British Expats - Moving to Spain

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Originally Posted by jay01 (Post 8808344)

The problem they would have is that the laws governing removals are the same as for haulage, they would need to hold an international hauliers licence, use taco graphed vehicles and abide by the drivers time directive. Being registered with one or both of the removal company governing body would be a good move.

If he is thinking of becoming like so many of the cowboy removals a one man and his trailer firm then he has far to much competition and hopefully people will learn from others miss fortune, if not good luck to him.

Personally I would hope that each and every non registered, non legal and non accountable man and his van removal firm gets busted and locked up with the keys thrown away, but then again I am very biased and currently taking legal action on a firm that we thought was well above board, seems even with research and a taking what you think are the precautions a well designed website and fancy talk works.

I take it you mean an operators licence, those are required for vehicles with a gross weight of more than 3.5 tons. They dont need to use tachographs if they are using smaller vehicles such as LWB Lutons or transits.

Insurance is going to be an issue because they will have to have standard carriers insurance to cover losses or damge

Frankly, I can't think of a worse business to get involved in. You have to be really lucky to make a go of it, loading and unloading can be a lengthy process, one breakdown and your trip profit can go out of the window, tyres, etc etc ... I could go on!