My companies role in industrial safety brings us regularly into contact with the Road Haulage Industry. Within that management, there is a widespread view that on the 31st of October (if that is the date that we actually leave) little disruption will occur at the channel ports or tunnel in a no-deal scenario.
The reason for the above thinking is they believe that none of the authorities will be ready to carry out the full checks of vehicles, and therefore at that time a large percentage of the trucks will be simply waved through.
However, it is also believed that within a short time EU member state governments will be demanding of the European Commission that Britain as a third country should not be still be gaining the advantages of full membership. It will be then that the full checks will be implemented and the chaos at the ports commence.
That stated, in the view of many in the Road Haulage Industry, Britain could have a short Brexit honeymoon period before the full impact of a no-deal leave is brought down on this nation.