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overnight Driver’s Camp/driver\'s stopover camp

French translation: emplacement/aire de stationnement pour poids lourds

10:37 Jan 14, 2017
English to French translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Environment & Ecology / mine site ancillary facilities
English term or phrase: overnight Driver’s Camp/driver\'s stopover camp
Each truck will drive 8 hours from the main mine site to the village, where a driver switch-out will occur. A driver switch out is required so as to comply with the maximum 8 hours work shift regulated by labour legislation, as well as for safety reasons. It is proposed to construct an overnight Driver’s Camp in the village. Replacement drivers will then travel overnight to the Port, deliver the product to the port and return to the overnight Driver’s Camp. A driver switch-out will take place again in the morning, following which trucks will return to the main mine site.

In addition to the overnight Driver’s Camp a Driver’s Stopover Camp will be constructed in xx. This stopover camp will provide drivers with a temporary break during their journey from the main mine site to the overnight Driver’s Camp.
Neydou
France
Local time: 13:09
French translation:emplacement/aire de stationnement pour poids lourds
Explanation:
exemple de site dédié : https://truckparkingeurope.com/fr
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Bernard Moret
France
Local time: 13:09
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3emplacement/aire de stationnement pour poids lourds
Bernard Moret
4 +1un site où les chauffeurs peuvent passer la nuit / un site où les chauffeurs peuvent faire une pause
violaine-r
4un motel
Ellen Kraus
3 +1relais pour chauffeurs de poids lourds
Andrée Goreux
4 -1camp d'hébergement pour les chauffeurs / camp de repos pour les chauffeurs
Daryo


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32 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
overnight driver’s camp/driver\\\\\\\'s stopover camp
un site où les chauffeurs peuvent passer la nuit / un site où les chauffeurs peuvent faire une pause


Explanation:
un site où les chauffeurs peuvent passer la nuit /////
un site où les chauffeurs peuvent faire une pause

violaine-r
France
Local time: 13:09
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Daryo: seems blindingly obvious if you take the trouble to read the whole quoted ST ...
2 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
overnight driver’s camp/driver\'s stopover camp
un motel


Explanation:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motel
motel est un type d'hébergement hôtelier que l'on trouve sur le bord des grands axes de communication, permettant aux automobilistes de passage de faire ...

Ellen Kraus
Austria
Local time: 13:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  writeaway: a motel is not just for lorry/truck drivers and it definitely does not fit the second term asked. a camp does not imply any sort of building and certainly not a motel. it could be where they camp out in their trucks/lorries.
12 mins
neutral  Chakib Roula: Not necessarily for lorry/truck drivers.
1 hr
neutral  Daryo: It does function as a "kind of" motel, but it's meant ONLY for the drivers employed by this company
1 hr
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
overnight driver’s camp/driver\'s stopover camp
emplacement/aire de stationnement pour poids lourds


Explanation:
exemple de site dédié : https://truckparkingeurope.com/fr


Bernard Moret
France
Local time: 13:09
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Chakib Roula: Parking for poids lourds.
15 mins
  -> Merci Chakib !
agree  Eric KUATE FOTSO: oui oui
31 mins
  -> Merci Éric !
disagree  Daryo: What the ST says is: drivers stay there overnight // vehicles keep going (which happens to be the point of the whole exercise, BTW)//CL5 about that ...
33 mins
agree  writeaway: maybe not perfect with regard to overnight camp, but camp could well mean they sleep/camp out in the trucks. It certainly doesn't deserve a disagree
55 mins
  -> Thank you!
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
19 hrs
  -> Merci Gilou !
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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
overnight driver’s camp/driver\'s stopover camp
relais pour chauffeurs de poids lourds


Explanation:
just a suggestion

Andrée Goreux
Local time: 07:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  violaine-r: Sounds crisp and interesting to me in this specific context, as it conveys the idea of "switching over".
8 hrs
  -> merci Violaine!
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
overnight driver’s camp / driver's stopover camp
camp d'hébergement pour les chauffeurs / camp de repos pour les chauffeurs


Explanation:
the use of "camp" suggests some kind of compound / enclosed space where drivers can stay overnight/get a rest or just take a short brake

these "camps" will be purpose built/created only for the drivers of that mining company, so terms used for "normal" overnight accommodation of drivers AND vehicles (commercial operations open to anyone) are not necessarily the best suited.

camp/site d'hébergement / de repos ...

Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:09
Native speaker of: Native in SerbianSerbian, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  GILLES MEUNIER: un camp, c'est pour les scouts, vous imaginez des camions dans un camp ? Vous pouvez avoir des caravanes dans un camp et camper mais cela ne s'applique pas aux poids lourds
1 day 4 hrs
  -> READ the ST - it's some kind of compound meant ONLY FOR DRIVERS // too confusing for your MT? // as a comparison, when the replaced crew of pilots and stewards go to rest in a hotel they don't park the air-plane in front? or you think they do?
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