Andrejs:
About working away from home that can t see any problem .Thousand people in UK live in Scotland but work in London.Also seaman,soldier work away.At present modern truck can live in truck better than in house.If use has cooker that can cook better good that make KFC,Mac Donald or standart Chicken@chips.
About litter and parking that must build more lay by just with WC.And in most city must sacked all street cleaners because they simply do own job very poor.Also must provide big bin for rubbish.All rubbish not just from drivers.Ee drivers not go so much for KFC,Greece but every corner can see paper with this company sign.
You’ve missed the point, I didn’t say working away was the problem.
I said dived the €2000 for being away for a full month, so for 4 weeks that is 28 days not 20 or 22 for a driver getting home for weekends or working a couple of Saturdays in the month. I work that out to be about €71 per day it’s less per day if you work it out annually.
As for the stuff about litter, cab comfort, street cleaners and bins are nothing to do with this subject so I’ll ignore it all.
Andrejs:
muckles:
AndrewG:
Return loads is what its about, we never ever run empty, as mentioned, much money is wasted by certain companies who then complain re poor turnover…
So what yourself and Andrejs are saying is all those Western European logistics companies and freight forwarders either set up haulage operations in Eastern Europe or sub contracted Eastern European haulage companies to pull their trailers because it was more efficient, despite the fact they were still the same companies and the same contracts and traffic planning systems they had when they run the operations out of their home countries and not because they could cut wages costs?
how Wincanton can earn money if they sent Pepsi cola load to Scotland and back empty.Of course Downton can do this job more cheap because they have much more collection.Second.In UK around London live about 30 percent of population and more rich customer.So all Cdc,rec more busy but not so much factory around London.Much more load must delivered from North to London area than collect back.For this reason for logistic company much more better give load to foreign truck who anyway back to Dover than use own truck and back to North empty.
Again you’ve missed the point, why did many of the large Western European companies and fright forwarders open up operations in Eastern Europe or use Eastern European hauliers to pull their trailers round Western Europe?
The way they operated and the empty running they did didn’t change, in fact they have to have to either get trucks to and from Eastern Europe or hire busses to get drivers to and from trucks based in Western Europe Countries, surely this adds to costs and complications than having local drivers commuting to the depot.
Surely J Carrion in Spain are not run any different from when they used Spainish drivers and with high unemployment in Spain, surely there isn’t a lack of Spanish drivers who be willing to do the job for a fair wage, but instead you see their trailer pulled by Romanian trucks.
As for your example of a foreign truck taking a back load from Scotland to the South on the way to Dover, why did the Eastern European company get the job going from Scotland to the South, when you say Wincantons would have to run empty, surely the East European haulier must have been able to quote a lower price why?
Why did the East European haulier get the job from Europe into Scotland?
Or did the Eastern European get a load from Europe to the South of England and then get a cabotage load to Scotland and then another Cabotage load to the South, at least 2 loads that would have kept a domestic registered truck loaded and got them back to the South.
