Just Curious, What would be aprox Transit time from say Calais to Austria,and what way would most of you Euro Drivers go? It would be in a Truck so Driving times/rest times would apply…Thanks.
it’s 2 cards to the border if you go through luxembourg. but you could run short by as much as 2 hours due to heavy traffic. and to transit austria to hungary is 4 hours.
limeyphil:
it’s 2 cards to the border if you go through luxembourg. but you could run short by as much as 2 hours due to heavy traffic. and to transit austria to hungary is 4 hours.
Thanks is on a 9/or 10hr Driving?
From Calais you can usually get to Vienna in two shifts, traffic permitting. I would go via Belgium and Luxembourg, cuts down on the German Maut, and the route through Germany from Lux would depend on where you are going in Austria, and whether as a result it would be better to cross into Austria at Suben, Salzburg or Kufstein for instance.
stevie p:
limeyphil:
it’s 2 cards to the border if you go through luxembourg. but you could run short by as much as 2 hours due to heavy traffic. and to transit austria to hungary is 4 hours.Thanks is on a 9/or 10hr Driving?
2 tens. but maybe a 9 and a 10. i’ve done it both ways before, and lost time aswell, so allow for 2x10 hour drives.
limeyphil:
it’s 2 cards to the border if you go through luxembourg. but you could run short by as much as 2 hours due to heavy traffic. and to transit austria to hungary is 4 hours.
I’ve never been to Austria but have been well south of Munchen almost to the borders and its never taken me two days, especially not two ten hour drives. I just did a quick check on google maps and from Calais to Kufstein via Lux is approx 1055km. I know travelling by truck in Germany can be a nightmare due to traffic and over taking bans but you’d have to be very unlucky to only manage just over 500km per day over the two. I’d have thought that under normal conditions, 20 hours drive would put you pretty much any where in Austria?
Dunno about everyone else, but I think it drags driving to Austria. Even in a van seems to take ages. 
I’m sure Ive done Verona in 2 x 10’s from Calais via Austria. I may be wrong as it was a few years ago now and never used to do that route very often.
robinhood_1984:
limeyphil:
it’s 2 cards to the border if you go through luxembourg. but you could run short by as much as 2 hours due to heavy traffic. and to transit austria to hungary is 4 hours.I’ve never been to Austria but have been well south of Munchen almost to the borders and its never taken me two days,?
Indeed. Calais to near Munich in an easy shift then an hour or two to run in to the delivery point in the morning. Done it countless times, and Calais to Vienna in two shifts, not using a ten, and with time to spin and start heading back.
Sounds like Phil is hanging the job out.
I haven’t done it from Calais, but I have from Zeebrugge.
It was either on the Vignette, or after the Vignette finished in Germany but before they had MAUT up n running, so several years ago.
The route I took was Zeebrugge to Aachen, onto the A61 Southbound. I took a break at Peppenhoven as it was going to take me over 4.30 drive to reach Brohltal. From there straight down the A61, onto the A6 at Hockenheim and onto the A5 a few km later. Follow that down to Karlsruhe and onto the A8 for Stuttgart and Munchen. I can’t remember where I took my second break, but probably on the A5 around Mannheim or a bit earlier.
I parked up for the night at Autohof Seligweiler, just past Ulm but before the A7 junction, on close to 10 hours driving and about 750 KM.
The next day I drove on to Munchen, round it on the A99, back onto the A8, South on the A93 to the border at Kiefersfelden. I had to get a Go-Box sorted out the first time I did this trip, done at the border or any of the service areas near Munchen and between there and the Austrian Border. Driving down through Austria, over the Brenner and into Italy. I passed Campogaliano at a little over 9 hours driving, so carried on to the service area just after Bologna to make maximum use of that 10 hour drive.
I can’t remember where I took my breaks on that day, Probably one at a services or truckstop in Austria and one at the services/truckstop just near the bottom of that long slow roll down into Italy.
I was delivering to Taranto and did this trip 2 or 3 times. My timings for breaks varied only very slightly. I never made it to Peppenhoven with enough time left to get to Brohltal. I might have made it to Leipheim services once, but stopped at Seligweiler anyway. Breaks in the Austria leg where just wherever I felt like splitting up my day, but Campo’ was always just over 9 hours drive, so I always stopped at Bologna for the night.
I didn’t go via Luxembourg, because that adds quite a bit of time and milage to the trip. Also the great saving on fuel isn’t anywhere near as great if you (A)Don’t pay pump prices, but pay bunkering prices, and (B) don’t pay the VAT, or local equivalent, on that bunkering price. Doing it that way through say a EuroShell card (where you claim back VAT), reduces the fuel cost difference almost to zero. The extra milage you do and the extra time it takes can reduce any price advantage to a loss, as far as I can calculate it at least.
bigvern1:
Dunno about everyone else, but I think it drags driving to Austria. Even in a van seems to take ages.
