Regardless of who or what is to blame, the fact of the matter is that in the last 48hrs or so, the haulage industry has died a death of some description. If you look on the haulage exchange the number of loads on there (say for a 44t curtain) is down to around 100ish loads, where normally there’d be at least 1000+ loads people trying to get covered.
Staniel:
Regardless of who or what is to blame, the fact of the matter is that in the last 48hrs or so, the haulage industry has died a death of some description. If you look on the haulage exchange the number of loads on there (say for a 44t curtain) is down to around 100ish loads, where normally there’d be at least 1000+ loads people trying to get covered.
Everyone’s skint. Mortgages, rent, fuel bills, all up. One of our drivers told me this week that his mortgage has gone up by £300 a month and his fuel bills by £300 a month. That’s £600 right there that’s not being spent on anything that sees a truck. Probably going to get worse before it gets better too, they’re already dropping broad hints about another 0.75% interest rate rise next month and they will carry on going up until inflation starts to come down.
Franglais:
Harry Monk:
tmcassett:
Only Franglais could bring his Brexit bitterness into a thread that wasn’t Brexit related from the OP.The eu is relevant, in that it is eu expansion into eastern Europe is entirely and totally to blame for the war in Ukraine which is much of the cause of the present economic situation here.
A truly pathetic defense of Putin`s invasion of a free independent country.
The truth is Putin ( stupidly ) invaded Ukraine because NATO equally stupidly refused to rule out EU and NATO expansion into Ukraine.
While Zalensky turned Russia’s breadbasket into China’s breadbasket.The irony.
While our economic woes are all about trying to sustain an unsustainable trade deficit and imposing punitive energy costs on ourselves to meet the climate scam and using our food resources to feed the world.
In addition to ongoing EU ‘contributions’ for the privilege of importing EU goods in exchange for fish and oil and gas and generally doing what’s good for Germany and France and East Europe.
As for the road transport industry the plan for rail is it’s death warrant.
As anyone who uses long haul rail services regularly can see with daytime passenger services now being seriously affected by massively increased daytime rail freight operations in addition to night.
Harry Monk:
Franglais:
Putin objects to the people of Ukraine having a free choice about what they do.So if the people of Ukraine have a free choice about what they do, why was their democratically elected President deposed in a US-backed coup?
It’s clear that the Ukraine issue is exactly the same as the Irish issue a localised Russian loyalist demographic justifiably wanting self determination for their region of ‘The’ Ukraine just like Northern Ireland.
All that against a background of unjustifiable NATO expansion into former Russian buffer states and territories after Russia moved out.
Those with Franglais’ view are taking us inevitably into WW3 against Russia just like they took us into WW1 against Germany.
Franglais:
Ignoring the biggest financial event in the UK for decades when discussing business is burying your head in the sand so deep you`re gonna be stamped on by kangaroos.Brexit is a fact. It`s effects are wide spread and profound.
Ed to add. And it was Happy Trucker who first mentioned the “B” word. Quite rightly as it is relevant despite some wanting to ignore the elephant in the room.
And of course the entire civilised world shutting down its economies and locking everyone away for 18 months - totally unnecessarily, had nothing to do with many of the problems being seen today? Rising costs, rampant inflation and the consequences of these are a worldwide problem.
We aren’t helped in the UK by a total bunch of incompetents running the Tory party presently but to keep digging at and blaming every bad thing on Brexit is tiresome and quite frankly pathetic.
Franglais:
Ignoring the biggest financial event in the UK for decades when discussing business is burying your head in the sand so deep you`re gonna be stamped on by kangaroos.Brexit is a fact. It`s effects are wide spread and profound.
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So widespread in fact that the inflation rate is 12.6% in Italy, 17.9% in Poland and 22.1% in Lithuania because of Brexit.
Harry Monk:
So widespread in fact that the inflation rate is 12.6% in Italy, 17.9% in Poland and 22.1% in Lithuania because of Brexit.![]()
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How many noughts could Italy fit on a Lira note as a founding member state of the EUSSR.Also bearing in mind the UK inflation rate and value of the pound in 1972 v since and by definition inflation means incomes matching price increases.
