DRIFT silly me

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Me just having a silly thought :smiley:
When DRIFT is fully open, there will be 300-500 ish loading/unloading bays, if not more. I don’t think the RDCs will be open 08.00-17.00, so they will be 24/7. Where will all the trucks come from to fill all the bays/time slots. and where will all the drivers come from to drive them?

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I think…

It’s known as DIRFT.

With a little imagination they could have called it Daventry Rail International Freight Terminal.

I prefer Freight And Rail Terminal myself. It’s much snappier and easier to remember.

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SWEDISH BLUE:
Me just having a silly thought :smiley:
When DRIFT is fully open, there will be 300-500 ish loading/unloading bays, if not more. I don’t think the RDCs will be open 08.00-17.00, so they will be 24/7. Where will all the trucks come from to fill all the bays/time slots. and where will all the drivers come from to drive them?

What’s your point? There’s no driver shortage just a shortage of good jobs as ever.

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I don’t have a point to make. I never have said that there is a “driver shortage”. I was thinking , silly me, How are they going to fill all the bays. :smiley:

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They won’t have to fill all of the bays; 35% will be broken and as for the rest they’ll have one person inloading and one person outloading.

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yourhavingalarf:
I think…

It’s known as DIRFT.

With a little imagination they could have called it Daventry Rail International Freight Terminal.

Rather strangely, it’s spelled “DIRFT” but pronounced “DRIFT” :stuck_out_tongue:

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SWEDISH BLUE:
I don’t have a point to make. I never have said that there is a “driver shortage”. I was thinking , silly me, How are they going to fill all the bays. :smiley:

Fair enough so your point is pointless then :laughing:

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SWEDISH BLUE:
Me just having a silly thought :smiley:
When DRIFT is fully open, there will be 300-500 ish loading/unloading bays, if not more. Where will all the trucks come from to fill all the bays/time slots. and where will all the drivers come from to drive them?

I read in this weeks Northampton local paper plans to build 217 houses on one site, and 900 houses on another (next to J15 between Grange Park and Quinton). I imagine a lot of lorry drivers might be amongst the people living in them.