Saw a Lithuanian yellow left ■■■■■■ scania pulling a fully liveried tesco 40 footer northbound on the M6 yesterday - that was a first (for me) anyone know what thats all about? (Just being nosey)
couple month ago see in Didcot tesco RDC parked Lithuanian truck.
They have Tesco in the Eastern Countries too!
What’s it all about? he’s probably cheaper than a British operator,that’s business.
they do trunks to the euro stores ,
Guessing he’s picked up a trunking job? Wincantons seem to do all of the Lichfield to Widnes trunks and the same bloke was looking like he was searching the DC at Widnes last week for a trailer so I wonder if he’s subbing for them?
Big vern is spot on Tesco in 2011 had 942 stores in Slovakia,Poland,Czech Republic and Hungary must be many more now.
Been pulling out of Snodland for weeks, usually heading for Doncaster or other points north.
Probably nicked it 
In the 90’s on the Mainland, British drivers were the Eastern Europeans of their time. Many Dutch and German firms employed them; in fact if you saw a Deroy or Harry Vos truck the chances were the driver originated from these shores. John Raymond had drivers based in Oostend and at least 50% of those you met on the ferry or train were British. Why do you think that was? Were we better drivers? We could all converse in 7 different languages? Or we were cheaper and more gullible than a home grown driver?
I leave it to others to work out.
What goes around comes around
Now Spanish trucks will have south american drivers, how the work permit works i have no idea, the Portuguese trucks have Brazilian drivers,Patinter in Portugal used to hire Ukrainian drivers for 1000 euros a month.
zzarbean:
In the 90’s on the Mainland, British drivers were the Eastern Europeans of their time. Many Dutch and German firms employed them; in fact if you saw a Deroy or Harry Vos truck the chances were the driver originated from these shores. John Raymond had drivers based in Oostend and at least 50% of those you met on the ferry or train were British. Why do you think that was? Were we better drivers? We could all converse in 7 different languages? Or we were cheaper and more gullible than a home grown driver?I leave it to others to work out.
What goes around comes around
Its hardly the same thing is it now. De Rooy and Harry Vos had a lot of British drivers because they operated to Britain and it made sense on their part to have drivers based on both sides of the North Sea. I doubt for one minute that it became company policy in those days to emoloy cheap labour from Britain at the expense of local Dutchmen, or am I wrong? The wholesale explosion of eastern european firms/drivers since the early 2000s has not been to supply the demand for their own economic markets, like the UK/Dutch relationship was, but rather to export that cheaper transportation and labour to western Europe and undercut the whole system, leading to what we have now. As for the numbers involved, are you suggesting that there were as many British drivers in the 90s on for foreign firms as there now are Polish, Lithuanian and Bulgarian drivers on for these same firms? Nothing about the situation is comparible.
In the grander scheme of things British drivers were a drop in the ocean, on for a few foreign firms who specialised in UK work from Benelux and Germany mainly, while the current situation has been a tidal wave of devastation proportions with all the sluice gates and barriers left in the open position.
Weren’t they 200 drivers short the other w/end(or stobarts were 200 drivers short of how many they needed to supply) either way they have to get trucks/drivers from somewhere,so why not a foreigner
Well said Robinnood, and far from being an undercutting foreigner many such Brits ended up being better off than the native drivers due to income tax rebates etc, I know I was one! Current situation we have is just ridiculous, makes me seeth with anger at the politicians behind it all, not with the individual eastern drivers themselves.
robinhood_1984:
zzarbean:
In the 90’s on the Mainland, British drivers were the Eastern Europeans of their time. Many Dutch and German firms employed them; in fact if you saw a Deroy or Harry Vos truck the chances were the driver originated from these shores. John Raymond had drivers based in Oostend and at least 50% of those you met on the ferry or train were British. Why do you think that was? Were we better drivers? We could all converse in 7 different languages? Or we were cheaper and more gullible than a home grown driver?I leave it to others to work out.
What goes around comes around
Its hardly the same thing is it now. De Rooy and Harry Vos had a lot of British drivers because they operated to Britain and it made sense on their part to have drivers based on both sides of the North Sea. I doubt for one minute that it became company policy in those days to emoloy cheap labour from Britain at the expense of local Dutchmen, or am I wrong? The wholesale explosion of eastern european firms/drivers since the early 2000s has not been to supply the demand for their own economic markets, like the UK/Dutch relationship was, but rather to export that cheaper transportation and labour to western Europe and undercut the whole system, leading to what we have now. As for the numbers involved, are you suggesting that there were as many British drivers in the 90s on for foreign firms as there now are Polish, Lithuanian and Bulgarian drivers on for these same firms? Nothing about the situation is comparible.
In the grander scheme of things British drivers were a drop in the ocean, on for a few foreign firms who specialised in UK work from Benelux and Germany mainly, while the current situation has been a tidal wave of devastation proportions with all the sluice gates and barriers left in the open position.
^ This.I don’t remember seeing any adverts or hearing about any job opportunities here during the 1980’s/90’s for Brit drivers to work for Dutch or German etc firms.