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I came through last September at the acual peak of all the televised trouble. No issues whatsoever. It's 99% hype.

thepav wrote:I came through last September at the acual peak of all the televised trouble. No issues whatsoever. It's 99% hype.

The 1% though was pretty scary, a guy who works for us was stopped with about half a dozen cars and had windscreen and most of the panels on his car smashed and he had his wife and Son in the car at the time. Car driveable so just hooned through about a dozen masked thugs and into tunnel compound. There was so much damage his insurance company wrote the car off, a 59 plate 5 series. Media may have exxagerated number and frequency of attacks but plenty deffo occurred
Having said that, I drove through at the beginning of this week and not a sign of the new camp, tucked away now at Grand Synthe near Dunkirk, or any hassle, don't think has been any since it was moved.

thepav wrote:I came through last September at the acual peak of all the televised trouble. No issues whatsoever. It's 99% hype.

I made about a dozen return trips across the channel in 2015.
The trips as a car/bike passenger were no problem. But believe me, in a truck being left to queue out on the roads (before things were changed to as they are now) wasn't fun. People climbing on the truck/van/trailer (it didn't matter what vehicle I was driving) banging on windows, trying to open the cab doors, shouting, swearing.

It sure didn't feel like hype to me. It felt frightening......

Having done a couple of trips as freight this year I will say that it massively different. There are now huge areas to park vehicles so the they don't have to queue back out on the roads.