Carryfast:
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Unfortunately just had to cut short a trip to Italy and the Alps around a GT car race event at Monza.Not because of no holiday pay but because the rip off banks are stealing 30% of the value of every pound every time it’s spent in Euros or CHF in bent exchange rates.To the point of £200 + per night hotel bills and around £2 per litre fuel bills.Added to extortionate ferry fares of £180 to cross the channel ONE WAY.The WTD and paid holidays are moot in that economic environment.
Wtf are you talking about? I just paid £1.37 a litre for petrol in Luxembourg, travelling around Europe, nothing like £200 a night.
stu675:
Carryfast:
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Unfortunately just had to cut short a trip to Italy and the Alps around a GT car race event at Monza.Not because of no holiday pay but because the rip off banks are stealing 30% of the value of every pound every time it’s spent in Euros or CHF in bent exchange rates.To the point of £200 + per night hotel bills and around £2 per litre fuel bills.Added to extortionate ferry fares of £180 to cross the channel ONE WAY.The WTD and paid holidays are moot in that economic environment.
Wtf are you talking about? I just paid £1.37 a litre for petrol in Luxembourg, travelling around Europe, nothing like £200 a night.
Lux is cheap for fuel. Currently about 1.82eu for 95 in Italy. Be more on autostrada, but £2-00? Dunno.
I do agree that £200 per night is much more than I would expect to pay for a reasonable room. But then again, if he is rolling up near a popular event there will be a premium price charged.
I`m guessing that if he reckons “30% of his pound is being stolen” he has been paying on a card with poor ex rates?
Or maybe it is his first trip into EUland recently and his first encounter with reality?
I would have thought that Lux would be cheaper for Soap rather than Fuel, but gags aside, I thought EU1.80 was more than the current price of Diesel at regular supermarket forecourts around the UK NOW? 
Winseer:
I would have thought that Lux would be cheaper for Soap rather than Fuel, but gags aside, I thought EU1.80 was more than the current price of Diesel at regular supermarket forecourts around the UK NOW?
Diesel in EU currently from 1-38 to 1-67 eu. Approx £1-20 to £1-44.
tolls.eu/fuel-prices
I reckon the truth of the matter is Carryfast doesn’t trust his Morris Marina, to get hin there and back.
Carryfast:
Munchkin:
Carryfast:
Paid holidays give the boss leverage to dictate when holidays can be taken.I prefer my present situation where I don’t expect or want holiday pay but I dictate when I’m off like in this great typical June weather.I view August as an autumn month let alone an uncooperative boss saying no holidays available between May and August.Even when I was an employed driver I often tacked an extra unpaid week or two holiday to my 4 weeks and later 5 weeks entitlement.Mostly usually taken as a block in June and early July.
Unfortunately just had to cut short a trip to Italy and the Alps around a GT car race event at Monza.Not because of no holiday pay but because the rip off banks are stealing 30% of the value of every pound every time it’s spent in Euros or CHF in bent exchange rates.To the point of £200 + per night hotel bills and around £2 per litre fuel bills.Added to extortionate ferry fares of £180 to cross the channel ONE WAY.The WTD and paid holidays are moot in that economic environment.
Most people are employed and accrue holiday entitlement from an employer. What you or any other individual’s personal financial arrangements are does not affect an employee having four weeks of averaged holiday pay.
Obviously all moot if the employers effectively say you can have the ‘holiday pay’ but not the holiday you want when you want it and the ‘pay’ is subject to a 30% ‘exchange rate’ scam if you can actually get the time off and dare to spend it abroad.
Yeah, but that was not the point of the post, that is your experience.
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Franglais:
Winseer:
I would have thought that Lux would be cheaper for Soap rather than Fuel, but gags aside, I thought EU1.80 was more than the current price of Diesel at regular supermarket forecourts around the UK NOW?
Diesel in EU currently from 1-38 to 1-67 eu. Approx £1-20 to £1-44.
tolls.eu/fuel-prices
Tesco in Gillingham pictured last Thursday.
Price in Rugby for diesel just now in Rugby is £144.9
Those poor squeezed soft southern pansies.
stu675:
Carryfast:
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Unfortunately just had to cut short a trip to Italy and the Alps around a GT car race event at Monza.Not because of no holiday pay but because the rip off banks are stealing 30% of the value of every pound every time it’s spent in Euros or CHF in bent exchange rates.To the point of £200 + per night hotel bills and around £2 per litre fuel bills.Added to extortionate ferry fares of £180 to cross the channel ONE WAY.The WTD and paid holidays are moot in that economic environment.
