can any one tell me i want to take my english truck to a show in america how do i go about it and can i do it legally thats drive it on american soil.
also i want to help please or if i had an american truck could i drive it from the usa to england of course using a ferry in between lol!
and can i drive the said vehicles using my english class 1 licence
or do i need to get a temparary truck licence cheers Lester
I do hope you’re not pinning your hopes on the answers you’ll get on here 
I would advise you to speak to the AA/RAC, somebody there may know the finer points, I’ve seen a few camper vans from Europe in Canada and the USA, so you can use a vehicle from overseas on the roads here. As you’re not operating for hire and reward then the lorry will be classed as a private vehicle, so an ordinary car licence is all you will need (yes really) in most States.
What show are you looking at going to? It may be a case of having to have the lorry shipped into the closest port to that, so if it’s Dallas you would ship it to Houston, for example, but I don’t know for sure.
Call Staffordshire CV, the Renault dealer, the guvnor there, Dave Watts was involved in some Magnums coming over here with trailers full of classic racing cars (or something like that) If anybody knows, he’s the man 
Oh yeah, what lorry are you bringing over? Stick up some photos please
Was thinking it must be do able as remember the thing about the magnums. Was a thing in one of the truck mags about alleys heavy haulage shipping a couple of loaded motors over and tipping them. May have just tipped in the dock complex though.
You could always put it on a boat and then low loader to a show though.
ACL do a ro ro service to The USA Chap, boards in Seaforth Liverpool, lots of heavy gear goes back & to on it, no idea on costs but your obviously not short to be thinking of it!!!
Dave Watts = not fit for w*&^%ng dogs the mans a turd…
excuse this but I hoped to never hear the pricks name again.
I seem to remember a Transcon in Fords colours being driven round The USA too dunno why…
I don’t know how often you can get sailings to and fro but I know even the fastest crossing from Southampton to NYC is 5 days and I’ll bet it’s mega expensive.
Driving a European truck around the States is gonna get load of attention, especially from the DOT so make sure you are completely legal.
I doubt deep sea will be over expensive I know the drilling company I worked for used to send massive gear over The Atlantic, In fact they sent a 105t Juntan the other week to The US, I used to be amazed at how cheap deep sea cargo to Piraeus used to be, I used to take loads of out of gauge stuff to Sheerness or Immingham for onward shipping.
DOT may get excited but if your coming this far I’ve no doubt your papers will be in order, I saw an English horse box up here last week & My mate saw a French registered camper/winnibago thing this week so it can & does happen. That Guy that runs The Scanias up in SK must have an idea how to do it, My first port of call would be Atlantic for sure.
I saw a french registered citroen berlingo camper van in the Walmart in Page Arizona near the ■■■■■■■■■■■■. Got to say, that really is touring! Never saw the frenchies anywhere though.
Southampton-Baltimore is an interesting route to look at.
A 15.8M long x 4M high x 2.6M wide trailer weighing 48T was quoted at under £6k incl. all port charges etc. Flat-racking is an other option for a smaller item such as a tractor unit but sometimes it works out cheaper/easier to use Ro-Ro.
If you can get the cubes down by removing the airkit etc. it can save quite a bit of money.
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I saw a french registered citroen berlingo camper van in the Walmart in Page Arizona near the ■■■■■■■■■■■■. Got to say, that really is touring! Never saw the frenchies anywhere though.
I saw a Belgian car and caravan outfit taken on board QE2 at Cherbourg when I was going to the States in the 1980’s.The caravan had to be craned into the hold because it wouldn’t fit through the hatch to the car deck with the car and I’ve got a photo of it being unloaded onto the ramp at NY. 
Mad when you think that they could hire a decent yank motor home when they get there instead. 