Yep, I’m with you on that, east from Regensburg it’s total brain damage 
I haven’t been that way for years, but I used to do Venlo, then swap for a new card, a fullish shift to Suben @ 100kms all the way (never got nicked once 
) new card in to show 9hrs off and that used to satisfy the Grenzepolis’s requirements for two cards 
ignore me.
it’s 2x10 to the romanian border. 
limeyphil:
ignore me.
it’s 2x10 to the romanian border.
a nice and relaxed 1775km from calais to the nadlac border actually, 1829km if going through lux.
milodon:
limeyphil:
ignore me.
it’s 2x10 to the romanian border.a nice and relaxed 1775km from calais to the nadlac border actually, 1829km if going through lux.
you can do it, “”“”“”“”“”“just”“”“”“”“”“”“”.
might need a sticky nut here and there. depending on traffic.
limeyphil:
milodon:
limeyphil:
ignore me.
it’s 2x10 to the romanian border.a nice and relaxed 1775km from calais to the nadlac border actually, 1829km if going through lux.
you can do it, “”“”“”“”“”“just”“”“”“”“”“”“”.
might need a sticky nut here and there. depending on traffic.
Then came digi tachos and ruined every thing! I used to quite comfortably do Calais to the Weil-am-Rhein border in to Switzerland in one shift, as did everyone else at the firm, until digital tachos that is, those boys could only make it as far as the services at Bad Bellingen and then have to queue the next morning and clear customs which could really screw up your day with regards reloading. Very rare we’d start a shift at Calais though, if we shipped south we’d usually make southern Belgium in one hit from North Lincs, and if shipping into Zeebrugge the Swiss border is a doddle in which ever truck/tacho.
robinhood_1984:
limeyphil:
milodon:
limeyphil:
ignore me.
it’s 2x10 to the romanian border.a nice and relaxed 1775km from calais to the nadlac border actually, 1829km if going through lux.
you can do it, “”“”“”“”“”“just”“”“”“”“”“”“”.
might need a sticky nut here and there. depending on traffic.Then came digi tachos and ruined every thing! I used to quite comfortably do Calais to the Weil-am-Rhein border in to Switzerland in one shift, as did everyone else at the firm, until digital tachos that is, those boys could only make it as far as the services at Bad Bellingen and then have to queue the next morning and clear customs which could really screw up your day with regards reloading. Very rare we’d start a shift at Calais though, if we shipped south we’d usually make southern Belgium in one hit from North Lincs, and if shipping into Zeebrugge the Swiss border is a doddle in which ever truck/tacho.
Thanks for that interesting reading not sure when i may be going but best to get some idea is never been befor ,olso depends on getting the job im after…Has any gone via Mets and across or im i way ou of the norm? cheers…
As said earlier, Zeebrugge to Basel is easy in a days drive, comfortably under 9 hrs, with a good run down, via Lux’, Metz etc.
From Calais, going via Lux adds about 100 km onto the direct route to Basel. A slightly slow run will tip you over 10 hrs drive quite easily.
Look at any decent road map of Europe, that’ll explain why going Calais, Lux, Metz isn’t a great route.
Google will do.
What way do you go south of Metz? I used to use the pass at St Die or go over Bussang which was my favourite, probably all changed now.
Simon:
As said earlier, Zeebrugge to Basel is easy in a days drive, comfortably under 9 hrs, with a good run down, via Lux’, Metz etc.
From Calais, going via Lux adds about 100 km onto the direct route to Basel. A slightly slow run will tip you over 10 hrs drive quite easily.Look at any decent road map of Europe, that’ll explain why going Calais, Lux, Metz isn’t a great route.
Google will do.
Alas, that was the way we were under strict instructions to use by he who knows best in the office. He must have thought it was worth his while Lux diesel wise.
robinhood_1984:
Simon:
As said earlier, Zeebrugge to Basel is easy in a days drive, comfortably under 9 hrs, with a good run down, via Lux’, Metz etc.
From Calais, going via Lux adds about 100 km onto the direct route to Basel. A slightly slow run will tip you over 10 hrs drive quite easily.Look at any decent road map of Europe, that’ll explain why going Calais, Lux, Metz isn’t a great route.
Google will do.Alas, that was the way we were under strict instructions to use by he who knows best in the office. He must have thought it was worth his while Lux diesel wise.
Brit Pete was the traffic planner
You Vill Tranzit Luxembourg pig dog!