The haulage industry has had its balls squeezed by the major corporations / supermarkets for 20 years plus. Haulage rates are **** as they’ve been dictated by the customers with their scale. Therefore anyone within the haulage industry supply chain - including drivers, has had their balls equally squeezed. The only way it changes is rates increase and that cost won’t be swallowed by the multi nationals, as you say, it’ll go to the consumer.
I think we’d all better get used to making our own Turnip Tapenade because the cost of Olives is going to be about £50kg before long
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...tside-eu-exploited-in-lockdown-delivery-surge It involves haulage companies establishing their legal base in lower-wage areas of the EU, such as Lithuania or Poland, then recruiting drivers from even poorer countries outside the EU, such as Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Turkey and the Philippines. The drivers, enticed by promises of quick access to EU visas and generous salaries of around €2,000 a month, pay agents up to €1,000 for their jobs. They are then brought in minibuses from the east to drive lorries almost entirely in higher-wage countries in western Europe. The good salaries mostly fail to materialise, according to the union report. Driving across Europe, non-EU drivers also get a feel for which countries have more rigorous checks and enforcement. France, Germany and Austria were known to be places where you might be stopped and fined for excessive driving hours, Yuri said, but not so much the UK, which he believed “closes its eyes”.
Ha yeah I just did. £26k-£32k average. There’s the problem right there. I think some companies are now offering £50k for some driver jobs to try and attract people to them.
Morning. Football all the way today. U12's at 10.30, U16's at 12.00. Then off to watch Swansea not score at three. Ryder cup and beer this evening.
I’d have had to have called this bloke a prize ****, it’d have been impossible not to. A nation of ****ers ffs
They should just refuse to serve idiots like this. There isn’t a shortage of fuel, but there will be soon enough if this behaviour continues and then there will be enforced rationing.
I don't understand why garages are letting them do it, as it's against H&S... https://www.hse.gov.uk/fireandexplosion/petrol-storage-club-association.htm