Empty supermarket shelves?

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danalex84:

simon1958:

Andrejs:
Sorry _shortgate

Fair do’s to ya Andrejs. Your English is better than my French … and any other language for that matter… Some on here struggle with the native tounge; … Just put it down to regional dialect… :slight_smile:

Hey I’m from Norfolk and struggle with any language lol!!
My wife who is from Worcester likes to say I talk English and Norfolkian.

Naarth’n wrong with Norfolk Boy… :smiley: Great place… Loved every load going that way.

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its not a surprise the shelves are empty when some not so bright spark ,planner,books 4 grocery trucks in at 19.30 at the same store ,and the fresh load turns up for his 19.30 booking just after them :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :smiling_imp:

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dozy:
its not a surprise the shelves are empty when some not so bright spark ,planner,books 4 grocery trucks in at 19.30 at the same store ,and the fresh load turns up for his 19.30 booking just after them :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :smiling_imp:

All planned for the same time or were 3/4 of them late/early? I suspect the latter.

I turned up at a Tesco one evening with the milk and there were 2 double deckers there. Had to wait 3 hours for a 15 minute tip :unamused: The ambient one on the bay was 5 hours late :unamused: Try to time things to hit stores when no ones there but it’s impossible with that sort of reliability.

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Sounds like Lundsford park from Snodland… :unamused:

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Winseer:
Sounds like Lundsford park from Snodland… :unamused:

im guilty of being 3 hours late to there keeping the milk delivery waiting a few weeks ago but from thurrock not snodland

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Basically the whole driver shortage story was started by the RHA, to try and get the government to pay to train HGV drivers, because their members are worried that the lack of new blood coming into the industry will mean they might actually have to improve pay and conditions. :open_mouth:

The story was then picked up by some of the more scare mongering elements of our media, such as the Daily Mail, who decided that it was going to lead to widespread food shortages, managed to blame the EU for the whole thing, somehow they weren’t able to blame asylum seekers or link it to a collapse in house prices. :confused:

This is the same paper who tells us we’re going to freeze to death each year, or that any over 3.5tonnes is a killer 50 tonne juggernaut.

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rob22888:

dozy:
its not a surprise the shelves are empty when some not so bright spark ,planner,books 4 grocery trucks in at 19.30 at the same store ,and the fresh load turns up for his 19.30 booking just after them :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :smiling_imp:

All planned for the same time or were 3/4 of them late/early? I suspect the latter.

I turned up at a Tesco one evening with the milk and there were 2 double deckers there. Had to wait 3 hours for a 15 minute tip :unamused: The ambient one on the bay was 5 hours late :unamused: Try to time things to hit stores when no ones there but it’s impossible with that sort of reliability.

No I delivered too the store on first run and was told by back door staff they had 4 grocery trucks booked in for 19.30 that night ,Lincoln 2 ,backdoor staff couldn’t believe it neither could I ,went back for 2nd run and they were there all qued up ,just made it back in 15 hrs ,left the rsu behind as no time too load
As for d/d my heart sinks when I follow one in or there’s 1/2 at the shop when I get there

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muckles:
Basically the whole driver shortage story was started by the RHA, to try and get the government to pay to train HGV drivers, because their members are worried that the lack of new blood coming into the industry will mean they might actually have to improve pay and conditions. :open_mouth:

The story was then picked up by some of the more scare mongering elements of our media, such as the Daily Mail, who decided that it was going to lead to widespread food shortages, managed to blame the EU for the whole thing, somehow they weren’t able to blame asylum seekers or link it to a collapse in house prices. :confused:

This is the same paper who tells us we’re going to freeze to death each year, or that any over 3.5tonnes is a killer 50 tonne juggernaut.

^This.

The loads are all getting moved this Christmas, no shelves are empty. No evidence of that happening. So clearly we aren’t short of drivers at all. Difference being firms are having to fork out a lot more money than they hoped to get the loads shifted because the endless supply of cheap labour has started to dry up & they can’t get drivers on their books for the weak pay packages on offer.

Basically, hauliers have reaped the benefits of an over supply of drivers in recent years & now that isn’t there anymore. Doesn’t mean we are short.

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rob22888:
The loads are all getting moved this Christmas, no shelves are empty. No evidence of that happening. So clearly we aren’t short of drivers at all. Difference being firms are having to fork out a lot more money than they hoped to get the loads shifted because the endless supply of cheap labour has started to dry up & they can’t get drivers on their books for the weak pay packages on offer.

Basically, hauliers have reaped the benefits of an over supply of drivers in recent years & now that isn’t there anymore. Doesn’t mean we are short.

Bang on drive… Amazes me how so many people can’t see this

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Muckles and rob22888 are on the money. If some hauliers are now in difficulties because they have built their business models around abusing drivers for £7ph then good. They are reaping what they themselves have sown. I wonder how many firms who have always paid proper money and treated drivers right have trucks stood for lack of staff? Not many, I would imagine.