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i understand this is now about 35 miles long :eek:

I can't help but wonder, how do all these truckers wash and get rid of their body fluids and solids? It must smell in Kent.
 
Not all bad then :thumbs:
 
Is that bill going to France? Or is it for the Kent council tax payers?
 
That's only a part of the bill ... the bill for 'the bill' has cost Kent around £700,000 so far according to the news.
 
dejongj said:
It must smell in Kent.
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No change there then :p

As I posted in the other thread, they should keep moving the French lorries to the back of the queue until the English ones have all boarded.
in the mean time, let VOSA have a wander round the parked up " out of staters"
I'm sure they'll be able to recoup a few quid in fines ;)
 
Keith W said:
Apparently they provide them with food, beverages and portable toilets when operation stack is active
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Water, yes.
Portaloos yes (when stack exceeds 24 hours)
Food, no; not free at least. Concessions are permitted down there, again after 24 hours of stack being in operation, but these guys generally travel well loaded with food.

Despite common thinking, these trucks aren't static on the M20 for long unless the ferries / trains aren't running at all....which currently is not the case.

Once in a while is a pain for Kent, but it's been implemented six times in the last five weeks!
 
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Interesting stuff, I wonder whether there are enterprising prostitutes going door to door?
 
It is total s***...I have had 2 trips to Maidstone today easy on the way up but a total of 5 hours on the way back......about time the French get their s*** together and stop the strikes and impose stronger immigration controls
 
archangel said:
It is total s***...I have had 2 trips to Maidstone today easy on the way up but a total of 5 hours on the way back......about time the French get their s*** together and stop the strikes and impose stronger immigration controls
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They have no desire to sort their s***.
They want the migrants gone, and they fully support the right to carry out industrial action.
 
Surely the EU bods should be involved in sorting this out
 
Dale_tem said:
Surely the EU bods should be involved in sorting this out
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Well they do have meetings now and again, and try to share them around a bit, but no one else wants them, I wonder why?
 
archangel said:
Then we need to close the tunnel.. end of...
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Seal it off this end and let the migrants camp in there? Then they are off French soil as well :D
 
No but there were more ferry's & ferry operators back then
 
Didn't we have lorry jams at Dover when the French used to blockade the ferry ports ?
 
Keith W said:
No but there were more ferry's & ferry operators back then
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I'm sure, so yet another "advancement" that put god knows how many people out of work ;)
 
mrgubby said:
Didn't we have lorry jams at Dover when the French used to blockade the ferry ports ?
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Yeah, but I certainly don't remember it ever being this bad or continual.

Time to send in the little ships (again) :D
 
I've got memories of the French blockading the ports with boats & even burning lorry loads of live sheep on the access roads . They've been a nuisance for centuries !
 
Cobra said:
But surely we didn't have "stack" before the tunnel was built?
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There aren't the kind of ferry services now that there were before the tunnel.
Dover Boulogne.
Dover Dunkerque
Ferries out of Felixstowe, Sheerness, Ramsgate......
Some barely run now...most not at all.
 
Cobra said:
That was my point really.
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What I mean is, unless you replace it with new services, you can't close the tunnel.

What they can do is park the damn lorries OFF the roads so the county doesn't grind to a halt.
 
I,m sure I have said this before ,there's only one good thing about France ,that's flying over it ,taking a dump and hoping the planes khazi leaks .
 
viv1969 said:
What I mean is, unless you replace it with new services, you can't close the tunnel.
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Oh I agree, but also a little tongue in cheek, I do agree with Mike about closing it though ;)

viv1969 said:
What they can do is park the damn lorries OFF the roads so the county doesn't grind to a halt.
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Yep French lorries in a farmers field or 3, charge them the earth to park up, when the rains hits, charge them the earth to drag them off again, problem solved :thumbs:
 
Cobra said:
Oh I agree, but also a little tongue in cheek, I do agree with Mike about closing it though ;)


Yep French lorries in a farmers field or 3, charge them the earth to park up, when the rains hits, charge them the earth to drag them off again, problem solved (y)
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Kent has Manston airport.
Closed for over a year.
Gathering dust.
Fill it up :-)
 
the black fox said:
I,m sure I have said this before ,there's only one good thing about France ,that's flying over it ,taking a dump and hoping the planes khazi leaks .
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Not quite the same but this always makes me smile
A German lorry driver in a pub in Newcastle is gobbing off how lazy British truck drivers are.
He's bragging that he drives his load from Hamburg, goes through Holland, Belgium up to Newcastle and back to Hamburg in just two days.
This old Geordie man mutters up, "Ah, way ay I used to pick up me load in Newcastle, drop off in Hamburg and be back in Newcastle for a fish and chip supper the same day".
The gobby German trucker says, " Oh yah, vot rig were you driving then?"
After taking a long swig of his Pint of Newcastle Brown, the old fella replies..........
"A LANCASTER BOMBER!"
 
viv1969 said:
Kent has Manston airport.
Closed for over a year.
Gathering dust.
Fill it up :)
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Seems logical :thumbs:
Make them take a ticket, just like the deli counter, when they arrive,
but if the French ones are blank, who'll know ? :D
 
Cobra said:
Not quite the same but this always makes me smile
A German lorry driver in a pub in Newcastle is gobbing off how lazy British truck drivers are.
He's bragging that he drives his load from Hamburg, goes through Holland, Belgium up to Newcastle and back to Hamburg in just two days.
This old Geordie man mutters up, "Ah, way ay I used to pick up me load in Newcastle, drop off in Hamburg and be back in Newcastle for a fish and chip supper the same day".
The gobby German trucker says, " Oh yah, vot rig were you driving then?"
After taking a long swig of his Pint of Newcastle Brown, the old fella replies..........
"A LANCASTER BOMBER!"
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In a similar vein, an airline pilot asked ground control at Frankfurt for directions and was asked if he had been there before. His reply was yes but he had never landed. Allegedly a true story from the sixties or seventies.
 
Nod said:
In a similar vein, an airline pilot asked ground control at Frankfurt for directions and was asked if he had been there before. His reply was yes but he had never landed. Allegedly a true story from the sixties or seventies.
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And it was dark ;)
 
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