What we’ve got ain’t inflation it’s an attack on living standards.Under the guise of the climate scam and made easier by the race to the bottom global free market importing labour and exporting jobs and the imposition of collective government like the EU.
Of which we are still effectively a member state as would be expected of the party that took us into it.
The OP here is to invite discussion over the Global effect on Trucker World that ongoing crappy government policy roll-outs are having on the entire transport industry, worldwide…
What happens in America - often gets over here, sooner or later following…
Personally, I’m in favour of detaching from American policy rollouts, such as the ongoing money-wasting in Ukraine when we need that cash back at home, and the entire Center Left establishment rolling this out, come to that.
Time the Biden administration to be taken to task by the very newly-elected Trumper GOP people that they didn’t think “Key Enough” to not throw the kitchen sink at them during the elections, like they have increasingly proven to have done in the swing states…
There will be a reckoning for the DNC over policies that affect the entire free world, Britain included.
Solve America - Solve Britain.
Fedex - laying people off in America - is just the start of what’s coming…
Cuckoo
tmcassett:
Franglais:
Ignoring the biggest financial event in the UK for decades when discussing business is burying your head in the sand so deep you`re gonna be stamped on by kangaroos.Brexit is a fact. It`s effects are wide spread and profound.
Ed to add. And it was Happy Trucker who first mentioned the “B” word. Quite rightly as it is relevant despite some wanting to ignore the elephant in the room.
And of course the entire civilised world shutting down its economies and locking everyone away for 18 months - totally unnecessarily, had nothing to do with many of the problems being seen today? Rising costs, rampant inflation and the consequences of these are a worldwide problem.
We aren’t helped in the UK by a total bunch of incompetents running the Tory party presently but to keep digging at and blaming every bad thing on Brexit is tiresome and quite frankly pathetic.
Harry Monk:
Franglais:
Ignoring the biggest financial event in the UK for decades when discussing business is burying your head in the sand so deep you`re gonna be stamped on by kangaroos.Brexit is a fact. It`s effects are wide spread and profound.
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So widespread in fact that the inflation rate is 12.6% in Italy, 17.9% in Poland and 22.1% in Lithuania because of Brexit.
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No one has said that Brexit is the only factor.
No one has said that the UK is doing worse than everyone else, in every way, all the time.
The Bank of England, and the Office of Budget Responsibilty, have both said that Brexit is more of a factor today than Covid.
Of course are Global problems, and we are all swimming in deep waters.
We would manage better if we didn`t choose to have the Brexit ball and chain around our ankle.
Franglais:
tmcassett:
Franglais:
Ignoring the biggest financial event in the UK for decades when discussing business is burying your head in the sand so deep you`re gonna be stamped on by kangaroos.Brexit is a fact. It`s effects are wide spread and profound.
Ed to add. And it was Happy Trucker who first mentioned the “B” word. Quite rightly as it is relevant despite some wanting to ignore the elephant in the room.
And of course the entire civilised world shutting down its economies and locking everyone away for 18 months - totally unnecessarily, had nothing to do with many of the problems being seen today? Rising costs, rampant inflation and the consequences of these are a worldwide problem.
We aren’t helped in the UK by a total bunch of incompetents running the Tory party presently but to keep digging at and blaming every bad thing on Brexit is tiresome and quite frankly pathetic.
Harry Monk:
Franglais:
Ignoring the biggest financial event in the UK for decades when discussing business is burying your head in the sand so deep you`re gonna be stamped on by kangaroos.Brexit is a fact. It`s effects are wide spread and profound.
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So widespread in fact that the inflation rate is 12.6% in Italy, 17.9% in Poland and 22.1% in Lithuania because of Brexit.
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No one has said that Brexit is the only factor.
No one has said that the UK is doing worse than everyone else, in every way, all the time.The Bank of England, and the Office of Budget Responsibilty, have both said that Brexit is more of a factor today than Covid.
Of course are Global problems, and we are all swimming in deep waters.
