame the crap their in on someone else and for the Bigot its everyone from the former Eastern Bloc , bless him 
when i worked for trailways we had our trailer set up with boxes the boss fitted boxes out with draws the works.