ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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AndyPol wrote:I understand from a lorry driving friend that we will have to watch this space on 1st Jan when HGV drivers must have the right (yet more) paperwork or they will not travel, including empty lorries.
Well understood in the world of cross channel freight movements. Nobody seems to agree exactly what the consequences might be. Eurotunnel are prepared though (or so I'm reliably assured!)
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
Yes, interesting times. I would've thought that the uncertainty applied more to inbound traffic; I confess I haven't bothered to keep up with the UK's Border Operating Model, so I don't know what happens when EU goods approach the Straits travelling under the EU's export regime, which ends at the French coast (ie doesn't get you out of Dover or Cheriton so far as I'm aware).
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
Just before Xmas appears to be clogged up roads
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Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
Not causing TAP but social media is reporting the French are now refusing entry to Brits returning home to their house in the EU if it's not in France!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I always feel sad for residents in Aycliffe when in gets clogged up
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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AndyPol wrote:Not causing TAP but social media is reporting the French are now refusing entry to Brits returning home to their house in the EU if it's not in France!
Combining this and the Brexit thread for just a second, it seems that the real impact of being a "Third country" is just starting to show, one year on.
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
Majority of P&O crew have just been put on 70% furlough and told their jobs are in the balance.
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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I think there are to many shipping companies now running into Calais we are not doing the amount of
business as we did when we was in the EU and then we now have less passengers and cars also .
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Dover Pilot wrote:Majority of P&O crew have just been put on 70% furlough and told their jobs are in the balance.
I've lost the plot here, but does furlough still exist?
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Neil Moors wrote:I've lost the plot here, but does furlough still exist?
I'm confused too. There is no current provision to furlough staff as far as I'm aware.
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 346
I find it hilarious that some people think Rishi Sunak invented Furlough. Its been around for a long time and the pandemic has probably reminded many HR personnel that its a tool in their arsenal.
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
Dover’s loss from French transit ban. Will be using Portsmouth/Bilboa for my next journeys. Cost for cost savings on fuel /tolls/ hotel/ ferry fares not much difference. Just local convenience to start trip.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Well just on the chaos .
Are there any moves to sort it yet ?
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Reports of long delays doing the rounds, is that the case?
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Definitely lots of slow M20 traffic. Make what you will of the conspiracy theories!
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/no-cameras-have-been-turned-off-261098/Guest 3925- Registered: 28 Nov 2020
- Posts: 541
Just checked on the Roundhill Tunnel cameras and there is one at the Folkestone Road / A20 junction....all unavailable!
Karlos- Location: Dover
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Are you getting slower in your old age, Karl, me old mucker. Didn't I post that 8 hours ago?
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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ray hutstone wrote:Are you getting slower in your old age, Karl, me old mucker. Didn't I post that 8 hours ago?
Much slower
