Calais

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grumpy52

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5,565 posts

165 months

Saturday 6th September 2014
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Two of our vehicles have been invaded this year , two people caught in jan (cost the driver £1600 in fines) and another three caught a couple of weeks ago.This despite TIR cords on the curtain sides.
Now the guys returning via this port are banned from stopping within 50 kms
of the ferry terminal.
I am so glad I no longer do Europe.

StuntmanMike

11,671 posts

150 months

Saturday 6th September 2014
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Grumpy they really are upping their game, there has been some nasty incidents as well.
I spent a night in calais about two weeks ago and picked up two in my empty pallet locker.
I found them at my drop, I had taken them 100 miles into France.
The trick is to have a container lock on your trailer and just be vigilant.

grumpy52

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5,565 posts

165 months

Saturday 6th September 2014
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Our guys are issued with a kit with multiple seals ,padlocks and a curtain repair kit , they also must complete an intruder check sheet at EVERY stop whilst in Europe .
Yet the Mayor of Calais maintains we Brits don't do enough, yet our immigration and customs officers in France detect far more than the french authorities do when working in France .

theshrew

6,008 posts

183 months

Monday 8th September 2014
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grumpy52 said:
Two of our vehicles have been invaded this year , two people caught in jan (cost the driver £1600 in fines)
That stinks tbh.

The woman on the news last week had one in her Fiat Panda. I bet she's not been fined. You would tell if someone in your car especially a small car like a Panda. Not exactly like the little bastids hiding in a trailer etc is it.

grumpy52

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5,565 posts

165 months

Monday 8th September 2014
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The French are worse than useless, the first was checked by the French with their equipment and allowed to proceed, Brit immigration pulled it in the lanes at the port .
They had opened up an old vent in the curtain then re-stitched it after two had entered .


bigfatnick

1,012 posts

201 months

Monday 8th September 2014
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i recently passed through rotterdam and santander (in the car) and can honestly say i didnt see anyone looking like they were trying to get on boats. is this a calais only problem?

grumpy52

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5,565 posts

165 months

Tuesday 9th September 2014
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There have been a few problems at the tunnel in the past, but nothing like Calais.
It seems that the french look at it as not their responsibility as the offenders are only transiting the area .
I do wonder how it would go if we ever left the EU .The freedom of movement rubbish could be fun if it ended at the channel, would it become a french problem then or would they just shut their eyes to it as they do at the present.

SmoothCriminal

5,047 posts

198 months

Thursday 11th September 2014
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On the news they were showing that even not stopping doesn't help. Even at low speeds the vultures were all over the wagon trying to get in.

StuntmanMike

11,671 posts

150 months

Thursday 11th September 2014
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Came through calais yesterday afternoon.
Boarded the spirit of France which was then delayed owing to immigrants storming the boat.
On the way in they did the usual trick of sending you through the hover terminal, absolutely thousands of them there.

AF1

309 posts

201 months

Friday 12th September 2014
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Video taken by a foreign driver of the diversion through the old hover terminal. Why are they doing this? It just seems to give them more opportunity to jump an a slow moving truck.

http://youtu.be/uERlkc_uzjU

StuntmanMike

11,671 posts

150 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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If you get to calais after 1130/1200 you will always get diverted through there.
I had some videos of it myself but unfortunately bought a galaxy note 3 , this means it has to be replaced every couple of months.

chilistrucker

4,541 posts

150 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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Been a while since I've been but looks like I could be going again by the end of the month, just glad it will be in a box motor with a big lockable tail lift.

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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theshrew said:
That stinks tbh.

The woman on the news last week had one in her Fiat Panda. I bet she's not been fined. You would tell if someone in your car especially a small car like a Panda. Not exactly like the little bastids hiding in a trailer etc is it.
I was told about that.

How TF does a full grown man hide under a Panda seat with apparently 2 dogs in the back too ?

StuntmanMike

11,671 posts

150 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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chilistrucker said:
Been a while since I've been but looks like I could be going again by the end of the month, just glad it will be in a box motor with a big lockable tail lift.
Fine going out, coming ins the problem, you'll be fine, unlocked tilt is when you worry.

grumpy52

Original Poster:

5,565 posts

165 months

Saturday 13th September 2014
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Also on the u tube section from that video is a clip of a guy hidden behind the rear bumper of a pug 309 , not a small chap either .

StuntmanMike

11,671 posts

150 months

Sunday 14th September 2014
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grumpy52 said:
Our guys are issued with a kit with multiple seals ,padlocks and a curtain repair kit , they also must complete an intruder check sheet at EVERY stop whilst in Europe .
Yet the Mayor of Calais maintains we Brits don't do enough, yet our immigration and customs officers in France detect far more than the french authorities do when working in France .
The mayor of calais is seriously pissed off, he blames our immigration policy, they have started storming the ferries now, a brit driver was attacked and seriously beaten a month back, I'm wondering when it will end.
Trouble is though grumpy, if you speak to them all they say is ' I want the free house, free money, free health ' .
I really don't know where I stand on this, a lot just look wretched and I pity them, but they have crossed safe countries to get here, they are also making the french citizens life a misery, the French rightly or wrongly blame our immigration policy.
I'm back through there Tuesday, with a couple of exceptions ( different routes ) I have used calais at least once a week this year, it's definitely getting worse.

grumpy52

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5,565 posts

165 months

Sunday 14th September 2014
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A visiting french politician said many years ago that what we were doing wrong was giving the immigrants money, In the rest of europe they seem to feed them clothe them and give them a bed but never give them money .
Thats why they transit 'safe' countries to come here .

iguana

7,025 posts

259 months

Sunday 14th September 2014
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Went through 4 times last wk, always a bit of a worry in present times.

My set ups are relatively easy to check for intruders but im always worried one/some will jump from another truck whilst on ferry & despite my comprehensive check I'll get clobbered at Dover, so I've taken to using the phone video.

I film the tacho hence has time & mileage etc & can see im checking at the docks, then jump out & do my checks filming it all.

If somehow I do have em on board at Dover I can prove I've done my best & was clear of 'em at dover.

mgv8dave

826 posts

212 months

Sunday 14th September 2014
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Coming back from Spa last week it was shocking, they were almost trying to slow you down on the approach road and get on the open trailer.

there must have been 300 to 400 just outside the dock entrance.

StuntmanMike

11,671 posts

150 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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This week's trip through calais was fun.
Immigrants throwing themselves in front of the truck, flagging me down, right I'm going to stop.
The police lined the Last half a mile with riot shields, must be costing a fortune, even saw women and young children amongst them.