Franglais:
Mentioning the “B-word” here will aggravate many…
(But, some of us are so unpopular anyway)
So, Brexit means that UK trucks obey EU rules for 3rd countries. (ie, harder rules than previously)
And the UK Gov is free to make it`s own rules about cabotage etc…and they have decided to (in the interest of global Britain, free trade etc) to do…
But surely you would agree that it is a good thing that our wages are rising sharply, at least partly because of Brexit?
(I can see this bit being split off by the hard working mods)
Yes, if my wages go up now, Brexit, COVID, whatever, I am not complaining.
But, who has said in the past, that it will take a while for Brexit effects to be felt? And we still do not have the full Brexit rules in place yet. Brexit still isn’t here…the UK import regime isn’t up and running, the buildings aren’t built, the land to put them on isn’t even bought yet!
Calling out Brexit gains is still very premature.
But you’re obsessed with calling out Brexit failures
Someone who calls out Brexit failures?
Motor-mouth?
Someone who calls out Brexit successes?
Silent?
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Motor-mouth?
Someone who calls out Brexit successes?
Silent?
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The biggest success of Brexit is were no longer answerable to the unelected foreign bureaucrats meddling in our laws and trade agreements and any other directive they wish to force upon us.
If Brexit makes the UK financially worse off ( which it won’t ) then so be it.
Hitler failed at creating a European Empire and these Eurocrats are doomed to fail too as the EU crumbles in the coming years
peirre:
I wonder if the “Commissioner” has read this thread and possibly taken note of the companies actions and attitude
I have now!
I’m glad you are aware now. Hope they get dealt with.
I also have a few questions to ask ( everyone welcome)
Cross transport also shunts trailers between amazon Coventry BHX4 site sayer drive ( Lyons park) and cross transport depo in Hamshall.
The way amazon works is when trailers are loaded for various contractors they are parked up and sealed. Amazon has limited parking spaces 200. So when the spaces are getting full the amazon guys request cross transport to pick up trailers and park them at hamshall overnight and then bring them back the next day.
Now the questions.
every loaded curtain sider trailer has load bulging out from the sides. The trailer is sealed and 100% the load is not strapped or secured. We can’t break the security seals to check load also can’t strap the load due to security.
If we get caught we are liable and responsible for a unsecured load. What can we do as we have no choice?
trailer mot is now not a legal requirement to be displayed on the trailers. So when we pick up other operators trailers how can we know that its has a valid mot and it caught again the driver is responsible.
As mentioned above cross tranport will pick up loaded trailers to park overnight at hamshall to create space for amazon
These trailers belong to various operators such as
DPD, UPS, SLAM and almost every operator which carries amazon stuff… how are.we supposed to know if the trailer has a valid MOT and is legal to use on the road.
Apart from our walk around checks. Yet if we get pulled and its not insured or has a mot then it’s always the driver who gets shafted.
peirre:
I wonder if the “Commissioner” has read this thread and possibly taken note of the companies actions and attitude
I have now!
So to sum everything up.
Park near lyons Park in coventry and every curtain sided trailer going to amazon and coming out of amazon BHX4 pulled by cross transport will have unsecured load. 100% guaranteed.
Cross tranport will only have DAF trucks with cross tranport written at the front.
I worked at night freight and tuffnells both parcel firms.
For trunking none of the load is secure and the drivers have zero load interaction.
It’s perfectly legal as they use box trailers and what they carry Is not going to come out.
They been doing it this way for decades.
Curtains are a bit iffy but if they are load bearing curtains maybe it will be same principal. Either way it’s Amazon loading and Amazon trailers so it’s probably done by the book. It’s the subbies that are dodgy.
I work for tesco and we are not allowed to inspect the load either.
peirre:
I wonder if the “Commissioner” has read this thread and possibly taken note of the companies actions and attitude
I have now!
I’m glad you are aware now. Hope they get dealt with.
I also have a few questions to ask ( everyone welcome)
Cross transport also shunts trailers between amazon Coventry BHX4 site sayer drive ( Lyons park) and cross transport depo in Hamshall.
The way amazon works is when trailers are loaded for various contractors they are parked up and sealed. Amazon has limited parking spaces 200. So when the spaces are getting full the amazon guys request cross transport to pick up trailers and park them at hamshall overnight and then bring them back the next day.
Now the questions.
every loaded curtain sider trailer has load bulging out from the sides. The trailer is sealed and 100% the load is not strapped or secured. We can’t break the security seals to check load also can’t strap the load due to security.
If we get caught we are liable and responsible for a unsecured load. What can we do as we have no choice?
trailer mot is now not a legal requirement to be displayed on the trailers. So when we pick up other operators trailers how can we know that its has a valid mot and it caught again the driver is responsible.
As mentioned above cross tranport will pick up loaded trailers to park overnight at hamshall to create space for amazon
These trailers belong to various operators such as
DPD, UPS, SLAM and almost every operator which carries amazon stuff… how are.we supposed to know if the trailer has a valid MOT and is legal to use on the road.
Apart from our walk around checks. Yet if we get pulled and its not insured or has a mot then it’s always the driver who gets shafted.
Thanks
Reference point 2 you can check it online just like a car. However I believe that the driver is to assume it has an MOT and it’d operator responsibility so the buck stops with them.
Cross Transport are local to me. I’ve never worked for them but “word on the street” is that they operate legally but consider 13 hours to be “a short day”
No doubt they wonder why nobody wants to do the job.