Wtf are you talking about? I just paid £1.37 a litre for petrol in Luxembourg, travelling around Europe, nothing like £200 a night.
Luxembourg has cheap fuel who would have thought it.
Unlike bleedin Swiss,Germany and Italy at closer to 2 Euros if not more than 2 Euros.
I just got a bill for the usual Milan Nord Novotel that I use for Monza events for what I thought was 320 Euros for 2 nights turned out to be PER NIGHT.
Novotel Bussingny in Swiss was bad enough at 246 Euros per night.Both hotels I’ve used regularly for decades never over 80 quid per night.
I told the bank the pound is laughably undervalued at almost parity with Euro/CHF should be at least 1.5 Euros to the pound.
They said that’s exactly what we will offer to buy them back back.Luckily I mostly relied on my debit card but still a rip off
That’s what I’m bleedin talking about.Some of us get a bit further than a cheap hotel in bleedin BeneLux.Luckily I’m using the Zafira at 35mpg not the Jag at 15 mpg.
Star down under.:
I reckon the truth of the matter is Carryfast doesn’t trust his Morris Marina, to get hin there and back.
Ironically I’ve actually been there and back I left Wednesday and got home Monday and the Zafira proved surprisingly capable for a 1.8 motor helped by the new Euro speed regime.But would still be there if it wasn’t for the prices and laughable exchange rate scam being run by the banks.
toonsy:
Franglais:
Winseer:
I would have thought that Lux would be cheaper for Soap rather than Fuel, but gags aside, I thought EU1.80 was more than the current price of Diesel at regular supermarket forecourts around the UK NOW?
Diesel in EU currently from 1-38 to 1-67 eu. Approx £1-20 to £1-44.
tolls.eu/fuel-prices
Tesco in Gillingham pictured last Thursday.
Price in Rugby for diesel just now in Rugby is £144.9
Those poor squeezed soft southern pansies.
Those poor krauts and the Brits who actually do drive across Europe rather than bs about it.
Franglais:
stu675:
Carryfast:
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Unfortunately just had to cut short a trip to Italy and the Alps around a GT car race event at Monza.Not because of no holiday pay but because the rip off banks are stealing 30% of the value of every pound every time it’s spent in Euros or CHF in bent exchange rates.To the point of £200 + per night hotel bills and around £2 per litre fuel bills.Added to extortionate ferry fares of £180 to cross the channel ONE WAY.The WTD and paid holidays are moot in that economic environment.
Wtf are you talking about? I just paid £1.37 a litre for petrol in Luxembourg, travelling around Europe, nothing like £200 a night.
Lux is cheap for fuel. Currently about 1.82eu for 95 in Italy. Be more on autostrada, but £2-00? Dunno.
I do agree that £200 per night is much more than I would expect to pay for a reasonable room. But then again, if he is rolling up near a popular event there will be a premium price charged.
I`m guessing that if he reckons “30% of his pound is being stolen” he has been paying on a card with poor ex rates?
Or maybe it is his first trip into EUland recently and his first encounter with reality?
The truth is under 1.9 Euro for E5 is the exception rather than 1.9> the rule.
So just up the road from the tax utopia of Lux reality indeed.
Yes was first trip back since 2018 regarding COVID and then an almost 10 month wait for new passport.
I stayed in mulhouse,last night,for 44 euro.
Bologna the night before…was 55 euro.
Carryfast:
Winseer:
If this is “Inner City Multidrop” then you’ll be spending less than 5% of your time driving. (30 minutes per 10 hour shift?)
This does wonders for the employer pension contribution of course…
48 hours per week @ £12ph for mostly handballing in an inner city…
Bet there’s plenty of 9pointsplusOK types - queing up for it!
“Bonuses” also have a habit of “not flowing through to overtime rates” as well of course.
So the perfect job for Mr.Casset.Although my bet is that the muppet is a boss not a driver.
Nope, just a driver. Of which I have been for the last 12 years. Never been near any sort of management role and have no desire to.
