switchlogic:
Carryfast:
Nor the oxymoron of downtime and lost productivety caused by tying a tractor unit to a semi trailer during all the time that trailer is sitting going nowhere during the warehousing process.I think the entire problem is you’re only real world reference point is UPS. A huge chunk of the industry can’t afford to have trailers sat all over the place so drivers can simply swap. Many can and do and just as many can’t and don’t.
The trailers are sat there doing nothing regardless.
The point being made is that too many drivers and units are wasting hours every shift needlessly tied to parked trailers within the warehouse system going nowhere.
In total contradiction of the design aim just like the design aim of demount rigids.
Then the government uses that as a pretext to open up the industry to full on unrestricted cabotage added to the injury of third country operations.
You didn’t answer the question as to the exact circumstances of that sub contract job you were involved with, providing traction for UPS international trunking work.
In what way didn’t it match the type of scenario which I described.
So you’ve now changed your narrative from a type of operation that supposedly doesn’t exist to one that in ‘many’ cases clearly does.
The fact is it’s exactly the type of operation which artics and demounts and RDC’s are there to provide for within the logistics industry.
The truth is if it was used correctly and efficiently, which would obviously include the use of LHV’s and removal of road fuel taxation, it would decimate the government’s pro rail agenda and would have the rail freight industry running crying to their tame ministers to stop it.
This is clearly all about sabotage ( of the UK road transport industry ) not cabotage.
All to meet the government’s pro rail agenda with the ultimate aim of turning the industry into a distribution only operation not a trunking one.
As shown by Rjan’s laughable oxymoron in the excuse of supposed over capacity of operators somehow resulting in supposed under capacity of trucks and drivers.
So surely then Rjan would want to remove as many obstacles and incentives to increase truck capacity in the form of fuel taxation and gross weight limits and load deck space as possible.Bearing in mind that by definition every truck on the road requires an ‘Operator’ to O licence it.
Not call in Russian trucks to move the stuff.