We would manage better if we didn`t choose to have the Brexit ball and chain around our ankle.
Exactly what economic benefit did/does EEC/EU membership provide.Its a lose lose situation of paying net contributions for a net trade deficit.
While even our main exports are oil and gas and food resources which adds to our food and energy costs.
The EU has been a ball and chain on our economy since 1972 and the figures prove it.
Franglais:
We would manage better if we didn`t choose to have the Brexit ball and chain around our ankle.
So how come the three eu member countries I mentioned aren’t managing better?
Harry Monk:
Franglais:
We would manage better if we didn`t choose to have the Brexit ball and chain around our ankle.So how come the three eu member countries I mentioned aren’t managing better?
So, the other 24 members are doing better? Not too shabby is it? If Brexit is so good why aren`t we doing better than all of them?
But is that the best way to look at whether or not Brexit is a good thing, for the UK?
Shouldn`t we be asking whether it has improved or worsened where we would otherwise be?
Analogy:
A 3 litre car will mostly out-perform a 1 litre car.
Even if you disconnect one spark plug it may still do so. It is misfiring, smoking, wasting fuel, and running slower, than it should, but may stay in front.
Does that mean that disconnecting the spark plug is a good thing? Of course not.
The UK (inflation wise) is doing better that Italy (Remember Italy? The country with a basket-case economy, that changes Prome Ministers so often we laugh about it? Well, yes our inflation is slightly lower than theirs!)
If our 3l economy is just about staying ahead of a 1l economy, on one metric, is that good enough? Shouldn`t we be cruising streets ahead, not popping and banging, just keeping ahead?
The UK is the only major economy not to have recovered to pre covid levels.
bbc.com/news/business-63596773
Yes…Italy is doing better than the UK for GDP.
And
oecd.org/economic-outlook/september-2022/
Most of the rest of the world is projected to do better in 2023.
Germany isn`t doing well. But then, we do know that Germany has a particular problem with energy from Russia. Not their choice of course!
Edit to add
parliamentlive.tv/event/index/5 … 2d700e892a
Couple of hours there, but for the “B” word go to 15-03, and watch for the next ten-ish minutes.
Not politicians but experts deliberately trying to be non partisan.
Fedex caused some of it’s own problems. Going over to the TNT way of working (tons of subbies), ■■■■■■■ off their own drivers by putting them on redundancy notice for 7 months, then taking those that were left, off that notice because so many drivers left for other jobs. Dumping ‘unprofitable’ contracts, the bottles of wine in a box contract seems to have gone, as has the large pots of paint contract, both of which were prone to breakage.
IR35 changeover caused most of the regular ltd co. (agency) drivers to go on to other places (some have since returned but on agency paye).
None of that has anything to do with B, but I’m sure some will see it otherwise
Dav1d:
Fedex caused some of it’s own problems. Going over to the TNT way of working (tons of subbies), ■■■■■■■ off their own drivers by putting them on redundancy notice for 7 months, then taking those that were left, off that notice because so many drivers left for other jobs. Dumping ‘unprofitable’ contracts, the bottles of wine in a box contract seems to have gone, as has the large pots of paint contract, both of which were prone to breakage.
IR35 changeover caused most of the regular ltd co. (agency) drivers to go on to other places (some have since returned but on agency paye).
None of that has anything to do with B, but I’m sure some will see it otherwise
Fed Ex are a parcel rather than full load carrier.
Those companies exporting small consignments to EU are widely reported to have major problems*. Some have stopped exports, some are sending a full load to the EU to be split and sent on from EU depots.
Either way it is a loss for Fed Ex.
*It costs as much to raise the documents on a 1kg pack of cheese, as it does on a 24t truck load of it.
theguardian.com/commentisfr … rk-british
Fed ex,only deliver Mon to Fri in n London,duh most people are out,then try n find their hornsey depot,nice friendly last sorted our parcel out though
Fed ex,only deliver Mon to Fri in n London,duh most people are out,then try n find their hornsey depot,nice friendly last sorted our parcel out though