Irish Lorries

[Agrivator]

There are thousands of Irish Lorries which travel through the UK en-route to the EU.

If there are long queues to catch the ferries and to access the tunnel, will UK and Irish Lorries just jostle for position, and will there be enough British Police to keep the peace?

 

[Still Farming]

There are thousands of Irish Lorries which travel through the UK en-route to the EU.

If there are long queues to catch the ferries and to access the tunnel, will UK and Irish Lorries just jostle for position, and will there be enough British Police to keep the peace?

Have to sail from Ireland instead possibly???

 

[Exfarmer]

There are thousands of Irish Lorries which travel through the UK en-route to the EU.

If there are long queues to catch the ferries and to access the tunnel, will UK and Irish Lorries just jostle for position, and will there be enough British Police to keep the peace?

I think that is why the idea of the new lorry parks is for, to keep order.
The biggest danger will be having the right paper work for all and French customs

 

[Still Farming]

I think that is why the idea of the new lorry parks is for, to keep order.
The biggest danger will be having the right paper work for all and French customs

Don't think paperwork is looked at when they let /send migrants come here possibly???

 

[le bon paysan]

I would think more crossings on the Cherbourg / Dublin route will be added if needed, when everyone knows what the deal is / isn't.
Better to sit on a ferry getting somewhere than in a lorry park going nowhere.

 

[M-J-G]

18 hour ferry where drivers can have a break and avoid paperwork entering and leaving a non EU country makes sense if goods are EU bound anyway.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Can someone explain, why isn't there a direct ferry route to begin with? Seems madness bringing trucks across the breadth of the UK to get to Europe?

 

[steveR]

Cork City was putting in a massive new facility to handle the anticipated huge increase of trucks...

 

[le bon paysan]

Can someone explain, why isn't there a direct ferry route to begin with? Seems madness bringing trucks across the breadth of the UK to get to Europe?

There is Dublin / Cherbourg which runs year round.
Rosslare / Cherbourg and Rosslare / Roscoff
Also Rosslare to Bilbao

 

[le bon paysan]

Cork City was putting in a massive new facility to handle the anticipated huge increase of trucks...

Are they upgrading the road North?

 

[idgni]

Are they upgrading the road North?

It's full motorways from Cork to Dundalk for at least 8 yrs now

 

[steveR]

It's full motorways from Cork to Dundalk for at least 8 yrs now

RoI road network is not bad these days at all. Very respectful drivers I have found too, other than around Dublin.....

 

[Al R]

RoI road network is not bad these days at all. Very respectful drivers I have found too, other than around Dublin.....

Only the Irish could have the “Lane and a half” as an actual Highway Code

 

[Boohoo]

18 hour ferry where drivers can have a break and avoid paperwork entering and leaving a non EU country makes sense if goods are EU bound anyway.

An 18hr break? That's like a full years holiday for an Irish lorry driver!

 

[Al R]

An 18hr break? That's like a full years holiday for an Irish lorry driver!

 

[steveR]

Only the Irish could have the “Lane and a half” as an actual Highway Code

Ahhh well, t'is loike this... That there fella from Shropshire who rides a motobike, and he can use that half lane like.... It allows him to charge across the roads to Galway, in a flash...




But in reality, WTH is a "lane and half"?

 

[Al R]

Ahhh well, t'is loike this... That there fella from Shropshire who rides a motobike, and he can use that half lane like.... It allows him to charge across the roads to Galway, in a flash...




But in reality, WTH is a "lane and half"?

Wider roads than we get in this country so if both cars go to the sides there’s plenty of space for a third to overtake in the middle

2+1 road - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Edit: it’s like having a single carriageway with an overtaking lane in the middle but it’s a first come first serve who gets the middle lane. I liked it

 

[le bon paysan]

An 18hr break? That's like a full years holiday for an Irish lorry driver!

18 hours one way 20 the other. Is that for tides?

 

[Al R]

18 hours one way 20 the other. Is that for tides?

It’d be 20 when going uphill

 

[Boohoo]

18 hours one way 20 the other. Is that for tides?

2hrs extra is needed on the way out to polish the diesel tanks, upgrade the driver to full tang spec and fit the magnet!