have you finished playing on your nintendo now no
never who knew who knew that fallout what it's called fallout um shelter would be like having a
tamagotchi all over again where you have to be on it and make sure everyone's fed and has got water
and the adventures and the happy and there's so many things they all die or they literally all die
hello and welcome to the vanchak tuesday
and we thought that we'd do something that we've um posted on instagram quite recently and it went
down really well um and it's i guess for existing fan lifers and new van lifers too yes and it's
about industrial estate park ops because you never know when you're gonna need one the other night we
got to where we needed to park up at midnight yeah so there was no way that we were gonna pay for
parking um or find anywhere campsite wise to go to so pubs or anything like that yep so we figured
that we would just pull up at an industrial estate because there's lots of things that you
can do to check yeah choosing the right place yep so in kind of an order but no particular
real order order because a few people suggested that number five should actually be number one
so we'll just get there so at number one uh we're suggesting that you get off the main roads of the
industrial estates obviously through traffic big trucks going past you or even vehicles
going past you all night and that's just not going to lead to a good night's kip no i mean
the worst thing is or the best thing is that those main roads normally have loads of places
where they're wide open there's grass on the side there's no double yellows it looks perfect
until the until everything starts coming past all refrigerated trucks yeah so that is one little tip
about that is make sure that you don't park too close to what looks like a warehouse that operates
food or you know sort of grocery deliveries because it's like then the trucks are going
to be parking up like you know the refrigeration engine's running all night as well yes yes that's
something that we've had before and that was in scotland wasn't it and it was driving us
absolutely valley crazy oh yes so number two um is avoid areas that have loads of cctv cameras
because obviously someone's watching out for people being around their particular
unit or part of the unit we found that in some industrial estates are patrolled by one security
company whereas others it's just like you know whatever building security they've got yeah so if
you see loads of cameras avoid it move somewhere with no cameras mainly so you don't get a knock
on the door to say excuse me you're going to be alone could you move on please yeah although we
have found out that if you do get that knock that nine out of 10 times if you turn around and say
i just need somewhere to sleep we'll be off in the morning they have no problem with that at all
but just in case you don't want to be working with 3am when the
yeah yeah there is that too um number three is a lot of industrial estates because they know
that people are gonna be around at lunch times or whatever times of the day they have bins yes
so normally lots of bins which are readily available and useful so it's nice to be able to
if you know you're choosing one of them you can empty your bins and sort them out because there's
a few things obviously i was living in your van you need to get rid of a little bit of waste
material now and again it's just after you've done a shop and you've got to take everything out of
the packaging to fit it in the tiny cupboards in your van there is that too oh yeah we do that yeah
loads of bins um which is always that good and normally we've found loads of them we've got
grassy areas so if you've got a dog then it is really good there's loads of b even if it's just
a strip between the pavement and the road that there seems to be grass there anyway if you've
got a particular dog like ours who prefers peeing on grass which is very strange but hey hell yeah
he's the star of the show after all he is absolutely the star of the show
um and number four a little tip because another sort of van life thing is about getting access to
water and obviously there are truck drivers around and i know that you might not know this but pretty
much people who drive long distance lorries live in the truck what did dad say it's called
something something weird like hunching or is it there's a name for it yeah that means that
they live for weekdays anyway that they live in their and because of that they're looking
for places to empty their toilet and places to get water and places to park up and places to
dump their rubbish just as much as we are yep so they're nice to have a chat yeah so have a chat
find out where the local water source is something like maybe somewhere to empty the toilet as well
um and it's just generally so you can have a chat with someone as well so if you sat there
on your own yeah because if you are there on your own and there are other truckers there it's nice
to know if you've already had a little bit of a chat with them then it's kind of like everyone
together rather than feeling like you're tagged on somewhere or whatever it definitely makes a
difference to us doesn't it knowing that there are friendly people around instead of this big
question mark for who's knocking around in the area um and obviously the last one which
most people said when we put this out there should be the first one grab a nice breakfast
or something like that because there's loads of food trucks around as well yeah if there's not
a greasy spoon somewhere where there's truckers because there's normally one tucked away somewhere
then there's normally a butti van yeah um and as we know from buddy vande milton keynes
there are some very very nice ones around there um but yeah generally there there's always somewhere
i know in my state where i would where i used to work there were three to choose from yeah and some
are fixed up pretty much permanently and they're from seven a.m until like three p.m and some just
come around and you're here yep and then you just know where to go find them the normal body run you
just follow that beeping as you go in i call them food trucks mandy calls them a botti van
bhutivan is quite mancunian so if you think that we're after people's arses or something like that
it is a bushy van it is a van containing butties of all kinds people will be wondering what kind
of butt is there going to be in the van you can have a ham and cheese buddy right oh sandwich you
can have a minty lamb mutti sandwich or you could have uh it's called a body van what do downstaff
do they call it a roll van then i don't know what they call it they call everything weird down there
so much fun food truck yeah yeah so they're there they are um normally absolutely banging
yeah um and if you can go and get something from from one of them in the morning gives you a nice
self if you carry especially if you're just using it as a stop off on the long journey
so you know you can get there and then you can grab a breakfast and you don't have to worry about
washing pots and cooking in the van and all of this stuff before you go bit of a treat and it's
someone else have a chat with because they need to get water and park up and stuff like that and they
might know a few spots around the area too yeah so if you are staying there for a reason i know
there's loads of people who living in a van at the minute but they are still having to stay in this
particular place because they're working they've still got a full-time job so i mean there's this
big old industrial estates which is where we stayed on it was massive but then obviously
you get the little business parks as well and as long as you're not parking in anyone's dedicated
parking yeah on the access roads and things and then follow the other bits we've just said where
you don't go into cctv you don't block any gates and stuff 99 the time you won't have a problem
at all but it is just really good to have a stop off and i know it's not ideal i know there's loads
of people that say i prefer to be on a campsite yeah i think we'd all prefer to be somewhere where
it's lush or on a beach or whatever but sometimes you just can't certain circumstances just lead to
the fact that you just need to stop for the night and have a kip somewhere yep so yep so those are
perfect i know loads of people try to find car parks and things but generally every reasonable
size town will have an industrial or business park of some sort that you can go and park in
so there you go hope you've liked our little top five if you've got any more suggestions for your
industrial estate park up tips obviously please leave them in the comments section down below and
share them with everyone else yeah because we have found that loads of people read the comments and
we'll comment on other people's and say thank you and and find it so people do read those comments
so if you have got anything else that's uh that's brilliant i know people have been doing this a lot
longer than we have so if you've got any hints and tips then please share it down below yeah
cool we're done we are done you go back to your nintendo yeah but i wanna ride my bike okay
all the times to play with all the things no yes i need to go feed my dwellers
on a nintendo just so you know that well i could feed you as well
uh you could actually yeah yeah right there right there thanks so much for watching folks
yes thank you very much and we'll see you on friday we'll see you friday guys
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