whisperingsmith:
> Carryfast:
> If the EU wants to count transit journeys as subject to quota permits then we can just as easily count any such quota imposition as being subject to an equivalent reduction in permits for all freight journeys to/from the UK.IE who says that we have to play by any rules in that regard ?.In addition to stopping all third country operations as part of that.
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> Wakey Wakey CF
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> Its transit Permits - like we used to have pre EU & the DOT now DaFT controlled it
> We couldn’t get permits because UK civil Servants (mainly English) insisted on a bilateral Quota system based on transit
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> Most UK hauliers needed to go beyond Holland/Belguim/France, therefore, needing transit permits
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> Very few German Hauliers needed to transit the Uk to Ireland, hence the Bilateral system promoted by UK plc led to the majority
> of UK hauliers using hookey permits
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> If you want to transit Europe 70% of the time you need to go through Germay
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> Since when did driving a dustcart in the home counties of England give you so much experience of the outside world beyond the Daily Fail & The Sun ?
To be fair I’m an ex council driver who does hold a National and International CPC although I’ve forgotten a lot more than I learn’t to pass the exams.However the common sense that got me through tells me that when some German official says that crossing his country to get to Italy counts towards the German quota regarding UK Germany freight journeys for example he’s having a laugh and should have been told to do one.Bearing in mind that the definition of ‘bi lateral’ permits is the total opposite to a system which counts transit as part of that.IE ‘bilateral’ means a Brit truck does a return trip to Italy then an Italian truck earns the right to do same.It doesn’t mean a free for all for every country on route to get their snouts in
the trough.
While yes we know that the UK government is just as bad being a truck hating bunch of treacherous back stabbers.Staying in the EU won’t fix that.
