05 Jul 2016 8:50 AM:

Hi all, we have arrived in Northern Spain with a self drive van load.

there was around a belingo sized amount of stuff we couldn't fit in, so I want to get some quotes for shipping it to Galicia or Bilbao etc. I will have to weigh this up against driving a belingo over with the cost of ferry or drive through France. 

 

Any suggested companies or starting points?

 

thanks

nigel

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18 Feb 2016 9:42 PM:

Hi, yup i clicked on the chain icon and put in the URL but I got an error saying my account needed to bE approved before I could put any links in my posts...

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18 Feb 2016 7:14 PM:

Thx.

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18 Feb 2016 3:53 PM:

Thanks guys for your replys and advice / links.  Much appreciated.

I'm going to try to do some calculations to see how much I think our load may be.

 

Anyone have any insight on the Spain side though?  Any experience with obvious UK hire vans on spanish roads having problems from bandits or police?

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11 Feb 2016 12:23 PM:

Hi there all, does anyone have a more up to date view on self-drive vans to/from spain, and the issue of weight limits and police fines etc?

One removals company have a horror story/scare page and I am wondering how much to worryabout it : I wouldn't want to endanger myself or other road users by being dangerously overweight of course, so perhaps I could go to a weigh bridge before I leave the UK on the way to the ferry?  

3w's   dot     bmceuropean    dot     com     slash     one-way-van-hire-spain-uk     (all the cases quoted are a few years old now)

 

But given I will in July be in an obvious UK hire van (I wondered about covering up the signs on the panels/rear doors/bonnet somehow), how much should I worry about weights and police?

I won't be moving any white goods which I assume would contribute to the weight issue, and I'm only taking a LWB or SWB transit, not a Luton.  But I will have lots of weight I would think, from books and some timber and garden pot plants, and a sideboard etc.

 

Thanks for any tips or advice.  or warnings.

 

Anyone know a public access weigh bridge near Portsmouth?

 

And FYI/BTW I'll be just driving along the north coast from Santander to La Coruna.

 

 

 

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