I have no idea why you can’t grasp the concept that there are jobs out there that require you to do more than sit at wheel for 10 hours a day. In this case, it’s clearly a multidrop job where you will spend a large proportion of your day not driving and “delivering” products (Handballing is not a crime by the way). This however does not make you a “warehouse labourer” or “warehouse worker”
On the other hand if you want a job where you are pretty much just a driver/steering wheel attendant then why not choose from the thousands … no in fact, tens of thousands of jobs out there where you can be one? They really aren’t difficult to get.
Look I get it, If I had failed as miserably and crashed and burned like you did then I would probably be bitter too but please stop tarnishing the whole industry because of “your” own spectacular failure.
Carryfast:
As for his bs I know who could probably still pass a UPS A frame skills test and that ain’t him nor maybe you too.
What has that got to do with anything or more to the point what does it prove? Bottom line I have been employed as a truck driver and have actually been out there for the last 12 years while you have been sat in your underpants in your bedroom pretending to be one
Carryfast:
So what does the Brit road transport industry do with such skills.Put em to work transhipping freight by hand in a hub system while subbing out the job to the lowest bidder.
So you are generalising the whole industry and every job because of your one bad experience?
Carryfast:
Obviously all moot if the employers effectively say you can have the ‘holiday pay’ but not the holiday you want when you want it and the ‘pay’ is subject to a 30% ‘exchange rate’ scam if you can actually get the time off and dare to spend it abroad.
So we are now adding currency to you ever growing list of things you think is a “scam” - The climate, Covid, Covid vaccine, Face doesn’t fit can’t get a job scam and so on. It’s no wonder you got no-where in life.
Star down under.:
Never thought I’d see the day when I was in agreement with Carryfast, Mr. Cassett does indeed appear to be management. He would have started at the bottom and worked his way up, bet he could still hop in a truck and do an honest day’s work. Something you can’t do, since your failure when you fell from the dizzying height of the bottom rung.
No management from me mate, see my response to CF above. I’ve never really worked my way up as such in any driving job, just seen a job that potentially fits what I’m after and applied for it and more often than not I got it. I have no idea why Carryfast found that so difficult to achieve.
tmcassett:
Carryfast:
As for his bs I know who could probably still pass a UPS A frame skills test and that ain’t him nor maybe you too.
What has that got to do with anything or more to the point what does it prove? Bottom line I have been employed as a truck driver and have actually been out there for the last 12 years while you have been sat in your underpants in your bedroom pretending to be a truck driver.
Carryfast:
So what does the Brit road transport industry do with such skills.Put em to work transhipping freight by hand in a hub system while subbing out the job to the lowest bidder.
So you are generalising the whole industry and every job because of your one bad experience?
I’m certainly generalising the degenerate UK road transport industry.Which is mostly based on the premise of minimising truck/tonne/miles run putting it’s driver workforce to work doing anything but driving as a result.
All of which is about to get far worse with the plan for rail combined with the truck road usage levy.
Carryfast:
toonsy:
Franglais:
Winseer:
I would have thought that Lux would be cheaper for Soap rather than Fuel, but gags aside, I thought EU1.80 was more than the current price of Diesel at regular supermarket forecourts around the UK NOW?
Diesel in EU currently from 1-38 to 1-67 eu. Approx £1-20 to £1-44.
tolls.eu/fuel-prices
Tesco in Gillingham pictured last Thursday.
Price in Rugby for diesel just now in Rugby is £144.9
Those poor squeezed soft southern pansies.
Those poor krauts and the Brits who actually do drive across Europe rather than bs about it.
Careful.
This may come as a shock but some of us do it/used to do it as a job 
Appreciate that may be hard to swallow given that its obviously a closed shop and that. For some it seems anyway 
tmcassett:
Carryfast:
Obviously all moot if the employers effectively say you can have the ‘holiday pay’ but not the holiday you want when you want it and the ‘pay’ is subject to a 30% ‘exchange rate’ scam if you can actually get the time off and dare to spend it abroad.
So we are now adding currency to you ever growing list of things you think is a “scam” - The climate, Covid, Covid vaccine, Face doesn’t fit can’t get a job scam and so on. It’s no wonder you got no-where in life.
The fact that European prices would be relatively less of a ■■■■ take at 1.5 Euros to the pound rather than around parity and the bank says 1.5 to the pound is exactly what it will offer when exchanging them back says it’s a scam.Not me.
