Hi all we through life we all have always something to moan about work and its related problems not only in ordinary life but especially in the transport related world , having run an International transport company for some 40 years and now handed all over to my two capable sons to carry on the business you are still within earshot of what is going on day to day.
Now on last nights news we are hearing stories of trees being laid across the approach roads in to Calais for the sole purpose of allowing illegal immigrants to board trucks heading for England.
Now the French during all my time involved with them have been noted for there Gallic attitude and in the past I have to say from a distance I have admired them for sticking together in there beliefs even though it has cost our company financially, pity our farmers do not take notice of what can be done by this sticking together thing, short term loss, long term gain.
The French even though what is happening on these roads is nothing short of madness choose to turn a blind eye to what is going on here, they are doing little to deter this. To my mind they should just shoot the perpetrators on sight no question for they are modern day ■■■■ Turpin’s out for personal financial gain.
Now my idea would be to round up all these immigrants and fly them back to whence they came this would be far less expensive in the long run and would solve the problem both of them being there and the bandits who are profiteering from them.
Now on to my next subject which is a recently introduced law by the French which makes us as a company prove that we are paying our drivers the minimum wage or above in UK law, now what the hell that is to do with them beggars belief but folks this is happening right now and of course if you do not comply you face massive fines and once paid you will never see a refund even if you prove you have complied.
My wife is the one trying to sort this out and of course we have to use an agent in France to do this whom we have to pay for there services and before any one says just write a letter for the drivers to carry as you do if they have had holiday relief this is not sufficient as they want to see bank payroll evidence that you comply, this is a very personal invasion of privacy and should not be allowed under the data protection act but we are talking about the French here.
As a company one of the rare UK ones still plying our trade in Europe we are having these restrictions forced on us with no governmental interception, maybe that is because we are not important enough and as any one travelling about this land of ours will know that most of the trucks today are not British and a lot do internal work here as well.
Now im’e sure some will jump up and say we should have stayed in the EU then we would not have these laws Imposed on us but as a company Brexit is proving to be a good omen for us, like many manufacturing companies they have seen renewed interest as the pound weakened and we have regained some long term work that we had lost because we have all of a sudden become more cost effective once more.
Now it would be very interested to see if any other International operators are having the same problems that we are encountering on this subject so look forward to hearing what’s to be done after all we must be the laughing stock for our lax attitudes over here and perhaps we should follow suit and start getting tough on them when they visit our shores and that’s it run out steam, cheers Buzzer.
PS. In todays world it is not easy to get drivers to do the job let alone good ones who know what they are doing and if you do get one you have to pay a decent wage or they will soon disappear.
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As for the Italian idea at least that’s a start.