Kent County Council has announced that they will be installing Pay and Display machines at twenty-metre intervals along the stretch of the M20 towards Dover in anticipation of a no-deal Brexit.
The move has arisen following predictions of lengthy lorry tailbacks due to border staff at the busy shipping port in Dover not quite knowing how to suddenly process a two to three thousand per cent increase in workload and paperwork with barely any additional resources assigned to help them.
Whoooossshhhh.
The site is NewsThump…
No one is pretending it’s real*.
FFS they wouldn’t have said as low as £1.50 an hour if they wanted to be believed!
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*insert your own comment here about the politically gullible. Options include poking fun at others/feeling paranoid if you recognise yourself as victim of blaggers.
> Franglais: > Whoooossshhhh. *insert your own comment here about the politically gullible. Options include poking fun at others/feeling paranoid if you recognise yourself as victim of blaggers.
Some touchy aren’t they - can’t understand why, Brexit is going to be so so, so very good, isn’t it ■■
whisperingsmith: > Franglais: > Whoooossshhhh. *insert your own comment here about the politically gullible. Options include poking fun at others/feeling paranoid if you recognise yourself as victim of blaggers.
Some touchy aren’t they - can’t understand why, Brexit is going to be so so, so very good, isn’t it ■■
The real news is full of enough bull every day as it is… We don’t want to be force-fed bull any more, any more than Dartford Tunnel needs another “Buffaload” turned back at the overheight barriers…
whisperingsmith: > Franglais: > Whoooossshhhh. *insert your own comment here about the politically gullible. Options include poking fun at others/feeling paranoid if you recognise yourself as victim of blaggers.
Some touchy aren’t they - can’t understand why, Brexit is going to be so so, so very good, isn’t it ■■ [emoji38] [emoji38] [emoji38] [emoji38] [emoji38]
I was tempted to let it ride, but was afraid for the health of some here!
Good link though, thanks.
whisperingsmith:
Brexit is going to be so so, so very good, isn’t it ■■
Might be for owner drivers if there’s a big return to unaccompanied freight. Funny how that dropped off a cliff in the 1990s, very suspicious timing, seemed to be not long after the Maastricht Treaty was signed.
whisperingsmith:
Brexit is going to be so so, so very good, isn’t it ■■
Might be for owner drivers if there’s a big return to unaccompanied freight. Funny how that dropped off a cliff in the 1990s, very suspicious timing, seemed to be not long after the Maastricht Treaty was signed.
Maastricht Treaty effective late 1993. The Channel Tunnel opened in 1994. I think one had more effect on traffic than tother. The turnaround time for ferries is very different for accompanied and non-acc traffic. Much quicker to get a truck through the tunnel and to its destination without swopping units. A limited number of tuggies working a ship is much slower than each trailer having it`s own tractor and driver.
More boats may be necessary to move the same the amount of goods, if loading and unloading times are greatly altered.
The “just in time” system favoured by car companies would be affected too.
Anyway, if the car plants close and we dont need so much goods moved it wont be a problem.
A collapse of the UK manufacturing base (as predicted by pro-Brexit lead economist Minford) will mean less goods for us to export, so less need for components.
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The big win will be more parking spaces on MSAs. All those foreign trucks bringing in raw materials for our factories won`t be there if the factories are all shut. HooRay!
Franglais:
The big win will be more parking spaces on MSAs. All those foreign trucks bringing in raw materials for our factories won`t be there if the factories are all shut. HooRay!
Raw materials? more like finished goods isn’t it? The raw materials come in by sea.
Franglais:
The big win will be more parking spaces on MSAs. All those foreign trucks bringing in raw materials for our factories won`t be there if the factories are all shut. HooRay!
Raw materials? more like finished goods isn’t it? The raw materials come in by sea.
Good point.
I should have said that trucks bringing in components for our factories won’t be coming so much if the factories are producing less.
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Raw materials? Crude oil direct to refineries, yes.
Much else? How much ore is imported for metal production today?
And the point I was responding to about dropped trailers is not affected at all by bulk ship work is it?
