We are not alone apparently.
If it was true, shops would be running out of food, and we would all be on £300 a day.
It’s code for “turn the tap on”.
Nothing more.
Drempels:
If it was true, shops would be running out of food, and we would all be on £300 a day.It’s code for “turn the tap on”.
Nothing more.
Think you may be right. I’m in a job I hate, but can’t get a job a want to do unless I’m willing to take £8 per hour.
So the industry spends years, if not decades using cheap labour to keep wages down, not improving roadside facilties, ever more intrusive monitoring of drivers, still expecting them to work long hours when other jobs hours have been reducing, expecting drivers to max out legal hours each week, expect new drivers to pay the ever increasing training cost for less and less return on their investment and then they wonder why they are left with an unattractive job and can’t encourage new entrants? 
muckles:
So the industry spends years, if not decades using cheap labour to keep wages down, not improving roadside facilties, ever more intrusive monitoring of drivers, still expecting them to work long hours when other jobs hours have been reducing, expecting drivers to max out legal hours each week, expect new drivers to pay the ever increasing training cost for less and less return on their investment and then they wonder why they are left with an unattractive job and can’t encourage new entrants?
Of course they can attract new entrants. They just engineer their passage from Smashup Oblast and they have a fresh supply every week.
Insurance liability is now part of the futures market, so my City mates tell me. Our grandchildren can sort it out, no problem!
It’s all gonna be great when the UN import some derivatives specialists from central Africa, trust them, she’ll be right!
Bin the DCPC might make a difference, what other industry has to pay for something we don’t need ■■
Drempels:
muckles:
So the industry spends years, if not decades using cheap labour to keep wages down, not improving roadside facilties, ever more intrusive monitoring of drivers, still expecting them to work long hours when other jobs hours have been reducing, expecting drivers to max out legal hours each week, expect new drivers to pay the ever increasing training cost for less and less return on their investment and then they wonder why they are left with an unattractive job and can’t encourage new entrants?Of course they can attract new entrants. They just engineer their passage from Smashup Oblast and they have a fresh supply every week.
Ok I should have clarified, about the new entrants being from you own citizens, of course you’re probably right, all this bleating about driver shortage is about getting governments to allow them to tap new sources of cheap Labour, I’m waiting for the influx from the Ukraine, on the EU doorstep, decent sized population, plus a few Russians on dodgy passports and they were being lined to join the EU until the Russians got involved.
muckles:
Drempels:
muckles:
So the industry spends years, if not decades using cheap labour to keep wages down, not improving roadside facilties, ever more intrusive monitoring of drivers, still expecting them to work long hours when other jobs hours have been reducing, expecting drivers to max out legal hours each week, expect new drivers to pay the ever increasing training cost for less and less return on their investment and then they wonder why they are left with an unattractive job and can’t encourage new entrants?Of course they can attract new entrants. They just engineer their passage from Smashup Oblast and they have a fresh supply every week.
Ok I should have clarified, about the new entrants being from you own citizens, of course you’re probably right, all this bleating about driver shortage is about getting governments to allow them to tap new sources of cheap Labour, I’m waiting for the influx from the Ukraine, on the EU doorstep, decent sized population, plus a few Russians on dodgy passports and they were being lined to join the EU until the Russians got involved.
You and me both, a protective arm around the Ukraine, leading to a bit more expansion (skint people to be trafficked) and cognacs all round for the beneficiaries of cheap labour. It remains to be seen, how uncle Vlad will take it though.
I rather think he’s not the pushover that the press think he is.
Drempels:
If it was true, shops would be running out of food, and we would all be on £300 a day.It’s code for “turn the tap on”.
Nothing more.
Supply and demand is a basic economic principle.
As drivers become more sought after wages should increase.
Has that happend?
muckles:
So the industry spends years, if not decades using cheap labour to keep wages down, not improving roadside facilties, ever more intrusive monitoring of drivers, still expecting them to work long hours when other jobs hours have been reducing, expecting drivers to max out legal hours each week, expect new drivers to pay the ever increasing training cost for less and less return on their investment and then they wonder why they are left with an unattractive job and can’t encourage new entrants?
Well said mate, could not agree more with all of that
Around 90% of roadside facilities have gone, proper cafes (not MSA crapholes btw, they certainly do not have us down as their priority 
) are a complete rarity, and town centre truck parks are virtually a thing of the past.
The peanut and monkey scenario, with the monkeys in abundance holding their blagged Class 1s ruining the driver’s image…enough said
Modern management, (mostly in created fancy title non jobs) treating grown men like schoolkids, with cameras in cabs and the constant pushing and hassling drivers on the phone, that compromises road safety.
Treating ridiculousl long driver hours limits as weekly targets…drivers as bad for that as their bosses.
Drivers forced by law to self fund a created gravy train industry for no real benefit (ie dcpc)
And all for around a tenner an hour. 
You can just hear young guys clamouring to get into it tempted by these attractive t.s and c.s eh?.