scottishcruiser:
Id love to meet the man who reckons he earns £600-£700 pw legally :S Full Of [zb]…
On general haulage i would agree but its easy money on the agency in north london area and £600-700 is the norm but you would have to work the weekend for that. Many jobs £18-20 an hour on a sunday so a 12 hour shift can bump up your week!
scottishcruiser:
Id love to meet the man who reckons he earns £600-£700 pw legally :S Full Of [zb]…
Thats quite easy at the moment, if your paid in euros into a British bank account, exchange rate is nearly level. Even easier if like me you live in the truck so get paid for 7 days. Very profitable time to work abroad.
newmercman:
I myself did the Passau changeover, that’s how I knew about itI remember weighbridges at all the Swiss entry ports, after paying tax, doing customs etc you ran over the scale, whether anyone took any notice I don’t know, I never took the chance of being too heavy, as well as a fine it was a bloody long way to the nearest tunnel! I did used to load heavy in Swiss though, ice cream from somewhere or the other, it was a 3hr run to the border, that I do remember, we used to have to come out via the Schaffhausen border, which I believe was the ‘overweight’ border. I don’t remember whether there was an extra tax for running overweight, knowing the Swiss, there probably was though
I only had one incident dealing with the Swiss police, so can’t say how they were really, although in my case playing the stupid Englishman certainly helped, I was running home & got pulled into a rest area, they wanted to know how I managed to have a St Lorenzo (Rome) customs stamp on my T-forms when my tachos clearly indicated that I had only been to Milan & had taken 36hrs off, there was also some excitement over the shade of the liquid in my belly tank, anyway my lack of understanding of every language the copper spoke, including heavily accented English soon had me on my way with my wallet intact
And to appease switchlogic, who appears to have no jam in his doughnut, I was working for an English company at the time, not one of those fly by night paddy cowboy firms
Newmercman that’s interesting about the Swiss enforcement regime which you’ve seen there.I’ve only been going on what I’ve known driving cars not trucks at the borders in Swiss but I’ve never seen any scales at posts like the one between Pontarlier and Lausannne or up on the Simplon or St Bernard passes for instance?.But the only only two ‘incidents’ which I’ve had with the Swiss police was an argument about driving on a mountain road/track not for use by motor vehicles (except for access by a farmer and his tractor) and the road ended up like that one in Bolivia on here and I had to reverse the car back down it and overtaking a police car at well over the limit on the motorway near Lugano.The first one was dealt with by showing the copper the shed which was directly in front of the road sign at the bottom of the mountain so no one could see it and the second one they could’nt care less probably because they were Italian Swiss and I was’nt going fast enough for them to be bothered but no one will believe me about it when I tell them.
scottishcruiser:
Id love to meet the man who reckons he earns £600-£700 pw legally :S Full Of [zb]…
I was earning that been paid a day rate and willing to work.