switchlogic:
11 hours sat inching forwards on M20 for me today, now in port and a 3 hour wait for a ferry. Such a fun day. Doing a parcel trunk and well over hours now.
Well it wont get no better coming back im stuck on french side 10k from split for the port just a solid line of trucks no toilets and you got to keep your eyes open for our friends coming to uk for a holiday
Thankfully I’ve got a backload from boulogne that needs to get back so powers that be have routed me via cherbourg ferry home instead of waiting for tunnel again
Dipper_Dave:
As far as the zyclon b reference the only thing i find offensive is the easily offended or those who get offended on behalf of others or those who attempt to be offensive for prophet.
How many of us googled zyclon b and where reminded of the german attrocities, to forget would be really offensive.I am not Charlie…
Well as part off the silent unoffended majority (I didn’t need to google zyclon b), I agree that some PC interference gets me really offended, oops 
Just wondering which particular prophet has offended you most recently 
andy187:
re delays traveling from cornwall… would it not be a good idea to sail from portsmouth southampton or poole?or anyone else ferry from newhaven??
Or Harwich, but I wondered the same as you, wouldn’t have thought that it was particularly profitable to sit around on the M20 waiting to cross the channel, or at least the crossing would need to be for free to make it so
eddie snax:
andy187:
re delays traveling from cornwall… would it not be a good idea to sail from portsmouth southampton or poole?or anyone else ferry from newhaven??
Or Harwich, but I wondered the same as you, wouldn’t have thought that it was particularly profitable to sit around on the M20 waiting to cross the channel, or at least the crossing would need to be for free to make it so
Alas not always that simple. When Calais Dover starts playing up those other crossings sure start filling up fast. So unless a big and regular user who can throw their weight around a bit there won’t be any space. I imagine all the boats going to and leaving mainland Europe are full up every crossing.
I think that’s a part of the problem though in that the trucks cannot get down to Dover fast enough from Phase 2 being
21 miles away…causing boats to leave only partly loaded.
Certainly at 19.00 last night there was NO phase 1 in operation.
Dover was rammed full of trucks last night, before I was sent down I hadn’t moved for four and a half hours. None of the boats are leaving on time anyhow, and the did all seem to be full.
switchlogic:
eddie snax:
andy187:
re delays traveling from cornwall… would it not be a good idea to sail from portsmouth southampton or poole?or anyone else ferry from newhaven??
Or Harwich, but I wondered the same as you, wouldn’t have thought that it was particularly profitable to sit around on the M20 waiting to cross the channel, or at least the crossing would need to be for free to make it so
Alas not always that simple. When Calais Dover starts playing up those other crossings sure start filling up fast. So unless a big and regular user who can throw their weight around a bit there won’t be any space. I imagine all the boats going to and leaving mainland Europe are full up every crossing.
Good point Batman 
yep didn’t think off that
Made Me smile today, travel news on 5live says their is a 3-4hr wait at operation stack for freight, I think to myself that Luke posted being 11hrs in stack, and 3 hrs and counting in the port, mmm maybe its 3-4hrs in port + whatever in stack 1st 
Well the M20 is the place to be hit Junction 6 at 8 this morning and in 8 1/2 hours have made it midway between junctions 8 and 9
Thanks for that update mazzer… makes the figures given out by Highways, Police, Eurotunnel and the Ferry companies look stupid then…
Whats the deal with daily rest periods in these queues? If you hit your 15hrs is it permissible to draw the curtains and have 9 hours? Does ‘I was stuck in operation stack’ wash in a road side check abroad?
Final count for me was 18 hours from start to finish in the stack, then 3 hrs waiting to board a train for once got a ticket plus 40 min trip time so nearly 22 hours just to get to the other side. Plus no food package given, tho mate of mine who was let out of the stack in the group before me got one…
rob22888:
Whats the deal with daily rest periods in these queues? If you hit your 15hrs is it permissible to draw the curtains and have 9 hours? Does ‘I was stuck in operation stack’ wash in a road side check abroad?
My mate actually got pulled by the French transport ministry after all last night’s balls up this morning. They downloaded his digicard and tacho machine data, and let him go with no trouble, even with no continuous 9hr rest period with moving every hour or 2 a few hundred yards, guess they can exercise discretion.
rob22888:
Whats the deal with daily rest periods in these queues? If you hit your 15hrs is it permissible to draw the curtains and have 9 hours? Does ‘I was stuck in operation stack’ wash in a road side check abroad?
Do a print out explain what happened keep your ticket and hope they understand the situation
switchlogic:
Dover was rammed full of trucks last night, before I was sent down I hadn’t moved for four and a half hours. None of the boats are leaving on time anyhow, and the did all seem to be full.
Use that time wisely and think of more recipes. I’m running out of ideas! Doing tuna steaks with a spot of feta tonight much to misses’ annoyance. She’s a cab curry convert. Just got to figure out how to cook this stuff at work
If this Op stack is financed the same as Felixstowe, then it will cost Dover port a fortune, when they put the stack in at Levington, FDRC have to pay for all the Suffolk Police used to marshal it, and also have to pay for the closing of that piece off road at Levington, and that is just an old part off the A45 as was, not a flaming motorway 
thats why they try and get stack cleared up and shut down asap
The Suffolk Police love it, all the overtime they want, because they’re mostly off rota
feel sorry for you lads stuck in that mess…think i’ll just stick to local work!