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I doubt deep sea will be over expensive I know the drilling company I worked for used to send massive gear over The Atlantic, In fact they sent a 105t Juntan the other week to The US, I used to be amazed at how cheap deep sea cargo to Piraeus used to be, I used to take loads of out of gauge stuff to Sheerness or Immingham for onward shipping.DOT may get excited but if your coming this far I’ve no doubt your papers will be in order, I saw an English horse box up here last week & My mate saw a French registered camper/winnibago thing this week so it can & does happen. That Guy that runs The Scanias up in SK must have an idea how to do it, My first port of call would be Atlantic for sure.
Carryfast:
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I saw a french registered citroen berlingo camper van in the Walmart in Page Arizona near the ■■■■■■■■■■■■. Got to say, that really is touring! Never saw the frenchies anywhere though.I saw a Belgian car and caravan outfit taken on board QE2 at Cherbourg when I was going to the States in the 1980’s.The caravan had to be craned into the hold because it wouldn’t fit through the hatch to the car deck with the car and I’ve got a photo of it being unloaded onto the ramp at NY.
Mad when you think that they could hire a decent yank motor home when they get there instead.
Your right there CF, if it’s one thing there’s plenty of over here it’s campers, travel trailers and motor homes 
I often see German tour buses around, from what I am told a German tour company ships a fresh one over every year then ships the old one back. I saw one being towed down the NJ pike about 2 weeks back.
If its built on a MAN chassis Pat I am not surprised it was being towed.
A 40’ container from San Francisco to the Isle of Grain was $5000 US in 2008,and thats a long voyage.
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If its built on a MAN chassis Pat I am not surprised it was being towed.
A 40’ container from San Francisco to the Isle of Grain was $5000 US in 2008,and thats a long voyage.
Does that voyage go via China, the European ports and then to Thamesport before crossing the Atlantic or does it go through the Panama Canal? I saw a programme about Hapag Lloyd ships on Discovery or Nat Geo and that was about a ship that basically circled the Earth, dropping off and picking up along the way, very interesting
We get a lot of ships docking in the refinery at Yonkers and I get to chat to some crew members now and then … providing they actually understand English, they all have the same story… Most merchant ships travel around the world in an easterly direction. From the USA they sail across the Atlantic, then on eastward again to ports of call untill they eventually end up back in the Americas again, so shipping UK to USA unless on a scheduled route will mean freight to the USA with travel the long way round the globe which takes a few months.
Pat Hasler:
We get a lot of ships docking in the refinery at Yonkers and I get to chat to some crew members now and then … providing they actually understand English, they all have the same story… Most merchant ships travel around the world in an easterly direction. From the USA they sail across the Atlantic, then on eastward again to ports of call untill they eventually end up back in the Americas again, so shipping UK to USA unless on a scheduled route will mean freight to the USA with travel the long way round the globe which takes a few months.
RO/RO and container shipping is all very highly schedulised. There’s no such thing as tramp shipping with a containership. A container shipping company can tell you where there ship is set to be in months from now just like a bus or London underground train. The tanker market is a highly fluctuating affair that changes with the wind and politics of the dubious countries much of the worlds crude and oil products come from.
When I mentioned ships at the refinery I don’t mean tankers, it’s not an oil refinery, it’s a sugar refinery so they are just regular freighters.
During fleetweek here in NYC a Royal Navy ship was docked in Brooklyn and 2 of the sailors where riding round NYC on their UK reg motorbikes. I also saw a UK reg Land Rover in Alabama a couple of weeks ago.
Jarvy:
During fleetweek here in NYC a Royal Navy ship was docked in Brooklyn and 2 of the sailors where riding round NYC on their UK reg motorbikes. I also saw a UK reg Land Rover in Alabama a couple of weeks ago.
Now you say that, I saw a British registered Mistsubishi Evo going around Minneapolis a while back, I took a picture, but a fly splat on my windscreen obscured the number plate. There’s a British registered FL6 horse box mooching around up in Canada too, seen that a couple of times on HWY 1
You can drive around the USA for up to a year on the plates of another nation provided you do not take up residency just as if you import a US registered vehicle to the UK you can use it on US plates for a year.